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DemocratHillary J. Scholten
U.S. Representative · Michigan
Michigan's 3rd district
U.S. Representative from Michigan
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How they won their seat
Hillary J. Scholten won the 2024 U.S. House election in Michigan (District 3) with 53.7% of the vote (225,510 votes).
- Hillary J. Scholten · Democrat53.7%225,510
- Paul Hudson · Republican43.8%183,952
- 2 Other Candidates2.6%10,827
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
Hillary J. Scholten's record shows a pattern of involvement in infrastructure, small business support, and environmental issues, as evidenced by her sponsorship of bills like the Clean Ports for Commerce Act and the Local Water Protection Act. Additionally, her committee memberships in Transportation and Infrastructure, as well as Small Business, further emphasize her involvement in these areas. Focus areas (from the record): Infrastructure · Small Business · Environmental Protection · Transportation · Workforce Development Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against her legislative activities. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal any stated goals or intentions behind her sponsored bills; There is no information on the effectiveness of the bills she sponsored; The absence of declared positions limits the ability to assess alignment with broader political or ideological commitments. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Hillary J. Scholten 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 Hillary J. Scholten 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
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)$170K8%
- Large individual (itemized)$1.4M61%
- PAC / committee$695K31%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on Transportation and InfrastructureOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Small BusinessOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Ranking Member, House Committee on Small Business — Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Workforce DevelopmentOn record since Jan 2025Ranking
- Member, House Committee on Small Business — Contracting and InfrastructureOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Small Business — Rural Development, Energy, and Supply ChainsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure — AviationOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure — Coast Guard and Maritime TransportationOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure — Water Resources and EnvironmentOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
52 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 $1,882,037, spent $1,026,922, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 9714: To limit the total number of schedule C and schedule G positions in the Federal Government, and for other purposes. ↗Jul 15, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9530: Quiet Skies Act ↗Jun 29, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9483: Clean Ports for Commerce Act ↗Jun 25, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9484: Water Reservoir Transparency Act ↗Jun 25, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9299: Advancing Next-Generation Genetic Learning for Effective Resource Strategy Act ↗Jun 11, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9077: Hormone Health Data and Research Act ↗May 29, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1317: Expressing support for the designation of May 24 as "National Aviation Maintenance Technician Day" or "National AMT Day" to commemorate the work of aviation maintenance professionals. ↗May 21, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8999: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 324 Washington Avenue, Suite 1 in Grand Haven, Michigan, as the "Ell Thomas Simantz Post Office Building". ↗May 21, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8998: Researching Innovative Shipbuilding and Next-Generation Transit Infrastructure for Durable and Efficient Systems ↗May 21, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8882: Main Street Competes Act ↗May 19, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8835: Streamlined Apportionment, Flexibility, and Efficiency Transit Act ↗May 14, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8708: Main Street BRIDGE Act ↗May 7, 2026
Showing the 12 most recent of 52 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 655
- Yea
- 284
- Nay
- 342
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 29
Full voting record
655 votes- HR4795Yea
- 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
2 positions 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 NAY in the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on Perry Amendment No. 221 to H.R. 8870, an amendment providing that a recipient of assistance under title 23, United States Code, may not use automated license plate readers for any purpose other than tolling. The amendment was not agreed to, 20 yeas to 44 nays.
SourcesCommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 119th Congress, Full Committee Record of Committee Votes 75 to 127 on H.R. 8870 (markup of May 21, 2026); Vote 104 on Perry Amendment No. 221, restricting automated license plate reader use by recipients of title 23 highway assistance. Not agreed to, 20 yeas to 44 nays.View position & sources → - 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 →
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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