Former member of Congress · last served 101st Congress
Ronnie G. Flippo
Ronnie Flippo was a Democratic U.S. representative from Alabama, first elected to Congress in 1977, who sponsored 3 bills that became law (100th–101st 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. 3459 Regarding the duty-free entry of a nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer for the use of the University of Alabama at Birmingham.Aug 20, 1990 · See H.R.1594.
- H.R. 2910 To reduce temporarily the duty on certain frozen carrots.Aug 20, 1990 · See H.R.1594.
- H.R. 5484 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the provisions permitting certain entities to elect a taxable year other than the required year.Aug 3, 1990 · Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
- H.R. 5049 Healthcare Benefits for Retired Coalminers Act of 1990Jun 14, 1990 · Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
- H.R. 4651 To direct the Secretary of the Army to convey a certain parcel of land at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, to the Solid Waste Disposal Authority of the city of…May 1, 1990 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Installations and Facilities.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 3325 (100th) A bill to designate the segment of Corridor V in the State of Alabama as the Robert E. (Bob) Jones, Jr. Highway.Became law
- H.R. 5395 (100th) Sipsey Wild and Scenic River and Alabama Addition Act of 1988Became law
- H.R. 2139 (100th) A bill for the relief of John H. Teele.Became law
- H.R. 3470 (100th) Omnibus Taxpayers' Bill of Rights Act227 cosponsors
- H.R. 2977 (100th) A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow certain entities to elect not to make changes in their taxable years required by the Tax Reform Act…191 cosponsors
- H.R. 4408 (101st) To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the provisions permitting certain small issues of tax-exempt bonds.168 cosponsors
- H.R. 2183 (100th) Rural Letter Carriers Tax Simplification Act145 cosponsors
- H.R. 2404 (100th) Higher Education Prepayment Tax Act of 198734 cosponsors
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Flippo has won
Rep. Flippo has won 7 U.S. House elections (1976–1988). Of the contested races, margins ran from 29.8 to 93.7 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
101st Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 11 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 11 | 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 101st 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.