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Cliff Bentz

RepublicanCliff Bentz

U.S. Representative · Oregon

Oregon's 2nd district

RepublicanFederal

U.S. Representative from Oregon

0 tracked promises

Oregon · Oregon's 2nd district

Oregon's 2nd district

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How they won their seat

Cliff Bentz won the 2024 U.S. House election in Oregon (District 2) with 63.9% of the vote (224,601 votes).

63.9%
Win share
224,601
Votes for winner
351,489
Total cast
  • Cliff Bentz · Republican63.9%
  • Dan Ruby · Democrat32.8%
  • Michael Kurt Stettler · Constitution3.2%
  • 1 Other Candidate0.1%

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

Cliff Bentz's record includes sponsorship of bills related to natural resource management, energy, and environmental issues, as evidenced by his sponsorship of bills like the Hydropower Licensing Affordability Act (HR 9337) and the Oregon Owyhee Wilderness and Community Protection Act (HR 6777). His committee memberships further emphasize his involvement in natural resources and energy, indicating a pattern of sponsored bills and committee memberships in these areas. Focus areas (from the record): Natural Resources · Energy · Environmental Protection · Wildlife Management · Infrastructure Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. The absence of available data for comparison makes it impossible to assess alignment with declared positions or tracked promises. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal any declared positions or promises that could provide context for his legislative actions; There is a lack of available data on bill effectiveness; There is an absence of data on informal activities. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. Cliff Bentz 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 2023. 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 Cliff Bentz 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
3

Roll-call data last updated July 20, 2026 · source: Voteview.

Bills sponsored over time

3bills sponsored
3 pending
01234Bills2023: 3 pending32023

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

0%
0 of 3 sponsored bills became law
3 pending

Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.

Campaign finance over time

$0
Cash on hand · 2026
$1.9M
Raised, 20242026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$500K$1M$1.5M$2M2024: raised $1.1M2024: spent $749K20242026: raised $803K2026: spent $469K20262024: cash on hand $02026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $44K (5%)Large individual (itemized): $324K (40%)40%PAC / committee: $435K (54%)54%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$44K5%
  • Large individual (itemized)$324K40%
  • PAC / committee$435K54%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Voting record

Total votes
609
Yea
464
Nay
144
Present
0
Not voting
1

Full voting record

609 votes
120 of 609
Page 1 / 31

Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.

Stated positions

No stated positions are on record for this official yet. A stated position is what the official says they believe on an issue — a sourced claim, separate from any assessment of what they did. Know one? Add it with a link to where it was said.

Disclosure
No undisclosed priorities on record

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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