Good is the representative for Virginia’s 5th congressional district (view map) and is a Republican. He has served since Jan 3, 2021. Good is next up for reelection in 2024 and serves until Jan 3, 2025. He is 57 years old.
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.
Good 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, Good 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 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.
Misconduct
In 2021, Rep. Good was fined for failing to wear a mask on the House floor during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Rep. appealed his fine, but the appeal was denied.
| Sep. 27, 2021 | House Sergeant at Arms fined Good for failing to wear a mask on the House floor during the COVID-19 pandemic |
![Photo of Rep. Robert “Bob” Good [R-VA5]](/static/legislator-photos/456853-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2022 Report Card for Good.
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Good 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 Good has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Mar 27, 2023. See full analysis methodology.
Committee Membership
Robert “Bob” Good sits on the following committees:
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Good sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Government Operations and Politics (20%) Labor and Employment (20%) Education (15%) Crime and Law Enforcement (15%) Economics and Public Finance (9%) Immigration (9%) Health (7%) Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues (7%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Good recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.J.Res. 45: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, …
- H.R. 1243: Federal Agent Responsibility Act
- H.R. 997: English Language Unity Act of 2023
- H.R. 921: No Asylum for Criminals Act of 2023
- H.R. 721: Union Integrity Act
- H.R. 719: To amend the Labor Management Relations Act to prohibit neutrality agreements, and for …
- H.R. 720: Davis-Bacon Repeal Act
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2021 to Mar 2023, Good missed 39 of 1,164 roll call votes, which is 3.4%. This is worse than the median of 1.6% 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
- Office of Rep. Good for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
