Former member of Congress · last served 100th Congress
Peter W. Rodino Jr.
Peter Rodino was a Democratic U.S. representative from New Jersey, first elected to Congress in 1949, who sponsored 5 bills that became law (100th–100th 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. 5115 Immigration Amendments of 1988Nov 15, 1988 · Became Public Law No: 100-658.
- H.R. 4243 Genocide Convention Implementation Act of 1988Oct 14, 1988 · Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent.
- H.R. 3914 Commission on Racially Motivated Violence Act of 1988Oct 4, 1988 · Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
- H.R. 4535 A bill to designate the outpatient clinic of the Veterans' Administration to be located on New Jersey State Route 70 in Brick Township, New Jersey, as the…Sep 22, 1988 · Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
- H.R. 3227 Federal Courts Study Commission Act of 1987Aug 10, 1988 · Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 2939 (100th) Independent Counsel Reauthorization Act of 1987Became law
- H.R. 3226 (100th) A bill to amend the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 to permit certain participants in the White House Conference for a Drug Free America to be allowed travel…Became law
- H.R. 4263 (100th) A bill to designate interstate route I-195 in the State of New Jersey as the "James J. Howard Interstate Highway".Became law
- H.R. 2969 (100th) Retiree Benefits Bankruptcy Protection Act of 1988Became law
- H.R. 585 (100th) Freedom From Vertical Price Fixing Act of 1987Passed a chamber
- H.Con.Res. 125 (100th) A concurrent resolution authorizing the printing of the revised edition of the pamphlet entitled "The Constitution of the United States of America".Passed a chamber
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Rodino has won
Rep. Rodino has won 6 U.S. House elections (1976–1986). Of the contested races, margins ran from 66.6 to 91.9 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
100th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 33 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 33 | 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 100th 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.