Candidate · November 3, 2026
Maggie Goodlander
On the ballot for U.S. House · New Hampshire's 2nd District
- raised through Oct 14, 2026
- $5.0M
- cash on hand
- $1.8M
- issues with public statements
- 31
- outside spending for or against
- $152K
§1On the ballot
Why this matters: This is exactly how the candidate appears on your ballot, from the state's official candidate list.
| Office | U.S. House · New Hampshire's 2nd District1, |
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| Party on the ballot | Democratic1, |
| Status | Incumbent — Currently represents New Hampshire's 2nd District in the U.S. House.3 |
| Also on the ballot |
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§2Who they are
Why this matters: Background and experience help you judge how someone might do the job. These come from public records and the candidate's own materials.
Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.
Maggie Goodlander began her career as a foreign policy adviser in the U.S. Senate and later served for more than a decade as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve.4 She was a law clerk at the U.S. Supreme Court and has taught constitutional law at the University of New Hampshire and Dartmouth.4 She served as counsel in the first impeachment of former President Donald Trump, then worked as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice and as a senior adviser at the White House.4 She is serving her first term in the U.S. House, representing New Hampshire's 2nd District, and is a member of the House Armed Services Committee and the House Veterans Affairs Committee.4,
Why they say they're running
Her campaign website presents three priorities for her work in Congress: lowering costs, cracking down on corruption, and keeping promises such as Social Security and Medicare, veterans' care and public education.5,
Service in Congress since 2023
- 2025–nowU.S. Representative, NH-23
Websites and accounts
- Official websitegoodlander.house.gov3
- X (Twitter)x.com/RepGoodlander7
- Facebookfacebook.com/615716066048667
- Instagraminstagram.com/repgoodlander7
- Campaign websitemaggiefornh.com8,
9 - Facebookfacebook.com/p/Maggie-Goodlander-For-Congress-615593345452309
- Instagraminstagram.com/MaggieforNH9
- X (Twitter)twitter.com/MaggieG6039
- Threadsthreads.com/@maggiefornh9
- Blueskybsky.app/profile/maggiefornh.com9
- YouTubeyoutube.com/@MaggieGoodlanderforNH9
§3What they've said on the issues
Why this matters: These are positions the candidate has stated publicly — on their campaign website or in public statements — summarized in plain words with a link to where they said it. Issues they haven't spoken about publicly are left out.
Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.
Each issue has its own range of views. A position is marked on that range only when the candidate's own statement clearly matches one option; there is no overall left–right score.
Elections and Government Reform
Her campaign website says she is leading bipartisan legislation, the Public Service Accountability Act, that would prohibit senior officials in the legislative, executive and judicial branches, and their families, from holding or trading individual stocks or wagering on prediction markets.5,
- Ban members and their spouses and dependent children from owning or trading individual stocks
- Ban members themselves from trading individual stocks
- No ban; keep the reporting rules, with stronger penalties for late reports
Her campaign website says she is championing a constitutional amendment (H.J.Res. 122) to overturn Citizens United and is helping lead the Ban Corporate PACs Act, which would bar for-profit corporations from funding political campaigns.5,
- Limit spending by outside groups, including by amending the Constitution to overturn Citizens United
- Keep spending unlimited but require groups to name their major donors
- Keep current rules
- Raise or remove limits on donations to candidates and parties
Courts, Rights and Civil Liberties
Economy, Jobs and Trade
Her campaign website says she is working to end the Trump administration's trade wars, roll back tariffs and secure refunds for people who paid them, and lists among her accomplishments joining the Supreme Court challenge to the emergency tariffs, which the Court struck down.5,
Her campaign website says she wants to restore Congress's constitutional authority over tariffs and taxation, and lists legal briefs defending that authority among her accomplishments.5
Her campaign website lists the Protect America's Workforce Act, which passed the House and would reverse the executive order that removed collective bargaining protections from federal workers, among the bills it highlights.5
- Limit or end union bargaining for most public employees
- Keep current rules, including the 2025 order's limits at federal agencies
- Restore bargaining rights at the federal agencies the 2025 order excluded, as the House-passed Protect America's Workforce Act would
- Guarantee bargaining rights for public employees nationwide
Her campaign website lists the Faster Labor Contracts Act, which passed the House and would help newly unionized workers get a first contract without long employer delays, among the bills it highlights.5
Her campaign website lists among her accomplishments a court filing in National Treasury Employees Union v. Vought that challenged efforts to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.5
Her campaign website lists more than a dozen small business bills that passed the House, many of them about Small Business Administration programs, including bills on federal contracting, loan oversight and rural outreach.5
Foreign Policy and Defense
Her campaign website lists among her accomplishments championing three House-passed resolutions directing the president to end U.S. military involvement in hostilities with Iran, and says Congress should again be responsible, as the Constitution provides, for deciding whether to send Americans into combat.5
- Let the president order military action without needing Congress's approval
- Let the president act first, but enforce the 60-day limit and end any action Congress doesn't approve
- Require Congress to approve military action in advance, except to defend against an attack
Her campaign website lists the Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act, which passed the House and would sanction people involved in certain logistics deals or sanctions evasion tied to Iranian energy products, among the bills it highlights.5
Her campaign website says she helped gather the signatures needed to force a House vote on the Ukraine Support Act and voted for it, and says the bill would help Ukraine defend itself and impose tougher sanctions on Russia.5
Her campaign website lists among her accomplishments a court filing in American Foreign Service Association v. Trump that challenged what it calls attacks on USAID.5
Education
Her campaign website lists among her accomplishments challenging, in court, efforts to close the Department of Education.5
- Close the department and move or end its programs
- Shrink it and give states more control over federal school money
- Keep the department and its programs, or expand it
Immigration
Her campaign website lists among her accomplishments court filings opposing restrictions on birthright citizenship and defending constitutional citizenship protections.5
- Keep automatic citizenship for every child born in the US
- End it for children of parents here without legal permission, such as by amending the Constitution
- End it for children of parents here without legal permission or on temporary visas, such as by amending the Constitution
Her campaign website lists among her accomplishments a court filing in Centro de Trabajadores Unidos v. Bessent that defended keeping taxpayer information private and apart from immigration enforcement.5
Crime, Policing and Prisons
Her campaign website lists among her accomplishments court filings opposing the deployment of National Guard troops in Illinois and challenging a deployment in the District of Columbia over the objections of local elected leaders.5
Guns
Her campaign website lists among her accomplishments a court filing in Viramontes v. Cook County, Illinois, saying decisions about regulating assault weapons should remain with democratically accountable lawmakers.5
Veterans
Her campaign website says she has made the Major Richard Star Act a top priority; the bill would end the offset that reduces retirement pay for combat-injured veterans who are medically retired.5
- Let all military retirees with service-connected disabilities collect both payments in full
- Expand benefits for some groups, such as combat-injured retirees with under 20 years of service and surviving spouses who remarry
- Keep current rules, which already pay both in full to some retirees, such as those with 20 or more years of service and a disability rating of at least 50%
Health Care
Her campaign website says she led bipartisan legislation, the Common Ground for Affordable Healthcare Act, which passed the House and would extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits for three years.5
- Don't bring back the larger credits
- Instead of the larger credits, give the aid to people directly, such as deposits into health savings accounts
- Bring them back for a limited time, such as through 2028, with or without changes such as income limits or minimum premiums
- Bring back the larger credits permanently
Energy and Climate
Her campaign website lists the Ratepayer Protection Act, which passed the House and would require consideration of protections so that large data centers pay for the grid upgrades they need instead of passing those costs to other customers.5
Her campaign website says she is leading bipartisan hydropower permitting legislation (H.R. 9705) that would make Army Corps of Engineers reviews consistent so that dams already in place can be modified to generate hydropower.5
Technology, Privacy and AI
Her campaign website says she is championing the SLASH Prices Act, which would require companies to disclose when they use algorithms and personal information to set prices and would let people opt out without paying more or getting worse service.5
Housing
Her campaign website lists among her accomplishments helping pass the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which it says restricts large corporate investors from buying single-family homes and reduces red tape that slows construction.5
Family and Social Policy
Her campaign website lists making child care affordable among the ways to lower costs for New Hampshire families.6
Abortion and Reproductive Health
Her campaign website sets out a reproductive freedom agenda that includes establishing a federal right to abortion access that builds on the protections of Roe v. Wade.6,
Her campaign website says she would push for a federal right to abortion through the Women's Health Protection Act.10
- A national law making abortion legal in every state, at least until viability, as under Roe v. Wade
- Leave abortion law to each state
- A national law limiting abortion (for example, after 15 weeks of pregnancy)
Her campaign website says she supports repealing the Hyde Amendment so that public health insurance programs cover abortion care.10
- Bar public funds for abortions and for groups that provide them, including for their other services
- Bar public funds for most abortions, but let clinics that provide them be paid for other care
- Let Medicaid and other public programs cover abortion (ending the Hyde Amendment)
Her campaign website lists establishing a federal right to IVF and a federal right to contraception among the items in her reproductive freedom agenda.10
- Guarantee access to both in federal law, including insurance coverage for IVF
- Lower IVF costs, such as through cheaper drugs and optional employer benefits, without a new federal right or coverage requirement
- No new federal law; leave current federal and state rules in place
- Let states limit some methods, such as by giving embryos legal protection
Her campaign website says she would preserve access to medication abortion through telehealth, and calls for repealing the Comstock Act and adding federal protections for prescribing abortion medication by telehealth and mail.10
§4Popular bills that never got a vote
Why this matters: Many bills with wide support from both parties never reach a vote, so no member of Congress is ever on record for or against them. Signing on as a sponsor or cosponsor is the only public record of support.
While Maggie Goodlander served, these bills had broad support from both parties but never reached a floor vote. No officeholder ever had to vote on them. Maggie Goodlander sponsored or cosponsored 16 of the 26. How bills die without a vote.
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- Lets combat-disabled veterans get full military retirement pay plus disability pay (H.R. 2102, 119th Congress · 340 cosponsors)11Cosponsored
- Sets electronic prior-approval and reporting rules for Medicare Advantage plans (H.R. 3514, 119th Congress · 308 cosponsors)12Cosponsored
- Ends disability benefit and Medicare waiting periods for metastatic breast cancer (H.R. 2048, 119th Congress · 271 cosponsors)13Cosponsored
- Extends the parks maintenance fund and adds higher park fees for foreign visitors (H.R. 9250, 119th Congress · 263 cosponsors)14Cosponsored
- Expands Medicare telehealth coverage by removing location limits and other restrictions (H.R. 4206, 119th Congress · 248 cosponsors)15Cosponsored
- Bans slaughtering horses and other equines for human food (H.R. 1661, 119th Congress · 238 cosponsors)16Cosponsored
- Targets crimes against postal workers; authorizes money for more secure mailboxes and keys (H.R. 1065, 119th Congress · 231 cosponsors)17Cosponsored
- Adds Medicare coverage of blood tests to screen for early Alzheimer's disease (H.R. 6130, 119th Congress · 231 cosponsors)18Cosponsored
- Keeps paying military members and support staff during a shutdown in fiscal 2026 (H.R. 5401, 119th Congress · 210 cosponsors)19Cosponsored
- Raises Medicare physician fee schedule payments by 6.62% for April through December 2025 (H.R. 879, 119th Congress · 198 cosponsors)20Cosponsored
- Lets surviving military and veteran spouses keep benefits after remarrying (H.R. 1004, 119th Congress · 183 cosponsors)21Cosponsored
- Expands U.S.-Israel military cooperation on counter-drone and emerging technology (H.R. 1229, 119th Congress · 178 cosponsors)22Cosponsored
- Requires employer health plans to offer exceptions to step therapy drug rules (H.R. 5509, 119th Congress · 169 cosponsors)23Cosponsored
- Expands and revises the low-income housing tax credit for affordable rentals (H.R. 2725, 119th Congress · 168 cosponsors)24Cosponsored
- No-down-payment, federally insured mortgages for first responders and teachers (H.R. 2094, 119th Congress · 154 cosponsors)25Cosponsored
- Bans betting on animal fights and allows private lawsuits over animal fighting (H.R. 3946, 119th Congress · 150 cosponsors)26Cosponsored
- Requires health plans to cover birth defect care for the eyes, ears, teeth, mouth or jaw (H.R. 3277, 119th Congress · 214 cosponsors)27Did not cosponsor
- Raises the tax credit for maintaining short line railroad track (H.R. 516, 119th Congress · 183 cosponsors)28Did not cosponsor
- Authorizes CIA payments to former Air America employees and survivors for 1950-1976 work (H.R. 2192, 119th Congress · 178 cosponsors)29Did not cosponsor
- Expands Medicare coverage to all services chiropractors are licensed to provide (H.R. 539, 119th Congress · 174 cosponsors)30Did not cosponsor
- Counts recovery from organ donation surgery as a serious health condition for family leave (H.R. 4582, 119th Congress · 168 cosponsors)31Did not cosponsor
- Bars insurers from discriminating against living organ donors (H.R. 4583, 119th Congress · 168 cosponsors)32Did not cosponsor
- Requires nursing homes and similar facilities to let essential caregivers see residents (H.R. 6766, 119th Congress · 160 cosponsors)33Did not cosponsor
- Doubles the amount of profit from selling a primary home that is exempt from tax (H.R. 1340, 119th Congress · 159 cosponsors)34Did not cosponsor
- Requires VA clinicians to certify a veteran's death within 48 hours (H.R. 4398, 119th Congress · 158 cosponsors)35Did not cosponsor
- Funds research on firefighter protective gear made without PFAS chemicals (H.R. 3184, 119th Congress · 150 cosponsors)36Did not cosponsor
§5Money
Why this matters: Campaigns report where their money comes from and how much they have left. Outside groups that spend on their own, without coordinating with the campaign, report that too.
Reported to the Federal Election Commission for the 2025–2026 election cycle, through October 14, 2026.37
| Raised | $5,012,909 |
|---|---|
| Spent | $3,249,344 |
| Cash on hand | $1,821,563 |
Where the money came from
Outside spending
Groups spending independently reported $150,000 supporting and $1,811 opposing Maggie Goodlander this cycle, primary and general combined, in the 24- and 48-hour reports the law requires for larger expenditures, filed through September 28, 2026.38
| Group | Supporting | Opposing |
|---|---|---|
| FELLOWSHIP PAC | $150,000 | — |
| America PAC | — | $1,811 |
Smaller expenditures that appear only on a group's regular monthly or quarterly report aren't in these totals, so the full amounts can be somewhat higher. When a group amends a report, only its latest version is counted.
§6Financial disclosures
Why this matters: Federal candidates and members of Congress must report their assets, income, debts and outside jobs, and members must report stock trades. These filings show possible conflicts of interest.
- Amended financial disclosure report39filed May 15, 2026
- Annual financial disclosure report40filed May 15, 2026
- New filer financial disclosure report41filed May 15, 2025
- Amended financial disclosure report42filed Sep 3, 2024
- Candidate financial disclosure report43filed Aug 12, 2024