DemocratAdam Smith
U.S. Representative · Washington
Washington's 9th district
U.S. Representative from Washington
5 tracked promises, 5 rated
Running against
How they won their seat
Adam Smith won the 2024 U.S. House election in Washington (District 9) with 65.4% of the vote (182,780 votes).
- Adam Smith · Democrat65.4%182,780
- Melissa Chaudhry · Democrat32.4%90,601
- Writein · Na2.1%5,917
Certified results. Source: MIT Election Data + Science Lab (MEDSL) ↗. A plurality winner can hold under 50% when more than two candidates run.
Inferred legislative agendas
Adam Smith's record indicates a pattern of sponsored bills related to education, workforce training, and housing issues, as evidenced by bills such as the 'Empowering Individuals to Succeed Through Education and Workforce Training Act' and the 'HOPE for Homeownership Act.' Additionally, there is a pattern of sponsored bills related to health and community service, highlighted by the 'Behavioral Health Crisis Care Centers Act' and the 'Expanding Service Coordinators Act.' Focus areas (from the record): Education · Workforce Development · Housing Affordability · Health Services · Community Service Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. The comparison cannot be made due to lack of evidence regarding declared positions or tracked promises to compare against the inferred activity patterns in Smith's sponsored bills and voting record. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal the effectiveness of the sponsored bills; There is no information on the politician's stated goals or intentions; The record does not indicate the impact of campaign finance on legislative priorities. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Adam Smith has not necessarily stated these as goals. This is an AI-generated, nonpartisan reading of the patterns in their verified record — sponsored legislation, committee work, roll-call votes, and campaign-finance composition — and how those patterns compare to any declared positions and tracked promises. It describes what the record emphasizes, never imputes motive, and is run through an adversarial review pass that scrubs bias, loaded language, and any claim the evidence doesn’t support. It is not a quote, a claim they made, or a rating; every underlying item is sourced in the verified record below; and it never affects the Integrity Score.
Showing 2025. Every tile and chart below reflects this window; some record types (e.g. roll-call votes) only have data for recent years.
Activity in office
What Adam Smith has actually done in office — sourced from official roll-call and government records, shown in full below. These are facts, separate from tracked promises and never folded into any score.
- Votes cast
- 361
- Voted yea
- 139
- Voted nay
- 214
- Bills sponsored
- 16
- Committees
- 1
Roll-call data last updated July 20, 2026 · source: Voteview.
Monthly voting activity
- Yea
- Nay
- Total
Roll-call votes per month — most recent on file. Source: Voteview.
Vote attendance
Share of roll calls participated in — most recent votes on file. Source: Voteview.
Bills sponsored over time
Bills sponsored per year, stacked by outcome (latest action). Outcome data covers the 118th–119th Congresses; earlier years show as “awaiting status” until enriched. Source: Congress.gov.
Independence
How often they break with their party’s majority — neither good nor bad, just the record.
Most recent roll-call votes on file. Source: Voteview.
Bill success rate
Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.
Campaign finance over time
- Small-dollar (unitemized)$49K7%
- Large individual (itemized)$249K35%
- PAC / committee$412K58%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Ranking Member, House Committee on Armed ServicesOn record since Jan 2025Ranking
Source: Congress.gov.
Integrity
Promises kept vs. worked against — weighted breakdown+83 · based on 5 rated promises
- Championed 3
- Fully Kept 2
Teal segments are promises kept; amber and stone segments are promises worked against. The signed score weights each rated promise by significance and evidence confidence. Promise-keeping is shown separately from popularity, finance, disclosure, and stated positions. Methodology is open.
Integrity over time
In office since Jan 2019 · 5 rated promisesEach step is a real change in the sourced record — the score holds between assessments.
Promise status over time
How the tracked promise record has evolved.
- Kept5
- Against0
- No opportunity0
- In progress0
Replayed from this official’s sourced assessment history — the bands step only when an assessment is recorded or changed. Based on the most recent roll-call votes on file and the tracked promise assessments; never interpolated.
Topic coverage
5 promises across 4 topicsWhat this record covers — the number of tracked promises per topic. This is coverage, not a verdict; the kept/against shading within each bar mirrors the Integrity breakdown above.
- Housing2
- Abortion / Reproductive Rights1
- Government Ethics / Accountability1
- Health Care1
Evidence & significance
Evidence quality
Strongest source cited per promise.
- Primary (official record)5100%
Significance mix
How weighty the tracked promises are (1 = minor, 5 = defining).
Significance weights each promise in the Integrity Score.
5 tracked promises
“Ban hedge funds and private equity firms from owning single-family homes by passing the End Hedge Fund Control of American Homes Act (H.R.6608), which he authored — forcing large investors to sell at least 10% of their single-family homes to families each year until they are fully divested over 10 years.”
“Codify the right to abortion nationwide by co-sponsoring and voting for the Women's Health Protection Act, creating a statutory federal right to provide and receive abortion care.”
“Ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks — co-sponsor the Ban Conflicted Trading Act (H.R.1579) and support the Restore Trust in Congress Act to prohibit sitting lawmakers from trading stocks.”
“Sponsor and pass the Promoting Affordable Housing Near Transit Act, allowing nonprofits to receive surplus federal transit land at zero cost to build housing in which at least 40% of units are affordable to households at or below 60% of Area Median Income and remain affordable for 30 years.”
“Co-sponsor the State-Based Universal Health Care Act to let states establish their own universal/single-payer health care systems by streamlining federal waivers and funding.”
Verified record
202 sponsored billsFacts imported directly from official government sources — shown separately from tracked promises and never folded into the Integrity Score. Each entry links to its primary source.
Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 9765: To amend the requirements for teaching residency programs under part A of title II of the Higher Education Act of 1965. ↗Jul 16, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9766: To amend the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to expand participation by underrepresented populations in service programs, and for other purposes. ↗Jul 16, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9657: Protecting American Homes from Hedge Funds Act ↗Jul 13, 2026
- Sponsored HR 6281: CHARGE Act of 2025 ↗Nov 21, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5859: Behavioral Health Crisis Care Centers Act of 2025 ↗Oct 28, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5806: Pre-Apprenticeship Wrap-around Support Services Fund Act of 2025 ↗Oct 21, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5807: Empowering Individuals to Succeed Through Education and Workforce Training Act ↗Oct 21, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5785: Voluntary Grazing Permit Retirement Act of 2025 ↗Oct 17, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5531: Career and Technical Education Access Act ↗Sep 19, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5532: To direct the Secretary of Education to establish a program to facilitate the transition to tuition-free community college in certain States, and for other purposes. ↗Sep 19, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5492: PAAF Act ↗Sep 18, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5057: Expanding Service Coordinators Act of 2025 ↗Aug 26, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 202 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 256
- Nay
- 335
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 18
Full voting record
609 votes- HR9237Yea
- HR5362Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR1181Nay
- HR1181Yea
- HR139Nay
- HRES1423Nay
- HRES1423Nay
- HR8897Yea
- HR3106Yea
- HRES1399Yea
- HCONRES108Yea
- HRES1398Nay
- HRES1398Nay
Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.
Stated positions
4 positions on recordWhat this official says they believe — sourced claims, shown distinctly from tracked promises and from any assessment of what they did. A stated position is never scored and never affects the Integrity Score.
- HousingStated position
Ban hedge funds and private equity firms from owning single-family homes by passing the End Hedge Fund Control of American Homes Act (H.R.6608), which he authored — forcing large investors to sell at least 10% of their single-family homes to families each year until they are fully divested over 10 years.
Sourceshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6608/texthttps://www.merkley.senate.gov/merkley-smith-lead-bicameral-action-to-ban-hedge-fund-ownership-of-residential-housing/https://adamsmith.house.gov/news/press-releases/representative-smith-and-senator-merkley-lead-bicameral-action-ban-hedge-fundhttps://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/meet-the-bill-to-ban-hedge-funds-from-owning-single-family-homesView position & sources → - Government Ethics / AccountabilityStated position
Ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks — co-sponsor the Ban Conflicted Trading Act (H.R.1579) and support the Restore Trust in Congress Act to prohibit sitting lawmakers from trading stocks.
Sourceshttps://electadamsmith.com/priorities/https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1579/cosponsorsView position & sources → - Abortion / Reproductive RightsStated position
Codify the right to abortion nationwide by co-sponsoring and voting for the Women's Health Protection Act, creating a statutory federal right to provide and receive abortion care.
Sourceshttps://adamsmith.house.gov/news/press-releases/rep-smith-votes-pass-womens-health-protection-act-2021https://www.congress.gov/member/adam-smith/S000510https://electadamsmith.com/priorities/View position & sources → - Health CareStated position
Co-sponsor the State-Based Universal Health Care Act to let states establish their own universal/single-payer health care systems by streamlining federal waivers and funding.
Sourceshttps://www.healthcareforallwa.org/rep_khanna_introduced_state_based_universal_health_care_act_of_2019https://www.congress.gov/member/adam-smith/S000510https://electadamsmith.com/priorities/View position & sources →
Disclosure
A separate measure from the promise scorecard above. It tracks confirmed cases where this official has acted on or championed an issue that already existed when they ran, but which they did not disclose as a priority in their campaign. Each case meets a high evidence bar — three independent sources — and the score is shown alongside the Integrity Score, never merged into it. How this is measured.
No undisclosed priorities on record. This is not a clean-audit claim — it means none have been confirmed for this official.
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