Former representative · Maryland's 2nd district

C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger

C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger served in Congress from 2003 to 2025, last as a Democratic representative for Maryland's 2nd district. In the 118th Congress, 1,222 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 77, and cast 784 of 799 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.

Party
Democrat
Chamber
House
Former
In Congress since
Jan 7, 2003
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 Representatives1,2226.3%77 of 1,222 · rank 62 of 44298%784 of 799 · rank 182 of 44230 became law25%83 of 328
117th CongressHouse of Representatives9971.1%11 of 997 · rank 203 of 44398%557 of 566 · rank 189 of 44340 became law11%43 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 −1−0.30+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. 5009: Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025Yea
    Dec 11, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendment with an Amendment· Passed 281–140· Against party
  2. H.R. 8774: Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2025Nay
    Jun 27, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 161–251· Against party
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. H.R. 2799: Expanding Access to Capital Act of 2023Yea
    Mar 7, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 301–125· Against party
  6. 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
  7. H.R. 5961: No Funds for Iranian Terrorism ActYea
    Nov 30, 2023· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 307–119· Against party
  8. H.R. 5961: No Funds for Iranian Terrorism ActYea
    Nov 30, 2023· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 241–181· 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.

7 sponsored · 0 became law

How far they got

  1. Introduced686%
  2. Passed one chamber114%

Policy areas

  1. Agriculture and Food3
  2. Health3
  3. Taxation1

Latest activity

  1. H.R. 6005 Fairness for Victims of SNAP Skimming Act of 2023
    Introduced· Agriculture and Food· Jan 18, 2024
  2. H.Res. 419 Expressing support for the designation of May as Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Awareness Month to increase the knowledge of this little-known, potentially fatal, genetic disease.
    Introduced· Health· May 19, 2023
  3. H.R. 205 SNAP Theft Protection Act of 2023
    Introduced· Agriculture and Food· Feb 13, 2023
  4. H.R. 9319 SNAP Theft Protection Act of 2022
    Introduced· Agriculture and Food· Nov 29, 2022
  5. H.R. 1260 Bipartisan Solution to Cyclical Violence Act of 2021
    Passed one chamber· Health· May 13, 2021
  6. H.Res. 335 Expressing support for the designation of May as Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Awareness Month to increase the knowledge of this little-known, potentially fatal, genetic disease.
    Introduced· Health· Apr 21, 2021
  7. H.R. 2288 Investing in Our Communities Act
    Introduced· Taxation· Mar 29, 2021

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 Maryland'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
$1.9B
Per resident
$2,525
Rank in Maryland
8 of 8
Contract actions
10.2K
New awards: 7,616

By fiscal year

  1. 2.6BFY2017
  2. 3.4BFY2018
  3. 3BFY2019
  4. 4.5BFY2020
  5. 2.6BFY2021
  6. 2.5BFY2022
  7. 2.3BFY2023
  8. 2.1BFY2024
  9. 2BFY2025
  10. 1.9BFY2026

Top buyers

  1. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services$1.4B73%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  2. Department of the Navy$155M8.0%
    Department of Defense
  3. Defense Health Agency$143.4M7.4%
    Department of Defense
  4. Social Security Administration$44.3M2.3%
  5. Public Buildings Service$27.6M1.4%
    General Services Administration
  6. Department of the Army$27.3M1.4%
    Department of Defense
  7. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources$18.2M0.9%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  8. Drug Enforcement Administration$11.1M0.6%
    Department of Justice

Top recipients

  1. GENERAL DYNAMICS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, INC.$358M18%
    5 awards
  2. THE JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICAL SERVICES CORPORATION$142.7M7.4%
    1 award
  3. INDEX ANALYTICS LLC$113.6M5.9%
    24 awards
  4. TEXTRON SYSTEMS CORPORATION$73.2M3.8%
    83 awards
  5. SPARKSOFT CORPORATION$62M3.2%
    8 awards
  6. BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC$60.6M3.1%
    3 awards
  7. LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION$59.4M3.1%
    20 awards
  8. BELLESE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC$44.5M2.3%
    5 awards
  9. PERATON INC.$42.7M2.2%
    8 awards
  10. MATHEMATICA INC.$37.2M1.9%
    12 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.

2026 cycle

Raised
$12.2K
through Jun 30, 2026
Cash on hand
$141.5K
From committees
$0
0 committees
From contractor PACs
$0
0 PACs · — of committee money
IndividualsPACsPartySelf

By cycle

CycleRaised (FEC summary)From committeesFrom contractor PACs
2026$12.2K$0$00 PACs · — of committee money
2024$373.5K$269.3K$124.5K43 PACs · 46% of committee money
2022$1.1M$686.6K$274.2K52 PACs · 40% 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 · Maryland's 2nd districtJan 3, 2023 – Jan 3, 2025
  2. House · Maryland's 2nd districtJan 3, 2021 – Jan 3, 2023
  3. House · Maryland's 2nd districtJan 3, 2019 – Jan 3, 2021
  4. House · Maryland's 2nd districtJan 3, 2017 – Jan 3, 2019
  5. House · Maryland's 2nd districtJan 6, 2015 – Jan 3, 2017
  6. House · Maryland's 2nd districtJan 3, 2013 – Jan 3, 2015
  7. House · Maryland's 2nd districtJan 5, 2011 – Jan 3, 2013
  8. House · Maryland's 2nd districtJan 6, 2009 – Jan 3, 2011
  9. House · Maryland's 2nd districtJan 4, 2007 – Jan 3, 2009
  10. House · Maryland's 2nd districtJan 4, 2005 – Jan 3, 2007
  11. House · Maryland's 2nd districtJan 7, 2003 – Jan 3, 2005

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 10, 2026 · loaded Oct 10, 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 10, 2026 · loaded Oct 10, 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 10, 2026 · loaded Oct 10, 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.