Former representative · North Dakota (at large)
Kelly Armstrong
Kelly Armstrong served in Congress from 2019 to 2024, last as a Republican representative for North Dakota (at large). In the 118th Congress, 1,206 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 56, and cast 757 of 818 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.
- Party
- Republican
- Chamber
- House
- Former
- In Congress since
- Jan 3, 2019
- Last term ended
- Dec 14, 2024
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 118th CongressHouse of Representatives | 1,206 | 4.6%56 of 1,206 · rank 107 of 442 | 93%757 of 818 · rank 339 of 442 | 270 became law | 16%41 of 254 |
| 117th CongressHouse of Representatives | 997 | 4.7%47 of 997 · rank 43 of 443 | 96%523 of 545 · rank 331 of 443 | 90 became law | 35%66 of 188 |
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 (House), with each party's median and the chamber's range.
Liberal −1+0.45+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. 8998: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025NayJul 24, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 160–256· Against party
- H.R. 8998: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025NayJul 24, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 174–239· Against party
- Jul 23, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Failed 178–234· Against party
- Jul 23, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 158–257· Against party
- Jul 23, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 145–273· Against party
- Jul 23, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 145–274· Against party
- H.R. 8771: Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2025NayJun 27, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 163–249· Against party
- H.R. 8771: Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2025NayJun 27, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 133–277· Against party
Recent votes
The latest roll calls on bills and amendments, with the member's recorded position.
- S. 4199: JUDGES Act of 2024Not votingDec 12, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 236–173
- Dec 11, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendment with an Amendment· Passed 281–140
- Dec 11, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 407–0
- Dec 10, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 409–4
- Dec 10, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 215–200
- Dec 10, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 410–6
- Dec 10, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 399–18
- Dec 6, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 327–62
- Dec 5, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 208–196
- Dec 5, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 199–204
- Dec 5, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 381–15
- Dec 5, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 399–1
Sponsored bills
Bills and resolutions the member introduced as sponsor in the loaded Congresses. Volume is not quality: most measures never leave committee.
36 sponsored · 0 became law
How far they got
- Introduced3083%
- Reported by committee25.6%
- Passed one chamber411%
Policy areas
- Crime and Law Enforcement6
- Commerce4
- Energy3
- Public Lands and Natural Resources3
- Water Resources Development3
- Congress2
- Foreign Trade and International Finance2
- Government Operations and Politics2
Latest activity
- H.R. 4961 To require ports of entry along the northern border to remain open as many hours per day as they were open prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.Introduced· Immigration· Dec 17, 2024
- H.R. 10248 Weldon Angelos Presidential Pardon Expungements ActIntroduced· Crime and Law Enforcement· Nov 22, 2024
- H.R. 9675 Homeward Bound ActIntroduced· Health· Sep 19, 2024
- H.R. 8516 To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 840 Front Street in Casselton, North Dakota, as the "Commander Delbert Austin Olson Post Office".Introduced· Government Operations and Politics· Sep 18, 2024
- H.R. 9554 Dakota Water Resources Act Amendments of 2024Introduced· Water Resources Development· Sep 12, 2024
- H.R. 2405 North Dakota Trust Lands Completion Act of 2023Introduced· Public Lands and Natural Resources· Jul 24, 2024
- H.R. 8856 Right to Trial ActIntroduced· Crime and Law Enforcement· Jun 27, 2024
- H.J.Res. 150 Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Coal- and Oil-Fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units Review of the Residual Risk and Technology Review".Introduced· Environmental Protection· May 24, 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.
Federal contracts in the district
Contract obligations attributed to North Dakota (at large) 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
- $793.4M
- Per resident
- $1,011
- Rank in North Dakota
- —
- Contract actions
- 3,197
- New awards: 1,698
By fiscal year
- 566.2MFY2017
- 529.3MFY2018
- 558.9MFY2019
- 671MFY2020
- 780MFY2021
- 972.6MFY2022
- 803MFY2023
- 979.6MFY2024
- 821.3MFY2025
- 793.4MFY2026
Top buyers
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Federal Aviation Administration$78.6M9.9%Department of Transportation
- Department of the Army$56.4M7.1%Department of Defense
- Department of the Air Force$54.5M6.9%Department of Defense
- Department of the Navy$43M5.4%Department of Defense
- Department of Veterans Affairs$40.5M5.1%
- Defense Logistics Agency$29.6M3.7%Department of Defense
- Agricultural Marketing Service$28.8M3.6%Department of Agriculture
Top recipients
- NORIDIAN HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS, LLC$334.6M42%7 awards
- WALSH FEDERAL LLC$74.4M9.4%1 award
- PACKET DIGITAL LLC$36.8M4.6%4 awards
- GREENSTONE CONSTRUCTION, INC.$16M2.0%20 awards
- MOTOR COACH INDUSTRIES, INC$14.8M1.9%19 awards
- BASE UTILITIES INC$14.5M1.8%2 awards
- LEGUME MATRIX LLC$12.7M1.6%11 awards
- INDYNE, INC.$11.9M1.5%1 award
- KORTE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY$10.3M1.3%2 awards
- TEYA DIVERSIFIED SERVICES LLC$10.3M1.3%2 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.
2024 cycle
- Raised
- $893.1K
- through Dec 4, 2024
- Cash on hand
- $0
- From committees
- $563.3K
- 257 committees
- From contractor PACs
- $138.5K
- 59 PACs · 25% of committee money
IndividualsPACsPartySelf
Largest gifts from PACs of federal contractors, 2024
| PAC sponsor | Given | Matched contract recipient | Its contracts, FY2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| american bankers association (aba)american bankers association pac (bankpac) | $5,000 | AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATIONAI match · 100% · the same organization | — |
| mortgage bankers associationmortgage bankers association political action committee (morpac) | $5,000 | MORTGAGE BANKERS ASSOCIATIONAI match · 100% · the same organization | $125K |
| united parcel service, inc.united parcel service, inc. pac (upspac) | $5,000 | UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INCAI match · 100% · of one corporate family | $685.7K |
| honeywell internationalhoneywell international political action committee | $5,000 | HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.AI match · 100% · the same organization | $260.5M |
| at&t inc.at&t inc. employee federal political action committee (at&t employee federal pac) | $5,000 | AT&T CORP.,AI match · 100% · of one corporate family | -$3,412 |
| deere & companydeere & company pac (aka john deere pac) | $5,000 | DEERE & COMPANYAI match · 99% · the same organization | $10.2M |
| bnsf railway companybnsf railway company railpac (bnsf railpac) | $5,000 | BNSF RAILWAY COMPANYAI match · 100% · the same organization | $439.8K |
| comcast corporationcomcast corporation & nbcuniversal political action committee - federal | $5,000 | COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, LLCAI match · 100% · of one corporate family | $453.1K |
| universal music groupuniversal music group employee action fund | $5,000 | UNIVERSAL MUSIC - MGB NA LLCAI match · 98% · of one corporate family | $46.8K |
| charter communications inc.charter communications inc. political action committee | $5,000 | CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLCAI match · 100% · of one corporate family | $130.5K |
By cycle
| Cycle | Raised (FEC summary) | From committees | From contractor PACs |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $893.1K | $563.3K | $138.5K59 PACs · 25% of committee money |
| 2022 | $2.2M | $1.3M | $304.9K85 PACs · 23% 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 · North Dakota (at large)Jan 3, 2023 – Dec 14, 2024
- House · North Dakota (at large)Jan 3, 2021 – Jan 3, 2023
- House · North Dakota (at large)Jan 3, 2019 – Jan 3, 2021
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.