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Matt Gaetz Is Winning

But what’s the prize he’s after?

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U sually, you need about 10 minutes to walk from the Rayburn House Office Building to the House Chamber. But if you’re running from a reporter, it’ll only take you five.

When Matt Gaetz spotted me outside his office door one afternoon early last November, he popped in his AirPods and started speed walking down the hall. I took off after him, waving and smiling like the good-natured midwesterner I am. “Congressman, hi,” I said, suddenly wishing I’d worn shoes with arch support. “I just wanted to introduce myself!” I had prepared a long list of questions, hoping for a thoughtful conversation but ready for a tense one. He was a firebrand, after all, or so said the title of his 2020 memoir, Firebrand .

Gaetz is a creature of our time: versed in the art of performance politics and eager to blow up anything to get a little something. He landed in Washington, D.C., as a freshman nobody from the Florida Panhandle, relegated to the back benches of Congress. Seven years later, he’s toppled one House speaker and helped install a new one. He has emerged as the heir of Trumpism. And he’s poised to run for governor in a state of nearly 23 million people. I had tried repeatedly to schedule an interview with Gaetz. His staff had suggested that he might be willing to sit down with me. But there the firebrand was, that day in November, running away from me in his white-soled Cole Haans. Gaetz broke into a light jog down the escalator, then flew through the long tunnel linking the Rayburn offices to the House Chamber. Finally, I caught up with him at the members-only elevator, my heart pounding. I stretched out my hand. He left it hanging. We got on the elevator together, but he still wouldn’t look at me.

“Are you … afraid of me?” I asked, incredulous. Finally, he made eye contact and glared. Then the doors opened, and he walked out toward the chamber.

T wo incidents have defined Gaetz’s tenure in Congress and helped make him a household name. The first was the Department of Justice’s 2020 investigation into whether he had sex with a minor and violated sex-trafficking laws. Gaetz has repeatedly and vehemently denied the claims. That probe was dropped in early 2023, but the House Ethics Committee is still investigating those claims, as well as others—including allegations that Gaetz shared sexual images with colleagues. One video, multiple sources told me, showed a young woman hula-hooping naked. A former Gaetz staffer told me he had watched from the back seat of a van as another aide showed the hula-hooping video to a member of Congress. “Matt sent this to me, and you’re missing out,” the aide had said. (A spokesperson for Gaetz declined to comment for this article, saying that it “contains verifiable errors and laundered rumors” without identifying any. “Be best,” he wrote.)

The investigations seem to have angered and hardened Gaetz. There was a time when he wouldn’t have run away from any reporter. But since the allegations became public, Gaetz has tightened his alliance with the MAGA right, and his rhetoric has grown more cynical. He has become one of the most prominent voices of Trumpian authoritarianism. Warming up the crowd for Donald Trump at the Iowa State Fair last August, Gaetz declared that “only through force do we make any change in a corrupt town like Washington, D.C.”

Gaetz has all the features—prominent brow, bouffant hair, thin-lipped smirk—of an action-movie villain, and at times he’s seemed to cultivate that impression. The second defining event of his time in Congress thus far came in early October, when he filed a motion to kick Kevin McCarthy out of the House speaker’s chair. The motion passed with the help of 208 Democrats and eight Republicans. But not before McCarthy’s allies had each taken a turn at the microphone, defending his leadership and calling Gaetz a selfish, grifting, fake conservative. McCarthy’s supporters had blocked all of the microphones on the Republican side, so Gaetz was forced to sit with the Democrats. A few lawmakers spoke in support of his cause, but mostly Gaetz fought alone: one man against a field of his own teammates.

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Gaetz didn’t seem to mind. He smiled as he took notes on a legal pad. He displayed no alarm at the fact that every set of eyeballs in the chamber was trained on him, many squinted in rage. He was accustomed to the feeling.

Earlier this week, McCarthy lashed out at Gaetz, telling an interviewer that he’d been ousted from the speakership because “one person, a member of Congress, wanted me to stop an ethics complaint because he slept with a 17-year-old, an ethics complaint that started before I ever became speaker. And that’s illegal, and I’m not gonna get in the middle of it. Now, did he do it or not? I don’t know. But Ethics was looking at it. There’s other people in jail because of it. And he wanted me to influence it.”

In response, Gaetz posted on X: “Kevin McCarthy is a liar. That’s why he is no longer speaker.”

F ew items in Gaetz’s biography are more on the nose than the fact that his childhood vacation home—which his family still owns—was the pink-and-yellow-trimmed house along the Gulf of Mexico that was used to film the The Truman Show , the movie about a man whose entire life is a performance for public consumption.

But for most of the year, Gaetz and his family lived near Fort Walton Beach, a part of the Florida Panhandle that’s all white sand and rumbling speed boats—a “redneck riviera,” as one local put it. The area, which now makes up a major part of Gaetz’s congressional district, has a huge military base, and one of the highest concentrations of veterans in the U.S.; it’s also one of the most Republican districts in the country.

If a person’s identity solidifies during adolescence, then Gaetz’s crystallized inside the redbrick walls of Niceville High School. As a teenager, he was chubby, with crooked teeth and acne. He didn’t have many friends. What he did have was the debate team.

“We tolerated him,” more than one former debate-club member said when I asked about Gaetz. (Most of them spoke with me on the condition of anonymity, citing fear of retribution from Gaetz or his father.) Gaetz could be charming and funny, they told me, but he was also arrogant, a know-it-all. “He would pick debates with people over things that didn’t matter, because he just wanted to,” one former teammate said.

Gaetz also liked to flaunt his family’s wealth. For decades, his father, Don Gaetz, ran a hospice company, which he sold in 2004 for almost half a billion dollars. (The company was later sued by the Department of Justice for allegedly filing false Medicare claims; the lawsuit was settled .) Don was the superintendent of the Okaloosa County School District before being elected to the state Senate in 2006, where he became president. He was a founding member and later chair of the powerful Triumph Gulf Coast board, a nonprofit that doles out funds to local development projects; according to some sources, he still has a heavy hand in it. The counties that make up the panhandle, one lobbyist told me, “are owned by the Gaetzes.”

Matt had a credit card in high school, which was relatively rare in the late 1990s, and he bragged about his “real-estate portfolio,” Erin Scot, a former friend of Gaetz’s, told me. “He was obviously much more well off than basically anyone else, or at least wanted us to think he was.” Once, Gaetz got into an argument with a student who had been accepted to the prestigious Dartmouth debate camp, another classmate said. The fight snowballed until Gaetz threatened to have his father, who was on the school board, call Dartmouth and rescind the student’s application.

Gaetz mostly participated in policy debate. Each year, the National Forensic League announced a new policy resolution—strengthening relations with China, promoting renewable energy—and debaters worked in pairs to build a case both for and against it. To win, debaters had to speak louder, faster, and longer than anyone else. During his senior year, Gaetz won a statewide competition. He wasn’t just good at debate, a former teammate told me: “That was who he was.”

Marilynn McGill, his high-school-debate coach, fondly remembers a teenage Gaetz happily pushing a dolly stacked with bins of evidence on and off the L train in Chicago—and another time dodging snowdrifts during a blizzard in Boston. “Matt never complained,” she said. Another year, Gaetz was so eager to attend a tournament in New Orleans that McGill and her husband drove him there with some other debaters in the family RV. “This is the only way to travel, Mr. McGill!” Gaetz shouted from the back.

McGill gushed about her student in our interview. But when I asked what she thought of him now, the former teacher didn’t have much to offer on the record. “He certainly commands the stage still,” she said. “How about that?”

A fter high school, Gaetz went to Florida State University, where he majored in interdisciplinary sciences, continued debating, and got involved in student government. I had difficulty finding people from Gaetz’s college years who were willing to talk with me; I reached out to old friends and didn’t hear back. Gaetz’s own communications team sent over a list of people I could reach out to; only one replied.

During the summer after his freshman year, Gaetz spent a lot of time at home, hanging out with Scot and some other friends from Niceville. Sometimes, Gaetz would drive them out on his motorboat to Crab Island, where they’d cannonball into the clear, shallow water of the Choctawhatchee Bay. Other days, Gaetz would take them mudding in his Jeep. Somewhere around then, Scot told Gaetz that she was gay, and the revelation didn’t faze him. This meant a lot to her.

Still, Gaetz could get on his friends’ nerves. He referred to one of Scot’s female friends on the debate team using the old Seinfeld insult “man hands.” Once, he noticed peach fuzz on a girl’s face and made fun of her behind her back for having a beard. Gaetz would occasionally offer unsolicited advice on how his friends should respond if they were ever pulled over on suspicion of drunk driving: Refuse to take a Breathalyzer test. Chug a beer in front of the officer to make it more difficult to tell if they’d been drinking earlier in the night. It was immature kid stuff, Scot said. “Most of us grew out of it. He made a career of it.”

After graduating from FSU in 2003, Gaetz enrolled at William and Mary Law School in Virginia. Unlike his classmates, who rented apartments with roommates or lived in campus housing, property records show that Gaetz bought a two-story brick Colonial with a grand entranceway and white Grecian columns in the sun room. It was the ultimate bachelor pad: a maze of high-ceilinged rooms for weekend ragers, with a beer-pong table and a kegerator, according to one former law-school acquaintance. Back then, the acquaintance said, Gaetz had a reputation for bragging about his sexual conquests.

The last time Scot saw Gaetz was at a friend’s wedding in March 2009, two years after he’d graduated from law school and one year into what would be a very short-lived gig as an attorney at a private firm in Fort Walton Beach. By that point, Gaetz had already started planning his political career, which would begin, officially, a few months later with a special-election bid for the state House. Also by that point, Gaetz had been arrested on charges of drunk driving after leaving a nightclub on Okaloosa Island called the Swamp. He’d followed his own advice and refused a Breathalyzer test. (Prosecutors ultimately dropped the charges, and Gaetz’s license was reinstated after only a few weeks.)

At the wedding, Scot was eager to catch up with Gaetz. A photo from the night of the rehearsal dinner shows Gaetz, in a cream-colored suit jacket, wrapping his arm around her. She was excited to show him a picture of her girlfriend, whom he’d never met. She says that later, at the bar, Gaetz passed around an image of his own: a cellphone photo of a recent hookup, staring up topless from his bed.

T here used to be a restaurant called the 101 on College Avenue in Tallahassee, just steps from the state capitol. Customer favorites included happy-hour martinis and buffalo-chicken pizza. Gaetz and his buddies in the legislature would hold court there after votes, friends and colleagues from that time told me.

Gaetz had been elected to the state House, after raising almost half a million dollars—including $100,000 of his own money, and support from MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, who had formerly represented the district and was a friend of the Gaetzes. In the general election, Gaetz defeated his Democratic opponent by more than 30 points; he would go on to run unopposed for a full term in 2010, in 2012, and again in 2014.

During this period, a group of young Republican lawmakers partook in what several of my sources referred to as the “Points Game,” which involved earning points for sleeping with women (and which has been previously covered by local outlets). As the journalist Marc Caputo has reported, the scoring system went like this: one point for hooking up with a lobbyist, three points for a fellow legislator, six for a married fellow legislator, and so on. Gaetz and his friends all played the game, at least three people confirmed to me, although none could tell me exactly where Gaetz stood on the scoreboard. (Gaetz has denied creating, having knowledge of, or participating in the game.)

At the time, Don Gaetz was president of the Florida Senate, and the father-and-son pair was referred to, mostly behind their backs but sometimes to their faces, as Daddy Gaetz and Baby Gaetz. The latter had a tendency to barge in on his father’s meetings, hop on the couch, and prop his feet up, Ryan Wiggins, a former political consultant who used to work with Matt Gaetz, told me. Because of their relationship, Matt “had a level of power that was very, very resented in Tallahassee,” she said.

Gaetz wasn’t interested in his father’s traditional, mild-mannered Republicanism, though. Like any good Florida conservative, the younger Gaetz was a devoted gun-rights supporter and a passionate defender of the state’s stand-your-ground law. As chair of the state House’s Finance and Tax Committee, he pushed for a $1 billion statewide-tax-cut package. But Gaetz talked often about wanting the GOP to be more modern: to acknowledge climate change, to get younger people involved. Toward that end, he sometimes forged alliances with Democrats. “If you went and sat down with him one-on-one,” said Steve Schale, a Democratic consultant who worked with Gaetz in the state legislature, “he could be very likable.”

Schale, who had epilepsy as a child, was happy to see Gaetz become one of a handful of Republicans to support the Charlotte’s Web bill, which legalized a cannabis extract for epilepsy treatment. Gaetz also befriended Jared Moskowitz, a Democrat who is Gaetz’s current colleague in Congress, when they worked together to pass a bill strengthening animal-cruelty laws. “You could go into his office and say, ‘Hey man, I think you’re full of shit on that,’” Schale said. “And he’d say, ‘All right, tell me why.’ I kinda liked that.”

Gaetz seemed to relish the sport of politics—the logistics of floor debates and the particulars of parliamentary procedure. He argued down his own colleagues and tore up amendments brought by both parties. Sometimes friends would challenge Gaetz to a game: They’d give him a minute to scan some bill he wasn’t familiar with, one former colleague told me, and then make him riff on it on the House floor.

Gaetz had a knack for calling attention to himself. He would take unpopular positions, sometimes apparently just to make people mad. He was one of two lawmakers to vote against a state bill criminalizing revenge porn. And even when his own Republican colleague proposed reviewing Florida’s stand-your-ground law after the killing of Trayvon Martin, Gaetz said he refused to change “one damn comma” of the legislation.

Plus, “he understood the power of social media before almost anyone else,” Peter Schorsch, a publisher and former political consultant, told me. Gaetz was firing off inflammatory tweets and Facebook posts even in the early days of those apps. All of it was purposeful, by design, the people I spoke with told me—the debating, the tweeting, the attention getting. Gaetz was confident that he was meant for something bigger. “The goal then,” Schorsch said, “was to be where he is now.”

In 2015, while Donald Trump was descending the golden Trump Tower escalator, Gaetz was halfway through his third full term in the Florida House, pondering his next move. His father would retire soon from the Florida Senate, and Gaetz had already announced his intention to run for the seat. But then Jeff Miller, the Republican representative from Gaetz’s hometown district, decided to leave Congress.

Gaetz had endorsed former Florida Governor Jeb Bush in the GOP primary. (“I like action, not just talk. #allinforjeb ,” he’d tweeted in August 2015.) But by March, Bush had dropped out. Left with the choice of Trump, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, or then–Ohio Governor John Kasich, Gaetz embraced the man he said was best suited to disrupt the stale workings of Washington, D.C.

In the same statement announcing he was running for Congress, Gaetz declared that he was #allin for Trump.

A t first, Gaetz was miserable in Congress. Almost a year after being elected, at 34—he’d defeated his Democratic opponent by almost 40 points—Gaetz complained about his predicament to Schale. He’d never dealt with being a freshman member on the backbench. “He hated everything about it,” Schale told me.

In Gaetz’s telling, the money turned him off most. Given the makeup of his district, he wanted to be on the Armed Services Committee. But good committee assignments required donations: When Gaetz asked McCarthy about it, the majority leader advised that he raise $75,000 and send it to the National Republican Congressional Committee, Gaetz wrote in Firebrand . He sent twice that much to the NRCC, he wrote, and made it onto both the Armed Services and the Judiciary Committees. But he claimed to be disgusted by the system.

During those first miserable months, Schale wondered how his colleague would handle his newfound irrelevance. “I would’ve told you he’d do one of two things: He would either retire or he was going to light himself on fire,” Schale told me. “He chose to light himself on fire.”

It can take years to rise up through the ranks of a committee, build trust with colleagues, and start sponsoring legislation to earn the kind of attention and influence that Gaetz craved. He wanted a more direct route. So his team developed a strategy: He would circumvent the traditional path of a freshman lawmaker and speak straight to the American people.

This meant being on television as much as possible. Gaetz went after the most hot-button cultural issue at the time: NFL players kneeling for the anthem. “We used that as our initial hook to start booking media,” one former staff member told me. One of his early appearances was a brief two-question interview with Tucker Carlson. Though Carlson mispronounced his name as “Getts” (it’s pronounced “Gates”), the congressman spoke with a brusque confidence. “Rather than taking a knee, we ought to see professional athletes taking a stand and actually supporting this country,” he said.

From there, the TV invites flooded in. Gaetz would go on any network to talk about anything as long as the broadcast was live and he knew the topic ahead of time. He had become a loud Trump defender—introducing a resolution to force Special Counsel Robert Mueller to resign and even joining an effort to nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. A whiteboard in his office displayed a list of media outlets and two columns of numbers: how many hits Gaetz wanted to do each week at any given outlet and how many he’d already completed. Around his office, he liked to quote from one of his favorite movies, O Brother, Where Art Thou? , in a faux southern accent: “We ain’t one-at-a-timin’ here. We’re mass communicating!’’

Soon, the president was calling. Trump asked Gaetz for policy advice, and suggested ways that Gaetz could highlight the MAGA agenda on television. Sometimes, when the president rang and Gaetz wasn’t near the phone, his aides would sprint around the Capitol complex looking for him, in a race against Trump’s short attention span, another former staffer told me. Gaetz claimed in his book that he once even took a call from Trump while “in the throes of passion.”

With his new influence, Gaetz helped launch Ron DeSantis’s political career . In 2017, he urged Trump to endorse DeSantis for Florida governor. At the time, DeSantis was struggling in the Republican primary, but after receiving Trump’s approval, he shot ahead. DeSantis made Gaetz a top campaign adviser.

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Gaetz would occasionally travel with the president on Air Force One, writing mini briefings or speeches on short notice. Trump was angry when Gaetz voted to limit the president’s powers to take military action, but the two worked it out. “Lincoln had the great General Grant … and I have Matt Gaetz!” Trump told a group of lawmakers at the White House Christmas party in 2019, according to Firebrand .

The two had a genuine relationship, people close to Gaetz told me. From his father, Gaetz had learned to be cunning and competitive. But he was never going to be a country-club Republican. “He’s aspirationally redneck,” said Gaetz’s friend Charles Johnson, a blogger and tech investor who became famous as an alt-right troll. (Johnson once supported Trump but says he now backs Joe Biden.) Trump, despite his wealth and New York upbringing, “is the redneck father Matt never had,” Johnson told me.

HBO’s The Swamp , a documentary that chronicled the efforts of a handful of House Republicans agitating for various reforms, takes viewers behind the scenes of Gaetz’s early months in Congress, when he lived in his office and slept four nights a week on a narrow cot pushed into a converted closet. Gaetz is likable in the documentary, coming off as a cheerful warrior and a political underdog. But the most striking moment is when he answers a call from President Trump, who praises him for some TV hit or other. When Gaetz hangs up the phone, he is beaming. “He’s very happy,” Gaetz tells the camera, before looking away, lost in giddy reflection.

G aetz has positioned himself as a sort of libertarian populist. He’s proposed abolishing the Environmental Protection Agency, but he’s not a climate-change denier, and has supported legislation that would encourage companies to reduce carbon emissions voluntarily. He has consistently opposed American intervention in foreign wars, and he advocates fewer restrictions on marijuana possession and distribution. He still allies himself with Democrats when it’s convenient: He defended a former colleague, Democratic Representative Katie Hill, when she was embroiled in a revenge-porn scandal and forged an unlikely alliance with Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over their desire for a ban on congressional stock trading.

In his book, Gaetz argues that too many members of Congress represent entrenched special interests over regular people, and too much legislation is the result of cozy relationships between lawmakers and lobbyists. In 2020, he announced that he was swearing off all federal PAC money. (It has always been difficult, though, to take Gaetz’s yearning for reform seriously when his political idol is Trump, a man who not only refused to divest from his own business interests as president but who promised to “drain the swamp” before appointing a staggering number of lobbyists to positions in his government).

Gaetz’s personal life began making headlines for the first time in 2020. That summer, the 38-year-old announced, rather suddenly , that he had a “son” named Nestor Galban, a 19-year-old immigrant from Cuba. Gaetz had dated Galban’s older sister May, and when the couple broke up, Galban moved in and had lived with him since around 2013. “Though we share no blood, and no legal paperwork defines our family relationship, he is my son in every sense of the word,” Gaetz wrote in his book.

Later in 2020, Gaetz met a petite blonde named Ginger Luckey at a party at Mar-a-Lago. Luckey, who is 12 years younger than Gaetz, grew up in Long Beach, California, and works for the consultancy giant KPMG. In the early days of their relationship, she was charmingly naive about politics, Gaetz wrote in his book: During one dinner with Fox’s Tucker Carlson, Luckey was excited to discover that Carlson hosted his own show. “What is it about?” she’d asked.

Luckey is hyper-disciplined and extremely type A, “the kind of person who will get you out of bed to work out whether you like it or not,” Johnson said. Luckey tweets about sustainable fashion and avoiding seed oils, and she softens Gaetz’s sharp edges. She longboards and sings—once, she kicked off a Trump book-release party with a delicate rendition of “God Bless America.” Gaetz asked Luckey to marry him in December 2020 on the patio at Mar-a-Lago. When she said yes, Trump sent over a bottle of champagne.

Three months later, in late March 2021, news broke that the Department of Justice was looking into allegations that Gaetz had paid for sex with women in 2018. One claim held that Gaetz’s friend, the Florida tax collector Joel Greenberg, had recruited women online and had sex with them before referring them to Gaetz, who slept with them too. But the most serious allegation was that Gaetz had had sex with a girl under the age of 18, and had flown her to the Bahamas for a vacation. By the time Gaetz proposed to Luckey, the FBI had reportedly confiscated his phone.

Gaetz has denied paying for sex or engaging in sex with a minor. But Greenberg would go on to be charged with a set of federal crimes and ultimately plead guilty to sex trafficking a child. On April 6, The New York Times reported that Gaetz had requested a blanket pardon from the Trump White House in the final weeks of his administration, which was not granted.

Other sordid claims have spilled out since. “He used to walk around the cloakroom showing people porno of him and his latest girlfriend,” one former Republican lawmaker told me. “He’d show me a video, and I’d say, ‘That’s great, Matt.’ Like, what kind of a reaction do you want?” (The video, according to the former lawmaker, showed the hula-hooping woman.) Cassidy Hutchinson, the former Trump White House aide, wrote in her memoir that Gaetz knocked on her cabin door one night during a Camp David retreat and asked Hutchinson to help escort him back to his cabin. (Gaetz has denied this.)

On social media, people called Gaetz a pedophile and a rapist; commenters on Luckey’s Instagram photos demanded to know how she could possibly date him. In many political circles, Gaetz became untouchable. He was “radioactive in Tallahassee,” one prominent Florida Republican official told me, and for a while, he stopped being invited on Fox News. Around this time, DeSantis cut Gaetz out of his inner circle. His wife, Casey, had “told Ron that he was persona non grata,” Schorsch told me. “She hated all the sex stories that came out.” (Others have suggested that Gaetz fell out with DeSantis after a power struggle with the governor’s former chief of staff.) The ongoing House Ethics Committee investigation could have further consequences for Gaetz. The committee may ultimately recommend some kind of punishment for him—whether a formal reprimand, a censure, or even expulsion from Congress—to be voted on by the whole House.

Gaetz’s response to the investigation has been ferocious denial. He has blamed the allegations on a “deep state” plot or part of an “organized criminal extortion” against him. His team blasted out emails accusing the left of “coming” for him. But privately, in the spring of 2021, Gaetz was despondent. He worried that Luckey would call off their engagement. “She’s for sure going to leave me,” Johnson said Gaetz told him in the days after the stories broke.

But Luckey didn’t leave. In a series of TikToks posted that summer, one of her sisters called Gaetz “creepy” and “a literal pedophile.” “My estranged sister is mentally unwell,” Luckey told The Daily Beast in response.

Gaetz and Luckey married in August of 2021, earlier than they’d planned. It was a small ceremony on Catalina Island, off the coast of Los Angeles. On the couple’s one-year anniversary, Luckey posted a picture of the two of them in the sunshine on their wedding day, Luckey in a low-cut white dress and Gaetz in a gray suit. “Power couple!!” then-Representative Madison Cawthorn wrote. Below, someone else commented, “He’s using you girl.”

R ather than cowing him, the allegations seemed to give Gaetz a burst of vengeful energy. He tightened his inner circle and leaned harder than ever into the guerrilla persona he’d begun to develop. No longer welcome in many greenrooms, Gaetz became a regular on Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast before launching a podcast of his own. He set off on an America First Tour with the fellow Trump loyalist Marjorie Taylor Greene. The two traveled state to state, alleging widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election and declaring Trump the rightful president of the United States. People from both parties now viewed Gaetz as a villain. It was as if Gaetz thought, Why not go all in?

Republicans faced disappointing results in the 2022 midterm elections, and by the time January rolled around, their slim House majority meant that each individual member had more leverage. In January 2023, Gaetz took advantage, leading a handful of Republican dissidents in opposing Kevin McCarthy’s ascendance to the speakership. He and his allies forced McCarthy to undergo 14 House votes before they finally gave in on the 15th round. Things were so tense that, at one point, Republican Mike Rogers of Alabama lunged at Gaetz and had to be restrained by another member. But Gaetz had gotten what he’d wanted. Among other concessions, McCarthy had agreed to restore a rule allowing a single member to call for a vote to remove the speaker. It would be McCarthy’s downfall.

In October, Gaetz strode to the front of the House Chamber and formally filed a motion to oust his own conference leader. McCarthy had failed to do enough to curb government spending and oppose the Democrats, Gaetz told reporters. He announced that McCarthy was “the product of a corrupt system.” As a government shutdown loomed, the 41-year-old Florida Republican attempted an aggressive maneuver that had never once been successful in the history of Congress: using a motion to vacate the speaker of the House. Twenty-four hours later, McCarthy was out. Ultimately, the evangelical MAGA-ite Mike Johnson of Louisiana was chosen as the Republicans’ new leader. With the election of Johnson, Gaetz had removed a personal foe, skirted the establishment, and given Trumpism a loud—and legitimate—microphone. “The swamp is on the run,” Gaetz said on War Room . “MAGA is ascendant.” This had been Gaetz’s plan all along, Bannon told me afterward. In January 2023, he had been “setting the trap.” Now he was executing on his vision. Gaetz had ushered in a new “minoritarian vanguardism,” Bannon told me, proudly. “They’ll teach this in textbooks.”

Gaetz has options going forward. If the former president is reelected in November, Gaetz “could very easily serve in the Trump administration,” Charles Johnson told me. But most people think Gaetz’s next move is obvious: He’ll leave Congress and run for governor of Florida in 2026. Even though he’s publicly denied his interest in the job, privately, Gaetz appears to have made his intentions known. “I am 100 percent confident that that is his plan,” one former Florida Republican leader told me. Gaetz looks to be on cruise control until then, committed to making moves that will please the MAGA base and set him up for success in two years.

The Republican field in Florida is full of potential gubernatorial primary candidates. Possible rivals for Gaetz include Representative Byron Donalds, state Attorney General Ashley Moody, and even Casey DeSantis. But in Florida, Gaetz is more famous than all of them, and closer to the white-hot center of the MAGA movement. If he gets Trump’s endorsement, Gaetz could have a real shot at winning the primary and, ultimately, the governor’s mansion.

O n October 24, Mike Johnson spoke at a press conference after being nominated for speaker. He hadn’t been elected yet, but everyone knew he had the votes. Flanked by grinning lawmakers from across the spectrum of his party—Steve Scalise, Elise Stefanik, Lauren Boebert, and Nancy Mace—he promised a “new form of government” that would quickly kick into gear to serve the American people. Johnson’s colleagues applauded when he pledged to stand with Israel, and they booed together, jovially, when a reporter asked about Johnson’s attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Watching on my computer at home, I couldn’t find Gaetz right away. But then the C-SPAN camera zoomed out and there he was, in the back, behind cowboy-hat-wearing John Carter of Texas. I had to squint to see Gaetz. He looked small compared with the others, in his dark suit and slicked-back hair. Once, he stood on his tiptoes to catch a glimpse of the would-be speaker, several rows ahead.

Despite his very central role in Johnson’s rise, Gaetz had been relegated to the far reaches of the gathering, behind several of his colleagues who had strongly opposed removing McCarthy. But Gaetz didn’t seem to mind. He clapped with the rest of them, and even pumped his fist in celebration. Most of the time, his mouth was upturned in a slight smile. He was in the back now, but he wouldn’t be there long.

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As part of his deal with detractors, McCarthy named three conservative rabble rousers — Reps. Chip Roy of Texas, Ralph Norman of South Carolina and Thomas Massie of Kentucky — to the influential Rules Committee, which decides how exactly bills come to the House floor.

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• Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona , a former head of the Freedom Caucus and one of the five so-called Never Kevins , will keep his spots on the powerful Judiciary and Oversight committees. He was also named chairman of Judiciary's subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance. Biggs changed his vote to "present" on the final ballot for speaker, helping push McCarthy over the finish line.
• Rep. Dan Bishop of North Carolina , one of 13 holdouts who flipped to back McCarthy on the 12th ballot, will continue to serve on both the Judiciary and Homeland Security committees. McCarthy also named Bishop to Judiciary's new subcommittee on the "Weaponization of the Federal Government."
• Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado , a vocal McCarthy critic who voted "present" on the 14th and 15th ballots, was awarded a seat on the Oversight and Accountability Committee, which plans to launch numerous investigations into the Biden administration. She will continue to serve on the Natural Resources panel, on which she served in the previous Congress.
• Freshman Rep. Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma , who flipped to McCarthy on the 12th ballot, won seats on the Homeland Security Committee and Budget committees.
• Rep. Mike Cloud of Texas , who also flipped to McCarthy on the 12th ballot, won a new seat on the powerful Appropriations Committee, which controls federal spending. McCarthy also named him to the new select committee investigating the origins of the Covid pandemic.
• Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia , another lawmaker who flipped to McCarthy on the 12th ballot, will serve for the first time on Appropriations.
• Freshman Rep. Eli Crane of Arizona , who voted "present" on the 15th ballot, will serve on the Homeland Security Committee.
• Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida , who was nominated to run against McCarthy for speaker and flipped to him on the 12th ballot, was named by McCarthy as the "speaker's designee" on the influential Steering Committee, which decides which lawmakers get committee gavels and seats. Donalds also won a coveted spot on the Financial Services Committee, a top panel known on Capitol Hill as an "A" committee.
• Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida , perhaps the most vocal McCarthy foe during the speaker fight, who flipped to "present" in the 14th round, will continue to serve on the Judiciary panel and was appointed by McCarthy to the new weaponization subcommittee .
• Rep. Bob Good of Virginia , one of the Never Kevins who flipped to "present" in the last round of voting, will serve on the Budget and Education and Workforce committees.
• Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona , who flipped to McCarthy on the 12th ballot, was reinstated by Republicans on two committees —Oversight and Natural Resources panels — after Democrats removed him two years ago for posting threats to lawmakers on social media. He was named chairman of the Natural Resources subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
• Rep. Andy Harris of Maryland , who flipped to McCarthy on the 13th ballot, will continue to serve on the Appropriations panel. Harris, a physician, will be the chairman of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration subcommittee.
• Freshman Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida , who flipped to McCarthy on the 12th ballot, won a seats on the Oversight and Natural Resources panels.
• Rep. Mary Miller of Illinois , who flipped to McCarthy on the 12th ballot, will remain on the Agriculture Committee.
• Rep. Ralph Norman of South Carolina , one of the Never Kevins who flipped to McCarthy on the 12th ballot, was named by the speaker as one of nine Republicans on the Rules Committee. Norman also will remain on the Financial Services panel, which he joined in June, and will serve on the Budget Committee too.
• Freshman Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee , who flipped to McCarthy on the 12th ballot, also won a seat on Financial Services.
• Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania , the chairman of the far-right House Freedom Caucus who brokered a deal between conservatives and McCarthy, will remain on the Foreign Affairs Committee. A subject of Jan. 6 investigations , Perry won a new seat on the Oversight committee.
• Rep. Matt Rosendale of Montana , a Never Kevin who flipped to "present" on the final ballot, will continue to serve on Natural Resources.
• Rep. Chip Roy of Texas , who along with Perry helped negotiate a deal with McCarthy, was tapped to serve on the Budget committee and the influential Rules Committee. Roy will also keep his seat on the Judiciary panel.
• Freshman Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas , who flipped to McCarthy on the 12th ballot, will serve on the Foreign Affairs panel.
• Rep. Victoria Spartz of Indiana , who flipped from "present" to vote for McCarthy on the 12th ballot, will continue to serve on the Judiciary panel.

In addition to committee assignments, McCarthy had made other concessions to his right flank.

In the package of rules changes McCarthy and the Freedom Caucus negotiated for the 118th Congress was a provision allowing a single lawmaker to force a floor vote to oust McCarthy as speaker. They also agreed to make it harder to raise federal spending, taxes and the debt ceiling, and to create select committees to investigate the Chinese Communist Party and the "weaponization of the federal government."

Some Freedom Caucus members who stuck with McCarthy from the very start also did well for themselves. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., a McCarthy ally whom Democrats stripped of her committee assignments two years ago, won seats on the Oversight and Homeland Security committees.

Meanwhile, Rep. Warren Davidson of Ohio, a Freedom Caucus member who nominated McCarthy on the fifth ballot , was named chairman of the Financial Services subcommittee on Housing and Insurance.

Scott Wong is a senior congressional reporter for NBC News.

Kyle Stewart is a field producer covering Congress for NBC News.

Matt Gaetz lands a spot on Judiciary's new 'weaponization' subcommittee after curious swap by GOP leaders

• Matt Gaetz is now on the Judiciary subcommittee panel he championed during the Speaker vote fight.
• He's replacing Rep. Chip Roy who just landed a spot on the House Budget Committee.
• Gaetz told Insider in late January that he had no interest in serving on the weaponization panel.

Rep. Matt Gaetz has replaced fellow Speaker vote rebel Rep. Chip Roy on the House Judiciary Committee's new "weaponization" panel, landing a spot in what's likely to be the messiest political arena of the 118th Congress after saying he'd rather fade into the background. 

The reassignment puts Gaetz, who spent nearly two years fending off sex trafficking allegations, on the frontlines of a new oversight project designed to eviscerate President Joe Biden, his troubled son Hunter Biden, Biden administration officials, and anyone else House Republicans want to target ahead of the 2024 elections.  

While Roy was on the subcommittee's original roster — a snapshot of the Judiciary committee's website still included him as of Tuesday afternoon — CNN spotted the unceremonious removal in a change made to the Congressional Record . 

A Gaetz aide declined to answer questions about who was responsible for the swap, saying only in an email that the Florida Republican "is honored to serve on the Weaponization Subcommittee and will be working very hard."

Meanwhile, CNN reported that Roy is being added to the House Budget Committee as part of the internal rejiggering.

Roy told Insider the move was an amicable one. 

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"In order to devote adequate time to the Rules, Judiciary and Budget Committees, as well as be a dad and do my job as the Representative of Texas' 21st Congressional District, I was happy to give my spot on the Weaponization Subcommittee to my friend, Matt Gaetz," the three-term lawmaker wrote in an email.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy named the original slate of weaponization panelists in late January, tapping two of the 20 members who dragged out his bid to claim the Speaker's gavel — Reps. Roy and Dan Bishop of North Carolina — to help spearhead the effort.

While Gaetz was also part of that speaker vote rebellion, he initially seemed to emerge with little to show for the procedural showdown .  

When asked if he felt weird about all the other rebels seemingly climbing the ladder, Gaetz told Insider he preferred not to be saddled with more responsibility — proclaiming that he was " making back benching great again. " 

Aides to McCarthy and Jordan didn't immediately respond to requests for comment about the sudden substitution. 

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Updated on: August 21, 2024 / 12:24 AM EDT / CBS News

Washington — Rep. Matt Gaetz, the Florida Republican who led the effort to oust former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy last fall, will easily defeat a McCarthy-linked primary challenger Tuesday, CBS News projects. 

With about 72% of the votes counted, Gaetz was leading challenger Aaron Dimmock, a former Navy officer, by a margin of 71% to 28%. 

"Kevin McCarthy was motivated by revenge and pettiness and I think some very destructive soul searching," Gaetz told CBS News in an interview Tuesday. "I'm on my way to the 119th Congress, and he's on his way to whatever the next stage of grief is."   

In a social media post, Dimmock said it was "was not the result we had hoped for." 

"Running as a first time candidate against a powerful career politician is never easy, but I was honored to have the opportunity to be that alternative," he wrote. 

McCarthy last year became the first person in history to be ousted in a House vote from the speakership after Gaetz moved ahead with a motion to vacate. Joined by all Democrats, just eight Republicans voted to oust McCarthy from the role, but it was enough to remove him from the post. The Republicans cited frustration with his maneuvers to avoid a government shutdown. And a few months later, after a drawn out fight among the GOP to elect a new speaker, the California Republican resigned from the chamber . 

But the McCarthy-Gaetz feud didn't die with McCarthy's speakership.

Gaetz is seeking to hold onto the Sunshine State's 1st Congressional District in the Florida panhandle. The primary is the last in a series of challenges that the former speaker has been linked to in the aftermath of his ouster. 

"Kevin McCarthy's PACs spent over $3 million trying to defeat me and they were unsuccessful," Gaetz said. "So it shows the limits of the corrupt big money in Washington in a place like Northwest Florida where there's a strong connection between me and my voters." 

Earlier this year, Rep. Bob Good, who joined Gaetz' effort to oust McCarthy, narrowly lost his primary in Virginia to a McCarthy-aligned challenger. But McCarthy's other efforts have produced mixed results, with Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina surviving her own McCarthy-backed primary challenge in June. Others who voted to oust the former speaker didn't seek reelection.

For Gaetz, his was the last on McCarthy's so-called revenge tour, which has featured an advertisement blitz by a McCarthy-linked group against the Florida Republican, showcasing allegations against him — including that he paid a minor for sex.

The Justice Department last year declined to charge Gaetz after conducting an investigation into alleged sex trafficking, and Gaetz has denied all allegations against him. But in June, the House Ethics Committee, after speaking with over a dozen witnesses and reviewing thousands of pages of documents, said it has found that some of the allegations against Gaetz merit further review . 

McCarthy has claimed his ouster was due to Gaetz's personal grievances with the former speaker, since he allowed the ethics investigation into Gaetz' alleged conduct to proceed. Gaetz said he doesn't know when the investigation might be completed and accused McCarthy of trying to "smear" him. 

Whatever the reason, their feud was still apparent as recently as the Republican National Convention last month. Gaetz heckled McCarthy during a live interview on the convention floor, saying "if you took that stage, you would get booed off it." McCarthy continued the interview without engaging with Gaetz, describing the person who orchestrated the effort to oust him as having an "ethics complaint about paying, sleeping with a 17-year-old."

Still, entering Tuesday, Gaetz, a close ally of former President Donald Trump, was expected to win the GOP nomination and go on to handily win the general election in the solidly red district in November. But the race could be damaging in the long term for Gaetz, who's widely believed to be courting a 2026 bid for the Florida governor's mansion.

Gaetz said in a social media post on Monday that he has "no plans to run for Governor," saying he likes his current job and wants "to help President Trump in Washington."

"If those plans change, I hope I have opposition as incompetent as these dorks," he added. 

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The house panel is continuing its review of gaetz's conduct, including possible obstruction. the florida republican has denied any wrongdoing., by kyle stewart and scott wong | nbc news • published june 18, 2024 • updated on june 18, 2024 at 12:52 pm.

The House Ethics Committee said Tuesday it is continuing to review several allegations against  Rep. Matt Gaetz , R-Fla., including that he engaged in sexual misconduct and illegal drug use.

The bipartisan panel, which investigates ethics complaints, said in a lengthy statement it is also examining whether Gaetz “accepted improper gifts, dispensed special privileges and favors to individuals with whom he had a personal relationship, and sought to obstruct government investigations of his conduct.”

The committee said it will take no further action regarding allegations that he “shared inappropriate images or videos on the House floor, misused state identification records, converted campaign funds to personal use, and/or accepted a bribe or improper gratuity.”

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Gaetz, a top Donald Trump ally on Capitol Hill, has denied all allegations of wrongdoing. In a  post on X  on Monday night, Gaetz pointed out that past Ethics investigations into him have resulted in "exoneration."

“The House Ethics Committee has closed four probes into me, which emerged from lies intended solely to smear me. Instead of working with me to ban Congressional stock trading, the Ethics Committee is now opening new frivolous investigations. They are doing this to avoid the obvious fact that every investigation into me ends the same way: my exoneration," wrote Gaetz.

Gaetz, who led the successful effort last fall to overthrow then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., blamed the former speaker and his allies who have sought retribution.

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"This is Soviet. Kevin McCarthy showed them the man, and they are now trying to find the crime," Gaetz continued. "I work for Northwest Floridians who won’t be swayed by this nonsense and McCarthy and his goons know it.”

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Even months after his ouster, McCarthy has repeatedly  accused Gaetz  of going after him to stop the ethics investigation.

The Ethics panel first began looking into allegations that Gaetz may have engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use in 2021, when Democrats controlled the House.

The committee is now led by Chairman Michael Guest, R-Miss., who was appointed by McCarthy after he won the speaker's gavel. The panel said Tuesday it has had "difficulty" obtaining information from Gaetz but made its decision to move forward after speaking with more than a dozen witnesses, issuing 25 subpoenas and reviewing thousands of pages of documents.

“Based on its review to date, the Committee has determined that certain of the allegations merit continued review,” the panel said.

The FBI had spent years investigating Gaetz's personal conduct, specifically allegations that he was part of a scheme that led to the sex trafficking of a 17-year-old girl.

But in February 2023, the Justice Department informed Gaetz it was  ending its investigation  without charging him with any crimes. 

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Matt Gaetz ( Republican Party ) is a member of the U.S. House , representing Florida's 1st Congressional District . He assumed office on January 3, 2017. His current term ends on January 3, 2025.

Gaetz ( Republican Party ) is running for re-election to the U.S. House to represent Florida's 1st Congressional District . He is on the ballot in the general election on November 5, 2024 . He advanced from the Republican primary on August 20, 2024 .

During his tenure in Congress, Gaetz has served as a member of the Budget Committee, the Armed Services Committee, and the Judiciary Committee. [1]

• 1 Biography
• 2 2024 battleground election
• 4.1.1 2017-2018
• 4.2.1 2015 legislative session
• 4.2.2 2013-2014
• 4.2.3 2011-2012
• 5.1 Key votes: 118th Congress, 2023
• 5.2 Key votes: Previous sessions of Congress
• 5.3 Key votes: 117th Congress, 2021-2023
• 5.4 Key votes: 116th Congress, 2019-2021
• 5.5 Key votes: 115th Congress, 2017-2018
• 6.1 Filed motion to vacate removing Kevin McCarthy (R) from U.S. House speakership (2023)
• 6.2 Denial of sex trafficking allegations (2021)
• 6.3 Electoral vote certification on January 6-7, 2021
• 6.4 Tested negative for coronavirus on March 10, 2020
• 7 Sponsored legislation
• 8.1.1 Polls
• 8.1.2 Election campaign finance
• 8.1.3 Satellite spending
• 8.1.4 Endorsements
• 9.1.1 Campaign ads
• 10 Notable endorsements
• 11 Campaign finance summary
• 13 See also
• 14 External links
• 15 Footnotes

Gaetz earned his B.S. in social science with concentrations in political science, history, and geography from Florida State University in 2003 and his J.D. from the College of William and Mary in 2007. His professional experience includes working as an attorney with the firm of Keefe, Anchors, Gordon, and Moyle in Fort Walton Beach.

2024 battleground election

Ballotpedia identified the August 20, 2024, Republican primary as a battleground race . The summary below is from our coverage of this election, found here .

Incumbent Matt Gaetz (R) defeated Aaron Dimmock (R) in the Republican primary for Florida's 1st Congressional District on August 20, 2024. Former president Donald Trump (R) endorsed Gaetz in the primary, and former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R) endorsed Dimmock. [2] [3]

Gaetz, who was first elected to Congress in 2016, received national media attention in October 2023 when he filed a motion to remove McCarthy as Speaker of the House , which ultimately became the first successful motion to remove a House speaker in U.S. history. Gaetz was one of eight House Republicans who voted to remove McCarthy as Speaker. [4]

In February 2024, Politico called Gaetz the biggest target in McCarthy allies' campaign to recruit primary challengers to run against the eight House Republicans who voted to remove McCarthy. [5] In July 2024, The New York Times reported that a group connected to a top McCarthy ally had released a television ad attacking Gaetz. [6]

Gaetz responded to McCarthy's endorsement of Dimmock saying, "I whooped Kevin McCarthy in Washington. I don’t think he’s going to fare better when I’m playing home-field advantage in North Florida.” [3]

Before he was elected to Congress, Gaetz served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2010 to 2016 and worked as a lawyer. Gaetz says he supports America First policies, a term often associated with former President Trump and his platform. According to his official website, Gaetz's priorities include national security, veterans’ affairs, and adherence to constitutional principles. [7]

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal shortly after announcing his re-election campaign in June 2024, Gaetz said, "I’m trying to reshape the House in my image,” and described that image as a Republican and a fighter who can "end the wars, shut the border, reduce the spending." [8]

Dimmock, who served in the Navy and worked as a business consultant, described himself as pro-life, pro-Second Amendment, and pro-Trump. In an interview with Fox News, Dimmock said he was running because “The voters in District 1 deserve an alternative and I can bring that alternative, not just with my military service all around the globe but as a person of honor, integrity, and character." [9]

Dimmock said he believed voters are "ready for someone to come in, to move away from the chaos that was started by Matt in the Republican Party, in Congress. And they're ready for an alternative option for change. Someone who's going to represent them duly up on the Hill." [9]

Based on Q2 2024 reports filed with the Federal Election Commission, Gaetz raised $5.4 million and spent $4.2 million and Dimmock raised $295,744 and spent $33,087. To review all the campaign finance figures in full detail, click here .

As of July 9, 2024, The Cook Political Report with Amy Walter and Inside Elections with Nathan Gonzales rated the general election Solid Republican and Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball rated it Safe Republican . In the 2022 general election , Gaetz defeated Rebekah Jones (D) 67.9%-32.1%.

Below is an abbreviated outline of Gaetz's academic, professional, and political career: [10]

• 2017-Present: U.S. Representative from Florida's 1st Congressional District
• 2010-2016: Florida state representative
• 2007: Graduated from William & Mary Law School with a J.D.
• 2003: Graduated from Florida State University in Tallahassee with a B.S.

Committee assignments

Gaetz was assigned to the following committees: [Source]

• Committee on Judiciary
• Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust
• Crime and Federal Government Surveillance
• House Committee on Armed Services
• Cyber, Innovative Technologies, and Information Systems
• Military Personnel
• Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law
• Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet
• Tactical Air and Land Forces
• Cyber, Innovative Technologies and Information Systems

At the beginning of the 115th Congress , Gaetz was assigned to the following committees: [11]

• Committee on Armed Services
• Committee on Budget

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At the beginning of the 2015 legislative session, Gaetz served on the following committees:

At the beginning of the 2013 legislative session, Gaetz served on the following committees:

In the 2011-2012 legislative session, Gaetz served on the following committees:

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Key votes: 118th Congress, 2023

The 118th United States Congress began on January 3, 2023, at which point Republicans held the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives (222-212), and Democrats held the majority in the U.S. Senate (51-49). Joe Biden (D) was the president and Kamala Harris (D) was the vice president. We identified the key votes below using Congress' top-viewed bills list and through marquee coverage of certain votes on Ballotpedia.

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Nay	The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 (H.R. 2670) was a bill passed by the and signed into law by President (D) on December 22, 2023, authorizing activities and programs for fiscal year 2024. The bill required a two-thirds majority vote in the House to pass the bill as amended by a Senate and House conference report.   H.R. 185 (To terminate the requirement imposed by the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for proof of COVID-19 vaccination for foreign travelers, and for other purposes.) was a bill approved by the that sought to nullify a (CDC) order restricting the entry of foreign citizens to the United States unless the individual was vaccinated against the coronavirus or attested they would take public health measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The bill required a simple majority vote in the House.   The Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023 (H.R. 2811) was a bill approved by the that sought to raise the federal debt limit before a June 5, 2023, deadline. The bill also sought to repeal certain green energy tax credits, increase domestic natural gas and oil production, expand work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program, and nullify President 's (D) proposed student loan debt cancellation program. This bill was not taken up in the Senate, and the debt limit was instead raised through the . This bill required a simple majority vote in the House.   H.Con.Res. 9 (Denouncing the horrors of socialism.) was a resolution approved by the denouncing socialism and opposing the implementation of socialist policies in the United States. The resolution required a simple majority vote in the House.   The Lower Energy Costs Act (H.R. 1) was a bill approved by the that sought to increase domestic energy production and exports by increasing the production of oil, natural gas, and coal, reducing permitting restrictions for pipelines, refineries, and other energy projects, and increase the production of minerals used in electronics, among other energy production-related policies. The bill required a simple majority vote in the House.   H.J.Res. 30 (Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Labor relating to "Prudence and Loyalty in Selecting Plan Investments and Exercising Shareholder Rights".) was a joint resolution of disapproval under the terms of the (CRA) passed by the and by President (D) on March 20, 2023. This was Biden's first veto of his presidency. The resolution sought to nullify a rule that amended the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to allow retirement plans to consider certain factors in investment-related decisions. The resolution required a simple majority vote in the House. to read more.   H.J.Res. 7 (Relating to a national emergency declared by the President on March 13, 2020.) was a joint resolution of disapproval under the terms of the (CRA) passed by the and signed into law by President (D) on April 10, 2023. The resolution ended the , which began on March 13, 2020. The resolution required a simple majority vote in the House. to read more.   The (H.R. 3746) was a bill passed by the and signed into law by President (D) on June 3, 2023. The bill raised the federal debt limit until January 2025. The bill also capped non-defense spending in fiscal year 2024, rescinded unspent coronavirus relief funding, rescinded some Internal Revenue Service (IRS) funding, enhanced work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program (TANF), simplified environmental reviews for energy projects, and ended the student loan debt repayment pause in August 2023. The bill required a simple majority vote in the House. to read more.   In January 2023, the held its for Speaker of the House at the start of the . Voting began on January 3, and ended on January 7. Rep. (R-Calif.) was elected speaker of the House in a 216-212 vote during the 15th round of voting. In order to elect a Speaker of the House, a majority of votes cast for a person by name was required. to read more.   H.Res. 757 (Declaring the office of Speaker of the House of Representatives to be vacant.) was a resolution passed by the House of Representatives that removed Rep. (R-Calif.) from his position as Speaker of the House. The resolution required a simple majority vote in the House. to read more.   In October 2023, following Rep. 's (R-Calif.) removal as Speaker of the House, the held for the position. Voting began on October 17 and ended on October 25. Rep. (R-La.) was elected Speaker of the House in a 220-209 vote in the fourth round of voting. In order to elect a Speaker of the House, a majority of votes cast for a person by name was required. to read more.   H.Res. 918 (Directing certain committees to continue their ongoing investigations as part of the existing House of Representatives inquiry into whether sufficient grounds exist for the House of Representatives to exercise its Constitutional power to impeach Joseph Biden, President of the United States of America, and for other purposes.) was a resolution passed by the that formally authorized an into President (D). The inquiry focused on allegations that Biden used his influence as vice president from 2009 to 2017 to improperly profit from his son Hunter Biden's business dealings. The resolution required a simple majority vote in the House. to read more.   H.Res. 878 (Providing for the expulsion of Representative George Santos from the United States House of Representatives.) was a resolution passed by the House of Representatives that removed Rep. (R-N.Y.) from office following a investigation that determined there was substantial evidence that Santos violated the law during his 2020 and 2022 campaigns. The resolution required a simple majority vote in the House. Key votes: Previous sessions of Congress Key votes Key votes: 117th Congress, 2021-2023 The began on January 3, 2021 and ended on January 3, 2023. At the start of the session, Democrats held the majority in the (222-213), and the had a 50-50 makeup. Democrats assumed control of the Senate on January 20, 2021, when President (D) and Vice President (D), who acted as a tie-breaking vote in the chamber, assumed office. We identified the key votes below using and through marquee coverage of certain votes on Ballotpedia. Vote Bill and description Status Nay   The (H.R. 3684) was a federal infrastructure bill passed by the 117th Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden (D) on November 15, 2021. Among other provisions, the bill provided funding for new infrastructure projects and reauthorizations, Amtrak maintenance and development, bridge repair, replacement, and rehabilitation, clean drinking water, high-speed internet, and clean energy transmission and power infrastructure upgrades. The bill required a simple majority vote in the House. to read more.   The (H.R. 1319) was a bill passed by the 117th Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden (D) on March 11, 2021, to provide economic relief in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Key features of the bill included funding for a national vaccination program and response, funding to safely reopen schools, distribution of $1,400 per person in relief payments, and extended unemployment benefits. The bill required a simple majority vote in the House. to read more.   The (H.R. 5376) was a bill passed by the 117th Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden (D) on August 16, 2022, to address climate change, healthcare costs, and tax enforcement. Key features of the bill included a $369 billion investment to address energy security and climate change, an extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies, allowing Medicare to negotiate certain drug prices, a 15% corporate minimum tax, a 1% stock buyback fee, and enhanced Internal Revenue Service (IRS) enforcement, and an estimated $300 billion deficit reduction from 2022-2031. The bill required a simple majority vote in the House. to read more.   The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act (H.R. 3617) was a bill approved by the House of Representatives that sought to decriminalize marijuana, establish studies of legal marijuana sales, tax marijuana imports and production, and establish a process to expunge and review federal marijuana offenses. The bill required a simple majority vote in the House.   The (H.R. 1) was a federal election law and government ethics bill approved by the House of Representatives. The Congressional Research Service said the bill would "expand voter registration (e.g., automatic and same-day registration) and voting access (e.g., vote-by-mail and early voting). It [would also limit] removing voters from voter rolls. ... Further, the bill [would address] campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosure of campaign-related fundraising and spending, requiring additional disclaimers regarding certain political advertising, and establishing an alternative campaign funding system for certain federal offices." The bill required a simple majority vote in the House. to read more.   The Assault Weapons Ban of 2022 (H.R. 1808) was a bill passed by the House of Representatives that sought to criminalize the knowing import, sale, manufacture, transfer, or possession of semiautomatic assault weapons (SAW) or large capacity ammunition feeding devices (LCAFD). The bill made exemptions for grandfathered SAWs and LCAFDs. It required a simple majority vote in the House.   The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 (S. 1605) was a bill passed by the 117th Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden (D) on December 27, 2021, authorizing acitivities and programs for fiscal year 2022. The bill required a simple majority vote in the House.   The James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (H.R. 7776) was a bill passed by the 117th Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden (D) on December 23, 2022, authorizing Department of Defense activities and programs for fiscal year 2023. The bill required a 2/3 majority in the House to suspend rules and pass the bill as amended.   The American Dream and Promise Act of 2021 (H.R. 6) was an immigration bill approved by the House of Representatives that proposed a path to permanent residence status for unauthorized immigrants eligible for Temporary Protected Status or Deferred Enforced Departure, among other immigration-related proposals. The bill required a simple majority vote in the House.   The Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act of 2022 (S. 3373) was a bill passed by the 117th Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden (D) on August 10, 2022, that sought to address healthcare access, the presumption of service-connection, and research, resources, and other matters related to veterans who were exposed to toxic substances during military service. The bill required a simple majority vote in the House.   The Chips and Science Act (H.R. 4346) was a bill approved by the 117th Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden (D) on August 9, 2022, which sought to fund domestic production of semiconductors and authorized various federal science agency programs and activities. The bill required a simple majority vote in the House.   The Women's Health Protection Act of 2021 (H.R. 3755) was a bill passed by the House of Representatives. The bill proposed prohibiting governmental restrictions on the provision of and access to abortion services and prohibiting governments from issuing some other abortion-related restrictions. The bill required a simple majority vote in the House.   The SAFE Banking Act of 2021 (H.R. 1996) was a bill passed by the House of Representatives that proposed prohibiting federal regulators from penalizing banks for providing services to legitimate cannabis-related businesses and defining proceeds from such transactions as not being proceeds from unlawful activity, among other related proposals. Since the House moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill in an expedited process, it required a two-thirds majority vote in the House.   The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 (H.R. 2471) was a bill passed by the 117th Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden (D) on March 15, 2022, providing for the funding of federal agencies for the remainder of 2022, providing funding for activities related to Ukraine, and modifying or establishing various programs. The bill required a simple majority vote in the House.   The Equality Act (H.R. 5) was a bill approved by the House of Representatives that proposed prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity in areas including public accommodations and facilities, education, federal funding, employment, housing, credit, and the jury system, among other related proposals. The bill required a simple majority vote in the House.   The (H.R. 8404) was a bill passed by the 117th Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden (D) on December 13, 2022. The bill codified the recognition of marriages between individuals of the same sex and of different races, ethnicities, or national origins, and provided that the law would not impact religious liberty or conscience protections, or provide grounds to compel nonprofit religious organizations to recognize same-sex marriages. The bill required a simple majority vote in the House. to read more.   The Continuing Appropriations and Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023 (H.R. 6833) was a bill approved by the 117th Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden (D) on September 30, 2022. It provided for some fiscal year 2023 appropriations, supplemental funds for Ukraine, and extended several other programs and authorities. The bill required a simple majority vote in the House.   The Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act (H.R. 7688) was a bill approved by the House of Representatives that sought to prohibit individuals from selling consumer fuels at excessive prices during a proclaimed energy emergency. It would have also required the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether the price of gasoline was being manipulated. The bill required a simple majority vote in the House.   The Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2021 (H.R. 8) was a bill approved by the House of Representatives that sought to prohibit the transfer of firearms between private parties unless a licensed firearm vendor conducted a background check on the recipient. The bill also provided for certain exceptions to this requirement. The bill required a simple majority vote in the House.   The was a federal elections bill approved by the House of Representatives and voted down by the Senate in a failed cloture vote that sought to, among other provisions, make Election Day a public holiday, allow for same-day voter registration, establish minimum early voting periods, and allow absentee voting for any reason, restrict the removal of local election administrators in federal elections, regulate congressional redistricting, expand campaign finance disclosure rules for some organizations, and amend the Voting Rights Act to require some states to obtain clearance from the U.S. Department of Justice before implementing new election laws. The bill required a simple majority vote in the House. to read more.   The (S. 2938) was a firearm regulation and mental health bill passed by the 117th Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden (D) on June 25, 2022. Provisions of the bill included expanding background checks for individuals under the age of 21, providing funding for mental health services, preventing individuals who had been convicted of a domestic violence misdemeanor or felony in dating relationships from purchasing firearms for five years, providing funding for state grants to implement crisis intervention order programs, and providing funding for community-based violence prevention initiatives. The bill required a simple majority vote in the House. to read more.   This was a resolution before the 117th Congress setting forth an saying that (R) incited an insurrection against the government of the United States on January 6, 2021. The House of Representatives approved the article of impeachment, and the Senate adjudged that Trump was not guilty of the charges. The article of impeachment required a simple majority vote in the House. to read more.   The was a bill passed by the 117th Congress in the form of an amendment to a year-end omnibus funding bill that was signed into law by President Joe Biden (D) on December 23, 2022. The bill changed the procedure for counting electoral votes outlined in the Electoral Count Act of 1887. Elements of the bill included specifying that the vice president's role at the joint session of congress to count electoral votes is ministerial, raising the objection threshold at the joint session of congress to count electoral votes to one-fifth of the members of both the House of Representatives and the Senate, identifying governors as the single official responsible for submitting the certificate of ascertainment identifying that state’s electors, and providing for expedited judicial review of certain claims about states' certificates identifying their electors. The bill required a simple majority vote in the House. to read more. Key votes: 116th Congress, 2019-2021 The 116th United States Congress began on January 9, 2019, and ended on January 3, 2021. At the start of the session, Democrats held the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives (235-200), and Republicans held the majority in the U.S. Senate (53-47). Donald Trump (R) was the president and Mike Pence (R) was the vice president. We identified the key votes below using Congress' top-viewed bills list and through marquee coverage of certain votes on Ballotpedia. Vote Bill and description Status Yea   The Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2020 (H.R. 1044) was a bill passed by the House of Representatives seeking to increase the cap on employment-based visas, establish certain rules governing such visas, and impose some additional requirements on employers hiring holders of such visas. The bill required a two-thirds majority vote in the House to suspend the rules and pass the bill as amended.   The HEROES Act (H.R. 6800) was a bill approved by the House of Representatives that sought to address the COVID-19 outbreak by providing $1,200 payments to individuals, extending and expanding the moratorium on some evictions and foreclosures, outlining requirements and establishing finding for contact tracing and COVID-19 testing, providing emergency supplemental appropriations to federal agencies for fiscal year 2020, and eliminating cost-sharing for COVID-19 treatments. This bill required a simple majority vote in the House.   The For the People Act of 2019 (H.R.1) was a bill approved by the House of Representatives that sought to protect election security, revise rules on campaign funding, introduce new provisions related to ethics, establish independent, nonpartisan redistricting commissions, and establish new rules on the release of tax returns for presidential and vice presidential candidates. This bill required a simple majority vote in the House.   The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act (H.R. 748) was a bill passed by the 116th Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump (R) on March 27, 2020, that expanded benefits through the joint federal-state unemployment insurance program during the coronavirus pandemic. The legislation also included $1,200 payments to certain individuals, funding for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, and funds for businesses, hospitals, and state and local governments. This bill required a two-thirds majority vote in the House.   The Equality Act (H.R. 5) was a bill approved by the House Representatives that sought to ban discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity by expanding the definition of establishments that fall under public accomodation and prohibiting the denial of access to a shared facility that is in agreement with an indiviual's gender indenitity. This bill required a simple majority vote in the House.   The Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019 (H.R. 8) was a bill approved by the House that sought to ban firearm transfers between private parties unless a licensed gun dealer, manufacturer, or importer first takes possession of the firearm to conduct a background check. This bill required a simple majority vote in the House.   The American Dream and Promise Act of 2019 (H.R.6) was a bill approved by the House Representatives that sought to protect certain immigrants from removal proceedings and provide a path to permanent resident status by establishing streamlined procedures for permanant residency and canceling removal proceedings against certain qualifed individuals. This bill required a simple majority vote in the House.   The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 (S. 1790) was a bill passed by the 116th Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump (R) on December 20, 2019, setting policies and appropriations for the Department of Defense. Key features of this bill include appropriations for research/development, procurement, military construction, and operation/maintenence, as well as policies for paid family leave, North Korea nuclear sanctions, limiting the use of criminal history in federal hiring and contracting, military housing privatization, and paid family leave for federal personnel. This bill required a simple majority vote in the House.   The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (H.R. 6201) was a bill passed by the 116th Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump (R) on March 18, 2020, addressing the COVID-19 pandemic by increasing access to unemployment benefits and food assistance, increasing funding for Medicaid, providing free testing for COVID-19, and requiring employers to provide paid sick time to employees who cannot work due to COVID-19. The bill required a two-thirds majority vote in the House.   The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act (H.R. 1994) was a bill passed by the House Representatives that sought to change the requirements for employer provided retirement plans, IRAs, and other tax-favored savings accounts by modfying the requirements for things such as loans, lifetime income options, required minimum distributions, the eligibility rules for certain long-term, part-time employees, and nondiscrimination rules. The bill also sought to treat taxable non-tuition fellowship and stipend payments as compensation for the purpose of an IRA, repeal the maximum age for traditional IRA contributions, increase penalties for failing to file tax returns, allow penalty-free withdrawals from retirement plans if a child is born or adopted, and expand the purposes for which qualified tuition programs may be used. This bill required a simple majority vote in the House.   The Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act (H.R. 3) was a bill approved by the House Representatives that sought to address the price of healthcare by requiring the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to negotiate prices for certain drugs, requiring drug manufactures to issue rebates for certain drugs covered under Medicare, requiring drug price transparency from drug manufacturers, expanding Medicare coverage, and providing funds for certain public health programs. This bill required a simple majority vote in the House.   The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (H.R. 1865) was a bill passed by the 116th Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump (R) on December 20, 2019, providing appropriations for federal agencies in fiscal year 2020. This bill required a simple majority vote in the House.   The Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019 (S. 1838) was a bill passed by the 116th Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump (R) on November 27, 2019, directing several federal departments to assess Hong Kong's unique treatment under U.S. law. Key features of the bill include directing the Department of State to report and certify annually to Congress as to whether Hong Kong is sufficiently autonomous from China to justify its unique treatment, and directing the Department of Commerce to report annually to Congress on China's efforts to use Hong Kong to evade U.S. export controls and sanctions. This bill required a two-thirds majority vote in the House.   The MORE Act of 2020 (H.R. 3884) was a bill approved by the House of Representatives that sought to decriminalize marijuana by removing marijuana as a scheduled controlled substance and eliminating criminal penalties for an individual who manufactures, distributes, or possesses marijuana. This bill required a simple majority vote from the House.   The Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2020 (H.R. 6074) was a bill passed by the 116th Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump on March 6, 2020, providing emergency funding to federal agencies in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. Key features of the bill include funding for vaccine research, small business loans, humanitarian assistance to affected foreign countries, emergency preparedness, and grants for public health agencies and organizations. This bill required a two-thirds majority vote in the House to suspend the rules and pass the bill.   The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 (H.J.Res. 31) was a bill passed by the 116th Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump on February 15, 2019, providing approrations for Fiscal Year 2019. This bill required a simple majority vote in the House.   The John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act (S. 47) was a bill passed by the 116th Congress and signed into law by President Doanld Trump on March 12, 2019. This bill sought to set provisions for federal land management and conservation by doing things such as conducting land exchanges and conveyances, establishing programs to respond to wildfires, and extending and reauthorizing wildlife conservation programs. This bill required a two-thirds majority vote in the House.   The William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (H.R. 6395) was a bill passed by the 116th Congress and vetoed by President Donald Trump on December 23, 2020. Congress voted to override Trump's veto, and the bill became law on January 1, 2021. The bill set Department of Defense policies and appropriations for Fiscal Year 2021. Trump vetoed the bill due to disagreement with provisions related to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the renaming of certain military installations, limits on emergency military construction fund usage, and limits on troop withdrawals. This bill required a simple majority vote in the House on passage, and a two-thirds majority vote in the House to override Trump's veto.   The Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019 (S.24) was a bill passed by the 116th Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump on January 16, 2019, that requires federal employees who were furloughed or compelled to work during a lapse in government funding to be compensated for that time. The bill also required those employees to be compensated as soon as the lapse in funding ends, irregardless of official pay date. This bill required a two-thirds majority vote in the House to suspend the rules and pass the bill.   The 2020 impeachment of Donald Trump (R) was a resolution before the 116th Congress to set forth two articles of impeachment saying that Trump abused his power and obstructed congress. The first article was related to allegations that Trump requested the Ukrainian government investigate former Vice President Joe Biden (D) and his son, Hunter Biden, in exchange for aid, and the second was related to Trump's response to the impeachment inquiry. The House of Representatives approved both articles of impeachment, and the Senate adjudged that Trump was not guilty of either charge. The articles of impeachment required a simple majority vote in the House. Key votes: 115th Congress, 2017-2018 Voted Nay on:  Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018 (Conference report) (HR 2) Voted Nay on:  Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018 (HR 2 (second vote)) Voted Yea on:  Securing America’s Future Act of 2018 (HR 4760) Voted Nay on:  Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018 (HR 2) Voted Yea on:  Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (HR 36) Voted Yea on:  Kate's Law (HR 3004) Voted Yea on:  No Sanctuary for Criminals Act (HR 3003) Voted Yea on:  American Health Care Act of 2017 (HR 1628) Voted Yea on:  Department of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Act, 2019 (Conference report) (HR 6157) Voted Yea on:  Energy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 2019 (Conference report) (HR 5895) Voted Yea on:  Department of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Act, 2019 (HR 6157) Voted Yea on:  Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 (HR 5895) Voted Yea on:  Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (S 2155) Voted Nay on:  Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 (HR 1625) Voted Nay on:  The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (HR 1892) Voted Yea on:  Further Extension Of Continuing Appropriations Act, 2018 (HR 1892) Voted Yea on:  Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2018, and for other purposes. (HR 195) Voted Nay on:  Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2018, and for other purposes. (HR 195) Voted Nay on:  Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2018 (HR 1370) Voted Yea on:  Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (HR 1) Voted Nay on:  Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2018, and for other purposes (HJ Res 123) Voted Nay on:  Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2018 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2019 through 2027. (H Con Res 71) Voted Yea on:  Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2018 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2019 through 2027. (H Con Res 71) Voted Yea on:  Make America Secure and Prosperous Appropriations Act, 2018 (HR 3354) Voted Nay on:  Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2017 (Included amendments to suspend the debt ceiling and fund the government) (HR 601) Voted Yea on:  Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2017 (HR 601) Voted Yea on:  Financial CHOICE Act of 2017 (HR 10) Voted Nay on:  Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2017 (HR 244) Voted Yea on:  National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (HR 5515) Voted Yea on:  Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2018 (HR 695) Voted Yea on:  National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018—Conference report (HR 2810) Voted Yea on:  Make America Secure Appropriations Act, 2018 (HR 3219) Voted Yea on:  Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (HR 3364) Voted Yea on:  Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (HR 3180, second vote) Voted Yea on:  Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (HR 3180) Voted Yea on:  National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (HR 2810) Voted Yea on:  Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2017 (HR 1301) Noteworthy events Filed motion to vacate removing kevin mccarthy (r) from u.s. house speakership (2023). On October 2, 2023, Gaetz filed a motion to vacate intended to remove U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) from his position as speaker of the House. The following day, the House voted 216-210 to approve the motion. [108] This was the first successful motion to vacate against a speaker of the House in United States history. [109] Denial of sex trafficking allegations (2021) On March 30, 2021, the New York Times reported that the U.S. Justice Department had opened an investigation into whether Gaetz had violated federal sex trafficking laws. The inquiry focused on whether Gaetz had sex with a 17-year-old girl and paid for travel across state lines with her in 2019. [110] [111] The House Ethics Committee announced on April 9, 2021, that it had opened an investigation into the alleged sexual misconduct. [112] Gaetz denied the allegations, calling them "false." He also stated that "[i]t is verifiably false that I have traveled with a 17-year-old woman." [113] The investigation was part of a larger investigation into former Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg, a friend of Gaetz. Greenberg was indicted in 2020 for charges including sex trafficking, identity theft, and stalking a political opponent. [114] On September 23, 2022, the Washington Post reported that Gaetz was unlikely to be charged in the sex trafficking investigation, as professional prosecutors had recommended against doing so. The Post also stated its reporters were told that "it is rare for such advice to be rejected." [115] Electoral vote certification on January 6-7, 2021 Congress convened a joint session on January 6-7, 2021, to count electoral votes by state and confirm the results of the 2020 presidential election . Gaetz voted against certifying the electoral votes from Arizona and Pennsylvania. The House rejected both objections by a vote of 121-303 for Arizona and 138-282 for Pennsylvania. Tested negative for coronavirus on March 10, 2020 Gaetz announced on March 10, 2020, that he had tested negative for coronavirus following his exposure to an individual at the Conservative Political Action Conference who had tested positive. He had entered self-quarantine the previous day. Gaetz indicated that he intended to remain in quarantine out of an abundance of caution. [116] COVID-19, also known as coronavirus disease 2019 , is the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The first confirmed case of the disease in the United States was announced on January 21, 2020. For more of Ballotpedia's coverage of the coronavirus impact on political and civic life, click here . Sponsored legislation The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table. See also:  Florida's 1st Congressional District election, 2024 Florida's 1st Congressional District election, 2024 (August 20 Republican primary) Florida's 1st Congressional District election, 2024 (August 20 Democratic primary) General election General election for u.s. house florida district 1. Incumbent Matt Gaetz and Gay Valimont are running in the general election for U.S. House Florida District 1 on November 5, 2024. (R) (D)  are . survey. If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Democratic primary election The Democratic primary election was canceled. Gay Valimont advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Florida District 1. Republican primary election Republican primary for u.s. house florida district 1. Incumbent Matt Gaetz defeated Aaron Dimmock in the Republican primary for U.S. House Florida District 1 on August 20, 2024. ✔ 69,524 26,418 are .  Total votes: 95,942 survey. If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Withdrawn or disqualified candidates William McPhillips (R) Todd Jennings (R) Christine Santiago (R) John Mills (R) Polls are conducted with a variety of methodologies and have margins of error or credibility intervals . [117] The Pew Research Center wrote, "A margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points at the 95% confidence level means that if we fielded the same survey 100 times, we would expect the result to be within 3 percentage points of the true population value 95 of those times." [118] For tips on reading polls from FiveThirtyEight , click here . For tips from Pew, click here . The links below show polls for this race aggregated by FiveThirtyEight and RealClearPolitics , where available. Click here to read about FiveThirtyEight' s criteria for including polls in its aggregation. FiveThirtyEight Election campaign finance Name Party Receipts* Disbursements** Cash on hand Date Republican Party $5,686,455 $5,115,274 $1,140,615 As of July 31, 2024 Republican Party $347,675 $189,582 $158,093 As of July 31, 2024 Source: , "Campaign finance data," 2024. This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC). * , "Receipts are anything of value (money, goods, services or property) received by a political committee." ** , a disbursement "is a purchase, payment, distribution, loan, advance, deposit or gift of money or anything of value to influence a federal election," plus other kinds of payments not made to influence a federal election. Satellite spending Satellite spending describes political spending not controlled by candidates or their campaigns; that is, any political expenditures made by groups or individuals that are not directly affiliated with a candidate. This includes spending by political party committees, super PACs , trade associations, and 501(c)(4) nonprofit groups . [119] [120] [121] If available, this section includes links to online resources tracking satellite spending in this election. To notify us of a resource to add, email us . By candidate By election Endorsements Gaetz received the following endorsements. To send us additional endorsements, click here . Former President Donald Trump (Republican Party, Conservative Party) Veterans for America First Gaetz signed the following pledges. To send us additional pledges, click here . Taxpayer Protection Pledge, Americans for Tax Reform See also:  Florida's 1st Congressional District election, 2022 Incumbent Matt Gaetz defeated Rebekah Jones in the general election for U.S. House Florida District 1 on November 8, 2022. ✔ (R) 197,349 (D)  93,467 are . The results have been certified.  Total votes: 290,816 survey. If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Democratic primary for U.S. House Florida District 1 Rebekah Jones defeated Margaret Schiller in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Florida District 1 on August 23, 2022. ✔   21,875   13,091 There were no in this race. The results have been certified.  Total votes: 34,966 survey. If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Incumbent Matt Gaetz defeated Mark Lombardo and Greg Merk in the Republican primary for U.S. House Florida District 1 on August 23, 2022. ✔ 73,374 25,720 6,170 are . The results have been certified.  Total votes: 105,264 survey. If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Jeremy Kelly (R) Bryan Jones (R) See also:  Florida's 1st Congressional District election, 2020 Florida's 1st Congressional District election, 2020 (August 18 Republican primary) Florida's 1st Congressional District election, 2020 (August 18 Democratic primary) Incumbent Matt Gaetz defeated Phil Ehr and Albert Oram in the general election for U.S. House Florida District 1 on November 3, 2020. ✔ (R) 283,352 (D)  149,172 (No Party Affiliation)  6,038 are . The results have been certified.  Total votes: 438,562 survey. If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? The Democratic primary election was canceled. Phil Ehr advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Florida District 1. Cheryl Howard (D) Incumbent Matt Gaetz defeated John Mills and Greg Merk in the Republican primary for U.S. House Florida District 1 on August 18, 2020. ✔ 87,457 10,383   10,227 are . The results have been certified.  Total votes: 108,067 (100.00% precincts reporting) survey. If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Chase Anderson Romagnano (R) Emily Rosas (R) Incumbent Matt Gaetz defeated Jennifer Zimmerman in the general election for U.S. House Florida District 1 on November 6, 2018. ✔ (R) 216,189 (D)  106,199 are . The results have been certified.  Total votes: 322,388 (100.00% precincts reporting) survey. If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Jennifer Zimmerman defeated Phil Ehr in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Florida District 1 on August 28, 2018. ✔   22,422   14,650 There were no in this race. The results have been certified.  Total votes: 37,072 survey. If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Incumbent Matt Gaetz defeated Cris Dosev and John Mills in the Republican primary for U.S. House Florida District 1 on August 28, 2018. ✔ 65,203 30,433 4,992 are . The results have been certified.  Total votes: 100,628 survey. If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Heading into the election, Ballotpedia rated this race as safely Republican. Incumbent Jeff Miller did not seek re-election in 2016. Matt Gaetz (R) defeated Steven Specht (D) in the general election on November 8, 2016. Gaetz defeated Brian Frazier , James Zumwalt , Rebekah Johansen Bydlak , Cris Dosev , Mark Wichern , and Greg Evers in the Republican primary on August 30, 2016. [122] [123] Party Candidate Vote % Votes      Republican 69.1% 255,107      Democratic Steven Specht 30.9% 114,079 Candidate Vote % Votes 36.1% 35,689 Greg Evers 21.8% 21,540 Cris Dosev 20.9% 20,610 Rebekah Bydlak 7.8% 7,689 James Zumwalt 7.8% 7,660 Brian Frazier 3.9% 3,817 Mark Wichern 1.8% 1,798 Elections for the Florida House of Representatives took place in 2014. A primary election took place on August 26, 2014. The general election was held on November 4, 2014 . The signature filing deadline for candidates wishing to run in this election was June 20, 2014. Incumbent Matt Gaetz was unopposed in the Republican primary and was unchallenged in the general election. [124] [125] Gaetz won election in the 2012 election for Florida House of Representatives District 4. Gaetz ran unopposed in the Republican primary on August 14, 2012, and was unchallenged in the general election, which took place on November 6, 2012. [126] Gaetz won re-election to the 4th District seat in 2010. He had no opposition in the August 24th primary or the general election, which took place on November 2, 2010. [127] Campaign themes Ballotpedia survey responses. See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection Matt Gaetz has not yet completed Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey. Send a message to Matt Gaetz asking him to fill out the survey . 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The following issues were listed on Gaetz's campaign website. For a full list of campaign themes, click here . : When it comes to protecting our right to bear arms, there has been no greater champion than Matt. Marion Hammer, past President of the NRA, has called Matt “one of the most pro-gun members of the Florida Legislature.” Matt successfully sponsored legislation banning local governments from infringing on our 2nd Amendment rights, and led the fight to bring Open Carry to Florida. When many across the nation called for the repeal of Florida’s Stand Your Ground Law, Matt led the fight to keep the law in place and preserve our right to defend our homes and families. : Northwest Florida is privileged to have bases such as Eglin AFB and Pensacola NAS, and we owe our freedom to the brave men and women that serve there. Matt successfully sponsored legislation protecting the identities of service members and their families from groups like ISIS who have published their information to create “hit lists” of military personnel. He also co-sponsored the Florida GI Bill, offering veterans hiring preferences and in-state college tuition. : Illegal immigration poses a serious threat to both our national and economic security. Matt has opposed any form of amnesty, fought cash welfare payments for illegal immigrants and voted against offering them in-state college tuition, even when other Republicans supported it. : Matt is 100% pro-life and has always been a voice for those without one. He successfully sponsored legislation to ban taxpayer-funded abortions under Obamacare and prohibited state money from going to abortion centers. Matt also fought to require ultrasounds and 24-hour waiting periods before abortions can be performed. In Congress, Matt will vote to defund Planned Parenthood and hold them accountable for the atrocious acts they commit. : Washington’s out of control spending has put our nation in trillions of dollars of debt and can only be stopped if we pass a balanced budget amendment right away. Matt has voted to balance the state’s budget every year and knows it can be done by cutting spending and reforming entitlements. ” Notable endorsements This section displays endorsements this individual made in elections within Ballotpedia's coverage scope . Lost PrimaryAdvanced in ConventionLost PrimaryLost Primary RunoffWithdrew in PrimaryLost Primary Notable candidate endorsements by Matt Gaetz Endorsee Election Stage Outcome   (R) Primary   (R) Primary   (R) Primary   Primary   (R) Primary   (R) Primary   (R) Primary Won General Notable ballot measure endorsements by Matt Gaetz Measure Position Outcome   Oppose On the ballot Campaign finance summary Matt Gaetz campaign contribution history Year Office Status Contributions Expenditures 2024* U.S. House Florida District 1 On the Ballot general $5,686,455 $5,115,274 2022 U.S. House Florida District 1 Won general $6,727,002 $7,763,393 2020 U.S. House Florida District 1 Won general $6,066,373 $4,602,509 2018 U.S. House Florida District 1 Won general $1,347,178 $1,264,157 2016 U.S. House, Florida District 1 Won $1,113,749 N/A** 2014 Florida House of Representatives, District 4 Won $34,750 N/A** 2012 Florida State House, District 4 Won $169,272 N/A** 2010 Florida State House, District 4 Won $16,255 N/A** A scorecard evaluates a legislator’s voting record. 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Americans for Prosperity Florida Associated Industries of Florida Florida Chamber of Commerce Florida Family Action Florida Health Care Association: House and Senate Fund Education Now Liberty First Network National Federation of Independent Business The American Conservative Union To view all the scorecards we found for this legislator in 2015, click [show].    In 2015, the was in session from March 3 through May 1. To view all the scorecards we found for this legislator in 2014, click [show].    In 2014, the was in session from March 3 through May 5. To view all the scorecards we found for this legislator in 2013, click [show].    In 2013, the was in session from March 5 through May 3. 2024 Elections Newsletters External links Search Google News for this topic ↑ House.gov, "Congressman Matt Gaetz," accessed January 31, 2019 ↑ Truth Social , "Trump on Truth Social,"May 26, 2024 ↑ 3.0 3.1 Politico, "McCarthy vs. Gaetz: The GOP’s never-ending feud," May 8, 2024 ↑ Pensacola News Journal, "2024 elections: Gaetz draws GOP challenger and Ginger Bowden Madden re-elected to SAO," April 27, 2024 ↑ Politico, "Inside Kevin McCarthy’s vengeance operation against the Republicans who fired him," February 1, 2024 ↑ The New York Times , "McCarthy’s Revenge Tour Rolls On, With Mixed Results," July 7, 2024 ↑ Matt Gaetz Official Website , "About," accessed June 25, 2024 ↑ Wall Street Journal , "Matt Gaetz Hits the Road to Reshape the Republican Party" June 23, 2024 ↑ 9.0 9.1 Fox News , "Navy veteran challenging Matt Gaetz's House seat," June 24, 2024 ] ↑ Biographical Directory of the United States Congress , "GAETZ, Matthew L. II, (1982 - )," accessed January 13, 2017 ↑ U.S. House Clerk , ""Official Alphabetical List of the House of Representatives of the United States One Hundred Fifteenth Congress,"" accessed February 2, 2017 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.2670 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024," accessed February 23, 2024 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.185 - To terminate the requirement imposed by the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for proof of COVID-19 vaccination for foreign travelers, and for other purposes." accessed February 23, 2024 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.2811 - Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023," accessed February 23, 2024 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.Con.Res.9 - Denouncing the horrors of socialism." accessed February 23, 2024 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.1 - Lower Energy Costs Act," accessed February 23, 2024 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.J.Res.30 - Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Labor relating to 'Prudence and Loyalty in Selecting Plan Investments and Exercising Shareholder Rights'." accessed February 23, 2024 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.J.Res.7 - Relating to a national emergency declared by the President on March 13, 2020." accessed February 23, 2024 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.3746 - Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023," accessed February 23, 2024 ↑ Congress.gov , "Roll Call 20," accessed February 23, 2024 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.Res.757 - Declaring the office of Speaker of the House of Representatives to be vacant.," accessed February 23, 2024 ↑ Congress.gov , "Roll Call 527," accessed February 23, 2024 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.Res.757 - Declaring the office of Speaker of the House of Representatives to be vacant." accessed February 23, 2024 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.Res.878 - Providing for the expulsion of Representative George Santos from the United States House of Representatives." accessed February 23, 2024 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.3684 - Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act," accessed April 15, 2022 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.1319 - American Rescue Plan Act of 2021," accessed April 15, 2022 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.5376 - Inflation Reduction Act of 2022," accessed January 20, 2023 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.3617 - Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act," accessed January 20, 2023 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021," accessed April 15, 2022 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.1808 - Assault Weapons Ban of 2022," accessed January 20, 2023 ↑ Congress.gov , "S.1605 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022," accessed April 15, 2022 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.7776 - James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023," accessed January 20, 2023 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.6 - American Dream and Promise Act of 2021," accessed April 15, 2022 ↑ Congress.gov , "S.3373 - Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act of 2022," accessed January 20, 2023 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.4346 - Chips and Science Act," accessed January 20, 2023 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.3755 - Women's Health Protection Act of 2021," accessed April 15, 2022 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.1996 - SAFE Banking Act of 2021," accessed April 15, 2022 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.2471 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022," accessed January 20, 2023 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.5 - Equality Act," accessed April 15, 2022 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.8404 - Respect for Marriage Act," accessed January 20, 2023 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.6833 - Continuing Appropriations and Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023," accessed January 20, 2023 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.7688 - Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act," accessed January 20, 2023 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.8 - Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2021," accessed January 20, 2023 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.5746 - Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act," accessed January 20, 2023 ↑ Congress.gov , "S.2938 - Bipartisan Safer Communities Act," accessed January 20, 2023 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.Res.24 - Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.," accessed April 15, 2022 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.2617 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023," accessed January 20, 2023 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.1044 - Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2020," accessed March 22, 2024 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.6800 - The Heroes Act," accessed April 23, 2024 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2019," accessed April 23, 2024 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.748 - CARES Act," accessed April 23, 2024 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.5 - Equality Act," accessed April 23, 2024 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.8 - Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019," accessed April 23, 2024 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.6 - American Dream and Promise Act of 2019," accessed April 27, 2024 ↑ Congress.gov , "S.1790 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020," accessed April 27, 2024 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.6201 - Families First Coronavirus Response Act," accessed April 24, 2024 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.1994 - Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019," accessed April 27, 2024 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.3 - Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act," accessed March 22, 2024 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.1865 - Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020," accessed April 27, 2024 ↑ Congress.gov , "S.1838 - Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019," accessed April 27, 2024 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.3884 - MORE Act of 2020," accessed April 27, 2024 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.6074 - Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2020," accessed April 27, 2024 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.J.Res.31 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019," accessed April 27, 2024 ↑ Congress.gov , "S.47 - John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act," accessed April 27, 2024 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.6395 - William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021," accessed April 27, 2024 ↑ Congress.gov , "S.24 - Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019," accessed April 27, 2024 ↑ Congress.gov , "H.Res.755 - Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors," accessed April 27, 2024 ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results for Roll Call 434," accessed December 13, 2018 ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 284," June 21, 2018 ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 282," June 21, 2018 ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results for Roll Call 434," accessed March 12, 2019 ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 549," October 3, 2017 ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 344," June 29, 2017 ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 342," June 29, 2017 ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 256," May 4, 2017 ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 405," September 26, 2018 ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 399," September 13, 2018 ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 313," June 28, 2018 ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 257," June 8, 2018 ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 216," May 22, 2018 ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 127," March 22, 2018 ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 69," February 9, 2018 ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 60," February 6, 2018 ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 44," January 22, 2018 ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 33," January 18, 2018 ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 708," December 21, 2017 ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 692," December 19, 2017 ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 670," December 7, 2017 ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 637," November 16, 2017 ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 589," October 26, 2017 ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 557," October 5, 2017 ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 528," September 14, 2017 ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 480," September 8, 2017 ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 441," September 6, 2017 ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 299," June 8, 2017 ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 249," May 3, 2017 ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 230," May 24, 2018 ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 49," January 30, 2018 ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 631," November 14, 2017 ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 435," July 27, 2017 ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 413," July 25, 2017 ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 437," July 28, 2017 ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 407," July 24, 2017 ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 378," July 14, 2017 ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results for Roll Call 136," March 8, 2017 ↑ C-SPAN , "House Session, Part 2," October 3, 2023 ↑ ABC News , "Has an effort to remove a House speaker ever succeeded? History says no," October 3, 2023 ↑ The New York Times, "The Matt Gaetz Investigation: What We Know," April 2, 2021 ↑ Orlando Sentinel, "Sex trafficking probe of Rep. Matt Gaetz emerges from Joel Greenberg prosecution: report," March 30, 2021 ↑ NPR, "House Ethics Committee Investigating GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz Of Florida," April 9, 2021 ↑ The New York Times, "Matt Gaetz Is Said to Face Justice Dept. Inquiry Over Sex With an Underage Girl," March 30, 2021 ↑ The Orlando Sentinel, "Federal judge schedules Joel Greenberg trial for June," January 25, 2021 ↑ The Washington Post, "Career prosecutors recommend no charges for Gaetz in sex-trafficking probe," September 23, 2022 ↑ CNBC , "GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz says he tested negative for coronavirus, will stay quarantined after contact with Trump," March 10, 2020 ↑ For more information on the difference between margins of error and credibility intervals, see explanations from the American Association for Public Opinion Research and Ipsos . ↑ Pew Research Center , "5 key things to know about the margin of error in election polls," September 8, 2016 ↑ OpenSecrets.org , "Outside Spending," accessed December 12, 2021 ↑ OpenSecrets.org , "Total Outside Spending by Election Cycle, All Groups," accessed December 12, 2021 ↑ National Review.com , "Why the Media Hate Super PACs," December 12, 2021 ↑ Florida Department of State , "Candidate Listing for 2016 General Election," accessed June 25, 2016 ↑ Politico , " Florida House Races Results," August 30, 2016 ↑ Florida Division of Elections , "2014 Florida Election Watch - Multi-County or District Offices," accessed September 3, 2014 ↑ Florida Division of Elections , "Candidate Listing for 2014 General Election," accessed June 23, 2014 ↑ Florida Secretary of State Election Division , "Candidate List," accessed June 21, 2012 ↑ Florida Department of Elections , "November 2, 2010, Election Results," accessed April 21, 2014 ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. 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They include some House members who sided against Rep. Kevin McCarthy through his campaign for Speaker of the House, per NBC News . What committee assignments did these House Republicans get? George Santos (New York): The first-term congressman was assigned to the Small Business Committee, as well as the Science, Space and Technology committee. According to The New York Times , these assignments are not favored seats, nor were they ones he had his eye on. His place in the Small Business Committee comes as he faces criticism for lying about his previous business and employment history and fields questions about his current business, the Devolder Organization. Lauren Boebert (Colorado): In addition to continuing her service on the Natural Resources panel, Boebert will also join the Oversight and Accountability Committee, per NBC News . According to The Washington Post , her assignments come just over a year after a slew of Congress members moved to strip her of past assignments due to repeated “anti-Muslim” comments. Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar is among the group of representatives that McCarthy has expressed he wants to strip of their committee assignments this time around, per CNN . Marjorie Taylor Greene (Georgia): After her past removal from committees over so-called incendiary comments and spreading QAnon’s misinformation, Greene has been awarded a seat on the House Homeland Security Committee and the Oversight Committee. According to CNN , the committee may help impeaching Alejandro Mayorkas from his position as Homeland Security Secretary. Matt Gaetz (Florida): Gaetz will continue his service on the House Judiciary Committee, per NBC News . He was one of McCarthy’s most vocal opponents and merely voted “present” in the 14th round of votes. Paul Gosar (Arizona): Like Greene, Gosar was also stripped of his committee positions in the last Congress due to threatening fellow lawmakers over social media. According to NBC New s, he was awarded seats on the Oversight Committee and the Natural Resources Panel. He voted for McCarthy on the 12th round of votes. What are people saying about their assignments? These assignments have incited outrage across the internet, with many slamming the House GOP for their decisions. As the former Vice Chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, I’m HORRIFIED that it was just announced that Marjorie Taylor Greene will serve on the committee. A QAnon conspiracy theorist + Jan 6 insurrectionist doesn’t belong on a committee that exists to fight extremism. — Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres) January 17, 2023 This is who Kevin McCarthy thinks is qualified to serve on the HOMELAND SECURITY Committee #NotTheOnion pic.twitter.com/4iAPqOG8mU — Eric Swalwell (@ericswalwell) January 17, 2023 I spent 22 years as a Broadcast Meteorologist communicating severe weather & climate. Could someone explain to me why George Santos is qualified to be on the science committee, let alone be in Congress? — Eric Sorensen (@ERICSORENSEN) January 18, 2023 Others have voiced support for the new committee members. Rep. Barry Loudermilk, a member of the GOP steering committee, on the distinction between Steve King losing his committee assignments and Santos getting his pic.twitter.com/0OmbAOBWFK — Manu Raju (@mkraju) January 18, 2023 Congratulations. I think they chose the right person for the job. We have faith in you. — Angie Koons (@koons_angie) January 18, 2023 Love this woman!!! Marjorie Taylor Greene Gets Amazing News After She Scores Two Important Committee Seats https://t.co/fEzRgpVLYx — Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) January 18, 2023 National Security Environment Special Investigations More Ways to Donate Impact & Reports Join Newsletter Become a Source © THE INTERCEPT ALL RIGHTS RESERVED What Matt Gaetz and AOC Talked About During Kevin McCarthy’s Speaker Vote Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Matt Gaetz wanted to know if Democrats would bail out the would-be Republican speaker. Not a chance, she told him. Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share on WhatsApp Opponents of  Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s bid for the House speakership are digging in after a tense discussion on the House floor between Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. The pair’s conspicuous exchange in the back of the chamber on the first day of the 118th Congress was caught on C-SPAN — and noted by many members in the building. Thanks to Gaetz and his far-right allies, McCarthy, a California Republican, failed to win the speakership on the first round of voting. Gaetz told Ocasio-Cortez that McCarthy has been telling Republicans that he’ll be able to cut a deal with Democrats to vote present, enabling him to win a majority of those present and voting, according to Ocasio-Cortez. She told Gaetz that wasn’t happening, and also double-checked with Democratic party leadership, confirming there’d be no side deal. What happened here? Can anyone read lips? pic.twitter.com/r7PR3Srcyg — MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) January 3, 2023 “McCarthy was suggesting he could get Dems to walk away to lower his threshold,” Ocasio-Cortez told The Intercept of her conversation with Gaetz on McCarthy’s failed ploy. “And I fact checked and said absolutely not.” Democratic Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York won all 212 of his party’s votes, a show of unity that, if it holds, requires McCarthy to win over all but four of his colleagues. Gaetz, who has shown a willingness to break with the GOP establishment, said that his crew of McCarthy opponents was dug in and would continue to resist him, adding that McCarthy has been threatening opponents with loss of committee assignments. A private gathering of Republicans ahead of the vote had been heated, multiple sources said. (Gaetz did not immediately respond to a request for comment.) McCarthy and Gaetz presented their positions in dueling press conferences Tuesday morning. McCarthy said that Gaetz and his allies had requested plum committee assignments in exchange for supporting his speaker bid. McCarthy also accused Gaetz of telling Republican members that he was willing to elect Jeffries as speaker rather than accede to McCarthy. Gaetz told reporters that he and his allies didn’t trust McCarthy. Join Our Newsletter Original reporting. fearless journalism. delivered to you.. Ahead of the second round of voting, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who won six votes for speaker in the first round, nominated McCarthy again. Then Gaetz rose and nominated Jordan. All 19 McCarthy opponents voted for Jordan in the second round, leaving McCarthy again at 203 votes — 15 short of what he needed. Rep. Paul Gosar , R-Ariz. another McCarthy opponent, also huddled with Ocasio-Cortez in the chamber, where they discussed the possibility of adjourning the House. (Gosar did not immediately respond to a request for comment.) In the first round, McCarthy won just 203 votes, losing 19 of his colleagues. McCarthy has been insistent on remaining in session, as have his opponents. Adjourning without choosing a speaker would be embarrassing to Republicans but might also give time for McCarthy to break the opposition one by one. Ocasio-Cortez was noncommittal on the tack, as an adjournment strategy would require party leadership. Contact the author: AOC and Mo Mitchell on the Midterms AOC: The New York State Democratic Party’s Corruption May Have Cost Democrats the House Conservatives Only Care About the Incarcerated When It Comes to the Capitol Rioters GOP Lawmaker Who Voted Against Paid Sick Leave in Florida Takes Paid Leave From Congress Latest stories. Harris Will Continue to Ignore U.S. Law and Arm Israel, If Elected Jonah Valdez In her first major TV interview during her campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris signaled no change from Biden on Israel policy. Why Is a Dem-Aligned Political Shop Making RFK Jr. Ads? Shawn Musgrave Videos leaked to The Intercept include both “Stand With Kennedy” and “Stand Against Robert F. Kennedy Jr.” campaign spots. Israel’s War on Gaza Columbia Cuts Due Process for Student Protesters After Congress Demands Harsher Punishment After congressional criticism and subpoenas, Columbia suddenly decided to skip speaking to student protesters and go to hearings. Gaetz appointed committee assignments by Kristie Henderson (WEAR) — Representative Matt Gaetz now has his committee assignments on Capitol Hill. House Speaker Paul Ryan appointed Gaetz to the House Armed Services and the House Budget Committees. The Armed Services Committee sets policy and provides oversight for the defense department. That puts him in a good position to look out for military bases here at home. The House Budge Committee came with special instructions to ensure the military is properly funded. Congressman Gaetz has served on the House Judiciary Committee since the 115th Congress. His work defending President Trump on the House Judiciary Committee has earned him the title of "Absolute Warrior." This standing committee was established in 1813 by the House of Representatives and has since expanded its role from strictly judicial legislative matters to "the administration of justice in federal courts, administrative bodies, and law enforcement agencies. courts, law enforcement agencies." (Source: judiciary.house.gov.) More on Judiciary Congressman Matt Gaetz questions FBI Director Christopher Wray on the FBI's knowledge of the COVID-19 origins after agents followed and questioned Wuhan lab whistleblower Dr. Li Meng-Yan. (House Judiciary Committee, 06/10/2021) "I'm hopeful that the Department of Justice will take the information that we learned yesterday and aggressively pursue antitrust litigation against companies like Google so we can get transparency into the processes that have been so unfair to conservatives." Article by Sholom Schreirber July 30th, 2020 Edited by TJV- Video Clips Breitbart The opening statement House Judiciary Committee ranking member Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) said during an antitrust hearing on Wednesday that big tech companies are "out to get conservatives," citing Google purging Breitbart News from its search results. Article by Steve Ahle July 30th, 2020 Rep Matt Gaetz called out Sundar Pichai for Google's censorship of conservative sites like the Gateway Pundit, Breitbart News, Western Journal,American Spectator and the Daily Caller. The Gateway Pundit days their reach was reduced by 93% and Breitbart News puts their loss at 99.7% or almost 100% for you liberals out there. Article by Sandy Fitzgerald July 30th, 2020 Rep. Matt Gaetz said Thursday that he is "excited" that Democrats and Republicans appear to want to work together on pushing back against the nation's big technology companies and their hold on the United States when CEOs from Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon testified before Congress Wednesday. Article by Joe Hoft July 29th, 2020 Representative Matt Gaetz called out Google for censoring conservative news sites like the Gateway Pundit, Daily Caller, Breitbart, Western Journal and the American Spectator. Article by Tyler O'Neil July 29th, 2020 Article by Avery Hartmans July 30th, 2020 Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos crumpled under questioning at the hands of Rep. Allowing our federal buildings and properties to be overrun by Antifa will not stop the violence. It would just inspire more violence. 426 IMAGES Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) on committee assignments, new abortion legislation MTG Claps Back At Matt Gaetz Over Committee Assignments [Local] House Ethics Committee opens Gaetz investigation McCarthy Says Gaetz Would Be Stripped Of Committee Assignments If Sex What the 21 McCarthy holdouts got in committee assignments COMMENTS Committees and Caucuses Congressional Reformers Caucus. Congressional SOCOM (Special Operations Command) Caucus. Congressional Soils Caucus. House Hypersonics Caucus. Roosevelt Conservation Caucus. Armed Services Committee Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee on Cyber, Innovative Technologies, and Information Systems. Matt Gaetz Is Winning But good committee assignments required donations: When Gaetz asked McCarthy about it, the majority leader advised that he raise $75,000 and send it to the National Republican Congressional ... Matt Gaetz Matthew Louis Gaetz II (/ ɡ eɪ t s / GATES; born May 7, 1982) is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the U.S. representative for Florida's 1st congressional district since 2017. The district includes all of Escambia, Okaloosa, and Santa Rosa counties, and portions of Walton County.A member of the Republican Party, he is widely regarded as a staunch proponent of far-right ... House committee assignments once were the seat of power. Do they matter When a group of far-right Republicans had their assignments changed by party leadership in 2012, Schweikert lost an enviable spot on the Financial Services Committee. He said the Democratic action ... Where the McCarthy GOP holdouts ended up on committees Their committee assignments: Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), one of McCarthy's most vocal opponents, will continue to sit on the House Judiciary Committee. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) secured a seat on the powerful House Oversight and Accountability Committee and will continue to serve on the House Committee on Natural Resources. Rep. Matt Gaetz gets weaponization of federal government committee Instead, McCarthy's appointments to the special committee, including Gaetz, were read into the Congressional Record a week ago and only noticed by reporters on Tuesday.. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla ... What the 21 McCarthy holdouts got in committee assignments Donalds also won a coveted spot on the Financial Services Committee, a top panel known on Capitol Hill as an "A" committee. Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, perhaps the most vocal McCarthy foe during ... House Ethics Committee reaching out to witnesses in revived Matt Gaetz Investigators from the House Ethics Committee have begun reaching out to witnesses as part of a recently revived investigation into Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, focused on allegations that he may ... Matt Gaetz Replaces Chip Roy on High-Profile 'Weaponization' Committee Rep. Matt Gaetz has replaced fellow Speaker vote rebel Rep. Chip Roy on the House Judiciary Committee's new "weaponization" panel, landing a spot in what's likely to be the messiest political ... House Ethics Committee expands Rep. Matt Gaetz sexual misconduct Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican, is being eyed over allegations of sexual misconduct, illicit drug use and obstructing government probes. GOP leader says Gaetz would lose committee seat if charges true House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Wednesday that GOP leaders will remove Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) from his committee assignments if he's found to be guilty of sex trafficki… Matt Gaetz says Ethics Committee opening new investigation by Emily Brooks - 06/18/24 9:59 AM ET. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) said the House Ethics Committee is opening "new frivolous investigations" against him and that it had closed other probes that ... Matt Gaetz Sponsor: Gaetz, Matt [Rep.-R-FL-1] (Introduced 08/01/2023) Cosponsors: Committees: House - Foreign Affairs; Appropriations Latest Action: House - 08/01/2023 Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration ... Matt Gaetz projected to defeat primary challenger backed by McCarthy Washington — Rep. Matt Gaetz, the Florida Republican who led the effort to oust former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy last fall, will easily defeat a McCarthy-linked primary challenger Tuesday ... Ethics Committee investigating Rep. Matt Gaetz over alleged drug use The House Ethics Committee said Tuesday it is continuing to review several allegations against Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., including that he engaged in sexual misconduct and illegal drug use.. The ... Matt Gaetz Matt Gaetz (Republican Party) is a member of the U.S. House, representing Florida's 1st Congressional District.He assumed office on January 3, 2017. His current term ends on January 3, 2025. Gaetz (Republican Party) is running for re-election to the U.S. House to represent Florida's 1st Congressional District.He is on the ballot in the general election on November 5, 2024. Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives CONTACT: 2021 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington DC 20515-0901, COMMITTEE: Committee on Armed Services,Committee on the Judiciary,Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government Which controversial House Republicans won committee assignments and Matt Gaetz (Florida): Gaetz will continue his service on the House Judiciary Committee, per NBC News.He was one of McCarthy's most vocal opponents and merely voted "present" in the 14th round of votes. Paul Gosar (Arizona): Like Greene, Gosar was also stripped of his committee positions in the last Congress due to threatening fellow lawmakers over social media. What Matt Gaetz and AOC Said About McCarthy Speaker Vote McCarthy and Gaetz presented their positions in dueling press conferences Tuesday morning. McCarthy said that Gaetz and his allies had requested plum committee assignments in exchange for ... Matt Gaetz crushes Kevin McCarthy-backed primary challenger ... Gaetz, who remains under investigation by the House Ethics Committee, had been hammered in super PAC ads that centered on allegations of illegal drug use and that he paid to have sex with a 17 ... Gaetz wins primary challenge amid McCarthy revenge tour Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) on Tuesday defeated a primary challenger backed by former House speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) as part of his push to unseat the handful of Republicans who helped oust ... Handful of McCarthy detractors get new top committee assignments Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Chip Roy (R-Texas) alleged that after they asked for more conservative representation on top committees, McCarthy asked for a list of which members might want to sit on ... Congressman Matt Gaetz Matt Gaetz, a member of the 118th Congress, is currently serving his fourth term in the U.S. House of Representatives. He is a member of the House Armed Services Committee and the House Judiciary Committee. His work in Congress focuses on national security, veterans' affairs, and adherence to constitutional principles. Learn More. Stay Connected. Former House speaker floats idea of removing Gaetz from House GOP As for committee assignments, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., is free to remove Gaetz from select and conference committees - such as the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence ... Gaetz appointed committee assignments Representative Matt Gaetz now has his committee assignments on Capitol Hill.House Speaker Paul Ryan appointed Gaetz to the House Armed Services and the House Budget Committees.The Armed Services ... Judiciary Judiciary. Congressman Gaetz has served on the House Judiciary Committee since the 115th Congress. His work defending President Trump on the House Judiciary Committee has earned him the title of "Absolute Warrior." This standing committee was established in 1813 by the House of Representatives and has since expanded its role from strictly ... Matt Gaetz faces primary challenge backed by McCarthy allies amid ... Gaetz (R-Fla.) is heavily favored to win Tuesday night's race against Navy veteran Aaron Dimmock in Florida's ruby red 1st Congressional District, which has prompted McCarthy loyalists to set ... Greene knocks Gaetz in exchange over committee assignments Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) rebuffed a celebratory tweet from Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) on Wednesday over her committee assignments, instead knocking her fellow far-right Republican for holdi… Florida election results 2024: See results from all races here Also running for re-election is incumbent Rep. Matt Gaetz who is up against Aaron Dimmick in District 1. The winner will face Democrat Gay Valimont. Dozens of Florida U.S. House primaries are ... McCarthy claims Gaetz ousted him as speaker when he refused to 'do Kevin McCarthy has claimed that Florida Republican Representative Matt Gaetz ousted him as speaker because he refused to "do something illegal" to stop an ethics probe into the congressman ... assignment essay homework phd report resume review speech thesis