Former member of Congress · last served 102nd Congress
Joseph M. Gaydos
Joseph Gaydos was a Democratic U.S. representative from Pennsylvania, first elected to Congress in 1967.
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. 1063 Construction Safety, Health, and Education Improvement Act of 1991Jul 9, 1992 · Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 368.
- H.Res. 379 Providing amounts from the contingent fund of the House for the expenses of investigations and studies by standing and select committees of the House in the…May 28, 1992 · Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- H.Res. 429 Providing amounts from the contingent fund of the House for continuing expenses of investigations and studies by the standing and select committees of the…Apr 30, 1992 · Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- H.Res. 409 Providing amounts from the contingent fund of the House for continuing expenses of investigations and studies by the standing and select committees of the…Mar 26, 1992 · Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- H.R. 3129 To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prohibit classifying certain courses of instruction as correspondence courses.Aug 13, 1991 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 162 (100th) High Risk Occupational Disease Notification and Prevention Act of 1987Passed a chamber
- H.Res. 92 (102nd) Providing amounts from the contingent fund of the House for the expenses of investigations and studies by standing and select committees of the House in the…Passed a chamber
- H.Res. 103 (101st) Providing amounts from the contingent fund of the House for the expenses of investigations and studies by standing and select committees of the House in the…Passed a chamber
- H.Res. 346 (101st) Providing amounts from the contingent fund of the House for the expenses of investigations and studies by standing and select committees of the House in the…Passed a chamber
- H.Res. 108 (100th) A resolution providing amounts from the contingent fund of the House for the expenses of investigations and studies by standing and select committees of the…Passed a chamber
- H.Res. 388 (100th) A resolution providing amounts from the contingent fund of the House for the expenses of investigations and studies by standing and select committees of the…Passed a chamber
- H.Res. 76 (100th) A resolution electing members of the Joint Committee on Printing and members of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library.Passed a chamber
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Gaydos has won
Rep. Gaydos has won 8 U.S. House elections (1976–1990). Of the contested races, margins ran from 31.2 to 97.0 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
102nd 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 102nd 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.