Former member of Congress · last served 103rd Congress
J. Roy Rowland
J. Rowland was a Democratic U.S. representative from Georgia, first elected to Congress in 1983, who sponsored 5 bills that became law (100th–103rd 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. 5228 Bipartisan Health Care Reform Act of 1994Nov 14, 1994 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations.
- H.R. 3313 Veterans Health Programs Extension Act of 1994Nov 2, 1994 · Became Public Law No: 103-452.
- H.R. 3955 Health Reform Consensus Act of 1994Aug 2, 1994 · See H.R.3600.
- H.R. 4013 VA State Health Care Reform Pilot Program ActJun 9, 1994 · Message on Senate action sent to the House.
- H.R. 4425 To authorize major medical facility construction projects for the Department of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 1995, to revise and improve veterans' health…May 25, 1994 · Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 1811 (100th) Radiation-Exposed Veterans Compensation Act of 1988Became law
- H.R. 2535 (103rd) To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide additional authority for the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide health care for veterans of the…Became law
- H.R. 2034 (103rd) An Act to authorize major medical facilitiy projects and leases for the Department of Veterans' Affairs, to revise and extend the authority of the Secretary…Became law
- H.R. 749 (102nd) To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to accept a donation of land for addition to the Ocmulgee National Monument in the State of Georgia.Became law
- H.R. 2881 (100th) National Commission on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome ActPassed a chamber
- H.R. 4475 (101st) Medicare Physician Regulation Relief Amendments of 1990266 cosponsors
- H.R. 2695 (102nd) Medicare Physician Regulatory Relief Amendments of 1991169 cosponsors
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Rowland has won
Rep. Rowland has won 6 U.S. House elections (1982–1992). Of the contested races, margins ran from 11.4 to 72.8 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
103rd Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 16 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 16 | 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 103rd 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.