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Mace continues House duties amid governor run
The congresswoman continued her work in the U.S. House while campaigning for governor, now in her third term representing South Carolina's 1st district.
While campaigning for the South Carolina governorship, Nancy Mace continued to serve in her role as the U.S. Representative for the state's 1st congressional district. She is currently in her third term, having first won the seat in 2020 and been re-elected in 2022 and 2024.
Specific legislative activity should be added with citations to the Congressional Record or official roll-call data.
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June 9, 2026 · Dispatch'My time is up at the end of this year': Mace confirms she's leaving Congress
In her concession after the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary, Nancy Mace confirmed she will not seek re-election to the U.S. House: 'my time is up at the end of this year.' Her House term ends in January 2027. She has described the exit as keeping a three-term pledge she says she made in 2020, a characterization examined below.
October 29, 2026 · DispatchNancy Mace Backed Ending Daylight Saving Time. Then She Didn't Show Up to Vote On It.
Nancy Mace was recorded Not Voting on the July 14 passage vote, and in her final year in Congress she missed a higher share of roll calls than all but two of the 426 members on the Clerk's record for every roll call. Through September 16 she was Not Voting on 103 of 314 roll calls, 32.8 percent. Two members missed more, and both told the public why. For July 13 and 14, and for most of her other missed votes, we found no reason from her. Her absence did not change the 308 to 117 result, and the Senate has not acted. This page sets the Clerk's record beside her posts, with every source.
October 22, 2026 · DispatchNancy Mace is leaving Congress. Why, and what is next?
Nancy Mace recorded her goodbye to Congress at home on Oct. 22, 2026. She leaves the U.S. House on Jan. 3, 2027, and gives four reasons: a term-limit promise, press coverage she calls false, threats, and fatigue. Each is set beside the public record, from her 2020 win to fifth place in the June 9 governor primary, along with reasons she did not list: a House Ethics review with no announced result, and $176,206.28 in campaign payments to two law firms that the FEC filings describe only as legal fees, with no FEC investigation on the public record. Then the race for her seat and the media business she is building next.
October 19, 2026 · DispatchNancy Mace Filed 204 Bills. One Became Law.
On January 6, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace told FITSNews: 'I'm actually one of the most prolific legislators in all of Congress.' Congress.gov shows she has sponsored 204 bills and resolutions since January 2021. One became law: H.R. 6042, which named a post office on Hilton Head Island (Public Law 117-288, December 27, 2022). A second, the Skills-Based Federal Contracting Act, passed the House and the Senate and, as of October 15, 2026, had not yet been sent to the President. This Maceopedia documentary walks through her record in her own words, bill by bill, with the sources linked.
October 7, 2026 · Dispatch'I'm Sort Of, Kind Of Known for It': Nancy Mace Describes Her Own Altercation Record, Calls Cory Mills 'a Teetotal POS' on Air, and Recalls Telling Jasmine Crockett to 'Take It Outside'
On the October 1, 2026 episode of her Get Maced podcast, Nancy Mace told her audience, 'Full disclosure, I'm a politician. I have gotten into an altercation or two in my time. I'm sort of, kind of known for it. Watch this.' She then played House floor footage of herself from November 2025, when a clerk read her resolution to censure Rep. Cory Mills, and narrated it: 'I'm standing in the corner, staring down Cory Mills. I may have said a four-letter word or two, telling him how I really feel.' She called Mills 'a teetotal POS' and added, 'I'm also the one that told Jasmine Crockett to take it outside.' Every quote is verbatim from her video. The record behind each line, with sources, is below.
October 3, 2026 · DispatchBill Number Two: Nancy Mace's Skills-Based Contracting Bill Clears Congress 904 Days After She First Filed It, Two Years After It Failed on the House Floor, Her Second of 202 to Pass Both Chambers
On September 30, 2026, the Senate passed H.R. 5235, Rep. Nancy Mace's Skills-Based Federal Contracting Act of 2025, by unanimous consent, sending it to President Trump. Mace first filed the idea as H.R. 7887, the ACCESS Act, on April 9, 2024; that version failed on the House floor on July 23, 2024, 178 to 234. She refiled it as H.R. 5235 on September 9, 2025. From first filing to final passage took 904 days, about two and a half years; the refiled bill alone took 386 days. According to the Congress.gov record, it is only the second of the 202 bills and resolutions Mace has sponsored since taking office in January 2021 to pass both the House and the Senate. The first, in 2022, renamed a post office on Hilton Head Island. Mace, who leaves Congress at the end of this year, told reporters, as reported by the Post and Courier: 'This jobs bill will be a feather in my cap as I retire.'