Representative · Louisiana's 6th district

Cleo Fields

Cleo Fields is a Democratic representative for Louisiana's 6th district, in Congress since 1993. In the 119th Congress, 675 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 20, and cast 443 of 452 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.

Party
Democrat
Chamber
House
Current
In Congress since
Jan 5, 1993
Term ends
Jan 3, 2027
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
119th CongressHouse of Representatives6753.0%20 of 675 · rank 131 of 43998%443 of 452 · rank 244 of 43990 became law21%81 of 377

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 119th Congress (House), with each party's median and the chamber's range.

Liberal −1−0.46+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. Jul 15, 2026· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 104–314· Against party
  2. May 20, 2026· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 217–198· Against party
  3. Sep 10, 2025· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 221–207· Against party
  4. Jul 21, 2025· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 278–121· Against party
  5. Jul 17, 2025· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 308–122· Against party
  6. Jul 17, 2025· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 294–134· Against party
  7. May 7, 2025· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 266–153· Against party
  8. Mar 11, 2025· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 292–132· Against party

Recent votes

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

  1. Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 401–14
  2. Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 415–9
  3. Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 417–3
  4. Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 214–208
  5. Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 217–207
  6. Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 352–72
  7. Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendments· Passed 262–159
  8. Sep 15, 2026· House· Passage· On Agreeing to the Resolution· Passed 220–204
  9. Sep 15, 2026· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 216–211
  10. Sep 15, 2026· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 408–17
  11. Sep 15, 2026· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 343–79
  12. Sep 15, 2026· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 424–0

Sponsored bills

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

9 sponsored · 0 became law

How far they got

  1. Introduced9100%

Policy areas

  1. Finance and Financial Sector4
  2. Taxation2
  3. Agriculture and Food1
  4. Education1
  5. Government Operations and Politics1

Committees

Seats as published by the congress-legislators project. Past seats are those no longer listed since Analisa began recording them.

Federal contracts in the district

Contract obligations attributed to Louisiana'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
$375M
Per resident
$495
Rank in Louisiana
5 of 6
Contract actions
4,042
New awards: 2,990

By fiscal year

  1. 357MFY2017
  2. 330.8MFY2018
  3. 216.8MFY2019
  4. 252.5MFY2020
  5. 507.8MFY2021
  6. 894MFY2022
  7. 463MFY2023
  8. 411.2MFY2024
  9. 428.2MFY2025
  10. 375MFY2026

Top buyers

  1. Department of Defense
  2. Department of Defense
  3. Department of Defense
  4. Department of Homeland Security
  5. Department of Homeland Security
  6. Department of Homeland Security
  7. Department of Labor

Top recipients

  1. 33 awards
  2. 21 awards
  3. 1 award
  4. 12 awards
  5. 1 award
  6. 1 award
  7. 1 award
  8. 1 award
  9. PRAESES, LLC$7.9M2.1%
    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.

2026 cycle

Raised
$833.4K
through Jul 18, 2026
Cash on hand
$436.4K
From committees
$177K
60 committees
From contractor PACs
$26.5K
9 PACs · 15% of committee money
IndividualsPACsPartySelf

Largest gifts from PACs of federal contractors, 2026

PAC sponsorGivenMatched contract recipientIts contracts, FY2026
american bankers association (aba)american bankers association pac (bankpac)$7,500AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATIONAI match · 100% · the same organization—
entergy corporationentergy corporation employee political action committee (enpac)$6,500ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLCAI match · 100% · of one corporate family$7.5M
international union of painters and allied tradesinternational union of painters and allied trades political action together political committee$2,500INTERNATIONAL UNION OF PAINTERS AND ALLIED TRADESAI match · 99% · the same organization—
mortgage bankers associationmortgage bankers association political action committee (morpac)$2,500MORTGAGE BANKERS ASSOCIATIONAI match · 100% · the same organization$125K
american hospital associationamerican hospital association pac$2,500AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATIONAI match · 99% · the same organization$1.2M
acadian ambulance serviceacadian ambulance service employee federal political action committee, inc.$2,000ACADIAN AMBULANCE SERVICE INCAI match · 100% · the same organization$5.7M
at&t inc.at&t inc. employee federal political action committee (at&t employee federal pac)$1,000AT&T CORP.,AI match · 100% · of one corporate family-$3,412
health care service corporationhealth care service corporation employees' political action committee$1,000HEALTH CARE SERVICE CORPORATION, A MUTUAL LEGAL RESERVE COMPANYAI match · 100% · the same organization$16M
charter communications inc.charter communications inc. political action committee$1,000CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLCAI match · 100% · of one corporate family$130.5K

By cycle

CycleRaised (FEC summary)From committeesFrom contractor PACs
2026$833.4K$177K$26.5K9 PACs · 15% of committee money
2024$1.2M$108.9K$9,0005 PACs · 8% 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 · Louisiana's 6th districtJan 3, 2025 – Jan 3, 2027
  2. House · Louisiana's 4th districtJan 4, 1995 – Jan 3, 1997
  3. House · Louisiana's 4th districtJan 5, 1993 – Jan 3, 1995

Contact

Official channels, as published.

Office
2349 Rayburn House Office Building

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 7, 2026 · loaded Oct 7, 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 7, 2026 · loaded Oct 7, 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.