Former representative · Rhode Island's 1st district

David N. Cicilline

David N. Cicilline served in Congress from 2011 to 2023, last as a Democratic representative for Rhode Island's 1st district. In the 118th Congress, 229 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 7, and cast 161 of 162 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.

Party
Democrat
Chamber
House
Former
In Congress since
Jan 5, 2011
Last term ended
May 31, 2023
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 Representatives2293.1%7 of 229 · rank 172 of 44299%161 of 162 · rank 36 of 44240 became law10%9 of 88
117th CongressHouse of Representatives9970.9%9 of 997 · rank 238 of 44399%566 of 571 · rank 121 of 443450 became law7%56 of 787

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 −1−0.39+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. Mar 1, 2023· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 272–148· Against party
  2. Feb 4, 2022· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 265–166· Against party
  3. Feb 3, 2022· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 279–153· Against party
  4. Dec 1, 2021· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 302–127· Against party
  5. Jul 27, 2021· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 140–285· Against party
  6. Mar 17, 2021· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 242–174· Against party

Recent votes

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

  1. May 31, 2023· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 383–18
  2. May 31, 2023· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 314–117
  3. May 31, 2023· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Agree, as Amended· Passed 429–0
  4. May 30, 2023· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 309–67
  5. May 30, 2023· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 347–30
  6. May 30, 2023· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 367–8
  7. May 25, 2023· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 289–133
  8. May 25, 2023· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 190–233
  9. May 24, 2023· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 409–9
  10. May 24, 2023· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 218–203
  11. May 24, 2023· House· Passage· Passage, Objections of the President To The Contrary Notwithstanding· Failed 214–205
  12. May 23, 2023· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 221–203

Sponsored bills

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

49 sponsored · 0 became law

How far they got

  1. Introduced4286%
  2. Reported by committee12.0%
  3. Passed one chamber612%

Policy areas

  1. Crime and Law Enforcement12
  2. Government Operations and Politics9
  3. Congress5
  4. Armed Forces and National Security4
  5. Commerce3
  6. International Affairs3
  7. Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues2
  8. Education2

Latest activity

  1. H.R. 2752 First Rhode Island Regiment Congressional Gold Medal Act
    Introduced· Armed Forces and National Security· Jul 25, 2023
  2. H.R. 1118 DISCLOSE Act of 2023
    Introduced· Government Operations and Politics· Jul 11, 2023
  3. H.R. 698 Assault Weapons Ban of 2023
    Introduced· Crime and Law Enforcement· Jun 5, 2023
  4. H.Res. 106 Condemning the undemocratic attacks on Brazil's Government institutions and supporting the free will of the Brazilian people as expressed in Brazil's recent Presidential election.
    Introduced· International Affairs· Feb 8, 2023
  5. H.R. 9695 Platform Integrity Act
    Introduced· Science, Technology, Communications· Dec 27, 2022
  6. H.R. 3816 American Innovation and Choice Online Act
    Reported by committee· Commerce· Dec 21, 2022
  7. H.R. 9578 To provide that Donald J. Trump is ineligible to again hold the Office of President of the United States or to hold any office, civil or military, under the United States.
    Introduced· Government Operations and Politics· Dec 15, 2022
  8. H.R. 9433 SEEED Commission Act of 2022
    Introduced· Government Operations and Politics· Dec 6, 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 Rhode Island's 1st 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
$649.1M
Per resident
$1,191
Rank in Rhode Island
1 of 2
Contract actions
3,728
New awards: 2,234

By fiscal year

  1. 519.1MFY2017
  2. 592.4MFY2018
  3. 587.7MFY2019
  4. 884.6MFY2020
  5. 753.7MFY2021
  6. 1BFY2022
  7. 837.7MFY2023
  8. 973.4MFY2024
  9. 709.7MFY2025
  10. 649.1MFY2026

Top buyers

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

Top recipients

  1. SEACORP, LLC$109.7M17%
    37 awards
  2. 20 awards
  3. 11 awards
  4. 11 awards
  5. 1 award
  6. 13 awards
  7. 7 awards
  8. MIKEL INC$19.1M2.9%
    12 awards
  9. 3 awards
  10. SERCO INC$12M1.8%
    9 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
$7,518
through Jun 30, 2026
Cash on hand
$452.3K
From committees
-$5,000
0 committees
From contractor PACs
-$5,000
0 PACs · — of committee money
IndividualsPACsPartySelf

By cycle

CycleRaised (FEC summary)From committeesFrom contractor PACs
2026$7,518-$5,000-$5,0000 PACs · — of committee money
2024$12.3K-$14.8K-$3,5000 PACs · — of committee money
2022$2M$340.3K$21.6K8 PACs · 6% 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 · Rhode Island's 1st districtJan 3, 2023 – May 31, 2023
  2. House · Rhode Island's 1st districtJan 3, 2021 – Jan 3, 2023
  3. House · Rhode Island's 1st districtJan 3, 2019 – Jan 3, 2021
  4. House · Rhode Island's 1st districtJan 3, 2017 – Jan 3, 2019
  5. House · Rhode Island's 1st districtJan 6, 2015 – Jan 3, 2017
  6. House · Rhode Island's 1st districtJan 3, 2013 – Jan 3, 2015
  7. House · Rhode Island's 1st districtJan 5, 2011 – Jan 3, 2013

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.