Former representative · Georgia's 3rd district
A. Drew Ferguson IV
A. Drew Ferguson IV served in Congress from 2017 to 2025, last as a Republican representative for Georgia's 3rd district. In the 118th Congress, 1,222 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 65, and cast 775 of 816 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.
- Party
- Republican
- Chamber
- House
- Former
- In Congress since
- Jan 3, 2017
- Last term ended
- Jan 3, 2025
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.
| Congress | Roll calls | Missed | Votes with party | Sponsored | Cosponsored across the aisle |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 118th CongressHouse of Representatives | 1,222 | 5.3%65 of 1,222 · rank 81 of 442 | 95%775 of 816 · rank 294 of 442 | 171 became law | 15%31 of 205 |
| 117th CongressHouse of Representatives | 997 | 1.9%19 of 997 · rank 138 of 443 | 98%556 of 566 · rank 201 of 443 | 90 became law | 32%73 of 225 |
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 118th Congress (House), with each party's median and the chamber's range.
Liberal −1+0.58+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.
- H.R. 8998: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025NayJul 24, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 160–256· Against party
- H.R. 8998: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025NayJul 23, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 146–264· Against party
- Jul 23, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 218–204· Against party
- Jul 23, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 136–285· Against party
- Jul 23, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 125–295· Against party
- Jul 23, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 133–286· Against party
- Jul 23, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 128–291· Against party
- Jul 23, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 134–283· Against party
Recent votes
The latest roll calls on bills and amendments, with the member's recorded position.
- H.R. 10545: American Relief Act, 2025Not votingDec 20, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 366–34
- Dec 19, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Failed 174–235
- Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 381–20
- Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendments· Passed 404–1
- Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 369–37
- Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 373–33
- Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 311–96
- Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 402–12
- Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 210–201
- Dec 16, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 348–39
- S. 141: Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement ActNot votingDec 16, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 382–12
- Dec 16, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 390–0
Sponsored bills
Bills and resolutions the member introduced as sponsor in the loaded Congresses. Volume is not quality: most measures never leave committee.
26 sponsored · 1 became law
How far they got
- Introduced2181%
- Reported by committee13.8%
- Passed one chamber312%
- Became law13.8%
Policy areas
- Taxation8
- Health4
- Education2
- Finance and Financial Sector2
- Government Operations and Politics2
- Labor and Employment2
- Private Legislation2
- Social Welfare2
Latest activity
- H.R. 8919 To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 151 Highway 74 South in Peachtree City, Georgia, as the "SFC Shawn McCloskey Post Office".Became law· Government Operations and Politics· Jan 4, 2025
- H.R. 8913 Protecting American Students ActReported by committee· Taxation· Dec 24, 2024
- H.R. 3765 Improving Social Security’s Service to Victims of Identity Theft ActIntroduced· Social Welfare· Dec 17, 2024
- H.R. 3635 Save Rural Hospitals Act of 2023Introduced· Health· Dec 17, 2024
- H.R. 2940 PASTEUR ActIntroduced· Health· Dec 17, 2024
- H.R. 10086 Save Struggling Hospitals ActIntroduced· Health· Dec 17, 2024
- H.R. 3784 Improving Social Security’s Service to Victims of Identity Theft ActPassed one chamber· Social Welfare· Sep 18, 2024
- H.R. 8149 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify the tax treatment of digital asset rewards.Introduced· Taxation· Apr 29, 2024
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 Georgia's 3rd 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.
- Obligations · FY2026
- $107.6M
- Per resident
- $136
- Rank in Georgia
- 14 of 14
- Contract actions
- 844
- New awards: 431
By fiscal year
- 61.7MFY2017
- 104.8MFY2018
- 86.5MFY2019
- 82.3MFY2020
- 86.8MFY2021
- 69.6MFY2022
- 71.7MFY2023
- 92.6MFY2024
- 84.8MFY2025
- 107.6MFY2026
Top buyers
- Defense Logistics Agency$47.1M44%Department of Defense
- Department of Defense
- Department of the Army$13M12%Department of Defense
- Defense Information Systems Agency$5.5M5.1%Department of Defense
- Federal Aviation Administration$3.6M3.4%Department of Transportation
- Department of the Air Force$3.3M3.1%Department of Defense
- Department of Veterans Affairs$2.8M2.6%
- Food and Drug Administration$2.4M2.3%Department of Health and Human Services
Top recipients
- RTX CORPORATION$46M43%19 awards
- SAWTST LLC$6.7M6.2%2 awards
- ATTAINX INC.$4.2M3.9%1 award
- SYNAPSEMX, INC$4M3.7%1 award
- BROADLEAF, INC.$3.7M3.5%1 award
- 1 award
- CHROMALLOY GAS TURBINE LLC$3.3M3.1%6 awards
- MICROSOFT CORPORATION$3.3M3.0%1 award
- 1 award
- INSIGHT PUBLIC SECTOR, INC.$2.9M2.7%1 award
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
- $885.6K
- through Dec 31, 2024
- Cash on hand
- $58.8K
- From committees
- $722K
- 233 committees
- From contractor PACs
- $188.5K
- 60 PACs · 26% of committee money
IndividualsPACsPartySelf
Largest gifts from PACs of federal contractors, 2024
| PAC sponsor | Given | Matched contract recipient | Its contracts, FY2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| pricewaterhousecooperspricewaterhousecoopers political action committee i | $10K | PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS LLPAI match · 98% · the same organization | $4.8M |
| bristol-myers squibb companybristol-myers squibb company political action committee (bms pac) | $5,500 | BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB COMPANYAI match · 100% · the same organization | $8.8M |
| american bankers association (aba)american bankers association pac (bankpac) | $5,000 | AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATIONAI match · 100% · the same organization | — |
| abbott laboratoriesabbott laboratories employee political action committee | $5,000 | ABBOTT LABORATORIES INC.AI match · 100% · the same organization | $90M |
| united parcel service, inc.united parcel service, inc. pac (upspac) | $5,000 | UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INCAI match · 100% · of one corporate family | $685.7K |
| american institute of certified public accountantsamerican institute of certified public accountants political action committee | $5,000 | AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTSAI match · 100% · the same organization | — |
| delta airlinesdelta air lines pac | $5,000 | DELTA AIR LINES, INC.AI match · 100% · the same organization | $8.9M |
| at&t inc.at&t inc. employee federal political action committee (at&t employee federal pac) | $5,000 | AT&T CORP.,AI match · 100% · of one corporate family | -$3,412 |
| american college of emergency physiciansnational emergency medicine political action committee / american college of emergency physicians | $5,000 | AMERICAN COLLEGE OF EMERGENCY PHYSICIANSAI match · 100% · the same organization | $92K |
| deere & companydeere & company pac (aka john deere pac) | $5,000 | DEERE & COMPANYAI match · 99% · the same organization | $10.2M |
By cycle
| Cycle | Raised (FEC summary) | From committees | From contractor PACs |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $885.6K | $722K | $188.5K60 PACs · 26% of committee money |
| 2022 | $3.4M | $1.9M | $485.5K93 PACs · 25% 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.
- House · Georgia's 3rd districtJan 3, 2023 – Jan 3, 2025
- House · Georgia's 3rd districtJan 3, 2021 – Jan 3, 2023
- House · Georgia's 3rd districtJan 3, 2019 – Jan 3, 2021
- House · Georgia's 3rd 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)
- ZIP code (ZCTA) to congressional district crosswalk (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 relationship files (ZCTAs, tracts and congressional districts); shares computed by Analisa · release 2020 · loaded Oct 3, 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)
- 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)
- 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.