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DemocratJames A. Himes
U.S. Representative · Connecticut
Connecticut's 4th district
U.S. Representative from Connecticut
0 tracked promises
Running against
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).
- James A. Himes · Democrat61.1%200,791
- Michael Goldstein · Republican37.3%122,793
- Benjamin Wesley · Independent1.6%5,273
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.
- Bills sponsored
- 5
Roll-call data last updated July 20, 2026 · 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.
Bill success rate
Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.
Campaign finance over time
- Small-dollar (unitemized)$163K9%
- Large individual (itemized)$756K40%
- PAC / committee$959K51%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Ranking Member, House Permanent Select Committee on IntelligenceOn record since Jan 2025Ranking
- Member, House Committee on Financial ServicesOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
101 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 $1,080,512, spent $839,472, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 7792: Property Improvement and Manufactured Housing Loan Modernization Act of 2026 ↗Mar 4, 2026
- Sponsored HR 3542: CLEAR (Committee Leadership and Enhanced Accountability for Resilience) Defense Production Act of 2025 ↗May 21, 2025
- Sponsored HR 3395: Middle Market IPO Cost Act ↗May 14, 2025
- Sponsored HR 10026: Multi-State Worker Tax Fairness Act of 2024 ↗Oct 22, 2024
- Sponsored HR 6405: Lori Jackson-Nicolette Elias Domestic Violence Survivor Protection Act ↗Nov 14, 2023
- Sponsored HR 5557: Combatting Foreign Surveillance Spyware Sanctions Act ↗Sep 19, 2023
- Sponsored HR 5522: Combatting Foreign Surveillance Spyware Sanctions Act ↗Sep 18, 2023
- Sponsored HR 5440: Protecting Americans from Foreign Commercial Spyware Act ↗Sep 13, 2023
- Sponsored HR 3370: Reclamation of War Powers Act ↗May 16, 2023
- Sponsored HR 2812: Middle Market IPO Cost Act ↗Apr 25, 2023
- Sponsored HR 7128: Special Measures to Fight Modern Threats Act ↗Mar 17, 2022
- Sponsored HR 5734: CART Act ↗Oct 26, 2021
Showing the 12 most recent of 101 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 281
- Nay
- 321
- Present
- 1
- Not voting
- 6
Full voting record
609 votes- HR9237Yea
- HR5362Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR1181Nay
- HR1181Yea
- HR139Nay
- HRES1423Nay
- HRES1423Nay
- HR8897Nay
- HR3106Yea
- HRES1399Yea
- HCONRES108Yea
- HRES1398Nay
- HRES1398Nay
Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.
Stated positions
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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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