Rep. Dale Strong
Representative for Alabama’s 5th District
![Photo of Rep. Dale Strong [R-AL5]](/static/legislator-photos/456878-200px.jpeg)
Earmarks
Strong proposed $24 million in earmarks for fiscal year 2024, including:
- $8 million to City of Huntsville for “Huntsville Northern Bypass Project”
- $4 million to City of Priceville for “City of Priceville Sanitary Sewer Improvements”
- $4 million to Alabama Department of Transportation for “Additional Lanes SR-2 (U.S. 72) from County Line Road to Providence Main Road”
View all requests and justifications on Strong’s website »
View analysis and download spreadsheet from Demand Progress Education Fund »
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
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Strong 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 Strong has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Sep 29, 2023. See full analysis methodology.
Committee Membership
Dale Strong sits on the following committees:
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Strong sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Immigration (100%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Strong recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 5609: To prohibit the use of Federal funds for security protection for the former …
- H.R. 5130: Finish It Act
- H.Res. 482: Commending United States Border Patrol Chief Raul L. Ortiz on his retirement after …
- H.R. 3357: Protecting America’s Agricultural Land from Foreign Harm Act of 2023
- H.R. 1531: To provide for the renewed availability of funds to construct the border wall …
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2023 to Sep 2023, Strong missed 7 of 513 roll call votes, which is 1.4%. This is on par with the median of 1.7% 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
- Official Legislator Photo for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills