Former representative · New York's 23rd district

Tom Reed

Tom Reed served in Congress from 2010 to 2022, last as a Republican representative for New York's 23rd district. In the 117th Congress, 593 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 10, and cast 287 of 350 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.

Party
Republican
Chamber
House
Former
In Congress since
Nov 18, 2010
Last term ended
May 10, 2022
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
117th CongressHouse of Representatives5931.7%10 of 593 · rank 156 of 44382%287 of 350 · rank 438 of 44370 became law59%91 of 154

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 117th Congress (House), with each party's median and the chamber's range.

Liberal −1+0.27+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. 3807: Restaurant Revitalization Fund Replenishment Act of 2021Yea
    Apr 7, 2022· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 223–203· Against party
  2. H.R. 1916: Ensuring Lasting Smiles ActYea
    Apr 4, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 310–110· Against party
  3. H.R. 3617: Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement ActYea
    Apr 1, 2022· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 234–189· Against party
  4. H.R. 3617: Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement ActYea
    Apr 1, 2022· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 243–172· Against party
  5. S. 2938: Bipartisan Safer Communities ActYea
    Mar 30, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Failed 238–187· Against party
  6. H.R. 5547: CEDS ActYea
    Mar 30, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 304–122· Against party
  7. H.R. 2116: Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act of 2022Yea
    Mar 18, 2022· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 235–189· Against party
  8. H.R. 2471: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022Yea
    Mar 9, 2022· House· Passage· On Concurring in Senate Amdt with Amdt (Remaining Divisions)· Passed 260–171· Against party

Recent votes

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

  1. H.R. 7691: Additional Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2022Not voting
    May 10, 2022· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 368–57
  2. S. 3522: Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022Yea
    Apr 28, 2022· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 417–10
  3. S. 812: A bill to direct the Secretary of State to develop a strategy to regain observer status for Taiwan in the World Health Organization, and for other purposes.Yea
    Apr 27, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 425–0
  4. H.R. 4693: Global Malnutrition Prevention and Treatment Act of 2021Yea
    Apr 27, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 384–44
  5. H.R. 6089: Stop Iranian Drones ActYea
    Apr 27, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 424–2
  6. H.R. 4133: Caribbean Basin Security Initiative Authorization ActYea
    Apr 27, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 340–86
  7. H.R. 7311: Countering Malign Russian Activities in Africa ActYea
    Apr 27, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 415–9
  8. H.R. 3344: Transatlantic Telecommunications Security ActYea
    Apr 27, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 366–60
  9. H.Res. 833: Reaffirming support for strong United States and Moldova relations, Moldova's democracy, and its sovereignty and territorial integrity.Yea
    Apr 27, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Agree, As Amended· Passed 409–17
  10. H.R. 923: To support the independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity of the Republic of Georgia, and for other purposes.Yea
    Apr 27, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 406–20
  11. H.R. 6930: Asset Seizure for Ukraine Reconstruction ActYea
    Apr 27, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 417–8
  12. H.R. 496: To oppose violations of religious freedom in Ukraine by Russia and armed groups commanded or otherwise supported by or acting on behalf of Russia.Yea
    Apr 27, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 421–4

Sponsored bills

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

7 sponsored · 0 became law

How far they got

  1. Introduced7100%

Policy areas

  1. Health2
  2. Social Welfare2
  3. Taxation2
  4. Government Operations and Politics1

Latest activity

  1. H.R. 4720 Energy Sector Innovation Credit Act of 2021
    Introduced· Taxation· Jul 28, 2022
  2. H.R. 7303 To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 129 Walnut Street in Corning, New York, as the "Amory 'Amo' Houghton, Jr. Post Office Building".
    Introduced· Government Operations and Politics· Mar 30, 2022
  3. H.R. 5462 Tanning Tax Repeal Act of 2021
    Introduced· Taxation· Sep 30, 2021
  4. H.R. 4535 Helping Americans Succeed by Measuring Outcomes Act
    Introduced· Social Welfare· Jul 19, 2021
  5. H.R. 3915 Strengthening Social Security for Widows Act
    Introduced· Social Welfare· Jun 15, 2021
  6. H.R. 1887 Rural Hospital Support Act
    Introduced· Health· Mar 12, 2021
  7. H.R. 1371 Crush the Virus Act of 2021
    Introduced· Health· Feb 25, 2021

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 New York's 23rd 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.

Contract money is attributed to districts from the 118th Congress boundaries onward; this member's last district predates them.

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.

No contributions from committees are reported for this member's FEC candidacies.

Terms

Every term in the House or Senate, as published by the congress-legislators project.

  1. House · New York's 23rd districtJan 3, 2021 – May 10, 2022
  2. House · New York's 23rd districtJan 3, 2019 – Jan 3, 2021
  3. House · New York's 23rd districtJan 3, 2017 – Jan 3, 2019
  4. House · New York's 23rd districtJan 6, 2015 – Jan 3, 2017
  5. House · New York's 23rd districtJan 3, 2013 – Jan 3, 2015
  6. House · New York's 29th districtJan 5, 2011 – Jan 3, 2013
  7. House · New York's 29th districtNov 18, 2010 – Jan 3, 2011

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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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.