Former member of Congress · last served 102nd Congress
Mervyn M. Dymally
Mervyn Dymally was a Democratic U.S. representative from California, first elected to Congress in 1981, who sponsored 5 bills that became law (100th–102nd 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. 5811 District of Columbia Judicial Reorganization Act of 1992Oct 2, 1992 · Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 557.
- H.J.Res. 552 Authorizing the Coalition for a National Memorial to Mahatma Gandhi to establish a memorial to Mahatma Gandhi in the District of Columbia or its environs.Sep 24, 1992 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Libraries and Memorials.
- H.R. 4721 District of Columbia Judicial Reorganization Act of 1992Aug 11, 1992 · Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- H.Res. 497 Relating to ongoing violence connected with apartheid in South Africa.Aug 10, 1992 · Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- H.R. 994 Liberian Relief, Rehabilitation, and Reconstruction Act of 1992Aug 5, 1992 · Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 348 (100th) A bill to amend title 39, United States Code, to extend to certain officers and employees of the United States Postal Service the same procedural and appeal…Became law
- H.R. 3294 (101st) To authorize distribution within the United States of the United States Information Agency film entitled "A Tribute to Mickey Leland".Became law
- H.R. 1133 (100th) A bill for the relief of Thomas Nelson Flanagan.Became law
- H.J.Res. 106 (100th) A joint resolution to designate June 19, 1987, as "American Gospel Arts Day".Became law
- H.J.Res. 119 (100th) A joint resolution designating the week of April 19, 1987, through April 25, 1987, as "National Minority Cancer Awareness Week".Became law
- H.R. 3455 (100th) A bill to authorize the Indian American Forum for Political Education to establish a memorial to Mahatma Gandhi in the District of Columbia.Passed a chamber
- H.R. 525 (101st) Filipino World War II Veterans Naturalization Act of 1989Passed a chamber
- H.Con.Res. 250 (101st) Condemning the deliberate and systematic human rights violations of the Government of Haiti.Passed a chamber
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Dymally has won
Rep. Dymally has won 6 U.S. House elections (1980–1990). Of the contested races, margins ran from 28.8 to 46.0 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
102nd Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 25 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 25 | 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 102nd 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.