Representative · Tennessee's 4th district

Scott DesJarlais

Scott DesJarlais is a Republican representative for Tennessee's 4th district, in Congress since 2011. In the 119th Congress, 675 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 30, and cast 452 of 457 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.

Party
Republican
Chamber
House
Current
In Congress since
Jan 5, 2011
Term ends
Jan 3, 2027
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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 Representatives6754.4%30 of 675 · rank 92 of 43999%452 of 457 · rank 155 of 43910 became law5%6 of 128
118th CongressHouse of Representatives1,2225.9%72 of 1,222 · rank 69 of 44298%797 of 811 · rank 176 of 44240 became law10%15 of 146
117th CongressHouse of Representatives9971.0%10 of 997 · rank 221 of 44398%557 of 567 · rank 200 of 443130 became law15%32 of 210

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+0.58+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. 8800: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027Yea
    Jul 21, 2026· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 265–161· Against party
  2. H.R. 1346: To amend the Clean Air Act with respect to the ethanol waiver for Reid Vapor Pressure under that Act, and for other purposes.Nay
    May 13, 2026· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 218–203· Against party
  3. H.R. 7567: Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026Nay
    Apr 30, 2026· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 186–238· Against party
  4. H.R. 4553: Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026Nay
    Sep 3, 2025· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 120–306· Against party
  5. H.R. 4553: Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026Nay
    Sep 3, 2025· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 140–286· Against party
  6. H.R. 8997: Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025Nay
    Jul 23, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 121–298· Against party
  7. H.R. 8997: Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025Nay
    Jul 23, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 115–305· Against party
  8. 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

Recent votes

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

  1. S. 2403: Retire through Ownership ActYea
    Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 401–14
  2. H.R. 9497: Water Resources Development Act of 2026Yea
    Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 415–9
  3. H.R. 9340: Ratepayer Protection ActYea
    Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 417–3
  4. H.J.Res. 213: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to the "California State Nonroad Engine Pollution Control Standards; Commercial Harbor Craft Regulations; Notice of Decision".Yea
    Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 214–208
  5. H.R. 10326: PROOF ActYea
    Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 217–207
  6. H.R. 9576: National Fraud Enforcement Division Act of 2026Yea
    Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 352–72
  7. H.R. 5334: Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026Yea
    Sep 16, 2026· House· Passage· On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendments· Passed 262–159
  8. H.Con.Res. 93: Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran.Nay
    Sep 15, 2026· House· Passage· On Agreeing to the Resolution· Passed 220–204
  9. H.J.Res. 210: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "California State Nonroad Engine Pollution Control Standards; Ocean-Going Vessels At-Berth; Notice of Decision".Yea
    Sep 15, 2026· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 216–211
  10. H.R. 9500: Tax Relief for Fraud Victims ActYea
    Sep 15, 2026· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 408–17
  11. H.R. 2140: Diesel Emissions Reduction Act of 2025Nay
    Sep 15, 2026· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 343–79· Against party
  12. H.R. 4646: Whistleblower Protection Act of 2025Yea
    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.

18 sponsored · 0 became law

How far they got

  1. Introduced18100%

Policy areas

  1. Armed Forces and National Security4
  2. Animals3
  3. Education3
  4. Health3
  5. Government Operations and Politics2
  6. Crime and Law Enforcement1
  7. Immigration1
  8. Science, Technology, Communications1

Latest activity

  1. H.R. 1675 Protecting Horses from Soring Act of 2025
    Introduced· Animals· Feb 27, 2025
  2. H.R. 2648 Protecting Horses from Soring Act of 2023
    Introduced· Animals· Apr 17, 2023
  3. H.R. 1211 Student Loan Accountability Act
    Introduced· Education· Mar 10, 2023
  4. H.R. 1210 Stop Fentanyl Border Crossings Act
    Introduced· Health· Mar 10, 2023
  5. H.J.Res. 35 Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to require individuals to demonstrate cognitive competence as a condition of holding the office of President or Vice President.
    Introduced· Government Operations and Politics· Feb 21, 2023
  6. H.R. 6153 Common Sense Standards for Visa Applicants Act
    Introduced· Immigration· Nov 1, 2022
  7. H.Res. 1310 Acknowledging and commemorating the women in the Army who served in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and the Women's Army Corp during World War II.
    Introduced· Armed Forces and National Security· Aug 2, 2022
  8. H.Res. 1187 Recognizing the exemplary service of the soldiers of the 30th Infantry Division of the Army during World War I and World War II.
    Introduced· Armed Forces and National Security· Jun 17, 2022

Committees

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

Current seats

Federal contracts in the district

Contract obligations attributed to Tennessee's 4th 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
$784.5M
Per resident
$981
Rank in Tennessee
2 of 9
Contract actions
1,456
New awards: 960

By fiscal year

  1. 469.2MFY2017
  2. 466.1MFY2018
  3. 463.8MFY2019
  4. 565.5MFY2020
  5. 646.4MFY2021
  6. 748.6MFY2022
  7. 861.7MFY2023
  8. 737.3MFY2024
  9. 723.7MFY2025
  10. 784.5MFY2026

Top buyers

  1. Department of the Air Force$603.3M77%
    Department of Defense
  2. Department of Veterans Affairs$147.1M19%
  3. Department of the Army$17.5M2.2%
    Department of Defense
  4. Defense Logistics Agency$4.3M0.5%
    Department of Defense
  5. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$3.3M0.4%
  6. Agricultural Marketing Service$2.5M0.3%
    Department of Agriculture
  7. Department of the Navy$2.3M0.3%
    Department of Defense
  8. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources$1.7M0.2%
    Department of Health and Human Services

Top recipients

  1. BEYOND NEW HORIZONS, LLC$377M48%
    1 award
  2. AMENTUM TECHNOLOGY, INC.$110.4M14%
    26 awards
  3. FEDEX SUPPLY CHAIN DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, INC.$34.2M4.4%
    2 awards
  4. SEMPER TEK INC$29.7M3.8%
    1 award
  5. HEALTHEON, INC$24.9M3.2%
    5 awards
  6. ABACUS TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION$21.9M2.8%
    1 award
  7. AKIMA INTRA-DATA, LLC$20.3M2.6%
    1 award
  8. VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$19M2.4%
    1 award
  9. AMENTUM TECHNOLOGY, INC.$16M2.0%
    71 awards
  10. S & B INFRASTRUCTURE LTD$12.9M1.6%
    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
$536.8K
through Jul 17, 2026
Cash on hand
$495.1K
From committees
$327.5K
70 committees
From contractor PACs
$162K
27 PACs · 49% of committee money
IndividualsPACsPartySelf

Largest gifts from PACs of federal contractors, 2026

PAC sponsorGivenMatched contract recipientIts contracts, FY2026
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
general atomicsgeneral atomics political action committee$10KGENERAL ATOMICSAI match · 95% · the same organization—
lockheed martin corporationlockheed martin corporation employees' political action committee$10KLOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATIONAI match · 100% · the same organization$13.3B
space exploration technologies corp.space exploration technologies corp. pac$10KSPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORPAI match · 100% · the same organization$6.6M
leidos, inc.leidos inc. political action committee$10KLEIDOS, INC.AI match · 99% · the same organization$1.1B
blue origin, llcblue origin llc political action committee (blue origin pac)$10KBLUE ORIGIN, LLCAI match · 100% · the same organization$1.1B
torch technologies, inctorch technologies, inc political action committee$9,000TORCH TECHNOLOGIES INCAI match · 100% · the same organization$511.5M
the boeing companythe boeing company pac$8,500THE BOEING COMPANYAI match · 99% · the same organization$9B

By cycle

CycleRaised (FEC summary)From committeesFrom contractor PACs
2026$536.8K$327.5K$162K27 PACs · 49% of committee money
2024$305.9K$137.4K$14K5 PACs · 10% of committee money
2022$174.9K$101.7K$7,5006 PACs · 7% 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 · Tennessee's 4th districtJan 3, 2025 – Jan 3, 2027
  2. House · Tennessee's 4th districtJan 3, 2023 – Jan 3, 2025
  3. House · Tennessee's 4th districtJan 3, 2021 – Jan 3, 2023
  4. House · Tennessee's 4th districtJan 3, 2019 – Jan 3, 2021
  5. House · Tennessee's 4th districtJan 3, 2017 – Jan 3, 2019
  6. House · Tennessee's 4th districtJan 6, 2015 – Jan 3, 2017
  7. House · Tennessee's 4th districtJan 3, 2013 – Jan 3, 2015
  8. House · Tennessee's 4th districtJan 5, 2011 – Jan 3, 2013

Contact

Official channels, as published.

Website
desjarlais.house.gov
Phone
202-225-6831
Office
2304 Rayburn 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.