Lindsey Graham — GovTally

Issue areas

Derived from issue-tagged bills they sponsored and stated positions — each links to the underlying record. AI-derived tags

Government Operations & Budget 2 Criminal Justice & Policing 1 Defense & Military 1 Gun Policy 1

Offices & terms

Office	Party	From	To	Source
U.S. Senator (Class 2), SC current South Carolina	Republican	Jan 3, 2021	Jan 3, 2027	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Senator (Class 2), SC South Carolina	Republican	Jan 6, 2015	Jan 3, 2021	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
US Senate District South Carolina United States	Republican	Jan 6, 2015	Jan 3, 2021	openstates/people CC0-1.0
U.S. Senator (Class 2), SC South Carolina	Republican	Jan 6, 2009	Jan 3, 2015	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
US Senate District South Carolina United States	Republican	Jan 6, 2009	Jan 3, 2015	openstates/people CC0-1.0
US Senate District South Carolina United States	Republican	Jan 7, 2003	Jan 3, 2009	openstates/people CC0-1.0
U.S. Senator (Class 2), SC South Carolina	Republican	Jan 7, 2003	Jan 3, 2009	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, SC-3 South Carolina	Republican	Jan 3, 2001	Jan 3, 2003	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
US House District SC-3 United States	Republican	Jan 3, 2001	Jan 3, 2003	openstates/people CC0-1.0
US House District SC-3 United States	Republican	Jan 6, 1999	Jan 3, 2001	openstates/people CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, SC-3 South Carolina	Republican	Jan 6, 1999	Jan 3, 2001	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, SC-3 South Carolina	Republican	Jan 7, 1997	Jan 3, 1999	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
US House District SC-3 United States	Republican	Jan 7, 1997	Jan 3, 1999	openstates/people CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, SC-3 South Carolina	Republican	Jan 4, 1995	Jan 3, 1997	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
US House District SC-3 United States	Republican	Jan 4, 1995	Jan 3, 1997	openstates/people CC0-1.0

Committee assignments

Senate Committee on Appropriations unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Appropriations — Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Appropriations — Department of Defense unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Appropriations — Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Appropriations — Energy and Water Development unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Appropriations — State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs — Chairman unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Appropriations — Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works — Chemical Safety, Waste Management, Environmental Justice, and Regulatory Oversight unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works — Clean Air, Climate, and Nuclear Innovation and Safety unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works — Transportation and Infrastructure unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on the Budget — Chairman unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on the Judiciary unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on the Judiciary — Border Security and Immigration unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on the Judiciary — Crime and Counterterrorism unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on the Judiciary — Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on the Judiciary — Privacy, Technology, and the Law unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0

Ideology — academic context, not a GovTally claim

DW-NOMINATE coordinates (Congress 119): economic dim. 0.367, social dim. -0.266. Voteview DW-NOMINATE Voteview-academic

Roll-call votes (840 recorded)

Vote	Position	Date	Result	Source
Confirmation: Jason Reding Quinones, of Florida, to be United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida	Yea	Aug 2, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Jason Reding Quinones to be United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida	Yea	Aug 2, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Brian Burch, of Illinois, to be Ambassador of the United States of America to the Holy See	Yea	Aug 2, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Brian Burch to be Ambassador of the United States of America to the Holy See	Yea	Aug 2, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Andrew Puzder, of Tennessee, to be Representative of the United States of America to the European Union with the rank of…	Yea	Aug 2, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Andrew Puzder to be Representative of the United States of America to the European Union with the rank of…	Yea	Aug 2, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Nicholas Kent, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of Education	Yea	Aug 1, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: David Woll, of Virginia, to be General Counsel of the Department of Housing and Urban Development	Yea	Aug 1, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Luigi Rinaldi, of New York, to be Ambassador of the United States of America to the Oriental Republic of Uruguay	Yea	Aug 1, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Mullin Amdt. No. 3412	Yea	Aug 1, 2025	Amendment Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 3944 — Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, and Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2026	Yea	Aug 1, 2025	Bill Passed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Collins Amdt. No. 3411, as amended	Yea	Aug 1, 2025	Amendment Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Johnson Amdt. No. 3428	Nay	Aug 1, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Scott (FL) Amdt. No. 3113, as modified	Nay	Aug 1, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Kennedy Amdt. No. 3414	Nay	Aug 1, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Duckworth Amdt. No. 3466	Nay	Aug 1, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Van Hollen Amdt. No. 3115	Nay	Aug 1, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Murphy Amdt. No. 3447	Nay	Aug 1, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Waive All Applicable Budgetary Points of Order Re: Merkley Amdt. No. 3114	Nay	Aug 1, 2025	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Luigi Rinaldi to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Oriental…	Yea	Aug 1, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Brian Nesvik, of Wyoming, to be Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service	Yea	Aug 1, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Casey Mulligan, of Illinois, to be Chief Counsel for Advocacy, Small Business Administration	Yea	Aug 1, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Brian Nesvik to be Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service	Yea	Aug 1, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Nicholas Kent to be Under Secretary of Education	Yea	Jul 31, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: David Woll to be General Counsel of the Department of Housing and Urban Development	Yea	Jul 31, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD

Campaign funding

1,000 recorded contributions totalling $3,413,963. Amounts and dates come straight from FEC filings; funding-type labels are software-classified from those filings classified — 240 of 1000 classified so far.

Funding type	Contributions	Total	Share
Corporate PAC	50	$1,979,026	58%
Big donor	190	$612,542	18%
Unclassified	760	$822,395	24%

Largest contributions

Amount	Donor	To committee	Type	Date	Source
$1,117,683	FIDELITY INVESTMENTS	TEAM GRAHAM, INC.	Corporate PAC	Dec 31, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$229,202	FIDELITY INVESTMENTS	TEAM GRAHAM, INC.	Corporate PAC	Dec 31, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$58,925	WINRED PAC	TEAM GRAHAM, INC.	Corporate PAC	Oct 28, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$57,200	AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION CO	TEAM GRAHAM, INC.	Corporate PAC	Oct 24, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$43,867	WINRED PAC	TEAM GRAHAM, INC.	Corporate PAC	Nov 4, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$30,346	PALADIN DATA LLC	TEAM GRAHAM, INC.	Corporate PAC	Sep 27, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$29,414	PALADIN DATA LLC	TEAM GRAHAM, INC.	Corporate PAC	Dec 16, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$27,818	WINRED PAC	TEAM GRAHAM, INC.	Corporate PAC	Apr 11, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$26,956	WINRED PAC	TEAM GRAHAM, INC.	Corporate PAC	Mar 12, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$26,434	CASTLEBLACK LLC	TEAM GRAHAM, INC.	Corporate PAC	Jan 31, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$24,031	CASTLEBLACK LLC	TEAM GRAHAM, INC.	Corporate PAC	Jan 31, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$21,779	WINRED PAC	TEAM GRAHAM, INC.	Corporate PAC	Jun 27, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$20,400	AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION CO	TEAM GRAHAM, INC.	Corporate PAC	Nov 4, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$20,203	WINRED PAC	TEAM GRAHAM, INC.	Corporate PAC	Jan 9, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$17,400	SIMMONS, LINDA L.	TEAM GRAHAM, INC.	Big donor	Jan 4, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally funding-type rules

Largest by amount; not the full set. FEC contributor data may not be used for commercial solicitation.