U.S. Representative — Virginia's 1st District
Robert Wittman
Republican · Virginia
Republican U.S. Representative for Virginia's 1st congressional district. Member of the 119th Congress in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Legislative Record
Recently sponsored bills (50 on record)
- H.R.9640 — Earth MRI Reauthorization Act of 2026 (Introduced, Jul 9, 2026)
- H.R.7992 — CANS Act of 2026 (Introduced, Mar 18, 2026)
- H.R.7889 — AWRC Act of 2025 (Reported, Mar 9, 2026)
- H.R.7146 — PORCUPINE Act (Introduced, Jan 16, 2026)
- H.R.7126 — SECURE Minerals Act of 2026 (Introduced, Jan 15, 2026)
- H.R.6317 — To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 12109 New Kent Highway in New Kent, Virginia, as the Patricia Paige Post Office. (Introduced, Nov 25, 2025)
This bill designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 12109 New Kent Highway in New Kent, Virginia, as the "Patricia Paige Post Office". - H.R.2969 — Finding ORE Act (Introduced, Apr 17, 2025)
- H.R.2091 — Chesapeake Bay Conservation Acceleration Act of 2025 (Introduced, Mar 11, 2025)
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.9224 — Child Care Modernization Act of 2026 (Introduced, Jul 27, 2026)
- H.R.7498 — After Hours Child Care Act (Introduced, Jul 27, 2026)
- H.R.5526 — Biosimilar Red Tape Elimination Act (Introduced, Jul 21, 2026)
- H.R.9396 — Prior Authorization Accountability Act (Introduced, Jul 21, 2026)
- H.R.9661 — Expedited Access to Biosimilars Act (Introduced, Jul 21, 2026)
- H.R.9397 — Premium Transparency Act (Introduced, Jul 21, 2026)
- H.R.8887 — Julius Rosenwald and Rosenwald Schools National Historical Park Act (Introduced, Jul 20, 2026)
- H.R.4398 — Veteran Burial Timeliness and Death Certificate Accountability Act (Introduced, Jul 23, 2025)
Voting analysis
Four of Robert Wittman's five filings are acronyms, and one of them spells out an animal. Bill titles built backwards from a word are a standard congressional habit — the acronym is the memorable part and the words are reverse-engineered to reach it — but a run of four out of five is a house style rather than an occasional flourish.
Of the 50 most recent of those, 49 currently sit at Introduced.
Minerals, twice
Two of them concern critical minerals: a reauthorisation of a geological mapping initiative, and a securing measure. Mapping what is in the ground is the unglamorous precondition for everything downstream of it, and reauthorising a survey programme is about as far from a headline as legislating gets.
He chairs tactical air and land forces at Armed Services — the New Jersey Democrat who leads the minority there is also written up on this site — and separately serves as vice chair of Natural Resources. Defence tops his subjects, with energy second.
Sponsored bills carry the Congressional Research Service's own subject classification. Robert Wittman's cluster into: Armed Forces and National Security (10), Energy (7), International Affairs (6), Environmental Protection (5), Economics and Public Finance (4), Health (4).
Four votes, one shape
Every departure is an amendment vote. All four failed. All four were a no against a conference yes. They come in two pairs, each pair attached to a single spending measure — which is what it looks like when a member objects twice to consecutive attempts at changing the same text.
| 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.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 Virginia Republicans
He departs less than the state's five-member Republican House group does on average.
Among the 5 Republicans in the Virginia delegation, the average rate of voting against the party majority is 4.6%. Robert Wittman is below that average at 1.9%.
Tenure and attendance
Ten terms from the back half of the two-thousands, with a small number of absences.
First elected in 2007, now serving across 10 terms. Robert Wittman falls in the veteran cohort.
By the numbers
In the 119th Congress, Robert Wittman has 212 bills sponsored, 2867 cosponsored, 100 recent floor votes recorded.
Committee assignments
- House Committee on Armed Services
- House Committee on Natural Resources (Vice Chair)
- House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party
- House Committee on Armed Services: Seapower and Projection Forces
- House Committee on Armed Services: Tactical Air and Land Forces (Chairman)
- House Committee on Natural Resources: Energy and Mineral Resources
- House Committee on Natural Resources: Water, Wildlife and Fisheries
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