Former representative · West Virginia's 2nd district

Alexander X. Mooney

Alexander X. Mooney served in Congress from 2015 to 2025, last as a Republican representative for West Virginia's 2nd district. In the 118th Congress, 1,222 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 141, and cast 796 of 801 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.

Party
Republican
Chamber
House
Former
In Congress since
Jan 6, 2015
Last term ended
Jan 3, 2025
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
118th CongressHouse of Representatives1,22211.5%141 of 1,222 · rank 22 of 44299%796 of 801 · rank 37 of 442300 became law12%40 of 330
117th CongressHouse of Representatives9971.5%15 of 997 · rank 164 of 44398%551 of 564 · rank 256 of 443160 became law32%121 of 384

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+0.57+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. 10515: American Relief Act, 2025Nay
    Dec 19, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Failed 174–235· Against party
  2. H.R. 8774: Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2025Yea
    Jun 27, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 161–251· Against party
  3. H.R. 5525: Continuing Appropriations and Border Security Enhancement Act, 2024Nay
    Sep 29, 2023· House· Passage· On Passage· Failed 198–232· Against party
  4. H.R. 4365: Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2024Yea
    Sep 27, 2023· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 176–258· Against party
  5. S. 4003: Law Enforcement De-Escalation Training Act of 2022Yea
    Dec 14, 2022· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 264–162· Against party
  6. H.R. 5455: Terry Technical Correction ActYea
    Nov 29, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 307–101· Against party
  7. H.R. 8294: Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023Yea
    Jul 20, 2022· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 238–191· Against party
  8. H.R. 2543: Federal Reserve Racial and Economic Equity ActYea
    Jun 15, 2022· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 224–198· Against party

Recent votes

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

  1. H.R. 10545: American Relief Act, 2025Nay
    Dec 20, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 366–34· Against party
  2. H.R. 10515: American Relief Act, 2025Nay
    Dec 19, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Failed 174–235· Against party
  3. S. 759: Beagle Brigade Act of 2023Yea
    Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 381–20
  4. H.R. 8663: DETECT Fentanyl and Xylazine Act of 2024Yea
    Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendments· Passed 404–1
  5. S. 3857: Jamul Indian Village Land Transfer ActYea
    Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 369–37
  6. S. 1351: Stop Institutional Child Abuse ActYea
    Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 373–33
  7. H.R. 1101: Lumbee Fairness ActNay
    Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 311–96· Against party
  8. S. 3448: Never Again Education Reauthorization Act of 2023Yea
    Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 402–12
  9. H.R. 115: Midnight Rules Relief ActYea
    Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 210–201
  10. S. 4077: A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 180 Steuart Street in San Francisco, California, as the "Dianne Feinstein Post Office".Present
    Dec 16, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 348–39
  11. S. 141: Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement ActYea
    Dec 16, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 382–12
  12. S. 3998: Federal Judiciary Stabilization Act of 2024Yea
    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.

46 sponsored · 0 became law

How far they got

  1. Introduced4598%
  2. Passed one chamber12.2%

Policy areas

  1. Finance and Financial Sector17
  2. Taxation5
  3. Government Operations and Politics4
  4. Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues3
  5. Congress3
  6. International Affairs3
  7. Crime and Law Enforcement2
  8. Social Welfare2

Latest activity

  1. H.R. 8049 Protecting Life in Health Savings Accounts Act
    Introduced· Taxation· Dec 17, 2024
  2. H.R. 6222 Justice for Victims of COVID Act
    Introduced· Health· Dec 17, 2024
  3. H.R. 521 Social Security Guarantee Act of 2023
    Introduced· Social Welfare· Dec 17, 2024
  4. H.R. 9877 CFPB Budget Integrity Act
    Introduced· Finance and Financial Sector· Sep 27, 2024
  5. H.R. 8153 Bank Risk Reduction Act of 2024
    Introduced· Finance and Financial Sector· Sep 3, 2024
  6. H.R. 8279 Monetary Metals Tax Neutrality Act of 2024
    Introduced· Taxation· May 7, 2024
  7. H.J.Res. 119 Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to "Private Fund Advisers; Documentation of Registered Investment Adviser Compliance Reviews".
    Introduced· Finance and Financial Sector· Mar 21, 2024
  8. H.R. 7092 Protecting Private Job Creators Act
    Introduced· Finance and Financial Sector· Jan 25, 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 West Virginia's 2nd 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
$1.3B
Per resident
$1,461
Rank in West Virginia
1 of 2
Contract actions
3,802
New awards: 1,521

By fiscal year

  1. 1.5BFY2017
  2. 1.2BFY2018
  3. 1.5BFY2019
  4. 1.3BFY2020
  5. 1.3BFY2021
  6. 1.3BFY2022
  7. 1.4BFY2023
  8. 1.7BFY2024
  9. 1.6BFY2025
  10. 1.3BFY2026

Top buyers

  1. Department of Energy$326.3M25%
  2. Federal Bureau of Investigation$175.4M13%
    Department of Justice
  3. Department of Veterans Affairs$140.4M11%
  4. Internal Revenue Service$125.2M9.5%
    Department of the Treasury
  5. Department of the Navy$117.7M8.9%
    Department of Defense
  6. Department of the Army$94.6M7.2%
    Department of Defense
  7. U.S. Coast Guard$49.4M3.8%
    Department of Homeland Security
  8. Defense Logistics Agency$36.4M2.8%
    Department of Defense

Top recipients

  1. NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORP$194.6M15%
    10 awards
  2. LEIDOS, INC.$153.4M12%
    1 award
  3. MAVERIS LLC$62.2M4.7%
    2 awards
  4. IMPRES TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS, INC$50.5M3.8%
    4 awards
  5. KBC ENERGY SOLUTIONS LLC$44.4M3.4%
    1 award
  6. ACTION FACILITIES MANAGEMENT INC$38.7M2.9%
    15 awards
  7. WASEYABEK FEDERAL SERVICES, L.L.C.$38.6M2.9%
    1 award
  8. KEYLOGIC, LLC$36.6M2.8%
    5 awards
  9. SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION$34.4M2.6%
    5 awards
  10. MAXIMUS FEDERAL SERVICES, INC.$27.4M2.1%
    1 award
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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
$10.6K
through Dec 31, 2024
Cash on hand
$0
From committees
$44.7K
16 committees
From contractor PACs
$0
0 PACs · 0% of committee money
IndividualsPACsPartySelf

By cycle

CycleRaised (FEC summary)From committeesFrom contractor PACs
2024$10.6K$44.7K$00 PACs · 0% of committee money
2022$4.5M$412.2K$21.5K7 PACs · 5% 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 · West Virginia's 2nd districtJan 3, 2023 – Jan 3, 2025
  2. House · West Virginia's 2nd districtJan 3, 2021 – Jan 3, 2023
  3. House · West Virginia's 2nd districtJan 3, 2019 – Jan 3, 2021
  4. House · West Virginia's 2nd districtJan 3, 2017 – Jan 3, 2019
  5. House · West Virginia's 2nd districtJan 6, 2015 – Jan 3, 2017

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 9, 2026 · loaded Oct 9, 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 9, 2026 · loaded Oct 9, 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 9, 2026 · loaded Oct 9, 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.