Former member of Congress · last served 106th Congress
Herbert H. Bateman
Herbert Bateman was a Republican U.S. representative from Virginia, first elected to Congress in 1983, who sponsored 5 bills that became law (100th–106th Congress).
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. 4907 Jamestown 400th Commemoration Commission Act of 2000Dec 23, 2000 · Became Public Law No: 106-565.
- H.R. 4988 George Washington Birthplace National Monument Boundary Adjustment Act of 2000Aug 8, 2000 · Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
- H.R. 3039 Chesapeake Bay Restoration Act of 1999Apr 13, 2000 · Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 507.
- H.R. 4247 Maritime Administration Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001Apr 12, 2000 · Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
- H.R. 1665 To allow the National Park Service to acquire certain land for addition to the Wilderness Battlefield in Virginia, as previously authorized by law, by…Dec 9, 1999 · Became Public Law No: 106-150.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 1834 (105th) For the relief of Mercedes Del Carmen Quiroz Martinez Cruz.Became law
- H.R. 2056 (103rd) To designate the Federal building located at 600 Princess Anne Street in Fredericksburg, Virginia as the "Samuel E. Perry Postal Building".Became law
- H.R. 3642 (101st) For the relief of Izzydor Shever.Became law
- H.Res. 524 (102nd) Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives to commend and congratulate the College of William and Mary in Virginia on the occasion of the 300th…Passed a chamber
- H.R. 2444 (102nd) To revise the boundaries of the George Washington Birthplace National Monument.Passed a chamber
- H.R. 838 (101st) To authorize the Secretary of Transportation to release restrictions on the use of certain property conveyed to the Peninsula Airport Commission for airport…Passed a chamber
- H.R. 4282 (104th) To amend the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 to make a technical correction relating to the provision of Department of Defense…Passed a chamber
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Bateman has won
Rep. Bateman has won 9 U.S. House elections (1982–1998). Of the contested races, margins ran from 2.0 to 63.2 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.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
106th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 10 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 10 | 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 | 3 | See the 3 → |
| With a committee report listed | 2 | See the 2 → |
Evidence
- How counted
- Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 106th 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.