Nellie Pou

background Born May 20, 1956; business administrator
role New Jersey General Assembly (35th district, 1997–2012)
achievement First woman and first Hispanic to represent 35th district (1997)
role New Jersey Senate (2012–2025), Majority Caucus Chair
role Chair of New Jersey Legislative Latino Caucus (since 2006)
role U.S. representative for New Jersey's 9th district since 2025

Track record

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

99.8%
Roll-call participation →
voted in 633 recorded roll calls

Missing a vote is not inherently negative — an absence can be excused, reflect leadership or committee duty, or a recorded pairing.
16
Bills sponsored →
plus 230 cosponsored

A count of bills introduced as the primary sponsor; most legislation never advances, regardless of who sponsors it.
0
Sponsored bills enacted →
of 16 bills sponsored

Whether a bill becomes law depends on the whole Congress, not the sponsor alone; substantive provisions often pass folded into other vehicles.
95%
Party-unity voting
votes with the party majority · on 444 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.
5%
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.
6
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.
1
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 Nellie Pou. 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

99.8%

of House roll calls voted

295Yea 334Nay 3Present 1Not voting

Full voting record (633 roll calls) → · Congress 119 · based on 633 of 676 recorded roll calls

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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 oppose 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

Campaign finance

2026 cycle

Incumbent for U.S. House NJ-09 · 2026 General Election

$2,661,928 raised
$1,021,043 spent
$1,793,359 cash on hand

	$2.66M
	$2.50M
	$1.48M
Itemized (≥ $200)	$1.24M
Unitemized (< $200)	$231.97K
Party committees	$5.77K
Other committees (PACs)	$1.02M
Transfers from other committees	$156.14K
Offsets to expenditures	$624.98
Other receipts	$4.06K
	$1.02M
Operating expenditures	$948.59K
Contribution refunds	$12.26K
Other disbursements	$60.20K
Cash on hand	$1.79M
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.

Nellie Pou campaign finance by election cycle
Cycle	Raised	Spent	Cash on hand
2024	$642,843	$490,370	$152,474
2026	$2,661,928	$1,021,043	$1,793,359

Contributions received

Data from FEC

Recorded individual contributions: $53,844 ·

Industry PAC support

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

Total disclosed PAC money: $1,257,950. Industry is approximated from a curated map; individual (non-PAC) donations are listed separately above.

Health $38,500 · 10 PACs
Finance $37,750 · 12 PACs
Defense $20,000 · 7 PACs
Telecom $15,500 · 7 PACs
Technology $5,500 · 3 PACs
Energy $500 · 1 PAC

Top PAC contributors (10)

NEW DEMOCRAT COALITION ACTION FUND $48,000
ACTBLUE $36,500
DCCC $16,500
AMALGAMATED TRANSIT UNION - COPE $15,000
INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $15,000
CA LUV PAC (CALIFORNIA LEADERSHIP UNITED FOR VICTORY PAC) $15,000
PURPOSE PAC $15,000
JOBS, EDUCATION, & FAMILIES FIRST JEFF PAC $15,000
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS, AFL-CIO COMMITTEE ON POLITICAL EDUCATION $15,000
SEIU COPE (SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION COMMITTEE ON POLITICAL EDUCATION) $15,000

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).

CARLA DEVELOPMENT GROUP $6,600
Employer not reported $5,500
1868 PUBLIC AFFAIRS LLC $5,300
MCMANIMON SCOTLAND & BAUMANN LLC $5,000
TICKETNETWORK $4,300
NICHOLAS REAL ESTATE $3,800
STATE OF NEW JERSEY $3,800
GI AUTO SALVAGE $3,300
STAR LOGISTICS AND HOSPITALITY SERVICE $3,300
FOUNDATION RISK PARTNERS $3,300

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? →

2026 cycle $246 supporting · $0 opposing · 2 outside groups

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Committee assignments (6)

Data from Congress.gov committee memberships

Frequent co-sponsors

Data from Congress.gov

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

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Documented relationships

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

Committee oversight & campaign money — energy coverage: medium

Sits on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure — Water Resources and Environment, which oversees the energy sector, and received 1 PAC contribution from energy-sector political action committees totaling $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 Transportation and Infrastructure — Water Resources and Environment · Member

FEC PAC contributions

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Stock trades (STOCK Act)

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Data from Congress.gov · FEC

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

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