Former member of Congress · last served 101st Congress
Claude Pepper
Claude Pepper was a Democratic U.S. representative from Florida, first elected to Congress in 1935, who sponsored 3 bills that became law (100th–101st 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. 1492 Young Americans Act of 1989Apr 5, 1990 · Executive Comment Requested from HHS.
- H.R. 1359 To amend title IV of the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988 with respect to the United States Bipartisan Commission on Comprehensive Health Care.Dec 19, 1989 · Provisions of Measure Incorporated into H.R. 3299.
- H.R. 703 To authorize the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to carry out a pilot program to establish and maintain a Coast Guard junior…Dec 12, 1989 · See H.R.2459.
- H.R. 2454 College Opportunity Act of 1989Jun 9, 1989 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education.
- H.R. 2090 Fraud Victims Restitution Act of 1989Jun 6, 1989 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 390 (100th) A bill to provide that a special gold medal be presented to Mary Lasker for her humanitarian contributions in the areas of medical research and education…Became law
- H.J.Res. 421 (100th) A joint resolution designating May 1988 as "National Digestive Disease Awareness Month".Became law
- H.J.Res. 170 (101st) Designating May 1989 as "National Digestive Disease Awareness Month".Became law
- H.R. 3361 (100th) National Research Institutes Reauthorization Act of 1988Passed a chamber
- H.Res. 84 (101st) To establish the Select Committee on Hunger, the Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families, and the Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control.Passed a chamber
- H.Res. 108 (101st) Providing for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 1231) to direct the President to establish an emergency board to investigate and report respecting the…Passed a chamber
- H.Res. 111 (101st) Providing for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 2) to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to restore the minimum wage to a fair and equitable rate…Passed a chamber
- H.Res. 126 (101st) Providing for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 1487) to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1990 and 1991 for the Department of State, and for other…Passed a chamber
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Pepper has won
Rep. Pepper has won 7 U.S. House elections (1976–1988). Of the contested races, margins ran from 21.1 to 49.9 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
101st Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 28 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 28 | 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 101st 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.