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Nick LaLota

R

Rep. NY-1 · U.S. House · 2 terms

Congress in recess · fall district work period
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attendance
Vote attendance live
97%
97/100 · beats 32% of the House
Votes missed live
3
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, LaLota sits more conservative than 51% of the House and more liberal than 49%. This is a DW-NOMINATE score — derived purely from how they vote, not an opinion.

Votes with own party
80%
Broke with the party on 3 of 15 recent votes where the party had a clear position.
Their positions, in their own words

We link to what LaLotasays 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.

lalota.house.gov ↗
D.C. office: 202-225-3826
122 Cannon House Office Building

Campaign money

live· 2026 cycle
Total raised
$4.5M
From PACs
26.3%
$1.2M
From individuals
32%
$1.4M
Cash on hand
$2.3M

“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
  • BAE SYSTEMS INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (BAE SYSTEMS USA PAC)Corporate$12K
  • BUILD POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HOME BUILDERS (BUILDPAC)Trade$11K
  • INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIREFIGHTERS INTERESTED IN REGISTRATION AND EDUCATION PACLabor$10K
  • HONOR COURAGE COMMITMENT PACOther / unclassified$10K
  • THE BOEING COMPANY PACCorporate$10K
  • AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEEMembership$10K
  • AMERICAN REVIVAL PACOther / unclassified$10K
  • TRANSPORT WORKERS UNION OF AMERICA POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS COMMITTEELabor$10K
Where the PAC money comes from
  • Other / unclassified33%
  • Corporate25%
  • Labor21%
  • Trade14%
  • Membership6%
  • 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.

Key industries · who the PAC money represents
  • Labor unions$146K
  • Defense & aerospace$51K
  • Energy & utilities$42K
  • Airlines & aviation$40K
  • Insurance$27K
  • Health & medicine$26K

Grouped from the names of the PACs that gave — our own rough classification, PAC money only (not individual donors). Another 46% came from PACs we couldn't slot into an industry by name.

Where the money goes

live· 2026 cycle

LaLota's campaign has spent $969K across 401 reported disbursements.

Top payees
  • CITI CARDS$310K
  • CAPELIANIS CONSULTING LLC$116K
  • NICK, LALOTA$76K
  • UNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION$71K
  • FABRIZIO, LEE & ASSOCIATES, LLC$49K
  • CHASE BANK$48K

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 York's 1th district · age 48 · from Bay Shore.

Nicholas Joseph LaLota is an American politician and veteran serving since 2023 as the U.S. representative for New York's 1st congressional district. He is a member of the Republican Party.

Before Congress
naval officer
Education
St. Anthony's High SchoolUnited States Naval AcademyHofstra University

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

Stock trades

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

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
  • Christopher GallantDemocratChallenger
  • Lukas VentourasDemocratChallenger
  • Jonathan Lewis JacobsDemocratChallenger

+ 5 other minor candidates with little or no money raised.

Last election

· 2024 cycle
Other-party challengers
Primary challengers (same party)
  • George Devolder-SantosRepublicanIncumbent

+ 8 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 Nicolas 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.