Former member of Congress · last served 104th Congress
Patricia Schroeder
Patricia Schroeder was a Democratic U.S. representative from Colorado, first elected to Congress in 1973, who sponsored 5 bills that became law (100th–104th 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. 4217 Safe Motherhood Act of 1996Oct 30, 1996 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.
- H.Res. 543 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States and the United Nations should support the election of a woman for Secretary…Oct 3, 1996 · Referred to the Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights.
- H.R. 3057 Comstock Cleanup Act of 1996Sep 24, 1996 · Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H10769-10770)
- H.R. 3748 Civil Rights Procedures Protection Act of 1996Sep 4, 1996 · Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
- H.R. 3704 To amend the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to apply the Act to a greater percentage of the United States workforce and to allow employees to take…Jul 8, 1996 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 3694 (103rd) Child Abuse Accountability ActBecame law
- H.R. 1237 (103rd) National Child Protection Act of 1993Became law
- H.R. 1435 (102nd) Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge Act of 1992Became law
- H.R. 4064 (100th) A bill to amend title 28 of the United States Code to authorize the appointment of additional bankruptcy judges.Became law
- H.R. 4318 (100th) General Accounting Office Personnel Amendments Act of 1988Became law
- H.R. 1133 (103rd) Violence Against Women Act of 1993Passed a chamber
- H.R. 3875 (100th) Civil Service Due Process AmendmentsPassed a chamber
- H.Res. 23 (103rd) To establish the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families.Reported from committee
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Schroeder has won
Rep. Schroeder has won 10 U.S. House elections (1976–1994). Of the contested races, margins ran from 7.1 to 39.9 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
104th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 19 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 19 | 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 104th 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.