Rep. Dwight Evans
Representative for Pennsylvania’s 3rd District
pronounced dwīt // EH-vunz
Evans is the representative for Pennsylvania’s 3rd congressional district (view map) and is a Democrat. He has served since Jan 3, 2019. Evans is next up for reelection in 2024 and serves until Jan 3, 2025. He is 69 years old.
He was previously the representative for Pennsylvania’s 2nd congressional district as a Democrat from 2016 to 2018.
![Photo of Rep. Dwight Evans [D-PA3]](/static/legislator-photos/412677-200px.jpeg)
Earmarks
Evans proposed $24 million in earmarks for fiscal year 2024, including:
- $3.5 million to Habitat for Hunaity Philadlephia, Inc. for “Lower North Affordable Homeownership Project”
- $3.0 million to Veteran's Motorcycle Program (VETMOTO) for “Beacon of Hope Affordable Housing Workforce Dev., transit Assisted Design by VETMOTO”
- $2.0 million to Community of Compassion, Inc. for “Compassion Senior Living”
View all requests and justifications on Evans’s website »
View analysis and download spreadsheet from Demand Progress Education Fund »
These are earmark requests which may or may not survive the legislative process to becoming law. Most representatives from both parties requested earmarks for fiscal year 2024. Across representatives who requested earmarks, the median total amount requested for this fiscal year was $39 million.
Earmarks are federal expenditures, tax benefits, or tariff benefits requested by a legislator for a specific entity. Rather than being distributed through a formula or competitive process administered by the executive branch, earmarks may direct spending where it is most needed for the legislator's district. All earmark requests in the House of Representatives are published online for the public to review. We don’t have earmark requests for senators. The fiscal year begins on October 1 of the prior calendar year. Source: Appropriations.house.gov. Background: Earmark Disclosure Rules in the House
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2022 Report Card for Evans.
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Evans is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the House of Representatives positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).
The chart is based on the bills Evans has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Sep 22, 2023. See full analysis methodology.
Committee Membership
Dwight Evans sits on the following committees:
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House Committee on Ways and Means
Health, Work and Welfare subcommittees
Enacted Legislation
Evans was the primary sponsor of 3 bills that were enacted:
- H.R. 8879 (117th): Inpatient Psychiatric Facility Improvement Act
- H.R. 6347 (115th): 7(a) Real Estate Appraisal Harmonization Act
- H.R. 2655 (115th): Small Business Innovation Protection Act of 2017
Does 3 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.
We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Evans sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Health (21%) Commerce (21%) Crime and Law Enforcement (18%) Taxation (18%) Education (7%) Housing and Community Development (7%) Labor and Employment (7%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Evans recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 4734: MORE Act
- H.R. 4735: Mentoring and Supporting Families Act
- H.R. 3963: Visitable Inclusive Tax Credits for Accessible Living (VITAL) Act
- H.R. 3962: Resources for Victims of Gun Violence Act of 2023
- H.R. 3181: Rehabilitation of Historic Schools Act of 2023
- H.Res. 182: Expressing support for America’s Black workers and affirming the need to pass legislation …
- H.R. 8879 (117th): Inpatient Psychiatric Facility Improvement Act
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Nov 2016 to Sep 2023, Evans missed 74 of 3,612 roll call votes, which is 2.0%. This is on par with the median of 1.7% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- Office of Dwight Evans for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills