Former representative · New York's 26th district

Brian Higgins

Brian Higgins served in Congress from 2005 to 2024, last as a Democratic representative for New York's 26th district. In the 118th Congress, 736 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 14, and cast 524 of 534 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.

Party
Democrat
Chamber
House
Former
In Congress since
Jan 4, 2005
Last term ended
Feb 2, 2024
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 Representatives7361.9%14 of 736 · rank 257 of 44298%524 of 534 · rank 181 of 44270 became law29%55 of 191
117th CongressHouse of Representatives9970.7%7 of 997 · rank 276 of 44399%565 of 568 · rank 85 of 443211 became law7%29 of 429

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 −1−0.35+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. 5585: Agent Raul Gonzalez Officer Safety ActYea
    Jan 30, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 271–154· Against party
  2. H.Res. 927: Condemning antisemitism on University campuses and the testimony of University Presidents in the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.Yea
    Dec 13, 2023· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Agree· Passed 303–126· Against party
  3. H.R. 4394: Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024Nay
    Oct 26, 2023· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 121–299· Against party
  4. H.R. 1435: Preserving Choice in Vehicle Purchases ActYea
    Sep 14, 2023· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 222–190· Against party
  5. H.R. 1338: SAT Streamlining ActYea
    Jul 25, 2023· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Failed 250–163· Against party
  6. H.R. 467: HALT Fentanyl ActYea
    May 25, 2023· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 289–133· Against party
  7. H.Con.Res. 40: Expressing support for local law enforcement officers and condemning efforts to defund or dismantle local law enforcement agencies.Yea
    May 18, 2023· House· Passage· On Agreeing to the Resolution· Passed 301–119· Against party
  8. H.Con.Res. 40: Expressing support for local law enforcement officers and condemning efforts to defund or dismantle local law enforcement agencies.Yea
    May 18, 2023· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 268–156· Against party

Recent votes

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

  1. H.R. 6976: Protect Our Communities from DUIs ActNay
    Feb 1, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 274–150
  2. H.R. 7024: Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024Yea
    Jan 31, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 357–70
  3. H.R. 2754: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2395 East Del Mar Boulevard in Laredo, Texas, as the "Lance Corporal David Lee Espinoza, Lance Corporal Juan Rodrigo Rodriguez & Sergeant Roberto Arizola Jr. Post Office Building".Yea
    Jan 31, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 420–0
  4. H.R. 6679: No Immigration Benefits for Hamas Terrorists ActYea
    Jan 31, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 422–2
  5. H.R. 6678: Consequences for Social Security Fraud ActNay
    Jan 31, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 272–155
  6. H.R. 6678: Consequences for Social Security Fraud ActNay
    Jan 31, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 267–158
  7. H.R. 5585: Agent Raul Gonzalez Officer Safety ActYea
    Jan 30, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 271–154· Against party
  8. H.R. 5585: Agent Raul Gonzalez Officer Safety ActYea
    Jan 30, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 201–224
  9. S. 3427: Overtime Pay for Protective Services Act of 2023Yea
    Jan 29, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 379–20
  10. H.R. 5528: Safe and Smart Federal Purchasing ActYea
    Jan 29, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 397–0
  11. H.R. 6914: Pregnant Students’ Rights ActNay
    Jan 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 212–207
  12. H.R. 6918: Supporting Pregnant and Parenting Women and Families ActNay
    Jan 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 214–208

Sponsored bills

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

28 sponsored · 1 became law

How far they got

  1. Introduced2796%
  2. Became law13.6%

Policy areas

  1. Health11
  2. Armed Forces and National Security3
  3. Social Welfare3
  4. Taxation3
  5. Foreign Trade and International Finance2
  6. Public Lands and Natural Resources2
  7. Government Operations and Politics1
  8. Immigration1

Latest activity

  1. H.R. 5593 To amend the Trade Act of 1974 to exempt from the Generalized System of Preferences certain tire articles, and for other purposes.
    Introduced· Foreign Trade and International Finance· Dec 17, 2024
  2. H.R. 5408 SSI Savings Penalty Elimination Act
    Introduced· Social Welfare· Dec 17, 2024
  3. H.R. 4788 Opioid Treatment Providers Act
    Introduced· Health· Dec 17, 2024
  4. H.R. 4286 Increasing Access to Lung Cancer Screening Act
    Introduced· Health· Dec 17, 2024
  5. H.R. 3498 HELP Act of 2023
    Introduced· Social Welfare· May 23, 2024
  6. H.R. 1402 Boxing Therapy for Parkinson’s Access Act of 2023
    Introduced· Armed Forces and National Security· May 23, 2024
  7. H.R. 604 Make NEXUS Work Act
    Introduced· Immigration· Feb 8, 2023
  8. H.R. 9336 Increasing Access to Lung Cancer Screening Act
    Introduced· Health· Dec 1, 2022

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 York's 26th 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
$181.3M
Per resident
$235
Rank in New York
17 of 26
Contract actions
14.1K
New awards: 13.4K

By fiscal year

  1. 280.6MFY2017
  2. 268.5MFY2018
  3. 367.5MFY2019
  4. 288.7MFY2020
  5. 231.5MFY2021
  6. 288.9MFY2022
  7. 386.2MFY2023
  8. 236.9MFY2024
  9. 293.9MFY2025
  10. 181.3MFY2026

Top buyers

  1. Defense Logistics Agency$46.6M26%
    Department of Defense
  2. Department of the Army$37.3M21%
    Department of Defense
  3. Department of Veterans Affairs$30.9M17%
  4. Department of the Air Force$16.2M8.9%
    Department of Defense
  5. U.S. Coast Guard$11.5M6.3%
    Department of Homeland Security
  6. Department of the Navy$10.9M6.0%
    Department of Defense
  7. U.S. Customs and Border Protection$5.4M3.0%
    Department of Homeland Security
  8. Department of State$5.4M3.0%

Top recipients

  1. TECMOTIV (USA), INC.$33.4M18%
    156 awards
  2. ENVIRO-FIX SOLUTIONS LLC$11.2M6.2%
    1 award
  3. PEGASUS SUPPORT SERVICES LLC$9M5.0%
    1 award
  4. CUBRC, INC.$8.8M4.9%
    12 awards
  5. LATINA BOULEVARD FOODS LLC$7.1M3.9%
    10,084 awards
  6. BASALT INTERNATIONAL INC$6.9M3.8%
    1 award
  7. ONEILL CONTRACTORS INC$6M3.3%
    1 award
  8. NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION$5.3M2.9%
    26 awards
  9. TEAM RONCO INCORPORATED$5.3M2.9%
    4 awards
  10. MORRISH-WALLACE CONSTRUCTION, INC.$5.3M2.9%
    2 awards
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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.

2022 cycle

Raised
$1.5M
through Dec 31, 2022
Cash on hand
$793.3K
From committees
$919.6K
245 committees
From contractor PACs
$226.2K
56 PACs · 25% of committee money
IndividualsPACsPartySelf

Largest gifts from PACs of federal contractors, 2022

PAC sponsorGivenMatched contract recipientIts contracts, FY2026
american bankers association (aba)american bankers association pac (bankpac)$10KAMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATIONAI match · 100% · the same organization—
general mills inc.general mills, inc. political action committee$10KGENERAL MILLS INCAI match · 100% · the same organization—
general motors companygeneral motors company political action committee (gm pac)$10KGENERAL MOTORS LLCAI match · 100% · of one corporate family$652.9M
honeywell internationalhoneywell international political action committee$10KHONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.AI match · 100% · the same organization$260.5M
american hospital associationamerican hospital association pac$10KAMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATIONAI match · 99% · the same organization$1.2M
national fuel gas companynational fuel gas company federal political action committee$9,450NATIONAL FUEL GAS DISTRIBUTION CORPAI match · 100% · of one corporate family$118.2K
international union of painters and allied tradesinternational union of painters and allied trades political action together political committee$8,500INTERNATIONAL UNION OF PAINTERS AND ALLIED TRADESAI match · 99% · the same organization—
american society for radiation oncologyamerican society for radiation oncology pac (''astro-pac'')$8,500AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR RADIATION ONCOLOGYAI match · 100% · the same organization$307.1K
at&t inc.at&t inc. employee federal political action committee (at&t employee federal pac)$8,000AT&T CORP.,AI match · 100% · of one corporate family-$3,412
united parcel service, inc.united parcel service inc. pac$7,850UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INCAI match · 100% · of one corporate family$685.7K

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 York's 26th districtJan 3, 2023 – Feb 2, 2024
  2. House · New York's 26th districtJan 3, 2021 – Jan 3, 2023
  3. House · New York's 26th districtJan 3, 2019 – Jan 3, 2021
  4. House · New York's 26th districtJan 3, 2017 – Jan 3, 2019
  5. House · New York's 26th districtJan 6, 2015 – Jan 3, 2017
  6. House · New York's 26th districtJan 3, 2013 – Jan 3, 2015
  7. House · New York's 27th districtJan 5, 2011 – Jan 3, 2013
  8. House · New York's 27th districtJan 6, 2009 – Jan 3, 2011
  9. House · New York's 27th districtJan 4, 2007 – Jan 3, 2009
  10. House · New York's 27th districtJan 4, 2005 – Jan 3, 2007

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 6, 2026 · loaded Oct 6, 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 6, 2026 · loaded Oct 6, 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 6, 2026 · loaded Oct 6, 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.