Representative · Florida's 26th district

Mario Diaz-Balart

Mario Diaz-Balart is a Republican representative for Florida's 26th district, in Congress since 2003. In the 119th Congress, 675 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 27, and cast 431 of 451 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.

Party
Republican
Chamber
House
Current
In Congress since
Jan 7, 2003
Term ends
Jan 3, 2027
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
119th CongressHouse of Representatives6754.0%27 of 675 · rank 103 of 43996%431 of 451 · rank 363 of 439120 became law18%14 of 79
118th CongressHouse of Representatives1,2227.1%87 of 1,222 · rank 50 of 44283%667 of 806 · rank 413 of 442160 became law22%31 of 143
117th CongressHouse of Representatives9971.9%19 of 997 · rank 138 of 44390%502 of 560 · rank 413 of 443180 became law31%71 of 226

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+0.28+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. Jul 22, 2026· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 175–254· Against party
  2. Jul 15, 2026· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 136–291· Against party
  3. Jul 15, 2026· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 178–247· Against party
  4. May 13, 2026· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 218–203· Against party
  5. Apr 30, 2026· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 210–216· Against party
  6. Apr 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 224–204· Against party
  7. Jan 22, 2026· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 136–291· Against party
  8. Jan 22, 2026· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 164–268· Against party

Recent votes

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

  1. Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 401–14
  2. Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 415–9
  3. Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 417–3
  4. Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 214–208
  5. Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 217–207
  6. Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 352–72
  7. Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendments· Passed 262–159
  8. Sep 15, 2026· House· Passage· On Agreeing to the Resolution· Passed 220–204
  9. Sep 15, 2026· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 216–211
  10. Sep 15, 2026· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 408–17
  11. Sep 15, 2026· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 343–79
  12. 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.

46 sponsored · 0 became law

How far they got

  1. Introduced3985%
  2. Passed one chamber613%
  3. Passed both chambers12.2%

Policy areas

  1. International Affairs14
  2. Government Operations and Politics11
  3. Armed Forces and National Security3
  4. Crime and Law Enforcement3
  5. Congress2
  6. Economics and Public Finance2
  7. Housing and Community Development2
  8. Immigration2

Latest activity

  1. H.R. 10257 To require the United States Postal Service to designate ZIP Codes for certain communities.
    Introduced· Government Operations and Politics· Sep 3, 2026
  2. H.R. 8595 Making appropriations for national security, Department of State, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2027, and for other purposes.
    Passed one chamber· Economics and Public Finance· Jul 29, 2026
  3. H.Res. 1440 Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the city of Miami Springs, Florida.
    Introduced· Government Operations and Politics· Jul 20, 2026
  4. H.R. 4397 Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2025
    Introduced· International Affairs· Dec 3, 2025
  5. H.R. 4779 National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2026
    Introduced· International Affairs· Jul 25, 2025
  6. H.R. 672 To establish new ZIP Codes for certain communities, and for other purposes.
    Passed one chamber· Government Operations and Politics· Jul 22, 2025
  7. H.R. 4558 To designate the area between the intersections of 16th Street Northwest and Fuller Street Northwest and 16th Street Northwest and Euclid Street Northwest in Washington, District of Columbia, as "Oswaldo Payá Way".
    Introduced· Government Operations and Politics· Jul 21, 2025
  8. H.R. 3958 To require the United States Postal Service to notify postal customers and relevant officials when operations are temporarily suspended at a post office, and for other purposes.
    Introduced· Government Operations and Politics· Jun 12, 2025

Committees

Seats as published by the congress-legislators project. Past seats are those no longer listed since Analisa began recording them.

Federal contracts in the district

Contract obligations attributed to Florida's 26th 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
$451.9M
Per resident
$563
Rank in Florida
13 of 28
Contract actions
48.8K
New awards: 46.2K

By fiscal year

  1. 293MFY2017
  2. 268.5MFY2018
  3. 351.5MFY2019
  4. 521.4MFY2020
  5. 445.9MFY2021
  6. 406.1MFY2022
  7. 469.5MFY2023
  8. 459.8MFY2024
  9. 525.8MFY2025
  10. 451.9MFY2026

Top buyers

  1. Department of Defense
  2. General Services Administration
  3. Department of Homeland Security
  4. Department of Justice
  5. Department of Defense
  6. Department of Transportation
  7. Department of the Interior

Top recipients

  1. 1 award
  2. 65 awards
  3. 2 awards
  4. 239 awards
  5. 1 award
  6. 5,592 awards
  7. 30,580 awards
  8. 1 award
  9. 2 awards
  10. CACI NSS, LLC$18.4M4.1%
    1 award
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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
$2.1M
through Jul 29, 2026
Cash on hand
$2.5M
From committees
$924.8K
227 committees
From contractor PACs
$326.7K
67 PACs · 35% of committee money
IndividualsPACsPartySelf

Largest gifts from PACs of federal contractors, 2026

PAC sponsorGivenMatched contract recipientIts contracts, FY2026
motorola solutions, inc.motorola solutions, inc. political action committee$10KMOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.AI match · 100% · the same organization$165.2M
general dynamics corporationgeneral dynamics corporation political action committee (general dynamics employee pac)$10KGENERAL DYNAMICS-OTS, INC.AI match · 100% · of one corporate family$29.3K
northrop grumman corporationemployees of northrop grumman corporation pac$10KNORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATIONAI match · 100% · of one corporate family$1.1B
honeywell internationalhoneywell international inc. technologies public affairs council (honpac)$10KHONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.AI match · 100% · the same organization$260.5M
rtx corporationemployees of rtx corporation political action committee$10KRTX CORPORATIONAI match · 100% · the same organization$3.9B
l3harris technologies, inc.l3harris technologies, inc. pac$10KL3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.AI match · 100% · the same organization$115.4M
parsons corporationparsons corporation political action committee$10KPARSONS GOVERNMENT SERVICES INC.AI match · 100% · of one corporate family$748M
the boeing companythe boeing company pac$10KTHE BOEING COMPANYAI match · 99% · the same organization$9B
general atomicsgeneral atomics political action committee$10KGENERAL ATOMICSAI match · 95% · the same organization—
bae systemsbae systems inc. political action committee (bae systems usa pac)$10KBAE SYSTEMS PLCAI match · 99% · the same organization-$88K

By cycle

CycleRaised (FEC summary)From committeesFrom contractor PACs
2026$2.1M$924.8K$326.7K67 PACs · 35% of committee money
2024$2.4M$1.1M$347K66 PACs · 30% of committee money
2022$1.8M$931.2K$258K47 PACs · 28% 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 · Florida's 26th districtJan 3, 2025 – Jan 3, 2027
  2. House · Florida's 26th districtJan 3, 2023 – Jan 3, 2025
  3. House · Florida's 25th districtJan 3, 2021 – Jan 3, 2023
  4. House · Florida's 25th districtJan 3, 2019 – Jan 3, 2021
  5. House · Florida's 25th districtJan 3, 2017 – Jan 3, 2019
  6. House · Florida's 25th districtJan 6, 2015 – Jan 3, 2017
  7. House · Florida's 25th districtJan 3, 2013 – Jan 3, 2015
  8. House · Florida's 21st districtJan 5, 2011 – Jan 3, 2013
  9. House · Florida's 25th districtJan 6, 2009 – Jan 3, 2011
  10. House · Florida's 25th districtJan 4, 2007 – Jan 3, 2009
  11. House · Florida's 25th districtJan 4, 2005 – Jan 3, 2007
  12. House · Florida's 25th districtJan 7, 2003 – Jan 3, 2005

Contact

Official channels, as published.

Office
374 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 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.