Rep. Charles “Chuck” Fleischmann
Representative for Tennessee’s 3rd District
pronounced CHAW-rulz // FLĪSH-mun
![Photo of Rep. Charles “Chuck” Fleischmann [R-TN3]](/https/www.govtrack.us/static/legislator-photos/412476-200px.jpeg)
Our work to hold Congress accountable only matters if elections are decided by counting votes. President Trump, his advisors and associates, and Republican legislators collaborated to have the 2020 presidential election decided by themselves rather than by voters through their attempts to suppress state-certified election results at both the state and national level.
Fleischmann was among the Republican legislators who participated in this. Shortly after the election, Fleischmann joined a case before the Supreme Court calling for all the votes for president in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — states that were narrowly won by Democrats — to be discarded, in order to change the outcome of the election. In the case, Republicans proffered lies and a novel legal theory which the Supreme Court rejected. (Following the rejection of several related cases before the Supreme Court, another legislator who joined the case called for violence.) On January 6, 2021 in the hours after the violent insurrection at the Capitol, Fleischmann voted to omit Arizona and/or Pennsylvania from the counting of presidential electors, which could have altered the outcome of the election in Trump’s favor.
In 2023, Trump associates and top advisors pleaded guilty to submitting a fraudulent slate of electors to Congress from Georgia, making false statements about purported widespread fraud in the election, and tampering with voting machines after the election, admitted in civil court to posing as fake electors in Wisconsin, and were convicted of contempt of Congress for withholding documents during its investigation and assaulting police officers at the Capitol. Trump associates and top advisors are also facing charges for submitting fraudulent slates of electors to Congress (in Michigan, Nevada, Arizona, and Wisconsin) and Trump himself faces related criminal charges in state court. (He was also convicted in 2024 of falsifying business records to cover up acts that he believed might have hurt him in the 2016 election.) The January 6, 2021 violent insurrection at the Capitol, led on the front lines by militant white supremacy groups one member of which was convicted of sedition, attempted to prevent President-elect Joe Biden from taking office by disrupting Congress’s count of electors.
Committee Membership
Charles “Chuck” Fleischmann sits on the following committees:
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House Committee on Appropriations
- Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies subcommittee Chair
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House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
Energy subcommittees
Enacted Legislation
Fleischmann was the primary sponsor of 1 bill that was enacted:
Does 1 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.
We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Fleischmann sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Government Operations and Politics (40%) Native Americans (20%) Immigration (20%) Economics and Public Finance (20%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Fleischmann recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.Res. 1434: Recognizing the role of the Scarboro 85 in the desegregation of public schools …
- H.R. 9386: James J. Andrews and William H. Campbell Congressional Gold Medal Act
- H.R. 8997: Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025
- H.R. 4394: Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024
- H.Res. 400: Commending the Tennessee Valley Authority on the 90th anniversary of the signing of …
- H.R. 3052: To amend title 40, United States Code, to add certain counties to the …
- H.R. 3051: Migrant Resettlement Transparency Act
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2011 to Nov 2024, Fleischmann missed 57 of 8,499 roll call votes, which is 0.7%. This is better than the median of 2.2% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- GPO Member Guide for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
