Former member of Congress · last served 118th Congress

Wiley Nickel

DEMOCRAT U.S. Representative · North CarolinaHouse 2023–2025 (NC-13)

Wiley Nickel was a Democratic U.S. representative from North Carolina, first elected to Congress in 2023.

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12Bills & resolutions sponsored118th–118th Congress (excludes amendments)

0Passed a chamberof 10 substantive bills (excludes resolutions and ceremonial bills)

0Became law118th–118th Congress

—Broke with partyNo roll calls in PORKER’s records (they start in 2011)

—Missed votesNo roll calls in PORKER’s records (they start in 2011)

$11.4MPork: own shareFY2024 earmarks, 15 items; shared items split

How we count: “Broke with party” is a yes/no roll call where the member voted against most of their own party on that vote (party as recorded; even splits not counted). “Pork: own share” splits each earmark shared by several members evenly among them.

Recent votes

No recorded roll-call votes in PORKER’s records. Roll-call records start in 2011.

5 most recent bills

H.R. 8409 Helping Our Parents Enroll (HOPE) in Child Care Act
Dec 17, 2024 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Work and Welfare.
H.R. 5547 Maintaining Investments in New Innovation Act
Dec 17, 2024 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
H.R. 10323 Civil Nuclear Export Act of 2024
Dec 6, 2024 · Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
H.R. 9991 ESCRA Act
Oct 15, 2024 · Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
H.R. 9418 SASS Act
Aug 27, 2024 · Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Top bills sponsored

Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.

Elections Rep. Nickel has won

Rep. Nickel has won 1 U.S. House election (2022–2022). Of the contested races, margins ran from 3.2 to 3.2 points.

Democratic winRepublican winseat changed partyunopposed

Elections won1 in the data (1976–2024); losses are not listed

Closest win: 3.2 points2022, NC-13

Won an open seat or took one from the other party1 of 1 elections (open seat or changed party)

Seat history, North Carolina’s 13th districtWinners, most recent three: Ted Budd (R) 2016–2020 → Wiley Nickel (D) 2022 → Brad Knott (R) 2024. Elections shown, not terms; special elections not included.

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Source: MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. House V15 / U.S. Senate V8 (CC0), retrieved 2026-10-18; winners matched to member records by seat and term. Results run through the 2024 elections; nothing from 2026 is shown until it is certified. A margin is a fact about one election, never a score of how well a member represents anyone, and PORKER does not rank members by it.

Official records on bills this member sponsored

118th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 12 bills sponsored.

Record	Bills	Source
Bills sponsored	12	Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them →
With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement	10	See the 10 →
With a CBO cost estimate listed	0	None listed
With a committee report listed	0	None listed

Evidence

How counted: Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 118th Congress, read from the stored Congress.gov bill records
Fields: cboCostEstimates, committeeReports, constitutionalAuthorityStatementText, notes
PORKER copy refreshed: October 26, 2026 (nightly)

Read this first. These are counts of records Congress.gov lists. Many bills never get a CBO estimate or a report, so a zero is not a mark against a member. We never show this as a score.

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Data as of Oct 26, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.