DemocratDerek Tran
U.S. Representative · California
California's 45th district
U.S. Representative from California
3 tracked promises, 3 rated
How they won their seat
Derek Tran won the 2024 U.S. House election in California (District 45) with 50.1% of the vote (158,264 votes).
- Derek Tran · Democrat50.1%158,264
- Michelle Steel · Republican49.9%157,611
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
Derek Tran's record has sponsored bills and resolutions related to veterans, small business, and Asian American heritage. He has sponsored multiple resolutions and bills recognizing significant historical events and contributions of Southeast Asian Americans, such as HRES 1235 and HRES 948, while also sponsoring bills related to veterans' benefits such as HR 8066 and HR 1637. His committee memberships include armed services and small business oversight. Focus areas (from the record): Veterans' benefits · Small business · Asian American heritage · Substance use prevention · National security Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against Tran's sponsored bills and voting record, making it impossible to assess alignment. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal any declared positions or promises; It does not indicate the effectiveness of the sponsored bills; The record does not provide insight into the politician's motives or intentions. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Derek Tran 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 Derek Tran 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. The tracked-positions tile counts sourced stated positions — claims about what they believe, not conduct — and is likewise never scored.
Roll-call data last updated September 7, 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)$796K17%
- Large individual (itemized)$2.8M59%
- PAC / committee$1.1M24%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on Armed ServicesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Small BusinessOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Small Business — Contracting and InfrastructureOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Ranking Member, House Committee on Small Business — Oversight, Investigations, and RegulationsOn record since Jan 2025Ranking
- Member, House Committee on Armed Services — Intelligence and Special OperationsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Armed Services — ReadinessOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Integrity
Promises kept vs. worked against — weighted breakdown+51 · based on 3 rated promises
- Attempted 2
- Fully Kept 1
Teal segments are promises kept; amber and stone segments are promises worked against. The signed score weights each rated promise by significance and evidence confidence. Promise-keeping is shown separately from popularity, finance, disclosure, and stated positions. Methodology is open.
Integrity over time
In office since Jan 2025 · 3 rated promisesThe line steps at each recorded assessment and holds between them; it ends on the current published score.
| Date | Integrity Score |
|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 25 |
| Sep 2026 | 60 |
| Sep 2026 | 51 |
| Jan 2027 | 51 (current, held from last rating) |
Promise status over time
How the tracked promise record has evolved.
- Kept3
- Against0
- No opportunity0
- In progress0
Replayed from this official’s sourced assessment history — the bands step only when an assessment is recorded or changed. Based on the most recent roll-call votes on file and the tracked promise assessments; never interpolated.
Topic coverage
3 promises across 3 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.
- Abortion / Reproductive Rights1
- Healthcare / Medicare & Medicaid1
- Housing1
Evidence & significance
Evidence quality
Strongest source cited per promise.
- Primary (official record)3100%
Significance mix
How weighty the tracked promises are (1 = minor, 5 = defining).
Significance weights each promise in the Integrity Score.
3 tracked promises
“Vote to protect abortion rights at the federal level and protect federal funding for Planned Parenthood.”
“Oppose and vote against Republican efforts to cut Medicare and Medicaid.”
“Increase federal funding for affordable housing by expanding the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit.”
Verified record
13 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 $4,200,766, spent $1,773,751, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HRES 1235: Recognizing the 51st anniversary of Black April and the Fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975. ↗Apr 29, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8066: Carlton H. Ingram Veterans’ Benefits Improvement Act ↗Mar 24, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7969: Combating Chinese Communist Party Influence Act ↗Mar 17, 2026
- Sponsored HR 6902: Youth Substance Use Prevention and Awareness Act ↗Dec 18, 2025
- Sponsored HRES 948: Commemorating the 50th anniversary of Southeast Asian refugee resettlement and the many contributions and sacrifices of Southeast Asian Americans to the United States. ↗Dec 11, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6678: Senior Legal Hotline Act of 2025 ↗Dec 11, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5788: 504 Program Risk Oversight Act ↗Oct 17, 2025
- Sponsored HCONRES 50: Recognizing the importance of the Vietnamese Heritage Flag. ↗Sep 19, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4775: SBIR/STTR Foreign Interference Safeguard Act ↗Jul 25, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4746: Baby Food Tax Relief Act ↗Jul 23, 2025
- Sponsored HRES 528: Expressing support for the designation of June 19, 2025, as "Veterans of the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces Day". ↗Jun 20, 2025
- Sponsored HRES 366: Recognizing the 50th anniversary of Black April and the Fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975. ↗Apr 30, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 13 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 655
- Yea
- 315
- Nay
- 336
- Present
- 3
- Not voting
- 1
Full voting record
655 votes- HR4795Nay
- HR1501Nay
- HJRES1Nay
- HRES1498Yea
- HR9436Nay
- HR9436Yea
- HRES1490Nay
- HRES1499Nay
- HRES1499Nay
- HR6500Yea
- S32Yea
- S307Yea
- HR8884Nay
- HCONRES89Yea
- HCONRES113Nay
- HR7008Yea
- HR7008Yea
- HR8800Nay
- HR8800Yea
- HR8800Nay
Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.
Positions on record
3 positions on recordThe record on this issue — recorded votes this official cast, and sourced claims about what they believe. Each is labelled with which it is, because a vote is what someone did and a statement is what they said. Neither is scored, and neither affects the Integrity Score.
- HousingStated position
Increase federal funding for affordable housing by expanding the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit.
SourcesThe Orange County RegisterWikipediaView position & sources → - Abortion / Reproductive RightsStated position
Vote to protect abortion rights at the federal level and protect federal funding for Planned Parenthood.
SourcesDerek Tran for Congress· archivedWikipediaLos Angeles TimesView position & sources → - Healthcare / Medicare & MedicaidStated position
Oppose and vote against Republican efforts to cut Medicare and Medicaid.
SourcesLos Angeles TimesDerek Tran for Congress· archivedWikipediaView 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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