Former member of Congress · last served 106th Congress
Owen B. Pickett
Owen Pickett was a Democratic U.S. representative from Virginia, first elected to Congress in 1987.
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.Con.Res. 41 To express the sense of the Congress that the Bureau of Labor Statistics should develop and publish monthly a cost of living index.Mar 19, 1999 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
- H.R. 1047 To authorize the Secretary of Transportation to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for…Mar 10, 1999 · See H.R.820.
- H.J.Res. 36 Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to restrict annual deficits by limiting the public debt of the United States and requiring a…Mar 10, 1999 · Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
- H.R. 1014 Employee Educational Assistance Act of 1999Mar 4, 1999 · Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
- H.R. 648 Military Retired Pay Restoration Act of 1999Feb 23, 1999 · Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 3972 (105th) To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from charging State and local government agencies for certain uses of…Passed a chamber
- H.R. 429 (105th) NATO Special Immigrant Amendments of 1998Passed a chamber
- H.R. 1279 (102nd) For the relief of Charlotte S. Neal.Passed a chamber
- H.R. 1021 (101st) For the relief of Charlotte S. Neal.Passed a chamber
- H.R. 4566 (100th) A bill for the relief of Charlotte S. Neal.Passed a chamber
- H.R. 1280 (102nd) For the relief of Earl B. Chappell, Jr.Reported from committee
- H.R. 5128 (102nd) To authorize a certificate of documentation for the vessel REDDY JANE.Reported from committee
- H.R. 1165 (101st) To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the provision terminating the exclusion for benefits under educational assistance programs and to repeal…51 cosponsors
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Pickett has won
Rep. Pickett has won 7 U.S. House elections (1986–1998). Of the contested races, margins ran from 7.6 to 53.3 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
106th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 5 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 5 | 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 106th 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.