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James A. Himes

DemocratJames A. Himes

U.S. Representative · Connecticut

Connecticut's 4th district

DemocratFederal

U.S. Representative from Connecticut

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Connecticut · Connecticut's 4th district

Connecticut's 4th district

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How they won their seat

James A. Himes won the 2024 U.S. House election in Connecticut (District 4) with 61.1% of the vote (200,791 votes).

61.1%
Win share
200,791
Votes for winner
328,857
Total cast
  • James A. Himes · Democrat61.1%
  • Michael Goldstein · Republican37.3%
  • Benjamin Wesley · Independent1.6%

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

James A. Himes has sponsored a variety of bills related to domestic violence protection, financial services, and foreign surveillance. He has sponsored legislation aimed at protecting domestic violence survivors, as seen in multiple iterations of the Lori Jackson Domestic Violence Survivor Protection Act. Additionally, his involvement in the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence indicates involvement in national security and intelligence matters. Focus areas (from the record): Domestic Violence · Financial Services · National Security · Surveillance · Environmental Policy Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against his legislative activity. Therefore, it is not possible to assess alignment with any stated goals. What this can't tell you: The effectiveness of the sponsored bills is not indicated by the record, as none have become law; The absence of declared positions limits the ability to assess alignment with constituents' views; There is no information on the impact of campaign finance on legislative priorities. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. James A. Himes 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 2016. 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 James A. Himes 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

5bills sponsored
5 awaiting status
01345Bills2016: 5 awaiting status52016

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
$2.0M
Raised, 20262026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$625K$1.3M$1.9M$2.5M2026: raised $2.0M2026: spent $1.7M20262026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $163K (9%)9%Large individual (itemized): $756K (40%)40%PAC / committee: $959K (51%)51%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$163K9%
  • Large individual (itemized)$756K40%
  • PAC / committee$959K51%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Source: Congress.gov.

Voting record

Total votes
655
Yea
295
Nay
353
Present
1
Not voting
6

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

2 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 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.
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  • Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyStated position

    Cosponsored H.R. 6611 (118th Congress), FISA Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2023, joining as a cosponsor of record on 2023-12-06. Recorded in the Congress.gov bill status record published by GovInfo.

    SourcesGovInfo BILLSTATUS record for H.R. 6611, 118th Congress — FISA Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2023
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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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