U.S. Representative — North Carolina's 12th District
Alma Adams
Democrat · North Carolina
Democrat U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 12th congressional district. Member of the 119th Congress in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Legislative Record
Recently sponsored bills (50 on record)
- H.R.9669 — FACT Pilot Program Act (Introduced, Jul 14, 2026)
- H.R.9591 — Extreme Temperatures Injustice in Prisons Act of 2026 (Introduced, Jul 6, 2026)
- H.R.9571 — Living Wage for Federal Contractors Act (Introduced, Jul 2, 2026)
- H.R.8399 — STAR Act (Introduced, Apr 21, 2026)
- H.R.8211 — Army Security Agency Monument Act (Introduced, Apr 9, 2026)
- H.R.8074 — Kira Johnson Act (Introduced, Mar 25, 2026)
- H.R.7522 — Improving Access to Nutrition Act of 2026 (Introduced, Feb 12, 2026)
- H.R.6706 — EFFECTIVE Food Procurement Act (Introduced, Dec 15, 2025)
Recent floor votes (100 on record)
- Voted Nay on H.R.8884 — Removing Barriers to Work for Disabled Americans Act (Passed, Jul 23, 2026)
- Voted Yea on H.Con.Res.89 — Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran (Passed, Jul 23, 2026)
- Voted Nay on H.Con.Res.113 — Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2027 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2028 through 2036 (Passed, Jul 22, 2026)
- Voted Nay on H.R.7008 — Stop Insider Trading Act (Passed, Jul 22, 2026)
- Voted Yea on H.R.7008 — Stop Insider Trading Act (Failed, Jul 22, 2026)
- Voted Nay on H.R.8800 — National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027 (Passed, Jul 22, 2026)
- Voted Yea on H.R.8800 — National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027 (Failed, Jul 22, 2026)
- Voted No on H.R.8800 — On Agreeing to the Amendment (Failed, Jul 22, 2026)
Recently cosponsored bills (12 on record)
- H.R.9816 — MOMMIES Act (Introduced, Jul 21, 2026)
- H.R.9817 — To end the shackling of pregnant individuals, and for other purposes. (Introduced, Jul 21, 2026)
- H.R.9134 — Protecting Student Privacy Act (Introduced, Jul 20, 2026)
- H.R.8788 — Let Kids Play Act (Introduced, Jul 20, 2026)
- H.R.3544 — Supreme Court Tenure Establishment and Retirement Modernization Act of 2025 (Introduced, May 19, 2026)
- H.R.8868 — Restoring Overtime Pay Act of 2026 (Introduced, May 15, 2026)
- H.R.4719 — Freedom to Move Act (Introduced, Jul 23, 2025)
- H.J.Res.108 — Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing that there is no immunity from criminal prosecution for an act on the grounds that such act was within the constitutional authority or official duties of an individual, and providing that the President may not grant a pardon to himself or herself. (Introduced, Jul 22, 2025)
Voting analysis
One of Alma Adams's bills addresses extreme temperatures in prisons. Facilities built without cooling, in states where summers have got hotter, hold people who cannot leave the building — and the problem is invisible in the ordinary way because the affected population has no route to complain that anyone is required to hear.
It joins a small group of measures across this site where heat is treated as a policy object rather than as weather: a commission on extreme heat from an Arizona Democrat, a heat standards bill, and this.
Of the 50 most recent of those, 50 currently sit at Introduced.
Why agriculture tops the list
Agriculture leads her classified subjects and education follows. For a Charlotte seat that looks wrong until you know that nutrition and food assistance are filed as agriculture in the committee system. It is the same artefact that puts farming at the head of records belonging to members from Cleveland and from urban Connecticut.
Sponsored bills carry the Congressional Research Service's own subject classification. Alma Adams's cluster into: Agriculture and Food (15), Education (12), Health (6), Sports and Recreation (3), Taxation (2), Transportation and Public Works (2).
She leads the minority on higher education and workforce development, whose Utah Republican chairman also has a page here. The remaining filings cover a living wage for federal contractors, a monument to a signals intelligence unit, and two acts carrying acronyms.
Three departures
An amendment vote. A war powers resolution she supported that failed. A surveillance extension she opposed that passed. That is the whole record of disagreement with her caucus.
| Roll call | Date | Outcome | Their vote |
|---|---|---|---|
| H.R.8595 On Agreeing to the Amendment roll call 243 | Jul 15, 2026 | Failed | No (party: Yea) |
| H.Con.Res.84 Directing the President pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution to remove United States Armed Forces from Lebanon On Agreeing to the Resolution · roll call 201 | Jun 4, 2026 | Failed | Yea (party: Nay) |
| S.4465 To amend the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to extend the authorities of title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, and for other purposes On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass · roll call 155 | Apr 30, 2026 | Passed | Nay (party: Yea) |
Below the North Carolina Democrats
The state's four House Democrats keep a high shared rate and hers falls a long way beneath it.
Among the 4 Democrats in the North Carolina delegation, the average rate of voting against the party majority is 7.9%. Alma Adams is below that average at 1.4%.
Tenure and attendance
Seven terms, the first won partway through a Congress, and not one roll call missed.
First elected in 2014, now serving across 7 terms. Alma Adams falls in the veteran cohort.
By the numbers
In the 119th Congress, Alma Adams has 184 bills sponsored, 2407 cosponsored, 100 recent floor votes recorded.
Committee assignments
- House Committee on Agriculture
- House Committee on Education and Workforce
- House Committee on Agriculture: Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology
- House Committee on Agriculture: Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture
- House Committee on Education and Workforce: Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education
- House Committee on Education and Workforce: Higher Education and Workforce Development (Ranking Member)
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