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Gary C. Peters

D

Sen. MI · U.S. Senate · 5 terms

Congress is in session today
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attendance
Vote attendance live
98%
98/100 · beats 56% of the Senate
Votes missed live
2
of the last 100 Senate roll calls
Committees live
4
standing committee seats

Political perspective

from the voting record
More liberalMore conservative

On the standard liberal–conservative scale, Peters sits more conservative than 37% of the Senate and more liberal than 62%. 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 14 recent party-line votes.
Their positions, in their own words
Positions & ratings (Vote Smart) ↗Campaign & issues (Ballotpedia) ↗Background (Wikipedia) ↗Official site ↗

We link to what Peterssays 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.

www.peters.senate.gov ↗
D.C. office: 202-224-6221
724 Hart Senate Office Building

Campaign money

live· 2026 cycle
Total raised
$248K
From PACs
3.8%
$10K
From individuals
7%
$19K
Cash on hand
$6.5M

“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
  • MACKINAC ISLAND TOURISM BUREAU POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEETrade$5K
  • NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEEMembership$3K
  • THE CAPITAL GROUP COMPANIES INC POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEECorporate$3K
  • AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PHYSICIAN ASSOCIATES POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (PA PAC)Membership$3K
  • TEXTILE RENTAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (TRSAPAC)Trade$3K
  • DELL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEECorporate$2K
  • UNITED WHOLESALE MORTGAGE PAC (UWM PAC)Corporate$1K
Where the PAC money comes from
  • Trade42%
  • Membership31%
  • Corporate28%

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
  • Gambling & tourism$5K
  • Real estate$4K
  • Finance & banking$3K
  • Health & medicine$3K
  • Technology$2K

Grouped from the names of the PACs that gave — our own rough classification, PAC money only (not individual donors). Another 14% 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

Peters's campaign has spent $175K across 122 reported disbursements.

Top payees
  • AMERICAN EXPRESS$74K
  • DIXON/DAVIS MEDIA GROUP$36K
  • MBA CONSULTING GROUP$19K
  • ANNE LEWIS STRATEGIES, LLC$13K
  • FULKERSON, KENNEDY & COMPANY$11K
  • FAROUGH AND ASSOCIATES$6K
Fundraising & event venues
  • FULKERSON, KENNEDY & COMPANYWASHINGTON, DC · 2 payments$601

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 Michigan · age 68 · from Pontiac.

Gary Charles Peters is an American politician, lawyer, and former naval officer serving as the senior United States senator from Michigan, a seat he has held since 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the U.S. representative for Michigan's 14th congressional district, which included the eastern half of Detroit, the Grosse Pointes, Hamtramck, Southfield, and Pontiac, from 2009 to 2015.

Before Congress
military officeruniversity teachermediatorinstructor
Education
Alma CollegeUniversity of Detroit MercyWayne State University
Awards
Eagle Scout

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

Senators disclose their trades through the Senate's system. See Peters's filings:

Senate disclosures ↗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 Senate seat— who's challenging them now, and who they faced last time.

Next election

· 2026 cycle
Other-party challengers
Primary challengers (same party)

+ 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 Gary 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
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August recess
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August recess
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August recess
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August recess
Wed 19
August recess

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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.