Former member of Congress · last served 107th Congress
John J. LaFalce
John Lafalce was a Democratic U.S. representative from New York, first elected to Congress in 1975, who sponsored 9 bills that became law (100th–107th 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. 5621 Federal Credit Union Services Expansion Act of 2002Oct 25, 2002 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
- H.R. 5507 Truth in Lending Inflation Adjustment ActOct 8, 2002 · Received in the Senate.
- H.R. 3100 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow for the expansion of areas designated as renewal communities based on 2000 census data.Oct 8, 2002 · Received in the Senate.
- H.R. 5288 Commuter Students From Border Nations Act of 2002Aug 20, 2002 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
- H.R. 5070 Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002Aug 19, 2002 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 5050 (100th) Women's Business Ownership Act of 1988Became law
- H.R. 4793 (101st) Small Business Administration Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 1990Became law
- H.R. 2629 (102nd) Women's Business Development Act of 1991Became law
- H.R. 4111 (102nd) Small Business Credit and Business Opportunity Enhancement Act of 1992Became law
- H.R. 4773 (101st) White House Conference on Small Business Authorization ActBecame law
- H.R. 4322 (103rd) To amend the Small Business Act to increase the authorization for the development company program, and for other purposes.Became law
- H.R. 4174 (100th) Small Business Administration Reauthorization and Amendment Act of 1988Became law
- H.R. 2166 (100th) A bill to amend The Small Business Act and the Small Business Investment Act of 1958.Became law
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Lafalce has won
Rep. Lafalce has won 13 U.S. House elections (1976–2000). Of the contested races, margins ran from 11.4 to 85.3 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
107th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 43 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 43 | 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 |
| With a Congress.gov note | 4 | See the 4 → |
Evidence
- How counted
- Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 107th 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.