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Mike Rogers

Holds no public office. He represented Michigan's 8th Congressional District in the U.S. House for seven terms, from 2001 to 2015. Campaign affiliation: Republican.

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Background, stated goals, record, and money

Background comes from official records, and from the campaign's own biography where the bullet says so; goals are summarized from the campaign's own platform and stay attributed; the record lines are official actions with the government source attached; money is shown as filed, with the filing window and the reconciliation in the note under the table, and is not evidence of why any position was taken.

Mike Rogers

Background

What they say they want to do

  • Manufacturing jobs brought back home, and lower prices for gas, groceries and prescription drugs. Rogers for Senate
  • Social Security and Medicare protected for seniors. Rogers for Senate
  • 529 savings plans opened to first-time home down payments, and tax-free residential zones for new construction. Rogers for Senate
  • Insurers forced to publish denial rates, approval times and appeal outcomes, and fined for posting no real prices. Rogers for Senate
  • The tax cuts he calls the Working Families Tax Cuts made permanent, and the state and federal gas tax suspended. Rogers for Senate, Rogers for Senate

What the official record shows

Campaign money from other committees, by type

Transfers and contributions from joint fundraising committees 8 committees$3,139,682
Leadership PACs 50 committees$400,000
Corporation PACs 34 committees$131,000
PAC - Qualified 19 committees$109,500
Trade Association PACs 16 committees$65,000
Party committees 1 committee$62,000
Membership Organization PACs 4 committees$30,000
PAC - Nonqualified 6 committees$18,750
Hybrid PAC (with Non-Contribution Account) - Qualified 3 committees$12,500
Corporation w/o capital stock PACs 2 committees$7,500
House 2 committees$7,000
Hybrid PAC (with Non-Contribution Account) - Nonqualified 1 committee$2,500
Committees the FEC records no type for 4 committees$2,477
Cooperative PACs 1 committee$1,000

Source: Federal Election Commission

Contributions and transfers from political committees in the 2025-2026 cycle filings through July 15, 2026, read from filing lines 11B (party committees), 11C (other political committees) and 12 (transfers from joint fundraising committees), and grouped by the FEC's recorded type of the contributing committee. Line 11B: one party contribution of $62,000. Line 11C: $787,227.09 across 197 contributions, after excluding 10 memo entries. Line 12: $3,139,681.67 transferred from eight joint fundraising committees; 7,086 memo entries itemizing the individual donations inside those transfers are excluded because the transfers already count them. Each line equals the FEC summary figure for it, and the table totals $3,988,908.76. Donations individuals made through WinRed are individual contributions and are not in the table. The rows sum to 3,988,908.76 dollars.

Words and record

Where statements meet the record

Each card is labeled narrowly, by rule, and states its own limit.

Mike Rogers

Michigan's 529 college savings program

Matches stated record claim

What they say

His campaign says that as a state senator he wrote the legislation that created Michigan's 529 college savings program.

“He wrote the legislation that created Michigan’s 529 College Savings Program, helping families save for their children’s education.”

Source: Rogers for Senate

What the record shows ·

Senate Bill 599 of 1999 lists one sponsor, Mike Rogers of the 26th Senate district, and describes itself as establishing the Michigan education savings program. It passed the Senate 36 to 0 on May 3, 2000 and the House 105 to 0 on May 18; the Senate concurred in the House substitute 37 to 0 on May 31, and the governor approved it on June 16, 2000 as Public Act 161 of 2000.

Sources: Michigan Legislature, Michigan Legislature, Michigan Legislature, Michigan Senate Fiscal Agency

Limit: The legislature's record ties the bill to two House bills, HB 5653 by Gary Woronchak and HB 5654 by Scott Shackleton. Both became law the same day, as Public Acts 162 and 163 of 2000, and provide the state income tax deductions for contributions; SB 599 is the act that establishes the program. The Senate Fiscal Agency's analysis says so directly: "Senate Bill 599 created the Michigan Education Savings Program Act". The claim that he wrote the legislation that created it matches the sponsor line on that act. Unanimous votes in both chambers mean the bill was not contested.

Mike Rogers

Federal taxes on education savings plans

Matches stated record claim

What they say

His campaign says that in Congress he worked to eliminate federal taxes on education savings plans.

“In Congress, Mike worked to eliminate federal taxes on education savings plans and passed legislation to help low-income families receive healthcare.”

Source: Rogers for Senate

What the record shows ·

He sponsored three bills on it. The SAVE Act of 2001 (H.R. 475) would have kept distributions from state tuition plans used for college out of taxable income; H.R. 5054 in 2002 would have made that exclusion permanent; the SAVE Act of 2005 (H.R. 2994) would have done the same and added a deduction for contributions. He also cosponsored two: the College Savings Protection Act (H.R. 248, 2001), which would have excluded the same distributions from gross income, and the Education Savings Act of 2003 (H.R. 3318), which would have excluded from an employee's income an employer's contributions to education savings. None advanced past committee. The exclusion itself became law in section 402(b) of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, which he voted for on passage on May 16, 2001 (Roll Call 118) and on the conference report on May 26 (Roll Call 149). That act set it to expire after 2010; section 1304 of the Pension Protection Act of 2006 made it permanent, and he voted Aye on that act's passage on July 28, 2006 (Roll Call 422).

Sources: Congress.gov, Congress.gov, Congress.gov, Congress.gov, Congress.gov, U.S. Government Publishing Office, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Government Publishing Office, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives

Limit: His own bills stalled, but one became law inside a larger act: section 1304 of the Pension Protection Act, which he voted for, made the tax break permanent in nearly the words of his 2002 bill (H.R. 5054). "Worked to" is what the record shows: sponsorship in three Congresses, cosponsorship in two and votes for both laws. The deduction for contributions that two of his bills proposed never became federal law. The second half of the same sentence, on health care for low-income families, has its own card.

Mike Rogers

Health care for low-income families

Matches stated record claim

What they say

His campaign says that in Congress he passed legislation to help low-income families receive health care.

“In Congress, Mike worked to eliminate federal taxes on education savings plans and passed legislation to help low-income families receive healthcare.”

Source: Rogers for Senate

What the record shows ·

In 2005 he sponsored the Medicaid Health Opportunity Account Act (H.R. 3757). It would have set up a Medicaid demonstration letting states offer alternative benefits, including health opportunity accounts, to groups of enrollees. His bill stayed in subcommittee, but section 6082 of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-171) enacted the same demonstration in nearly the same words. He voted Yea on the act's conference report on December 19, 2005 (Roll Call 670) and on the rule that cleared it on February 1, 2006 (Roll Call 4). It became law on February 8, 2006.

Sources: Congress.gov, U.S. Government Publishing Office, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives

Limit: His own bill did not pass; its program became law inside a larger act. The same act also gave states the option of new Medicaid premiums and cost sharing. Whether any state used the program was not checked. The test is a federal (CMS) approval of a state demonstration under section 1938 of the Social Security Act, which this act added.

Mike Rogers

Protests at military funerals

Matches stated record claim

What they say

His campaign says he authored the Respect for Fallen Heroes Act, which made protesting on federal land during the burial of a service member a federal crime.

“Mike also authored the Respect for Fallen Heroes Act, which made protesting on federal land while families were burying service members who made the ultimate sacrifice a federal crime.”

Source: Rogers for Senate

What the record shows ·

He sponsored H.R. 5037, the Respect for America's Fallen Heroes Act. The House passed it 408 to 3 on May 9, 2006 (Roll Call 129), with his Yea, and it became Public Law 109-228 on May 29, 2006. It bars unapproved demonstrations on the grounds of cemeteries run by the National Cemetery Administration and at Arlington National Cemetery, and demonstrations within set distances of them in the hour before and after a funeral, and makes a violation punishable by a fine, up to a year in prison, or both.

Sources: Congress.gov, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Government Publishing Office

Limit: He wrote it and it is law. The campaign's summary is broader than the statute: the law covers national cemeteries and Arlington, not federal land in general, and the penalty is at most a year in prison.

Mike Rogers

Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee

Matches stated record claim

What they say

His campaign says he made his greatest mark in Congress as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.

“Mike made his greatest mark in Congress through his service as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.”

Source: Rogers for Senate

What the record shows ·

The committee's report of May 3, 2011 on the intelligence authorization bill for fiscal 2011 records him as chairman: its record votes list "Mr. Rogers (Chairman)", and the Congressional Budget Office letter it prints is addressed to him as Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He sponsored the committee's yearly authorization bill for each of fiscal 2011 to 2015, and all five years' authorizations became law. Three were his own bills: fiscal 2011 (Public Law 112-18), 2012 (Public Law 112-87) and 2015 (Public Law 113-293). For 2013 and 2014 the Senate's bills became law instead (Public Laws 112-277 and 113-126); he had sponsored the House versions, H.R. 5743 and H.R. 3381, and he moved the Senate bills through the House. H.R. 5743 passed the House 386 to 28 with his Aye. The official Congressional Directory for the 113th Congress, in its February 2014 edition, lists his committees as "chair, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence".

Sources: U.S. Government Publishing Office, Congress.gov, Congress.gov, Congress.gov, U.S. Government Publishing Office, Congress.gov, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Congress.gov, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Congress.gov, Congress.gov

Limit: The committee's report and the Congressional Directory settle that he held the office in both Congresses from 2011 to 2015. Whether it was his greatest mark is the campaign's judgment, and the home page's line that the committee under him hunted down terrorists is not something a committee record can confirm.

Mike Rogers

Chinese theft of American intellectual property

Matches stated direction

What they say

His campaign says he fought Chinese efforts to steal American intellectual property, particularly to protect Michigan's auto industry.

“Mike also fought Chinese efforts to steal American intellectual property, particularly working to protect Michigan’s auto industry.”

Source: Rogers for Senate

What the record shows ·

On June 6, 2013 he sponsored the Cyber Economic Espionage Accountability Act (H.R. 2281). It would have stated that cyber economic espionage should be a priority in all economic and diplomatic talks with the People's Republic of China, and directed the President to publish a list of foreign officials responsible for cyber espionage of Americans' intellectual property, bar them from visas and freeze their assets in the United States. It was referred to subcommittee and went no further. Earlier he was an original cosponsor of the Stop Counterfeiting in Manufactured Goods Act (H.R. 32), sponsored by fellow Michigan Republican Joe Knollenberg, which became Public Law 109-181 on March 16, 2006. Its findings state that counterfeit automobile parts, including brake pads, cost the auto industry billions of dollars in lost sales each year. As chairman, he filed his committee's April 2012 report on his cyber bill (H. Rept. 112-445). It says "China, in particular, is engaged in an extensive, day-in, day-out effort to pillage American corporate and government information." On October 8, 2012 he and the committee's top Democrat released its report on Huawei and ZTE. The committee's release calls China "a country known to aggressively steal valuable trade secrets and other sensitive data from American companies."

Sources: Congress.gov, Congress.gov, U.S. Government Publishing Office, Congress.gov, Congress.gov, U.S. Government Publishing Office, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

Limit: The 2013 bill is aimed squarely at the claim and did not advance. The 2006 law is about counterfeit goods in general and does not name China, but its findings name the auto industry, which is the part of the claim about Michigan. He also sponsored bills in 2004 and 2005 (H.R. 4986 and H.R. 2414) directing the Treasury to analyze China's exchange rate policies; they concern trade rather than intellectual property, and neither left subcommittee. The 2012 report names China but not the auto industry, and the bill it covers does not mention intellectual property. His committee's own page for its October 2012 report on Huawei and ZTE is still up, but its link to the report is dead. A Stanford library copy was read and is not cited. His sponsored bills and the 1,462 bills he cosponsored were searched by title.

Mike Rogers

Protecting Social Security and Medicare

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What they say

His campaign lists protecting seniors' Social Security and Medicare among what putting America and Michigan first means.

“That means bringing manufacturing jobs back home, lowering the cost of gas, groceries, & prescription drugs, protecting seniors’ social security & medicare, and setting our kids up for success by prioritizing education not indoctrination.”

Source: Rogers for Senate

What the record shows ·

In 2001 he sponsored the Social Security Lock-box Act (H.R. 373), which would have created a budget point of order against spending the Social Security trust fund's surplus, and the Social Security Protection Act (H.R. 2865), which would have required cuts in non-defense discretionary spending equal to any 2001 deficit; neither left committee. He voted Yea when the House passed another member's lock-box bill, H.R. 2, 407 to 2 on February 13, 2001 (Roll Call 13); it did not become law. He cosponsored bills in 2001 and 2003 (H.R. 122 and H.R. 434) to repeal the second, 85 per cent tier of income tax on Social Security benefits; neither left committee. He voted for two laws that changed the programs. The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (Public Law 108-173) added the Part D prescription drug benefit; he voted Aye on passage on June 27, 2003 (Roll Call 332) and Yea on the conference report on November 22, 2003 (Roll Call 669). The Social Security Protection Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-203), whose first title is headed "Protection of Beneficiaries", had his Aye on passage on April 2, 2003 (Roll Call 102) and his Yea on the final version on February 11, 2004 (Roll Call 23). On April 15, 2011 he voted Yea on the House budget resolution for fiscal 2012 (Roll Call 277). Its Medicare section kept current benefits for those in and near retirement "without changes", and assumed that for future generations Medicare would be reformed to provide a premium support payment and a choice of guaranteed coverage options. The Senate voted 40 to 57 against taking it up (Record Vote 77, May 25, 2011). He voted Yea on the House's next three budget resolutions, for fiscal 2013, 2014 and 2015 (Roll Call 151 of 2012, 88 of 2013 and 177 of 2014), each of which assumed the same: current benefits preserved for those in or near retirement and premium support for future generations. A budget resolution does not become law. He voted No on the Affordable Care Act, which also changed Medicare, on March 21, 2010 (Roll Call 165), and Aye on repealing it on January 19, 2011 (Roll Call 14).

Sources: Congress.gov, Congress.gov, Congress.gov, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Congress.gov, Congress.gov, Congress.gov, U.S. Government Publishing Office, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Congress.gov, U.S. Government Publishing Office, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Congress.gov, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Congress.gov, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Congress.gov, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Congress.gov, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Government Publishing Office, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives

Limit: The claim is a promise about what he would do as a senator, and the record is a House record that ended in 2015. It runs both ways. The Social Security bills he sponsored, and the repeal of the tax on benefits he cosponsored, never became law, but he voted for two laws that changed the programs, one of which added Medicare's prescription drug benefit. He also voted for four House budget resolutions that kept current benefits for those in or near retirement and assumed premium support for future beneficiaries; a budget resolution is a plan, not a law. Whether premium support for future beneficiaries counts as protecting Medicare is a policy judgment this site does not make; the record shows what he sponsored and a selection of his votes, not every vote he cast on these programs. His cosponsored bills were searched by title; the many Medicare provider-payment bills among them are not listed here.

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Evidence timeline

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  1. race event

    State candidate listing as of this date

    The Michigan Department of State's listing, headed "Official Candidate Listing" when read on September 23, prints six U.S. Senate candidates, with a footer dated Friday, September 4. The field on this page is built from it.

    Michigan Department of State

  2. race event

    Pre-primary reporting period closes

    The latest period both El-Sayed's and Rogers's committees have reported to the FEC ends. None of the other four candidates has filed a financial report.

    Federal Election Commission Federal Election Commission

  3. finance

    FEC filing snapshot

    Pre-Primary 2026, principal campaign committee ROGERS FOR SENATE.

    Federal Election Commission

  4. race event

    House adopts the fiscal 2012 budget resolution

    Rogers voted Yea on H.Con.Res. 34, whose Medicare section assumed a premium support payment for future beneficiaries. On May 25 the Senate voted 40 to 57 against taking it up.

    Congress.gov Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives

  5. race event

    Respect for America's Fallen Heroes Act becomes law

    H.R. 5037, sponsored by Rogers, became Public Law 109-228 after passing the House 408 to 3.

    Congress.gov U.S. Government Publishing Office

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    Michigan's education savings program becomes law

    The governor approved Senate Bill 599 of 1999, sponsored by then-state senator Mike Rogers, as Public Act 161 of 2000.

    Michigan Legislature

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