Former representative · North Carolina's 13th district

Wiley Nickel

Wiley Nickel served in Congress from 2023 to 2025, last as a Democratic representative for North Carolina's 13th district. In the 118th Congress, 1,222 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 38, and cast 750 of 821 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.

Party
Democrat
Chamber
House
Former
In Congress since
Jan 3, 2023
Last term ended
Jan 3, 2025
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 Representatives1,2223.1%38 of 1,222 · rank 168 of 44291%750 of 821 · rank 355 of 442120 became law35%169 of 482

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 −1−0.24+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. S. 4199: JUDGES Act of 2024Yea
    Dec 12, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 236–173· Against party
  2. H.R. 5009: Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025Yea
    Dec 11, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendment with an Amendment· Passed 281–140· Against party
  3. H.R. 8205: Keeping Violent Offenders Off Our Streets ActYea
    Sep 25, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 255–161· Against party
  4. H.R. 3334: STOP CCP ActYea
    Sep 25, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 243–174· Against party
  5. H.R. 8790: Fix Our Forests ActYea
    Sep 24, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 268–151· Against party
  6. S. 2228: Building Chips in America Act of 2023Yea
    Sep 23, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 257–125· Against party
  7. H.R. 7909: Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens ActYea
    Sep 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 266–158· Against party
  8. H.J.Res. 109: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to "Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 121".Yea
    Jul 11, 2024· House· Passage· Passage, Objections of the President To The Contrary Notwithstanding· Failed 228–184· Against party

Recent votes

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

  1. H.R. 10545: American Relief Act, 2025Yea
    Dec 20, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 366–34
  2. H.R. 10515: American Relief Act, 2025Nay
    Dec 19, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Failed 174–235
  3. S. 759: Beagle Brigade Act of 2023Yea
    Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 381–20
  4. 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
  5. S. 3857: Jamul Indian Village Land Transfer ActYea
    Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 369–37
  6. S. 1351: Stop Institutional Child Abuse ActYea
    Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 373–33
  7. H.R. 1101: Lumbee Fairness ActNot voting
    Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 311–96
  8. S. 3448: Never Again Education Reauthorization Act of 2023Yea
    Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 402–12
  9. H.R. 115: Midnight Rules Relief ActNay
    Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 210–201
  10. 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".Yea
    Dec 16, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 348–39
  11. S. 141: Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement ActYea
    Dec 16, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 382–12
  12. S. 3998: Federal Judiciary Stabilization Act of 2024Yea
    Dec 16, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 390–0

Sponsored bills

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

12 sponsored · 0 became law

How far they got

  1. Introduced12100%

Policy areas

  1. Government Operations and Politics2
  2. Taxation2
  3. Commerce1
  4. Congress1
  5. Crime and Law Enforcement1
  6. Families1
  7. Finance and Financial Sector1
  8. Foreign Trade and International Finance1

Latest activity

  1. H.R. 8409 Helping Our Parents Enroll (HOPE) in Child Care Act
    Introduced· Families· Dec 17, 2024
  2. H.R. 5547 Maintaining Investments in New Innovation Act
    Introduced· Health· Dec 17, 2024
  3. H.R. 10323 Civil Nuclear Export Act of 2024
    Introduced· Foreign Trade and International Finance· Dec 6, 2024
  4. H.R. 9991 ESCRA Act
    Introduced· Finance and Financial Sector· Oct 15, 2024
  5. H.R. 9418 SASS Act
    Introduced· Crime and Law Enforcement· Aug 27, 2024
  6. H.R. 8984 Supporting Diverse Entrepreneurs Act
    Introduced· Commerce· Jul 11, 2024
  7. H.R. 8900 Keep Housing Affordable Act of 2024
    Introduced· Taxation· Jun 28, 2024
  8. H.Res. 1230 Recognizing the hundreds of thousands of lives lost during Sri Lanka's almost 30-year armed conflict, which ended 15 years ago on May 18, 2009, and ensuring nonrecurrence of past violence, including the Tamil Genocide, by supporting the right to self-determination of Eelam Tamil people and their call for an independence referendum for a lasting peaceful resolution.
    Introduced· International Affairs· May 16, 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 North Carolina's 13th 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
$185.5M
Per resident
$233
Rank in North Carolina
7 of 14
Contract actions
5,349
New awards: 4,794

By fiscal year

  1. 220.2MFY2017
  2. 166.4MFY2018
  3. 221.6MFY2019
  4. 178.5MFY2020
  5. 216.6MFY2021
  6. 230.2MFY2022
  7. 225.7MFY2023
  8. 214.9MFY2024
  9. 154.4MFY2025
  10. 185.5MFY2026

Top buyers

  1. Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response$40.9M22%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  2. Department of the Air Force$39.5M21%
    Department of Defense
  3. Defense Logistics Agency$28.5M15%
    Department of Defense
  4. Federal Acquisition Service$16.1M8.7%
    General Services Administration
  5. Department of the Army$12M6.5%
    Department of Defense
  6. Department of Veterans Affairs$11.4M6.2%
  7. Department of the Navy$7.5M4.1%
    Department of Defense
  8. Agricultural Research Service$5.7M3.1%
    Department of Agriculture

Top recipients

  1. SEQIRUS INC$40.9M22%
    9 awards
  2. SYSCO RALEIGH, LLC$26M14%
    3,825 awards
  3. SOUTHERN MANAGEMENT INC$17.8M9.6%
    2 awards
  4. INSURANCE AUTO AUCTIONS, INC.$15.8M8.5%
    2 awards
  5. KT CONSULTING, INC.$10.2M5.5%
    1 award
  6. WORRELL CONTRACTING CO INC$6.3M3.4%
    24 awards
  7. ACHUTI LLC$5.8M3.1%
    5 awards
  8. MCKENZIE CONSTRUCTION & SITE DEVELOPMENT LLC$4.9M2.6%
    1 award
  9. PEM-HARKINS JV LLP$4.9M2.6%
    1 award
  10. VADUM INC$4.4M2.4%
    10 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
$589K
through Mar 20, 2026
Cash on hand
$0
From committees
-$1,000
2 committees
From contractor PACs
$0
0 PACs · — of committee money
IndividualsPACsPartySelf

By cycle

CycleRaised (FEC summary)From committeesFrom contractor PACs
2026$589K-$1,000$00 PACs · — of committee money
2024$2.4M$560.1K$101.6K46 PACs · 18% of committee money
2022$3.7M$486K$37K12 PACs · 8% 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 · North Carolina's 13th districtJan 3, 2023 – Jan 3, 2025

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.