Former member of Congress · last served 110th Congress
Vito Fossella
Vito Fossella was a Republican U.S. representative from New York, first elected to Congress in 1997, who sponsored 7 bills that became law (105th–110th 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. 5906 Small Business Capitol Expansion and Improvement Act of 2008Apr 24, 2008 · Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
- H.R. 5440 FISA Amendments Act of 2008Apr 23, 2008 · Motion to Discharge Committee filed by Mr. Fossella. Petition No: 110-7. (<a href="http://clerk.house.gov/110/lrc/pd/Petitions/Dis7.htm">Discharge…
- H.R. 5670 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a Federal income tax credit for certain home purchases.Apr 1, 2008 · Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
- H.R. 4627 Homeowners' Assistance Act of 2007Dec 13, 2007 · Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
- H.R. 4224 To prohibit the Secretary of State from making a contribution to the United Nations until such time as the United Nations is in compliance with fire…Nov 15, 2007 · Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 1088 (107th) Investor and Capital Markets Fee Relief ActBecame law
- H.R. 2183 (109th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 567 Tompkins Avenue in Staten Island, New York, as the "Vincent Palladino Post Office".Became law
- H.R. 2771 (108th) To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to reauthorize the New York City Watershed Protection Program.Became law
- H.R. 3880 (107th) To provide a temporary waiver from certain transportation conformity requirements and metropolitan transportation planning requirements under the Clean Air…Became law
- H.R. 592 (106th) To redesignate Great Kills Park in the Gateway National Recreation Area as "World War II Veterans Park at Great Kills".Became law
- H.R. 3557 (106th) To authorize the President to award a gold medal on behalf of the Congress to John Cardinal O'Connor, Archbishop of New York, in recognition of his…Became law
- H.J.Res. 71 (107th) Amending title 36, United States Code, to designate September 11 as Patriot Day.Became law
- H.Res. 345 (110th) Commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Archdiocese of New York.Passed a chamber
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Fossella has won
Rep. Fossella has won 5 U.S. House elections (1998–2006). Of the contested races, margins ran from 12.2 to 34.7 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.
How has New York’s 13th district done while Rep. Fossella served?
2005 to 2008 in NY-13: typical household income was about the same after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was about the same, and the share of workers looking for a job was down 1.5 points.
Each mini chart has its own scale, fitted to its lines (it does not start at zero), so compare the numbers, not the heights. Teal = district, oxblood = state, grey = U.S.
While they served, not because of them. This shows what happened in New York’s 13th district during Fossella’s time representing it (1997 to 2009). It does not say what the member did or caused. It is not a score, and PORKER never ranks members on it.
One set of district lines. NY-13 was redrawn in 2012 (the survey year the new lines first appear), but every survey year in Fossella’s term so far (2005 to 2008) uses the same lines, so they can be compared. The Census Bureau has no 2020 yearly estimate.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
110th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 20 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 20 | 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 |
| With a Congress.gov note | 1 | See the 1 → |
Evidence
- How counted
- Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 110th 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.