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Shelley Moore Capito

Shelley Moore Capito

Republican · WV U.S. SenatorCandidate 2026

26 years in the U.S. Congress · since 2001

  • background Born November 26, 1953; daughter of West Virginia governor and U.S. representative Arch Alfred Moore Jr.
  • role A Republican; U.S. Representative for West Virginia's 2nd congressional district from 2001 to 2015
  • role Senior U.S. Senator from West Virginia since 2015, first elected in 2014 and reelected in 2020
  • achievement First woman elected to the U.S. Senate from West Virginia and first West Virginia Republican to win a full Senate term since 1942
  • role Chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee since 2025 and dean of West Virginia's congressional delegation

Track record

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.

  • 100.0%
    Roll-call participation →

    voted in 46 recorded roll calls

    Missing a vote is not inherently negative — an absence can be excused, reflect leadership or committee duty, or a recorded pairing.

  • 31
    Bills sponsored →

    plus 358 cosponsored

    A count of bills introduced as the primary sponsor; most legislation never advances, regardless of who sponsors it.

  • 1
    Sponsored bills enacted →

    of 31 bills sponsored

    Whether a bill becomes law depends on the whole Congress, not the sponsor alone; substantive provisions often pass folded into other vehicles.

  • 100%
    Party-unity voting

    votes with the party majority · on 26 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.

  • 0%
    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.

  • 18
    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.

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

Voting record

Data from senate.gov roll-call records

100.0%
of Senate roll calls voted

Full voting record (46 roll calls) → · Congress 119 · based on 46 of 915 recorded roll calls

See the participation leaderboard →

Issue positions (3)

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

Campaign finance

2026 cycle

Incumbent for U.S. Senate WV · 2026 General Election

  • $4,624,145 raised
  • $2,558,310 spent
  • $4,377,201 cash on hand
$4.62M
$4.20M
$2.46M
Itemized (≥ $200)$2.37M
Unitemized (< $200)$84.24K
Party committees$62.00K
Other committees (PACs)$1.68M
Transfers from other committees$423.25K
Other receipts$76.24
$2.56M
Operating expenditures$2.31M
Other disbursements$250.00K
Cash on hand$4.38M
Debts owed by committee$0.00

Through June 30, 2026 · FEC

Data from FEC (through Jun 30, 2026)

Finance updated: not yet pulled

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.

Shelley Moore Capito campaign finance by election cycle
Cycle RaisedSpentCash on hand
2012$1,624,826$21,314$1,603,511
2014$7,860,642$8,781,918$682,236
2016$137,546$419,550$400,232
2018$673,052$382,759$690,526
2020$4,941,477$3,161,354$2,470,530
2022$862,872$494,618$2,838,784
2024$1,001,825$1,529,244$2,311,365
2026$4,624,145$2,558,310$4,377,201

Contributions received

Data from FEC

Recorded individual contributions: $87,828 ·

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).

  • CONSTELLATION $21,800
  • CONSTELLATION ENERGY $14,250
  • Employer not reported $6,800
  • ARNOLD VENTURES $6,600
  • SOROBAN CAPITAL PARTNERS LP $6,600
  • PAN AM EQUITIES $6,600
  • KIDS CAPITAL $6,600
  • SABIN METAL CORP $6,600
  • DMM PROPRIETA MANAGEMENT $6,600
  • US SENATE $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 $337,585 supporting · $0 opposing · 1 outside group

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Sponsored / cosponsored bills (200)

Data from Congress.gov

200
Page 1 of 8 · 200 bills
  • SRES 934A resolution designating October 10, 2026, as "American Girls in Sports Day".cosponsoredSep 29, 2026
  • S 5653A bill to prescribe permitting reform, and for other purposes.sponsoredSep 29, 2026
  • SRES 933A resolution expressing support for the designation of October 2026 as "National Dyslexia Awareness Month".cosponsoredSep 29, 2026
  • SRES 947A resolution designating September 2026 as "National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month".cosponsoredSep 29, 2026
  • SRES 927A resolution designating the week beginning October 18, 2026, as "National Character Counts Week".cosponsoredSep 28, 2026
  • SRES 926A resolution designating September 2026 as "National Literacy Month".cosponsoredSep 28, 2026
  • SRES 913A resolution relating to the death of the Honorable Nancy Kassebaum, former United States Senator for the State of Kansas.cosponsoredSep 27, 2026
  • SRES 912A resolution recognizing the 50th anniversary of the Hyde Amendment and its enduring legacy of saving the lives of more than 2,600,000 unborn children and respecting the conscience rights of the American people.cosponsoredSep 27, 2026
  • SRES 899A resolution recognizing suicide as a serious public health problem and expressing support for the designation of September as "National Suicide Prevention Month".cosponsoredSep 23, 2026
  • SRES 897A resolution honoring the life, service, and legacy of the Honorable Jon Llewellyn Kyl, former Senator for the State of Arizona.cosponsoredSep 22, 2026
  • SRES 894A resolution designating September 25, 2026, as "National Ataxia Awareness Day", and raising awareness of ataxia, ataxia research, and the search for a cure.cosponsoredSep 22, 2026
  • SRES 892A resolution supporting the designation of September 18, 2026, as "National Concussion Awareness Day".cosponsoredSep 22, 2026
  • SRES 891A resolution designating the week of September 27, 2026, through October 3, 2026, as "Religious Education Week" to celebrate religious education in the United States.cosponsoredSep 22, 2026
  • SRES 856A resolution supporting the designation of September 19, 2026, as "National Stillbirth Prevention and Awareness Day", recognizing tens of thousands of families in the United States that have endured a stillbirth, and seizing the opportunity to keep other families from experiencing the same tragedy.cosponsoredSep 15, 2026
  • SRES 843A resolution expressing support for the designation of the first week of August 2026, as "National Community Health Center Week", encouraging all people of the United States to participate by visiting their local community health center, and celebrating the important partnership between community health centers and the communities they serve.cosponsoredAug 6, 2026
  • SRES 834A resolution honoring and commending the 100th anniversary of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America.cosponsoredAug 5, 2026
  • SRES 837A resolution designating the week of August 22 through August 30, 2026, as "National Park Week".cosponsoredAug 5, 2026
  • S 5243A bill to provide for the automatic establishment of Trump accounts using information collected under the Enumeration at Birth Program of the Social Security Administration.sponsoredAug 4, 2026
  • S 5244SUSTAIN 340B ActcosponsoredAug 4, 2026
  • S 5207RCORP Authorization ActsponsoredAug 2, 2026
  • S 5193Expanding Capacity for Health Outcomes Act of 2026cosponsoredJul 29, 2026
  • S 5164Rural Emergency Hospital Designation Improvement ActcosponsoredJul 28, 2026
  • S 5169Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District Boundary Expansion and Partnership Act of 2026cosponsoredJul 28, 2026
  • S 5119A bill to require the United States Postal Service to sell the Alzheimer's semipostal stamp for 6 additional years.cosponsoredJul 22, 2026
  • S 5045Wildfire Emissions Prevention Act of 2026cosponsoredJul 20, 2026
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Documented relationships

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

No documented relationships of this kind on record — absence is not a finding.

Stock trades (STOCK Act)

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Data from Congress.gov · FEC

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

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