Former representative · South Carolina's 7th district

Tom Rice

Tom Rice served in Congress from 2013 to 2023, last as a Republican representative for South Carolina's 7th district. In the 117th Congress, 997 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 11, and cast 527 of 565 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.

Party
Republican
Chamber
House
Former
In Congress since
Jan 3, 2013
Last term ended
Jan 3, 2023
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 Representatives9971.1%11 of 997 · rank 203 of 44393%527 of 565 · rank 389 of 443321 became law28%76 of 274

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+0.56+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. 9640: Presidential Tax Filings and Audit Transparency Act of 2022Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 222–201· Against party
  2. S. 4003: Law Enforcement De-Escalation Training Act of 2022Yea
    Dec 14, 2022· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 264–162· Against party
  3. H.R. 8404: Respect for Marriage ActYea
    Dec 8, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendment· Passed 258–169· Against party
  4. H.J.Res. 100: To provide for a resolution with respect to the unresolved disputes between certain railroads represented by the National Carriers' Conference Committee of the National Railway Labor Conference and certain of their employees.Yea
    Nov 30, 2022· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 290–137· Against party
  5. S. 4524: Speak Out ActYea
    Nov 16, 2022· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 315–109· Against party
  6. H.R. 5441: PAST Act of 2021Yea
    Nov 14, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 304–111· Against party
  7. H.R. 8873: Presidential Election Reform ActYea
    Sep 21, 2022· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 229–203· Against party
  8. S. 1098: Joint Consolidation Loan Separation ActYea
    Sep 21, 2022· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 232–193· Against party

Recent votes

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

  1. H.R. 2617: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023Nay
    Dec 23, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Concur in the Senate Adt to the House Adt to the Senate Adt· Passed 225–201
  2. H.R. 7939: Veterans Auto and Education Improvement Act of 2022Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendment· Passed 380–35
  3. S. 1402: Durbin Feeling Native American Languages Act of 2022Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 337–79
  4. S. 989: Native American Language Resource Center Act of 2022Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 342–71
  5. S. 5087: A bill to amend the Not Invisible Act of 2019 to extend, and provide additional support for, the activities of the Department of the Interior and the Department of Justice Joint Commission on Reducing Violent Crime Against Indians, and for other purposes.Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 374–44
  6. S. 4104: Hualapai Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 2022Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 360–55
  7. S. 3773: A bill to authorize leases of up to 99 years for land held in trust for the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation.Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 377–42
  8. S. 1942: National Heritage Area ActNay
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 326–95· Against party
  9. H.R. 9640: Presidential Tax Filings and Audit Transparency Act of 2022Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 222–201· Against party
  10. S. 3308: Colorado River Indian Tribes Water Resiliency Act of 2022Yea
    Dec 21, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 397–12
  11. S. 3168: A bill to amend the White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights Quantification Act of 2010 to modify the enforceability date for certain provisions, and for other purposes.Yea
    Dec 21, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 378–33
  12. H.R. 1917: Hazard Eligibility and Local Projects ActYea
    Dec 21, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendment· Passed 393–19

Sponsored bills

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

32 sponsored · 1 became law

How far they got

  1. Introduced2991%
  2. Reported by committee13.1%
  3. Passed both chambers13.1%
  4. Became law13.1%

Policy areas

  1. Emergency Management4
  2. Government Operations and Politics4
  3. Health3
  4. Social Welfare3
  5. Taxation3
  6. Crime and Law Enforcement2
  7. Housing and Community Development2
  8. Native Americans2

Latest activity

  1. H.R. 5343 FEMA Caseworker Accountability Act
    Passed both chambers· Emergency Management· Dec 15, 2022
  2. H.R. 6375 COPS on the Beat Grant Program Reauthorization and Parity Act of 2022
    Introduced· Crime and Law Enforcement· Nov 1, 2022
  3. H.R. 4578 Relief for Seasonal Businesses Act of 2021
    Introduced· Immigration· Nov 1, 2022
  4. H.Res. 1283 Of inquiry directing the Secretary of the Treasury to provide to the House of Representatives a copy of the Internal Revenue Service Small Business/Self Employed Division Decision Memorandum regarding the decision to destroy approximately 30,000,000 paper information returns around the time of March 2021, and any other memorandum related to the decision to destroy those information returns.
    Reported by committee· Government Operations and Politics· Sep 28, 2022
  5. H.R. 7895 Combating Excessive Student Debt Act of 2022
    Introduced· Education· May 27, 2022
  6. H.R. 7484 Food before Fuel Act
    Introduced· Energy· Apr 8, 2022
  7. H.R. 7485 Simplify, Don’t Amplify the IRS Act
    Introduced· Taxation· Apr 7, 2022
  8. H.R. 7221 Increased Cost of Compliance Modernization Act of 2022
    Introduced· Finance and Financial Sector· Mar 24, 2022

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 South Carolina's 7th 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.

2022 cycle

Raised
$2M
through Dec 31, 2022
Cash on hand
$226.8K
From committees
$665.7K
214 committees
From contractor PACs
$133.5K
42 PACs · 20% of committee money
IndividualsPACsPartySelf

Largest gifts from PACs of federal contractors, 2022

PAC sponsorGivenMatched contract recipientIts contracts, FY2026
american dental associationamerican dental association political action committee$10KAMERICAN DENTAL ASSOCIATIONAI match · 98% · the same organization$78.5K
raytheon technologies corporationemployees of raytheon technologies corporation pac$7,500RAYTHEON DIGITAL FORCE TECHNOLOGIES, LLCAI match · 90% · of one corporate family—
american bankers association (aba)american bankers association pac (bankpac)$6,000AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATIONAI match · 100% · the same organization—
pricewaterhousecooperspricewaterhousecoopers political action committee i$5,500PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS LLPAI match · 98% · the same organization$4.8M
international paperinternational paper political action committee (ip-pac)$5,000INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANYAI match · 100% · the same organization—
general motors companygeneral motors company political action committee (gm pac)$5,000GENERAL MOTORS LLCAI match · 100% · of one corporate family$652.9M
american institute of certified public accountantsamerican institute of certified public accountants political action committee$5,000AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTSAI match · 100% · the same organization—
duke energy corporationduke energy corporation pac$5,000DUKE ENERGY PROGRESS, LLCAI match · 100% · of one corporate family$17.5M
honeywell internationalhoneywell international political action committee$5,000HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.AI match · 100% · the same organization$260.5M
dominion energy, inc.dominion energy, inc. political action committee - dominion pac$5,000DOMINION ENERGY, INC.AI match · 100% · the same organization$25.5K

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 · South Carolina's 7th districtJan 3, 2021 – Jan 3, 2023
  2. House · South Carolina's 7th districtJan 3, 2019 – Jan 3, 2021
  3. House · South Carolina's 7th districtJan 3, 2017 – Jan 3, 2019
  4. House · South Carolina's 7th districtJan 6, 2015 – Jan 3, 2017
  5. House · South Carolina's 7th 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 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.