Former member of Congress · last served 107th Congress

David D. Phelps

DEMOCRAT U.S. Representative · IllinoisHouse 1999–2003 (IL-19)

David Phelps was a Democratic U.S. representative from Illinois, first elected to Congress in 1999.

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5Bills & resolutions sponsored106th–107th Congress (excludes amendments)

0Passed a chamberof 5 bills & resolutions sponsored

0Became law106th–107th Congress

—Broke with partyNo roll calls in PORKER’s records (they start in 2011)

—Missed votesNo roll calls in PORKER’s records (they start in 2011)

—Pork: own shareFY2024 earmarks: not in office

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.Res. 480 Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4098) to provide for ciminal prosecution of persons who alter or destroy evidence in certain Federal…
Jul 23, 2002 · Motion to Discharge Committee filed by Mr. Phelps. Petition No: 107-10. (<a href="http://clerk.house.gov/107/lrc/pd/Petitions/Dis10.htm">Discharge…
H.Con.Res. 323 Expressing the sense of Congress that money from the drug trade helps finance terror and terrorism and that the link between drugs and terror is one more…
Mar 5, 2002 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
H.R. 3477 Hunters Help the Hungry Act of 2001
Dec 19, 2001 · Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
H.R. 1401 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income loan payments received under the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program…
Apr 4, 2001 · Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
H.R. 1614 Military Reservists Small Business Relief Act of 1999
Apr 28, 1999 · Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.

Elections Rep. Phelps has won

Rep. Phelps has won 2 U.S. House elections (1998–2000). Of the contested races, margins ran from 16.6 to 29.1 points.

Democratic winRepublican winseat changed partyunopposed

Elections won2 in the data (1976–2024); losses are not listed

Closest win: 16.6 points1998, IL-19

Won an open seat or took one from the other party1 of 2 elections (open seat or changed party)

Seat history, Illinois’s 19th districtWinners, most recent three: Glenn Poshard (D) 1992–1996 → David Phelps (D) 1998–2000 → John Shimkus (R) 2002–2010. Elections shown, not terms; special elections not included.

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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

107th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 4 bills sponsored.

Record	Bills	Source
Bills sponsored	4	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
With a Congress.gov note	1	See the 1 →

Evidence

How counted: Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 107th 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.

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Data as of Oct 26, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.