Budd is the junior senator from North Carolina and is a Republican. He has served since Jan 3, 2023. Budd is next up for reelection in 2028 and serves until Jan 3, 2029. He is 51 years old.
He was previously the representative for North Carolina’s 13th congressional district as a Republican from 2017 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.
Budd was among the Republican legislators who participated in the attempted coup. Shortly after the election, Budd 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.) Budd was a part of a coordinated campaign with the Trump Administration spreading conspiracy theories about the election. On January 6, 2021 in the hours after the violent insurrection at the Capitol, Budd 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 Sen. Ted Budd [R-NC]](/static/legislator-photos/412712-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2022 Report Card for Budd.
Committee Membership
Ted Budd sits on the following committees:
Enacted Legislation
Budd was the primary sponsor of 2 bills that were enacted:
- H.R. 2720 (117th): Make PPE in America Act
- H.R. 8202 (116th): To designate the airport traffic control tower located at Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, North Carolina, as the “Senator Kay Hagan Airport Traffic Control Tower”.
Does 2 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
Budd sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Finance and Financial Sector (27%) Government Operations and Politics (20%) Taxation (15%) Health (13%) International Affairs (7%) Labor and Employment (7%) Armed Forces and National Security (6%) Crime and Law Enforcement (5%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Budd recently introduced the following legislation:
- S. 711: Working Dog Commemorative Coin Act
- S.Res. 100: A resolution to honor the life and death of James Thomas Broyhill, former …
- S.Con.Res. 4: A concurrent resolution establishing deadlines for the Joint Committee of Congress on the …
- S. 422: Build the Wall Now Act
- H.R. 9451 (117th): HALOS Act of 2022
- H.R. 9452 (117th): Regulation A+ Improvement Act of 2022
- H.R. 9405 (117th): Investment Opportunity Expansion Act
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Feb 2023 to Mar 2023, Budd missed 4 of 61 roll call votes, which is 6.6%. This is much worse than the median of 2.3% among the lifetime records of senators 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 Ted Budd for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
