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Steve Scalise

Republican · LA U.S. RepresentativeCandidate 2026

Service history

19 years in the U.S. Congress · since 2008

  • Representative LA-1 2008–present

Background

  • background Born October 6, 1965
  • background Louisiana House of Representatives (3 terms), Louisiana State Senate
  • role U.S. representative for Louisiana's 1st district (since 2008)
  • role House majority whip (2014–2019), minority whip (2019–2023)
  • role House majority leader (since 2023)
  • controversy Shot and seriously wounded June 14, 2017; returned September 28

Campaign finance

2026 cycle

Incumbent for U.S. House LA-01 · 2026 General Election

  • $10,638,030 raised
  • $10,883,241 spent
  • $3,885,942 cash on hand

Data from FEC (through Jul 18, 2026)

Finance updated: not yet pulled

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 3 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.

  • 3
    Bills sponsored →

    plus 6 cosponsored

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

  • 1
    Sponsored bills enacted →

    of 3 bills sponsored

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

  • 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.

  • 0
    Committee assignments →

    none on record

    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 Steve Scalise. 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

100.0%
of House roll calls voted House median 100.0%

Full voting record (3 roll calls) → · Congress 119 · based on 3 of 645 recorded roll calls

See the participation leaderboard →

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).

  • VALERO $48,300
  • NULL $30,277
  • CORNERSTONE GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS $29,500
  • OCHSNER HEALTH $26,900
  • S-3 GROUP $25,000
  • FORTRESS INFORMATION SECURITY $24,000
  • GEO GROUP $19,100
  • HARBINGER STRATEGIES $18,200
  • GOLDMAN SACHS $17,100
  • ANDREESSEN HOROWITZ $16,500

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? →

  • 2024 cycle $694 supporting · $0 opposing · 2 outside groups

See the outside-money leaderboard →

Issue positions (1)

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

Stock trades (STOCK Act)

Data from Stock Watcher / official disclosures

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Documented relationships

Documented facts about Scalise, 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.

Frequent co-sponsors

Data from Congress.gov

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

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Connections network

Data from Congress.gov · FEC

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

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Sponsored / cosponsored bills (9)

Data from Congress.gov

9
  • HR 7296SAVE America ActcosponsoredJan 29, 2026
  • HR 6963To designate the community-based outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Lafayette, Louisiana, as the "Rodney C. Hamilton Sr. VA Clinic".cosponsoredJan 6, 2026
  • HCONRES 58Denouncing the horrors of socialism.cosponsoredOct 23, 2025
  • HRES 719Honoring the life and legacy of Charles Charlie James Kirk.cosponsoredSep 15, 2025
  • HR 4Rescissions Act of 2025sponsoredJun 5, 2025
  • HR 21Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection ActcosponsoredJan 2, 2025
  • HRES 2To inform the Senate that a quorum of the House has assembled and of the election of the Speaker and the Clerk.sponsoredJan 2, 2025
  • HRES 3Authorizing the Speaker to appoint a committee to notify the President of the assembly of the Congress.sponsoredJan 2, 2025
  • HR 2898Regulation Moratorium and Jobs Preservation Act of 2011cosponsoredSep 11, 2011

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