Former member of Congress · last served 110th Congress
Jerry Weller
Gerald Weller was a Republican U.S. representative from Illinois, first elected to Congress in 1995, who sponsored 9 bills that became law (104th–110th 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. 6681 To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 300 Vine Street in New Lenox, Illinois, as the "Jacob M. Lowell Post Office Building".Oct 21, 2008 · Became Public Law No: 110-443.
- H.R. 6944 Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie Expansion Act of 2008Sep 30, 2008 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
- H.R. 5688 TARGET ActApr 16, 2008 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support.
- H.R. 2825 To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 326 South Main Street in Princeton, Illinois, as the "Owen Lovejoy Princeton Post…Oct 24, 2007 · Became Public Law No: 110-103.
- H.Res. 733 Recognizing the importance of improving the high school graduation rate of foster youth.Oct 10, 2007 · Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 1791 (106th) Federal Law Enforcement Animal Protection Act of 2000Became law
- H.R. 1377 (106th) An act to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 9308 South Chicago Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, as the "John J. Buchanan Post…Became law
- H.R. 2113 (109th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2000 McDonough Street in Joliet, Illinois, as the "John F. Whiteside Joliet Post…Became law
- H.R. 5428 (109th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 202 East Washington Street in Morris, Illinois, as the "Joshua A. Terando Morris Post…Became law
- H.R. 3536 (108th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 210 Main Street in Malden, Illinois, as the "Army Staff Sgt. Lincoln Hollinsaid…Became law
- H.R. 3537 (108th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 185 State Street in Manhattan, Illinois, as the "Army Pvt. Shawn Pahnke Manhattan…Became law
- H.R. 3538 (108th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 201 South Chicago Avenue in Saint Anne, Illinois, as the "Marine Capt. Ryan Beaupre…Became law
- H.R. 6 (106th) Marriage Tax Penalty Relief Act of 2000Passed a chamber
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Weller has won
Rep. Weller has won 7 U.S. House elections (1994–2006). Of the contested races, margins ran from 3.5 to 28.6 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 Illinois’s 11th district done while Rep. Weller served?
2005 to 2008 in IL-11: 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 Illinois’s 11th district during Weller’s time representing it (1995 to 2009). 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. IL-11 was redrawn in 2012 and again in 2022 (the survey year the new lines first appear), but every survey year in Weller’s term so far (2005 to 2008) uses the same lines, so they can be compared. The Census Bureau has no 2020 yearly estimate.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
110th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 27 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 27 | 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 110th 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.