Representative · New Jersey's 5th district
Josh Gottheimer
Josh Gottheimer is a Democratic representative for New Jersey's 5th district, in Congress since 2017. In the 119th Congress, 675 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 85, and cast 370 of 425 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.
- Party
- Democrat
- Chamber
- House
- Current
- In Congress since
- Jan 3, 2017
- Term ends
- Jan 3, 2027
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 | 12.6%85 of 675 · rank 19 of 439 | 87%370 of 425 · rank 428 of 439 | 960 became law | 48%448 of 940 |
| 118th CongressHouse of Representatives | 1,222 | 6.9%84 of 1,222 · rank 54 of 442 | 90%717 of 800 · rank 376 of 442 | 460 became law | 41%436 of 1,074 |
| 117th CongressHouse of Representatives | 997 | 0.9%9 of 997 · rank 238 of 443 | 95%537 of 567 · rank 364 of 443 | 250 became law | 38%234 of 610 |
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 −1−0.17+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.
- Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendments· Passed 262–159· Against party
- Jul 22, 2026· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 232–198· Against party
- Jul 22, 2026· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 232–199· Against party
- Jul 22, 2026· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 207–224· Against party
- Jul 21, 2026· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 270–155· Against party
- Jul 21, 2026· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 265–161· Against party
- Jul 15, 2026· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 104–314· Against party
- Jun 30, 2026· House· Passage· On Agreeing to the Resolution· Failed 189–235· Against party
Recent votes
The latest roll calls on bills and amendments, with the member's recorded position.
- Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 401–14
- Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 415–9
- Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 417–3
- Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 214–208
- Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 217–207
- Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 352–72
- Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendments· Passed 262–159· Against party
- Sep 15, 2026· House· Passage· On Agreeing to the Resolution· Passed 220–204
- Sep 15, 2026· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 216–211
- Sep 15, 2026· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 408–17
- Sep 15, 2026· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 343–79
- Sep 15, 2026· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 424–0
Sponsored bills
Bills and resolutions the member introduced as sponsor in the loaded Congresses. Volume is not quality: most measures never leave committee.
167 sponsored · 0 became law
How far they got
- Introduced15995%
- Passed one chamber74.2%
- Failed10.6%
Policy areas
- Health30
- Crime and Law Enforcement18
- International Affairs17
- Taxation15
- Transportation and Public Works15
- Education12
- Government Operations and Politics10
- Armed Forces and National Security9
Latest activity
- H.Res. 1612 Honoring Captain Smit Machchhar and the crew and passengers of Flydubai Flight 1073, and condemning the attempted terrorist attack on that flight.Introduced· Oct 5, 2026
- H.R. 10671 To amend the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022 to reauthorize a program of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency relating to security vulnerability warnings, and for other purposes.Introduced· Oct 1, 2026
- H.R. 10670 To prohibit Chinese AI models from being used on government-issued devices or software systems, to prohibit the procurement of any such models, and for other purposes.Introduced· Oct 1, 2026
- H.R. 10519 To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security, acting through the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, to establish a Critical Infrastructure AI Cyber Defense Pilot Program, and for other purposes.Introduced· Armed Forces and National Security· Sep 21, 2026
- H.R. 10405 Kylie’s Voices for Childhood Cancer ActIntroduced· Health· Sep 16, 2026
- H.R. 10363 No Grounds for Discrimination ActIntroduced· Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues· Sep 14, 2026
- H.R. 10362 Stop Rogue AI ActIntroduced· Science, Technology, Communications· Sep 14, 2026
- H.Res. 1515 Recognizing New Jersey's first responders, including its law enforcement officers, firefighters, and emergency medical personnel, who responded to the September 11, 2001, attacks at the World Trade Center and who carried out the rescue, recovery, and medical relief efforts in the days and months that followed.Introduced· Emergency Management· Sep 8, 2026
Committees
Seats as published by the congress-legislators project. Past seats are those no longer listed since Analisa began recording them.
Current seats
- National Security Agency and CyberRanking Member
Federal contracts in the district
Contract obligations attributed to New Jersey's 5th 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
- $151.1M
- Per resident
- $194
- Rank in New Jersey
- 12 of 12
- Contract actions
- 11.7K
- New awards: 10.7K
By fiscal year
- 114.5MFY2017
- 111.6MFY2018
- 140.5MFY2019
- 132.1MFY2020
- 117.8MFY2021
- 138.6MFY2022
- 144.3MFY2023
- 168MFY2024
- 213.7MFY2025
- 151.1MFY2026
Top buyers
- Defense Logistics Agency$101.8M67%Department of Defense
- National Institutes of Health$14.8M9.8%Department of Health and Human Services
- Department of Veterans Affairs$7.6M5.1%
- Department of the Army$7.3M4.9%Department of Defense
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Department of the Navy$5.1M3.4%Department of Defense
- Defense Health Agency$1.9M1.3%Department of Defense
- Federal Aviation Administration$1.3M0.9%Department of Transportation
Top recipients
- HOWMEDICA OSTEONICS CORP$55.4M37%4,934 awards
- HUDSON TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY$43.9M29%5,217 awards
- PSYCHOGENICS INC.$14.8M9.8%1 award
- WG CRITICAL CARE, LLC$5.6M3.7%1 award
- BMW OF NORTH AMERICA LLC$4.3M2.8%2 awards
- 58 awards
- UNITED STATES TECHNOLOGIES INC$3.7M2.5%54 awards
- ARCADIS U.S., INC.$2.4M1.6%4 awards
- OCTAPHARMA USA INC.$1.9M1.3%1 award
- 260 awards
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
- $4.8M
- through Jun 30, 2026
- Cash on hand
- $12.8M
- From committees
- $1.1M
- 266 committees
- From contractor PACs
- $199.5K
- 53 PACs · 19% of committee money
IndividualsPACsPartySelf
Largest gifts from PACs of federal contractors, 2026
| PAC sponsor | Given | Matched contract recipient | Its contracts, FY2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| american bankers association (aba)american bankers association pac (bankpac) | $10K | AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATIONAI match · 100% · the same organization | — |
| international association of fire fightersinternational association of firefighters interested in registration and education pac | $10K | INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIREFIGHTERSAI match · 100% · the same organization | $5,280 |
| honeywell internationalhoneywell international inc. technologies public affairs council (honpac) | $10K | HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.AI match · 100% · the same organization | $260.5M |
| merck & co., inc.merck & co., inc., employees political action committee (merck pac) | $10K | MERCK SHARP & DOHME LLCAI match · 100% · of one corporate family | $445.3K |
| jpmorgan chase & co.jpmorgan chase & co. federal political action committee | $10K | JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONAI match · 100% · of one corporate family | $1.5M |
| comcast corporationcomcast corporation & nbcuniversal political action committee - federal | $10K | COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, LLCAI match · 100% · of one corporate family | $453.1K |
| bank of america corporationbank of america corporation federal pac | $7,500 | BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONAI match · 99% · of one corporate family | — |
| johnson & johnsonjohnson & johnson political action committee | $7,000 | JOHNSON & JOHNSON VISION CARE INCAI match · 100% · of one corporate family | — |
| u.s. bancorpu.s. bancorp federal political action committee | $7,000 | U.S. BANCORPAI match · 99% · the same organization | $8M |
| mortgage bankers associationmortgage bankers association political action committee (morpac) | $5,000 | MORTGAGE BANKERS ASSOCIATIONAI match · 100% · the same organization | $125K |
By cycle
| Cycle | Raised (FEC summary) | From committees | From contractor PACs |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | $4.8M | $1.1M | $199.5K53 PACs · 19% of committee money |
| 2024 | $10.2M | $1.9M | $347K76 PACs · 18% of committee money |
| 2022 | $8.9M | $2M | $379.8K77 PACs · 19% 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 · New Jersey's 5th districtJan 3, 2025 – Jan 3, 2027
- House · New Jersey's 5th districtJan 3, 2023 – Jan 3, 2025
- House · New Jersey's 5th districtJan 3, 2021 – Jan 3, 2023
- House · New Jersey's 5th districtJan 3, 2019 – Jan 3, 2021
- House · New Jersey's 5th districtJan 3, 2017 – Jan 3, 2019
Contact
Official channels, as published.
- Website
- gottheimer.house.gov
- Phone
- 202-225-4465
- Office
- 106 Cannon 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 7, 2026 · loaded Oct 7, 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 7, 2026 · loaded Oct 7, 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 7, 2026 · loaded Oct 7, 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.