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Josh Gottheimer

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Rep. NJ-5 · U.S. House · 5 terms

Congress in recess · fall district work period
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attendance
Vote attendance live
96%
96/100 · beats 24% of the House
Votes missed live
4
of the last 100 House roll calls
Committees live
2
standing committee seats

Political perspective

from the voting record
More liberalMore conservative

On the standard liberal–conservative scale, Gottheimer sits more conservative than 49% of the House and more liberal than 51%. This is a DW-NOMINATE score — derived purely from how they vote, not an opinion.

Votes with own party
69%
Broke with the party on 4 of 13 recent votes where the party had a clear position.
Their positions, in their own words
Positions & ratings (Vote Smart) ↗Campaign & issues (Ballotpedia) ↗Background (Wikipedia) ↗Official site ↗

We link to what Gottheimersays 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.

gottheimer.house.gov ↗
D.C. office: 202-225-4465
106 Cannon House Office Building

Campaign money

live· 2026 cycle
Total raised
$5.8M
From PACs
21.5%
$1.2M
From individuals
61%
$3.5M
Cash on hand
$13.5M

“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
  • AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEEMembership$76K
  • AMERICAN INVESTMENT COUNCIL POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEETrade$13K
  • AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (SKINPAC)Trade$10K
  • ELEVANCE HEALTH, INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (ELEVANCE HEALTH PAC)Corporate$10K
  • REGIONS FINANCIAL CORPORATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEECorporate$10K
  • HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. TECHNOLOGIES PUBLIC AFFAIRS COUNCIL (HONPAC)Corporate$10K
  • ALLY FINANCIAL INC. ADVOCACY POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEECorporate$10K
  • BLUE DOG POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEEOther / unclassified$10K
Where the PAC money comes from
  • Corporate50%
  • Trade18%
  • Membership15%
  • Labor9%
  • Other / unclassified8%

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
  • Finance & banking$212K
  • Labor unions$96K
  • Insurance$77K
  • Pharma & biotech$46K
  • Health & medicine$41K
  • Professional services$35K

Grouped from the names of the PACs that gave — our own rough classification, PAC money only (not individual donors). Another 37% 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

Gottheimer's campaign has spent $817K across 424 reported disbursements.

Top payees
  • INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE$301K
  • AMERICAN EXPRESS$156K
  • THE FROST GROUP$87K
  • DEMOCRACY ENGINE, LLC$63K
  • FIRST DATA MERCHANT SERVICES$58K
  • NEW BLUE INTERACTIVE, LLC$31K
Fundraising & event venues
  • THE FROST GROUPWASHINGTON, DC · 3 payments$5K
  • TUCHIN, MICHAEL L.LOS ANGELES, CA$2K
  • CROWN CENTER FOR SENIOR LIVINGSAINT LOUIS, MO$440

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 New Jersey's 5th district · age 51 · from North Caldwell.

Joshua S. Gottheimer is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for New Jersey's 5th congressional district since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Gottheimer was a speechwriter for Bill Clinton and served as an adviser to the presidential campaigns of Wesley Clark, John Kerry, and Hillary Clinton.

Before Congress
business executivelawyer
Education
Harvard Law SchoolUniversity of PennsylvaniaWest Essex High School
Awards
Thouron Award

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

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

Stock trades

live

Gottheimer has 22 periodic transaction reports on record — stock trades disclosed after the fact under the STOCK Act. Each PDF itemizes the trades.

See it charted on Capitol Trades ↗

From U.S. House Clerk financial disclosures.

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
  • Mary Jo-Ann GuinchardRepublicanChallenger
    $118K
    raised ↗
  • Chandiha GajapathyRepublicanChallenger
    $50K
    raised ↗
  • Sean Joseph KirraneRepublicanChallenger
    $40K
    raised ↗

+ 2 other minor candidates with little or no money raised.

Last election

· 2024 cycle
Other-party challengers
  • Mary Jo-Ann GuinchardRepublicanChallenger
    $330K
    raised ↗
  • George SongRepublicanChallenger
    $13K
    raised ↗
Primary challengers (same party)

+ 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 Josh 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
Fri 6
fall district work period
Sat 7
weekend
Sun 8
weekend
Mon 9
in session
Tue 10
in session
Wed 11
Veterans Day recess
Thu 12
Veterans Day recess
Fri 13
Veterans Day recess
Sat 14
weekend
Sun 15
weekend
Mon 16
in session
Tue 17
in session

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 11-Jun-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.