Former representative · Arizona's 8th district

Debbie Lesko

Debbie Lesko served in Congress from 2018 to 2025, last as a Republican representative for Arizona's 8th district. In the 118th Congress, 1,222 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 101, and cast 769 of 777 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.

Party: Republican
Chamber: House; Former
In Congress since: May 7, 2018
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	8.3%101 of 1,222 · rank 41 of 442	99%769 of 777 · rank 111 of 442	320 became law	6%25 of 394
117th CongressHouse of Representatives	997	8.4%84 of 997 · rank 16 of 443	98%516 of 525 · rank 195 of 443	370 became law	14%68 of 471

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+0.62+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.

H.R. 10515: American Relief Act, 2025Nay
Dec 19, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Failed 174–235· Against party
H.R. 8772: Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2025Nay
Jul 11, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Failed 205–213· Against party
H.R. 8772: Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2025Nay
Jul 11, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 128–289· Against party
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 112–318· Against party
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
H.R. 5692: Ukraine Security Assistance and Oversight Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024Yea
Sep 28, 2023· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 311–117· Against party
H.R. 4665: Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2024Nay
Sep 28, 2023· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 115–312· Against party
H.R. 3935: FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024Nay
Jul 19, 2023· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 205–229· Against party

Recent votes

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

H.R. 10545: American Relief Act, 2025Nay
Dec 20, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 366–34· Against party
H.R. 10515: American Relief Act, 2025Nay
Dec 19, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Failed 174–235· Against party
S. 759: Beagle Brigade Act of 2023Nay
Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 381–20· Against party
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 ActNay
Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 369–37· Against party
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 ActYea
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".Nay
Dec 16, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 348–39· Against party
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 Arizona's 8th 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: $5B
Per resident: $6,226
Rank in Arizona: 2 of 9
Contract actions: 2,444; New awards: 1,239

By fiscal year

1.9BFY2017
2.2BFY2018
3BFY2019
9.1BFY2020
3.3BFY2021
336.8MFY2022
232.4MFY2023
317.5MFY2024
3.6BFY2025
5BFY2026

Top buyers

Defense Health Agency$4.9B97%
Department of Defense
Department of the Army$85.8M1.7%
Department of Defense
Department of the Air Force$9.2M0.2%
Department of Defense
Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons$8.6M0.2%
Department of Justice
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services$4.9M0.1%
Department of Health and Human Services
Defense Logistics Agency$4.6M0.1%
Department of Defense
Department of Veterans Affairs$4.1M0.1%
Department of the Navy$3.8M0.1%
Department of Defense

Top recipients

TRIWEST HEALTHCARE ALLIANCE CORP$4.9B97%
3 awards
THE BOEING COMPANY$71.3M1.4%
23 awards
THE BOEING COMPANY$8.4M0.2%
376 awards
DILLON AERO, INC.$6.8M0.1%
11 awards
OCS CONSTRUCTION SERVICES INC$5.6M0.1%
2 awards
RAINMAKERS STRATEGIC SOLUTIONS LLC$5.2M0.1%
10 awards
HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.$4.8M0.1%
3 awards
HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.$4.1M0.1%
21 awards
HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.$3.1M0.1%
13 awards
HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.$2.6M0.1%
51 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: $370.3K; through Dec 31, 2024
Cash on hand: $479.1K
From committees: $163K; 79 committees
From contractor PACs: $44K; 19 PACs · 27% of committee money

IndividualsPACsPartySelf

Largest gifts from PACs of federal contractors, 2024

PAC sponsor	Given	Matched contract recipient	Its contracts, FY2026
southwest gas corporationsouthwest gas corporation political action committee	$5,000	SOUTHWEST GAS CORPORATIONAI match · 100% · the same organization	$6.3M
honeywell internationalhoneywell international political action committee	$5,000	HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.AI match · 100% · the same organization	$260.5M
american airlines inc.american airlines inc. political action committee (aapac)	$5,000	AMERICAN AIRLINES, INCAI match · 100% · the same organization	$8M
the procter & gamble companythe procter & gamble company good government fund	$4,000	THE PROCTER & GAMBLE DISTRIBUTING LLCAI match · 100% · of one corporate family	—
at&t inc.at&t inc. employee federal political action committee (at&t employee federal pac)	$3,000	AT&T CORP.,AI match · 100% · of one corporate family	-$3,412
lockheed martin corporationlockheed martin corporation employees' political action committee	$3,000	LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATIONAI match · 100% · the same organization	$13.3B
national association of broadcastersnational association of broadcasters political action committee (nabpac)	$2,500	NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERSAI match · 100% · the same organization	$0
international paperinternational paper political action committee (ip-pac)	$2,500	INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANYAI match · 100% · the same organization	—
duke energy corporationduke energy corporation pac	$2,500	DUKE ENERGY PROGRESS, LLCAI match · 100% · of one corporate family	$17.5M
chevron corporationchevron employees political action committee - chevron corporation	$2,000	CHEVRON U.S.A. INCAI match · 100% · of one corporate family	$713.4K

By cycle

Cycle	Raised (FEC summary)	From committees	From contractor PACs
2024	$370.3K	$163K	$44K19 PACs · 27% of committee money
2022	$1.2M	$423.9K	$88.5K32 PACs · 21% 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 · Arizona's 8th districtJan 3, 2023 – Jan 3, 2025
House · Arizona's 8th districtJan 3, 2021 – Jan 3, 2023
House · Arizona's 8th districtJan 3, 2019 – Jan 3, 2021
House · Arizona's 8th districtMay 7, 2018 – Jan 3, 2019

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.