Former member of Congress · last served 112th Congress
Elton Gallegly
Elton Gallegly was a Republican U.S. representative from California, first elected to Congress in 1987, who voted with most Republicans on 93% of the 112th Congress’s yes/no votes and sponsored 12 bills that became law (100th–112th 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.
5 most recent votes
- YeaOn Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendments — American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012Jan 1, 2013 · Passed
- YeaOn Agreeing to the Resolution — Providing for consideration of the Senate amendments to the bill (H.R. 8) to extend certain tax relief provisions enacted in 2001 and…Jan 1, 2013 · Passed
- YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendment — Drywall Safety Act of 2012Jan 1, 2013 · Passed
- YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendment — To provide for the conveyance of certain property from the United States to the Maniilaq Association located in Kotzebue, Alaska.Jan 1, 2013 · Passed
- YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass — Congressional Pay Freeze and Fiscal Responsibility ActJan 1, 2013 · Passed
5 most recent bills
- H.R. 6587 To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 225 Simi Village Drive in Simi Valley, California, as the "Postal Inspector Terry…Jan 10, 2013 · Became Public Law No: 112-256.
- H.R. 6639 To amend the Wildfire Suppressing Aircraft Transfer Act of 1996 to facilitate inter-agency agreements with the Air National Guard and the Air Force Reserve to…Dec 5, 2012 · Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined…
- H.R. 4043 Military Readiness and Southern Sea Otter Conservation ActJul 17, 2012 · Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 112-606, Part I.
- H.R. 4109 Los Padres Conservation and Recreation Act of 2012Jun 28, 2012 · Subcommittee Hearings Held.
- H.R. 5965 To require the Chief of the Forest Service to make the Forest Service First and Second Generation Modular Airborne FireFighting System (MAFFS) units available…Jun 27, 2012 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 137 (110th) Animal Fighting Prohibition Enforcement Act of 2007Became law
- H.R. 3293 (106th) To amend the law that authorized the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to authorize the placement within the site of the memorial of a plaque to honor those Vietnam…Became law
- H.R. 5566 (111th) Animal Crush Video Prohibition Act of 2010Became law
- H.R. 131 (111th) Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission ActBecame law
- H.R. 93 (107th) Federal Firefighters Retirement Age Fairness ActBecame law
- H.R. 1887 (106th) To amend title 18, United States Code, to punish the depiction of animal cruelty.Became law
- H.R. 1493 (105th) To require the Attorney General to establish a program in local prisons to identify, prior to arraignment, criminal aliens and aliens who are unlawfully…Became law
- H.R. 173 (105th) To amend the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to authorize donation of surplus Federal law enforcement canines to their handlers.Became law
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Gallegly has won
Rep. Gallegly has won 13 U.S. House elections (1986–2010). Of the contested races, margins ran from 12.8 to 40.2 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.
How has California’s 24th district done while Rep. Gallegly served?
2005 to 2011 in CA-24: typical household income was down 5% after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was up 2.1 points, and the share of workers looking for a job was up 6.5 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 California’s 24th district during Gallegly’s time representing it (2003 to 2013). It does not say what the member did or caused. It is not a score, and PORKER never ranks members on it.
Only one set of district lines is shown. CA-24 was redrawn in 2012 and again in 2022, and a redrawn district is a different place. So this card shows only the longest stretch on the same lines during the term, 2005 to 2011 (no 2020 yearly estimate), not the full 2003 to 2013.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
112th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 17 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 17 | Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them → |
| With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement | 16 | See the 16 → |
| With a CBO cost estimate listed | 2 | See the 2 → |
| With a committee report listed | 2 | See the 2 → |
Evidence
- How counted
- Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 112th 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 · latest recorded House vote Sep 16, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.