DemocratBrendan F. Boyle
U.S. Representative · Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania's 2nd district
U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
5 tracked promises
How they won their seat
Brendan F. Boyle won the 2024 U.S. House election in Pennsylvania (District 2) with 71.5% of the vote (193,691 votes).
- Brendan F. Boyle · Democrat71.5%193,691
- Aaron Bashir · Republican28.5%77,355
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
Brendan F. Boyle's record includes the sponsorship of multiple health care-related bills aimed at protecting and improving health care access, such as the Protecting Americans’ Health Care Act and the Hands Off Medicaid and SNAP Act. He has also sponsored several commemorative bills, including the Philadelphia Campaign Two Hundred and Fiftieth Commemoration Commission Act and various resolutions recognizing lung cancer awareness. Focus areas (from the record): Health Care · Commemoration · Tax Policy · Social Services · Veterans Affairs Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against Boyle's legislative activity, making alignment assessment not determinable. 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 motives or intentions; The absence of declared positions limits the ability to assess the consistency of actions with stated goals. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Brendan F. Boyle 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 2019–2021 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 Brendan F. Boyle 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.
- Bills sponsored
- 35
Roll-call data last updated July 20, 2026 · 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.
Bill success rate
Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.
Campaign finance over time
- Small-dollar (unitemized)$13K1%
- Large individual (itemized)$623K36%
- PAC / committee$1.1M64%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on Ways and MeansOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Ranking Member, House Committee on the BudgetOn record since Jan 2025Ranking
- Member, House Committee on Ways and Means — TradeOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Ways and Means — HealthOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Integrity
Not yet ratedNo promises have been rated yet, so there is no Integrity Score to show. Lifecycle promises (in progress, not yet rated) are tracked but never scored.
The score, once promises are rated, is a signed −100…+100 breakdown weighted by significance and evidence confidence — never a single opaque grade. How this is measured.
Integrity over time
Topic coverage
5 promises across 5 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.
- Federal Budget & Debt Ceiling1
- Social Security & Medicare1
- Taxes / Cost of Living1
- Taxes / Tax Fairness1
- Taxes / Wealth Tax1
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
“Enact Boyle's Gas Price Relief Act (H.R. 8600) to temporarily suspend the federal gas tax when the national average price of gasoline exceeds roughly $4 per gallon, fully offset by ending certain oil-and-gas company subsidies.”
“Enact the Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act, which Boyle co-leads in the House, imposing a 2% annual tax on household net worth above $50 million plus an additional 1% annual surtax on net worth above $1 billion.”
“Enact the Debt Ceiling Reform Act, which Boyle sponsors, to end debt-ceiling brinkmanship by giving the Treasury Secretary authority to keep paying the nation's bills unless both chambers of Congress pass a veto-proof resolution of disapproval.”
“Pass the Medicare and Social Security Fair Share Act, which Boyle co-leads with Sen. Whitehouse, requiring taxpayers earning over $400,000 to pay a fairer share so that Social Security and Medicare solvency is extended by at least 75 years.”
“Pass the Paying a Fair Share Act (the 'Buffett Rule'), which Boyle leads in the House, to set a 30% minimum effective tax rate on individuals earning more than $1 million per year.”
Verified record
131 sponsored bills · finance on fileFacts 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.
FEC 2026 cycle — raised $2,098,099, spent $688,760, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 9623: Protecting Americans’ Health Care Act of 2026 ↗Jul 9, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9542: Protecting Health Care and Lowering Costs Act of 2026 ↗Jun 30, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1403: Expressing the sense of Congress that Medicaid is an important lifeline for the health care of millions of Americans. ↗Jun 30, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8741: Philadelphia Campaign Two Hundred and Fiftieth Commemoration Commission Act ↗May 12, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8600: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to temporarily suspend certain fuel excise taxes for fuel separated during periods in which the national average price of gasoline exceeds $3.99 per gallon, and to prohibit certain credits or deductions for oil and gas companies during such periods. ↗Apr 30, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7763: Protecting American History Act ↗Mar 3, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 960: Expressing support for the designation of November 2025 as "National Lung Cancer Awareness Month" and expressing support for early detection and treatment of lung cancer. ↗Dec 18, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5708: Federal Employees Civil Relief Act ↗Oct 8, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5380: Labor Market Response Act ↗Sep 16, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5220: Congressional Power of the Purse Act ↗Sep 9, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4634: Debt Ceiling Reform Act ↗Jul 23, 2025
- Sponsored HR 3271: Medicare and Social Security Fair Share Act ↗May 8, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 131 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 258
- Nay
- 325
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 26
Full voting record
609 votes- HR9237Yea
- HR5362Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR1181Nay
- HR1181Yea
- HR139Yea
- 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
5 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.
- Taxes / Cost of LivingStated position
Enact Boyle's Gas Price Relief Act (H.R. 8600) to temporarily suspend the federal gas tax when the national average price of gasoline exceeds roughly $4 per gallon, fully offset by ending certain oil-and-gas company subsidies.
Sourceshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8600/texthttps://www.inquirer.com/politics/philadelphia/brendan-boyle-trump-gas-tax-iran-20260511.htmlhttps://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/video/rep-brendan-boyle-introduces-bill-to-suspend-federal-gas-tax/View position & sources → - Taxes / Wealth TaxStated position
Enact the Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act, which Boyle co-leads in the House, imposing a 2% annual tax on household net worth above $50 million plus an additional 1% annual surtax on net worth above $1 billion.
Sourceshttps://jayapal.house.gov/2026/03/26/jayapal-warren-boyle-45-lawmakers-renew-push-for-wealth-tax-on-ultra-millionaires-and-billionaires/https://financialregnews.com/reps-boyle-jayapal-introduce-bill-to-add-2-tax-on-those-making-50m-plus/View position & sources → - Federal Budget & Debt CeilingStated position
Enact the Debt Ceiling Reform Act, which Boyle sponsors, to end debt-ceiling brinkmanship by giving the Treasury Secretary authority to keep paying the nation's bills unless both chambers of Congress pass a veto-proof resolution of disapproval.
Sourceshttps://boyle.house.gov/DCRAhttps://www.merkley.senate.gov/merkley-boyle-durbin-kaine-introduce-legislation-to-prevent-future-debt-ceiling-hostage-taking/https://www.commondreams.org/news/debt-ceiling-reform-act-boyle-durbinView position & sources → - Social Security & MedicareStated position
Pass the Medicare and Social Security Fair Share Act, which Boyle co-leads with Sen. Whitehouse, requiring taxpayers earning over $400,000 to pay a fairer share so that Social Security and Medicare solvency is extended by at least 75 years.
Sourceshttps://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/release/whitehouse-boyle-reintroduce-legislation-to-extend-social-security-and-medicare-solvency-indefinitely/https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1690/texthttps://boyle.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/boyle-whitehouse-reintroduce-legislation-extend-social-security-andView position & sources → - Taxes / Tax FairnessStated position
Pass the Paying a Fair Share Act (the 'Buffett Rule'), which Boyle leads in the House, to set a 30% minimum effective tax rate on individuals earning more than $1 million per year.
Sourceshttps://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/release/whitehouse-colleagues-reintroduce-buffett-rule-bill-to-ensure-wealthiest-americans-pay-their-fair-share-in-taxes/https://www.vanhollen.senate.gov/news/press-releases/van-hollen-whitehouse-colleagues-reintroduce-buffett-rule-bill-to-ensure-wealthiest-americans-pay-their-fair-share-in-taxeshttps://boyle.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/boyle-introduces-buffett-rule-bill-ensure-wealthiest-americans-payView 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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