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RepublicanDavid Kustoff
U.S. Representative · Tennessee
Tennessee's 8th district
U.S. Representative from Tennessee
0 tracked promises
Running against
How they won their seat
David Kustoff won the 2024 U.S. House election in Tennessee (District 8) with 72.3% of the vote (240,411 votes).
- David Kustoff · Republican72.3%240,411
- Sarah Freeman · Democrat25.6%85,043
- James Hart · Independent2.1%6,861
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
David Kustoff's record includes legislation related to tax policy, health care, and support for small businesses. Examples of sponsored bills include the Small Business Tax Cut Act and the Improving Social Security’s Service to Victims of Identity Theft Act. His committee membership on the House Committee on Ways and Means is related to tax and health issues. Focus areas (from the record): Tax Policy · Health Care · Small Business Support · Social Security · Public Safety Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against Kustoff's legislative activity. Therefore, it is not possible to assess alignment. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal Kustoff's motives or intentions behind the sponsored bills; There is no information on the effectiveness of the bills he has sponsored; The absence of declared positions limits the ability to assess his overall political priorities. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. David Kustoff 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 David Kustoff 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
- 609
- Voted yea
- 468
- Voted nay
- 136
- Bills sponsored
- 29
- Committees
- 3
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)$11K0%
- Large individual (itemized)$1.1M48%
- PAC / committee$1.1M51%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on Ways and MeansOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Ways and Means — TaxOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Ways and Means — HealthOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
107 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 9176: PAR Act ↗Jun 8, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8415: Small Business Tax Cut Act ↗Apr 21, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8109: Save Struggling Hospitals Act ↗Mar 26, 2026
- Sponsored HCONRES 72: Authorizing the use of Emancipation Hall in the Capitol Visitor Center for a ceremony as part of the commemoration of the days of remembrance of victims of the Holocaust. ↗Feb 2, 2026
- Sponsored HR 6800: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to terminate the tax-exempt status of terrorist supporting organizations. ↗Dec 17, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6449: DO NOT Call Act ↗Dec 4, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5345: Improving Social Security’s Service to Victims of Identity Theft Act ↗Sep 15, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5242: To repeal the Second Chance Amendment Act of 2022 and the Incarceration Reduction Amendment Act of 2016. ↗Sep 10, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4334: Restoring the Armed Career Criminal Act ↗Jul 10, 2025
- Sponsored HRES 557: Honoring the life, achievements, and legacy of Frederick W. Smith. ↗Jun 27, 2025
- Sponsored HR 3976: NCAA Accountability Act of 2025 ↗Jun 12, 2025
- Sponsored HR 3155: Child Care for American Families Act ↗May 1, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 107 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 468
- Nay
- 136
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 5
Full voting record
609 votes- HR9237Nay
- HR5362Yea
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- 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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