Former representative · Virginia's 5th district

Bob Good

Bob Good served in Congress from 2021 to 2025, last as a Republican representative for Virginia's 5th district. In the 118th Congress, 1,223 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 25, and cast 819 of 841 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.

Party
Republican
Chamber
House
Former
In Congress since
Jan 3, 2021
Last term ended
Jan 3, 2025
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 Representatives1,2232.0%25 of 1,223 · rank 250 of 44297%819 of 841 · rank 221 of 442520 became law1%7 of 836
117th CongressHouse of Representatives9973.8%38 of 997 · rank 55 of 44397%532 of 546 · rank 264 of 443400 became law4%17 of 396

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+0.80+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. Dec 19, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Failed 174–235· Against party
  2. Dec 11, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendment with an Amendment· Passed 281–140· Against party
  3. Jul 11, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Failed 205–213· Against party
  4. Jun 27, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 161–251· Against party
  5. Apr 12, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 227–193· Against party
  6. Feb 6, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Failed 250–180· Against party
  7. Oct 3, 2023· House· Passage· On Agreeing to the Resolution· Passed 216–210· Against party
  8. Sep 27, 2023· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 176–258· Against party

Recent votes

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

  1. Dec 20, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 366–34· Against party
  2. Dec 19, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Failed 174–235· Against party
  3. Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 381–20· Against party
  4. Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendments· Passed 404–1
  5. Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 369–37· Against party
  6. Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 373–33· Against party
  7. Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 311–96· Against party
  8. Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 402–12· Against party
  9. Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 210–201
  10. Dec 16, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 348–39· Against party
  11. Dec 16, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 382–12· Against party
  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.

92 sponsored · 0 became law

How far they got

  1. Introduced8592%
  2. Reported by committee66.5%
  3. Sent to the President11.1%

Policy areas

  1. Labor and Employment13
  2. Government Operations and Politics12
  3. Crime and Law Enforcement11
  4. Education11
  5. Health6
  6. International Affairs6
  7. Immigration5
  8. Congress4

Latest activity

  1. H.R. 4507 Transparency in Coverage Act
    Reported by committee· Health· Dec 19, 2024
  2. H.R. 262 ALERT Act
    Reported by committee· Government Operations and Politics· Dec 18, 2024
  3. H.R. 8855 To amend title 18, United States Code, to protect unborn children.
    Introduced· Crime and Law Enforcement· Dec 17, 2024
  4. H.R. 2813 Self-Insurance Protection Act
    Reported by committee· Health· Dec 17, 2024
  5. H.R. 10306 Blue Ridge Fire Safety Act of 2024
    Introduced· Public Lands and Natural Resources· Dec 5, 2024
  6. H.R. 10195 No Discrimination in Housing Act
    Introduced· Taxation· Nov 21, 2024
  7. H.R. 10194 Flexibility in Housing Act of 2024
    Introduced· Housing and Community Development· Nov 21, 2024
  8. H.R. 10122 Developing America’s Workforce Act
    Introduced· Labor and Employment· Nov 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 Virginia's 5th 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
$281.3M
Per resident
$353
Rank in Virginia
11 of 11
Contract actions
3,533
New awards: 2,339

By fiscal year

  1. 491.5MFY2017
  2. 499.3MFY2018
  3. 400.1MFY2019
  4. 341.4MFY2020
  5. 430.8MFY2021
  6. 316.1MFY2022
  7. 546.5MFY2023
  8. 579.9MFY2024
  9. 552.6MFY2025
  10. 281.3MFY2026

Top buyers

  1. Department of Defense
  2. Department of Labor
  3. General Services Administration
  4. Department of Defense
  5. Department of Defense
  6. Department of Health and Human Services
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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
$45K
through Jul 15, 2026
Cash on hand
$6,463
From committees
$9,800
7 committees
From contractor PACs
$0
0 PACs · 0% of committee money
IndividualsPACsPartySelf

By cycle

CycleRaised (FEC summary)From committeesFrom contractor PACs
2026$45K$9,800$00 PACs · 0% of committee money
2024$1.4M$93.5K$2,0002 PACs · 2% of committee money
2022$1.2M$119.6K$2,0002 PACs · 2% 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 5th districtJan 3, 2023 – Jan 3, 2025
  2. House · Virginia's 5th districtJan 3, 2021 – Jan 3, 2023

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.