Former member of Congress · last served 100th Congress
Kenneth J. Gray
Kenneth Gray was a Democratic U.S. representative from Illinois, first elected to Congress in 1955.
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. 4630 Water Resources Development Act of 1988Nov 17, 1988 · See S.2100.
- H.R. 4613 Water Resources Development Act of 1988Nov 17, 1988 · See S.2100.
- H.R. 5431 A bill to authorize the Governor of Illinois to use funds from the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund to provide relief to certain property owners adversely…Nov 3, 1988 · Referred to Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment.
- H.R. 4755 A bill for the relief of H.H. Barter, doing business as Barter Enterprises.Oct 22, 1988 · Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
- H.R. 4890 A bill to designate Jackson and Williamson Counties in Illinois as a single metropolitan statistical area.Jul 12, 1988 · Executive Comment Requested from OMB, Commerce.
Top bills sponsored
- H.Con.Res. 77 (100th) A concurrent resolution to make a correction, relating to the maximum speed limit, in the enrollment of the bill H.R. 2.Passed a chamber
- H.R. 1057 (100th) A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to restore and protect the benefit levels of workers reaching age 65 in or after 1982 (and their widows…1 cosponsor
- H.R. 1251 (100th) A bill to amend section 3104 of title 38, United States Code, to permit certain service-connected disabled veterans who are retired members of the Armed…1 cosponsor
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Gray has won
Rep. Gray has won 2 U.S. House elections (1984–1986). Of the contested races, margins ran from 0.5 to 6.5 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
100th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 14 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 14 | 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 100th 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.