Former member of Congress · last served 103rd Congress
Dave Durenberger
David Durenberger was a Republican U.S. senator from Minnesota, first elected to Congress in 1977, who sponsored 6 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. 402 Occasional Employment Equity ActOct 7, 1994 · Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S14603)
- S. 2514 Economic Equity ActOct 6, 1994 · Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
- S. 2503 Americans with Disabilities Business Development Act of 1993Oct 5, 1994 · Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business.
- S. 531 A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the estate and gift tax exemption from $600,000 to $1,000,000.Oct 5, 1994 · Subcommittee on Energy and Agricultural Taxation. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 103-1025.
- S. 2409 A bill for the relief of D.W. Jacobson, Ronald Karkala, and Paul Bjorgen of Grand Rapids, Minnesota.Sep 26, 1994 · Referred to Subcommittee on Courts and Administrative Practice.
Top bills sponsored
- S. 2042 (100th) An Act to authorize the Vietnam Women's Memorial Project, Inc., to construct within the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial site in the District of Columbia a specific…Became law
- S.J.Res. 131 (101st) A joint resolution to designate November 1989 as "National Diabetes Month".Became law
- S.J.Res. 272 (100th) A bill to designate November, 1988, as "National Diabetes Month".Became law
- S.J.Res. 109 (100th) A joint resolution to designate the week beginning October 4, 1987, as "National School Yearbook Week".Became law
- S.J.Res. 44 (100th) A joint resolution to designate November 1987, as "National Diabetes Month".Became law
- S.J.Res. 324 (100th) A joint resolution to designate February 1989 as "America Loves Its Kids Month".Became law
- S.J.Res. 216 (101st) A joint resolution designating November 12 through 18, 1989, as "Community Foundation Week".Passed a chamber
- S.Con.Res. 27 (100th) A concurrent resolution stating the sense of the Senate that the U. S. Department of Commerce and Special Trade Representative should initiate investigations…Passed a chamber
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Sen. Durenberger has won
Sen. Durenberger has won 3 U.S. Senate elections (1978, 1982, 1988). Of the contested races, margins ran from 6.0 to 26.9 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 42 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 42 | 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.