Former representative · Colorado's 8th district

Yadira Caraveo

Yadira Caraveo served in Congress from 2023 to 2025, last as a Democratic representative for Colorado's 8th district. In the 118th Congress, 1,222 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 35, and cast 722 of 841 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 Representatives1,2222.9%35 of 1,222 · rank 188 of 44286%722 of 841 · rank 401 of 442410 became law47%288 of 618

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 −1−0.26+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. 7673: Liberty in Laundry ActYea
    Dec 10, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 215–200· Against party
  4. H.R. 7198: Prove It Act of 2024Yea
    Dec 5, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 208–196· Against party
  5. H.R. 7198: Prove It Act of 2024Nay
    Dec 5, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 199–204· Against party
  6. H.R. 9495: Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages ActYea
    Nov 21, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 219–184· Against party
  7. H.R. 1449: CLEAN ActYea
    Nov 19, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 244–171· Against party
  8. H.R. 7409: HEATS ActYea
    Nov 14, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 225–181· 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 ActYea
    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.

41 sponsored · 0 became law

How far they got

  1. Introduced4098%
  2. Reported by committee12.4%

Policy areas

  1. Health15
  2. Agriculture and Food11
  3. Commerce2
  4. Crime and Law Enforcement2
  5. Immigration2
  6. Science, Technology, Communications2
  7. Emergency Management1
  8. Environmental Protection1

Latest activity

  1. H.R. 8725 Increasing Medication Access for Seniors Act of 2024
    Introduced· Health· Dec 17, 2024
  2. H.R. 8265 Social Security Overpayment Fairness Act
    Introduced· Social Welfare· Dec 17, 2024
  3. H.R. 7535 Prescription Drug Supply Chain Pricing Transparency Act
    Introduced· Health· Dec 17, 2024
  4. H.R. 10204 Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program Improvement Act of 2024
    Introduced· Agriculture and Food· Dec 13, 2024
  5. H.R. 10179 Innovative Housing Solutions and Affordability Act
    Introduced· Housing and Community Development· Nov 20, 2024
  6. H.R. 9861 TREAT Water Act
    Introduced· Environmental Protection· Sep 27, 2024
  7. H.Res. 1502 Expressing support for the designation of October 1, 2024, as "National Latino Physician Day".
    Introduced· Health· Sep 25, 2024
  8. H.R. 9807 Strengthening Access to Contraceptive Care Act
    Introduced· Health· Sep 25, 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 Colorado's 8th 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
$140.6M
Per resident
$189
Rank in Colorado
8 of 8
Contract actions
1,629
New awards: 1,335

By fiscal year

  1. 32MFY2017
  2. 32.5MFY2018
  3. 93.3MFY2019
  4. 81.7MFY2020
  5. 92.4MFY2021
  6. 131.3MFY2022
  7. 56.1MFY2023
  8. 70.5MFY2024
  9. 107.9MFY2025
  10. 140.6MFY2026

Top buyers

  1. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$51.4M37%
  2. Office of Procurement Operations$23M16%
    Department of Homeland Security
  3. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement$16.8M12%
    Department of Homeland Security
  4. Department of the Air Force$10.2M7.3%
    Department of Defense
  5. Department of the Army$6.7M4.8%
    Department of Defense
  6. Departmental Offices$6.3M4.5%
    Department of the Interior
  7. Defense Logistics Agency$6.1M4.3%
    Department of Defense
  8. Federal Highway Administration$5.1M3.6%
    Department of Transportation

Top recipients

  1. ADVANCED SPACE LLC$50.2M36%
    12 awards
  2. TRIPLE CANOPY INC$23M16%
    1 award
  3. THE GEO GROUP, INC.$16.8M12%
    1 award
  4. URSA MAJOR TECHNOLOGIES, INC.$8.2M5.8%
    2 awards
  5. NEXGEN TECHNOLOGIES INC.$6.3M4.5%
    2 awards
  6. NAVARRO RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING, INC.$5.3M3.8%
    11 awards
  7. ROCKSOL CONSULTING GROUP, INC.$5.1M3.6%
    12 awards
  8. UNITED FOOD SERVICE, INC.$4.9M3.5%
    1,120 awards
  9. PROTECTION STRATEGIES INC$3M2.1%
    1 award
  10. INODE INK CORPORATION$2.6M1.8%
    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
$259.2K
through Jun 9, 2026
Cash on hand
$0
From committees
$5,500
6 committees
From contractor PACs
$0
0 PACs · 0% of committee money
IndividualsPACsPartySelf

By cycle

CycleRaised (FEC summary)From committeesFrom contractor PACs
2026$259.2K$5,500$00 PACs · 0% of committee money
2024$8.1M$1.4M$66K13 PACs · 5% of committee money
2022$3.6M$584K$17.5K3 PACs · 3% 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 · Colorado's 8th 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.