U.S. Representative — Kentucky's 5th District
Harold Rogers
Republican · Kentucky
Republican U.S. Representative for Kentucky's 5th congressional district. Member of the 119th Congress in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Legislative Record
Recently sponsored bills (50 on record)
- H.R.8845 — Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2027 (Introduced, May 15, 2026)
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2027 This bill provides FY2027 appropriations to the Department of Commerce, the Department of Justice (DOJ), the science agencies, and several related agencies. The bill provides appropriations to the Department of Commerce for… - H.R.5342 — Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026 (Introduced, Sep 12, 2025)
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026 This bill provides FY2026 appropriations to the Department of Commerce, the Department of Justice (DOJ), the science agencies, and several related agencies. The bill provides appropriations to the Department of Commerce for… - H.R.10016 — Kentucky Wildlands National Heritage Area Act (Introduced, Oct 18, 2024)
- H.R.9026 — Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025 (Introduced, Jul 11, 2024)
This bill designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 80 Atlantic Avenue in Oceanside, New York, as the "Detective Luis G. Alvarez Post Office". - H.R.8324 — To designate the United States courthouse annex located at 310 South Main Street in London, Kentucky, as the "Eugene E. Siler, Jr. United States Courthouse Annex". (Introduced, May 8, 2024)
- H.R.6644 — John White Ensuring Timely Black Lung Benefits Act (Introduced, Dec 6, 2023)
Housing for the 21st Century Act This bill revises federal housing programs, including by expanding available financing for affordable housing and providing grants for planning and community development activities. For example, the bill increases the statutory maximum loan limits for mortgage… - H.R.5893 — Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024 (Reported, Oct 6, 2023)
Guaranteed Uninterrupted Access to Retiree Disbursements Act or the GUARD Act This bill provides FY2026 appropriations to the Social Security Administration (SSA) for administrative expenses during any period in which interim or full-year appropriations for FY2026 are not in effect. During a lapse… - H.R.4079 — Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery Loan Repayment Program Reauthorization Act of 2023 (Introduced, Jun 13, 2023)
Recent floor votes (100 on record)
- Voted Yea on H.R.8884 — Removing Barriers to Work for Disabled Americans Act (Passed, Jul 23, 2026)
- Voted Nay 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 Yea 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 Yea on H.R.7008 — Stop Insider Trading Act (Passed, Jul 22, 2026)
- Voted Nay on H.R.7008 — Stop Insider Trading Act (Failed, Jul 22, 2026)
- Voted Yea on H.R.8800 — National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027 (Passed, Jul 22, 2026)
- Voted Nay on H.R.8800 — National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027 (Failed, Jul 22, 2026)
- Voted Aye on H.R.8800 — On Agreeing to the Amendment (Failed, Jul 22, 2026)
Recently cosponsored bills (12 on record)
- H.R.9417 — Artemis II Congressional Gold Medal Act (Introduced, Jul 9, 2026)
- H.R.2102 — Major Richard Star Act (Introduced, Jun 29, 2026)
- H.R.9250 — Great American Outdoors Act 250 (Reported, Jun 29, 2026)
- H.R.7897 — No Tax on Drill Pay Act (Introduced, Jun 25, 2026)
- H.R.9452 — Budgeting for a Better America Act (Introduced, Jun 24, 2026)
- H.R.8679 — To amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to transmit a veteran's history of opioid prescriptions to a Community Care health care provider. (Introduced, May 7, 2026)
- H.R.6766 — Essential Caregivers Act of 2025 (Introduced, Mar 5, 2026)
- H.R.6976 — Duty Status Reform Act (Introduced, Mar 4, 2026)
Voting analysis
Twenty-three terms. Harold Rogers arrived at the start of the nineteen-eighties and has been returned every time since, which is one of the longest unbroken stretches anywhere in this data. To put it in the terms the site uses: he had already served more than a dozen terms before a good many members here were first elected to Congress at all.
First elected in 1981, now serving across 23 terms. Harold Rogers falls in the veteran cohort.
The same bill, three times
He chairs the appropriations subcommittee for commerce, justice and science, and that panel's annual bill appears three separate times on his filing list — once each for three consecutive fiscal years. Other spending chairs on this site show the same signature at two copies. Three is the fullest expression of it: a record where most of the visible output is one document, reissued.
Of the 50 most recent of those, 32 currently sit at Introduced.
The two entries that are not appropriations bills are a national heritage area for a stretch of his state, and the designation of a courthouse annex. Public finance leads his classified subjects, which the gavel entirely explains.
Sponsored bills carry the Congressional Research Service's own subject classification. Harold Rogers's cluster into: Economics and Public Finance (17), Public Lands and Natural Resources (6), Health (5), International Affairs (3), Armed Forces and National Security (2), Education (2).
Where he broke ranks
Five times, all of them on amendments, all of them unsuccessful, and each time voting no where the conference voted yes. For a member with this much seniority chairing a spending panel, a departure record containing no completed legislation is close to the definition of the role — he is defending text, not contesting outcomes.
| Roll call | Date | Outcome | Their vote |
|---|---|---|---|
| H.R.8595 On Agreeing to the Amendment roll call 245 | Jul 15, 2026 | Failed | No (party: Yea) |
| H.R.8595 On Agreeing to the Amendment roll call 242 | Jul 15, 2026 | Failed | No (party: Yea) |
| H.R.7567 On Agreeing to the Amendment roll call 151 | Apr 30, 2026 | Failed | No (party: Yea) |
| H.R.7148 On Agreeing to the Amendment roll call 44 | Jan 22, 2026 | Failed | No (party: Yea) |
| H.R.7148 On Agreeing to the Amendment roll call 43 | Jan 22, 2026 | Failed | No (party: Yea) |
Below the Kentucky Republicans
Kentucky's House Republicans hold one of the highest group rates on this site, and Rogers falls a very long way beneath it.
Among the 5 Republicans in the Kentucky delegation, the average rate of voting against the party majority is 9.4%. Harold Rogers is below that average at 2.3%.
Attendance
A small share of roll calls happen without him.
By the numbers
In the 119th Congress, Harold Rogers has 146 bills sponsored, 2902 cosponsored, 100 recent floor votes recorded.
Committee assignments
- House Committee on Appropriations
- House Committee on Appropriations: Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (Chair)
- House Committee on Appropriations: Defense
- House Committee on Appropriations: Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
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