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DemocratBonnie Watson Coleman
U.S. Representative · New Jersey
New Jersey's 12th district
U.S. Representative from New Jersey
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How they won their seat
Bonnie Watson Coleman won the 2024 U.S. House election in New Jersey (District 12) with 61.2% of the vote (196,871 votes).
- Bonnie Watson Coleman · Democrat61.2%196,871
- Darius Mayfield · Republican36.4%117,222
- 2 Other Candidates2.4%7,567
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
Bonnie Watson Coleman's record includes various sponsored bills related to health care, social justice, and economic support. Additionally, her committee memberships include appropriations related to labor, health, and education. Focus areas (from the record): Health Care · Social Justice · Economic Support · Education · Labor Rights Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against her sponsored bills and voting record. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal any declared positions or promises to assess alignment; There is no information on the effectiveness of the sponsored bills; The record does not indicate the politician's motives or intentions behind the sponsored legislation. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Bonnie Watson Coleman 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 2025–2027 term. 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 Bonnie Watson Coleman 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. The tracked-positions tile counts sourced stated positions — claims about what they believe, not conduct — and is likewise never scored.
Roll-call data last updated September 7, 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)$38K4%
- Large individual (itemized)$364K38%
- PAC / committee$554K58%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on AppropriationsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on the BudgetOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Appropriations — Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related AgenciesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Appropriations — Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related AgenciesOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
201 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 9208: HEAR Act of 2026 ↗Jun 8, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9114: Gig Is Up Act ↗Jun 2, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9044: Minority Fellowship Program Reauthorization Act of 2026 ↗May 26, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9021: Stay Cool Act ↗May 22, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9008: Worker Rights and Support Act ↗May 21, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8869: Traumatic Births Research Act of 2026 ↗May 15, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1292: To acknowledge the Black Women Best framework to empower and improve life for all through guaranteed income, expanding child and income tax credit, increasing access to equitable health care and government assistance, prohibiting policing in schools, and prioritizing restorative justice. ↗May 14, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8645: New Pathways Act ↗Apr 30, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8360: Commission on Advancing Restorative Justice in Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 2026 ↗Apr 16, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8130: Filer Voter Act ↗Mar 26, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1114: Recognizing Girl Scouts of the United States of America on its 114th birthday and celebrating its legacy of providing girls with a secure and inclusive space where they can explore their world, build meaningful relationships, and have access to experiences that prepare them for a life of leadership. ↗Mar 12, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7933: To amend title 10, United States Code, to expand the authority to provide a wig and treat traction alopecia under the TRICARE program, and for other purposes. ↗Mar 12, 2026
Showing the 12 most recent of 201 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 655
- Yea
- 267
- Nay
- 381
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 7
Full voting record
655 votes- HR4795Nay
- HR1501Nay
- HJRES1Nay
- HRES1498Yea
- HR9436Nay
- HR9436Yea
- HRES1490Nay
- HRES1499Nay
- HRES1499Nay
- HR6500Yea
- S32Not voting
- S307Not voting
- HR8884Nay
- HCONRES89Yea
- HCONRES113Nay
- HR7008Nay
- HR7008Yea
- HR8800Nay
- HR8800Yea
- HR8800Nay
Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.
Positions on record
2 positions on recordThe record on this issue — recorded votes this official cast, and sourced claims about what they believe. Each is labelled with which it is, because a vote is what someone did and a statement is what they said. Neither is scored, and neither affects the Integrity Score.
- Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyStated position
On record urging congressional leadership to attach Fourth Amendment protections to FISA Section 702 reauthorization: closing the data broker loophole and requiring a judicial warrant before the government accesses Americans' sensitive information, ending the Section 702 backdoor search loophole, and repealing the Section 702 'visa vetting' provision.
SourcesLetter from 53 Members of Congress to Speaker Mike Johnson, Leader John Thune, Leader Charles E. Schumer and Leader Hakeem Jeffries urging Fourth Amendment protections in FISA Section 702 reauthorizationView position & sources → - Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyRecorded vote
On record voting AYE on Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 1 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act, an amendment to prohibit warrantless searches of United States persons' communications in the FISA Section 702 database, with exceptions for imminent threats to life or bodily harm, consent searches, and known cybersecurity threat signatures. The amendment failed on a 212 to 212 tie.
SourcesHouse Roll Call Vote 114, 118th Congress, 2nd Session: On Agreeing to the Amendment, Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 1 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act. Failed by recorded vote, 212 ayes to 212 noes, April 12, 2024.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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