Former representative · Virginia's 4th district

A. Donald McEachin

A. Donald McEachin served in Congress from 2017 to 2022, last as a Democratic representative for Virginia's 4th district. In the 117th Congress, 933 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 3, and cast 538 of 546 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.

Party
Democrat
Chamber
House
Former
In Congress since
Jan 3, 2017
Last term ended
Nov 28, 2022
Open in the Congress explorerOfficial record
Photo: Government Publishing Office (public domain)

Record by Congress

Counts with their denominators for each Congress and chamber served. Ranks are among members who served most of that Congress (100 or more roll calls): rank 1 did it most often. A description, not a grade.

CongressRoll callsMissedVotes with partySponsoredCosponsored across the aisle
117th CongressHouse of Representatives9330.3%3 of 933 · rank 366 of 44399%538 of 546 · rank 177 of 443221 became law4%13 of 320

Ideology (DW-NOMINATE)

Voteview's DW-NOMINATE first dimension estimates where members sit from all their roll calls: liberal (−1) to conservative (+1). It describes voting patterns, not views. Shown for the 117th Congress (House), with each party's median and the chamber's range.

Liberal −1−0.38+1 Conservative

Source: Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/

Votes against their party

The latest party-unity votes on bills and amendments where the member voted yea or nay against most of their caucus.

  1. H.R. 7900: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023Nay
    Jul 14, 2022· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 155–273· Against party
  2. H.R. 7900: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023Nay
    Jul 13, 2022· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 156–270· Against party
  3. H.R. 7900: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023Nay
    Jul 13, 2022· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 118–309· Against party
  4. H.R. 7900: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023Nay
    Jul 13, 2022· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 151–277· Against party
  5. H.R. 4350: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022Nay
    Sep 23, 2021· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 142–286· Against party
  6. H.R. 4350: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022Nay
    Sep 23, 2021· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 118–299· Against party
  7. H.R. 4350: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022Nay
    Sep 23, 2021· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 141–286· Against party
  8. H.R. 1: For the People Act of 2021Nay
    Mar 3, 2021· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 125–302· Against party

Recent votes

The latest roll calls on bills and amendments, with the member's recorded position.

  1. H.R. 3630: Lymphedema Treatment ActYea
    Nov 17, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 402–13
  2. H.R. 2250: Department of Veterans Affairs Information Technology Reform Act of 2021Yea
    Nov 17, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 414–2
  3. S. 4359: Senator Johnny Isakson VA Regional Office Act of 2022Yea
    Nov 17, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 418–2
  4. S. 3369: Max Cleland VA Medical Center ActYea
    Nov 17, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 359–62
  5. MOTION: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass Certain BillsYea
    Nov 17, 2022· House· Passage· Passed 381–39
  6. S. 4524: Speak Out ActYea
    Nov 16, 2022· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 315–109
  7. H.R. 5441: PAST Act of 2021Yea
    Nov 14, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 304–111
  8. H.R. 8987: Fairness for 9/11 Families ActYea
    Sep 30, 2022· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 400–31
  9. H.R. 6833: Continuing Appropriations and Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023Yea
    Sep 30, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendment· Passed 230–201
  10. MOTION: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass Certain Bills and Concur in the Senate AmendmentsYea
    Sep 29, 2022· House· Passage· Passed 296–127
  11. H.R. 8463: Millennium Challenge Corporation Eligibility Expansion ActYea
    Sep 29, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 334–87
  12. H.R. 8446: Global Food Security Reauthorization Act of 2022Yea
    Sep 29, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 331–95

Sponsored bills

Bills and resolutions the member introduced as sponsor in the loaded Congresses. Volume is not quality: most measures never leave committee.

22 sponsored · 1 became law

How far they got

  1. Introduced1986%
  2. Reported by committee14.5%
  3. Passed one chamber14.5%
  4. Became law14.5%

Policy areas

  1. Environmental Protection4
  2. Health4
  3. Energy3
  4. Science, Technology, Communications2
  5. Taxation2
  6. Armed Forces and National Security1
  7. Crime and Law Enforcement1
  8. Education1

Latest activity

  1. H.R. 1154 Great Dismal Swamp National Heritage Area Act
    Became law· Public Lands and Natural Resources· Jan 5, 2023
  2. H.R. 408 Department of Homeland Security Mentor-Protégé Program Act of 2022
    Passed one chamber· Government Operations and Politics· Dec 5, 2022
  3. H.R. 570 Offshore Accountability Act of 2021
    Reported by committee· Energy· Nov 16, 2022
  4. H.R. 9304 Funding Attorneys for Indigent Removal (FAIR) Proceedings Act
    Introduced· Immigration· Nov 15, 2022
  5. H.R. 4836 Firearm Owners Responsibility and Safety Act
    Introduced· Crime and Law Enforcement· Nov 1, 2022
  6. H.R. 4714 Disabled Access Credit Expansion Act of 2021
    Introduced· Taxation· Nov 1, 2022
  7. H.R. 9011 Updated Drug Labeling for Patient Safety Act
    Introduced· Health· Sep 29, 2022
  8. H.R. 8551 Technology Assessment for Air Quality Management Act of 2022
    Introduced· Environmental Protection· Jul 28, 2022

Committees

Seats as published by the congress-legislators project. Past seats are those no longer listed since Analisa began recording them.

No committee seats are listed.

Federal contracts in the district

Contract obligations attributed to Virginia's 4th district by each action's county and its award's ZIP code (land shares through census tracts); an estimate where ZIP codes cross district lines. Shown next to the member's record: neither explains the other.

Contract money is attributed to districts from the 118th Congress boundaries onward; this member's last district predates them.

Campaign money

What the member's campaigns reported receiving, per FEC two-year cycle, and the federal contracts of the organizations that sponsor the giving PACs (each sponsor matched to a contract recipient by AI, with its probability). Comparisons of public records: neither explains the other.

2024 cycle

Raised
$228
through Jul 14, 2023
Cash on hand
$0
From committees
-$2,000
0 committees
From contractor PACs
$0
0 PACs · — of committee money
IndividualsPACsPartySelf

By cycle

CycleRaised (FEC summary)From committeesFrom contractor PACs
2024$228-$2,000$00 PACs · — of committee money
2022$936.5K$590.6K$113.5K42 PACs · 19% of committee money

Raised is the FEC's cumulative summary of the candidacy; committee money counts each contribution reported, so the two cover slightly different dates.

Terms

Every term in the House or Senate, as published by the congress-legislators project.

  1. House · Virginia's 4th districtJan 3, 2021 – Nov 28, 2022
  2. House · Virginia's 4th districtJan 3, 2019 – Jan 3, 2021
  3. House · Virginia's 4th districtJan 3, 2017 – Jan 3, 2019

Identifiers

The same member in other public records.

Sources and method

Every figure on this page traces to these records.

  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • House roll-call votes (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, roll-call vote records · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Senate roll-call votes and DW-NOMINATE scores (Voteview (UCLA Department of Political Science))Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/ · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Free to use with the required citation
  • Bill status: bills and resolutions, sponsors, actions, subjects and CRS summaries (U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), from Congress.gov (Library of Congress))GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Congress.gov; summaries by the Congressional Research Service) · data current to Oct 10, 2026 · loaded Oct 10, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Congressional district boundaries and relationship files (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, Cartographic Boundary Files (congressional districts) and 2020 relationship files · release cd116+cd118+cd119 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission)FEC bulk data: committee master, candidate master (candidates' names, no addresses), linkages, PAC summaries, all-candidates summaries and contributions from committees (no individual contributors) · data current to Oct 10, 2026 · loaded Oct 10, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov)USAspending.gov, prime award contract transactions (FPDS) · data current to Oct 10, 2026 · loaded Oct 10, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Positions are shown only where a roll call recorded them; voice votes and unanimous consent record none.
  • Activity counts describe volume and attendance; they are not a measure of quality.
  • Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.