Former member of Congress · last served 100th Congress
David McCann Sweeney
David Sweeney was a Republican U.S. representative from Texas, first elected to Congress in 1985.
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. 5298 Medicare Wage Index Equity Act of 1988Nov 10, 1988 · Provisions of Measure Incorporated Into H.R.4333.
- H.R. 5258 A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to transfer title to certain project lands acquired for the Palmetto Bend Project, Texas, and for other…Nov 3, 1988 · Referred to Subcommittee on Water and Power Resources.
- H.R. 5456 A bill to establish a joint congressional committee to be known as the Joint Committee on the Procurement of Services and Property by the Department of Defense.Oct 4, 1988 · Referred to House Committee on Rules.
- H.R. 3819 A bill to prohibit additional appropriations for the analysis and study for the Shaws Bend site of the Colorado Coastal Plains project.Oct 4, 1988 · For Further Action See H.R.2772.
- H.R. 5259 Small Rural Hospital Preservation Act of 1988Sep 28, 1988 · Referred to Subcommittee on Health.
Top bills sponsored
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Sweeney has won
Rep. Sweeney has won 2 U.S. House elections (1984–1986). Of the contested races, margins ran from 2.6 to 4.7 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 7 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 7 | 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.