Representative · Missouri's 8th district

Jason Smith

Jason Smith is a Republican representative for Missouri's 8th district, in Congress since 2013. In the 119th Congress, 675 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 9, and cast 458 of 462 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.

Party: Republican
Chamber: House; Current
In Congress since: Jun 4, 2013
Term ends: Jan 3, 2027

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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
119th CongressHouse of Representatives	675	1.3%9 of 675 · rank 278 of 439	99%458 of 462 · rank 127 of 439	91 became law	8%4 of 48
118th CongressHouse of Representatives	1,222	3.0%37 of 1,222 · rank 173 of 442	98%805 of 825 · rank 213 of 442	142 became law	9%6 of 67
117th CongressHouse of Representatives	997	2.3%23 of 997 · rank 112 of 443	98%550 of 559 · rank 192 of 443	240 became law	27%58 of 212

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 119th Congress (House), with each party's median and the chamber's range.

Liberal −1+0.58+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. 4553: Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026Nay
Sep 4, 2025· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 120–302· Against party
H.R. 4553: Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026Nay
Sep 3, 2025· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 120–307· Against party
H.R. 4553: Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026Nay
Sep 3, 2025· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 127–299· Against party
H.R. 4553: Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026Nay
Sep 3, 2025· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 124–303· Against party
H.R. 8997: Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025Nay
Jul 23, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 125–295· Against party
H.R. 8997: Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025Nay
Jul 23, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 133–286· Against party
H.R. 8997: Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025Nay
Jul 23, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 128–291· Against party
H.R. 8997: Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025Nay
Jul 23, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 134–283· Against party

Recent votes

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

S. 2403: Retire through Ownership ActYea
Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 401–14
H.R. 9497: Water Resources Development Act of 2026Yea
Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 415–9
H.R. 9340: Ratepayer Protection ActYea
Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 417–3
H.J.Res. 213: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to the "California State Nonroad Engine Pollution Control Standards; Commercial Harbor Craft Regulations; Notice of Decision".Yea
Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 214–208
H.R. 10326: PROOF ActYea
Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 217–207
H.R. 9576: National Fraud Enforcement Division Act of 2026Yea
Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 352–72
H.R. 5334: Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026Yea
Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendments· Passed 262–159
H.Con.Res. 93: Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran.Nay
Sep 15, 2026· House· Passage· On Agreeing to the Resolution· Passed 220–204
H.J.Res. 210: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "California State Nonroad Engine Pollution Control Standards; Ocean-Going Vessels At-Berth; Notice of Decision".Yea
Sep 15, 2026· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 216–211
H.R. 9500: Tax Relief for Fraud Victims ActYea
Sep 15, 2026· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 408–17
H.R. 2140: Diesel Emissions Reduction Act of 2025Nay
Sep 15, 2026· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 343–79· Against party
H.R. 4646: Whistleblower Protection Act of 2025Yea
Sep 15, 2026· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 424–0

Committees

Seats as published by the congress-legislators project. Past seats are those no longer listed since Analisa began recording them.

Current seats

House Committee on Ways and MeansChair
Joint Committee on TaxationVice Chairman

Federal contracts in the district

Contract obligations attributed to Missouri'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: $210.3M
Per resident: $272
Rank in Missouri: 6 of 8
Contract actions: 4,099; New awards: 3,236

By fiscal year

190.8MFY2017
157.2MFY2018
206.2MFY2019
232.9MFY2020
257MFY2021
316.4MFY2022
256.6MFY2023
208.7MFY2024
219.9MFY2025
210.3MFY2026

Top buyers

Department of the Army$75.9M36%
Department of Defense
Defense Logistics Agency$39.3M19%
Department of Defense
Agricultural Marketing Service$34.3M16%
Department of Agriculture
Department of the Navy$14.2M6.8%
Department of Defense
Department of Veterans Affairs$13.3M6.3%
Forest Service$10.6M5.0%
Department of Agriculture
U.S. Geological Survey$5.5M2.6%
Department of the Interior
Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons$5.4M2.6%
Department of Justice

Top recipients

DRS SUSTAINMENT SYSTEMS, INC$50.4M24%
4 awards
US FOODS INC$33.8M16%
2,612 awards
EAST BAKING COMPANY, INC.$23.3M11%
6 awards
ARNOLD DEFENSE & ELECTRONICS, LLC$11.9M5.6%
7 awards
PARAGON PROFESSIONAL SERVICES LLC$11.4M5.4%
3 awards
SEMO MILLING LLC$10.8M5.1%
21 awards
DYNAMIC WALLCOVERING LLC$5.7M2.7%
1 award
RANDY KINDER EXCAVATING INC$5.6M2.7%
2 awards
H & G MARINE SERVICE INC$5.3M2.5%
19 awards
ENGINEERED COIL COMPANY$4M1.9%
277 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: $5.3M; through Jul 15, 2026
Cash on hand: $5M
From committees: $2.9M; 578 committees
From contractor PACs: $747K; 129 PACs · 25% of committee money

IndividualsPACsPartySelf

Largest gifts from PACs of federal contractors, 2026

PAC sponsor	Given	Matched contract recipient	Its contracts, FY2026
burns & mcdonnell, inc.burns and mcdonnell inc. pac	$15K	BURNS & MCDONNELL, INC.AI match · 100% · the same organization	$6M
american dental associationamerican dental association political action committee	$10K	AMERICAN DENTAL ASSOCIATIONAI match · 98% · the same organization	$78.5K
american bankers association (aba)american bankers association pac (bankpac)	$10K	AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATIONAI match · 100% · the same organization	—
mortgage bankers associationmortgage bankers association political action committee (morpac)	$10K	MORTGAGE BANKERS ASSOCIATIONAI match · 100% · the same organization	$125K
johnson & johnsonjohnson & johnson political action committee	$10K	JOHNSON & JOHNSON VISION CARE INCAI match · 100% · of one corporate family	—
pfizer inc.pfizer inc. pac	$10K	PFIZER INCAI match · 100% · the same organization	-$140.2K
international paperinternational paper political action committee (ip-pac)	$10K	INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANYAI match · 100% · the same organization	—
anheuser-busch companies inc.anheuser-busch companies llc political action committee	$10K	ANHEUSER-BUSCH, LLCAI match · 99% · the same organization	—
bristol-myers squibb companybristol-myers squibb company political action committee	$10K	BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB COMPANYAI match · 100% · the same organization	$8.8M
ford motor companyford motor company civic action fund	$10K	FORD MOTOR COAI match · 100% · the same organization	$772.3M

By cycle

Cycle	Raised (FEC summary)	From committees	From contractor PACs
2026	$5.3M	$2.9M	$747K129 PACs · 25% of committee money
2024	$6.5M	$3.5M	$814.5K139 PACs · 24% of committee money
2022	$3.2M	$1.5M	$375K83 PACs · 25% 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 · Missouri's 8th districtJan 3, 2025 – Jan 3, 2027
House · Missouri's 8th districtJan 3, 2023 – Jan 3, 2025
House · Missouri's 8th districtJan 3, 2021 – Jan 3, 2023
House · Missouri's 8th districtJan 3, 2019 – Jan 3, 2021
House · Missouri's 8th districtJan 3, 2017 – Jan 3, 2019
House · Missouri's 8th districtJan 6, 2015 – Jan 3, 2017
House · Missouri's 8th districtJun 4, 2013 – Jan 3, 2015

Contact

Official channels, as published.

Website: jasonsmith.house.gov
Phone: 202-225-4404
Office: 1011 Longworth House Office Building

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.