Former member of Congress · last served 106th Congress
William F. Goodling
Bill Goodling was a Republican U.S. representative from Pennsylvania, first elected to Congress in 1975, who sponsored 8 bills that became law (100th–106th 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. 5210 To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 200 South George Street in York, Pennsylvania, as the "George Atlee Goodling Post…Dec 21, 2000 · Became Public Law No: 106-556.
- H.R. 2434 Worker Paycheck Fairness Act of 1999Oct 11, 2000 · Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 573.
- H.Con.Res. 399 Recognizing the 25th anniversary of the enactment of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975.Oct 5, 2000 · Message on Senate action sent to the House.
- H.R. 5211 To allow taxpayers to include compensation payments received pursuant to the Declaration on Extraordinary Emergency Because of Plum Pox Virus by the Secretary…Sep 19, 2000 · Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
- H.R. 3222 Literacy Involves Families Together ActSep 13, 2000 · Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 1715 (104th) Respecting the relationship between workers' compensation benefits and the benefits available under the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act.Became law
- H.R. 2066 (104th) Healthy Meals for Children ActBecame law
- H.R. 5 (105th) Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments of 1997Became law
- H.R. 3248 (101st) To revise the boundary of Gettysburg National Military Park in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and for other purposes.Became law
- H.R. 4638 (100th) A bill to amend the effective date provision of the Augustus F. Hawkins-Robert T. Stafford Elementary and Secondary School Improvement Amendments of 1988.Became law
- H.R. 4542 (106th) To designate the Washington Opera in Washington, D.C., as the National Opera.Became law
- H.R. 5759 (101st) To amend the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to clarify the application of such Act to employee group health plans.Became law
- H.Con.Res. 276 (100th) A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that the Surgeon General should declare that drunk driving is a national crisis.Passed a chamber
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Goodling has won
Rep. Goodling has won 12 U.S. House elections (1976–1998). Of the contested races, margins ran from 10.9 to 57.3 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
106th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 30 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 30 | 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 | 10 | See the 10 → |
| With a committee report listed | 9 | See the 9 → |
Evidence
- How counted
- Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 106th 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.