Former member of Congress · last served 104th Congress
Douglas (Pete) Peterson
Pete Peterson was a Democratic U.S. representative from Florida, first elected to Congress in 1991.
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. 3130 Health Insurance Affordability Act of 1996Apr 10, 1996 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
- H.R. 3040 To authorize the Secretary of Transportation to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for…Mar 18, 1996 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
- H.R. 2571 Comprehensive Long-Term Care Reform Act of 1995Nov 20, 1995 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Hazardous Materials, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
- H.Res. 277 Relating to a question of the privileges of the House.Nov 17, 1995 · On motion to table the measure Agreed to by recorded vote: 219 - 177, 10 Present (Roll no. 815).
- H.R. 2071 Health Care Improvement Act of 1995Aug 4, 1995 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 535 (103rd) Prisoner-of-War Commemorative Coin Act253 cosponsors
- H.R. 558 (103rd) To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for the award of the Purple Heart to persons wounded in action by friendly fire.101 cosponsors
- H.R. 5020 (102nd) Prisoner-of-War Commemorative Coin Act62 cosponsors
- H.R. 4502 (102nd) To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for the award of the Purple Heart to persons wounded in action by friendly fire.54 cosponsors
- H.R. 5307 (102nd) To amend title 10, United States Code, to remove the limitations on the number of units of the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps that may be established…40 cosponsors
- H.R. 3830 (103rd) To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that 5 additional points be granted, on the examination for entrance into the competitive service, to certain…31 cosponsors
- H.R. 1648 (104th) To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that 5 additional points be granted, on the examination for entrance into the competitive service, to certain…5 cosponsors
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Peterson has won
Rep. Peterson has won 3 U.S. House elections (1990–1994). Of the contested races, margins ran from 13.9 to 46.9 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
104th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 8 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 8 | 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 104th 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.