Former member of Congress · last served 109th Congress
Melissa A. Hart
Melissa Hart was a Republican U.S. representative from Pennsylvania, first elected to Congress in 2001, who sponsored 5 bills that became law (107th–109th 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. 4768 To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 777 Corporation Street in Beaver, Pennsylvania, as the "Robert Linn Memorial Post…Oct 13, 2006 · Became Public Law No: 109-345.
- H.R. 5824 Manchester Bidwell Center for Arts and Technology ActSep 28, 2006 · Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
- H.R. 5809 Energy Efficient Buildings Act of 2006Jul 17, 2006 · Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
- H.R. 5355 Volunteer Firefighter Recruitment and Retention Act of 2006May 11, 2006 · Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
- H.R. 5115 U.S. Healthcare Technologies Competitiveness Act of 2006Apr 6, 2006 · Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 1997 (108th) Laci and Conner's LawBecame law
- H.R. 1474 (108th) Check 21 ActBecame law
- H.R. 2621 (107th) Product Packaging Protection Act of 2002Became law
- H.R. 5542 (107th) Black Lung Consolidation of Administrative Responsibility ActBecame law
- H.R. 1158 (109th) To reauthorize the Steel and Aluminum Energy Conservation and Technology Competitiveness Act of 1988.Passed a chamber
- H.R. 3890 (108th) To reauthorize the Steel and Aluminum Energy Conservation and Technology Competitiveness Act of 1988.Passed a chamber
- H.R. 1333 (109th) Medicare Patient Access to Physical Therapists Act of 2005158 cosponsors
- H.R. 2386 (109th) College 529 Invest in Education Savings for Tomorrow Act of 2005128 cosponsors
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Hart has won
Rep. Hart has won 3 U.S. House elections (2000–2004). Of the contested races, margins ran from 18.0 to 29.1 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.
How has Pennsylvania’s 4th district done while Rep. Hart served?
2005 to 2006 in PA-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 Pennsylvania’s 4th district during Hart’s time representing it (2001 to 2007). It does not say what the member did or caused. It is not a score, and PORKER never ranks members on it.
One set of district lines. PA-4 was redrawn in 2012, 2018 and again in 2022 (the survey year the new lines first appear), but every survey year in Hart’s term so far (2005 and 2006) uses the same lines, so they can be compared. The Census Bureau has no 2020 yearly estimate.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
109th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 31 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 31 | 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 | 1 | See the 1 → |
| With a committee report listed | 1 | See the 1 → |
Evidence
- How counted
- Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 109th 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.