Former member of Congress · last served 102nd Congress
Bob Traxler
Bob Traxler was a Democratic U.S. representative from Michigan, first elected to Congress in 1973, who sponsored 6 bills that became law (100th–102nd 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. 5679 Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1993Oct 6, 1992 · Became Public Law No: 102-389.
- H.R. 2519 Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1992Oct 28, 1991 · Became Public Law No: 102-139.
- H.Con.Res. 172 Providing for the printing of a revised edition of the booklet entitled "Our American Government" as a House Document.Oct 7, 1991 · Message on Senate action sent to the House.
- H.R. 5158 Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991Nov 5, 1990 · Became Public Law No: 101-507.
- H.R. 2569 To designate the Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Saginaw, Michigan, as the "Aleda E. Lutz Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center".Aug 15, 1990 · Provisions Included In H.R.1199 (Section 209).
Top bills sponsored
- H.J.Res. 124 (101st) To recognize the 75th anniversary of the Smith-Lever Act of May 8, 1914, and its role in establishing our Nation's system of State Cooperative Extension…Became law
- H.R. 2916 (101st) Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1990Became law
- H.J.Res. 135 (101st) To designate the week beginning May 7, 1989, as "National Correctional Officers Week".Became law
- H.J.Res. 381 (101st) Designating October 1 through 7, 1989, as "National 4-H Awareness Week".145 cosponsors
- H.R. 1016 (100th) Public Safety Officers' Death Benefits Amendments of 1987106 cosponsors
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Traxler has won
Rep. Traxler has won 8 U.S. House elections (1976–1990). Of the contested races, margins ran from 18.6 to 82.0 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
102nd Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 3 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 3 | 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 102nd 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.