Josh Gottheimer

Service history

10 years in the U.S. Congress · since 2017

Representative NJ-5 2017–present

Background

role U.S. representative for New Jersey's 5th congressional district since 2017
background Was a speechwriter for President Bill Clinton
background Advised the presidential campaigns of Wesley Clark, John Kerry, and Hillary Clinton
background Worked for the Federal Communications Commission, Ford Motor Company, and Microsoft
background Attorney by profession
background Born March 8, 1975

Campaign finance

2026 cycle

Incumbent for U.S. House NJ-05 · 2026 General Election

$4,765,145 raised
$12,704,564 spent
$12,773,075 cash on hand

	$4.77M
	$4.13M
	$3.25M
Itemized (≥ $200)	$3.23M
Unitemized (< $200)	$20.74K
Other committees (PACs)	$882.05K
Transfers from other committees	$45.20K
Offsets to expenditures	$1.88K
Other receipts	$588.15K
	$12.70M
Operating expenditures	$814.59K
Contribution refunds	$25.29K
Other disbursements	$11.86M
Cash on hand	$12.77M
Debts owed by committee	$0.00

Through June 30, 2026 · FEC

Data from FEC (through Jun 30, 2026)

Finance updated: Jul 23, 2026

Over time

Data from FEC per-cycle campaign finance

Money raised, spent, and cash on hand across every election cycle on record — toggle a series in the legend.

Josh Gottheimer campaign finance by election cycle
Cycle	Raised	Spent	Cash on hand
2016	$4,799,702	$4,720,617	$79,085
2018	$7,000,276	$2,936,326	$4,143,035
2020	$7,799,294	$3,593,230	$8,349,098
2022	$8,856,162	$3,859,312	$13,345,948
2024	$10,246,424	$2,879,879	$20,712,493
2026	$4,765,145	$12,704,564	$12,773,075

Contributions received

Data from FEC

Recorded individual contributions: $189,878 ·

Track record

Assembled from Congress.gov · FEC · official disclosures — each fact links its own source

86.4%
Roll-call participation →
voted in 619 recorded roll calls · chamber median 100.0%

Missing a vote is not inherently negative — an absence can be excused, reflect leadership or committee duty, or a recorded pairing.
86
Bills sponsored →
plus 872 cosponsored

A count of bills introduced as the primary sponsor; most legislation never advances, regardless of who sponsors it.
0
Sponsored bills enacted →
of 86 bills sponsored

Whether a bill becomes law depends on the whole Congress, not the sponsor alone; substantive provisions often pass folded into other vehicles.
86%
Party-unity voting →
votes with the party majority · median 99% · on 393 party-line votes

Party-unity is how often a member votes with their own party's majority on party-line votes — it reflects agenda alignment, not loyalty, independence, or virtue.
14%
Cross-party voting →
votes with the other party's majority on those same votes

The share of the same party-line votes cast with the OTHER party's majority — a descriptive rate, not a measure of principle.
0
Documented positions →
no positions documented yet

Documented, sourced positions we have on record — the absence of a documented position is not the absence of a view.
7
Committee assignments →
committees and subcommittees

Committee seats are assignments made by party leadership — a measure of role and jurisdiction, not an achievement or a conflict in itself.
3,330
Disclosed stock trades →
526 tickers · 839 in a sector a committee they sit on oversees

Disclosed trades are legally required public filings (STOCK Act), not evidence of wrongdoing; trades may be executed by a manager or held in a blind trust.
4
Documented relationships →
neutral overlap signals (e.g., committee oversight of a traded sector)

A documented relationship is a factual overlap in the public record — NOT evidence of wrongdoing.

Assembled from CivicGate's ingested public records for Josh Gottheimer. A fact shown as “—” means we don't yet hold that data — not that the value is zero.

Voting record

Data from Congress.gov roll-call records

86.4%

of House roll calls voted House median 100.0% · −13.6 pts below median

270Yea 264Nay 1Present 84Not voting

Full voting record (619 roll calls) → · Congress 119 · based on 619 of 645 recorded roll calls

See the participation leaderboard →

Committee assignments (7)

Data from Congress.gov committee memberships

Industry PAC support

Data from FEC — PAC (political action committee) contributions, 2026/2024/2022 cycles

Total disclosed PAC money: $4,528,651. Industry is approximated from a curated map; individual (non-PAC) donations are listed separately above.

Finance $927,300 · 183 PACs
Health $149,500 · 41 PACs
Telecom $103,500 · 18 PACs
Technology $62,500 · 18 PACs
Defense $51,500 · 13 PACs
Energy $48,000 · 14 PACs

Top PAC contributors (10)

NEW DEMOCRAT COALITION ACTION FUND $98,900
IPSEN BIOPHARMACEUTICALS, INC. EMPLOYEE PAC $30,000
ERNST & YOUNG POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $30,000
COMCAST CORPORATION & NBC UNIVERSAL PAC $30,000 · Telecom
ALLY FINANCIAL INC. ADVOCACY POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $30,000 · Finance
AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION PAC (BANKPAC) $30,000
ACROSS THE AISLE PAC $30,000
JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. FEDERAL POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $30,000
HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $30,000
BLUE DOG POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $30,000

Top contributors (FEC)

Data from FEC, itemized campaign receipts

Top contributors — 2024 cycle

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor's reported employer (FEC Schedule A).

BLACKSTONE $116,700
APOLLO GLOBAL MANAGEMENT $71,500
KKR & CO INC. $50,600
CENTERVIEW PARTNERS $25,000
FORTRESS INVESTMENT GROUP $23,200
RBC CAPITAL MARKETS $22,100
MORGAN STANLEY $21,450
BRENTWOOD ASSOCIATES $21,200
BLACKROCK $19,950
INSERRA SUPERMARKETS, INC. $19,800

Outside spending on this race

Data from FEC, Schedule E independent expenditures

Independent expenditures are money outside groups (PACs / super-PACs) spend to support or oppose a candidate without coordinating with their campaign. What's this? →

2024 cycle $242,801 supporting · $0 opposing · 3 outside groups

See the outside-money leaderboard →

Issue positions (14)

Documented + CivicGate vote-derived — stated positions link their source; derived positions come from votes on direction-tagged bills

AbortionPartial support from votes
Civil RightsPartial support from votes
Climate & EnergyPartial support from votes
Criminal JusticePartial support from votes
DefensePartial support from votes
Economy & TaxesPartial support from votes
EducationPartial support from votes
Foreign PolicyPartial support from votes
Gun PolicyPartial oppose from votes
HealthcarePartial support from votes
HousingPartial support from votes
ImmigrationPartial support from votes
Labor & WagesPartial support from votes
Technology & PrivacyPartial support from votes

Stock trades (STOCK Act)

Data from Stock Watcher / official disclosures

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Documented relationships

Documented facts about Gottheimer, aggregated from public records. A documented relationship is not evidence of wrongdoing — it is context, not a conclusion.

Committee oversight & trading — technology coverage: high

Sits on the House Committee on Financial Services — Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence, which oversees the technology sector, and disclosed 583 technology-sector trades (disclosed amounts up to $323,840,000) between May 2017 and May 2026.

Counts only disclosed trades we could tag to a sector; sector coverage is partial, so the real total may be higher.

Committees House Committee on Financial Services — Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence · Member

STOCK Act disclosures →
Committee oversight & trading — finance coverage: high

Sits on the House Committee on Financial Services, which oversees the finance sector, and disclosed 105 finance-sector trades (disclosed amounts up to $1,750,000) between Oct 2018 and Apr 2026.

Counts only disclosed trades we could tag to a sector; sector coverage is partial, so the real total may be higher.

Committees House Committee on Financial Services · Member

STOCK Act disclosures →
Committee oversight & campaign money — finance coverage: medium

Sits on the House Committee on Financial Services, which oversees the finance sector, and received 183 PAC contributions from finance-sector political action committees totaling $927,300 (recent cycles).

PAC industry is approximated from a curated keyword map, and only members with an FEC candidate id on file are covered — real totals may be higher.

Committees House Committee on Financial Services · Member

FEC PAC contributions
Committee oversight & campaign money — technology coverage: medium

Sits on the House Committee on Financial Services — Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence, which oversees the technology sector, and received 18 PAC contributions from technology-sector political action committees totaling $62,500 (recent cycles).

PAC industry is approximated from a curated keyword map, and only members with an FEC candidate id on file are covered — real totals may be higher.

Committees House Committee on Financial Services — Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence · Member

FEC PAC contributions

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Frequent co-sponsors

Data from Congress.gov

The members Gottheimer most often co-sponsors bills with — their legislative coalition.

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Connections network

Data from Congress.gov · FEC

How Gottheimer connects to other members, committees, and PACs — drawn only from ingested records.