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Rep. Suzanne Bonamici

Representative for Oregon’s 1st District

pronounced soo-ZAN // bah-nuh-MEE-chee

Bonamici is the representative for Oregon’s 1st congressional district (view map) and is a Democrat. She has served since Feb 7, 2012. Bonamici is next up for reelection in 2024 and serves until Jan 3, 2025. She is 68 years old.

Photo of Rep. Suzanne Bonamici [D-OR1]

Earmarks

Bonamici proposed $38 million in earmarks for fiscal year 2024, including:

  • $5 million to City of Hillsboro for “8. Year-Round Shelter Project”
  • $5 million to Clean Water Services for “11. Western Washington County Inflow and Infiltration (I&I) Rehabilitation Project”
  • $4 million to Port of Portland for “Terminal 2 Innovation Campus”

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 Bonamici.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Bonamici 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 Bonamici has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Sep 26, 2023. See full analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Suzanne Bonamici sits on the following committees:

Enacted Legislation

Bonamici was the primary sponsor of 7 bills that were enacted:

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Does 7 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

Bonamici sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Education (23%) Environmental Protection (17%) Labor and Employment (11%) Social Welfare (10%) Health (10%) Agriculture and Food (10%) Finance and Financial Sector (10%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (9%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Bonamici recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Bonamici voted Nay

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Bonamici voted Aye

Passed 300/118 on Jun 21, 2017.

H.R. 1873 amends the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to enhance the reliability of the electricity grid and reduce the threat of …

Bonamici voted Aye

Passed 218/208 on Jun 18, 2015.

This vote made H.R. 2146 the vehicle for passage of Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal currently being negotiated. H.R. …

Bonamici voted Yea

Passed 338/88 on May 13, 2015.

The USA Freedom Act (H.R. 2048, Pub.L. 114–23) is a U.S. law enacted on June 2, 2015 that restored in modified form several provisions of …

Bonamici voted Nay

Passed 219/206 on Dec 11, 2014.

This bill became the vehicle for passage of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015 [pdf], which was approved by the House on December …

Bonamici voted Nay

Bonamici voted Aye

Bonamici voted Nay

Bonamici voted Aye

Missed Votes

From Feb 2012 to Sep 2023, Bonamici missed 109 of 6,768 roll call votes, which is 1.6%. This is on par with the median of 1.8% 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.

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Primary Sources

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