U.S. House of Representatives
Elections 2019 special election On March 14, 2019, Bishop entered the
9th congressional district special election. He won the May 14 Republican primary with 47% of the vote. The election had been called after the results of the regular election were thrown out due to irregularities with absentee ballots in the district's eastern portion. The Republican nominee in that contest,
Mark Harris, had defeated Democrat Dan McCready by 905 votes, the closest race in the district in decades. Much of the district's share of Mecklenburg County had not been represented by a Democrat since 1953, and the 9th has been in Republican hands without interruption since it was configured as a Charlotte-based district in 1963. In the September 10 general election, Bishop defeated McCready, 50.7% to 48.7%. He won mainly by dominating the more rural areas of the district, as well as
Union County, the district's largest whole county. The closeness of the race was remarkable given the 9th's heavy Republican bent on paper; it had a
Cook Partisan Voting Index of R+8.
2020 election 2022 election Tenure Bishop took office on September 17, 2019. Bishop, along with all other Senate and House Republicans, voted against the
American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
2020 presidential election On January 6, 2021, Bishop was one of 147 Republican lawmakers who objected to the
certification of electoral votes from the 2020 presidential election after a mob of Trump supporters
stormed the U.S. Capitol and forced an emergency recess of Congress. Later that month, he voted against a
failed attempt to impeach Trump for his alleged role in inciting the mob to storm the Capitol.
Iraq In June 2021, Bishop was one of 49 House Republicans to vote to repeal the
AUMF against Iraq.
Israel Bishop voted to provide Israel with support following
2023 Hamas attack on Israel.
Defense In July 2022, Bishop was the only House Republican to vote for an amendment that would have cut the proposed defense budget by $100 billion. On the same day, Bishop was one of 14 Republicans to vote for a separate amendment that would have removed a proposed $37 billion spending increase in the defense budget.
Committee assignments •
Committee on Homeland Security • Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence • Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability (Chairman) •
Committee on the Judiciary • Subcommittee on the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust • Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government •
Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government Caucus memberships Source: •
Freedom Caucus •
Republican Study Committee • Border Security Caucus • Congressional FFA Caucus • Congressional Prayer Caucus • Election Integrity Caucus • Values Action Team == Financial contributions to the social network Gab ==