Hudson is the representative for North Carolina’s 9th congressional district (view map) and is a Republican. He has served since Jan 3, 2023. Hudson is next up for reelection in 2024 and serves until Jan 3, 2025. He is 51 years old.
He was previously the representative for North Carolina’s 8th congressional district as a Republican from 2013 to 2022.
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 instead by incumbent politicians running in the very same election. 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.
Hudson was among the Republican legislators who participated in the attempted coup. Shortly after the election, Hudson 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, based on lies and a preposterous legal argument 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, Hudson voted to reject the state-certified election results of Arizona and/or Pennsylvania (states narrowly won by Democrats), which could have changed the outcome of the election. These legislators have generally changed their story after their vote, claiming it was merely a protest and not intended to change the outcome of the election as they clearly sought prior to the vote. 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.
![Photo of Rep. Richard Hudson [R-NC9]](/static/legislator-photos/412550-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2022 Report Card for Hudson.
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Hudson 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 Hudson has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Mar 23, 2023. See full analysis methodology.
Committee Membership
Richard Hudson sits on the following committees:
Enacted Legislation
Hudson was the primary sponsor of 11 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:
- H.R. 6980 (117th): To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a pilot program under which the Secretary increases the conduct of unannounced inspections of foreign human …
- H.R. 3743 (117th): Supporting the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health and the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the Food and Drug Administration Act
- H.R. 108 (117th): National Medal of Honor Monument Act
- H.R. 5599 (115th): Animal Health and Innovation Act of 2018
- H.R. 3369 (115th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 225 North Main Street in Spring Lake, North Carolina, as the “Howard B. Pate, Jr. …
- H.R. 3477 (115th): Ceiling Fan Energy Conservation Harmonization Act
- H.R. 38 (115th): Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017
Does 11 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
Hudson sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Health (32%) Armed Forces and National Security (24%) Science, Technology, Communications (12%) Crime and Law Enforcement (12%) Government Operations and Politics (5%) Energy (5%) International Affairs (5%) Taxation (5%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Hudson recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 1784: To amend the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Organization Act to provide for …
- H.R. 1352: Increasing Access to Biosimilars Act of 2023
- H.R. 38: Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act
- H.R. 9584 (117th): ACCESS Act of 2022
- H.Res. 1271 (117th): Of inquiry requesting the President transmit to the House of Representatives certain …
- H.R. 8499 (117th): Transparency and Honesty in Energy Regulations Act of 2022
- H.Res. 1225 (117th): Electing a Member to certain standing committees of the House of Representatives.
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2013 to Mar 2023, Hudson missed 296 of 5,853 roll call votes, which is 5.1%. This is much worse than the median of 1.5% 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
