Former member of Congress · last served 101st Congress
Augustus F. Hawkins
Augustus Hawkins was a Democratic U.S. representative from California, first elected to Congress in 1963, who sponsored 8 bills 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.R. 3 Act for Better Child Care Services of 1990Nov 8, 1990 · See also H.R. 5835.
- H.R. 5932 Educational Equity and Excellence Act of 1990Oct 26, 1990 · Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1025.
- H.R. 5806 Urban Schools of America (USA) Act of 1990Oct 26, 1990 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary and Vocational Education.
- H.R. 2039 Job Training Partnership Act Amendments of 1990Oct 1, 1990 · Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 895.
- H.R. 7 Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act Amendments of 1990Sep 25, 1990 · Became Public Law No: 101-392.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 5 (100th) Augustus F. Hawkins-Robert T. Stafford Elementary and Secondary School Improvement Amendments of 1988Became law
- H.R. 24 (101st) Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 1989Became law
- H.R. 3614 (101st) Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act Amendments of 1989Became law
- H.R. 3910 (101st) 1992 National Assessment of Chapter 1 ActBecame law
- H.J.Res. 102 (101st) To designate April 1989 as "National Recycling Month".Became law
- H.J.Res. 469 (100th) A joint resolution to designate June 1988 as "National Recycling Month".Became law
- H.R. 4731 (100th) WIN Demonstration Program Extension Act of 1988Became law
- H.R. 4000 (101st) Civil Rights Act of 1990Passed a chamber
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Hawkins has won
Rep. Hawkins has won 7 U.S. House elections (1976–1988). Of the contested races, margins ran from 59.6 to 75.1 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 29 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 29 | 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.