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RepublicanDerrick Van Orden
U.S. Representative · Wisconsin
Wisconsin's 3rd district
U.S. Representative from Wisconsin
0 tracked promises
Running against
How they won their seat
Derrick Van Orden won the 2024 U.S. House election in Wisconsin (District 3) with 51.3% of the vote (212,064 votes).
- Derrick Van Orden · Republican51.3%212,064
- Rebecca Cooke · Democrat48.6%200,808
- 1 Other Candidate0.1%309
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
Derrick Van Orden's record includes sponsorship of multiple bills related to veterans' benefits, such as the VA Home Loan Affordability Act and the Veterans Readiness and Employment Improvement Act. His committee memberships include those related to veterans' issues and agriculture. Focus areas (from the record): Veterans Affairs · Agriculture · Military Support · Economic Opportunity · Public Safety Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against his legislative activities and voting record. 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 legislation he has sponsored; The absence of declared positions limits the ability to assess alignment with broader political or public sentiments. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Derrick Van Orden 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. 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 Derrick Van Orden 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
- 361
- Voted yea
- 271
- Voted nay
- 65
- Bills sponsored
- 25
- Committees
- 9
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)$1.2M29%
- Large individual (itemized)$2.0M51%
- PAC / committee$808K20%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on AgricultureOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Armed ServicesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Veterans' AffairsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Vice Chair, House Committee on Agriculture — Livestock, Dairy, and PoultryOn record since Jan 2025Chair
- Member, House Committee on Agriculture — Nutrition and Foreign AgricultureOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Chairman, House Committee on Veterans' Affairs — Economic OpportunityOn record since Jan 2025Chair
- Member, House Committee on Armed Services — Intelligence and Special OperationsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Armed Services — Strategic ForcesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Veterans' Affairs — HealthOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
59 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 $5,677,515, spent $2,385,497, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 9665: VA Police Security Enhancement Act ↗Jul 14, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9664: K–9 Hero Act of 2026 ↗Jul 14, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8532: VA Home Loan Affordability Act ↗Apr 27, 2026
- Sponsored HR 6904: Veterans Readiness and Employment Improvement and Accountability Act ↗Dec 18, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5866: To require the Secretary of Agriculture to release a reversionary interest in certain land in the Black River State Forest in Millston, Wisconsin, and for other purposes. ↗Oct 28, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5789: Donald J. Trump Congressional Gold Medal Act ↗Oct 17, 2025
- Sponsored HJRES 129: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to prohibit Members of Congress from receiving compensation for any period during which a Government shutdown is in effect. ↗Oct 3, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5352: To prohibit Federal funding for entities that employ individuals who condone and celebrate political violence and domestic terrorism, and for other purposes. ↗Sep 15, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4748: Agriculture Workforce Reform Act of 2025 ↗Jul 23, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4271: VR&E Accountability Act ↗Jul 2, 2025
- Sponsored HR 3471: Certified Nursing Assistant Workforce Improvement Act ↗May 15, 2025
- Sponsored HR 3387: ETS Act ↗May 14, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 59 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 430
- Nay
- 122
- Present
- 1
- Not voting
- 56
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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