Former member of Congress · last served 101st Congress
Jack Buechner
Jack Buechner was a Republican U.S. representative from Missouri, first elected to Congress in 1987.
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. 5472 Family Violence Adult Protection Act of 1990Sep 4, 1990 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education.
- H.R. 2701 To extend the existing suspension of duty on triphenyl phosphate.Aug 20, 1990 · See H.R.1594.
- H.R. 2549 Comprehensive Hazardous Materials Transportation Safety Act of 1989Aug 2, 1990 · See H.R.3520.
- H.R. 5328 Bird Conservation Research ActAug 1, 1990 · Executive Comment Requested from Interior, NSF, Smithsonian, EPA.
- H.R. 4533 To require that remediation of certain defense-related radioactive wastes currently located in the city and county of St. Louis, Missouri, be conducted in a…Apr 27, 1990 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation and Hazardous Materials.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 3779 (100th) Controller Performance Research ActPassed a chamber
- H.J.Res. 130 (101st) Designating July 27, 1989, as "National Korean War Veterans Recognition Day".223 cosponsors
- H.R. 1347 (100th) A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit expenses incurred in filing withholding certificates to be deductible whether or not the…79 cosponsors
- H.J.Res. 182 (101st) To designate the week beginning April 2, 1989, as "National Child Care Awareness Week".76 cosponsors
- H.J.Res. 627 (100th) A joint resolution designating July 27, 1989, as "National Korean War Veterans Recognition Day".76 cosponsors
- H.Con.Res. 46 (101st) Expressing the sense of the Congress regarding the removal of mines in Afghanistan by the Soviet Union.63 cosponsors
- H.J.Res. 206 (101st) Designating the week beginning on January 7, 1990 as "National Journalism Education Week".59 cosponsors
- H.R. 4802 (100th) A bill to deny discretionary project funds to States that voluntarily reduced the period of availability of interstate highway construction funds for any…48 cosponsors
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Buechner has won
Rep. Buechner has won 2 U.S. House elections (1986–1988). Of the contested races, margins ran from 3.8 to 33.7 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
101st Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 21 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 21 | 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 101st 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.