Rep. Matthew Rosendale
Representative for Montana’s 2nd District
pronounced MATH-yoo // ROHZ-en-dayl
Rosendale is the representative for Montana’s 2nd congressional district (view map) and is a Republican. He has served since Jan 3, 2023. Rosendale is next up for reelection in 2024 and serves until Jan 3, 2025. He is 63 years old.
He was previously the representative for Montana’s at-large district as a Republican from 2021 to 2022.
![Photo of Rep. Matthew Rosendale [R-MT2]](/static/legislator-photos/456830-200px.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 entire state-certified vote counts without adjudication in the courts and using a disinformation campaign of lies and conspiracy theories was a months-long, multifarious attempted coup.
Rosendale 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, Rosendale voted to skip Arizona and/or Pennsylvania in the counting of presidential electors, states which returned certified results for Trump’s opponent. These legislators pumped the lies and preposterous legal arguments about the election that motivated the January 6, 2021 violent insurrection at the Capitol. 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. President Trump was indicted in 2023 for soliciting the Vice President to subvert Congress’s certification of the election and his role in the fraudulent slates of electors and the insurrection at the Capitol.
Earmarks
Rosendale 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
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2022 Report Card for Rosendale.
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Rosendale 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 Rosendale has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Sep 26, 2023. See full analysis methodology.
Committee Membership
Matthew Rosendale sits on the following committees:
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House Committee on Veterans' Affairs
- Technology Modernization subcommittee Chair
Oversight and Investigations subcommittees -
House Committee on Natural Resources
Energy and Mineral Resources, Oversight and Investigations subcommittees
Enacted Legislation
Rosendale was the primary sponsor of 1 bill that was enacted:
Does 1 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
Rosendale sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Health (23%) Armed Forces and National Security (21%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (16%) Taxation (9%) Government Operations and Politics (9%) Agriculture and Food (7%) Energy (7%) Immigration (7%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Rosendale recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 5285: Staff Safety Act
- H.R. 5088: To provide for the settlement of the water rights claims of the Fort …
- H.R. 4634: To authorize appropriations for the operation of the Southwest Montana Veterans’ Home, located …
- H.R. 4436: Why Does the IRS Need Guns Act
- H.R. 4304: ISLET Act
- H.R. 3874: Veterans Education Assistance Improvement Act
- H.R. 3825: To prohibit the use of Department of Defense funds for adult cabaret performances.
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2021 to Sep 2023, Rosendale missed 20 of 1,453 roll call votes, which is 1.4%. This is on par with the median of 1.8% 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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
