Former member of Congress · last served 103rd Congress
David L. Boren
David Boren was a Democratic U.S. senator from Oklahoma, first elected to Congress in 1979, who sponsored 2 bills that became law (100th–103rd 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
- S. 2543 Forest Biodiversity and Clearcutting Prohibition Act of 1994Oct 7, 1994 · Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.
- S. 545 A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow farmers' cooperatives to elect to include gains or losses from certain dispositions in the…Oct 5, 1994 · Subcommittee on Energy and Agricultural Taxation. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 103-1025.
- S. 3 Congressional Campaign Spending Limit and Election Reform Act of 1993Sep 30, 1994 · Second cloture on the motion to request a conference with the House not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 52-46. Record Vote No: 314. (consideration: CR…
- S. 1824 Legislative Reorganization Act of 1994Jul 1, 1994 · Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 503.
- S. 722 Aid for Trade Act of 1993Jan 27, 1994 · Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S280-281)
Top bills sponsored
- S. 860 (100th) A bill to designate "The Stars and Stripes Forever" as the national march of the United States of America.Became law
- S. 778 (103rd) Watermelon Research and Promotion Improvement Act of 1993Became law
- S. 137 (101st) Senate Election Campaign Ethics Act of 1990Passed a chamber
- S. 3 (102nd) Senate Election Ethics Act of 1991Passed a chamber
- S. 1526 (101st) A bill to authorize the State of Oklahoma and the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Tribes to enter into an agreement regarding the exercise of State jurisdiction…Passed a chamber
- S. 341 (100th) Agricultural Emergency Assistance Act of 1987Passed a chamber
- S. 2834 (101st) Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991Passed a chamber
- S.Res. 192 (100th) An original resolution relative to expenditures by the Select Committee on Intelligence.Passed a chamber
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Sen. Boren has won
Sen. Boren has won 3 U.S. Senate elections (1978, 1984, 1990). Of the contested races, margins ran from 32.6 to 66.3 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
103rd Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 20 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 20 | Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them → |
| 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 103rd 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.