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RepublicanDon Bacon
U.S. Representative · Nebraska
Nebraska's 2nd district
U.S. Representative from Nebraska
0 tracked promises
How they won their seat
Don Bacon won the 2024 U.S. House election in Nebraska (District 2) with 50.9% of the vote (160,198 votes).
- Don Bacon · Republican50.9%160,198
- Tony Vargas · Democrat49.1%154,369
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
Don Bacon's record shows a concentration on legislation related to agriculture, military affairs, and public safety. He has sponsored multiple bills addressing issues such as foster care, organ donation, and military support, including the 'FIGHT Act' series and various acts aimed at supporting first responders and military families. Focus areas (from the record): Agriculture · Military Affairs · Public Safety · Foster Care · Health Care Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. Alignment cannot be assessed due to lack of available data. What this can't tell you: The absence of declared positions limits the ability to assess overall priorities. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Don Bacon 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 Don Bacon 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
- 284
- Voted nay
- 75
- Bills sponsored
- 35
- Committees
- 6
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)$146K9%
- Large individual (itemized)$881K56%
- PAC / committee$547K35%
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 Agriculture — Livestock, Dairy, and PoultryOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Agriculture — Conservation, Research, and BiotechnologyOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Armed Services — Strategic ForcesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Chairman, House Committee on Armed Services — Cyber, Information Technologies, and InnovationOn record since Jan 2025Chair
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
194 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 $1,467,114, spent $1,201,093, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 9648: General John D. Lavelle Act ↗Jul 13, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9417: Artemis II Congressional Gold Medal Act ↗Jun 24, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8722: To require the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into a memoranda of understanding with CFIUS with respect to reports under AFIDA and to update the AFIDA handbook. ↗May 11, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8723: FIGHT Act of 2026 ↗May 11, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8566: Protecting Sibling Relationships in Foster Care Act ↗Apr 29, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8472: Support for Ownership and Investment in Land Act of 2026 ↗Apr 23, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7419: Foster Care Stabilization Act of 2026 ↗Feb 9, 2026
- Sponsored HCONRES 71: Expressing unwavering support for the United States-Japan alliance in response to political, economic, and military pressure by the People's Republic of China against Japan. ↗Jan 30, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7090: To designate the portion of Interstate Route 680 in Omaha, Nebraska, as the "Hal Daub Freeway". ↗Jan 15, 2026
- Sponsored HR 6612: Defense Civilian Faculty Copyright Act of 2025 ↗Dec 11, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6611: The F–47 Program Total Force Act of 2025 ↗Dec 11, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6558: Defense Secure Mobile Phones Act of 2025 ↗Dec 10, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 194 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 472
- Nay
- 135
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 2
Full voting record
609 votes- HR9237Nay
- HR5362Yea
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- 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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