Ben Ray Luján
DSen. NM · U.S. Senate · 7 terms
Political perspective
from the voting recordOn the standard liberal–conservative scale, Luján sits more conservative than 18% of the Senate and more liberal than 81%. This is a DW-NOMINATE score — derived purely from how they vote, not an opinion.
We link to what Lujánsays 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
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Campaign money
live· 2026 cycle“From PACs” is corporate, industry, and union political-committee money — a proxy for special-interest funding. Totals via the FEC.
- THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEECorporate$15K
- HOOPS PACOther / unclassified$15K
- VICTORY NOW PACOther / unclassified$10K
- TRANSPORT WORKERS UNION OF AMERICA POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS COMMITTEELabor$10K
- AMERICAN MOBILIZATION PACOther / unclassified$10K
- BLUE SENATE PACOther / unclassified$10K
- COMMON GROUND PACOther / unclassified$10K
- AMERICAN OSTEOPATHIC INFORMATION ASSOCIATION - OSTEOPATHIC POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEEMembership$10K
- Other / unclassified34%
- Corporate31%
- Trade18%
- Membership9%
- Labor7%
- Cooperative1%
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.
- Health & medicine$128K
- Finance & banking$114K
- Labor unions$106K
- Telecom & media$84K
- Energy & utilities$71K
- Agriculture$52K
Grouped from the names of the PACs that gave — our own rough classification, PAC money only (not individual donors). Another 49% came from PACs we couldn't slot into an industry by name.
Where the money goes
live· 2026 cycleLuján's campaign has spent $2.3M across 569 reported disbursements.
- Payroll & admin$813K 35%
- Other$581K 25%
- Events & fundraising$385K 17%
- Advertising & media$297K 13%
- Consulting & research$151K 7%
- Travel & lodging$72K 3%
- MOTHERSHIP STRATEGIES$720K
- PAYROLL DATA PROCESSING$281K
- AMERICAN EXPRESS$218K
- NGP VAN, INC.$146K
- MOORE CAMPAIGNS$124K
- SAGE MEDIA PLANNING & PLACEMENT, INC.$103K
- STRATHDEE GROUPWASHINGTON, DC · 5 payments$5K
- BELTWAY CATERING DBA BON VIVANT CATERINGMC LEAN, VA$2K
- DEVASTHALI, RAMALAS CRUCES, NM$629
- INVARIANT LLCWASHINGTON, DC$450
- THE UPS STORESANTA FE, NM · 2 payments$400
- S-3 GROUPWASHINGTON, DC$400
- CUNNINGHAM, ANDREALOS ALAMOS, NM$337
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORSCHICAGO, IL$300
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.
Background
Represents New Mexico · age 54 · from Santa Fe.
Ben Ray Luján is an American politician serving since 2021 as the junior United States senator from New Mexico. From 2009 to 2021, he represented New Mexico's 3rd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives; he served as assistant speaker from 2019 to 2021. Luján is a self-described progressive Democrat.
Biography from Wikipedia & Wikidata (public, CC BY-SA). Family is spouse and children only.
Stock trades
Senators disclose their trades through the Senate's system. See Luján's filings:
Committees
liveWhat they're assigned to work on.
- Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
- Senate Committee on Finance
- Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
- Senate Committee on the Budget
- United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control
via congress-legislators committee data.
Who they're up against
Candidates who have filed with the FEC for this Senate seat— who's challenging them now, and who they faced last time.
Next election
· 2026 cycle- Larry E MarkerRepublicanChallenger$32Kraised ↗
- Matt DodsonDemocratChallenger$18Kraised ↗
+ 7 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 Ben actually voted · last 15 bills live
- YeaAugust 5, 2026S.J.Res. 187On the Motion to Proceed
- NayAugust 5, 2026PN730-11On the Cloture Motion
- NayAugust 5, 2026PN932On the Nomination
- NayAugust 5, 2026PN932On the Cloture Motion
- YeaAugust 3, 2026H.R. 6500On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed
- NayJuly 30, 2026S.Res. 817On the Resolution
- YeaJuly 30, 2026S.J.Res. 181On the Motion to Discharge
- YeaJuly 30, 2026S.J.Res. 199On the Motion to Proceed
- NayJuly 29, 2026S.Res. 817On the Cloture Motion
- YeaJuly 29, 2026H.R. 5334On the Motion to Proceed
- YeaJuly 28, 2026H.R. 5334On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed
- NayJuly 28, 2026PN1092On the Nomination
- NayJuly 27, 2026PN1092On the Cloture Motion
- NayJuly 23, 2026PN999-5On the Nomination
- NayJuly 23, 2026PN999-6On the Nomination
Real roll-call votes from the U.S. House Clerk. “Missed” = recorded as Not Voting.
Congressional calendar · next 12 days
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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. Senate (senate.gov), last 100 roll calls through August 5, 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.