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Frank Pallone, Jr.

DemocratFrank Pallone, Jr.

U.S. Representative · New Jersey

New Jersey's 6th district

DemocratFederal

U.S. Representative from New Jersey

2 tracked promises, 2 rated

New Jersey · New Jersey's 6th district

New Jersey's 6th district

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94/100
Trust rating
Strongly keeps promises
94
0 · Broken50 · Mixed100 · Kept
A transparent rescale of the Integrity Score (+87) to 0–100, aggregated from 2 rated promises. Never an opaque single score. Provisional — based on 2 rated promises they could act on; a settled rating needs at least 5.
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How they won their seat

Frank Pallone Jr won the 2020 U.S. House election in New Jersey (District 6) with 61.2% of the vote (199,648 votes).

61.2%
Win share
199,648
Votes for winner
326,408
Total cast
  • Frank Pallone Jr · Democrat61.2%
  • Christian Onuoha · Republican38.8%

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

Frank Pallone, Jr.'s record shows a concentration on health care, consumer data privacy, and environmental issues. He has sponsored multiple bills aimed at lowering drug costs, such as the 'Lowering Drug Costs for American Families Act' (HR 6166), and has sponsored bills related to consumer data protection with the 'Don’t Sell Kids’ Data Act' (HR 6292). Additionally, he has sponsored bills related to environmental issues through legislation like the 'COAST Anti-Drilling Act' (HR 2881). Focus areas (from the record): Health Care · Consumer Data Privacy · Environmental Protection · Public Safety · Veterans Affairs Alignment with declared positions: Consistent. Pallone's sponsored bills reflect his declared positions on health care and consumer data privacy, particularly his advocacy for lower prescription drug prices and comprehensive data protections. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal the effectiveness of the sponsored bills in achieving their intended outcomes; There is no information on the impact of his committee work on legislation; The record does not include any statements that could provide insight into his public communication or engagement with constituents. Confidence: high (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. Frank Pallone, Jr. 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.

Activity in office

What Frank Pallone, Jr. 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
016324864VotesSep '25: 15 YeaSep '25: 49 NaySep '25Nov '25: 7 YeaNov '25: 16 NayNov '25Dec '25: 24 YeaDec '25: 30 NayDec '25Jan '26: 25 YeaJan '26: 22 NayJan '26Feb '26: 13 YeaFeb '26: 17 NayFeb '26Mar '26: 12 YeaMar '26: 18 NayMar '26Apr '26: 22 YeaApr '26: 25 NayApr '26May '26: 20 YeaMay '26: 16 NayMay '26Jun '26: 26 YeaJun '26: 16 NayJun '26Jul '26: 15 YeaJul '26: 35 NayJul '26Aug '26: 2 YeaAug '26: 0 NayAug '26Sep '26: 3 YeaSep '26: 7 NaySep '26Sep '25: 64 totalNov '25: 23 totalDec '25: 57 totalJan '26: 47 totalFeb '26: 30 totalMar '26: 30 totalApr '26: 47 totalMay '26: 36 totalJun '26: 42 totalJul '26: 50 totalAug '26: 2 totalSep '26: 10 total
Measures voted on:492 passed162 failed1 procedural/other

Roll-call votes per month — most recent on file. Source: Voteview.

Vote attendance

99.7%
attendance
653 of 655 roll calls2 missed
Monthly participation rate
0255075100100%Sep 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Aug 26Sep 26

Share of roll calls participated in — most recent votes on file. Source: Voteview.

Bills sponsored over time

535bills sponsored
1 became law38 pending496 awaiting status
013253850Bills1989: 9 awaiting status919891990: 3 awaiting status319901991: 15 awaiting status1519911992: 6 awaiting status619921993: 9 awaiting status919931994: 5 awaiting status519941995: 14 awaiting status1419951996: 11 awaiting status1119961997: 19 awaiting status1919971998: 12 awaiting status1219981999: 24 awaiting status2419992000: 16 awaiting status1620002001: 16 awaiting status1620012002: 27 awaiting status2720022003: 27 awaiting status2720032004: 18 awaiting status1820042005: 31 awaiting status3120052006: 19 awaiting status1920062007: 29 awaiting status2920072008: 16 awaiting status1620082009: 20 awaiting status2020092010: 8 awaiting status820102011: 12 awaiting status1220112012: 7 awaiting status720122013: 15 awaiting status1520132014: 2 awaiting status220142015: 11 awaiting status1120152016: 13 awaiting status1320162017: 19 awaiting status1920172018: 12 awaiting status1220182019: 24 awaiting status2420192020: 6 awaiting status620202021: 15 awaiting status1520212022: 6 awaiting status620222023: 1 became law, 13 pending2023: 1 became law, 13 pending1420232024: 4 pending420242025: 16 pending1620252026: 5 pending52026

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

2%
Votes against own party
13 of 652 recent votes

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

3%
1 of 39 sponsored bills became law
1 became law38 pending

Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.

Campaign finance over time

$0
Cash on hand · 2026
$2.4M
Raised, 20262026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$625K$1.3M$1.9M$2.5M2026: raised $2.4M2026: spent $1.9M20262026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $20K (1%)Large individual (itemized): $789K (33%)33%PAC / committee: $1.6M (66%)66%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$20K1%
  • Large individual (itemized)$789K33%
  • PAC / committee$1.6M66%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Source: Congress.gov.

Integrity

Promises kept vs. worked against — weighted breakdown

+87 · based on 2 rated promises

  • Championed 1
  • 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 2019 · 2 rated promises

The line steps at each recorded assessment and holds between them; it ends on the current published score.

−100 worked against0+100 kept
Integrity Score by assessment date. Score ranges from −100 (worked against) to +100 (kept).
DateIntegrity Score
Jul 2026100
Jul 202687
Jan 202787 (current, held from last rating)

Promise status over time

How the tracked promise record has evolved.

2 tracked
  • Kept2
  • Against0
  • No opportunity0
  • In progress0
01122Jul 2026Jul 2026

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

2 promises across 2 topics

What 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.

  • Health Care / Prescription Drug Prices1 promise
  • Technology / Consumer Data Privacy1 promise

Evidence & significance

Evidence quality

Strongest source cited per promise.

  • Primary (official record)2100%

Significance mix

How weighty the tracked promises are (1 = minor, 5 = defining).

10
20
30
40
52

Significance weights each promise in the Integrity Score.

Tracked promises

2 tracked promises

Championedhigh confidence

Enact comprehensive federal online consumer data-privacy protections as sponsor of the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (H.R. 8152), establishing data-minimization requirements, individual rights to access, correct and delete personal data, and limits on transfers of sensitive data.

Technology / Consumer Data PrivacySpecific · measurablePromised Jun 2022
SourcesWikipediaWikipediaU.S. Congress (Congress.gov)· archivedCongress.gov (Library of Congress) - H.R. 8152 reported bill text· archived
Fully Kepthigh confidence

Empower Medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug prices and cap out-of-pocket costs for Medicare Part D enrollees, as author and lead sponsor of the Lower Drug Costs Now Act (H.R. 3), which would require federal negotiation of at least 25 brand-name drug prices (including insulin) each year.

Health Care / Prescription Drug PricesSpecific · measurablePromised Apr 2021
SourcesWikipediaU.S. Congress (Congress.gov)· archivedThe New York TimesWikipediaKFF (Kaiser Family Foundation)

Verified record

535 sponsored bills · finance on file

Facts 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.

Campaign financeas of May 13, 2026

FEC 2026 cycle — raised $2,031,593, spent $1,755,603, cash on hand $0.

View the FEC filing ↗

Voting record

Total votes
655
Yea
279
Nay
373
Present
1
Not voting
2

Full voting record

655 votes
  • S32Yea
  • S307Yea
120 of 655
Page 1 / 33

Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.

Positions on record

3 positions on record

The 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 AYE 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
  • Technology / Consumer Data PrivacyStated position

    Enact comprehensive federal online consumer data-privacy protections as sponsor of the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (H.R. 8152), establishing data-minimization requirements, individual rights to access, correct and delete personal data, and limits on transfers of sensitive data.

    SourcesWikipediaWikipediaU.S. Congress (Congress.gov)· archived
    View position & sources
  • Health Care / Prescription Drug PricesStated position

    Empower Medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug prices and cap out-of-pocket costs for Medicare Part D enrollees, as author and lead sponsor of the Lower Drug Costs Now Act (H.R. 3), which would require federal negotiation of at least 25 brand-name drug prices (including insulin) each year.

    SourcesWikipediaThe New York TimesU.S. Congress (Congress.gov)· archived
    View position & sources
Disclosure
No undisclosed priorities on record

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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