Former member of Congress · last served 101st Congress
Robert Garcia
Robert Garcia was a Democratic U.S. representative from New York, first elected to Congress in 1977, who sponsored 1 bill 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.J.Res. 275 Designating 1990 as the "International Year of Bible Reading".May 23, 1989 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Census and Population.
- H.R. 1615 Voluntary National Service and Education Demonstration Program ActApr 26, 1989 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education.
- H.R. 1690 Emergency Phone System Equal Access ActApr 17, 1989 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance.
- H.R. 1689 To amend the Lanham Act to limit the defense against trademark infringement relating to geographic origin.Apr 5, 1989 · Referred to the House Committee on Judiciary.
- H.R. 1688 To amend the Lanham Act to prevent the admission into the United States of articles of imported merchandise that are labeled with the name of a foreign…Apr 5, 1989 · Referred to the House Committee on Judiciary.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 3289 (100th) A bill to amend the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945.Became law
- H.R. 1948 (100th) A bill to designate the United States Post Office Building located at 153 East 110th Street in New York, New York, as the "Oscar Garcia Rivera Post Office…Passed a chamber
- H.J.Res. 481 (100th) A joint resolution to designate the period beginning May 16, 1988, and ending May 22, 1988, as "National Safe Kids Week".226 cosponsors
- H.J.Res. 468 (100th) A joint resolution to designate the week beginning May 8, 1988, as "National Exporters Appreciation Week".53 cosponsors
- H.R. 1614 (101st) To amend the Education of the Handicapped Act to authorize the Secretary of Education to establish 10 demonstration projects for elementary and secondary…49 cosponsors
- H.R. 644 (100th) Family Life Education Program Amendments of 198714 cosponsors
- H.R. 926 (100th) Bank and Thrift Branch Closure Act of 198713 cosponsors
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Garcia has won
Rep. Garcia has won 6 U.S. House elections (1978–1988). Of the contested races, margins ran from 79.9 to 97.7 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 6 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 6 | 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.