Former member of Congress · last served 102nd Congress
Gus Yatron
Gus Yatron was a Democratic U.S. representative from Pennsylvania, first elected to Congress in 1969, who sponsored 1 bill 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.Con.Res. 357 Expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to violations of internationally recognized human rights by the Government of Iraq.Sep 14, 1992 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East.
- H.Res. 461 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives concerning the Chinese government's harassment of foreign journalists.Jun 9, 1992 · Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- H.Con.Res. 177 Calling for a United States policy of strengthening and maintaining indefinitely the current International Whaling Commission moratorium on the commercial…Jun 2, 1992 · Received in the Senate and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
- H.Con.Res. 272 Expressing the sense of the Congress that all parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITIES) should withdraw all reservations…Mar 23, 1992 · Favorable Executive Comment Received from State.
- H.Con.Res. 266 Expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to United States participation in the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED).Mar 23, 1992 · Executive Comment Received from State.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 2092 (102nd) Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991Became law
- H.Con.Res. 87 (101st) Concerning Iranian persecution of the Baha'is.Passed a chamber
- H.R. 1417 (100th) Torture Victim Protection Act of 1988Passed a chamber
- H.Res. 312 (101st) Urging the President to submit the Convention on the Rights of the Child to the Senate for its advice and consent to ratification.Passed a chamber
- H.Con.Res. 287 (101st) Calling for a United States policy of promoting the continuation, for a minimum of an additional 10 years, of the International Whaling Commission's…Passed a chamber
- H.Res. 116 (102nd) Urging the President to complete the review of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women in order that the Senate may…Passed a chamber
- H.Con.Res. 329 (101st) Calling for United States sanctions against nations which conduct unjustified lethal whale research, and otherwise expressing the sense of the Congress with…Passed a chamber
- H.J.Res. 620 (100th) A joint resolution expressing the support of the United States for the restoration of full and genuine democracy in Chile and calling upon the Government of…Passed a chamber
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Yatron has won
Rep. Yatron has won 8 U.S. House elections (1976–1990). Of the contested races, margins ran from 14.0 to 48.4 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 11 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 11 | 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.