Former member of Congress · last served 103rd Congress
Neal Edward Smith
Neal Smith was a Democratic U.S. representative from Iowa, first elected to Congress in 1959, who sponsored 7 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. 4606 Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1995Sep 30, 1994 · Became Public Law No: 103-333.
- H.R. 365 Small Business Preservation and Protection Act of 1993Jun 12, 1994 · Unfavorable Executive Comment Received from USDA.
- H.R. 364 Small Business Meat Producer and Marketer Protection Act of 1993Jun 12, 1994 · Unfavorable Executive Comment Received from USDA.
- H.R. 2519 Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1994Oct 27, 1993 · Became Public Law No: 103-121.
- H.R. 3249 Rural Telemedicine Development Act of 1993Oct 26, 1993 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 2608 (102nd) Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1992Became law
- H.R. 5678 (102nd) Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1993Became law
- H.R. 2991 (101st) Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1990Became law
- H.R. 5021 (101st) Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991Became law
- H.R. 4782 (100th) Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1989Became law
- H.R. 2763 (100th) Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1988Passed a chamber
- H.J.Res. 442 (101st) To repeal Sec. 614 of the Department of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1990 and Sec. 302 of the Foreign…Reported from committee
- H.R. 1712 (101st) To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require that certain foods intended for human consumption be labeled to show the amount of sodium and…25 cosponsors
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Smith has won
Rep. Smith has won 9 U.S. House elections (1976–1992). Of the contested races, margins ran from 8.0 to 43.3 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 14 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 14 | 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.