Former member of Congress · last served 103rd Congress
Alfred A. (Al) McCandless
Alfred Mccandless was a Republican U.S. representative from California, first elected to Congress in 1983, who sponsored 3 bills that became law (100th–103rd 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. 5102 To amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to certain crimes relating to Congressional medals of honor.Nov 2, 1994 · Became Public Law No: 103-442.
- H.R. 246 Congressional Accountability ActJul 25, 1994 · See H.R.4822.
- H.R. 1629 To amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to the use and sale of military medals and decorations.Apr 21, 1994 · See H.R.4092.
- H.R. 245 To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize the detail of personnel of the Department of Defense to assist the Immigration and Naturalization Service…Sep 13, 1993 · Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2142)
- H.R. 264 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore the deduction for health insurance costs of self-employed individuals for an indefinite period, and to…Aug 10, 1993 · See H.R.2264.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 2615 (100th) A bill to provide that certain lands shall be in trust for the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians of the Pechanga Reservation, California.Became law
- H.R. 4050 (100th) A bill for the relief of certain persons in Riverside County, California who purchased land in good faith reliance on an existing private land survey.Became law
- H.R. 2959 (100th) A bill to amend the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 to permit Foster Grandparent services to be provided to mentally retarded individuals without…33 cosponsors
- H.R. 3517 (100th) A bill to amend the Tax Reform Act of 1986 to delay for 1 year the effective date for the increase in the current year liability test for estimated tax…33 cosponsors
- H.R. 3523 (100th) Video Privacy Protection Act of 198725 cosponsors
- H.R. 3067 (102nd) To amend title 18, United States Code, to clarify the maximum fine for the offense of selling military decoration or medals, and to clarify that trades are…20 cosponsors
- H.R. 860 (101st) Honest and Balanced Budget Act18 cosponsors
- H.R. 1176 (100th) A bill to amend the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act of 1930 (7 U.S.C. 499b) to require clear country of origin labeling on imported perishable…16 cosponsors
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. McCandless has won
Rep. McCandless has won 6 U.S. House elections (1982–1992). Of the contested races, margins ran from 5.0 to 31.2 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
103rd 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 103rd 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.