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DemocratJosh Gottheimer
U.S. Representative · New Jersey
New Jersey's 5th district
U.S. Representative from New Jersey
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How they won their seat
Josh Gottheimer won the 2024 U.S. House election in New Jersey (District 5) with 54.6% of the vote (208,359 votes).
- Josh Gottheimer · Democrat54.6%208,359
- Mary Jo Guinchard · Republican43.3%165,287
- 3 Other Candidates2.2%8,243
Certified results. Source: MIT Election Data + Science Lab (MEDSL) ↗. A plurality winner can hold under 50% when more than two candidates run.
Inferred legislative agendas
Josh Gottheimer's record includes sponsored bills such as the AI Workforce Training Act and the Cloud Security Act. His involvement in committees related to financial services and intelligence is also noted. Focus areas (from the record): National Security · Technology · Public Health · Financial Services · Cybersecurity Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against his sponsored bills and voting record. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal the effectiveness of the sponsored bills; There is no information on the politician's motives or intentions; The absence of declared positions limits the ability to assess alignment with constituents' views. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Josh Gottheimer has not necessarily stated these as goals. This is an AI-generated, nonpartisan reading of the patterns in their verified record — sponsored legislation, committee work, roll-call votes, and campaign-finance composition — and how those patterns compare to any declared positions and tracked promises. It describes what the record emphasizes, never imputes motive, and is run through an adversarial review pass that scrubs bias, loaded language, and any claim the evidence doesn’t support. It is not a quote, a claim they made, or a rating; every underlying item is sourced in the verified record below; and it never affects the Integrity Score.
Activity in office
What Josh Gottheimer has actually done in office — sourced from official roll-call and government records, shown in full below. These are facts, separate from tracked promises and never folded into any score. The tracked-positions tile counts sourced stated positions — claims about what they believe, not conduct — and is likewise never scored.
Roll-call data last updated September 7, 2026 · source: Voteview.
Monthly voting activity
- Yea
- Nay
- Total
Roll-call votes per month — most recent on file. Source: Voteview.
Vote attendance
Share of roll calls participated in — most recent votes on file. Source: Voteview.
Bills sponsored over time
Bills sponsored per year, stacked by outcome (latest action). Outcome data covers the 118th–119th Congresses; earlier years show as “awaiting status” until enriched. Source: Congress.gov.
Independence
How often they break with their party’s majority — neither good nor bad, just the record.
Most recent roll-call votes on file. Source: Voteview.
Bill success rate
Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.
Campaign finance over time
- Small-dollar (unitemized)$92K1%
- Large individual (itemized)$6.6M78%
- PAC / committee$1.8M21%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Permanent Select Committee on IntelligenceOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Financial ServicesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Financial Services — National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial InstitutionsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Financial Services — Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial IntelligenceOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Financial Services — Capital MarketsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence — Defense Intelligence and Overhead ArchitectureOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Ranking Member, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence — National Security Agency and CyberOn record since Jan 2025Ranking
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
196 sponsored bills · finance on fileFacts imported directly from official government sources — shown separately from tracked promises and never folded into the Integrity Score. Each entry links to its primary source.
FEC 2026 cycle — raised $3,468,842, spent $12,628,178, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 9706: To require operators of wagering or prediction market platforms to use facial recognition technology to verify the age of users of such wagering or prediction market platforms, and for other purposes. ↗Jul 15, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9626: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to eliminate the State and local tax deduction marriage penalty. ↗Jul 9, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9578: Spot the Fakes Act ↗Jul 2, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9546: Cloud Security Act ↗Jun 30, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1379: Condemning Lebanese Hezbollah's repeated violations of ceasefire agreements and calling for the Lebanese Government to ensure Lebanese Hezbollah immediately ceases all attacks and disarms, in accordance with the ceasefire. ↗Jun 23, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9218: Marcus’s Law ↗Jun 9, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9059: National Police Athletic/Activities League Youth Enrichment Reauthorization Act ↗May 29, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8927: Stop the Doxx Act ↗May 20, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8895: No Rigged Grocery Prices Act ↗May 19, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8728: Feed Our Kids Act of 2026 ↗May 11, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8655: Jersey Pride Tax Credit Act of 2026 ↗May 4, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1239: Condemning antisemitic hate-filled rhetoric and content disseminated by prominent online personalities, and urging social media platforms and public leaders to denounce and address such conduct. ↗Apr 30, 2026
Showing the 12 most recent of 196 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 655
- Yea
- 281
- Nay
- 290
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 84
Full voting record
655 votes- HR4795Not voting
- HR1501Nay
- HJRES1Nay
- HRES1498Yea
- HR9436Nay
- HR9436Yea
- HRES1490Nay
- HRES1499Nay
- HRES1499Nay
- HR6500Yea
- S32Yea
- S307Yea
- HR8884Nay
- HCONRES89Yea
- HCONRES113Nay
- HR7008Yea
- HR7008Yea
- HR8800Nay
- HR8800Yea
- HR8800Nay
Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.
Positions on record
1 position on recordThe record on this issue — recorded votes this official cast, and sourced claims about what they believe. Each is labelled with which it is, because a vote is what someone did and a statement is what they said. Neither is scored, and neither affects the Integrity Score.
- Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyRecorded vote
On record voting NO on Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 1 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act, an amendment to prohibit warrantless searches of United States persons' communications in the FISA Section 702 database, with exceptions for imminent threats to life or bodily harm, consent searches, and known cybersecurity threat signatures. The amendment failed on a 212 to 212 tie.
SourcesHouse Roll Call Vote 114, 118th Congress, 2nd Session: On Agreeing to the Amendment, Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 1 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act. Failed by recorded vote, 212 ayes to 212 noes, April 12, 2024.View position & sources →
Disclosure
A separate measure from the promise scorecard above. It tracks confirmed cases where this official has acted on or championed an issue that already existed when they ran, but which they did not disclose as a priority in their campaign. Each case meets a high evidence bar — three independent sources — and the score is shown alongside the Integrity Score, never merged into it. How this is measured.
No undisclosed priorities on record. This is not a clean-audit claim — it means none have been confirmed for this official.
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