
RepublicanBryan Steil
U.S. Representative · Wisconsin
Wisconsin's 1st district
U.S. Representative from Wisconsin
4 tracked promises
Running against
How they won their seat
Bryan Steil won the 2024 U.S. House election in Wisconsin (District 1) with 54% of the vote (212,515 votes).
- Bryan Steil · Republican54%212,515
- Peter Barca · Democrat43.8%172,402
- 1 Other Candidate0.1%385
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
Bryan Steil's record indicates a pattern of involvement in financial services, election integrity, and consumer protection, as evidenced by his sponsorship of bills such as the 'Earned Wage Access Consumer Protection Act' and the 'Preventing Foreign Interference in American Elections Act'. His committee memberships, particularly on the House Committee on Financial Services, indicate involvement in financial technology and digital assets. Focus areas (from the record): Financial Services · Election Integrity · Consumer Protection · Digital Assets · Retirement Savings Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. The lack of available data for comparison makes it impossible to assess alignment with any declared positions or tracked promises. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal any stated goals or intentions behind the sponsored bills; There is no information on the effectiveness of the bills that were sponsored; The absence of declared positions limits the ability to assess the consistency of actions with any stated priorities. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Bryan Steil 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 Bryan Steil 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
- 12
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)$162K7%
- Large individual (itemized)$976K39%
- PAC / committee$1.4M54%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Vice Chair, Joint Committee on PrintingOn record since Jan 2025Chair
- Chair, Joint Committee of Congress on the LibraryOn record since Jan 2025Chair
- Member, House Committee on Financial ServicesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Chair, House Committee on House AdministrationOn record since Jan 2025Chair
- Chairman, House Committee on Financial Services — Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial IntelligenceOn record since Jan 2025Chair
- Member, House Committee on Financial Services — Capital MarketsOn 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
4 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.
- campaign finance1
- congressional ethics reform1
- election integrity1
- government shutdown / congressional accountability1
Evidence & significance
Evidence quality
Strongest source cited per promise.
- Primary (official record)4100%
Significance mix
How weighty the tracked promises are (1 = minor, 5 = defining).
Significance weights each promise in the Integrity Score.
4 tracked promises
“Enact the Campaign Finance Transparency Act and the Preventing Foreign Interference in American Elections Act to increase donor transparency and stop fraudulent and foreign donations from influencing U.S. political campaigns.”
“Advance the Make Elections Great Again (MEGA) Act to set federal baseline election-administration requirements, including voter ID requirements, clean voter rolls, and citizenship verification.”
“Pass the Stop Insider Trading Act to ban Members of Congress, their spouses, and dependent children from purchasing individual publicly traded stocks, require public notice at least 7 days before any sale, and impose financial penalties for violations.”
“Enact the Withhold Member Pay During Shutdowns Act to bar Members of Congress from collecting pay during a government shutdown; Steil also requested his own pay be withheld during the ongoing shutdown.”
Verified record
95 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 $4,376,365, spent $1,031,408, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 9330: Earned Wage Access Consumer Protection Act ↗Jun 18, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9368: Voter ID Act ↗Jun 18, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9367: Stop Lawmakers From Predicting Act ↗Jun 18, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1288: Supporting the designation of May 14, 2026, as "National Scam Survivor Day". ↗May 14, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8721: Preventing Foreign Interference in American Elections Act ↗May 11, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8720: Campaign Finance Transparency Act ↗May 11, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8529: Fair Air Standards Act ↗Apr 27, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8364: To amend title 5, United States Code, to authorize the increase of the retirement age in the United States Capitol Police. ↗Apr 20, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8286: Protecting Americans’ Retirement Savings From Politics Act ↗Apr 15, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7300: Make Elections Great Again Act ↗Jan 30, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1007: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to the use of artificial intelligence in the financial services and housing industries. ↗Jan 16, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7008: Stop Insider Trading Act ↗Jan 12, 2026
Showing the 12 most recent of 95 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 464
- Nay
- 140
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 5
Full voting record
609 votes- HR9237Nay
- HR5362Yea
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR1181Yea
- HR1181Nay
- HR139Nay
- HRES1423Yea
- HRES1423Yea
- HR8897Yea
- HR3106Yea
- HRES1399Yea
- HCONRES108Nay
- HRES1398Yea
- HRES1398Yea
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.
- campaign financeStated position
Enact the Campaign Finance Transparency Act and the Preventing Foreign Interference in American Elections Act to increase donor transparency and stop fraudulent and foreign donations from influencing U.S. political campaigns.
Sourceshttps://steil.house.gov/media/press-releases/steil-introduces-comprehensive-campaign-finance-reformshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8720View position & sources → - election integrityStated position
Advance the Make Elections Great Again (MEGA) Act to set federal baseline election-administration requirements, including voter ID requirements, clean voter rolls, and citizenship verification.
Sourceshttps://steil.house.gov/media/press-releases/steil-introduces-election-reform-packagehttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7300View position & sources → - congressional ethics reformStated position
Pass the Stop Insider Trading Act to ban Members of Congress, their spouses, and dependent children from purchasing individual publicly traded stocks, require public notice at least 7 days before any sale, and impose financial penalties for violations.
Sourceshttps://steil.house.gov/media/press-releases/steil-introduces-legislation-to-ban-congressional-stock-tradinghttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7008https://steil.house.gov/media/press-releases/house-passes-steil-s-congressional-stock-trading-banView position & sources → - government shutdown / congressional accountabilityStated position
Enact the Withhold Member Pay During Shutdowns Act to bar Members of Congress from collecting pay during a government shutdown; Steil also requested his own pay be withheld during the ongoing shutdown.
Sourceshttps://steil.house.gov/media/press-releases/steil-introduces-legislation-to-withhold-lawmaker-pay-during-shutdownhttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5891View 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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