Former representative · Ohio's 6th district

Bill Johnson

Bill Johnson served in Congress from 2011 to 2024, last as a Republican representative for Ohio's 6th district. In the 118th Congress, 724 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 15, and cast 488 of 518 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.

Party
Republican
Chamber
House
Former
In Congress since
Jan 5, 2011
Last term ended
Jan 21, 2024
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 Representatives7242.1%15 of 724 · rank 246 of 44294%488 of 518 · rank 311 of 442160 became law20%41 of 201
117th CongressHouse of Representatives9970.3%3 of 997 · rank 368 of 44394%538 of 572 · rank 376 of 443182 became law29%90 of 315

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+0.44+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. Nov 15, 2023· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 155–270· Against party
  2. Nov 15, 2023· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 144–279· Against party
  3. Nov 15, 2023· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 148–280· Against party
  4. Nov 14, 2023· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 118–316· Against party
  5. Nov 14, 2023· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 140–294· Against party
  6. Nov 14, 2023· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 131–300· Against party
  7. Nov 8, 2023· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 142–277· Against party
  8. Nov 7, 2023· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 112–318· Against party

Recent votes

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

  1. Jan 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 212–207
  2. Jan 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 214–208
  3. Jan 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendment· Passed 314–108
  4. Jan 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 413–7
  5. Jan 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Agreeing to the Resolution· Passed 225–187
  6. Jan 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 403–9
  7. Jan 12, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 206–177
  8. Jan 12, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 379–1
  9. Jan 11, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 209–198
  10. Jan 11, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 211–197
  11. Dec 14, 2023· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 407–9
  12. Dec 14, 2023· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Agree to the Conference Report· Passed 310–118

Sponsored bills

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

34 sponsored · 2 became law

How far they got

  1. Introduced2985%
  2. Reported by committee25.9%
  3. Passed one chamber12.9%
  4. Became law25.9%

Policy areas

  1. Science, Technology, Communications8
  2. Energy6
  3. Armed Forces and National Security3
  4. Commerce3
  5. Government Operations and Politics3
  6. Transportation and Public Works3
  7. Education2
  8. Health2

Latest activity

  1. H.R. 1634 HELLPP Act
    Introduced· Health· Dec 17, 2024
  2. H.R. 4006 Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness Act
    Introduced· Science, Technology, Communications· Apr 9, 2024
  3. H.R. 4506 TEAM TELECOM Act
    Introduced· Science, Technology, Communications· Mar 5, 2024
  4. H.R. 793 JOBS Act of 2023
    Introduced· Education· Feb 6, 2024
  5. H.R. 1633 RAIL Act
    Introduced· Transportation and Public Works· Jan 29, 2024
  6. H.R. 5398 Advancing Tech Startups Act
    Introduced· Commerce· Dec 6, 2023
  7. H.R. 6303 Strengthening American Nuclear Competitiveness Act
    Introduced· Energy· Nov 10, 2023
  8. H.R. 1130 Unlocking our Domestic LNG Potential Act of 2023
    Reported by committee· Energy· Sep 21, 2023

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 Ohio's 6th 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
$27.4M
Per resident
$35.47
Rank in Ohio
15 of 15
Contract actions
679
New awards: 414

By fiscal year

  1. 45.7MFY2017
  2. 50.6MFY2018
  3. 52.4MFY2019
  4. 52.1MFY2020
  5. 49.7MFY2021
  6. 44.6MFY2022
  7. 43.1MFY2023
  8. 64.6MFY2024
  9. 58.8MFY2025
  10. 27.4MFY2026

Top buyers

  1. Department of Defense
  2. Department of Justice
  3. Department of Defense
  4. General Services Administration
  5. Department of Justice
  6. Forest Service$121.4K0.4%
    Department of Agriculture

Top recipients

  1. 194 awards
  2. 14 awards
  3. 1 award
  4. 8 awards
  5. NAPHCARE LLC$1.8M6.6%
    25 awards
  6. 13 awards
  7. 4 awards
  8. 2 awards
  9. 1 award
  10. 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
—
Cash on hand
—
From committees
$1,500
2 committees
From contractor PACs
$0
0 PACs · 0% of committee money

By cycle

CycleRaised (FEC summary)From committeesFrom contractor PACs
2024—$1,500$00 PACs · 0% of committee money
2022$1.7M$808.1K$191.5K52 PACs · 24% 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 · Ohio's 6th districtJan 3, 2023 – Jan 21, 2024
  2. House · Ohio's 6th districtJan 3, 2021 – Jan 3, 2023
  3. House · Ohio's 6th districtJan 3, 2019 – Jan 3, 2021
  4. House · Ohio's 6th districtJan 3, 2017 – Jan 3, 2019
  5. House · Ohio's 6th districtJan 6, 2015 – Jan 3, 2017
  6. House · Ohio's 6th districtJan 3, 2013 – Jan 3, 2015
  7. House · Ohio's 6th districtJan 5, 2011 – Jan 3, 2013

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.