Rep. Alexander Mooney
Representative for West Virginia’s 2nd District
pronounced A-liks // MOO-nee
Mooney is the representative for West Virginia’s 2nd congressional district (view map) and is a Republican. He has served since Jan 6, 2015. Mooney is next up for reelection in 2024 and serves until Jan 3, 2025. He is 52 years old.
![Photo of Rep. Alexander Mooney [R-WV2]](/static/legislator-photos/412662-200px.jpeg)
Our work to hold Congress accountable only matters if elections are decided by counting votes. President Trump, his senior government advisors, 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.
Mooney was among the Republican legislators who participated in the attempted coup. Shortly after the election, Mooney joined a case before the Supreme Court calling for all the votes for president in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — states that were narrowly won by Democrats — to be discarded, in order to change the outcome of the election. In the case, Republicans proffered lies and a novel legal theory which the Supreme Court rejected. (Following the rejection of several related cases before the Supreme Court, another legislator who joined the case called for violence.) On January 6, 2021 in the hours after the violent insurrection at the Capitol, Mooney 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.
The January 6, 2021 violent insurrection at the Capitol, led on the front lines by militant white supremacy groups, attempted to prevent President-elect Joe Biden from taking office by disrupting Congress’s count of electors. In 2023 and 2024, Trump advisors and associates were charged and in some cases convicted of submitting fraudulent slates of electors to Congress (in AZ, NV, and AZ), abetting lies, assaulting police officers at the Capitol, tampering with voting machines after the election, and contempt of Congress for withholding documents during its investigation, and Trump faces criminal charges for soliciting the Vice President to subvert Congress’s certification of the election, his role in the fraudulent slates of electors, and the insurrection at the Capitol.
Alleged misconduct & resolution
Rep. Mooney is accused of using campaign funds for personal purposes and for failing to properly report reimbursements to himself. The Committee has carried the investigation into the 118th Congress.
| Jul. 23, 2021 | Office of Congressional Ethics recommended further review by the House Committee on Ethics |
| Aug. 25, 2021 | Roll Call reported the nature of the investigation |
| Sep. 7, 2021 | House Committee on Ethics extended its investigation |
| Oct. 21, 2021 | House Committee on Ethics published the Office of Congressional Ethics Report and Findings |
| Feb. 7, 2022 | House Committee on Ethics extended their review |
| May. 23, 2022 | House Committee on Ethics published the Office of Congressional Ethics Report and Findings and the member's response |
| Jan. 3, 2023 | House Committee on Ethics carried the investigation into the 118th Congress |
Earmarks
Mooney did not request any earmarks for fiscal year 2024.
Most representatives from both parties requested earmarks for fiscal year 2024. 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. More about FY2024 earmark requests from Demand Progress Education Fund »
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Mooney is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the House of Representatives positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).
The chart is based on the bills Mooney has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to May 10, 2024. See full analysis methodology.
Committee Membership
Alexander Mooney sits on the following committees:
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Mooney sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Finance and Financial Sector (44%) Government Operations and Politics (15%) Taxation (12%) International Affairs (9%) Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues (9%) Social Welfare (6%) Crime and Law Enforcement (6%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Mooney recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 8279: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify that gain or …
- H.R. 8153: To amend the Wall Street Transparency and Accountability Act of 2010 to provide …
- H.R. 8049: Protecting Life in Health Savings Accounts Act
- H.J.Res. 119: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, …
- H.R. 7092: Protecting Private Job Creators Act
- H.R. 6975: To designate the United States courthouse located at 500 West Pike Street in …
- H.R. 6222: Justice for Victims of COVID Act
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2015 to May 2024, Mooney missed 157 of 5,406 roll call votes, which is 2.9%. This is worse than 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.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- GPO Member Guide for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
