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Derek Schmidt

R

Rep. KS-2 · U.S. House · 1 terms

Congress is in session today
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attendance
Vote attendance live
99%
99/100 · beats 52% of the House
Votes missed live
1
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, Schmidt sits more conservative than 93% of the House and more liberal than 7%. This is a DW-NOMINATE score — derived purely from how they vote, not an opinion.

Votes with own party
93%
Broke with the party on 1 of 15 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 Schmidtsays 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.

schmidt.house.gov ↗
D.C. office: 202-225-6601
1223 Longworth House Office Building

Campaign money

live· 2026 cycle
Total raised
$1.5M
From PACs
34.7%
$506K
From individuals
62%
$898K
Cash on hand
$939K

“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 BANKERS ASSOCIATION PAC (BANKPAC)Trade$10K
  • WINE AND SPIRITS WHOLESALERS OF AMERICA, INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEETrade$10K
  • NATIONAL CATTLEMEN'S BEEF ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (NCBA-PAC)Trade$10K
  • AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEEMembership$10K
  • GROWTH ENERGY PACTrade$10K
  • AMERICAN COUNCIL OF ENGINEERING COMPANIES (ACEC/PAC)Trade$10K
  • AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEEMembership$10K
  • SEABOARD CORPORATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEECorporate$10K
Where the PAC money comes from
  • Corporate31%
  • Other / unclassified28%
  • Trade26%
  • Membership11%
  • Cooperative3%
  • Labor1%

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$64K
  • Finance & banking$33K
  • Food, beverage & restaurants$27K
  • Defense & aerospace$27K
  • Construction & engineering$18K
  • Health & medicine$17K

Grouped from the names of the PACs that gave — our own rough classification, PAC money only (not individual donors). Another 48% 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

Schmidt's campaign has spent $544K across 491 reported disbursements.

Top payees
  • ETHOS ADVISORS LLC$151K
  • DUBLIN GROUP$72K
  • RED BEACON STRATEGIES, LLC$62K
  • BIG DOG STRATEGIES, LLC$48K
  • WINGERT SIGN COMPANY LLC$38K
  • BLAES CAMPAIGN SOLUTIONS LLC$28K
Fundraising & event venues
  • TOPEKA COUNTRY CLUBTOPEKA, KS$2K
  • HARSHMAN, SUSIECEDAR POINT, KS$2K
  • ECHOLS, JAMES AKANSAS CITY, KS$400
  • AMERICAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATIONS - ATADALLAS, TX$350

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 Kansas's 2th district · age 58 · from Independence.

Derek Larkin Schmidt is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Kansas's 2nd congressional district since 2025. He previously served as the Kansas Attorney General from 2011 to 2023. A Republican, Schmidt was first elected to office serving in the Kansas Senate, where he represented the 15th district from 2001 to 2011, and served as Agriculture Committee chairman and Senate majority leader. Schmidt became the state attorney general in 2011, after he defeated incumbent Democrat Stephen Six.

Before Congress
lawyer
Education
Independence USD 446Independence Community CollegeUniversity of Kansas

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

No periodic transaction reports on file for Schmidt 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

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

Last election

· 2024 cycle
Other-party challengers
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 Derek 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
Tue 22
in session
Wed 23
in session
Thu 24
in session
Fri 25
in session
Sat 26
weekend
Sun 27
weekend
Mon 28
in session
Tue 29
in session
Wed 30
in session
Thu 1
in session
Fri 2
in session
Sat 3
weekend

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 16-Sep-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.