Josh Gottheimer

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

• Representative NJ-5 2017–present

• 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

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

These are verifiable facts from the public record, assembled in one place and presented without judgment. They are not a score, a grade, or a ranking. Context matters: a missed vote may be excused, on leadership or committee duty, or paired; a party-unity rate reflects agenda alignment, not virtue or independence; a disclosed trade or a documented relationship is a required public filing, not evidence of wrongdoing. Each fact links to its full source below.

• 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.

Data from Congress.gov roll-call records

Data from Congress.gov committee memberships

• National Security Agency and Cyber Subcommittee Ranking Member
• Financial Services Committee · oversees Finance
• Intelligence (Permanent Select) Committee
• Capital Markets Subcommittee
• Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence Subcommittee · oversees Technology
• National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions Subcommittee
• Subcommittee on Defense Intelligence and Overhead Architecture

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

Data from FEC, itemized campaign receipts

Data from FEC, Schedule E independent expenditures

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

Data from Stock Watcher / official disclosures

Data from Congress.gov

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

Data from Congress.gov · FEC

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

Data from Congress.gov