U.S. Representative — Kentucky's 4th District
Thomas Massie
Republican · Kentucky
Republican U.S. Representative for Kentucky's 4th congressional district. Member of the 119th Congress in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Legislative Record
Recently sponsored bills (50 on record)
- H.R.9694 — Epstein Files Transparency Act II (Introduced, Jul 15, 2026)
- H.R.8809 — AIPAC Act (Introduced, May 14, 2026)
- H.R.8591 — No Capital Gains Tax on Family Farms Act (Introduced, Apr 30, 2026)
- H.R.8470 — Surveillance Accountability Act (Introduced, Apr 23, 2026)
- H.R.7880 — Interstate Milk Freedom Act of 2026 (Introduced, Mar 9, 2026)
Interstate Milk Freedom Act of 2026 This bill prohibits federal regulation of the interstate traffic of unpasteurized milk or milk products packaged for direct human consumption under specified circumstances. Specifically, the prohibition applies if such products (1) would be considered in violation… - H.R.7601 — No Immunity for Glyphosate Act (Introduced, Feb 20, 2026)
- H.R.6508 — NATO Act (Introduced, Dec 9, 2025)
- H.R.5811 — Restoring America’s Leadership in Innovation Act of 2025 (Introduced, Oct 24, 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 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 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 Nay 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.9807 — To amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to prevent preemption of State law claims that are consistent with the misbranding standards of such Act, and for other purposes. (Introduced, Jul 21, 2026)
- H.R.9658 — Nuclear Regulatory Modernization Act of 2026 (Introduced, Jul 13, 2026)
- H.R.9528 — People Over Poison Act (Introduced, Jun 29, 2026)
- H.J.Res.14 — Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the sixteenth article of amendment. (Introduced, Jun 25, 2026)
- H.R.8781 — Title IX Clarification Act of 2026 (Reported, May 13, 2026)
- H.R.148 — Keep Your Coins Act of 2025 (Introduced, May 7, 2026)
- H.R.8617 — American Family Cost-of-Living Relief Act of 2026 (Introduced, Apr 30, 2026)
- H.R.682 — Heartbeat Protection Act of 2025 (Introduced, Apr 27, 2026)
Voting analysis
Thomas Massie is the most reliable Republican defector in the House. That is not a characterization drawn from reputation or press coverage — it is what the roll calls show. Across the votes in this window where a Republican majority formed, no member of his conference landed on the opposite side more often.
The shape of the disagreement
The departures are not scattered. They cluster tightly around money and military authority. When the House took up the annual defense authorization, the continuing appropriations measure keeping the government funded, and the budget resolution setting spending levels for the years ahead, Massie voted against all three while most Republicans voted for them. He also opposed the Main Street Act on final passage.
The exception runs the other direction and is the most revealing vote of the set. On the concurrent resolution directing the President to withdraw American forces from hostilities with Iran under the War Powers Resolution, Massie voted in favor while the Republican majority voted against — a position that put him with Democrats on the question of who may commit the country to a shooting war.
| Roll call | Date | Outcome | Their vote |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 On Agreeing to the Resolution · roll call 282 | Jul 23, 2026 | Passed | Yea (party: Nay) |
| 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 On Agreeing to the Resolution · roll call 281 | Jul 22, 2026 | Passed | Nay (party: Yea) |
| H.R.8800 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027 On Passage · roll call 278 | Jul 22, 2026 | Passed | Nay (party: Yea) |
| H.R.8800 On Agreeing to the Amendment roll call 274 | Jul 22, 2026 | Failed | No (party: Yea) |
| H.R.9770 Making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2027, and for other purposes On Passage · roll call 272 | Jul 21, 2026 | Passed | Nay (party: Yea) |
| H.R.6955 Main Street Act On Passage · roll call 271 | Jul 21, 2026 | Passed | Nay (party: Yea) |
| H.R.8800 On Agreeing to the Amendment roll call 264 | Jul 21, 2026 | Failed | Aye (party: Nay) |
| H.R.8800 On Agreeing to the Amendment roll call 263 | Jul 21, 2026 | Failed | Aye (party: Nay) |
| H.R.8800 On Agreeing to the Amendment roll call 262 | Jul 21, 2026 | Failed | No (party: Yea) |
| H.R.8800 On Agreeing to the Amendment roll call 261 | Jul 21, 2026 | Failed | No (party: Yea) |
Against his own delegation
Kentucky sends a small Republican delegation, and Massie is an outlier inside it rather than a representative sample of it. Measured against the average for his own state party colleagues, his rate of departure sits well above theirs.
Among the 5 Republicans in the Kentucky delegation, the average rate of voting against the party majority is 9.4%. Thomas Massie is above that average at 34.5%.
What he introduces
His own bills track the same libertarian preoccupations his votes do. Recent filings include the PRIME Act, loosening federal rules on meat processing; the Surveillance Accountability Act; the Epstein Files Transparency Act II; a measure exempting family farm sales from capital gains tax; and the Interstate Milk Freedom Act. Crime and law enforcement is the subject area he files under most, ahead of finance, foreign affairs and taxation.
Sponsored bills carry the Congressional Research Service's own subject classification. Thomas Massie's cluster into: Crime and Law Enforcement (12), Finance and Financial Sector (5), International Affairs (5), Taxation (5), Agriculture and Food (4), Commerce (3).
Of the 50 most recent of those, 49 currently sit at Introduced.
Tenure and attendance
Massie has represented Kentucky's fourth district long enough to count among the chamber's veterans, and has never changed party while in office. He is recorded as not voting more often than most of the House. That figure measures participation only; it carries no inference about the reasons, which commonly include illness, family obligation, official travel or military service.
First elected in 2012, now serving across 8 terms. Thomas Massie falls in the veteran cohort.
By the numbers
In the 119th Congress, Thomas Massie has 124 bills sponsored, 871 cosponsored, 100 recent floor votes recorded.
Committee assignments
- House Committee on the Judiciary
- House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
- House Committee on the Judiciary: Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet
- House Committee on the Judiciary: The Constitution and Limited Government
- House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure: Aviation
- House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure: Highways and Transit
- House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure: Water Resources and Environment
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