Former representative · Washington's 5th district

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Cathy McMorris Rodgers served in Congress from 2005 to 2025, last as a Republican representative for Washington's 5th district. In the 118th Congress, 1,222 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 74, and cast 788 of 813 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.

Party
Republican
Chamber
House
Former
In Congress since
Jan 4, 2005
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 Representatives1,2226.1%74 of 1,222 · rank 67 of 44297%788 of 813 · rank 237 of 442362 became law26%41 of 160
117th CongressHouse of Representatives9972.0%20 of 997 · rank 131 of 44395%531 of 561 · rank 367 of 443290 became law32%80 of 250

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. H.R. 8772: Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2025Nay
    Jul 11, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 128–289· Against party
  2. H.R. 8771: Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2025Nay
    Jun 27, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 109–303· Against party
  3. H.R. 8035: Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024Yea
    Apr 20, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 311–112· Against party
  4. H.R. 4664: Making appropriations for financial services and general government for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes.Nay
    Nov 8, 2023· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 142–277· Against party
  5. H.R. 4820: Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024Nay
    Nov 7, 2023· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 191–238· Against party
  6. H.R. 4820: Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024Nay
    Nov 7, 2023· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 133–295· Against party
  7. H.R. 4820: Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024Nay
    Nov 7, 2023· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 144–282· Against party
  8. H.R. 4394: Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024Nay
    Oct 26, 2023· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 166–247· 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, 2025Not voting
    Dec 20, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 366–34
  2. H.R. 10515: American Relief Act, 2025Not voting
    Dec 19, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Failed 174–235
  3. S. 759: Beagle Brigade Act of 2023Not voting
    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 2024Not voting
    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 ActNot voting
    Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 369–37
  6. S. 1351: Stop Institutional Child Abuse ActNot voting
    Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 373–33
  7. H.R. 1101: Lumbee Fairness ActNot voting
    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 2023Not voting
    Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 402–12
  9. H.R. 115: Midnight Rules Relief ActNot voting
    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".Not voting
    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 ActNot voting
    Dec 16, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 382–12
  12. S. 3998: Federal Judiciary Stabilization Act of 2024Not voting
    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.

65 sponsored · 2 became law

How far they got

  1. Introduced5077%
  2. Reported by committee69.2%
  3. Passed one chamber69.2%
  4. Became law23.1%
  5. Failed11.5%

Policy areas

  1. Health16
  2. Armed Forces and National Security10
  3. Energy10
  4. Science, Technology, Communications9
  5. Economics and Public Finance4
  6. Crime and Law Enforcement3
  7. Public Lands and Natural Resources3
  8. Emergency Management2

Latest activity

  1. H.R. 485 Protecting Health Care for All Patients Act of 2023
    Passed one chamber· Health· Dec 17, 2024
  2. H.R. 3561 PATIENT Act of 2023
    Introduced· Health· Dec 17, 2024
  3. H.R. 6435 MALDEN Act
    Reported by committee· Emergency Management· Dec 5, 2024
  4. H.R. 10296 ABLE Tomorrow Act
    Introduced· Taxation· Dec 4, 2024
  5. H.R. 4529 Public Health Guidance Transparency and Accountability Act of 2023
    Reported by committee· Health· Nov 19, 2024
  6. H.R. 7406 DeOndra Dixon INCLUDE Project Act of 2024
    Passed one chamber· Health· Sep 18, 2024
  7. H.R. 9484 RELIEVE Act
    Introduced· Armed Forces and National Security· Sep 17, 2024
  8. H.R. 3565 Spectrum Auction Reauthorization Act of 2023
    Reported by committee· Science, Technology, Communications· Aug 13, 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 Washington'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
$304.3M
Per resident
$384
Rank in Washington
8 of 10
Contract actions
1,797
New awards: 748

By fiscal year

  1. 302.7MFY2017
  2. 335.8MFY2018
  3. 478.4MFY2019
  4. 455MFY2020
  5. 312MFY2021
  6. 337.1MFY2022
  7. 383MFY2023
  8. 436.2MFY2024
  9. 390.4MFY2025
  10. 304.3MFY2026

Top buyers

  1. Forest Service$92.7M30%
    Department of Agriculture
  2. Department of Veterans Affairs$52.3M17%
  3. Department of the Army$47.5M16%
    Department of Defense
  4. Department of the Air Force$36.4M12%
    Department of Defense
  5. Environmental Protection Agency$14.3M4.7%
  6. Bureau of Land Management$11.4M3.8%
    Department of the Interior
  7. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention$9.6M3.2%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  8. Defense Health Agency$6.5M2.1%
    Department of Defense

Top recipients

  1. AERO-FLITE, INC.$74.8M25%
    83 awards
  2. WINSPEAR CONSTRUCTION LLC.$16.7M5.5%
    1 award
  3. ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT, INC$11.2M3.7%
    4 awards
  4. KNIGHT CONST. & SUPPLY, INC$10.6M3.5%
    3 awards
  5. ATC-ATHERTON JV1 LLC$9.4M3.1%
    1 award
  6. CAS FSE JV II LLC$9.1M3.0%
    1 award
  7. BHATE ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATES, INC.$8.8M2.9%
    1 award
  8. BURTON CONSTRUCTION, INC.$6.7M2.2%
    3 awards
  9. BRICE ENGINEERING, LLC$6.7M2.2%
    1 award
  10. CAVU CONSULTING LLC$5.3M1.7%
    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.

2024 cycle

Raised
$3.6M
through Dec 31, 2024
Cash on hand
$73K
From committees
$1.7M
504 committees
From contractor PACs
$514.2K
139 PACs · 30% of committee money
IndividualsPACsPartySelf

Largest gifts from PACs of federal contractors, 2024

PAC sponsorGivenMatched contract recipientIts contracts, FY2026
exxon mobil corporationexxon mobil corporation political action committee (exxonmobil pac)$15KEXXON MOBIL CORPORATIONAI match · 100% · the same organization—
microsoft corporationmicrosoft corporation stakeholders voluntary pac - msvpac$15KMICROSOFT CORPORATIONAI match · 99% · the same organization$444.3M
general motors companygeneral motors company political action committee (gm pac)$10KGENERAL MOTORS LLCAI match · 100% · of one corporate family$652.9M
bnsf railway companybnsf railway company railpac (bnsf railpac)$10KBNSF RAILWAY COMPANYAI match · 100% · the same organization$439.8K
amgen inc.amgen inc. political action committee$10KAMGEN INC.AI match · 99% · the same organization$0
cummins inc.cummins inc. political action committee (cipac)$6,000CUMMINS INCAI match · 99% · the same organization$11.3M
american bankers association (aba)american bankers association pac (bankpac)$5,000AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATIONAI match · 100% · the same organization—
johnson & johnsonjohnson & johnson political action committee$5,000JOHNSON & JOHNSON VISION CARE INCAI match · 100% · of one corporate family—
pfizer inc.pfizer inc. pac$5,000PFIZER INCAI match · 100% · the same organization-$140.2K
international association of fire fightersinternational association of firefighters interested in registration and education pac$5,000INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIREFIGHTERSAI match · 100% · the same organization$5,280

By cycle

CycleRaised (FEC summary)From committeesFrom contractor PACs
2024$3.6M$1.7M$514.2K139 PACs · 30% of committee money
2022$6.4M$3.3M$908.9K163 PACs · 28% 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 · Washington's 5th districtJan 3, 2023 – Jan 3, 2025
  2. House · Washington's 5th districtJan 3, 2021 – Jan 3, 2023
  3. House · Washington's 5th districtJan 3, 2019 – Jan 3, 2021
  4. House · Washington's 5th districtJan 3, 2017 – Jan 3, 2019
  5. House · Washington's 5th districtJan 6, 2015 – Jan 3, 2017
  6. House · Washington's 5th districtJan 3, 2013 – Jan 3, 2015
  7. House · Washington's 5th districtJan 5, 2011 – Jan 3, 2013
  8. House · Washington's 5th districtJan 6, 2009 – Jan 3, 2011
  9. House · Washington's 5th districtJan 4, 2007 – Jan 3, 2009
  10. House · Washington's 5th 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 9, 2026 · loaded Oct 9, 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 9, 2026 · loaded Oct 9, 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 9, 2026 · loaded Oct 9, 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.