Harold “Hal” Rogers, Representative for Kentucky's 5th Congressional District - GovTrack.us
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Rep. Harold “Hal” Rogers

Representative for Kentucky’s 5th District

pronounced HAR-uld // RAW-jerz

Rogers is the representative for Kentucky’s 5th congressional district (view map) and is a Republican. He has served since Jan 5, 1981. Rogers is next up for reelection in 2024 and serves until Jan 3, 2025. He is 86 years old.

Photo of Rep. Harold “Hal” Rogers [R-KY5]
Elections must be decided by counting votes

Our work to hold Congress accountable only matters if elections are decided by counting votes. President Trump, his advisors and associates, and Republican legislators collaborated to have the 2020 presidential election decided by themselves rather than by voters. Their attempts to suppress state-certified vote counts without adjudication in the courts and by using lies and fraudulent documents was a months-long, multifarious attempted coup.

Rogers was among the Republican legislators who participated in the attempted coup. On January 6, 2021 in the hours after the violent insurrection at the Capitol, Rogers voted to omit Arizona and/or Pennsylvania from the counting of presidential electors, which could have altered the outcome of the election in Trump’s favor.
In 2023, Trump associates pleaded guilty to submitting a fraudulent slate of electors to Congress from Georgia, making false statements about purported widespread fraud in the election, and tampering with voting machines after the election, admitted in civil court to posing as fake electors in Wisconsin, and were convicted of contempt of Congress for withholding documents during its investigation and assaulting police officers at the Capitol. Trump associates were also charged with submitting fraudulent slates of electors to Congress (in Michigan, Nevada, and Arizona) and Trump himself faces criminal charges for soliciting the Vice President to subvert Congress’s certification of the election, coordinating the fraudulent slates of electors, and inciting the insurrection at the Capitol. The January 6, 2021 violent insurrection at the Capitol, led on the front lines by militant white supremacy groups one member of which was convicted of sedition, attempted to prevent President-elect Joe Biden from taking office by disrupting Congress’s count of electors.

Earmarks

Rogers proposed $106 million in earmarks for fiscal year 2024, including:

  • $50 million to Pulaski County Fiscal Court for “Somerset Northern Bypass”
  • $10 million to Morehead State University for “Morehead State University”
  • $8 million to Big Sandy Area Development District for “Martin County Water System Improvements”

These are earmark requests which may or may not survive the legislative process to becoming law. Most representatives from both parties requested earmarks for fiscal year 2024. Across representatives who requested earmarks, the median total amount requested for this fiscal year was $39 million.

Earmarks are federal expenditures, tax benefits, or tariff benefits requested by a legislator for a specific entity. Rather than being distributed through a formula or competitive process administered by the executive branch, earmarks may direct spending where it is most needed for the legislator's district. All earmark requests in the House of Representatives are published online for the public to review. We don’t have earmark requests for senators. The fiscal year begins on October 1 of the prior calendar year. Source: Appropriations.house.gov. Background: Earmark Disclosure Rules in the House

Committee Membership

Harold “Hal” Rogers sits on the following committees:

Enacted Legislation

Rogers was the primary sponsor of 34 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

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Does 34 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.

We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Rogers sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Labor and Employment (50%) Health (50%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Rogers recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Rogers voted Yea

Rogers voted Yea

Rogers voted Yea

Rogers voted Yea

Passed 294/130 on Nov 30, 2021.
This bill would authorize $400 million in grants to state, local, tribal, and territorial public health departments to update their computer databases of immunization records …

Rogers voted Yea

Rogers voted Yea

Passed 315/101 on May 14, 2021.

Rogers voted Aye

Rogers voted Aye

Passed 304/117 on Jun 23, 2011.
The Leahy–Smith America Invents Act (AIA) is a United States federal statute that was passed by Congress and was signed into law by President Barack …

Missed Votes

From Jan 1981 to May 2024, Rogers missed 626 of 25,447 roll call votes, which is 2.5%. This is on par with the median of 2.0% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.

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Primary Sources

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