Eric Sorensen

U.S. Representative, IL-17

IL House · Democratic

Eric Sorensen ( SOR-ən-sən; born March 18, 1976) is an American politician and meteorologist serving as the U.S. representative for Illinois's 17th congressional district since 2023. His district covers a large swath of western and central Illinois, centered around Moline, Rock Island, and the Illinois side of the Quad Cities. It also includes parts of Peoria and Rockford. A member of the Democratic Party, Sorensen is the first openly gay member of Congress from Illinois.

From the English Wikipedia article “Eric Sorensen (politician)”, available under CC BY-SA.

Voting Summary

Votes recorded: 31
Ballots cast: 30
Participation: 96.8%
Yea / Nay: 21 / 9

Yea21

Nay9

Absent1

Abstain0

31 total ballots recorded.

Participation counts yea and nay ballots votes where a position was taken as a share of all roll calls on file.

Voting Record

21 votes recorded as “Yea”

Bill	Chamber	Roll call	Vote
Ratepayer Protection Act	house	—	Yea
Retire through Ownership Act	senate	—	Yea
Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran.	house	—	Yea
Stop Insider Trading Act	house	—	Yea
American Battlefield Protection Program Amendments Act of 2026	house	—	Yea
Rescissions Act of 2025	house	4140

Bill title and chamber are the only bill details held locally for these votes. Bill number, status, summary and sponsor are not part of this dataset see Bills for the fuller bill record. “Roll call” is the upstream roll-call identifier, not a date; no vote date is recorded in this dataset.