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Bonnie Watson Coleman

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Rep. NJ-12 · U.S. House · 6 terms

Congress is in session today
A
attendance
Vote attendance live
100%
100/100 · beats 100% of the House
Votes missed live
0
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, Watson Coleman sits more conservative than 2% of the House and more liberal than 98%. 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 15 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 Watson Colemansays 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.

watsoncoleman.house.gov ↗
D.C. office: 202-225-5801
168 Cannon House Office Building

Campaign money

live· 2026 cycle
Total raised
$303K
From PACs
41.2%
$125K
From individuals
59%
$177K
Cash on hand
$6K

“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 FEDERATION OF STATE COUNTY & MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES P E O P L ELabor$8K
  • ABBVIE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEECorporate$6K
  • MACHINISTS NON PARTISAN POLITICAL LEAGUE OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MACHINISTS & AEROSPACE WORKERSLabor$5K
  • INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SHEET METAL, AIR, RAIL AND TRANSPORTATION WORKERS POLITICAL ACTION LEAGUELabor$5K
  • INT'L ASSOCIATION OF BRIDGE, STRUCTURAL, ORNAMENTAL AND REINFORCING IRON WORKERS (IPAL)Labor$5K
  • AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS, AFL-CIO COMMITTEE ON POLITICAL EDUCATIONLabor$5K
  • PAKISTANI AMERICAN PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE PAK-PACOther / unclassified$5K
  • BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB COMPANY POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEECorporate$5K
Where the PAC money comes from
  • Corporate41%
  • Labor38%
  • Other / unclassified8%
  • Trade7%
  • Membership6%

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$35K
  • Pharma & biotech$19K
  • Railroads$5K
  • Food, beverage & restaurants$5K
  • Airlines & aviation$5K
  • Energy & utilities$4K

Grouped from the names of the PACs that gave — our own rough classification, PAC money only (not individual donors). Another 27% 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

Watson Coleman's campaign has spent $290K across 202 reported disbursements.

Top payees
  • CAPITAL ONE$70K
  • THE FROST GROUP, LLC$68K
  • CAPITOL COMPLIANCE ASSOCIATES, INC.$50K
  • NEW BLUE INTERACTIVE, LLC$30K
  • STROUD, DEREL MAURESE$17K
  • GIBBONS, P.C.$14K
Fundraising & event venues
  • TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY GROUP, INC.WASHINGTON, DC · 2 payments$3K
  • TREASURER, STATE OF NJTRENTON, NJ$1K

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 12th district · age 81 · from Camden.

Bonnie Marie Watson Coleman is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for New Jersey's 12th congressional district since 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, Watson Coleman is the first African-American woman to represent New Jersey in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Education
Thomas Edison State UniversityEwing High School

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 Watson Coleman 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
Primary challengers (same party)

+ 6 other minor candidates with little or no money raised.

Last election

· 2024 cycle
Other-party challengers
Primary challengers (same party)

+ 4 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 Bonnie 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
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August recess
Fri 14
August recess
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August recess
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August recess
Mon 17
August recess
Tue 18
August recess
Wed 19
August recess

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 23-Jul-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.