Former member of Congress · last served 111th Congress
John H. Adler
John Adler was a Democratic U.S. representative from New Jersey, first elected to Congress in 2009.
How we count: “Broke with party” is a yes/no roll call where the member voted against most of their own party on that vote (party as recorded; even splits not counted). “Pork: own share” splits each earmark shared by several members evenly among them.
Recent votes
No recorded roll-call votes in PORKER’s records. Roll-call records start in 2011.
5 most recent bills
- H.R. 6420 Red Flag Program Clarification Act of 2010Nov 17, 2010 · Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
- H.R. 5458 Christopher's LawSep 29, 2010 · Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
- H.R. 6013 To amend title 38, United States Code, to increase plot allowances for certain veterans buried in Department of Veterans Affairs cemeteries or State…Sep 17, 2010 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
- H.R. 5064 Fair Access to Veterans Benefits Act of 2010Jul 27, 2010 · Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
- H.R. 5782 Reduce and End our Deficits Using Commonsense Eliminations in the Treas-HUD and OPIC Programs ActJul 20, 2010 · Referred to House Foreign Affairs
Top bills sponsored
- H.Res. 491 (111th) Encouraging each institution of higher education in the country to seek membership in the Servicemembers Opportunity Colleges (SOC) Consortium.Passed a chamber
- H.R. 3146 (111th) 21st Century FHA Housing Act of 2009Passed a chamber
- H.R. 3763 (111th) To amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to provide for an exclusion from Red Flag Guidelines for certain businesses.Passed a chamber
- H.R. 2345 (111th) To amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to provide for an exclusion from Red Flag Guidelines for health care practices with 20 or fewer employees.42 cosponsors
- H.R. 4197 (111th) Gold Star Mothers National Monument Act of 200941 cosponsors
- H.Res. 732 (111th) Condemning the release of convicted terrorist Abdel Basset Mohamed al-Megrahi from a prison in Scotland to return home to Libya.28 cosponsors
- H.R. 986 (111th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 28 Washington Street in Mount Holly, New Jersey, as the "Jim Saxton Post Office…27 cosponsors
- H.R. 4131 (111th) Smoke-Free Federal Workplace Act13 cosponsors
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Adler has won
Rep. Adler has won 1 U.S. House election (2008–2008). Of the contested races, margins ran from 4.2 to 4.2 points.
Full election history for this seat →
Source: MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. House V15 / U.S. Senate V8 (CC0), retrieved 2026-10-18; winners matched to member records by seat and term. Results run through the 2024 elections; nothing from 2026 is shown until it is certified. A margin is a fact about one election, never a score of how well a member represents anyone, and PORKER does not rank members by it.
How has New Jersey’s 3rd district done while Rep. Adler served?
2009 to 2010 in NJ-3: typical household income was about the same after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was about the same, and the share of workers looking for a job was about the same.
Each mini chart has its own scale, fitted to its lines (it does not start at zero), so compare the numbers, not the heights. Teal = district, oxblood = state, grey = U.S.
While they served, not because of them. This shows what happened in New Jersey’s 3rd district during Adler’s time representing it (2009 to 2011). It does not say what the member did or caused. It is not a score, and PORKER never ranks members on it.
One set of district lines. NJ-3 was redrawn in 2012 and again in 2022 (the survey year the new lines first appear), but every survey year in Adler’s term so far (2009 and 2010) uses the same lines, so they can be compared. The Census Bureau has no 2020 yearly estimate.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
111th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 25 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 25 | Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them → |
| With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement | 0 | None listed |
| With a CBO cost estimate listed | 0 | None listed |
| With a committee report listed | 0 | None listed |
| With a Congress.gov note | 1 | See the 1 → |
Evidence
- How counted
- Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 111th Congress, read from the stored Congress.gov bill records
- Fields
- cboCostEstimates, committeeReports, constitutionalAuthorityStatementText, notes
- PORKER copy refreshed
- October 26, 2026 (nightly)
Read this first. These are counts of records Congress.gov lists. Many bills never get a CBO estimate or a report, so a zero is not a mark against a member. We never show this as a score.
Data as of Oct 26, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.