The person behind the name
Mike Rogers’s public career runs from the FBI’s Chicago office to the Michigan Senate, fourteen years in the U.S. House and four as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and now to a second campaign for the U.S. Senate, two years after a race decided by nineteen thousand votes.
The Biographical Directory of the United States Congress records that Rogers was born in Livingston County, Michigan, on June 2, 1963, graduated from Howell High School in 1981 and took a bachelor of science from Adrian College in 1985. The campaign’s “Meet Mike” biography says he was born and raised in Livingston County, the son of a teacher, coach and vice principal and of a mother who led the local chamber of commerce; a second campaign page gives Livonia as his birthplace, describes his father as a shop teacher and Air Force veteran, and names the Brighton chamber of commerce. [1][22][23]
He served in the United States Army from 1985 to 1989 and in the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1989 to 1994; the campaign describes the FBI years as “taking down organized crime and public corruption in Chicago.” Elected to the Michigan Senate in 1994, he served from 1995 to 2000 and was majority floor leader for the last two years. [1][22]
In 2000 he won the Eighth District seat over Democrat Dianne Byrum, 145,179 votes to 145,019 in the Clerk’s official statistics, a margin of 160 votes; the campaign’s description of it as “the closest race in the country that year” is a superlative this review did not measure. He was re-elected six times and served from January 3, 2001 to January 3, 2015, chairing the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in the 112th and 113th Congresses. He did not seek re-election in 2014. [5][1][2][22]
Education and professional preparation
The official record lists a bachelor of science from Adrian College in 1985; the campaign adds Howell High School. Bridge Michigan reported in 2024 that after leaving Congress he retired to Florida and worked as a CNN commentator and as an adviser to information-technology companies. PolitiFact, checking a 2026 claim that he had been paid as a pharmaceutical lobbyist, described consulting work and board service for telecommunications and cybersecurity companies including AT&T, Nokia and Telefónica, service on national-security nonprofit boards and a CNN hosting and commentary role, and found no federal or Michigan record of him registering as a lobbyist. The campaign says he built a business focused on innovation and cybersecurity. Degree fields, the terms of his private-sector engagements and his financial disclosures were not part of this review. [1][30][45][22]
Rogers first filed with the Federal Election Commission as a Senate candidate on September 6, 2023, accepted President Trump’s endorsement in March 2024 and won the August 6, 2024 Republican primary over former Representative Justin Amash and physician Sherry O’Donnell, with 64 percent of the vote as reported by Fox 2 Detroit; the state canvass of that primary could not be retrieved for this review. He lost the general election to Elissa Slotkin, 2,712,686 to 2,693,680. By August 2025 he was a candidate for the seat Senator Gary Peters is vacating; he was the only Republican on the August 4, 2026 primary ballot after the Board of State Canvassers declined to certify the petitions of Bernadette Smith, and he faces Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee, on November 3, 2026. [36][6][30][37][38][4][43][42][26][27]
A note on birthplace and residence. The Directory says Livingston County; the campaign’s biography also says he was born and raised there, while its “What Michiganders Need to Know” page says Livonia, with a Livingston County upbringing. Bridge Michigan reports that he sold his Howell home in 2014, bought a home in Cape Coral, Florida, in 2022 and a White Lake Township property in July 2023, registered to vote in Michigan and cancelled his Florida registration in 2024. The residency questions raised in both Senate campaigns, and his answers, are in the fuller record below. [1][22][23][28][29][44]
Life & public service
From an FBI badge to the Michigan Senate, Congress and two statewide campaigns, the documented milestones show how the record was built.
A 160-vote win
Won the Eighth District over Dianne Byrum, 145,179 to 145,019, in the Clerk’s statistics of the November 7, 2000 election. [5]
Medicare Part D
Voted Yea on the conference report of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, which passed 220–215 on November 22, 2003. [11]
A law with his name on it
H.R. 5037, the Respect for America’s Fallen Heroes Act, became Public Law 109-228 on May 29, 2006. [3]
Chairman, House Intelligence Committee
Chaired the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in the 112th and 113th Congresses; sponsored the intelligence authorization acts for fiscal years 2011, 2012 and 2015, each enacted, and the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, which passed the House twice without becoming law. [1][3][17][18]
Retirement
Did not seek re-election in 2014 and left office January 3, 2015. Bridge Michigan reports that he retired to Florida and worked as a CNN commentator and an adviser to information-technology companies; PolitiFact describes consulting and board service for telecommunications and cybersecurity companies. [1][2][30][45]
The second campaign
A candidate by August 2025 for Gary Peters’s open seat; the only Republican on the August 4, 2026 primary ballot after the Board of State Canvassers declined on May 28, 2026 to certify the petitions of his lone Republican rival; faces Abdul El-Sayed, who won the Democratic primary, on November 3, 2026. [43][42][26][27]
Accomplishments, in the record
Clerk roll calls, Congress.gov bill records and the official election statistics establish the following work. Outcomes are described at the level those records support, with shared credit where the measure was another official’s initiative.
Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee
The Biographical Directory records Rogers as chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in the 112th and 113th Congresses, from 2011 to 2015. The bill records of those years show him as sponsor of the committee’s annual authorization: H.R. 754, the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011, became Public Law 112-18 on June 8, 2011; H.R. 1892, for fiscal year 2012, became Public Law 112-87 on January 3, 2012; and H.R. 4681, for fiscal year 2015, became Public Law 113-293 on December 19, 2014. H.R. 5743, for fiscal year 2013, passed the House and was referred to the Senate Intelligence Committee. [1][3]
CISPA, passed twice, enacted never
Rogers sponsored the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act in two Congresses. H.R. 3523 passed the House 248–168 on April 26, 2012, and H.R. 624 passed 288–127 on April 18, 2013, with Rogers voting Aye and Yea; each was received in the Senate and referred to its Select Committee on Intelligence, where the record ends. Sponsorship and House passage are documented; the law was not enacted. [17][18][3]
Defending the NSA programs, then voting for their reform
On July 24, 2013 the House considered H.Amdt. 413 by Representative Amash of Michigan to H.R. 2397, an amendment that, in GovTrack’s summary of the official record, sought to end authority for the blanket collection of records under the Patriot Act and to bar the NSA and other agencies from using Section 215 to collect records; it failed 205–217, with Rogers voting No. On May 22, 2014 he voted Yea on the USA FREEDOM Act, which passed 303–121. Both are recorded votes; the committee negotiations behind the 2014 bill are not part of the roll-call record. [19][35][20]
Seven laws in his own name
Congress.gov lists 129 sponsored records for Rogers, 106 bills and resolutions and 23 amendments, and 1,462 cosponsorships. Seven of the bills became public law in their own right: H.R. 5037, the Respect for America’s Fallen Heroes Act (2006); H.R. 5646, a study of energy-efficient computer servers (2006); H.R. 2711, the Special Agent Samuel Hicks Families of Fallen Heroes Act (2010); the three intelligence authorization acts noted above; and H.R. 307, the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act of 2013. GovTrack counts eight enacted bills under its broader definition, which includes measures whose text was carried by other legislation. One of his resolutions, H. Res. 428 of 2007, raised a question of the privileges of the House against Representative John Murtha of Pennsylvania: its text states that after Rogers moved to recommit the fiscal 2008 intelligence authorization bill to change a $23 million earmark for the National Drug Intelligence Center requested by Murtha, Murtha told him on the House floor on May 17, 2007, in words to the effect, “I hope you don’t have any earmarks in the defense appropriation bill because they are gone and you will not get any earmarks now and forever,” and it resolved that Murtha “merits the reprimand of the House.” The House tabled the resolution 219–189 on May 22, 2007, with Rogers voting No on the motion to table. [2][3][7][39][12]
No to the bank bailout, yes to the auto rescue
Rogers voted Nay on the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 when the House concurred in the Senate amendments, 263–171, on October 3, 2008. On December 10, 2008 he voted Aye on H.R. 7321, the Auto Industry Financing and Restructuring Act, which passed the House 237–170. The campaign’s claims that he “voted for the Auto Rescue” and “voted against the Wall Street bailout” are recorded votes. [13][14][23]
Medicare Part D, the Affordable Care Act and its repeal
Rogers voted Yea on the conference report of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, which passed 220–215 on November 22, 2003; the campaign’s line “Passed Medicare Part D to lower prescription drug costs” describes one of 220 votes, not authorship. He voted No on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which passed 219–212 on March 21, 2010, and Aye on the Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act, which passed the House 245–189 on January 19, 2011. [11][15][16][23]
The PATRIOT Act and the Iraq resolution
In his first term Rogers voted Yea on the USA PATRIOT Act, which passed under suspension of the rules 357–66 on October 24, 2001, and Yea on the resolution to authorize the use of United States armed forces against Iraq, which passed 296–133 on October 10, 2002. [9][10]
Attendance and ideology, measured
Rogers missed 249 of 9,768 roll-call votes from January 2001 to December 2014, 2.5 percent, which GovTrack describes as on par with the median for representatives serving in December 2014. Voteview’s DW-NOMINATE score places him at 0.400 on the conservative–liberal dimension in the 113th Congress; ranked from that file for this profile, he stood 164th of the 240 House Republicans with scores, to the moderate side of a Republican median of 0.49. Heritage Action’s scorecard gives him 51 percent for the 113th Congress and a lifetime score of 53 percent. [7][8][46]
Family & community
The campaign biography identifies his wife as Kristi, who it says served in Iraq as a liaison for the Department of Defense and worked at Customs and Border Protection. It says his daughter served in AmeriCorps after college and that his son, a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, is serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy, the fourth generation of the family in uniform. [22][23]
Bridge Michigan reports that Rogers bought a property in White Lake Township, Oakland County, in July 2023, tore down the existing building to build a new house and registered to vote at that address in 2024; its 2026 fact check found a principal-residence exemption on that home and an active Michigan voter registration there as of August 24, 2026. [28][29][44]
Neither the Biographical Directory entry nor the campaign biography states a religious affiliation, and this profile makes no claim about one. The sources reviewed here document family, residence and public roles; they do not supply a verified record of charitable board service, and none is asserted. [1][22]
Mission & priorities
“I’ll always put America and Michigan first.” {21}
The following summarizes the agenda on Rogers’s campaign website and its housing and health-care plans. These are proposed priorities, not completed accomplishments. [21][23][24][25]
01Jobs and the cost of living
The campaign’s statement of purpose: “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.” Bridge Michigan reported in 2024 that his stated policy goals included securing the U.S.–Mexico border, lowering grocery costs, stopping what he called China’s economic threat to the auto industry, curbing violent crime and improving child literacy. [21][30]
02Housing: 529 accounts for down payments
The housing plan “Expands 529 plans to cover college, vocational training, and first-time home down payments,” would let renters build credit from timely rent payments, proposes rolling back what it calls overregulation of housing and would create “residential housing zones where 100% of new construction is tax free.” Bridge Michigan reports the plan was announced in February 2026. No cost estimate or replacement revenue appears in the material reviewed. [24][27]
03Health care: prices, prescriptions, denials
The health-care plan would fine hospitals and insurers that do not post real prices (“You deserve to know the price before you get the bill.”), would “Expand access to Trump Rx, which takes advantage of the government’s ability to buy in bulk, force prices down, and pass those savings onto the consumer,” and would “Force insurance companies to publicly report denial rates, approval times, and appeal outcomes.” The record shows his No on the Affordable Care Act in 2010 and Aye on its repeal in 2011; Bridge reports he more recently opposed extending the enhanced premium tax credits. [25][15][16][27]
04Standing with President Trump
The campaign site states: “I’ll stand with President Trump to deliver on the mandate given to him by the American people.” Bridge Michigan reported in July 2024 that Rogers, who had criticized the president and his allies for attempting to overturn the 2020 election results, “reconciled with the former president this year and accepted his endorsement in March,” and in August 2026 that he is closely aligning himself with the president in this campaign. [21][30][27]
05China and the auto industry
The campaign says that as Intelligence chairman Rogers “was among the first to sound the alarm on the economic and national security danger posed by China” and fought Chinese theft of intellectual property. Among the bills he sponsored as chairman, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act provided for the sharing of cyber-threat intelligence between the intelligence community and cybersecurity entities; it passed the House in 2012 and 2013 without becoming law. [22][17][18]
06Abortion
Bridge Michigan’s September 2024 review of the record found that in his 1994 campaign Rogers supported abortion only to save the life of the mother, that in Congress he co-sponsored legislation defining human life as beginning at conception, and that in 2003 and 2005 he co-sponsored bills to withdraw federal approval of mifepristone. The Clerk’s roll call shows him voting Yea on H.R. 1797, which Bridge describes as a national ban beginning at 20 weeks of pregnancy and which the Clerk’s record titles the District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act; it passed the House 228–196 on June 18, 2013. In 2023, as he began his first Senate campaign, he told reporters he would not support national policies “inconsistent with Michigan law,” and in the 2024 campaign he echoed the position that abortion policy should be left “up to the states.” [32][40]
07Data centers
Asked about the hyperscale data centers proposed across Michigan in August 2026, Rogers said, “we need to take a pause, probably, and make sure that we’re answering all the questions that people have,” and, Bridge reports, told The Detroit News he would “support a one-year moratorium” on new data centers. [27]
How to assess a proposal. A campaign plan states an intention. Enactment, implementation costs, replacement revenue, and measured results are separate questions. These priorities should be read alongside the legislative and voting history above.
The fuller record
A useful profile includes policy tradeoffs, the limits of a claim, and responses to material criticism.
Residency: Florida, Genoa Township and the White Lake house
Bridge Michigan has reported on Rogers’s residence in both of his Senate campaigns. By its account, which cites Business Insider and property records, he sold his Howell home in 2014, bought a condominium in Maryland that year and already owned a property in Virginia; in 2022 he and his wife bought a home in Cape Coral, Florida, which they declared their permanent residence for a property-tax exemption in 2023, the only year they received one, and he was registered to vote there until 2024. He bought a White Lake Township property in July 2023 and tore down the existing building to build a new house; in May 2024 he was living at a Genoa Township home reportedly owned by his sister-in-law, was registered to vote there and had cancelled the Florida registration. In October 2024 Bridge, citing the Detroit Free Press, reported that the White Lake house still lacked a certificate of occupancy although he was registered and had cast his August primary ballot at that address; his attorney told The Detroit News that staying in a relative’s home in the same township satisfied Michigan’s residency rule, and Rogers called the insinuations “absolutely nuts” and said, “I live in White Lake.” In the 2026 race El-Sayed has called him a “Florida man”; Bridge’s August 26, 2026 fact check found the Cape Coral home listed for sale, a principal-residence exemption on the White Lake home, an active Michigan registration at that address and no Florida registration as of August 24, and concluded that “no one is questioning his qualifications to be on the ballot or his current residency.” The Rogers campaign did not answer Bridge’s questions about his time in Florida. [28][29][44]
Opioids and the drug industry
A 2024 Bridge Michigan investigation found that Rogers introduced the National Pain Care Policy Act in 2003 and again in 2005, bills that Congress.gov lists as H.R. 1863 and H.R. 1020, that he was a leading congressional advocate for greater access to prescription pain medication, and that his bills carried no penalties for over-prescribing. Citing an Associated Press and Center for Public Integrity investigation, Bridge reported that his campaign and leadership accounts received at least $310,000 from groups tied to the pharmaceutical industry between 2006 and 2015; by Bridge’s own tally he received $226,000 from companies now paying opioid settlements, including Johnson & Johnson, AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson. Explaining the donations in 2016, Rogers said: “I think they said, ‘This guy is a champion, he’s doing something we believe in and we want to support a guy like that.’” Asked in 2024 whether he wished he had taken a different approach, he said, “I understand that question is couched in a way that makes it sound terrible,” and “I just disagree with the premise of the question,” describing his brother’s chronic pain and saying, “What we were doing (in Congress) is making sure that true chronic pain sufferers had access to drugs that would at least give some relief and hopefully allow them to spend some time with their family.” He attributed the crisis to over-prescribing doctors and a lack of federal enforcement against pill mills, and after the story was published said drug companies also share the blame. [31][3]
The “pharma lobbyist” dispute
In a June 14, 2026 post El-Sayed said Rogers “took a $14 million payout as a pharma lobbyist.” PolitiFact found no federal or Michigan record of Rogers registering as a lobbyist and no record that he worked for pharmaceutical companies after leaving Congress; it described his post-Congress work as consulting and board service for telecommunications and cybersecurity companies, including AT&T, Nokia and Telefónica, nonprofit board service related to national security, and a CNN hosting and commentary role, and it rated the statement Pants on Fire. The Rogers campaign sent El-Sayed a cease-and-desist letter on June 22, 2026 saying the statements “constitute defamation under Michigan law”; El-Sayed partially walked the claim back in a video, and his campaign said Rogers put “Big Pharma over the people he served.” PolitiFact also reported, from OpenSecrets data, that pharmaceutical-industry political action committees gave tens of thousands of dollars to his campaigns each cycle from 2004 to 2014, that the industry was his largest PAC donor by industry in 2008 and 2014, and that his current campaign had received $2,000 from such committees; a Senate financial disclosure cited by PolitiFact showed a $30,000 payment from the lobbying firm CGCN Group before the 2024 run, which the campaign said was for work on the firm’s strategic-communications side. Bridge Michigan also reported the letter in August 2026. [45][27]
The 2020 election and the 2024 concession
Bridge Michigan reported in July 2024 that Rogers had previously criticized President Trump and his allies for attempting to overturn the 2020 election results before accepting the president’s endorsement that March. In November 2025 Michigan Advance, citing The Detroit News’s review of videos of the speeches, reported that Rogers had told an audience in Muskegon on October 17, 2025 that a van carrying ballots had arrived at a Detroit counting location in the early morning after the 2024 election and that he had lost by some 17,000 votes, a claim the outlet said was made without evidence; it noted that he had conceded shortly after the results, that a post-election audit confirmed them, and that his campaign had not returned a request for comment. In August 2026 Bridge reported that he has recently repeated some of the president’s claims about the 2020 election, which Bridge described as false, and has questioned his own 2024 loss; Senator Slotkin wrote that Rogers “certainly wasn’t claiming election fraud when he called me to concede in November 2024.” The Clerk’s official statistics record the 2024 result as 2,712,686 to 2,693,680, a margin of 19,006. [30][43][27][4]
The surveillance record and the 2024 primary
Rogers’s record on government surveillance was the focus of former Representative Justin Amash’s attacks in the 2024 Republican primary; Amash called him “the worst establishment candidate that you could ever imagine.” Businessman Sandy Pensler, who had accused him of helping Hillary Clinton cover up the 2012 Benghazi attacks, ended his own campaign in July 2024 and endorsed Rogers, who had already rejected the charge. Rogers won the August 6, 2024 primary over Amash and physician Sherry O’Donnell with 64 percent of the vote as reported by Fox 2 Detroit; Pensler’s name remained on the ballot. The roll calls, including his No on the 2013 Amash amendment, are the record; the characterizations are the candidates’. [30][37][38][19]
The debate he declined
Fox 2 Detroit and the Michigan Debate Committee invited both nominees on August 5, 2026 to a September 15 debate on the station’s program The Pulse. El-Sayed accepted the next day; the Rogers campaign, after not responding for 42 days, declined on the morning of the event, its communications director saying, “Michiganders deserve to see their candidates engage in a healthy, fair debate — not one compromised by media bias,” and citing the moderator’s past remarks about El-Sayed. The moderator, Roop Raj, answered on air: “It is rare to cite a moderator as a reason not to want to face an opponent.” Both campaigns have agreed to a WOOD TV8 debate on October 8, which the Rogers campaign has described as the first debate of the general election. [34][33]
The general-election field
El-Sayed won the Democratic primary on August 4, 2026 over Representative Haley Stevens, who conceded the next morning and offered her support. Rogers’s statement that morning called the choice “common sense or complete insanity” and said El-Sayed is “leading a movement grounded in ideological fanaticism.” Rogers was the only Republican on the ballot: on May 28, 2026 the Board of State Canvassers declined to certify the petitions of Bernadette Smith after the Bureau of Elections found she had submitted fewer than 7,000 of the 15,000 signatures required, leaving him unopposed. Bridge reports that the Senate Leadership Fund has pledged more than $45 million to support Rogers, that he lost in 2024 by just over 19,000 votes while running about 123,000 votes behind President Trump in Michigan (122,956 by the Clerk’s statistics, computed for this profile), and that on August 20, 2026 he launched a Democrats for Mike Rogers coalition in Detroit; Fox 2 Detroit has likewise described the campaign’s push to court Democratic voters. Endorsements and outside spending establish political support; they are not evaluations of the record above. [26][41][42][27][4][33]
Questions & answers
Who is Mike Rogers?
Mike Rogers’s public career runs from the FBI’s Chicago office to the Michigan Senate, fourteen years in the U.S. House and four as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and now to a second campaign for the U.S. Senate, two years after a race decided by nineteen thousand votes. The Biographical Directory of the United States Congress records that Rogers was born in Livingston County, Michigan, on June 2, 1963, graduated from Howell High School in 1981 and took a bachelor of science from Adrian College in 1985. The campaign’s “Meet Mike” biography says he was born and raised in Livingston County, the son of a teacher, coach and vice principal and of a mother who led the local chamber of commerce; a second campaign page gives Livonia as his birthplace, describes his father as a shop teacher and Air Force veteran, and names the Brighton chamber of commerce. [1][22][23]
What office is Mike Rogers running for in 2026?
Who is Mike Rogers running against?
Rogers first filed with the Federal Election Commission as a Senate candidate on September 6, 2023, accepted President Trump’s endorsement in March 2024 and won the August 6, 2024 Republican primary over former Representative Justin Amash and physician Sherry O’Donnell, with 64 percent of the vote as reported by Fox 2 Detroit; the state canvass of that primary could not be retrieved for this review. He lost the general election to Elissa Slotkin, 2,712,686 to 2,693,680. By August 2025 he was a candidate for the seat Senator Gary Peters is vacating; he was the only Republican on the August 4, 2026 primary ballot after the Board of State Canvassers declined to certify the petitions of Bernadette Smith, and he faces Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee, on November 3, 2026. [36][6][30][37][38][4][43][42][26][27]
What are Mike Rogers's stated priorities?
The following summarizes the agenda on Rogers’s campaign website and its housing and health-care plans. These are proposed priorities, not completed accomplishments. [21][23][24][25] The campaign lists: Jobs and the cost of living; Housing: 529 accounts for down payments; Health care: prices, prescriptions, denials; Standing with President Trump; China and the auto industry; Abortion; Data centers.
What does the public record show?
Clerk roll calls, Congress.gov bill records and the official election statistics establish the following work. Outcomes are described at the level those records support, with shared credit where the measure was another official’s initiative. The Biographical Directory records Rogers as chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in the 112th and 113th Congresses, from 2011 to 2015. The bill records of those years show him as sponsor of the committee’s annual authorization: H.R. 754, the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011, became Public Law 112-18 on June 8, 2011; H.R. 1892, for fiscal year 2012, became Public Law 112-87 on January 3, 2012; and H.R. 4681, for fiscal year 2015, became Public Law 113-293 on December 19, 2014. H.R. 5743, for fiscal year 2013, passed the House and was referred to the Senate Intelligence Committee. [1][3]
How was this profile researched?
Reviewed September 17, 2026, with an independent fact-check of every claim against its cited document on the same day. This is a documented overview of publicly available biography, major actions, and stated priorities, not an exhaustive vote-by-vote record; 15 roll calls were read for it and 13 are cited. Numerical claims retain their original meaning and attribution; margins and percentages computed from official tallies are marked as such. Historical sources do not imply current positions. The Michigan Secretary of State’s results and petition pages, Ballotpedia, the Michigan Legislature’s bill records, the Congressional Biographical Directory site, Michigan Advance’s own site and several wire and newspaper sites could not be retrieved by this review’s tools, so the 2024 general-election figures are taken from the Clerk of the House’s official statistics, the 2024 primary result is given as the percentage reported by Fox 2 Detroit rather than the state canvass, two Michigan Advance reports are read as republished by Yahoo News, and the campaign’s 529-program authorship claim is recorded as a claim. Personal financial disclosures, degree fields, the terms of private-sector engagements and board service were not part of this review; the one interest-group rating included is Heritage Action’s. The source list provides direct links so readers can check the underlying material. Filings and campaign pages may change after this review.
Sources & methodology
Government records anchor the profile: the Clerk’s roll calls and election statistics, the Biographical Directory, Congress.gov bill records, the text of his privileges resolution and the Federal Election Commission’s candidate file. Independent analyses (GovTrack, Voteview, Heritage Action) are labeled as such; Bridge Michigan, Michigan Advance, PolitiFact and WJBK-TV in Detroit supply reporting, responses and scrutiny; campaign materials are used for the candidate’s own priorities and claims.
- 01ROGERS, Mike — Biographical Directory entry (R000572)U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Historian (History, Art & Archives) · Accessed September 17, 2026
The official biography: born Livingston County June 2, 1963; Howell High School 1981; B.S. Adrian College 1985; Army 1985–1989; FBI 1989–1994; Michigan Senate 1995–2000 and majority floor leader 1999–2000; seven House terms; Intelligence Committee chair in the 112th and 113th Congresses; 2024 Senate candidacy.Government record - 02Congress.gov member record, R000572Library of Congress (Congress.gov API) · Accessed September 17, 2026
Birth year 1963; terms in the 107th through 113th Congresses (2001–2015) for Michigan’s Eighth District; 129 sponsored and 1,462 cosponsored measures. Read through the Congress.gov API with its public demonstration key.Government record - 03Legislation sponsored by Mike Rogers, 2001–2015 (129 records)Library of Congress (Congress.gov API) · Accessed September 17, 2026
Latest action on every sponsored measure: seven became public law in their own right (H.R. 5037, 5646, 2711, 754, 1892, 307 and 4681); CISPA (H.R. 3523 and H.R. 624) and H.R. 5743 passed the House and were referred to the Senate Intelligence Committee.Government record - 04Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 5, 2024Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives · Published March 10, 2025
Michigan, United States Senator: Rogers 2,693,680; Slotkin 2,712,686; Solis-Mullen 56,697; Marsh 53,978; Stein 41,363; Dern 18,779. Compiled from official sources; margin and percentages computed for this profile.Government record - 05Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 7, 2000Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives · Corrected to June 21, 2001
Michigan’s Eighth District: Mike Rogers, Republican, 145,179; Dianne Byrum, Democrat, 145,019.Government record - 06ROGERS, MICHAEL J — candidate overview, S4MI00595Federal Election Commission · Filings through July 15, 2026; accessed September 17, 2026
Principal committee Rogers for Senate (C00849810); statement of candidacy, current version filed July 17, 2026. The 2025–2026 totals through July 15, 2026 read $10,898,177 raised, $6,680,643 spent and $4,473,237 cash on hand.Government record - 07Rep. Mike Rogers [R-MI8, 2001–2014] — member page and missed-votes recordGovTrack.us · Accessed September 17, 2026
Attendance: 249 of 9,768 roll calls missed 2001–2014 (2.5%), on par with the median; eight enacted bills under GovTrack’s inclusive definition; sponsored bills concentrated in national security (34%) and health (34%).Independent analysis or rating - 08DW-NOMINATE member data, 113th Congress (H113_members.csv)Voteview (UCLA) · Accessed September 17, 2026
First-dimension score 0.400 for Rogers (ICPSR 20120). The ranking among House Republicans and the party median were computed from this file for this profile.Independent analysis or rating - 09Roll call 398, October 24, 2001 — USA PATRIOT Act (H.R. 3162)Clerk of the U.S. House · October 24, 2001
Rogers recorded Yea; passed under suspension 357–66.Government record - 10Roll call 455, October 10, 2002 — authorization for the use of force against Iraq (H.J. Res. 114)Clerk of the U.S. House · October 10, 2002
Rogers recorded Yea; passed 296–133.Government record - 11Roll call 669, November 22, 2003 — Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, conference report (H.R. 1)Clerk of the U.S. House · November 22, 2003
Rogers recorded Yea; agreed to 220–215.Government record - 12Roll call 402, May 22, 2007 — motion to table H. Res. 428, a resolution raising a question of the privileges of the HouseClerk of the U.S. House · May 22, 2007
Rogers, the resolution’s sponsor, recorded No on the motion to table, which carried 219–189 with 13 voting present.Government record - 13Roll call 681, October 3, 2008 — Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (H.R. 1424)Clerk of the U.S. House · October 3, 2008
Rogers recorded Nay; the motion to concur in the Senate amendments passed 263–171.Government record - 14Roll call 690, December 10, 2008 — Auto Industry Financing and Restructuring Act (H.R. 7321)Clerk of the U.S. House · December 10, 2008
Rogers recorded Aye; passed 237–170.Government record - 15Roll call 165, March 21, 2010 — Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590)Clerk of the U.S. House · March 21, 2010
Rogers recorded No; the motion to concur in the Senate amendments passed 219–212.Government record - 16Roll call 14, January 19, 2011 — Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act (H.R. 2)Clerk of the U.S. House · January 19, 2011
Rogers recorded Aye; passed 245–189.Government record - 17Roll call 192, April 26, 2012 — Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (H.R. 3523)Clerk of the U.S. House · April 26, 2012
Rogers, the sponsor, recorded Aye; passed 248–168.Government record - 18Roll call 117, April 18, 2013 — Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (H.R. 624)Clerk of the U.S. House · April 18, 2013
Rogers, the sponsor, recorded Yea; passed 288–127.Government record - 19Roll call 412, July 24, 2013 — Amash of Michigan Amendment No. 100 to H.R. 2397Clerk of the U.S. House · July 24, 2013
Amash of Michigan Amendment No. 100 to the defense appropriations bill failed 205–217; Rogers recorded No.Government record - 20Roll call 230, May 22, 2014 — USA FREEDOM Act (H.R. 3361)Clerk of the U.S. House · May 22, 2014
Rogers recorded Yea; passed 303–121.Government record - 21Mike Rogers for Senate — home pageRogers for Senate (campaign) · Accessed September 17, 2026
The campaign’s statement of purpose and its pledge to stand with President Trump; the disclaimer naming Rogers for Senate as the payer; links to the campaign’s X, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube accounts. Self-descriptions.Campaign or advocacy material - 22Meet Mike | Mike Rogers for SenateRogers for Senate (campaign) · Accessed September 17, 2026
Campaign biography: parents, Howell High School and Adrian College, Army, FBI in Chicago, the 529 program claim, the 2000 race, the Intelligence chairmanship, the post-2015 business, wife Kristi and two children. Self-descriptions.Campaign or advocacy material - 23What Michiganders Need to Know | Mike Rogers for SenateRogers for Senate (campaign) · Accessed September 17, 2026
The campaign’s bullet-point record claims (Medicare Part D, the auto rescue, the bailout vote, the 529 program) and its case against Abdul El-Sayed. Claims, checked against the roll calls where possible.Campaign or advocacy material - 24Housing Plan | Mike Rogers for SenateRogers for Senate (campaign) · Accessed September 17, 2026
The four-part housing proposal quoted in this profile. Proposals, not record.Campaign or advocacy material - 25Healthcare Plan | Mike Rogers for SenateRogers for Senate (campaign) · Accessed September 17, 2026
Price transparency, Trump Rx expansion and insurer reporting proposals quoted in this profile. Proposals, not record.Campaign or advocacy material - 26Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan Senate primary in progressive ‘shockwave’Bridge Michigan (Lauren Gibbons) · August 5, 2026
The Democratic primary result, the Associated Press call and Stevens’s concession and offer of support; Rogers as the Republican nominee; his statement on the morning after the primary.Independent reporting - 27Mike Rogers vs. Abdul El-Sayed: 7 issues defining Michigan’s US Senate raceBridge Michigan (Lauren Gibbons) · August 20, 2026
Rogers unopposed in the primary; the 2024 margin of just over 19,000 votes and the gap behind Trump; the February 2026 housing plan and the health plan; the cease-and-desist letter; the 2020-election remarks; the data-center moratorium; the Democrats for Mike Rogers launch on August 20; the Senate Leadership Fund pledge.Independent reporting - 28Michigan elections FAQ: Yes, Mike Rogers moved back from FloridaBridge Michigan (Lauren Gibbons) · May 22, 2024
Cape Coral home and former Florida registration; the White Lake Township purchase; the Genoa Township registration; cancellation of the Florida registration.Independent reporting - 29Michigan elections FAQ: Where Mike Rogers lives and is registered to voteBridge Michigan (Lauren Gibbons) · October 9, 2024
The certificate-of-occupancy question, his attorney’s residency argument and Rogers’s responses (“absolutely nuts”; “I live in White Lake”).Independent reporting - 30With rival’s backing, Mike Rogers in ‘driver’s seat’ for U.S. Senate primaryBridge Michigan (Lauren Gibbons) · July 26, 2024
The 2024 primary field (Amash, O’Donnell, Pensler); Trump’s March 2024 endorsement and Rogers’s earlier criticism of the effort to overturn the 2020 result; Pensler’s Benghazi charge and endorsement; Amash’s surveillance attack; Florida retirement, CNN and information-technology work; his stated 2024 policy goals.Independent reporting - 31Mike Rogers vows to fight drug war, but urged opioid access in CongressBridge Michigan (Ron French) · August 29, 2024
The National Pain Care Policy Act of 2003 and 2005; pharmaceutical-industry contributions as tallied by the Associated Press and the Center for Public Integrity and by Bridge; Rogers’s “a champion” remark and his 2024 responses.Independent reporting - 32On abortion, some Michigan candidate claims conflict with recordsBridge Michigan (Jordyn Hermani) · September 6, 2024
Rogers’s 1994 position, his co-sponsorships in Congress and his 2023–2024 statements that abortion policy is “up to the states.”Independent reporting - 33U.S. Senate debate: Abdul El-Sayed, Mike Rogers takeaways and analysisFox 2 Detroit (WJBK) · September 15, 2026
The September 15 debate on The Pulse, held with an empty podium after Rogers declined; the Rogers campaign’s push to court Democratic voters.Independent reporting - 34Mike Rogers declines FOX 2 Senate debate; Roop Raj respondsFox 2 Detroit (WJBK) · September 15, 2026
The August 5 invitation, the Rogers campaign’s statement citing the moderator, the moderator’s on-air reply and the agreed WOOD TV8 debate of October 8.Independent reporting - 35House Vote 412, July 24, 2013 — H.Amdt. 413 (Amash) to H.R. 2397GovTrack.us · July 24, 2013
GovTrack’s description of the amendment from the official record: it sought to end authority for the blanket collection of records under the Patriot Act and to bar the NSA and other agencies from using Section 215 to collect records; failed 205–217. Read with the Clerk’s roll call.Independent analysis or rating - 36Candidate totals, 2026 cycle — ROGERS, MICHAEL J (S4MI00595)Federal Election Commission (OpenFEC API) · Coverage through July 15, 2026; accessed September 17, 2026
First filing date September 6, 2023; election years 2024 and 2026; open seat; receipts, disbursements and cash on hand matching the candidate page. Read through the Commission’s API with its public demonstration key.Government record - 37Michigan primary results: Elissa Slotkin, Mike Rogers win U.S. Senate racesBridge Michigan (Lauren Gibbons) · August 6, 2024
Rogers won the August 6, 2024 Republican primary over Justin Amash and Sherry O’Donnell, with Sandy Pensler still on the ballot; the Associated Press call at 9 p.m.; no vote totals.Independent reporting - 38Mike Rogers wins Republican primary for US Senate seatFox 2 Detroit (WJBK), with the Associated Press · August 6, 2024
Rogers won with 64 percent of the vote over Amash and O’Donnell, after the Associated Press called the race; Pensler’s name remained on the ballot after his late withdrawal. A news report, not the state canvass.Independent reporting - 39Text of H. Res. 428 (110th Congress): Raising a question of the privileges of the HouseGovernment Publishing Office text, read on GovTrack.us · May 22, 2007
The resolution submitted by Rogers: the Murtha earmark for the National Drug Intelligence Center, the floor exchange of May 17, 2007 as the resolution recounts it, and the call for a reprimand. Laid on the table.Government record - 40Roll call 251, June 18, 2013 — District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H.R. 1797)Clerk of the U.S. House · June 18, 2013
Rogers recorded Yea; passed 228–196.Government record - 41Officials: 2 governor hopefuls, 1 Senate candidate should be kept off ballotBridge Michigan (Simon D. Schuster) · May 20, 2026
The Bureau of Elections found that Bernadette Smith, who hoped to challenge Rogers in the Republican primary, submitted fewer than 7,000 of the 15,000 signatures required and recommended her disqualification ahead of the Board of State Canvassers’ May 28 meeting.Independent reporting - 42James and Johnson remain on ballot for governor, while canvassers reject Smith and RebandtMichigan Advance (Kyle Davidson), republished by Yahoo News · May 28, 2026
The Board of State Canvassers’ May 28, 2026 decisions; Smith failed to submit the required signatures, leaving Rogers unopposed in the Republican primary. Read on Yahoo News because the outlet’s own site could not be retrieved.Independent reporting - 43Michigan Democrats rebuff Rogers’ evidence-free claim that the 2024 election was also stolenMichigan Advance (Ben Solis), republished by Yahoo News · November 10, 2025
Rogers’s October 17, 2025 remarks in Muskegon about the 2024 count, as reported by The Detroit News from video; his 2024 concession and the post-election audit; the Democratic candidates’ responses; the campaign’s unreturned request for comment. Also documents him as a Senate candidate by August 2025.Independent reporting - 44Fact check: ‘Florida man’ tag follows Mike Rogers in new US Senate bidBridge Michigan (Matt Mencarini) · August 26, 2026
The 2014 sale of the Howell home, the Maryland and Virginia properties, the 2022 Cape Coral purchase and 2023 exemption, the White Lake principal-residence exemption and voter registration as of August 24, 2026; El-Sayed’s attacks and the Rogers campaign’s response.Independent reporting - 45Senate candidate Mike Rogers didn’t make millions as pharma lobbyist, despite Abdul El-Sayed’s claimPolitiFact (Caleb McCullough) · July 2, 2026
No lobbying registration found; Rogers’s post-Congress consulting, board and CNN work; the June 22, 2026 cease-and-desist letter; pharmaceutical PAC giving per OpenSecrets; the CGCN Group payment and the campaign’s explanation. The article’s estimates of personal wealth are not used in this profile.Independent reporting - 46Rep. Mike Rogers — Scorecard, 113th CongressHeritage Action for America · Accessed September 17, 2026
Session score 51 percent for the 113th Congress; lifetime score 53 percent. An advocacy group’s rating.Independent analysis or rating
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Voting in Michigan: official dates, deadlines and rules
The general election is Tuesday, November 3, 2026. The dates and rules below were read from the Michigan Department of State (Secretary of State), Bureau of Elections; the authority's own page, linked beside each one, is the final word.
Dates and deadlines
- Online voter registration deadlineMonday, October 19, 2026 — last day to register online (at Michigan.gov/Vote) and be eligible to vote in the November 3, 2026 general election. After that date, registration is only in person at the local city or township clerk's office, with proof of residency. Read from: michigan.gov/sos/elections
- Voter registration by mail deadline (postmarked by)Monday, October 19, 2026 — last day to register by mail and be eligible to vote in the November election. A mailed registration application must be postmarked at least 15 days before Election Day. Read from: michigan.gov/sos/elections/voting/register-to-vote
- In-person voter registration at the local clerk's officeFrom Tuesday, October 20, 2026 through 8 p.m. on Election Day, Tuesday, November 3, 2026, new voter registrations must be made in person at the local city or township clerk's office, with proof of residency. Read from: michigan.gov/sos/elections
- Election Day registrationYes. On Election Day, Tuesday, November 3, 2026, an eligible person may register until 8 p.m., only in person at the local city or township clerk's office and with proof of residency — official documentation, paper or digital, that lists the voter's current name and address. A person in line at the clerk's office by 8 p.m. has the right to register, and is issued a ballot to complete and submit on the spot. The Department of State says registration in that window can also be done at a clerk's satellite office, where the local clerk runs one; look up whether your jurisdiction has one at Michigan.gov/Vote. Read from: michigan.gov/sos/elections/voting/register-to-vote
- Absentee ballots available to votersThursday, September 24, 2026 — absentee (absent voter) ballots must be available for issuance to voters, 40 days before the election. For military and overseas voters who applied 45 days or more before the election, clerks must send the ballot by Saturday, September 19, 2026. Read from: michigan.gov/sos/elections
- Early in-person voting beginsSaturday, October 24, 2026 — first day of the mandatory early in-person voting period for statewide and federal elections (the second Saturday before Election Day). Communities can optionally offer early voting beginning as early as the 29th day before the election; look up your assigned early voting site, its dates and hours at Michigan.gov/Vote. Read from: michigan.gov/sos/elections
- Early in-person voting endsSunday, November 1, 2026 — last day of the mandatory early voting period. The state's election calendar adds that early voting optionally may be held on the Monday before Election Day until 4 p.m.; check your early voting site's dates and hours at Michigan.gov/Vote. Read from: michigan.gov/sos/-/media/Project/Websites/sos/Election-Administrators/Election-Dates.pdf
- Absentee ballot request deadline (online or by mail: received by)5 p.m. on Friday, October 30, 2026 (the Friday before Election Day) — online applications may be submitted until then, and mailed applications must be received by the local city or township clerk's office by then. In person at the clerk's office, a voter registered at the current address may apply until 4 p.m. on Monday, November 2, 2026. Read from: michigan.gov/sos/elections/voting/absentee-voting
Rules to know
- What to bringVoters are asked to show photo ID at the polls, but are not required to possess a photo ID to vote in Michigan; by law, a voter who has a photo ID must present it. Acceptable photo ID: a driver's license or state ID card issued by Michigan or another state; a federal, state, county or local government-issued photo ID; a U.S. passport; a military photo ID card; an educational institution ID; a tribal photo ID card; or a concealed pistol license. The ID does not need to show the voter's address. An expired Michigan driver's license or state ID is accepted; any other type of photo ID must be current. A voter who does not have photo ID, or who forgot to bring it, can still cast a ballot by signing an affidavit stating that the voter is not in possession of a valid photo ID. The same applies at early voting sites. Separately, a person who registers within 14 days of the election must bring proof of residency to the local clerk's office. Read from: michigan.gov/sos/elections/voting/vote-on-election-day
- Voting by mail (absentee ballot)All registered voters in Michigan have the right to vote by mail using an absentee ballot. Apply online at Michigan.gov/Vote, by mailing a completed application to the local city or township clerk, or in person at the clerk's office. Voters can also decide to be placed on a permanent absentee ballot list; the local clerk then automatically mails them an absentee ballot for all local, state and federal elections. Online applications may be submitted until 5 p.m. the Friday before Election Day, and mailed applications must be received by the clerk by then; a voter registered at the current address may apply in person until 4 p.m. the day before Election Day. Absentee ballots are available beginning 40 days before every election. The completed and signed ballot must be received by the local clerk's office by 8 p.m. on Election Day: by mail in the pre-paid envelope (the state encourages mailing at least two weeks before Election Day), in person at the clerk's office, or in one of the clerk's secure drop boxes in the voter's city or township. Only the voter, a member of the voter's immediate family or a person residing in the voter's household who has been asked to return it, a mail carrier on official duty, or an authorized election official may return the ballot. Military and overseas ballots must be postmarked by Election Day and received within 6 days after the election. Read from: michigan.gov/sos/elections/voting/absentee-voting
- Early in-person votingAny registered voter in Michigan has the right to vote early in person at an early voting site for statewide and federal elections. For the November 3, 2026 general election the mandatory early voting period runs nine consecutive days, from Saturday, October 24 through Sunday, November 1, 2026; communities may offer additional days, beginning as early as the 29th day before the election. Voters from more than one precinct, city or township may be assigned to a single, shared early voting site, so look up your assigned site, its dates and hours at Michigan.gov/Vote. At the site, voters are issued a ballot and insert it directly into a tabulator. A voter without photo ID, or who forgot to bring it, can still vote after signing an Affidavit of Voter Not in Possession of Picture Identification. Early voting sites do not offer voter registration. Read from: michigan.gov/sos/elections/voting/early-in-person-voting
- Track your absentee ballotVoters can track online, at Michigan.gov/Vote (the Michigan Voter Information Center), when the local clerk mails the absentee ballot and when the clerk's office receives it back. The same page shows registration status, polling place location and hours, early voting location and hours, and a sample ballot. Read from: michigan.gov/sos/elections/voting/absentee-voting
- If there is a problem with the signatureLocal clerks compare the signature on each absentee ballot return envelope with the voter's signature on record. If the clerk determines that the signature is not valid, the ballot is rejected and the clerk must promptly notify the voter, who is given an opportunity to cure a missing or non-matching signature. For the November 3, 2026 election, the state's election calendar sets 5 p.m. on Friday, November 6, 2026 as the deadline for a voter to cure the signature on the absentee ballot return envelope, so that an otherwise valid ballot is accepted for tabulation. The calendar also sets 4 p.m. on Friday, October 30, 2026 as the deadline to cure a signature deficiency on an absentee ballot application in order to receive the ballot by First Class mail. Read from: michigan.gov/sos/-/media/Project/Websites/sos/Election-Administrators/Election-Dates.pdf
Read from: Elections · August-November 2026 Election Dates · Register to vote · Absentee voting · Early in-person voting · Vote on Election Day — Rules and dates as of Sep 17, 2026
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