Former representative · Washington's 6th district

Derek Kilmer

Derek Kilmer served in Congress from 2013 to 2025, last as a Democratic representative for Washington's 6th district. In the 118th Congress, 1,222 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 13, and cast 822 of 842 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.

Party
Democrat
Chamber
House
Former
In Congress since
Jan 3, 2013
Last term ended
Jan 3, 2025
Open in the Congress explorerOfficial record
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 Representatives1,2221.1%13 of 1,222 · rank 322 of 44298%822 of 842 · rank 211 of 442360 became law33%164 of 504
117th CongressHouse of Representatives9970.2%2 of 997 · rank 389 of 44399%567 of 572 · rank 120 of 443390 became law12%92 of 754

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 −1−0.32+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. S. 2228: Building Chips in America Act of 2023Yea
    Sep 23, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 257–125· Against party
  2. H.R. 8771: Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2025Yea
    Jun 27, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 269–144· Against party
  3. H.R. 192: To prohibit individuals who are not citizens of the United States from voting in elections in the District of Columbia and to repeal the Local Resident Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2022Yea
    May 23, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 262–143· Against party
  4. H.R. 6323: Iran Counterterrorism Act of 2023Yea
    Apr 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 271–147· Against party
  5. H.R. 4691: Iran Sanctions Relief Review Act of 2023Yea
    Apr 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 278–141· Against party
  6. H.R. 6046: Standing Against Houthi Aggression ActYea
    Apr 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 285–135· Against party
  7. H.R. 5921: No U.S. Financing for Iran Act of 2023Yea
    Apr 15, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 294–105· Against party
  8. H.R. 7888: Reforming Intelligence and Securing America ActYea
    Apr 12, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 227–193· Against party

Recent votes

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

  1. H.R. 10545: American Relief Act, 2025Yea
    Dec 20, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 366–34
  2. H.R. 10515: American Relief Act, 2025Nay
    Dec 19, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Failed 174–235
  3. S. 759: Beagle Brigade Act of 2023Yea
    Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 381–20
  4. 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
  5. S. 3857: Jamul Indian Village Land Transfer ActYea
    Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 369–37
  6. S. 1351: Stop Institutional Child Abuse ActYea
    Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 373–33
  7. H.R. 1101: Lumbee Fairness ActYea
    Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 311–96
  8. 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
  9. H.R. 115: Midnight Rules Relief ActNay
    Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 210–201
  10. 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
  11. 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
  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

Sponsored bills

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

75 sponsored · 0 became law

How far they got

  1. Introduced7093%
  2. Reported by committee34.0%
  3. Passed one chamber22.7%

Policy areas

  1. Native Americans11
  2. Government Operations and Politics10
  3. Congress9
  4. Armed Forces and National Security8
  5. Labor and Employment7
  6. Taxation6
  7. Housing and Community Development4
  8. Health3

Latest activity

  1. H.R. 10533 Small Tribal Forest Restoration Act of 2024
    Introduced· Public Lands and Natural Resources· Dec 19, 2024
  2. H.R. 7665 ACO Assignment Improvement Act of 2024
    Introduced· Health· Dec 17, 2024
  3. H.R. 10091 Preventing Political Violence Act
    Introduced· Government Operations and Politics· Nov 1, 2024
  4. H.Res. 1512 Congressional Modernization Competition Resolution of 2024
    Introduced· Congress· Sep 25, 2024
  5. H.R. 3507 Yes In My Backyard Act
    Reported by committee· Housing and Community Development· Aug 30, 2024
  6. H.R. 9372 Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe Project Lands Restoration Act
    Introduced· Native Americans· Aug 16, 2024
  7. H.R. 9371 Quinault Indian Nation Land Transfer Act
    Introduced· Native Americans· Aug 16, 2024
  8. H.R. 9335 MIDWIVES for Service Members Act of 2024
    Introduced· Armed Forces and National Security· Aug 9, 2024

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 Washington'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
$1.4B
Per resident
$1,808
Rank in Washington
4 of 10
Contract actions
13.6K
New awards: 11.2K

By fiscal year

  1. 883.1MFY2017
  2. 1.1BFY2018
  3. 1.1BFY2019
  4. 1.1BFY2020
  5. 1.1BFY2021
  6. 1BFY2022
  7. 1.6BFY2023
  8. 1.6BFY2024
  9. 1.9BFY2025
  10. 1.4BFY2026

Top buyers

  1. Department of the Navy$880.3M62%
    Department of Defense
  2. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement$101.5M7.2%
    Department of Homeland Security
  3. Defense Logistics Agency$76.3M5.4%
    Department of Defense
  4. U.S. Coast Guard$70.6M5.0%
    Department of Homeland Security
  5. Department of the Army$59.9M4.2%
    Department of Defense
  6. Federal Acquisition Service$37.6M2.7%
    General Services Administration
  7. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration$34.2M2.4%
    Department of Commerce
  8. Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education$22.7M1.6%
    Department of the Interior

Top recipients

  1. KIEWIT-ALBERICI SIOP MACC AJV$289.9M20%
    1 award
  2. THE GEO GROUP, INC.$101.5M7.2%
    2 awards
  3. SKOOKUM EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS$80M5.7%
    169 awards
  4. US OIL & REFINING CO$52.6M3.7%
    77 awards
  5. WHITING-TURNER CONTRACTING COMPANY, THE$43.8M3.1%
    2 awards
  6. BIG RIVER CONSTRUCTION INC$36.2M2.6%
    1 award
  7. CONTRACK WATTS INC$35.1M2.5%
    3 awards
  8. BALFOUR BEATTY CONSTRUCTION, LLC$33.2M2.3%
    1 award
  9. SAFE BOATS INTERNATIONAL LLC$32.3M2.3%
    43 awards
  10. ABSHER CONSTRUCTION CO$30.8M2.2%
    3 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
$4,591
through Jun 30, 2026
Cash on hand
$515.2K
From committees
-$2,000
0 committees
From contractor PACs
$0
0 PACs · — of committee money
IndividualsPACsPartySelf

By cycle

CycleRaised (FEC summary)From committeesFrom contractor PACs
2026$4,591-$2,000$00 PACs · — of committee money
2024$1M$412.3K$119.8K53 PACs · 29% of committee money
2022$2.6M$1.3M$372.8K85 PACs · 30% 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 · Washington's 6th districtJan 3, 2023 – Jan 3, 2025
  2. House · Washington's 6th districtJan 3, 2021 – Jan 3, 2023
  3. House · Washington's 6th districtJan 3, 2019 – Jan 3, 2021
  4. House · Washington's 6th districtJan 3, 2017 – Jan 3, 2019
  5. House · Washington's 6th districtJan 6, 2015 – Jan 3, 2017
  6. House · Washington's 6th districtJan 3, 2013 – Jan 3, 2015

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.