Former member of Congress · last served 108th Congress
Chris Bell
Chris Bell was a Democratic U.S. representative from Texas, first elected to Congress in 2003.
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. 5138 Fair Credit Card Interest Rate ActOct 7, 2004 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
- H.R. 5043 Minimum Wage Indexation Act of 2004Sep 30, 2004 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
- H.Res. 640 Of inquiry requesting that the Secretary of Defense transmit to the House of Representatives before the expiration of the 14-day period beginning on the date…Jun 16, 2004 · Placed on the House Calendar, Calendar No. 188.
- H.Res. 659 Recognizing the need for consistent information, regulations, and guidelines regarding the safe disposal of used syringes outside medical facilities.Jun 7, 2004 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- H.Res. 515 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress and the States should act to end racial profiling.Mar 1, 2004 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Top bills sponsored
- H.Res. 379 (108th) Honoring the Rice University Owls baseball team for winning the NCAA baseball championship.Passed a chamber
- H.R. 3523 (108th) Equity in Law Enforcement Act14 cosponsors
- H.R. 3455 (108th) To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish a presumption of service-connection for certain veterans with Hepatitis C, and for other purposes.10 cosponsors
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Bell has won
Rep. Bell has won 1 U.S. House election (2002–2002). Of the contested races, margins ran from 11.7 to 11.7 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
108th 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 | 0 | None listed |
| With a committee report listed | 1 | See the 1 → |
Evidence
- How counted
- Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 108th 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.