DemocratFrank Pallone, Jr.
U.S. Representative · New Jersey
New Jersey's 6th district
U.S. Representative from New Jersey
2 tracked promises, 2 rated
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).
- Frank Pallone Jr · Democrat61.2%199,648
- Christian Onuoha · Republican38.8%126,760
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 has sponsored bills related to health-related legislation, consumer protection, and environmental issues. He has sponsored bills such as the 'Lowering Drug Costs for American Families Act' and the 'Food Labeling Modernization Act of 2026', which are related to healthcare affordability and food safety. Additionally, his involvement in the 'COAST Anti-Drilling Act of 2025' is associated with environmental concerns. Focus areas (from the record): healthcare · consumer protection · environment · veterans · data privacy Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There is a lack of available data for comparison against his legislative activities. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal the effectiveness of his sponsored bills; There is no information on his unlogged work or constituent engagement; The absence of declared positions limits understanding of his priorities. Confidence: moderate (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.
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 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.
- Votes cast
- 361
- Voted yea
- 141
- Voted nay
- 217
- Bills sponsored
- 16
- Committees
- 1
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)$20K1%
- Large individual (itemized)$789K33%
- PAC / committee$1.6M66%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Ranking Member, House Committee on Energy and CommerceOn record since Jan 2025Ranking
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 promisesEach step is a real change in the sourced record — the score holds between assessments.
Promise status over time
How the tracked promise record has evolved.
- Kept2
- 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
2 promises across 2 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.
- 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).
Significance weights each promise in the Integrity Score.
2 tracked promises
“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.”
“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.”
Verified record
535 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 $2,031,593, spent $1,755,603, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HRES 1305: Congratulating the Jewish War Veterans on the 130th anniversary of the organization's founding and honoring their commitment to Jewish war veterans. ↗May 19, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8385: Food Labeling Modernization Act of 2026 ↗Apr 20, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1045: Calling on the Secretary of Education to work with stakeholders to immediately eliminate race-based Native logos, mascots, and names from State educational institutions, and calling on State educational institutions and national sports franchises to cease the unsanctioned use of such logos, mascots, and names. ↗Feb 9, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7407: Prohibiting Tianeptine and Other Dangerous Products Act of 2026 ↗Feb 5, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7372: Safety is Not For Sale Act ↗Feb 4, 2026
- Sponsored HR 6292: Don’t Sell Kids’ Data Act of 2025 ↗Nov 25, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6166: Lowering Drug Costs for American Families Act ↗Nov 20, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5484: National Flood Insurance Program Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2025 ↗Sep 18, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5448: Protecting Free Vaccines Act ↗Sep 18, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4958: GRAS Act ↗Aug 12, 2025
- Sponsored HRES 648: Celebrating 50 years of Bruce Springsteen's album, "Born to Run". ↗Aug 12, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4898: Supporting Equity for Aquaculture and Seafood Act ↗Aug 5, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 535 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 266
- Nay
- 340
- Present
- 1
- Not voting
- 2
Full voting record
609 votes- HR9237Yea
- HR5362Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR1181Nay
- HR1181Yea
- HR139Yea
- HRES1423Nay
- HRES1423Nay
- HR8897Yea
- HR3106Yea
- HRES1399Yea
- HCONRES108Yea
- HRES1398Nay
- HRES1398Nay
Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.
Stated positions
2 positions on recordWhat this official says they believe — sourced claims, shown distinctly from tracked promises and from any assessment of what they did. A stated position is never scored and never affects the Integrity Score.
- 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.
Sourceshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Data_Privacy_and_Protection_Acthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Pallonehttps://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8152View 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.
Sourceshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah_E._Cummings_Lower_Drug_Costs_Now_Acthttps://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/12/us/politics/house-prescription-drug-prices.htmlView 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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