Former member of Congress · last served 102nd Congress
Jim Jontz
Jim Jontz was a Democratic U.S. representative from Indiana, first elected to Congress in 1987.
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. 3973 Uranium Enrichment Facility Decontamination and Decommissioning Act of 1991Oct 8, 1992 · Provisions, as Reported by the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Not Included in Final Version of H.R.776.
- H.R. 5818 Small Lakes Restoration Act of 1992Aug 24, 1992 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources.
- H.Res. 556 Exercising the right of the House of Representatives to change the rules of the House of Representatives with respect to the "fast track" procedures for trade…Aug 12, 1992 · Referred to the House Committee on Rules.
- H.R. 5593 Military Retirees Benefits Protection ActJul 15, 1992 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel and Compensation.
- H.R. 1475 Miami Nation of Indiana Restoration ActJul 8, 1992 · Committee Hearings Held.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 2144 (101st) Urban and Community Forestry Act of 1989Passed a chamber
- H.R. 2042 (101st) To amend title V of the Agricultural Act of 1949 to allow producers to provide the appropriate county committees with actual yields for the 1989 and…Passed a chamber
- H.R. 842 (102nd) Ancient Forest Protection Act of 1991138 cosponsors
- H.R. 4492 (101st) Ancient Forest Protection Act of 1990131 cosponsors
- H.R. 3037 (101st) Veterans PTSD Treatment and Psychological Readjustment Act of 1989129 cosponsors
- H.R. 841 (102nd) Veterans PTSD Treatment and Psychological Readjustment Act of 1991122 cosponsors
- H.R. 3850 (100th) A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit tax-free sales of diesel fuel for use on a farm.83 cosponsors
- H.R. 2059 (100th) Farmers Home Loan Buy Back Act of 198752 cosponsors
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Jontz has won
Rep. Jontz has won 3 U.S. House elections (1986–1990). Of the contested races, margins ran from 3.4 to 12.6 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
102nd Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 16 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 16 | 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 102nd 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.