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Former member of Congress · last served 104th Congress

Official portrait of Rep. Cardiss Collins

Cardiss Collins

DEMOCRAT U.S. Representative · IllinoisHouse 1973–1997 (IL-7)

Cardiss Collins was a Democratic U.S. representative from Illinois, first elected to Congress in 1973, who sponsored 3 bills that became law (100th–104th Congress).

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214Bills & resolutions sponsored100th–104th Congress (excludes amendments)
7Passed a chamberof 214 bills & resolutions sponsored
3Became law3 substantive + 0 ceremonial · 100th–104th Congress
—Broke with partyNo roll calls in PORKER’s records (they start in 2011)
—Missed votesNo roll calls in PORKER’s records (they start in 2011)
—Pork: own shareFY2024 earmarks: not in office

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

Top bills sponsored

Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.

Elections Rep. Collins has won

Rep. Collins has won 10 U.S. House elections (1976–1994). Of the contested races, margins ran from 56.7 to 72.9 points.

010204060Margin of victory, points (axis starts at 0)1976, IL-7: won by 69.5 points1976IL-71978, IL-7: won by 72.6 points19781980, IL-7: won by 70.2 points19801982, IL-7: won by 72.9 points19821984, IL-7: won by 56.7 points19841986, IL-7: won by 61.6 points19861988: unopposed19881990, IL-7: won by 59.9 points19901992, IL-7: won by 65.5 points19921994, IL-7: won by 59.1 points1994
Democratic winRepublican winseat changed partyunopposed
Elections won10 in the data (1976–2024); losses are not listed
Closest win: 56.7 points1984, IL-7
Won an open seat or took one from the other party0 of 10 elections (open seat or changed party)
Seat history, Illinois’s 7th districtWinners, most recent three: Cardiss Collins (D) 1976–1994 → Danny K. Davis (D) 1996–2024. Elections shown, not terms; special elections not included.

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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

104th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 37 bills sponsored.

RecordBillsSource
Bills sponsored37Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them →
With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement0None listed
With a CBO cost estimate listed0None listed
With a committee report listed0None listed
Evidence
How counted
Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 104th 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.

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Data as of Oct 26, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.