Former representative · Florida's 1st district

Matt Gaetz

Matt Gaetz served in Congress from 2017 to 2024, last as a Republican representative for Florida's 1st district. In the 118th Congress, 1,167 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 94, and cast 723 of 761 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.

Party
Republican
Chamber
House
Former
In Congress since
Jan 3, 2017
Last term ended
Nov 13, 2024
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 Representatives1,1678.1%94 of 1,167 · rank 44 of 44295%723 of 761 · rank 293 of 442430 became law1%10 of 690
117th CongressHouse of Representatives9972.6%26 of 997 · rank 93 of 44390%504 of 560 · rank 411 of 443160 became law16%50 of 307

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+0.59+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. 9494: Continuing Appropriations and Other Matters Act, 2025Nay
    Sep 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Failed 202–220· Against party
  2. H.R. 8772: Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2025Nay
    Jul 11, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Failed 205–213· Against party
  3. H.R. 8752: Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2025Nay
    Jun 28, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 212–203· Against party
  4. H.R. 8580: Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025Yea
    Jun 4, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 290–116· Against party
  5. H.R. 764: Trust the Science ActNay
    Apr 30, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 209–205· Against party
  6. H.R. 615: Protecting Access for Hunters and Anglers Act of 2023Nay
    Apr 30, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 214–201· Against party
  7. H.R. 7888: Reforming Intelligence and Securing America ActNay
    Apr 12, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 227–193· Against party
  8. H.R. 2799: Expanding Access to Capital Act of 2023Yea
    Mar 8, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 200–203· Against party

Recent votes

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

  1. H.R. 9495: Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages ActNot voting
    Nov 12, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Failed 256–145
  2. H.R. 5342: Equal Treatment of Public Servants Act of 2023Not voting
    Nov 12, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Failed 175–225
  3. H.R. 82: Social Security Fairness Act of 2023Not voting
    Nov 12, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 327–75
  4. H.Res. 1469: Ensuring accountability for key officials in the Biden-Harris administration responsible for decisionmaking and execution failures throughout the withdrawal from Afghanistan.Yea
    Sep 25, 2024· House· Passage· On Agreeing to the Resolution· Passed 219–194
  5. H.R. 8205: Keeping Violent Offenders Off Our Streets ActYea
    Sep 25, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 255–161
  6. H.R. 3334: STOP CCP ActYea
    Sep 25, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 243–174
  7. H.R. 3334: STOP CCP ActYea
    Sep 25, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 419–1
  8. H.R. 9747: Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025Nay
    Sep 25, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 341–82· Against party
  9. H.R. 6513: COCOA Act of 2024Yea
    Sep 25, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendment· Passed 413–1
  10. H.R. 8790: Fix Our Forests ActYea
    Sep 24, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 268–151
  11. H.R. 7073: Next Generation Pipelines Research and Development ActNay
    Sep 24, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 373–41· Against party
  12. H.R. 8057: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 9317 Bolsa Avenue in Westminster, California, as the "Little Saigon Vietnam War Veterans Memorial Post Office".Yea
    Sep 24, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 415–0

Sponsored bills

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

59 sponsored · 0 became law

How far they got

  1. Introduced5492%
  2. Reported by committee11.7%
  3. Passed one chamber11.7%
  4. Failed35.1%

Policy areas

  1. Government Operations and Politics12
  2. Crime and Law Enforcement9
  3. International Affairs9
  4. Congress7
  5. Armed Forces and National Security5
  6. Immigration5
  7. Taxation3
  8. Health2

Latest activity

  1. H.R. 4864 End Birthright Citizenship Fraud Act of 2023
    Introduced· Immigration· Dec 18, 2024
  2. H.R. 374 Abolish the ATF Act
    Introduced· Crime and Law Enforcement· Dec 5, 2024
  3. H.R. 10067 HARRIS Act of 2024
    Introduced· Taxation· Oct 29, 2024
  4. H.R. 10066 JAIL for Alien Voters Act of 2024
    Introduced· Government Operations and Politics· Oct 29, 2024
  5. H.Res. 1549 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives on contract breaches and other failures under the F-35 aircraft program.
    Introduced· Armed Forces and National Security· Oct 22, 2024
  6. H.R. 10003 National Motor Voter Clarification Act
    Introduced· Government Operations and Politics· Oct 18, 2024
  7. H.R. 9895 BARRIER Act of 2024
    Introduced· Immigration· Oct 1, 2024
  8. H.R. 9387 ALIEN Act
    Introduced· Immigration· Aug 20, 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 Florida's 1st 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
$1.7B
Per resident
$2,202
Rank in Florida
5 of 28
Contract actions
17.1K
New awards: 14.2K

By fiscal year

  1. 1.8BFY2017
  2. 1.8BFY2018
  3. 2.3BFY2019
  4. 2.1BFY2020
  5. 2.1BFY2021
  6. 2.1BFY2022
  7. 2.4BFY2023
  8. 2.5BFY2024
  9. 2.4BFY2025
  10. 1.7BFY2026

Top buyers

  1. Department of the Air Force$925.3M53%
    Department of Defense
  2. Department of the Navy$359.9M21%
    Department of Defense
  3. Federal Acquisition Service$116.3M6.7%
    General Services Administration
  4. Defense Logistics Agency$75.2M4.3%
    Department of Defense
  5. Department of Veterans Affairs$70.1M4.0%
  6. Department of the Army$58.5M3.3%
    Department of Defense
  7. Federal Law Enforcement Training Center$43.9M2.5%
    Department of Homeland Security
  8. Defense Health Agency$30.5M1.7%
    Department of Defense

Top recipients

  1. CQ JV, LLC$96.1M5.5%
    2 awards
  2. WALSH FEDERAL LLC$93.7M5.4%
    1 award
  3. RELIANCE TEST & TECHNOLOGY, LLC$92.6M5.3%
    1 award
  4. TORCH TECHNOLOGIES INC$91.6M5.2%
    3 awards
  5. OASIS SYSTEMS, LLC$84.7M4.8%
    1 award
  6. ODYSSEY SYSTEMS CONSULTING GROUP, LTD.$82.1M4.7%
    2 awards
  7. LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION$64.9M3.7%
    1 award
  8. MANTECH ADVANCED SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL, INC.$56M3.2%
    1 award
  9. FIRST NATION GROUP LLC$50.3M2.9%
    52 awards
  10. GREENLIGHT GROUP LLC$43.9M2.5%
    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
$176.4K
through Jun 30, 2026
Cash on hand
$37.3K
From committees
-$6,100
0 committees
From contractor PACs
$0
0 PACs · — of committee money
IndividualsPACsPartySelf

By cycle

CycleRaised (FEC summary)From committeesFrom contractor PACs
2026$176.4K-$6,100$00 PACs · — of committee money
2024$6.8M$10.7K$00 PACs · 0% of committee money
2022$6.7M-$478$00 PACs · — 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 1st districtJan 3, 2023 – Nov 13, 2024
  2. House · Florida's 1st districtJan 3, 2021 – Jan 3, 2023
  3. House · Florida's 1st districtJan 3, 2019 – Jan 3, 2021
  4. House · Florida's 1st districtJan 3, 2017 – Jan 3, 2019

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.