Former member of Congress · last served 103rd Congress
Butler C. Derrick
Butler Derrick was a Democratic U.S. representative from South Carolina, first elected to Congress in 1975, who sponsored 1 bill 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
- H.R. 4330 South Carolina National Heritage Corridor Act of 1994Oct 5, 1994 · For Further Action See H.R.5044.
- H.Res. 564 Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5110) to approve and implement the trade agreements concluded in the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade…Oct 5, 1994 · Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- H.Res. 563 Providing for consideration of the concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 301) expressing the sense of the Congress regarding entitlements.Oct 5, 1994 · Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- H.Res. 544 Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3171) to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to reorganize the Department of Agriculture, and for other…Sep 28, 1994 · Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- H.Res. 526 Waiving points of order against a further conference report to accompany the bill (H.R. 3355) to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968…Aug 21, 1994 · Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 2399 (103rd) Catawba Indian Tribe of South Carolina land Claims Settlement Act of 1993Became law
- H.R. 1154 (100th) Textile Apparel and Footwear Trade Act of 1988Passed a chamber
- H.Res. 106 (103rd) Providing for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 20) to amend title 5, United States Code, to restore to Federal civilian employees their right to…Passed a chamber
- H.Res. 130 (103rd) Providing for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 1335) making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1993, and for…Passed a chamber
- H.Res. 132 (103rd) Providing for the further consideration of the bill (H.R. 1335) making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1993…Passed a chamber
- H.Res. 149 (103rd) Providing for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 1578) to amend the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to provide for the expedited…Passed a chamber
- H.Res. 186 (103rd) Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2264) to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 7 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal…Passed a chamber
- H.Res. 200 (103rd) Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2295) making appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and related programs for the fiscal year…Passed a chamber
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Derrick has won
Rep. Derrick has won 9 U.S. House elections (1976–1992). Of the contested races, margins ran from 8.1 to 80.8 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 46 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 46 | 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 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.