Former representative · Pennsylvania's 8th district

Matt Cartwright

Matt Cartwright served in Congress from 2013 to 2025, last as a Democratic representative for Pennsylvania's 8th district. In the 118th Congress, 1,222 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 33, and cast 780 of 835 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.

Party
Democrat
Chamber
House
Former
In Congress since
Jan 3, 2013
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 Representatives1,2222.7%33 of 1,222 · rank 196 of 44293%780 of 835 · rank 328 of 442410 became law30%102 of 338
117th CongressHouse of Representatives9973.3%33 of 997 · rank 60 of 44398%548 of 561 · rank 257 of 443620 became law9%29 of 315

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 −1−0.34+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. 5009: Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025Yea
    Dec 11, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendment with an Amendment· Passed 281–140· Against party
  2. H.R. 8205: Keeping Violent Offenders Off Our Streets ActYea
    Sep 25, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 255–161· Against party
  3. H.R. 3334: STOP CCP ActYea
    Sep 25, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 243–174· Against party
  4. H.R. 8790: Fix Our Forests ActYea
    Sep 24, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 268–151· Against party
  5. S. 2228: Building Chips in America Act of 2023Yea
    Sep 23, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 257–125· Against party
  6. H.R. 5717: No Bailout for Sanctuary Cities ActYea
    Sep 20, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 219–186· Against party
  7. H.R. 7909: Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens ActYea
    Sep 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 266–158· Against party
  8. H.R. 9456: Protecting American Agriculture from Foreign Adversaries Act of 2024Yea
    Sep 11, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 269–149· 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, 2025Nay
    Dec 19, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Failed 174–235
  3. S. 759: Beagle Brigade Act of 2023Yea
    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 2024Yea
    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 ActYea
    Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 369–37
  6. S. 1351: Stop Institutional Child Abuse ActYea
    Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 373–33
  7. H.R. 1101: Lumbee Fairness ActYea
    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 2023Yea
    Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 402–12
  9. H.R. 115: Midnight Rules Relief ActNay
    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".Yea
    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 ActYea
    Dec 16, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 382–12
  12. S. 3998: Federal Judiciary Stabilization Act of 2024Yea
    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.

103 sponsored · 0 became law

How far they got

  1. Introduced9491%
  2. Reported by committee65.8%
  3. Passed one chamber32.9%

Policy areas

  1. Armed Forces and National Security16
  2. Environmental Protection15
  3. Education13
  4. Government Operations and Politics10
  5. Energy7
  6. Health7
  7. Public Lands and Natural Resources7
  8. Labor and Employment6

Latest activity

  1. H.R. 8064 HEAR Act of 2024
    Introduced· Health· Dec 17, 2024
  2. H.R. 6461 Black Lung Benefits Improvement Act of 2023
    Introduced· Labor and Employment· Dec 17, 2024
  3. H.R. 1695 Strengthening Agency Management and Oversight of Software Assets Act
    Passed one chamber· Government Operations and Politics· Dec 5, 2024
  4. H.R. 9956 Bill Pascrell Ending Tax Giveaway Act
    Introduced· Taxation· Oct 11, 2024
  5. H.R. 9726 NFIP Premium Transparency Act
    Introduced· Finance and Financial Sector· Sep 20, 2024
  6. H.R. 9650 Water Advanced Technologies for Efficient Resource Use Act of 2024
    Introduced· Environmental Protection· Sep 18, 2024
  7. H.R. 9120 SAFE Act
    Introduced· Environmental Protection· Jul 24, 2024
  8. H.R. 8859 Deafblind DATA Act
    Introduced· Government Operations and Politics· Jun 27, 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 Pennsylvania's 8th 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
$830.2M
Per resident
$1,083
Rank in Pennsylvania
5 of 17
Contract actions
10K
New awards: 9,094

By fiscal year

  1. 990.8MFY2017
  2. 856.2MFY2018
  3. 629.4MFY2019
  4. 594.5MFY2020
  5. 657.1MFY2021
  6. 602.9MFY2022
  7. 1.3BFY2023
  8. 1.1BFY2024
  9. 1.1BFY2025
  10. 830.2MFY2026

Top buyers

  1. Department of the Army$627.6M76%
    Department of Defense
  2. Department of Veterans Affairs$54.5M6.6%
  3. Defense Logistics Agency$39.6M4.8%
    Department of Defense
  4. Department of the Navy$33M4.0%
    Department of Defense
  5. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management$20M2.4%
    Department of Labor
  6. Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response$19.5M2.3%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  7. Department of the Air Force$14.5M1.7%
    Department of Defense
  8. Federal Acquisition Service$6.9M0.8%
    General Services Administration

Top recipients

  1. GENERAL DYNAMICS OTS (WILKES BARRE), LLC$536.9M65%
    28 awards
  2. GENTEX CORPORATION$41.3M5.0%
    176 awards
  3. SANOFI VACCINES US INC.$29.8M3.6%
    129 awards
  4. NAMMO POCAL INC$25.9M3.1%
    8 awards
  5. LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP$24.5M3.0%
    31 awards
  6. FDCD II JOINT VENTURE, LLC$22.3M2.7%
    2 awards
  7. ADAMS AND ASSOCIATES INC$20M2.4%
    1 award
  8. TRUESTONE, LLC$20M2.4%
    1 award
  9. WGL ENERGY SERVICES, INC.$7M0.8%
    3 awards
  10. CONSTRUCTION PERFORMANCE RENOVATION LLC$5.6M0.7%
    73 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
$468
through Jun 30, 2026
Cash on hand
$1.13
From committees
-$2,500
0 committees
From contractor PACs
$0
0 PACs · — of committee money
IndividualsPACsPartySelf

By cycle

CycleRaised (FEC summary)From committeesFrom contractor PACs
2026$468-$2,500$00 PACs · — of committee money
2024$8.7M$1.9M$271.8K56 PACs · 14% of committee money
2022$5.4M$1.6M$255.8K51 PACs · 16% 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 · Pennsylvania's 8th districtJan 3, 2023 – Jan 3, 2025
  2. House · Pennsylvania's 8th districtJan 3, 2021 – Jan 3, 2023
  3. House · Pennsylvania's 8th districtJan 3, 2019 – Jan 3, 2021
  4. House · Pennsylvania's 17th districtJan 3, 2017 – Jan 3, 2019
  5. House · Pennsylvania's 17th districtJan 6, 2015 – Jan 3, 2017
  6. House · Pennsylvania's 17th districtJan 3, 2013 – Jan 3, 2015

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 6, 2026 · loaded Oct 6, 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 6, 2026 · loaded Oct 6, 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 6, 2026 · loaded Oct 6, 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.