Kristen McDonald Rivet

U.S. Representative, Michigan District 8 · Democrat. Member of the House in the 119th Congress, from the House Clerk's member list.

2026 race: Michigan U.S. House District 8 · Official website

How to contact Kristen McDonald Rivet

Official website (its contact page takes messages from constituents)

Washington office: 1408 Longworth House Office Building Washington DC 20515-2208 · 202-225-3611

District offices:

Official accounts: X · Facebook · Instagram

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Where Kristen McDonald Rivet falls, left to right

Slightly left, from their votes in Congress (DW-NOMINATE, Voteview) · Voteview. 182nd from the left of 431

Voting record, 119th Congress

674roll-call votes held while a memberVoteview.
2.2%of those votes missedTypical House member: 1.9%. Absences have many causes; the count doesn't say why.
88.9%of 458 party-line votes cast with their partyTypical House member: 98.3%.

Rankings: 414th of 431 (1st = votes with their party most often) · 172nd of 430 (1st = most votes missed)

Legislation, 119th Congress

Sponsored 19 bills and resolutions; 0 became law. Most often about taxation, agriculture and food and armed forces and national security. 293rd of 433 (1st = most bills sponsored)

Most recent

From Congress.gov. Counts bills where they're the primary sponsor.

Committees

  • House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
    Highways and Transit · Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management
  • House Committee on Agriculture
    General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit · Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development

Service

  • In the House since 2025
  • Current term ends January 3, 2027
  • Born 1970

From Congress's member data (congress-legislators, public domain).

Who gives money to Kristen McDonald Rivet

The political action committees that gave to Kristen McDonald Rivet's campaign, and the groups that forwarded bundled gifts, January 2023 through the latest 2026 reports.

$13 millionraised by the campaignJanuary 2023 through the latest 2026 reports.
$2.4 milliondirectly from 477 PACs19% of the total. 311th of 432 (1st = largest share from PACs).
$707,118in bundled gifts forwarded by groupsDonations from individuals, earmarked for this campaign.
$13,491from party committees

Largest direct PAC givers

  1. EMILYs List · $23,164
  2. Machinists Non Partisan Political League of the International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers · $20,000
  3. Carpenters Legislative Improvement Committee United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners · $20,000
  4. Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA) PAC · $20,000
  5. Rocket Limited Partnership PAC (ROCKET PAC) (FEC) · $20,000
  6. American Association for Justice Political Action Committee (AAJ PAC) · $20,000
  7. NEA Fund for Children and Public Education · $20,000
  8. AmeriPAC: The Fund for a Greater America · $20,000
  9. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Political Action Committee · $20,000
  10. American Federation of State County & Municipal Employees P E O P L E · $20,000

Largest bundlers

  1. JStreetPAC · $319,571
  2. EMILYs List · $101,692
  3. Swing Left · $70,872
  4. Zinc Collective PAC · $46,783
  5. WelcomePAC · $36,500

From reports filed with the Federal Election Commission. Two kinds of money are counted, separately: direct contributions from a PAC's own account to a member's campaign, and bundled (earmarked) gifts: donations from individuals, each earmarked for a particular candidate, that a group collected and forwarded to the campaign. "Received" means the campaign got the money; it doesn't mean the group controls how the member votes. Super PAC spending isn't counted, since it isn't given to a campaign. What's a PAC? · How we count.

Quick answers

Who gives money to Kristen McDonald Rivet?
Kristen McDonald Rivet's campaign raised $13 million from January 2023 through the latest 2026 reports. $2.4 million (19%) came directly from 477 PACs; the largest were EMILYs List ($23,164), the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers ($20,000) and the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners ($20,000). Groups also forwarded $707,118 in bundled gifts from their donors, most from J Street ($319,571), EMILYs List ($101,692) and Swing Left ($70,872). From FEC filings.
How do I contact Kristen McDonald Rivet?
Call the Washington office at 202-225-3611 or the district office (Flint 810-238-8627), or write through the official website, https://mcdonaldrivet.house.gov.
Is Kristen McDonald Rivet liberal or conservative?
By voting record, Kristen McDonald Rivet is slightly left: a DW-NOMINATE score of -0.24 on a scale from −1 (left) to +1 (right), from every roll-call vote in the 119th Congress (Voteview, UCLA); 182nd from the left of 431 representatives.
How often does Kristen McDonald Rivet vote with their party, and miss votes?
Kristen McDonald Rivet voted with their party on 88.9% of 458 party-line votes and missed 2.2% of 674 roll-call votes in the 119th Congress (Voteview).
What bills has Kristen McDonald Rivet passed?
Kristen McDonald Rivet sponsored 19 bills and resolutions in the 119th Congress; 0 became law (Congress.gov).
How much PAC money has Kristen McDonald Rivet received?
$2.4 million directly from 477 PACs since January 2023, plus $13,491 from party committees, plus $707,118 in bundled gifts that groups forwarded.
What is a PAC?
A political action committee: a group registered with the Federal Election Commission that raises money and spends it on elections, including by giving to candidates. Corporations, labor unions, trade associations and membership groups can sponsor one, which may raise money only from people tied to the sponsor (its employees, members or shareholders, for example). Independent (nonconnected) PACs can raise from the public, and many politicians have a leadership PAC to give to other candidates. In 2025–26 a PAC that gives to several candidates can give each one up to $5,000 per election.
What is a super PAC?
A committee that can raise unlimited sums from individuals, corporations, unions and other PACs, but only to spend independently: ads and other activity not coordinated with a campaign. It doesn't give to campaigns, so super PAC money isn't in the PAC totals here.
What is a bundled (earmarked) donation?
A donation from an individual that a group collects and passes on to the candidate it's earmarked for. Under federal rules it counts as that individual's own contribution (up to $3,500 per election in 2025–26), and the campaign reports it as earmarked through the group. It's separate from the PAC's own direct contributions.

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