Former member of Congress · last served 110th Congress
Tom Lantos
Tom Lantos was a Democratic U.S. representative from California, first elected to Congress in 1981, who sponsored 17 bills that became law (100th–110th 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. 390 Preservation of Records of Servitude, Emancipation, and Post-Civil War Reconstruction ActSep 23, 2008 · Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1042.
- H.R. 3890 Tom Lantos Block Burmese JADE (Junta's Anti-Democratic Efforts) Act of 2008Jul 29, 2008 · Became Public Law No: 110-286.
- H.R. 1469 Senator Paul Simon Study Abroad Foundation Act of 2007Mar 4, 2008 · Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 592.
- H.R. 4197 To prevent the admission of any member or leader of the Magyar Garda into the United States, and for other purposes.Feb 25, 2008 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
- H.R. 3887 William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2007Dec 5, 2007 · Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Top bills sponsored
- H.J.Res. 102 (105th) Expressing the sense of the Congress on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the modern State of Israel and reaffirming the bonds of…Became law
- H.R. 3858 (109th) Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards Act of 2006Became law
- H.R. 1175 (106th) To locate and secure the return of Zachary Baumel, an American citizen, and other Israeli soldiers missing in action.Became law
- H.R. 2330 (108th) Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act of 2003Became law
- H.R. 2121 (107th) Russian Democracy Act of 2002Became law
- H.R. 1681 (110th) American National Red Cross Governance Modernization Act of 2007Became law
- H.R. 3632 (106th) Golden Gate National Recreation Area Boundary Adjustment Act of 2000Became law
- H.R. 3971 (100th) International Child Abduction Remedies ActBecame law
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Lantos has won
Rep. Lantos has won 14 U.S. House elections (1980–2006). Of the contested races, margins ran from 3.1 to 53.7 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 California’s 12th district done while Rep. Lantos served?
2005 to 2007 in CA-12: typical household income was up 10% after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was down 1.8 points, and the share of workers looking for a job was down 1.6 points.
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 California’s 12th district during Lantos’s time representing it (1993 to 2008). 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. CA-12 was redrawn in 2012 and again in 2022 (the survey year the new lines first appear), but every survey year in Lantos’s term so far (2005 to 2007) uses the same lines, so they can be compared. The Census Bureau has no 2020 yearly estimate.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
110th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 26 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 26 | 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 | 12 | See the 12 → |
| With a committee report listed | 10 | See the 10 → |
| With a Congress.gov note | 2 | See the 2 → |
Evidence
- How counted
- Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 110th 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.