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RepublicanCliff Bentz
U.S. Representative · Oregon
Oregon's 2nd district
U.S. Representative from Oregon
0 tracked promises
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).
- Cliff Bentz · Republican63.9%224,601
- Dan Ruby · Democrat32.8%115,337
- Michael Kurt Stettler · Constitution3.2%11,255
- 1 Other Candidate0.1%296
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 2026. 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.
- Votes cast
- 248
- Voted yea
- 180
- Voted nay
- 68
- Bills sponsored
- 7
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)$44K5%
- Large individual (itemized)$324K40%
- PAC / committee$435K54%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on Natural ResourcesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Energy and CommerceOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Natural Resources — Water, Wildlife and FisheriesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Natural Resources — Federal LandsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Energy and Commerce — EnergyOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Energy and Commerce — Commerce, Manufacturing, and TradeOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Energy and Commerce — HealthOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
27 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 $803,224, spent $469,467, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 9695: McCarty and Heideman Air Safety Enhancement Act ↗Jul 15, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9337: Hydropower Licensing Affordability Act ↗Jun 18, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8958: To grant to Crook County, Oregon, a right-of-way for the construction of a new road in Juniper Canyon, and for other purposes. ↗May 21, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8259: Federal Water Projects Consultation Improvement Act of 2026 ↗Apr 14, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8132: Bonneville Power Leadership Recruitment Act ↗Mar 27, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7862: National Flood Insurance Program Clarification Act of 2026 ↗Mar 9, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7603: O&C Renewal Act of 2026 ↗Feb 20, 2026
- Sponsored HR 6777: Oregon Owyhee Wilderness and Community Protection Act ↗Dec 17, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6290: Safe Social Media Act ↗Nov 25, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5171: Pacific Northwest Gray Wolves Relief Act of 2025 ↗Sep 8, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5133: Patients’ Right to Know Their Medication Act of 2025 ↗Sep 4, 2025
- Sponsored HR 1777: SECURE Notarization Act of 2025 ↗Mar 3, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 27 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 464
- Nay
- 144
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 1
Full voting record
609 votes- HR9237Nay
- HR5362Yea
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR1181Yea
- HR1181Nay
- HR139Yea
- 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
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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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