Former representative · New Hampshire's 2nd district

Ann M. Kuster

Ann M. Kuster served in Congress from 2013 to 2025, last as a Democratic representative for New Hampshire's 2nd district. In the 118th Congress, 1,222 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 68, and cast 784 of 808 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.

Party
Democrat
Chamber
House
Former
In Congress since
Jan 3, 2013
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 Representatives1,2225.6%68 of 1,222 · rank 74 of 44297%784 of 808 · rank 236 of 442240 became law28%170 of 603
117th CongressHouse of Representatives9970.6%6 of 997 · rank 294 of 44398%561 of 573 · rank 229 of 443342 became law11%77 of 692

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 −1−0.26+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. 8790: Fix Our Forests ActYea
    Sep 24, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 268–151· Against party
  2. H.R. 192: To prohibit individuals who are not citizens of the United States from voting in elections in the District of Columbia and to repeal the Local Resident Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2022Yea
    May 23, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 262–143· Against party
  3. H.R. 4763: Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century ActYea
    May 22, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 279–136· Against party
  4. H.R. 4763: Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century ActYea
    May 22, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 225–191· Against party
  5. H.R. 7343: Detain and Deport Illegal Aliens Who Assault Cops ActYea
    May 15, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 265–148· Against party
  6. H.R. 5921: No U.S. Financing for Iran Act of 2023Yea
    Apr 15, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 294–105· Against party
  7. H.R. 7888: Reforming Intelligence and Securing America ActYea
    Apr 12, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 227–193· Against party
  8. H.R. 7888: Reforming Intelligence and Securing America ActYea
    Apr 12, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 269–153· 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, 2025Yea
    Dec 20, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 366–34
  2. H.R. 10515: American Relief Act, 2025Nay
    Dec 19, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Failed 174–235
  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 ActYea
    Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 311–96
  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 ActNay
    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".Yea
    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.

58 sponsored · 2 became law

How far they got

  1. Introduced5188%
  2. Reported by committee11.7%
  3. Passed one chamber35.2%
  4. Passed both chambers11.7%
  5. Became law23.4%

Policy areas

  1. Health21
  2. Agriculture and Food4
  3. Education4
  4. Energy4
  5. Taxation4
  6. Crime and Law Enforcement3
  7. Families3
  8. Commerce2

Latest activity

  1. H.R. 7312 EPCS 2.0 Act
    Introduced· Health· Dec 17, 2024
  2. H.R. 5461 Ensuring Access to Lower-Cost Medicines for Seniors Act of 2023
    Introduced· Health· Dec 17, 2024
  3. H.R. 2679 Pharmacy Benefits Manager Accountability Act
    Introduced· Health· Dec 17, 2024
  4. H.R. 9212 REMOVE Act of 2024
    Introduced· Environmental Protection· Jul 30, 2024
  5. H.R. 8733 Child and Animal Abuse Detection and Reporting Act
    Introduced· Families· Jun 13, 2024
  6. H.R. 8047 Energizing Our Communities Act
    Introduced· Energy· Apr 26, 2024
  7. H.R. 7930 Teen Dating Violence Prevention Act
    Introduced· Health· Apr 12, 2024
  8. H.Con.Res. 84 Authorizing the use of Emancipation Hall in the Capitol Visitor Center for a ceremony to present the Congressional Gold Medal collectively to the 23d Headquarters Special Troops and the 3133d Signal Services Company, known collectively as the "Ghost Army", in recognition of unique and highly distinguished service during World War II.
    Passed both chambers· Congress· Mar 14, 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 New Hampshire'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
$983.9M
Per resident
$1,409
Rank in New Hampshire
1 of 2
Contract actions
1,799
New awards: 683

By fiscal year

  1. 1.7BFY2017
  2. 1.8BFY2018
  3. 1.8BFY2019
  4. 1.6BFY2020
  5. 1.3BFY2021
  6. 1.1BFY2022
  7. 1.3BFY2023
  8. 1.9BFY2024
  9. 1.6BFY2025
  10. 983.9MFY2026

Top buyers

  1. Department of the Air Force$449.5M46%
    Department of Defense
  2. Department of the Navy$173.5M18%
    Department of Defense
  3. Department of the Army$151.2M15%
    Department of Defense
  4. Federal Aviation Administration$52M5.3%
    Department of Transportation
  5. Defense Logistics Agency$38.2M3.9%
    Department of Defense
  6. Defense Microelectronics Activity$25.4M2.6%
    Department of Defense
  7. Defense Health Agency$15.8M1.6%
    Department of Defense
  8. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$12.9M1.3%

Top recipients

  1. BAE SYSTEMS INFORMATION AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS INTEGRATION INC.$731.7M74%
    124 awards
  2. RUSS BASSETT CORP$44.1M4.5%
    3 awards
  3. SOLID STATE SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION$19.1M1.9%
    2 awards
  4. RED RIVER TECHNOLOGY LLC$18.7M1.9%
    24 awards
  5. ARMORSOURCE LLC$17.6M1.8%
    1 award
  6. CREARE LLC$15.6M1.6%
    55 awards
  7. BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC$15.5M1.6%
    1 award
  8. LYME COMPUTER SYSTEMS, INC.$12M1.2%
    97 awards
  9. BAE SYSTEMS INFORMATION AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS INTEGRATION INC.$9.8M1.0%
    1 award
  10. DELAWARE STORAGE AND PIPELINE COMPANY$9M0.9%
    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.

2026 cycle

Raised
$24.6K
through Jun 30, 2026
Cash on hand
$113.5K
From committees
-$10.5K
0 committees
From contractor PACs
-$3,500
0 PACs · — of committee money
IndividualsPACsPartySelf

By cycle

CycleRaised (FEC summary)From committeesFrom contractor PACs
2026$24.6K-$10.5K-$3,5000 PACs · — of committee money
2024$1.7M$726.3K$179.8K66 PACs · 25% of committee money
2022$4.4M$1.7M$328.1K72 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 · New Hampshire's 2nd districtJan 3, 2023 – Jan 3, 2025
  2. House · New Hampshire's 2nd districtJan 3, 2021 – Jan 3, 2023
  3. House · New Hampshire's 2nd districtJan 3, 2019 – Jan 3, 2021
  4. House · New Hampshire's 2nd districtJan 3, 2017 – Jan 3, 2019
  5. House · New Hampshire's 2nd districtJan 6, 2015 – Jan 3, 2017
  6. House · New Hampshire's 2nd districtJan 3, 2013 – Jan 3, 2015

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 8, 2026 · loaded Oct 8, 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 7, 2026 · loaded Oct 7, 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 8, 2026 · loaded Oct 8, 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.