Former member of Congress · last served 103rd Congress
William D. Ford
William Ford was a Democratic U.S. representative from Michigan, first elected to Congress in 1965, who sponsored 14 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
- H.R. 2300 American Jobs Protection ActNov 15, 1994 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations.
- H.R. 4072 Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Amendments ActNov 14, 1994 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations.
- H.R. 2345 American Jobs Protection ActNov 14, 1994 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations.
- H.R. 5166 Reemployment Act of 1994Oct 26, 1994 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
- H.R. 4050 Reemployment Act of 1994Oct 4, 1994 · Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2050)
Top bills sponsored
- H.J.Res. 90 (100th) A joint resolution to authorize and request the President to call a White House Conference of Library and Information Services to be held not later than 1989…Became law
- H.R. 1 (103rd) Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993Became law
- H.R. 2884 (103rd) School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994Became law
- H.R. 1285 (102nd) Higher Education Technical Amendments of 1991Became law
- H.R. 3987 (100th) A bill to designate the United States Post Office Building located at 500 West Chestnut Expressway in Springfield, Missouri, as the "Gene Taylor Post Office…Became law
- H.R. 4872 (101st) National Advisory Council on the Public Service Act of 1990Became law
- H.R. 4174 (101st) Administrative Office of the United States Courts Personnel Act of 1990Became law
- H.R. 1386 (100th) A bill for the relief of Marsha D. Christopher.Became law
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Ford has won
Rep. Ford has won 9 U.S. House elections (1976–1992). Of the contested races, margins ran from 9.1 to 60.2 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 16 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 16 | 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.