Former member of Congress · last served 104th Congress
Howell Heflin
Howell Heflin was a Democratic U.S. senator from Alabama, first elected to Congress in 1979, who sponsored 10 bills that became law (100th–104th 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
- S. 1828 A bill to authorize the Secretary of Transportation to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade…Jul 30, 1996 · Message on Senate action sent to the House.
- S. 1902 National Senior Citizen Hall of Fame Act of 1996Jun 25, 1996 · Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
- S. 1049 A bill to amend the National Trails Systems Act to designate the route from Selma to Montgomery as a National Historic Trail, and for other purposes.May 16, 1996 · Subcommittee on Parks, Preservation and Recreation. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 104-566.
- S. 369 A bill to designate the Federal Courthouse in Decautur, Alabama, as the "Seybourn H. Lynne Federal Courthouse", and for other purposes.Dec 28, 1995 · Became Public Law No: 104-85.
- S. 1468 Peanut Program Improvement ActDec 18, 1995 · Star Print ordered on the bill.
Top bills sponsored
- S.J.Res. 313 (101st) A joint resolution designating October 3, 1990, as "National Teacher Appreciation Day".Became law
- S. 1630 (100th) Retirement and Survivors' Annuities for Bankruptcy Judges and Magistrates Act of 1988Became law
- S. 1569 (102nd) Federal Courts Administration Act of 1992Became law
- S. 952 (100th) A bill to improve the administration of justice by providing greater discretion to the Supreme Court in selecting the cases it will review, and for other…Became law
- S. 1467 (102nd) A bill to designate the United States Courthouse located at 15 Lee Street in Montgomery, Alabama, as the "Frank M. Johnson, Jr. United States Courthouse.Became law
- S. 340 (103rd) Animal Medicinal Drug Use Clarification Act of 1994Became law
- S. 544 (102nd) Animal Enterprise Protection Act of 1992Became law
- S. 2407 (103rd) Judicial Amendments Act of 1994Became law
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Sen. Heflin has won
Sen. Heflin has won 3 U.S. Senate elections (1978, 1984, 1990). Of the contested races, margins ran from 21.1 to 88.0 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
104th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 17 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 17 | Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them → |
| With a CBO cost estimate listed | 0 | None listed |
| With a committee report listed | 2 | See the 2 → |
Evidence
- How counted
- Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 104th 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.