Dale W. Strong
- Previous profession
- Public relations professional, First Alabama Bank; Sales representative, Solvay S.A; Emergency medical technician / 9-1-1 dispatcher, Huntsville Emergency Medical Services, Inc
- First public office
- 1996Member, Madison County Commission, 1996 to 2022, (chairman, 2012 to 2022)
- Years in public office
- 29
Confirmed from the official recordSource: Congressional Directory for the 119th Congress (2025-2026), February 20, 2026. We saved our copy on October 8, 2026.
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Since the current Congress began on January 3, 2025, Strong has a recorded vote on 60 laws that passed, and 1 vote on a resolution that passed a law.
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The record in plain language
Of the 118 laws passed since January 3, 2025, 60 came to a recorded vote on passage in the House while Strong is a member. On 1 more, the recorded House vote is on a resolution. Strong votes Yes on H.Res. 590, the resolution that passed the Rescissions Act of 2025 in the House. The rest passed the House by voice vote or without objection, which records no individual votes.
Strong votes Yes on the Laken Riley Act on immigration detention; the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the 2025 tax and spending law; the HALT Fentanyl Act; the GENIUS Act on stablecoins (digital tokens pegged to the dollar); the Epstein Files Transparency Act; the defense policy law for fiscal year 2026; the Secure America Act, a 2026 budget law; the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act; and the Russia and Iran sanctions law.
On funding the government, Strong votes Yes on the March 2025 full-year funding law; the November 2025 law that ended the 43-day shutdown; the January 2026 funding law for science, energy, Interior and the EPA; the February 2026 funding law for a further group of agencies; and the September 2026 funding extension.
Congress cancelled 24 federal rules by recorded vote in the House in that time. Strong votes to cancel 24 and against cancelling 0. The rules Strong votes to cancel come from: Interior: Bureau of Land Management (7), Environmental Protection Agency (6), Energy (4), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (2), District of Columbia government (1), Treasury: Comptroller of the Currency (1), Interior: National Park Service (1), Treasury: Internal Revenue Service (1) and Interior: Ocean Energy Management (1).
Strong votes the same way as most House Republicans on all 58 of these Yes and No votes.
Strong did not vote on the Small Business Innovation and Economic Security Act and the Filing Relief for Natural Disasters Act.
Votes on laws that passed
Authorizes and expands sanctions and tariffs on Russia and extends existing sanctions on Iran.
Requires the federal prison system to act on sexual harassment and assault of its staff by incarcerated people.
Adds College Station, Texas, and El Centro, California, to the places where federal court can sit.
Keeps the federal government funded at about last year's levels through December 11, 2026.
Lets farmers and ranchers get emergency conservation money up front after a disaster, instead of paying first and waiting for reimbursement.
A package of housing measures intended to increase the supply of homes.
Allows phone emergency alerts to be sent when a shark attack happens nearby.
Protects Alaska Native artists' right to make and sell handicrafts from walrus ivory and other marine mammal materials.
Gives the Department of Homeland Security extra money for border and immigration enforcement, in seven amounts that add up to $69.545 billion.
Authorizes a major VA medical facility project in St. Louis, Missouri.
Gives certain licensed hydropower projects more time to start construction.
Sets deadlines for the Bureau of Indian Affairs to process mortgage paperwork for homes and businesses on tribal land.
Extends again the surveillance authority that lets intelligence agencies collect the communications of foreigners abroad from U.S. providers without individual warrants.
Cancels a federal order that had closed about 225,000 acres of national forest in northeastern Minnesota, near the Boundary Waters, to new mining leases for 20 years.
Renews the federal programs that set aside research money for small businesses.
Cancels a District of Columbia law that changed how D.C.'s income and business taxes follow federal tax rules.
Full-year fiscal 2026 funding for a further group of federal agencies.
Full-year fiscal 2026 funding for the Commerce and Justice Departments, science agencies, energy and water programs, the Interior Department and the EPA.
Renews the Congressional Award program, which recognizes young people for service and achievement.
When the IRS postpones a tax deadline after a disaster, the time allowed to claim a refund is now extended to match.
Requires federal agencies to publish digital maps of the rules for boating and fishing on federal waterways.
Protects 40 acres at the Wounded Knee massacre site as land owned by the Oglala Sioux and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribes.
The annual defense policy law.
Restores federal payments to rural counties with national forest land, which pay for schools and roads.
Cancels a land agency decision that limited oil and gas leasing on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Cancels a land agency plan for northeastern Wyoming that ended new federal coal leasing in the Buffalo area.
Cancels a land agency plan for central Alaska that set aside large areas for conservation and limited development.
Cancels a land agency plan for federal lands in North Dakota that limited where coal, oil and gas could be leased.
Cancels a land agency plan for eastern Montana that ended new federal coal leasing in the Miles City area.
Cancels a land agency plan that limited oil and gas leasing in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.
Renews federal programs for preventing and treating opioid addiction and supporting recovery.
Raises the special pension paid to Medal of Honor recipients.
Requires the Justice Department to publish its unclassified records on Jeffrey Epstein in a searchable form within 30 days.
Ends the 43-day government shutdown of fall 2025.
Renames the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge in Texas for Jocelyn Nungaray.
Lets the IRS push back tax deadlines for people in areas where a governor has declared a disaster, without waiting for a federal declaration.
Creates the first federal rules for payment stablecoins (digital tokens pegged to the dollar).
Permanently places fentanyl-related substances in the most restricted drug category, which carries the strictest criminal penalties, and eases registration for researchers who study them.
Renames the Salem Maritime site in Massachusetts a National Historical Park and orders a study of expanding its boundary.
Changes the rule that required Alaska Native village corporations to hand land to the State of Alaska to be kept for future cities.
Cancels an EPA rule that had stopped certain large sources of toxic air pollution from being moved into a less strictly regulated category.
Cancels a bank regulator's rule that changed how proposed bank mergers are reviewed, restoring the earlier, faster process.
Cancels the EPA approval that let California set stricter smog-pollution limits for heavy-duty truck engines.
Cancels the EPA approval that let California phase out sales of new gasoline-only cars by 2035.
Cancels the EPA approval that let California require truck makers to sell a rising share of zero-emission trucks.
Cancels an EPA rule that tightened limits on toxic air emissions from tire manufacturing plants.
Cancels a National Park Service rule that restricted where off-road vehicles could drive in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.
Makes it a federal crime to publish intimate images of a person without consent, including AI-generated ones, and requires online platforms to remove them within 48 hours of a victim's request.
Cancels a rule that would have put the largest digital payment apps under the consumer bureau's regular supervision.
Cancels a consumer bureau rule that would have limited overdraft fees at the largest banks and credit unions.
Cancels an Energy Department efficiency standard for commercial refrigerators and freezers.
Cancels an Energy Department rule on how appliance makers certify, label and report the energy use of their products.
Cancels an Energy Department efficiency standard for walk-in coolers and freezers used by stores and restaurants.
Cancels an Energy Department efficiency standard for tankless gas water heaters.
Cancels an IRS rule that would have required decentralized finance platforms to report their customers' digital asset sales the way stockbrokers do.
Funds the federal government through September 30, 2025, mostly at the prior year's levels, with more for defense and less for non-defense programs.
Cancels a rule that required offshore oil and gas leaseholders to submit archaeological surveys of the seabed before drilling.
Cancels an EPA rule that set up how oil and gas facilities would be charged a fee for excess methane emissions.
Requires immigration authorities to detain non-citizens without legal status who are charged with, arrested for or convicted of theft-related crimes, assaulting a police officer, or crimes causing death or serious injury.
Votes on a resolution that passed a law
Cancels about $9 billion that Congress had already approved: roughly $8 billion in foreign aid and about $1 billion for public broadcasting.
What this member says about laws and orders
This section has two lists: statements in the official record, and excerpts from this member’s own press releases. Together they name 7 laws and 2 executive orders.
From the official record
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From this member’s press releases
From a secondary sourceThese are excerpts from press releases on this member’s official website that name a law or an executive order. We save a copy of each one.
19 excerpts
- Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026February 6, 2026
“The funding, included in H.R. 7148, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, makes vital investments in transportation and infrastructure improvements and workforce development initiatives across AL-05.”
- Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026January 23, 2026
House Advances Strong’s $17.6 Million for North Alabama’s Roads, Hospitals, and Workforce
“The funding was included in H.R. 7148, The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, and H.R. 7147, The Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026, which passed the House of Representatives this week.”
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House Advances Strong’s $17.6 Million for North Alabama’s Roads, Hospitals, and Workforce
“The funding was included in H.R. 7148, The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, and H.R. 7147, The Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026, which passed the House of Representatives this week.”
- Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026January 9, 2026
House Advances Strong’s $12 Million for North Alabama Public Safety and Infrastructure Projects
“Congressman Strong secured $6.2 million in FY26 Community Project Funding in H.R. 5371, which was signed into law on November 12, 2025. Altogether with the passage of H.R. 6938, the Congressman will have delivered over $18 million back to AL-05 in Community Project Funding for FY26.”
- Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026January 9, 2026
House Advances Strong’s $12 Million for North Alabama Public Safety and Infrastructure Projects
“The funding was included in H.R. 6938, the Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Act, 2026, which the House of Representatives passed this week.”
- Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026January 8, 2026
“H.R. 6938 includes three full-year Fiscal Year 2026 funding bills:”
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- Rescissions Act of 2025December 30, 2025
“No More Funding for NPR Act of 2025 – H.R. 1146 – Successfully Defunded NPR via H.R. 4”
- Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026December 30, 2025
“For Fiscal Year 2026, $6.2 million of Community Project Funding for AL-05 has already been signed into law through H.R. 5371, the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies bill. This includes $5,175,000 for the Town of Ardmore to construct a groundwater treatment facility and $1,087,500 for the Town of Triana to make critical sanitary sewer upgrades.”
- Restoring American Airspace SovereigntyDecember 30, 2025
“Executive Order 14305 subsequently established the Center, which is based on Redstone Arsenal and serves as the nation’s premier hub for preparing law enforcement and security professionals to detect, assess, and counter emerging threats posed by unmanned aircraft systems.”
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026December 10, 2025
Strong Provision to Alleviate Redstone Arsenal Gate Bottlenecks Advances
“WASHINGTON — Representative Dale W. Strong’s provision (AL-05) to alleviate Redstone Arsenal Gate bottlenecks advanced in the House as part of S. 1071, the Fiscal Year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act.”
- Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026November 14, 2025
“The funding was included in H.R. 5371, the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies bill, which was signed into law this week.”
- Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026November 12, 2025
Strong on End of Democrat Shutdown: “It’s about time”
“In addition to extending government funding at current levels through January 30, 2026, H.R. 5371 sends three of twelve full-year Fiscal Year 2026 appropriations bills to the President’s desk: Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, Legislative Branch, and Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies.”
- Restoring American Airspace SovereigntyNovember 7, 2025
Congressman Dale Strong Celebrates FBI National Counter-Unmanned Training Center at Redstone Arsenal
“The establishment of the FBI’s National Counter-UAS Training Center (NCUTC) follows Executive Order 14305, “Restoring American Airspace Sovereignty,” signed by President Trump on June 6, 2025. Among other things, the order directed the creation of a National Counter-UAS Training Center to train and certify law enforcement and security personnel in the safe and effective use of detection and mitigation technologies”
- Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026October 1, 2025
Rep. Strong Statement on Democrat Shutdown
“Background: On September 19, House Republicans passed H.R. 5371, a clean continuing resolution to keep the government open and allow appropriators to continue working on full-year appropriations bills through November 21, 2025.”
- Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026September 19, 2025
Congressman Strong Votes to Keep the Government Working for the American People
“H.R. 5371, the Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2026, is a clean, short-term continuing resolution to fund Government agencies at current levels through November 21, 2025.”
- One Big Beautiful Bill ActJuly 3, 2025
“The One, Big, Beautiful Bill delivers on President Trump’s promises to the American people. It secures massive tax cuts for American families and businesses, complete border security, a supercharged economy, and accountability in taxpayer-funded programs, while reducing out-of-control government spending,” said Representative Dale Strong.”
- Rescissions Act of 2025June 12, 2025
Strong Votes to Protect Taxpayer Dollars, Defund Liberal Media
“In addition to rescinding previously appropriated funding for NPR, H.R. 4 also rescinds funds for wasteful and politically-biased programs of the Department of State, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the U.S. Institute of Peace. Examples of such taxpayer-funded projects include:”
- One Big Beautiful Bill ActMay 22, 2025
Strong Statement on House Passage of One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Advancing President Trump’s Agenda
“WASHINGTON — Representative Dale W. Strong (AL-05) issued the following statement after voting in favor of H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act to advance President Trump’s America First Agenda.”
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Strong Chairs Homeland Hearing Focused on Mass Gathering Events
“On March 7, 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order Establishing the White House Task Force on the FIFA World Cup 2026.”
Member-requested spending
Congress printed 15 spending items this member requested, $35,986,567 in all, in the lists read for 4 laws.
Laws read: Public Law 119-37, Public Law 119-74, Public Law 119-75, Public Law 119-86.
| Recipient | Law | Purpose | State | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Town of Ardmore | Public Law 119-37 | Ardmore, AL Groundwater Treatment FacilityRural Utilities Service · Rural Water and Waste Disposal Program | AL | $5,175,000 |
| Town of Triana | Public Law 119-37 | Triana, AL Sanitary Sewer ImprovementsRural Utilities Service · Rural Water and Waste Disposal Program | AL | $1,087,500 |
| on STAG--Drinking Water S Revolving Fund | Public Law 119-74 | tate AL Town of Rogers Elevated WateEnvironmentAgency · al Protecti | None printed | $1,500,000 |
| Auburn University Applied Research Institute | Public Law 119-74 | High Performance Computing Systems for Controlled Unclassified InformationDOC · NIST--STR S | None printed | $4,135,000 |
| The University of Alabama in Huntsville | Public Law 119-74 | AI Research Facility for Space and DefenseDOC · NIST--STR S | None printed | $4,200,000 |
| Somerville Police Department | Public Law 119-74 | Somerville Police Department Public Safety Vehicles and EquipmentDOJ · OJP--Byrne | None printed | $199,762 |
| City of Priceville | Public Law 119-74 | Priceville Police Department Public Safety Equipment ModernizationDOJ · OJP--Byrne | None printed | $592,305 |
| Lawrence County Commission | Public Law 119-74 | Lawrence County 911 Public Safety Equipment ModernizationDOJ · COPS Tech | None printed | $1,200,000 |
| City of Hartselle | Public Law 119-74 | Hartselle Police Department Public Safety Equipment ModernizationDOJ · COPS Tech | None printed | $300,000 |
| Huntsville-Madison County Airport Authority | Public Law 119-75 | Huntsville International Airport (HSV) West Aviation Center ProjectDepartment of Transportation · Grants-in-Aid for Airports | AL | $2,000,000 |
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| Recipient | Law | Purpose | State | Amount |
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| AL | Public Law 119-75 | Capshaw Road (Old Monrovia Road to Jeff Road) Additional LanesDepartment of Transportation · Highway Infrastructure Programs | AL | $5,500,000 |
| AL | Public Law 119-75 | Increasing Capacity Over the Tennessee RiverDepartment of Transportation · Highway Infrastructure Programs | AL | $3,000,000 |
| AL | Public Law 119-75 | Slaughter Road Additional LanesDepartment of Transportation · Highway Infrastructure Programs | AL | $3,500,000 |
| Athens State University | Public Law 119-75 | Workforce Development and Multipurpose CenterDepartment of Housing and Urban Development · Community Development Fund | AL | $1,000,000 |
| City of Huntsville | Public Law 119-86 | Huntsville Hospital for Women and Children Generator ProjectFEMA · Federal Assistance-PDM | AL | $2,597,000 |
Read from the lists Congress printed for 4 laws. An item requested by several members appears under each of them, so sums across members count such an item more than once. A list the Congressional Record printed on two days is counted once, from the later printing. A requester is tied to a member only when exactly one member serving in that chamber on that day has the printed name.
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