Former representative · Montana's 2nd district

Matthew M. Rosendale, Sr.

Matthew M. Rosendale, Sr. served in Congress from 2021 to 2025, last as a Republican representative for Montana's 2nd district. In the 118th Congress, 1,223 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 1, and cast 816 of 851 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, 2025

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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.

Congress	Roll calls	Missed	Votes with party	Sponsored	Cosponsored across the aisle
118th CongressHouse of Representatives	1,223	0.1%1 of 1,223 · rank 438 of 442	96%816 of 851 · rank 267 of 442	490 became law	1%7 of 799
117th CongressHouse of Representatives	997	1.9%19 of 997 · rank 138 of 443	97%549 of 566 · rank 286 of 443	260 became law	6%13 of 234

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+0.75+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.

H.R. 10515: American Relief Act, 2025Nay
Dec 19, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Failed 174–235· Against party
H.R. 5009: Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025Nay
Dec 11, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendment with an Amendment· Passed 281–140· Against party
S. 2228: Building Chips in America Act of 2023Nay
Sep 23, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 257–125· Against party
H.R. 9494: Continuing Appropriations and Other Matters Act, 2025Nay
Sep 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Failed 202–220· Against party
H.R. 8772: Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2025Nay
Jul 11, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Failed 205–213· Against party
H.R. 8774: Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2025Nay
Jun 28, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 217–198· Against party
H.R. 8774: Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2025Yea
Jun 27, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 161–251· Against party
H.R. 8771: Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2025Nay
Jun 27, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 269–144· Against party

Recent votes

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

H.R. 10545: American Relief Act, 2025Nay
Dec 20, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 366–34· Against party
H.R. 10515: American Relief Act, 2025Nay
Dec 19, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Failed 174–235· Against party
S. 759: Beagle Brigade Act of 2023Nay
Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 381–20· Against party
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
S. 3857: Jamul Indian Village Land Transfer ActNay
Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 369–37· Against party
S. 1351: Stop Institutional Child Abuse ActNay
Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 373–33· Against party
H.R. 1101: Lumbee Fairness ActNay
Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 311–96· Against party
S. 3448: Never Again Education Reauthorization Act of 2023Nay
Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 402–12· Against party
H.R. 115: Midnight Rules Relief ActYea
Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 210–201
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".Present
Dec 16, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 348–39
S. 141: Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement ActNay
Dec 16, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 382–12· Against party
S. 3998: Federal Judiciary Stabilization Act of 2024Yea
Dec 16, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 390–0

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 Montana's 2nd 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: $540.3M
Per resident: $978
Rank in Montana: 2 of 2
Contract actions: 4,897; New awards: 3,056

By fiscal year

194.9MFY2017
281.8MFY2018
211.8MFY2019
295.2MFY2020
285.3MFY2021
341MFY2022
558.6MFY2023
507.3MFY2024
589.2MFY2025
540.3MFY2026

Top buyers

Department of the Army$208.5M39%
Department of Defense
Forest Service$67.3M12%
Department of Agriculture
Federal Highway Administration$47.2M8.7%
Department of Transportation
Department of Veterans Affairs$29.4M5.4%
Indian Health Service$25.8M4.8%
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of the Air Force$18.3M3.4%
Department of Defense
Federal Emergency Management Agency$17.5M3.2%
Department of Homeland Security
National Park Service$14.1M2.6%
Department of the Interior

Top recipients

ARCHER WESTERN FEDERAL JV$58.9M11%
1 award
PAF ELECTRICAL, INC.$57M11%
1 award
BILLINGS FLYING SERVICE LLC$32.8M6.1%
41 awards
ALEUT CONSTRUCTION LLC$26.4M4.9%
1 award
M.A. DEATLEY CONSTRUCTION, INC.$22.5M4.2%
2 awards
WESTON SOLUTIONS INC$21.7M4.0%
1 award
KOONTZ ELECTRIC COMPANY, INCORPORATED$14M2.6%
2 awards
KH CIVIL CONTRACTORS, INC.$13.1M2.4%
3 awards
HELICOPTER TRANSPORT SERVICES, LLC$12.4M2.3%
1 award
NEW FRONTIER AVIATION, LLC$11.6M2.1%
4 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: $920; through Jun 30, 2026
Cash on hand: $110.8K
From committees: $0; 0 committees
From contractor PACs: $0; 0 PACs · — of committee money

IndividualsPACsPartySelf

By cycle

Cycle	Raised (FEC summary)	From committees	From contractor PACs
2026	$920	$0	$00 PACs · — of committee money
2024	$1.1M	$302.7K	$00 PACs · 0% of committee money
2022	$2.3M	$220.5K	$25.5K10 PACs · 12% 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.

House · Montana's 2nd districtJan 3, 2023 – Jan 3, 2025
House · Montana (at large)Jan 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)
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 10, 2026 · loaded Oct 10, 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)

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.