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DemocratEric Sorensen
U.S. Representative · Illinois
Illinois's 17th district
U.S. Representative from Illinois
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How they won their seat
Eric Sorensen won the 2024 U.S. House election in Illinois (District 17) with 54.4% of the vote (170,261 votes).
- Eric Sorensen · Democrat54.4%170,261
- Joe McGraw · Republican45.6%142,567
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
Eric Sorensen's record indicates a pattern of legislative activity related to agricultural issues, veteran affairs, and safety measures. He has sponsored multiple bills related to agriculture, such as the 'Homegrown Fertilizer Act' and the 'Advancing Research on Agricultural Soil Health Act', as well as veteran-related legislation like the 'Autonomy for All Disabled Veterans Act'. His committee memberships are related to agriculture and armed services. Focus areas (from the record): Agriculture · Veterans · Safety · Water Assistance · Energy Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against Sorensen's legislative activities and voting patterns. What this can't tell you: The record does not provide stated goals or intentions behind the sponsored bills; There is no information on the effectiveness or impact of the sponsored bills; The absence of declared positions limits the ability to assess alignment with constituents' legislative activities. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Eric Sorensen 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 Eric Sorensen 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
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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)$186K9%
- Large individual (itemized)$1.1M52%
- PAC / committee$848K40%
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 — General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and CreditOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Agriculture — Conservation, Research, and BiotechnologyOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Armed Services — Tactical Air and Land ForcesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Armed Services — ReadinessOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
24 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 $1,850,945, spent $784,997, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 8908: STOP GAMES Act of 2026 ↗May 19, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8636: Strengthening Educator Workforce Data Act ↗Apr 30, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8457: Homegrown Fertilizer Act ↗Apr 22, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7848: National Weather Safety Board Act ↗Mar 5, 2026
- Sponsored HR 6478: Air Guard STATUS Act of 2025 ↗Dec 4, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4865: Advancing Research on Agricultural Soil Health Act of 2025 ↗Aug 1, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4733: Low-Income Household Water Assistance Program Establishment Act ↗Jul 23, 2025
- Sponsored HR 3309: Autonomy for All Disabled Veterans Act ↗May 8, 2025
- Sponsored HR 2466: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 5225 Harrison Avenue in Rockford, Illinois, as the Jay P. Larson Post Office Building. ↗Mar 27, 2025
- Sponsored HR 1955: Arsenal Workload Sustainment Act ↗Mar 6, 2025
- Sponsored HR 1027: QUIET Act ↗Feb 5, 2025
- Sponsored HR 10254: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 5225 Harrison Avenue in Rockford, Illinois, as the "Jay P. Larson Post Office Building". ↗Nov 22, 2024
Showing the 12 most recent of 24 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 655
- Yea
- 308
- Nay
- 342
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 5
Full voting record
655 votes- HR4795Nay
- HR1501Nay
- HJRES1Nay
- HRES1498Yea
- HR9436Nay
- HR9436Yea
- HRES1490Nay
- HRES1499Nay
- HRES1499Nay
- HR6500Yea
- S32Yea
- S307Yea
- HR8884Nay
- HCONRES89Yea
- HCONRES113Nay
- HR7008Nay
- HR7008Yea
- HR8800Nay
- HR8800Yea
- HR8800Nay
Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.
Positions on record
1 position 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.
- Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyRecorded vote
On record voting NO on Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 1 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act, an amendment to prohibit warrantless searches of United States persons' communications in the FISA Section 702 database, with exceptions for imminent threats to life or bodily harm, consent searches, and known cybersecurity threat signatures. The amendment failed on a 212 to 212 tie.
SourcesHouse Roll Call Vote 114, 118th Congress, 2nd Session: On Agreeing to the Amendment, Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 1 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act. Failed by recorded vote, 212 ayes to 212 noes, April 12, 2024.View 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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