State hub · 119th Congress
West Virginia in Congress
West Virginia is represented by 2 U.S. senators and 2 U.S. representatives. See who they are, what they have written, and where federal project money was directed.
Data as of Oct 24, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, House Clerk, Senate.gov, appropriations committee tables
West Virginia’s delegation
Click any member for their full record
Counts are bills each member introduced as lead sponsor in the 119th Congress (ceremonial bills not counted), from PORKER’s bill records as of Oct 24, 2026. Each name opens that member’s full dossier.
Federal figures for the whole state
Two federal agencies’ published figures for West Virginia. They are shown as published. They are not a ranking and not a score.
Evidence
- Publisher
- U.S. Social Security Administration, Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, “Congressional Statistics, 2025”
- Table / row
- Table 1; sheet 'WV - OASDI', row 5
- Data as of
- December 2025; released April 2026
- Licence
- CC0 1.0, per the Data.gov record (id US-GOV-SSA-3372; record modified April 27, 2026)
- Retrieved by PORKER
- October 16, 2026
- Full file
- cong_stats25.xlsx ↗
- File SHA-256
7d31378275e2801fafd143bb96877c3407261b24767b935661ab5f915f2fe87f
Evidence
- Publisher
- U.S. Social Security Administration, Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, “Congressional Statistics, 2025”
- Table / row
- Table 2; sheet 'WV - SSI', row 6
- Data as of
- December 2025; released April 2026
- Licence
- CC0 1.0, per the Data.gov record (id US-GOV-SSA-3372; record modified April 27, 2026)
- Retrieved by PORKER
- October 16, 2026
- Full file
- cong_stats25.xlsx ↗
- File SHA-256
7d31378275e2801fafd143bb96877c3407261b24767b935661ab5f915f2fe87f
Evidence
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics
- File
- GDX_FY25.xlsx, sheet "State Direct Exp", sheet 'State Direct Exp', row 52, FIPS 54
- Prepared
- September 2026 (per the file’s data guide)
- Boundaries
- 119th Congress districts
- Licence
- U.S. government work; no licence statement found on the VA page
- Retrieved by PORKER
- October 16, 2026
- File SHA-256
1cf95d35c842b0064eacb3055db4441a775163919a3e90d21d30d4966aefaf25
Evidence
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics
- File
- GDX_FY25.xlsx, sheet "State Indirect Exp", sheet 'State Indirect Exp', row 52, FIPS 54
- Prepared
- September 2026 (per the file’s data guide)
- Boundaries
- 119th Congress districts
- Licence
- U.S. government work; no licence statement found on the VA page
- Retrieved by PORKER
- October 16, 2026
- File SHA-256
1cf95d35c842b0064eacb3055db4441a775163919a3e90d21d30d4966aefaf25
By district (in district order)
Read this first. Listed by district number only. There is no sort by amount and no colour scale on purpose. Districts differ in population and age, so two districts’ totals are not comparable without a per-person figure. PORKER does not show per-resident figures for these two sources yet, so it shows totals only, and districts are always listed in district-number order, never by amount.
| District | Social Security (OASDI) people | SSI people | VA direct, FY2025 | VA indirect, FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WV-1 | 252,376 | 38,095 | $691,951,293 | $800,131,449 |
| WV-2 | 229,739 | 23,429 | $654,766,171 | $737,931,852 |
9 district offices are listed in the local-offices file for 4 current members from West Virginia. They are on each member’s page.
Source records
| Source | File | Where | Published | Retrieved | SHA-256 of the file |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. Social Security Administration, Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics Congressional Statistics, 2025 (OASDI and SSI by congressional district) | cong_stats25.xlsx ↗ 398,838 bytes | West Virginia fact sheet, Tables 1 and 2 | April 2026 | October 16, 2026 | 7d31378275e2801fafd143bb96877c3407261b24767b935661ab5f915f2fe87f |
| U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics Geographic Distribution of VA Expenditures (GDX), Fiscal Year 2025 | GDX_FY25.xlsx ↗ 743,379 bytes | sheets "State Direct Exp", "State Indirect Exp", "CD Direct Exp", "CD Indirect Exp" | September 2026 | October 16, 2026 | 1cf95d35c842b0064eacb3055db4441a775163919a3e90d21d30d4966aefaf25 |
PORKER keeps a copy of each file. The SHA-256 shown is the hash of that stored copy. The state page and the district pages read the same files.
Federal award obligations by district
Fiscal year 2025, obligations by place of performance. Tiles are in district order. They are not sorted by amount and every map uses the same colour on purpose.
Read this first. “Obligated” means the government committed the money in an award action (a contract, grant, payment or loan). It is not the same as money paid out, and not the same as “spending”. USAspending places each action in a district by the place of performance on the award. That is often where work is administered or goods are shipped from, not where people benefit, so district attribution is approximate and one large action can move a district’s figure a lot. These are totals for the district, not for its member of Congress, and PORKER never ranks members or districts by amount.
How much USAspending places in a district. For FY2025, nationwide, USAspending also places this share of each state-level total in a district: contracts 100%, grants 24%, direct payments 54%, all award types 54%. The rest has no district on the award record (for example, grants to a state government or payments to individuals recorded at state level). So grant and direct-payment amounts shown for a district are only part of the picture and are not comparable with contract amounts.
Pick a district
For reference, USAspending’s own state-level total for FY2025 is $23.84 billion. It is larger than the sum of the districts ($16.98 billion) because it also includes actions placed in the state but not in a district.
Evidence
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov
- What the number is
- Sum of federal award-action obligations (contracts, grants, direct payments, loans) dated within the fiscal year (Oct 1 to Sep 30), by place of performance. USAspending field: spending_level=“transactions”, scope=“place_of_performance”.
- What it is not
- Not outlays (money paid out), not the lifetime value of awards, and a year’s net figure can be reduced by later changes that cancel earlier obligations, not spending by the district’s member, and not where the benefit lands.
- Per person
- Amount divided by the district population, both as supplied by USAspending in the same response (“per_capita”). PORKER does not re-compute it. USAspending does not state the population year.
- Geography
- WV , 119th Congress boundaries as used by USAspending. Actions with no district are not counted in any district.
- API endpoint
https://api.usaspending.gov/api/v2/search/spending_by_geography/(POST, no key needed)- Raw responses kept
- usaspending-2026-10-26.jsonl.gz (480,674 bytes)
- SHA-256 of stored file
e2c8ddb12d1a66028398e9927d5c35b6c03bec0eee81a027c6885db6c74335c8- Retrieved
- October 26, 2026
- Sum of districts
- $16,980,902,513 over 1,782,959 people
Nominees from West Virginia
Civilian nominations sent to the Senate, 119th Congress, that list West Virginia as the nominee’s state.
- Jack Chambers Confirmed
United States Marshal for the Southern District of West Virginia · Department of Justice
PN859-2 · received March 9, 2026 · WV · Confirmed 51–47 (roll call vote 225) on August 7, 2026 - Paul Ferguson Pending
United States Marshal for the Northern District of West Virginia · Department of Justice
PN730-24 · received January 13, 2026 · WV · Received message of withdrawal of nomination from the President. on June 1, 2026 - Richard Kloster Confirmed
Member of the Surface Transportation Board · Surface Transportation Board
PN730-37 · received January 13, 2026 · WV · Confirmed 46–43 (roll call vote 125) on May 18, 2026 - Richard Kloster Returned to the President
Member of the Surface Transportation Board · Surface Transportation Board
PN518-3 · received September 10, 2025 · WV · Returned to the President under the provisions of Senate Rule XXXI, paragraph 6 of the Standing Rules of the Senate. on January 3, 2026
Evidence
- What is counted
- Civilian nominations, 119th Congress, whose first listed nominee has West Virginia as the state on the Congress.gov record.
- Caution
- The state on a nomination record is what Congress.gov lists for the nominee. It is not always where the post is located, and ambassador nominations are for posts abroad.
Federal project money (pork)
Where it went, who askedTotals are not adjusted for population. Largest projects are shown; each project appears in the pork section of the app with the members who requested it.
Recent laws that name West Virginia
Bills that became lawNewest 10 of 107 laws since 1987 whose title, official title or official summary names West Virginia. The date is the day the record says the bill became public law. 0 of them are from the 119th Congress.
Other states
Same rule for every member. Both parties are always shown, and every number links to the bill or member behind it. How we calculate →