Congress, Ninth District: the Cape, the Islands, the South Coast and the South Shore. Every line on this page is a recorded vote, the candidate’s own website, or his own words in print. Tap any receipt.
Bill Keating, in a radio debate on August 24, 2026: “I support actually deconstructing ICE, because it’s lost its mission.”
Receipts
- “In 1977, at the age of 23, Bill was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives.” Elected to Congress on November 2, 2010: keating.house.gov, full biography
- “Keating wins Democratic nomination for a 9th term in Congress”; the ICE quotation is from the same outlet’s report on the WATD debate: New Bedford Light, Sept. 1, 2026; New Bedford Light, Aug. 25, 2026
- Laken Riley Act, Keating recorded Nay both times: H.R. 29, House roll call 6, Jan. 7, 2025; S. 5, House roll call 23, Jan. 22, 2025
- Secure the Border Act, Keating recorded Nay: H.R. 2, House roll call 209, May 11, 2023
State representative, state senator, district attorney, then Congress in 2010. Now asking for a ninth term.
Office
Signed the U.S. Term Limits pledge: three House terms, two Senate terms, “and no longer limit.”
Receipts
- Keating’s career in his own office’s words, including “a position he held from 1999 until his election to Congress”: keating.house.gov, full biography
- Macallister, the pledge text: “I will cosponsor and vote for the U.S. Term Limits amendment of three (3) two-year House terms and two (2) six-year Senate terms and no longer limit.” U.S. Term Limits, Sept. 16, 2026
- Macallister served five terms on the Mattapoisett Select Board and left it in April 2026 to run: macallister4congress.com; Sippican Week, Apr. 30, 2026
His office: he “has strongly supported the extension of federal tax incentives that will allow renewable energy industries on- and off-shore to grow.”
The political committee of Avangrid, a co-owner of Vineyard Wind, has given his campaign $27,500 since 2020. The newest check is dated June 20, 2026.
Wind
“No industrial wind farms in our fishing grounds, and no data centers draining our grid and our water.”
Receipts
- Keating: “Bill strongly supports energy policies that increase the use of clean, renewable sources, such as solar and wind”, and the tax-incentive sentence: keating.house.gov, Energy
- Avangrid Political Action Committee to The Bill Keating Committee, seven contributions: $2,500 (Oct. 30, 2020), $2,500 (June 28, 2022), $2,500 (Sept. 8, 2022), $5,000 (Mar. 29, 2023), $5,000 (May 2, 2024), $5,000 (Feb. 28, 2025), $5,000 (June 20, 2026). That is $10,000 in each of the last two election cycles, the most a political committee may give a candidate: Federal Election Commission, receipts; FEC contribution limits. These contributions are lawful and publicly disclosed.
- Vineyard Wind 1 is owned by Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners: Vineyard Wind press releases
- Macallister: macallister4congress.com, Solutions. On new projects: “No new project approved until the removal money is posted first”: Who pays to take them down?
- Macallister on the water: “I watched as the ocean basically became sterile.” My Fishing Cape Cod, Mar. 11, 2026
He says bills are rising because “our (energy) supply doesn’t come close to meeting our demand,” and points to the halt on offshore wind.
Electric Bill
His campaign: “an all-of-the-above energy approach that puts reliable, affordable power ahead of ideology.”
Receipts
- Lower Energy Costs Act, on passage, Keating recorded Nay: H.R. 1, House roll call 182, Mar. 30, 2023
- Keating, the full sentence: “Our (energy) supply doesn’t come close to meeting our demand. And when that happens, basic economics: that’s going to drive up every consumer’s electric bill.” From a MassLive report on the offshore wind freeze, as posted on keatingforcongress.com, Aug. 8, 2026
- Macallister: macallister4congress.com, Solutions; “If you were to take the one common binding agent for the entire district, it’s energy costs”: My Fishing Cape Cod, Mar. 11, 2026
His office points to his first bill, the Strengthen Fisheries Management in New England Act, and a Federal Fishing Task Force he founded.
Fleet
“One of the things that’s missing and been missing in this district is representation to the fishermen and the fisheries.”
Receipts
- Keating: keating.house.gov, Fishing
- Macallister, both quotations: Sippican Week, June 10, 2025
- Macallister: “The advocacy and the representation for the fishing community, both recreational and commercial, at the federal level has been non-existent”: My Fishing Cape Cod, Mar. 11, 2026. His campaign promises to “stand up to the federal overreach and bad rules choking the fleet”: Solutions
Voted yes on the American Rescue Plan Act in 2021 and on H.R. 5376 in 2022. Voted no on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in 2025.
Spending
His campaign: “cut the waste, hold Washington accountable for every dollar, and bring our tax dollars back home.”
Receipts
- Keating recorded Yea: American Rescue Plan Act, H.R. 1319, House roll call 72, Mar. 10, 2021; H.R. 5376, the 2022 budget reconciliation bill, House roll call 420, Aug. 12, 2022
- Keating recorded No: One Big Beautiful Bill Act, H.R. 1, House roll call 190, July 3, 2025
- Keating on prices: he “is challenging Trump’s tariffs, which increase prices on everyday goods and harm small businesses”: keatingforcongress.com
- Macallister: macallister4congress.com, Solutions; “Massachusetts has the highest cost of living in the nation, and it’s uprooting our families”: macallister4congress.com
His side answered the request but has not committed to a debate. Macallister’s campaign calls it “the debate his opponent has not agreed to.”
His September 17 letter to Keating: “I would like to schedule a series of three debates within Massachusetts Congressional District 9.”
Receipts
- The letter, dated September 17, 2026, asks for the first debate the week of September 21: macallister4congress.com, A Formal Request to Debate
- “on the debate his opponent has not agreed to”: macallister4congress.com, Media, describing a September 24 radio appearance
- Keating’s side has replied to the request without committing to a debate, according to the Macallister campaign, as of October 4, 2026. Neither keating.house.gov nor keatingforcongress.com carried a public statement on it that day.
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Votes are from the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives; campaign contributions are from the Federal Election Commission. Quotations are trimmed for length only, never reworded. Sources were read on October 4, 2026. Photos: Keating official House portrait (clerk.house.gov); Macallister campaign photo (macallister4congress.com).