Former member of Congress · last served 109th Congress
Richard W. Pombo
Richard Pombo was a Republican U.S. representative from California, first elected to Congress in 1993, who sponsored 10 bills that became law (103rd–109th 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. 5946 Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Reauthorization Act of 2006Jan 12, 2007 · Became Public Law No: 109-479.
- H.R. 5697 Federal Wildland Firefighter Classification ActDec 8, 2006 · Received in the Senate.
- H.R. 4075 United States-Russia Polar Bear Conservation and Management Act of 2006Dec 7, 2006 · Message on Senate action sent to the House.
- H.R. 6014 To authorize the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Reclamation, to improve California's Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and water supply.Nov 13, 2006 · Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
- H.R. 6193 EAT Healthy America ActNov 2, 2006 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 1442 (108th) Vietnam Veterans Memorial Visitor Center ActBecame law
- H.R. 1368 (108th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 7554 Pacific Avenue in Stockton, California, as the "Norman D. Shumway Post Office…Became law
- H.R. 1103 (104th) Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act Amendments of 1995Became law
- H.R. 5539 (109th) North American Wetlands Conservation Reauthorization Act of 2006Became law
- H.R. 3846 (108th) Tribal Forest Protection Act of 2004Became law
- H.R. 3351 (109th) Native American Technical Corrections Act of 2006Became law
- H.R. 584 (109th) Department of the Interior Volunteer Recruitment Act of 2005Became law
- H.R. 1658 (108th) Railroad Right-of-Way Conveyance Validation Act of 2003Became law
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Pombo has won
Rep. Pombo has won 7 U.S. House elections (1992–2004). Of the contested races, margins ran from 2.0 to 27.2 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.
How has California’s 11th district done while Rep. Pombo served?
2005 to 2006 in CA-11: typical household income was about the same after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was about the same, and the share of workers looking for a job was about the same.
Each mini chart has its own scale, fitted to its lines (it does not start at zero), so compare the numbers, not the heights. Teal = district, oxblood = state, grey = U.S.
While they served, not because of them. This shows what happened in California’s 11th district during Pombo’s time representing it (1993 to 2007). It does not say what the member did or caused. It is not a score, and PORKER never ranks members on it.
One set of district lines. CA-11 was redrawn in 2012 and again in 2022 (the survey year the new lines first appear), but every survey year in Pombo’s term so far (2005 and 2006) uses the same lines, so they can be compared. The Census Bureau has no 2020 yearly estimate.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
109th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 42 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 42 | 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 | 15 | See the 15 → |
| With a committee report listed | 14 | See the 14 → |
| With a Congress.gov note | 2 | See the 2 → |
Evidence
- How counted
- Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 109th 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.