Former member of Congress · last served 111th Congress
Marion Berry
Marion Berry was a Democratic U.S. representative from Arkansas, first elected to Congress in 1997, who sponsored 3 bills that became law (105th–111th 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.Res. 1685 Recognizing the 20th anniversary of the annual September celebration of the harvest of rice in the United States.Nov 16, 2010 · Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
- H.Res. 1399 Honoring the lives, and mourning the loss, of Sergeant Brandon Paudert and Officer Bill Evans, members of the West Memphis Police Department.Jul 26, 2010 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
- H.R. 3634 To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 109 Main Street in Swifton, Arkansas, as the "George Kell Post Office".Jun 9, 2010 · Became Public Law No: 111-180.
- H.R. 5182 To help certain communities adversely affected by FEMA's flood mapping modernization program.Apr 29, 2010 · Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
- H.R. 4813 To provide for insurance reform (including health insurance reform), amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to reform Medicare Advantage and reduce…Apr 26, 2010 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 4456 (109th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2404 Race Street in Jonesboro, Arkansas, as the "Hattie W. Caraway Station".Became law
- H.R. 3059 (108th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 304 West Michigan Street in Stuttgart, Arkansas, as the "Lloyd L. Burke Post Office".Became law
- H.Con.Res. 224 (105th) Urging international cooperation in recovering children abducted in the United States and taken to other countries.Passed a chamber
- H.Res. 1437 (110th) Expressing support for designation of the month of October as "American Pharmacists Month" and expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that all…Passed a chamber
- H.R. 1474 (110th) Fair and Speedy Treatment (FAST) of Medicare Prescription Drug Claims Act of 2007253 cosponsors
- H.R. 1134 (110th) Physical Therapist Student Loan Repayment Eligibility Act of 2007145 cosponsors
- H.R. 752 (109th) Medicare Prescription Drug Savings and Choice Act of 2005133 cosponsors
- H.R. 988 (111th) Physical Therapist Student Loan Repayment Eligibility Act of 2009117 cosponsors
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Berry has won
Rep. Berry has won 7 U.S. House elections (1996–2008). Of the contested races, margins ran from 8.4 to 38.5 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 Arkansas’s 1st district done while Rep. Berry served?
2005 to 2010 in AR-1: 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 up 3.7 points.
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 Arkansas’s 1st district during Berry’s time representing it (1997 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. AR-1 was redrawn in 2012 and again in 2022 (the survey year the new lines first appear), but every survey year in Berry’s term so far (2005 to 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 14 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 14 | 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 |
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.