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Nancy 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.

Bill 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.'

Nancy Mace introduced 90 bills this Congress. Zero became law.

Rep. Nancy Mace, in an Aug. 30, 2026 interview with Tara Palmeri, acknowledged she introduced 90 bills this Congress and that zero became law. Asked what she actually accomplished without Nancy Mace, she pointed to the 'bully pulpit.'

Mace wants a bill to ban staff from living with members. Her own staff say they lived with her.

On August 17, 2026, Sources Say News, the Capitol Hill outlet founded by reporter Juliegrace Brufke, reported that Rep. Nancy Mace's new push to bar House members from living with their staff runs into her own history. Mace introduced two resolutions on July 30, 2026, H.Res.1465 (no sexual relationships with House employees) and H.Res.1466 (no cohabitating with House employees, married couples excepted), pitching them with the line 'a boss and a roommate should never be the same person.' Multiple former Mace aides told the outlet that a senior campaign aide lived in an apartment above the garage at her Daniel Island home during her first campaign, and that in spring 2022 a senior aide was put up in the basement of her D.C. townhouse, sleeping behind a curtain a few feet from where Mace made her morning coffee. Mace's office flatly denies she ever lived with staff or maintained a 'crash pad,' and one source and a bill proponent draw a distinction between a short platonic stay in a separate space and living with a staffer.

Mace's 'Third World' Immigration Bill Lists Antigua and Barbuda as Two Separate Countries

One of 192: Nancy Mace's Legislative Record

Senate Bill Would End Congress Members' 'Special Treatment' at Airport Security

AirlineGeeks covers Sen. John Cornyn's 'End Special Treatment for Congress at Airports Act' (S.4123), which would prohibit federal funding for expedited TSA screening access for members of Congress while allowing them to use publicly available programs like TSA PreCheck.

The House rejects Mace's bid to release unproven harassment records, 357-65

On March 4, 2026, the House voted 357-65 to reject Rep. Nancy Mace's resolution directing the Ethics Committee to publicly release its records of alleged member sexual misconduct, including allegations the Committee had never substantiated. The bipartisan objection was about due process: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said the measure was rushed and could expose both the accused and victims to the release of unproven claims, and the Ethics Committee warned it would chill victim cooperation. The lopsided vote made it the rare Mace women's-safety measure that even most of her own party would not support as written.