Former representative · Oregon's 5th district

Lori Chavez-DeRemer

Lori Chavez-DeRemer served in Congress from 2023 to 2025, last as a Republican representative for Oregon's 5th district. In the 118th Congress, 1,222 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 24, and cast 605 of 842 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.

Party
Republican
Chamber
House
Former
In Congress since
Jan 3, 2023
Last term ended
Jan 3, 2025
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 CongressHouse of Representatives1,2222.0%24 of 1,222 · rank 251 of 44272%605 of 842 · rank 441 of 442250 became law38%149 of 392

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+0.17+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.

  1. H.R. 5342: Equal Treatment of Public Servants Act of 2023Nay
    Nov 12, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Failed 175–225· Against party
  2. H.R. 8998: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025Nay
    Jul 24, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 160–256· Against party
  3. H.R. 8998: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025Nay
    Jul 24, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 173–243· Against party
  4. H.R. 8998: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025Nay
    Jul 24, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 185–231· Against party
  5. H.R. 8998: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025Nay
    Jul 24, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 207–211· Against party
  6. H.R. 8998: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025Nay
    Jul 24, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 148–267· Against party
  7. H.R. 8998: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025Nay
    Jul 24, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 174–239· Against party
  8. H.R. 8998: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025Nay
    Jul 24, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 211–202· Against party

Recent votes

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

  1. H.R. 10545: American Relief Act, 2025Yea
    Dec 20, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 366–34
  2. H.R. 10515: American Relief Act, 2025Yea
    Dec 19, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Failed 174–235
  3. S. 759: Beagle Brigade Act of 2023Not voting
    Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 381–20
  4. H.R. 8663: DETECT Fentanyl and Xylazine Act of 2024Not voting
    Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendments· Passed 404–1
  5. S. 3857: Jamul Indian Village Land Transfer ActNot voting
    Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 369–37
  6. S. 1351: Stop Institutional Child Abuse ActNot voting
    Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 373–33
  7. H.R. 1101: Lumbee Fairness ActNot voting
    Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 311–96
  8. S. 3448: Never Again Education Reauthorization Act of 2023Not voting
    Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 402–12
  9. H.R. 115: Midnight Rules Relief ActNot voting
    Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 210–201
  10. S. 4077: A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 180 Steuart Street in San Francisco, California, as the "Dianne Feinstein Post Office".Not voting
    Dec 16, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 348–39
  11. S. 141: Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement ActNot voting
    Dec 16, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 382–12
  12. S. 3998: Federal Judiciary Stabilization Act of 2024Not voting
    Dec 16, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 390–0

Sponsored bills

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

25 sponsored · 0 became law

How far they got

  1. Introduced1872%
  2. Reported by committee312%
  3. Passed one chamber416%

Policy areas

  1. Armed Forces and National Security6
  2. Health6
  3. Government Operations and Politics3
  4. Agriculture and Food2
  5. Public Lands and Natural Resources2
  6. Transportation and Public Works2
  7. Economics and Public Finance1
  8. Education1

Latest activity

  1. H.R. 9516 Military Families National Parks Access Enhancement Act
    Passed one chamber· Armed Forces and National Security· Dec 18, 2024
  2. H.R. 10112 CAP Act of 2024
    Introduced· Agriculture and Food· Nov 15, 2024
  3. H.R. 9644 Transitional Housing Protection for the Homeless Act
    Introduced· Housing and Community Development· Sep 18, 2024
  4. H.R. 9496 To amend title 38, United States Code, to include a representative of the National Association of State Veterans Homes on the Geriatrics and Gerontology Advisory Committee of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
    Introduced· Armed Forces and National Security· Sep 17, 2024
  5. H.R. 7798 SWAT Act of 2024
    Introduced· Agriculture and Food· Aug 30, 2024
  6. H.R. 9003 Veterans Affairs Opportunity for Women-Owned Small Businesses Act of 2024
    Introduced· Armed Forces and National Security· Aug 22, 2024
  7. H.R. 8648 Civil Rights Protection Act of 2024
    Reported by committee· Education· Jul 18, 2024
  8. H.R. 8821 HOPE with Fertility Services Act
    Introduced· Health· Jun 25, 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 Oregon'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
$154.7M
Per resident
$212
Rank in Oregon
5 of 6
Contract actions
1,259
New awards: 568

By fiscal year

  1. 229.2MFY2017
  2. 148.7MFY2018
  3. 122.9MFY2019
  4. 148.3MFY2020
  5. 142.1MFY2021
  6. 130.6MFY2022
  7. 277MFY2023
  8. 278.3MFY2024
  9. 217.9MFY2025
  10. 154.7MFY2026

Top buyers

  1. Department of the Navy$66.1M43%
    Department of Defense
  2. Department of Energy$20.7M13%
  3. Department of the Army$16.8M11%
    Department of Defense
  4. Forest Service$14.6M9.5%
    Department of Agriculture
  5. Bureau of Land Management$9.6M6.2%
    Department of the Interior
  6. Defense Logistics Agency$8.7M5.6%
    Department of Defense
  7. U.S. Coast Guard$4.2M2.7%
    Department of Homeland Security
  8. Health Resources and Services Administration$3.5M2.3%
    Department of Health and Human Services

Top recipients

  1. COLLINS ELBIT VISION SYSTEMS, LLC$62M40%
    1 award
  2. ENERGY TECHNOLOGY ALLIANCE LLC$12.4M8.0%
    16 awards
  3. BODWE-KVG JV LLC$8.4M5.4%
    1 award
  4. OFD FOODS, LLC$8.1M5.2%
    4 awards
  5. JS LIVESTOCK INC$5.5M3.6%
    2 awards
  6. TELEDYNE FLIR DEFENSE, INC.$4.5M2.9%
    28 awards
  7. LINDAHL REED, INC.$4M2.6%
    13 awards
  8. VIGOR WORKS LLC$3.7M2.4%
    6 awards
  9. POSTPARTUM SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL$3.5M2.3%
    1 award
  10. COLUMBIA HELICOPTERS, INC.$3.5M2.2%
    24 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
$9,013
through Jun 30, 2026
Cash on hand
$26.4K
From committees
-$10.3K
0 committees
From contractor PACs
$0
0 PACs · — of committee money
IndividualsPACsPartySelf

By cycle

CycleRaised (FEC summary)From committeesFrom contractor PACs
2026$9,013-$10.3K$00 PACs · — of committee money
2024$6.1M$2.1M$216.4K50 PACs · 10% of committee money
2022$2.6M$515K$31.9K10 PACs · 6% 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.

  1. House · Oregon's 5th districtJan 3, 2023 – Jan 3, 2025

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.