Rep. Nancy Pelosi
Representative for California’s 11th District
pronounced NAN-see // puh-LOH-see
Pelosi is the representative for California’s 11th congressional district (view map) and is a Democrat. She has served since Jan 3, 2023. Pelosi is next up for reelection in 2024 and serves until Jan 3, 2025. She is 84 years old.
She was previously the representative for California’s 12th congressional district as a Democrat from 2013 to 2022; the representative for California’s 8th congressional district as a Democrat from 1993 to 2012; and the representative for California’s 5th congressional district as a Democrat from 1987 to 1992.
![Photo of Rep. Nancy Pelosi [D-CA11]](/https/www.govtrack.us/static/legislator-photos/400314-200px.jpeg)
Earmarks
Pelosi proposed $43 million in earmarks for fiscal year 2024, including:
- $10 million to Yerba Buena Gardens Conservancy for “Yerba Buena Gardens Conservancy”
- $5 million to City and County of San Francisco for “Harvey Milk Plaza/Castro Street Station Redesign”
- $5 million to San Francisco Fire Department for “San Francisco Fire Department (SFFD) Fire Training Facility”
View all requests and justifications on Pelosi’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
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Pelosi 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 Pelosi has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Aug 20, 2024. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Pelosi was the primary sponsor of 9 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:
- H.R. 3325 (117th): To award four congressional gold medals to the United States Capitol Police and those who protected the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
- H.R. 1085 (117th): To award three congressional gold medals to the United States Capitol Police and those who protected the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
- H.R. 3119 (111th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 867 Stockton Street in San Francisco, California, as the “Lim Poon Lee Post Office”.
- H.R. 3221 (110th): Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008
- H.R. 5140 (110th): Economic Stimulus Act of 2008
- H.R. 1953 (109th): San Francisco Old Mint Commemorative Coin Act
- H.R. 2457 (103rd): Winter Run Chinook Salmon Captive Broodstock Act of 1993
Does 9 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
Pelosi recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.Res. 742: Expressing the profound sorrow of the House of Representatives on the death of …
- H.Res. 621: Expressing support for the designation of August 3, 2023, as “Tony Bennett Day”.
- H.Con.Res. 118 (117th): Authorizing the use of the rotunda of the Capitol for a ceremony …
- H.Res. 626 (117th): Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the terrorist attacks …
- H.Res. 503 (117th): Establishing the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the …
- H.R. 3325 (117th): To award four congressional gold medals to the United States Capitol Police …
- H.R. 1085 (117th): To award three congressional gold medals to the United States Capitol Police …
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jun 1987 to Jul 2024, Pelosi missed 1,139 of 17,888 roll call votes, which is 6.4%. This is much worse than the median of 2.1% 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
- United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
- Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
- GPO Member Guide for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills