Former representative · Nebraska's 1st district

Jeff Fortenberry

Jeff Fortenberry served in Congress from 2005 to 2022, last as a Republican representative for Nebraska's 1st district. In the 117th Congress, 550 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 29, and cast 295 of 326 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.

Party
Republican
Chamber
House
Former
In Congress since
Jan 4, 2005
Last term ended
Mar 31, 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 Representatives5505.3%29 of 550 · rank 36 of 44390%295 of 326 · rank 407 of 44380 became law44%62 of 140

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+0.30+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. 6617: Further Additional Extending Government Funding ActYea
    Feb 8, 2022· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 272–162· Against party
  2. H.R. 4673: Ensuring Veterans' Smooth Transition ActYea
    Jan 20, 2022· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 265–163· Against party
  3. H.R. 1836: Guard and Reserve GI Bill Parity Act of 2021Yea
    Jan 12, 2022· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 287–135· Against party
  4. H.R. 4352: To amend the Act of June 18, 1934, to reaffirm the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to take land into trust for Indian Tribes, and for other purposes.Yea
    Dec 1, 2021· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 302–127· Against party
  5. H.R. 550: Immunization Infrastructure Modernization Act of 2021Yea
    Nov 30, 2021· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 294–130· Against party
  6. H.R. 3110: PUMP for Nursing Mothers ActYea
    Oct 22, 2021· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 276–149· Against party
  7. H.R. 4350: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022Yea
    Sep 23, 2021· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 240–185· Against party
  8. H.R. 4350: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022Yea
    Sep 23, 2021· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 223–202· Against party

Recent votes

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

  1. H.R. 6833: Continuing Appropriations and Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023Not voting
    Mar 31, 2022· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 232–193
  2. S. 2126: A bill to designate the Federal Office Building located at 308 W. 21st Street in Cheyenne, Wyoming, as the "Louisa Swain Federal Office Building", and for other purposes.Not voting
    Mar 30, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 412–1
  3. S. 1226: A bill to designate the United States courthouse located at 1501 North 6th Street in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, as the "Sylvia H. Rambo United States Courthouse", and for other purposes.Not voting
    Mar 30, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 364–61
  4. S. 2938: Bipartisan Safer Communities ActNot voting
    Mar 30, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Failed 238–187
  5. H.R. 5547: CEDS ActNot voting
    Mar 30, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 304–122
  6. H.R. 5343: FEMA Caseworker Accountability ActNot voting
    Mar 30, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 409–17
  7. H.R. 5673: Safeguarding Tomorrow through Ongoing Risk Mitigation Technical Corrections ActNot voting
    Mar 30, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 402–24
  8. S. 400: William T. Coleman, Jr. and Norman Y. Mineta Department of Transportation Headquarters ActNot voting
    Mar 30, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 417–4
  9. H.R. 5706: Stop Sexual Assault and Harassment in Transportation ActNot voting
    Mar 30, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 339–85
  10. H.R. 4738: COVID–19 American History Project ActNot voting
    Mar 29, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 376–47
  11. H.R. 3359: Homicide Victims' Families' Rights Act of 2021Not voting
    Mar 29, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 406–20
  12. S. 2629: Better Cybercrime Metrics ActNot voting
    Mar 29, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 377–48

Sponsored bills

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

8 sponsored · 0 became law

How far they got

  1. Introduced788%
  2. Passed one chamber113%

Policy areas

  1. Health2
  2. Arts, Culture, Religion1
  3. Environmental Protection1
  4. Immigration1
  5. International Affairs1
  6. Native Americans1
  7. Public Lands and Natural Resources1

Latest activity

  1. H.Res. 621 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Secretary of State should deny a visa to, and the Secretary of Homeland Security should deny admission or parole into the United States for, former President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani, and for other purposes.
    Introduced· Immigration· Nov 1, 2022
  2. H.R. 5163 Care for Her Act
    Introduced· Health· Nov 1, 2022
  3. H.R. 5996 Eliminate, Neutralize, and Disrupt Wildlife Trafficking Reauthorization and Improvements Act of 2021
    Introduced· Environmental Protection· May 10, 2022
  4. H.R. 2402 Winnebago Land Transfer Act of 2021
    Introduced· Native Americans· Oct 5, 2021
  5. H.R. 5447 America’s National Museum of the Cold World War Act of 2021
    Introduced· Arts, Culture, Religion· Sep 30, 2021
  6. H.R. 4813 Matt’s Act
    Introduced· Health· Jul 30, 2021
  7. H.R. 810 To amend the National Trails System Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study on the feasibility of designating the Chief Standing Bear National Historic Trail, and for other purposes.
    Passed one chamber· Public Lands and Natural Resources· May 13, 2021
  8. H.Res. 305 Congratulating the people of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan on the centennial of the founding of the Jordanian state.
    Introduced· International Affairs· Apr 30, 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 Nebraska'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
$784.9K
through Sep 30, 2022
Cash on hand
$0
From committees
$213.7K
93 committees
From contractor PACs
$31.5K
16 PACs · 15% of committee money
IndividualsPACsPartySelf

Largest gifts from PACs of federal contractors, 2022

PAC sponsorGivenMatched contract recipientIts contracts, FY2026
nelnet, inc.nelnet inc pac (nelnet pac)$5,000NELNET SERVICING LLCAI match · 95% · of one corporate family$304.8M
charter communications inc.charter communications inc. political action committee$5,000CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLCAI match · 100% · of one corporate family$130.5K
lockheed martin corporationlockheed martin corporation employees' political action committee$3,000LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATIONAI match · 100% · the same organization$13.3B
american bankers association (aba)american bankers association pac (bankpac)$2,500AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATIONAI match · 100% · the same organization—
honeywell internationalhoneywell international political action committee$2,500HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.AI match · 100% · the same organization$260.5M
lumen technologies, inc.lumen technologies, inc. political action committee$2,500LUMEN TECHNOLOGIES GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS, INCAI match · 97% · of one corporate family$14.4M
the guidehouse inc.the guidehouse inc. political action committee (guidehouse pac)$2,500GUIDEHOUSE INC.AI match · 98% · the same organization$704.6M
general dynamics corporationgeneral dynamics corporation political action committee (general dynamics employee pac)$2,000GENERAL DYNAMICS-OTS, INC.AI match · 100% · of one corporate family$29.3K
teva pharmaceuticals usa, inc.teva pharmaceuticals usa inc. political action committee (teva pac)$1,500TEVA PHARMACEUTICALS USA, INC.AI match · 100% · the same organization$25.9M
motorola solutions, inc.motorola solutions, inc. political action committee$1,000MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.AI match · 100% · the same organization$165.2M

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 · Nebraska's 1st districtJan 3, 2021 – Mar 31, 2022
  2. House · Nebraska's 1st districtJan 3, 2019 – Jan 3, 2021
  3. House · Nebraska's 1st districtJan 3, 2017 – Jan 3, 2019
  4. House · Nebraska's 1st districtJan 6, 2015 – Jan 3, 2017
  5. House · Nebraska's 1st districtJan 3, 2013 – Jan 3, 2015
  6. House · Nebraska's 1st districtJan 5, 2011 – Jan 3, 2013
  7. House · Nebraska's 1st districtJan 6, 2009 – Jan 3, 2011
  8. House · Nebraska's 1st districtJan 4, 2007 – Jan 3, 2009
  9. House · Nebraska's 1st districtJan 4, 2005 – Jan 3, 2007

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.