Former senator · New Jersey

George S. Helmy

George S. Helmy served in Congress from 2024 to 2024, last as a Democratic senator from New Jersey. In the 118th Congress, 86 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 0, and cast 79 of 79 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.

Party
Democrat
Chamber
Senate
Former
In Congress since
Sep 9, 2024
Last term ended
Dec 8, 2024
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 CongressSenate860.0%0 of 86100%79 of 7960 became law24%8 of 34

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 (Senate), with each party's median and the chamber's range.

Liberal −1−0.35+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.

No recorded vote against the party majority on bills or amendments in the loaded Congresses.

Recent votes

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

  1. H.R. 9747: Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025Yea
    Sep 25, 2024· Senate· Passage· On Passage of the Bill· Bill Passed 78–18
  2. H.R. 9468: Veterans Benefits Continuity and Accountability Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024Nay
    Sep 19, 2024· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 47–47

Sponsored bills

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

6 sponsored · 0 became law

How far they got

  1. Introduced6100%

Policy areas

  1. Health2
  2. Finance and Financial Sector1
  3. International Affairs1
  4. Public Lands and Natural Resources1
  5. Taxation1

Latest activity

  1. S. 5337 Youth Revenue Transparency Act
    Introduced· Finance and Financial Sector· Nov 18, 2024
  2. S. 5219 Tax Relief for Middle Class Families Act of 2024
    Introduced· Taxation· Sep 25, 2024
  3. S. 5142 Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. Traumatic Brain Injury Program Renaming Act
    Introduced· Health· Sep 23, 2024
  4. S. 5085 Justice for Trooper Werner Foerster Act
    Introduced· International Affairs· Sep 18, 2024
  5. S. 5025 FIRE Cancer Act of 2024
    Introduced· Health· Sep 11, 2024
  6. S. 5006 A bill to redesignate certain facilities at Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park in honor of Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr.
    Introduced· Public Lands and Natural Resources· Sep 10, 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.

Terms

Every term in the House or Senate, as published by the congress-legislators project.

  1. Senate · New JerseySep 9, 2024 – Dec 8, 2024

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)
  • 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.