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Michael Baumgartner

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Rep. WA-5 · U.S. House · 1 terms

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attendance
Vote attendance live
95%
95/100 · beats 15% of the House
Votes missed live
5
of the last 100 House roll calls
Committees live
3
standing committee seats

Political perspective

from the voting record
More liberalMore conservative

On the standard liberal–conservative scale, Baumgartner sits more conservative than 81% of the House and more liberal than 19%. This is a DW-NOMINATE score — derived purely from how they vote, not an opinion.

Votes with own party
100%
Voted with the party on all 15 recent party-line votes.
Their positions, in their own words
Positions & ratings (Vote Smart) ↗Background (Wikipedia) ↗Official site ↗

We link to what Baumgartnersays they stand for so you can hold it against the record above. We don't put words in anyone's mouth or declare a promise “kept” or “broken” — where there's no published, structured position to compare, we leave it to you rather than invent a verdict.

Contact

They work for you — reach the office.

baumgartner.house.gov ↗
D.C. office: 202-225-2006
124 Cannon House Office Building

Campaign money

live· 2026 cycle
Total raised
$1.7M
From PACs
21.1%
$367K
From individuals
76%
$1.3M
Cash on hand
$954K

“From PACs” is corporate, industry, and union political-committee money — a proxy for special-interest funding. Totals via the FEC.

Top sponsors · largest organizational donors
  • REPUBLICAN GOVERNANCE GROUP/TUESDAY GROUP PACOther / unclassified$15K
  • BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY RAILPAC (BNSF RAILPAC)Corporate$10K
  • ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS, INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (ABC PAC)Trade$10K
  • AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEEMembership$10K
  • NATIONAL AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS ASSOCIATION PACLabor$8K
  • CITIZENS ORGANIZED POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEEOther / unclassified$8K
  • PREMERA BLUE CROSS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE/PREMERA PACCorporate$8K
  • BAUM PACOther / unclassified$7K
Where the PAC money comes from
  • Other / unclassified35%
  • Corporate30%
  • Trade19%
  • Membership10%
  • Labor4%
  • Cooperative3%

Largest PACs and committees giving to the campaign this cycle, from FEC committee-to-candidate filings. The FEC doesn't tag donors by industry — the names usually tell you, and OpenSecrets has the formal industry breakdown below.

Key industries · who the PAC money represents
  • Agriculture$29K
  • Labor unions$22K
  • Construction & engineering$18K
  • Health & medicine$17K
  • Energy & utilities$11K
  • Railroads$10K

Grouped from the names of the PACs that gave — our own rough classification, PAC money only (not individual donors). Another 52% came from PACs we couldn't slot into an industry by name.

FEC filings ↗Top industries & donors (OpenSecrets) ↗

Where the money goes

live· 2026 cycle

Baumgartner's campaign has spent $530K across 452 reported disbursements.

Top payees
  • PEAK FUNDRAISING PARTNERS$100K
  • MOORE$81K
  • 814 CONSULTING$55K
  • BAUMGARTNER, MICHAEL JAMES$54K
  • DATAGRAPHICS$50K
  • PROFESSIONAL DATA SERVICES$41K
Fundraising & event venues
  • HANSON, MATTHEWSPOKANE VALLEY, WA$500
  • QUINAULT BEACH RESORTOCEAN SHORES, WA$216

These are the venues, caterers, and hotels the campaign paidfor events — the money trail to where fundraising happened, with the vendor's city and state. It is not a guest list or attendance: who came, who hosted, and “what the crowd was like” aren't in any public record, so we don't guess at them.

Categories are grouped by keyword from the free-text purpose each campaign reports to the FEC, so the split is a guide, not an audit. Otheris spending whose reported purpose didn't clearly fit a category — campaigns describe disbursements inconsistently. Totals are for the candidate's campaign committees this cycle; see the FEC for the line-by-line record.

Itemized spending at the FEC ↗

Background

Represents Washington's 5th district · age 51 · from Pullman.

Michael James Baumgartner is an American politician and former diplomat serving as the U.S. representative from Washington's 5th congressional district since 2025. Previously, he served as the 28th Spokane County treasurer from 2019 to 2025 and as a member of the Washington State Senate from 2011 to 2019, representing the 6th district. He is a member of the Republican Party.

Education
Pullman High SchoolWashington State UniversityJohn F. Kennedy School of Government

Biography from Wikipedia & Wikidata (public, CC BY-SA). Family is spouse and children only.

More & sources
Wikipedia ↗Bioguide ↗Top industries & donors (OpenSecrets) ↗Positions (VoteSmart) ↗

Stock trades

No periodic transaction reports on file for Baumgartner in the current House disclosure index.

Charted on Capitol Trades ↗

Committees

live

What they're assigned to work on.

via congress-legislators committee data.

Who they're up against

Candidates who have filed with the FEC for this House seat— who's challenging them now, and who they faced last time.

Next election

· 2026 cycle
Other-party challengers

+ 6 other minor candidates with little or no money raised.

Last election

· 2024 cycle
Other-party challengers
  • Carmela ConroyDemocratChallenger
    $605K
    raised ↗
  • Bernadine BankDemocratChallenger
    $350K
    raised ↗
  • Ann Marie DanimusDemocratChallenger
    $211K
    raised ↗
  • Matthew Brady WeldeDemocratChallenger
    $30K
    raised ↗
  • Barbara Louise Bennett-WolcottDemocratChallenger
    $8K
    raised ↗
Primary challengers (same party)
  • Cathy McMorris RodgersRepublicanIncumbent
    $3.6M
    raised ↗
  • Jacquelin MaycumberRepublicanChallenger
    $342K
    raised ↗
  • Brian DanselRepublicanChallenger
    $113K
    raised ↗
  • Terri Kay CooperRepublicanChallenger
    $48K
    raised ↗
  • Jonathan BingleRepublicanChallenger
    $22K
    raised ↗
  • John GuentherRepublicanChallenger
    $8K
    raised ↗

+ 3 other minor candidates with little or no money raised.

Candidates and money raised from FEC filings (bulk candidate summaries). Short bios are quoted from Wikipedia or Ballotpedia where a confident match exists — never invented; candidates without a sourced bio show their FEC record only.

How Michael actually voted · last 15 bills live

Real roll-call votes from the U.S. House Clerk. “Missed” = recorded as Not Voting.

Congressional calendar · next 12 days

in session recess weekend
Sat 8
weekend
Sun 9
weekend
Mon 10
August recess
Tue 11
August recess
Wed 12
August recess
Thu 13
August recess
Fri 14
August recess
Sat 15
August recess
Sun 16
August recess
Mon 17
August recess
Tue 18
August recess
Wed 19
August recess

The public House legislative schedule — the same for every member, not anyone's personal whereabouts. No flight data, home locations, or real-time tracking.

Every figure here is real and sourced: identity, party, seat, term history, committees and contact (congress-legislators); vote attendance, missed votes & how they voted (U.S. House Clerk, last 100 roll calls through 23-Jul-2026); campaign money raised and spent (FEC); stock-trade disclosures (U.S. House Clerk Periodic Transaction Reports); declared election opponents & the money they raised (FEC candidate filings), with opponent bios quoted from Wikipedia or Ballotpedia where a confident match exists; ideological placement (DW-NOMINATE, voteview.com) and party-unity (computed from the roll calls above); biography (Wikidata + Wikipedia); the 2026 session calendar (official schedule). Nothing on this page is invented. wheresmyguy? carries no flight data, home locations, or real-time tracking. Time-stamped information is delayed at least 4 hours by design — wheresmyguy? is never a real-time tracker.