Issue positions (15)
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
- Voting & ElectionsFull support from votes
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)
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.
| 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 ·
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)
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? →
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 587 technology-sector trades (disclosed amounts up to $326,840,000) between May 2017 and Aug 2026.
Counts only disclosed trades we could tag to a sector; sector coverage is partial, so the real total may be higher.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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