Former representative · North Carolina's 11th district

Madison Cawthorn

Madison Cawthorn served in Congress from 2021 to 2023, last as a Republican representative for North Carolina's 11th district. In the 117th Congress, 997 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 48, and cast 535 of 552 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.

Party
Republican
Chamber
House
Former
In Congress since
Jan 3, 2021
Last term ended
Jan 3, 2023
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 Representatives9974.8%48 of 997 · rank 41 of 44397%535 of 552 · rank 289 of 443500 became law10%40 of 382

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+0.56+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.J.Res. 100: To provide for a resolution with respect to the unresolved disputes between certain railroads represented by the National Carriers' Conference Committee of the National Railway Labor Conference and certain of their employees.Yea
    Nov 30, 2022· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 290–137· Against party
  2. H.R. 884: National Aviation Preparedness Plan Act of 2022Yea
    Sep 14, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 293–133· Against party
  3. H.R. 5315: Drone Infrastructure Inspection Grant ActYea
    Sep 13, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 308–110· Against party
  4. H.R. 263: Big Cat Public Safety ActYea
    Jul 29, 2022· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 278–134· Against party
  5. H.R. 7900: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023Yea
    Jul 14, 2022· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 244–179· Against party
  6. H.R. 7900: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023Yea
    Jul 14, 2022· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 277–150· Against party
  7. H.R. 7309: Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2022Yea
    May 17, 2022· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 313–107· Against party
  8. H.R. 6825: Nonprofit Security Grant Program Improvement Act of 2022Yea
    May 16, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 288–129· Against party

Recent votes

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

  1. H.R. 2617: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023Nay
    Dec 23, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Concur in the Senate Adt to the House Adt to the Senate Adt· Passed 225–201
  2. H.R. 7939: Veterans Auto and Education Improvement Act of 2022Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendment· Passed 380–35
  3. S. 1402: Durbin Feeling Native American Languages Act of 2022Nay
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 337–79· Against party
  4. S. 989: Native American Language Resource Center Act of 2022Nay
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 342–71· Against party
  5. S. 5087: A bill to amend the Not Invisible Act of 2019 to extend, and provide additional support for, the activities of the Department of the Interior and the Department of Justice Joint Commission on Reducing Violent Crime Against Indians, and for other purposes.Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 374–44
  6. S. 4104: Hualapai Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 2022Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 360–55
  7. S. 3773: A bill to authorize leases of up to 99 years for land held in trust for the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation.Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 377–42
  8. S. 1942: National Heritage Area ActNay
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 326–95· Against party
  9. H.R. 9640: Presidential Tax Filings and Audit Transparency Act of 2022Nay
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 222–201
  10. S. 3308: Colorado River Indian Tribes Water Resiliency Act of 2022Yea
    Dec 21, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 397–12
  11. S. 3168: A bill to amend the White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights Quantification Act of 2010 to modify the enforceability date for certain provisions, and for other purposes.Yea
    Dec 21, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 378–33
  12. H.R. 1917: Hazard Eligibility and Local Projects ActYea
    Dec 21, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendment· Passed 393–19

Sponsored bills

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

50 sponsored · 0 became law

How far they got

  1. Introduced50100%

Policy areas

  1. Armed Forces and National Security6
  2. Government Operations and Politics6
  3. Health6
  4. Immigration6
  5. International Affairs5
  6. Congress4
  7. Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues3
  8. Labor and Employment3

Latest activity

  1. H.Res. 1472 Clarifying the application of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives to certain retrenchments of expenditures in appropriations measures, and for other purposes.
    Introduced· Congress· Nov 15, 2022
  2. H.R. 9298 To direct the Secretary of Labor to conduct a study on implementing a process through which a State or business may apply for an exemption from enforcement of certain occupational safety and health standards on the basis of economic hardship, and for other purposes.
    Introduced· Labor and Employment· Nov 15, 2022
  3. H.Res. 937 Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to preserve liberty by operating within the enumerated powers in the Constitution of the United States and its founding principles.
    Introduced· Government Operations and Politics· Nov 1, 2022
  4. H.Res. 732 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that it is the duty of Congress to uphold the Constitution and principles on which the United States of America was founded and that nothing in the Constitution or Declaration of Independence is meant to be construed as racist or harmful.
    Introduced· Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues· Nov 1, 2022
  5. H.Res. 623 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that political violence, violent speech, and inciteful language have no place in our political discourse and should be wholly condemned.
    Introduced· Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues· Nov 1, 2022
  6. H.Res. 557 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives against the malignant and metastasizing ideology of anti-Semitism.
    Introduced· Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues· Nov 1, 2022
  7. H.R. 8915 BOND Act of 2022
    Introduced· Immigration· Nov 1, 2022
  8. H.R. 7507 REFORM Act of 2022
    Introduced· Immigration· Nov 1, 2022

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 Carolina's 11th 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.

No contributions from committees are reported for this member's FEC candidacies.

Terms

Every term in the House or Senate, as published by the congress-legislators project.

  1. House · North Carolina's 11th districtJan 3, 2021 – Jan 3, 2023

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 10, 2026 · loaded Oct 10, 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 10, 2026 · loaded Oct 10, 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 10, 2026 · loaded Oct 10, 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.