Rep. Mike Carey
Representative for Ohio’s 15th District
![Photo of Rep. Mike Carey [R-OH15]](/static/legislator-photos/456864-200px.jpeg)
Earmarks
Carey proposed $70 million in earmarks for fiscal year 2024, including:
- $25 million to City of Grove City for “Southwest Innovation and Medical Gateway”
- $12 million to City of London - Division of Police for “London Public Safety Facility”
- $7 million to City of Sidney for “City of Sidney Water & Sewer Extension Project”
View all requests and justifications on Carey’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
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2022 Report Card for Carey.
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Carey 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 Carey has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Sep 22, 2023. See full analysis methodology.
Committee Membership
Mike Carey sits on the following committees:
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Carey sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Recently Introduced Bills
Carey recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 5073: Promoting Domestic Energy Production Act
- H.R. 4828: Imaging Services Price Transparency Act of 2023
- H.R. 4474: Confirmation Of Congressional Observer Access Act of 2023
- H.R. 3678: Pay Less at the Pump Act
- H.R. 3630: Student Athlete Level Playing Field Act
- H.R. 1069: Clean Energy Demonstration Transparency Act of 2023
- H.R. 9537 (117th): Clean Energy Demonstration Transparency Act of 2022
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Nov 2021 to Sep 2023, Carey missed 8 of 1,042 roll call votes, which is 0.8%. This is better than 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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
