Former member of Congress · last served 109th Congress
Don Sherwood
Don Sherwood was a Republican U.S. representative from Pennsylvania, first elected to Congress in 1999, who sponsored 1 bill that became law (106th–109th 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. 3721 To amend the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 to allow certain commercial vehicles to continue to use Route 209 within Delaware Water Gap…Dec 19, 2005 · Provisions of Measure Incorporated into S.1310.
- H.R. 3124 Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Natural Gas Pipeline Enlargement ActDec 12, 2005 · Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 184.
- H.R. 1135 AMS ActMar 16, 2005 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture.
- H.R. 521 Milk Import Tariff Equity ActFeb 14, 2005 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
- H.R. 5369 Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Natural Gas Pipeline Enlargement ActNov 22, 2004 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 940 (106th) An act to designate the Lackawanna Valley and the Schuylkill River National Heritage Areas, and for other purposes.Became law
- H.R. 603 (106th) To amend title 49, United States Code, to clarify the application of the Act popularly known as the "Death on the High Seas Act" to aviation incidents.Passed a chamber
- H.R. 4494 (108th) Grey Towers National Historic Site Act of 2004Reported from committee
- H.R. 1160 (108th) Milk Import Tariff Equity Act199 cosponsors
- H.R. 5288 (106th) To amend part C of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to increase the minimum payment amount to Medicare+Choice organizations offering Medicare+Choice…7 cosponsors
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Sherwood has won
Rep. Sherwood has won 4 U.S. House elections (1998–2004). Of the contested races, margins ran from 0.3 to 85.7 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.
How has Pennsylvania’s 10th district done while Rep. Sherwood served?
2005 to 2006 in PA-10: typical household income was about the same after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was about the same, and the share of workers looking for a job was about the same.
Each mini chart has its own scale, fitted to its lines (it does not start at zero), so compare the numbers, not the heights. Teal = district, oxblood = state, grey = U.S.
While they served, not because of them. This shows what happened in Pennsylvania’s 10th district during Sherwood’s time representing it (1999 to 2007). It does not say what the member did or caused. It is not a score, and PORKER never ranks members on it.
One set of district lines. PA-10 was redrawn in 2012, 2018 and again in 2022 (the survey year the new lines first appear), but every survey year in Sherwood’s term so far (2005 and 2006) uses the same lines, so they can be compared. The Census Bureau has no 2020 yearly estimate.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
109th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 4 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 4 | 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 | 1 | See the 1 → |
| With a committee report listed | 1 | See the 1 → |
| With a Congress.gov note | 1 | See the 1 → |
Evidence
- How counted
- Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 109th 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.