Former member of Congress · last served 107th Congress
Marge Roukema
Marge Roukema was a Republican U.S. representative from New Jersey, first elected to Congress in 1981, who sponsored 2 bills that became law (100th–107th 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. 3995 Housing Affordability for America Act of 2002Sep 17, 2002 · Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 404.
- H.R. 4982 To waive the time limitation specified by law for the award of certain military decorations in order to allow the award of the Congressional Medal of Honor to…Jul 22, 2002 · Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
- H.R. 5153 To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located on Kinderkamack Road in Emerson, New Jersey, as the "Gary Albero Post Office Building".Jul 17, 2002 · Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
- H.R. 4066 Mental Health Equitable Treatment Act of 2002Jun 18, 2002 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
- H.R. 4448 To suspend temporarily the duty on certain prepared or preserved artichokes.Apr 16, 2002 · Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 5001 (100th) A bill to establish the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Citizen Advisory Commission.Became law
- H.R. 1306 (105th) Riegle-Neal Amendments Act of 1997Became law
- H.R. 285 (100th) A bill to deny crewmember status in the case of certain strikes and lockouts.Passed a chamber
- H.R. 1850 (107th) Senior Housing Commission Extension Act of 2001Passed a chamber
- H.R. 2589 (107th) Mark-to-Market Extension Act of 2001Passed a chamber
- H.Res. 495 (106th) Expressing the sense of the House regarding support for the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering, and the timely and public identification of…Passed a chamber
- H.R. 3637 (106th) Private Mortgage Insurance Technical Corrections and Clarification ActPassed a chamber
- H.R. 1574 (104th) Bank Insurance Fund and Depositor Protection Act of 1995Passed a chamber
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Roukema has won
Rep. Roukema has won 11 U.S. House elections (1980–2000). Of the contested races, margins ran from 4.2 to 53.2 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.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
107th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 30 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 30 | 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 | 3 | See the 3 → |
| With a committee report listed | 3 | See the 3 → |
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.
Data as of Oct 26, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.