Robert P. Bresnahan

Service history

2 years in the U.S. Congress · since 2025

Representative PA-8 2025–present

Background

background Born April 22, 1990; a businessman before entering politics
role A member of the Republican Party
role Defeated incumbent Matt Cartwright in the 2024 election, taking office January 3, 2025
role U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district since 2025

Campaign finance

2026 cycle

Incumbent for U.S. House PA-08 · 2026 General Election

$5,234,586 raised
$2,679,690 spent
$2,608,048 cash on hand

	$5.23M
	$3.33M
	$1.89M
Itemized (≥ $200)	$1.28M
Unitemized (< $200)	$608.24K
Party committees	$5.00K
Other committees (PACs)	$1.38M
Candidate self-funding	$55.54K
Transfers from other committees	$1.90M
Offsets to expenditures	$6.48K
Other receipts	$0.01
	$2.68M
Operating expenditures	$2.48M
Loan repayments	$180.00K
Contribution refunds	$13.47K
Transfers to other committees	$382.86
Other disbursements	$3.50K
Cash on hand	$2.61M
Debts owed by committee	$777.07K

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.

Robert P. Bresnahan campaign finance by election cycle
Cycle	Raised	Spent	Cash on hand
2024	$4,540,166	$4,487,014	$53,152
2026	$5,234,586	$2,679,690	$2,608,048

Contributions received — 2026 cycle

Data from FEC

Recorded individual contributions in the 2026 cycle: $43,360 ·

Track record

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

98.9%
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.
20
Bills sponsored →
plus 298 cosponsored

A count of bills introduced as the primary sponsor; most legislation never advances, regardless of who sponsors it.
0
Sponsored bills enacted →
of 20 bills sponsored

Whether a bill becomes law depends on the whole Congress, not the sponsor alone; substantive provisions often pass folded into other vehicles.
92%
Party-unity voting →
votes with the party majority · median 99% · on 435 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.
8%
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.
10
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.
353
Disclosed stock trades →
210 tickers · 52 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.
2
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 Robert P. Bresnahan. 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

98.9%

of House roll calls voted House median 100.0% · −1.1 pts below median

470Yea 140Nay 2Present 7Not voting

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

See the participation leaderboard →

Committee assignments (10)

Data from Congress.gov committee memberships

Industry PAC support

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

Total disclosed PAC money: $686,075. Industry is approximated from a curated map; individual (non-PAC) donations are listed separately above.

Energy $19,300 · 6 PACs
Health $4,500 · 2 PACs
Finance $3,500 · 2 PACs
Technology $3,000 · 2 PACs
Defense $1,000 · 1 PAC

Top PAC contributors (10)

KOCH INDUSTRIES, INC. PAC (KOCHPAC) $10,000
ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF AMERICA PAC $10,000
AMERICAN REVIVAL PAC $10,000
ELECTING MAJORITY MAKING EFFECTIVE REPUBLICANS (EMMER PAC) $10,000
BUILD PAC OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HOME BUILDERS (BUILDPAC) $10,000
RAPTOR PAC $10,000
MR. SOUTHERN MISSOURIAN IN THE HOUSE PAC $10,000
THE EYE OF THE TIGER PAC $10,000
NATIONAL ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION PAC $10,000
E-PAC $10,000

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).

NULL $255,976
INVESTMENTS LIMITED $21,106
STARKEY HEARING TECHNOLOGIES $13,200
TFP LIMITED $11,022
ENERGY TRANSFER PARTNERS $9,900
GUNSTER STRATEGIES WORLDWIDE, INC. $9,570
KUHARCHIK CONSTRUCTION LLC $7,117
CUMBERLAND DEVELOPMENT $6,600
PRESCOTT INVESTORS, INC. $6,600
GRI LLC $6,600

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 $0 supporting · $3,927 opposing · 2 outside groups
2024 cycle $1,218,014 supporting · $9,819,971 opposing · 13 outside groups

See the outside-money leaderboard →

Issue positions (15)

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

AbortionPartial oppose from votes
Civil RightsPartial support from votes
Climate & EnergyPartial oppose 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 support from votes
HealthcarePartial support from votes
HousingPartial support from votes
ImmigrationPartial oppose from votes
Labor & WagesPartial support from votes
Technology & PrivacyPartial support from votes
Voting & ElectionsOppose from votes

Stock trades (STOCK Act)

Data from Stock Watcher / official disclosures

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Documented relationships

Documented facts about Bresnahan, 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 Agriculture — Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology, which oversees the technology sector, and disclosed 49 technology-sector trades (disclosed amounts up to $890,000) between Jan 2025 and Jun 2025.

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 Agriculture — Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology · Member

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

Sits on the House Committee on Agriculture — Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology, which oversees the technology sector, and received 2 PAC contributions from technology-sector political action committees totaling $3,000 (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 Agriculture — Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology · Member

FEC PAC contributions

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Frequent co-sponsors

Data from Congress.gov

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

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Connections network

Data from Congress.gov · FEC

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