Former member of Congress · last served 105th Congress
Frank Riggs
Frank Riggs was a Republican U.S. representative from California, first elected to Congress in 1991, who sponsored 5 bills that became law (102nd–105th 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. 1853 Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Amendments of 1998Oct 31, 1998 · Became Public Law No: 105-332.
- H.R. 2616 Charter School Expansion Act of 1998Oct 22, 1998 · Became Public Law No: 105-278.
- H.R. 3924 To authorize conveyance of 2 decommissioned Coast Guard vessels to Canvasback Mission, Inc., for use for provision of medical services.Oct 21, 1998 · See H.R.2204.
- H.Res. 599 Expressing the sense of the House on a question relating to the privileges of the House.Oct 14, 1998 · Referred to the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct.
- H.R. 3892 English Language Fluency ActSep 14, 1998 · Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 2243 (104th) Trinity River Basin Fish and Wildlife Management Reauthorization Act of 1995Became law
- H.R. 79 (105th) Hoopa Valley Reservation South Boundary Adjustment ActBecame law
- H.R. 3056 (104th) To permit a county-operated health insuring organization to qualify as an organization exempt from certain requirements otherwise applicable to health…Became law
- H.R. 1818 (105th) Juvenile Crime Control and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1997Passed a chamber
- H.R. 2709 (104th) To provide for the conveyance of certain land to the Del Norte County Unified School District of Del Norte County, California.Passed a chamber
- H.R. 2710 (104th) Hoopa Valley Reservation South Boundary Adjustment ActPassed a chamber
- H.R. 2711 (104th) To provide for the substitution of timber for the canceled Elkhorn Ridge Timber Sale.Passed a chamber
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Riggs has won
Rep. Riggs has won 3 U.S. House elections (1990–1996). Of the contested races, margins ran from 1.4 to 6.6 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
105th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 31 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 31 | 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 | 4 | See the 4 → |
| With a committee report listed | 7 | See the 7 → |
Evidence
- How counted
- Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 105th 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.