Former representative · North Carolina's 1st district

G. K. Butterfield

G. K. Butterfield served in Congress from 2004 to 2022, last as a Democratic representative for North Carolina's 1st district. In the 117th Congress, 997 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 19, and cast 558 of 567 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.

Party
Democrat
Chamber
House
Former
In Congress since
Jul 21, 2004
Last term ended
Dec 30, 2022
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
117th CongressHouse of Representatives9971.9%19 of 997 · rank 138 of 44398%558 of 567 · rank 188 of 443180 became law9%33 of 359

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 117th Congress (House), with each party's median and the chamber's range.

Liberal −1−0.40+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. H.R. 8294: Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023Nay
    Jul 20, 2022· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 238–191· Against party
  2. H.R. 7900: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023Nay
    Jul 14, 2022· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 155–273· Against party
  3. H.R. 7900: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023Nay
    Jul 13, 2022· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 118–309· Against party
  4. H.R. 7900: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023Nay
    Jul 13, 2022· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 151–277· Against party
  5. H.R. 4350: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022Nay
    Sep 23, 2021· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 142–286· Against party
  6. H.R. 4350: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022Nay
    Sep 23, 2021· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 118–299· Against party
  7. H.R. 4350: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022Nay
    Sep 23, 2021· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 141–286· Against party
  8. H.R. 4502: Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Agriculture, Rural Development, Energy and Water Development, Financial Services and General Government, Interior, Environment, Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2022Nay
    Jul 27, 2021· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 140–285· Against party

Recent votes

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

  1. H.R. 2617: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023Yea
    Dec 23, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Concur in the Senate Adt to the House Adt to the Senate Adt· Passed 225–201
  2. H.R. 7939: Veterans Auto and Education Improvement Act of 2022Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendment· Passed 380–35
  3. S. 1402: Durbin Feeling Native American Languages Act of 2022Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 337–79
  4. S. 989: Native American Language Resource Center Act of 2022Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 342–71
  5. S. 5087: A bill to amend the Not Invisible Act of 2019 to extend, and provide additional support for, the activities of the Department of the Interior and the Department of Justice Joint Commission on Reducing Violent Crime Against Indians, and for other purposes.Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 374–44
  6. S. 4104: Hualapai Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 2022Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 360–55
  7. S. 3773: A bill to authorize leases of up to 99 years for land held in trust for the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation.Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 377–42
  8. S. 1942: National Heritage Area ActYea
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 326–95
  9. H.R. 9640: Presidential Tax Filings and Audit Transparency Act of 2022Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 222–201
  10. S. 3308: Colorado River Indian Tribes Water Resiliency Act of 2022Yea
    Dec 21, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 397–12
  11. S. 3168: A bill to amend the White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights Quantification Act of 2010 to modify the enforceability date for certain provisions, and for other purposes.Yea
    Dec 21, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 378–33
  12. H.R. 1917: Hazard Eligibility and Local Projects ActYea
    Dec 21, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendment· Passed 393–19

Sponsored bills

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

18 sponsored · 0 became law

How far they got

  1. Introduced1689%
  2. Passed one chamber211%

Policy areas

  1. Health11
  2. Native Americans2
  3. Science, Technology, Communications2
  4. Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues1
  5. Commerce1
  6. Energy1

Latest activity

  1. H.R. 9536 Haliwa-Saponi Indian Tribe of North Carolina Recognition Act
    Introduced· Native Americans· Dec 14, 2022
  2. H.R. 2758 Lumbee Recognition Act
    Passed one chamber· Native Americans· Oct 11, 2022
  3. H.R. 7506 New Era of Preventing End-Stage Kidney Disease Act
    Introduced· Health· Apr 15, 2022
  4. H.R. 1218 Data Mapping to Save Moms’ Lives Act
    Passed one chamber· Health· Apr 6, 2022
  5. H.R. 6972 Give Kids a Chance Act of 2022
    Introduced· Health· Mar 9, 2022
  6. H.Res. 948 Recognizing the extraordinary challenges faced by patients of color with rare diseases and the need to identify and promote evidenced-based solutions to alleviate the disproportionate burden of rare diseases on these communities and supporting the recognition of the last day in February as "Rare Disease Day".
    Introduced· Health· Feb 28, 2022
  7. H.R. 5993 MEDS in America Act
    Introduced· Commerce· Nov 18, 2021
  8. H.R. 5922 Sarah Keys Evans Congressional Gold Medal Act
    Introduced· Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues· Nov 9, 2021

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 North Carolina'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.

Contract money is attributed to districts from the 118th Congress boundaries onward; this member's last district predates them.

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.

2022 cycle

Raised
$244.9K
through Dec 31, 2022
Cash on hand
$258.8K
From committees
$182.8K
94 committees
From contractor PACs
$81.5K
38 PACs · 45% of committee money
IndividualsPACsPartySelf

Largest gifts from PACs of federal contractors, 2022

PAC sponsorGivenMatched contract recipientIts contracts, FY2026
national association of broadcastersnational association of broadcasters political action committee (nabpac)$5,000NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERSAI match · 100% · the same organization$0
international paperinternational paper political action committee (ip-pac)$5,000INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANYAI match · 100% · the same organization—
comcast corporationcomcast corporation & nbcuniversal political action committee - federal$5,000COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, LLCAI match · 100% · of one corporate family$453.1K
charter communications inc.charter communications inc. political action committee$5,000CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLCAI match · 100% · of one corporate family$130.5K
pfizer inc.pfizer inc. pac$4,500PFIZER INCAI match · 100% · the same organization-$140.2K
duke energy corporationduke energy corporation pac$4,500DUKE ENERGY PROGRESS, LLCAI match · 100% · of one corporate family$17.5M
davita inc.davita inc. political action committee (dapac)$4,000DAVITA INC.AI match · 97% · the same organization$179.4M
thermo fisher scientific inc. pacthermo fisher scientific inc. pac$3,500THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC (THAILAND) CO., LTD.AI match · 96% · of one corporate family$31.3K
at&t inc.at&t inc. employee federal political action committee (at&t employee federal pac)$3,000AT&T CORP.,AI match · 100% · of one corporate family-$3,412
smith & nephew, inc.smith & nephew, inc. pac (s+n pac)$3,000SMITH & NEPHEW INCAI match · 100% · the same organization-$63.4K

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 · North Carolina's 1st districtJan 3, 2021 – Dec 30, 2022
  2. House · North Carolina's 1st districtJan 3, 2019 – Jan 3, 2021
  3. House · North Carolina's 1st districtJan 3, 2017 – Jan 3, 2019
  4. House · North Carolina's 1st districtJan 6, 2015 – Jan 3, 2017
  5. House · North Carolina's 1st districtJan 3, 2013 – Jan 3, 2015
  6. House · North Carolina's 1st districtJan 5, 2011 – Jan 3, 2013
  7. House · North Carolina's 1st districtJan 6, 2009 – Jan 3, 2011
  8. House · North Carolina's 1st districtJan 4, 2007 – Jan 3, 2009
  9. House · North Carolina's 1st districtJan 4, 2005 – Jan 3, 2007
  10. House · North Carolina's 1st districtJul 21, 2004 – Jan 3, 2005

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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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.