Former representative · Minnesota's 3rd district

Dean Phillips

Dean Phillips served in Congress from 2019 to 2025, last as a Democratic representative for Minnesota's 3rd district. In the 118th Congress, 1,222 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 344, and cast 568 of 603 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.

Party: Democrat
Chamber: House; Former
In Congress since: Jan 3, 2019
Last term ended: Jan 3, 2025

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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.

Congress	Roll calls	Missed	Votes with party	Sponsored	Cosponsored across the aisle
118th CongressHouse of Representatives	1,222	28.2%344 of 1,222 · rank 4 of 442	94%568 of 603 · rank 312 of 442	220 became law	46%272 of 587
117th CongressHouse of Representatives	997	0.6%6 of 997 · rank 294 of 443	98%557 of 570 · rank 252 of 443	331 became law	26%135 of 524

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 −1−0.28+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.

S. 4199: JUDGES Act of 2024Yea
Dec 12, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 236–173· Against party
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
H.R. 7409: HEATS ActYea
Nov 14, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 225–181· Against party
H.R. 8205: Keeping Violent Offenders Off Our Streets ActYea
Sep 25, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 255–161· Against party
H.R. 9456: Protecting American Agriculture from Foreign Adversaries Act of 2024Yea
Sep 11, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 269–149· Against party
H.R. 1516: DHS Restrictions on Confucius Institutes and Chinese Entities of Concern ActYea
Sep 10, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 253–151· Against party
H.R. 8070: Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025Yea
Jun 14, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 272–144· Against party
H.R. 8580: Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025Yea
Jun 5, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 237–169· Against party

Recent votes

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

H.R. 10545: American Relief Act, 2025Not voting
Dec 20, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 366–34
H.R. 10515: American Relief Act, 2025Not voting
Dec 19, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Failed 174–235
S. 759: Beagle Brigade Act of 2023Yea
Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 381–20
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
S. 3857: Jamul Indian Village Land Transfer ActYea
Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 369–37
S. 1351: Stop Institutional Child Abuse ActYea
Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 373–33
H.R. 1101: Lumbee Fairness ActYea
Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 311–96
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
H.R. 115: Midnight Rules Relief ActNay
Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 210–201
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
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
S. 3998: Federal Judiciary Stabilization Act of 2024Yea
Dec 16, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 390–0

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 Minnesota's 3rd 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: $435.3M
Per resident: $614
Rank in Minnesota: 2 of 8
Contract actions: 10.5K; New awards: 9,334

By fiscal year

3.7BFY2017
1.8BFY2018
913.8MFY2019
906.8MFY2020
859.6MFY2021
792.3MFY2022
841MFY2023
1.2BFY2024
1.1BFY2025
435.3MFY2026

Top buyers

Department of the Army$199.9M46%
Department of Defense
Department of Veterans Affairs$62.8M14%
Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response$58.1M13%
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of the Navy$29M6.7%
Department of Defense
Federal Acquisition Service$16.6M3.8%
General Services Administration
U.S. Customs and Border Protection$12M2.8%
Department of Homeland Security
Defense Logistics Agency$9.2M2.1%
Department of Defense
National Aeronautics and Space Administration$7.5M1.7%

Top recipients

NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION$198.6M46%
51 awards
AGILITI HEALTH INC$63.9M15%
437 awards
OPTUMHEALTH CARE SOLUTIONS, LLC$38M8.7%
1 award
POLARIS SALES INC$30.8M7.1%
59 awards
GN HEARING CARE CORPORATION$20.5M4.7%
16 awards
STARKEY LABORATORIES INC$18.3M4.2%
12 awards
CLEAR GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LLC$10.6M2.4%
1 award
BAE SYSTEMS LAND & ARMAMENTS L.P.$9.3M2.1%
75 awards
THE KINETIC GROUP SALES LLC$7.9M1.8%
315 awards
GENERAL DYNAMICS MISSION SYSTEMS, INC.$7.6M1.8%
19 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: $0; through Dec 31, 2025
Cash on hand: $0
From committees: -$1,000; 0 committees
From contractor PACs: $0; 0 PACs · — of committee money

By cycle

Cycle	Raised (FEC summary)	From committees	From contractor PACs
2026	$0	-$1,000	$00 PACs · — of committee money
2024	$781.7K	-$1,500	$00 PACs · — of committee money
2022	$2.3M	-$9,208	$00 PACs · — 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.

House · Minnesota's 3rd districtJan 3, 2023 – Jan 3, 2025
House · Minnesota's 3rd districtJan 3, 2021 – Jan 3, 2023
House · Minnesota's 3rd districtJan 3, 2019 – Jan 3, 2021

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 8, 2026 · loaded Oct 8, 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 8, 2026 · loaded Oct 8, 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.