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H. Morgan Griffith

RepublicanH. Morgan Griffith

U.S. Representative · Virginia

Virginia's 9th district

RepublicanFederal

U.S. Representative from Virginia

0 tracked promises

Virginia · Virginia's 9th district

Virginia's 9th district

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How they won their seat

H. Morgan Griffith won the 2024 U.S. House election in Virginia (District 9) with 72.5% of the vote (290,645 votes).

72.5%
Win share
290,645
Votes for winner
400,963
Total cast
  • H. Morgan Griffith · Republican72.5%
  • Karen G. H. Baker · Democrat27.3%
  • 1 Other Candidate0.2%

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

H. Morgan Griffith's record shows a concentration on legislative efforts related to health, energy, and legal reforms. Notable sponsored bills include the Right to Trial Act and the Motor Vehicle Flammability Standards Study Act, suggesting an emphasis on legal and safety standards. His committee memberships, particularly in the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, further emphasize his engagement with energy and health issues. Focus areas (from the record): Health · Energy · Legal Reform · Public Safety · Veterans Affairs Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal Griffith's motives or intentions behind his legislative actions. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. H. Morgan Griffith 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 2014. 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 H. Morgan Griffith 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.

Bills sponsored over time

6bills sponsored
6 awaiting status
035810Bills2014: 6 awaiting status62014

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.

Bill success rate

0%
0 of 0 sponsored bills became law

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

Campaign finance over time

$0
Cash on hand · 2026
$836K
Raised, 20262026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$250K$500K$750K$1M2026: raised $836K2026: spent $903K20262026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $54K (6%)Large individual (itemized): $224K (27%)27%PAC / committee: $550K (66%)66%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$54K6%
  • Large individual (itemized)$224K27%
  • PAC / committee$550K66%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Verified record

199 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 Mar 31, 2026

FEC 2026 cycle — raised $1,462,405, spent $1,001,098, cash on hand $0.

View the FEC filing ↗

Sponsored legislation

Showing the 12 most recent of 199 sponsored measures.

Voting record

Total votes
655
Yea
498
Nay
148
Present
1
Not voting
8

Full voting record

655 votes
  • S32Yea
  • S307Yea
120 of 655
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Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.

Positions on record

1 position 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.
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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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