Former member of Congress · last served 113th Congress
Ralph M. Hall
Ralph Hall was a Republican U.S. representative from Texas, first elected to Congress in 1981, who voted with most Republicans on 95% of the 112th Congress’s yes/no votes and sponsored 3 bills that became law (113th–113th 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
- NayOn 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. 5603 To provide for the conveyance of the Lake Fannin Tract of the Caddo National Grasslands in Fannin County, Texas, to the County, and for other purposes.Oct 23, 2014 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry.
- H.R. 5604 To direct the Secretary of the Army to revise the management plan for the conservation pool in Lake Texoma, and for other purposes.Sep 19, 2014 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
- H.R. 318 To authorize a Wall of Remembrance as part of the Korean War Veterans Memorial and to allow certain private contributions to fund that Wall of Remembrance.Jun 10, 2014 · Subcommittee Hearings Held.
- H.R. 4032 North Texas Invasive Species Barrier Act of 2014Jun 9, 2014 · Became Public Law No: 113-117.
- H.R. 4625 Medicare Home Health Rebasing Relief and Reassessment ActMay 16, 2014 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 1003 (105th) Assisted Suicide Funding Restriction Act of 1997Became law
- H.R. 185 (113th) To designate the United States courthouse located at 101 East Pecan Street in Sherman, Texas, as the "Paul Brown United States Courthouse".Became law
- H.R. 5136 (109th) National Integrated Drought Information System Act of 2006Became law
- H.R. 2431 (113th) National Integrated Drought Information System Reauthorization Act of 2014Became law
- H.R. 5606 (109th) To designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 221 and 211 West Ferguson Street in Tyler, Texas, as the "William M. Steger Federal…Became law
- H.R. 4158 (112th) To confirm full ownership rights for certain United States astronauts to artifacts from the astronauts' space missions.Became law
- H.Res. 356 (111th) Expressing support for the designation of February 8, 2010, as "Boy Scouts of America Day", in celebration of the Nation's largest youth scouting…Passed a chamber
- H.Res. 261 (109th) Resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should be commended for implementing the…Passed a chamber
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Hall has won
Rep. Hall has won 17 U.S. House elections (1980–2012). Of the contested races, margins ran from 4.5 to 51.2 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 Texas’s 4th district done while Rep. Hall served?
2005 to 2011 in TX-4: typical household income was about the same after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was about the same, and the share of workers looking for a job was about the same.
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 Texas’s 4th district during Hall’s time representing it (1981 to 2015). 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. TX-4 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 1981 to 2015.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
113th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 11 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 11 | Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them → |
| With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement | 11 | See the 11 → |
| With a CBO cost estimate listed | 2 | See the 2 → |
| With a committee report listed | 3 | See the 3 → |
Evidence
- How counted
- Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 113th 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.