Representative · Alabama's 5th district

Dale W. Strong

Dale W. Strong is a Republican representative for Alabama's 5th district, in Congress since 2023. In the 119th Congress, 675 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 17, and cast 455 of 465 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.

Party
Republican
Chamber
House
Current
In Congress since
Jan 3, 2023
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 Representatives6752.5%17 of 675 · rank 166 of 43998%455 of 465 · rank 254 of 439160 became law10%10 of 105
118th CongressHouse of Representatives1,2221.1%13 of 1,222 · rank 322 of 44297%821 of 845 · rank 231 of 442141 became law8%9 of 120

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+0.61+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. Jan 22, 2026· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 136–291· Against party
  2. Jan 14, 2026· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 127–291· Against party
  3. Sep 4, 2025· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 127–297· Against party
  4. Sep 4, 2025· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 120–302· Against party
  5. Sep 3, 2025· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 120–307· Against party
  6. Sep 3, 2025· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 127–299· Against party
  7. Sep 3, 2025· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 124–303· Against party
  8. Sep 3, 2025· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 120–306· 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· Against party
  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.

30 sponsored · 1 became law

How far they got

  1. Introduced2273%
  2. Passed one chamber723%
  3. Became law13.3%

Policy areas

  1. Immigration6
  2. Government Operations and Politics5
  3. Science, Technology, Communications5
  4. Armed Forces and National Security3
  5. Transportation and Public Works3
  6. Agriculture and Food2
  7. Crime and Law Enforcement2
  8. Education1

Latest activity

  1. H.R. 9394 Civil Preparedness for Agroterrorism Exercise Act of 2026
    Passed one chamber· Emergency Management· Sep 16, 2026
  2. H.R. 9936 PERFORM Act
    Introduced· Government Operations and Politics· Jul 23, 2026
  3. H.R. 8770 SAFEGUARDS Act of 2026
    Passed one chamber· Transportation and Public Works· Jul 14, 2026
  4. H.R. 9079 TRUST Act
    Introduced· Armed Forces and National Security· May 29, 2026
  5. H.R. 5447 SPACEPORT Act
    Introduced· Science, Technology, Communications· Sep 17, 2025
  6. H.Res. 560 Commemorating the 65th anniversary of the Marshall Space Flight Center and recognizing its continued leadership in the development of the Space Launch System and human space exploration.
    Introduced· Science, Technology, Communications· Jun 27, 2025
  7. H.R. 3312 SERVICE Act of 2025
    Introduced· Crime and Law Enforcement· May 8, 2025
  8. H.R. 706 DHS Biodetection Improvement Act
    Passed one chamber· Government Operations and Politics· Mar 12, 2025

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 Alabama'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
$10.9B
Per resident
$14,628
Rank in Alabama
1 of 7
Contract actions
13.2K
New awards: 5,572

By fiscal year

  1. 7.6BFY2017
  2. 9.7BFY2018
  3. 10.6BFY2019
  4. 9.9BFY2020
  5. 10.7BFY2021
  6. 9.4BFY2022
  7. 10.8BFY2023
  8. 11.5BFY2024
  9. 12.8BFY2025
  10. 10.9BFY2026

Top buyers

  1. Department of Defense
  2. Department of Defense
  3. Department of Defense
  4. General Services Administration
  5. Department of Defense
  6. Department of Defense

Top recipients

  1. 6 awards
  2. 15 awards
  3. 33 awards
  4. 2 awards
  5. 14 awards
  6. 8 awards
  7. 1 award
  8. 20 awards
  9. 157 awards
  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
$1.5M
through Jun 30, 2026
Cash on hand
$1.4M
From committees
$659.4K
172 committees
From contractor PACs
$296.1K
59 PACs · 45% of committee money
IndividualsPACsPartySelf

Largest gifts from PACs of federal contractors, 2026

PAC sponsorGivenMatched contract recipientIts contracts, FY2026
general electric companygeneral electric company aerospace employee political action committee (ge aerospace pac)$10KGENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYAI match · 98% · the same organization$636.3M
motorola solutions, inc.motorola solutions, inc. political action committee$10KMOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.AI match · 100% · the same organization$165.2M
alabama power companyalabama power co employees federal political action cmte (apc employees federal pac)$10KALABAMA POWER COMPANYAI match · 100% · the same organization$19M
northrop grumman corporationemployees of northrop grumman corporation pac$10KNORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATIONAI match · 100% · of one corporate family$1.1B
honeywell internationalhoneywell international inc. technologies public affairs council (honpac)$10KHONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.AI match · 100% · the same organization$260.5M
l3harris technologies, inc.l3harris technologies, inc. pac$10KL3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.AI match · 100% · the same organization$115.4M
the boeing companythe boeing company pac$10KTHE BOEING COMPANYAI match · 99% · the same organization$9B
lockheed martin corporationlockheed martin corporation employees' political action committee$10KLOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATIONAI match · 100% · the same organization$13.3B
woolpert, inc.woolpert, inc. pac$10KWOOLPERT, INC.AI match · 100% · the same organization$89M
leidos, inc.leidos inc. political action committee$10KLEIDOS, INC.AI match · 99% · the same organization$1.1B

By cycle

CycleRaised (FEC summary)From committeesFrom contractor PACs
2026$1.5M$659.4K$296.1K59 PACs · 45% of committee money
2024$1.3M$570.7K$237K48 PACs · 42% of committee money
2022$2M$358.6K$85.5K27 PACs · 24% 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 · Alabama's 5th districtJan 3, 2025 – Jan 3, 2027
  2. House · Alabama's 5th districtJan 3, 2023 – Jan 3, 2025

Contact

Official channels, as published.

Office
449 Cannon 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 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.