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DemocratJames E. Clyburn
U.S. Representative · South Carolina
South Carolina's 6th district
U.S. Representative from South Carolina
0 tracked promises
How they won their seat
James E. Clyburn won the 2024 U.S. House election in South Carolina (District 6) with 59.5% of the vote (182,056 votes).
- James E. Clyburn · Democrat59.5%182,056
- Duke Buckner · Republican36.7%112,360
- Michael Simpson · Libertarian1.7%5,279
- Gregg Marcel Dixon · United Citizens1.6%4,927
- 2 Other Candidates0.4%1,355
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 E. Clyburn's record includes sponsorship of bills related to civil rights, voter empowerment, and housing issues, as evidenced by his sponsorship of the Voter Empowerment Act and the Renewing the African American Civil Rights Network Act. Additionally, his committee roles on appropriations suggest engagement with funding related to transportation, housing, and urban development. Focus areas (from the record): Civil Rights · Voter Empowerment · Housing · Energy · Environmental Policy Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. The available evidence does not provide a basis for comparison between Clyburn's sponsored bills and voting record and any declared positions or tracked promises. What this can't tell you: The effectiveness of the sponsored bills cannot be assessed based on available evidence; The impact of his committee work on legislation cannot be assessed based on available evidence. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. James E. Clyburn 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 James E. Clyburn 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
- 609
- Voted yea
- 267
- Voted nay
- 335
- Bills sponsored
- 121
- Committees
- 4
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)$25K6%
- Large individual (itemized)$138K34%
- PAC / committee$237K59%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on AppropriationsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Ranking Member, House Committee on Appropriations — Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related AgenciesOn record since Jan 2025Ranking
- Member, House Committee on Appropriations — Interior, Environment, and Related AgenciesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Appropriations — Energy and Water Development and Related AgenciesOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
121 sponsored billsFacts 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.
Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 9269: Renewing the African American Civil Rights Network Act ↗Jun 11, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8078: Voter Empowerment Act of 2026 ↗Mar 25, 2026
- Sponsored HR 3868: Enhanced Background Checks Act of 2025 ↗Jun 10, 2025
- Sponsored HR 10084: Renewing the African American Civil Rights Network Act ↗Nov 1, 2024
- Sponsored HR 9727: Voter Empowerment Act of 2024 ↗Sep 20, 2024
- Sponsored HR 8607: VA Housing Loan Forever Act of 2024 ↗Jun 4, 2024
- Sponsored HR 6239: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 250 Edward Street in Branchville, South Carolina, as the "Betty W. Henderson Post Office Building". ↗Nov 6, 2023
- Sponsored HR 3849: Rural Energy Savings Act ↗Jun 6, 2023
- Sponsored HRES 453: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2403) to amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to strengthen the background check procedures to be followed before a Federal firearms licensee may transfer a firearm to a person who is not such a licensee. ↗May 26, 2023
- Sponsored HR 2883: Domestic Reinvestment Act of 2023 ↗Apr 26, 2023
- Sponsored HR 2403: Enhanced Background Checks Act of 2023 ↗Mar 30, 2023
- Sponsored HR 9466: Housing, Opportunity, Mobility, and Equity Act of 2022 ↗Dec 8, 2022
Showing the 12 most recent of 121 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 267
- Nay
- 335
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 7
Full voting record
609 votes- HR9237Yea
- HR5362Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR1181Nay
- HR1181Yea
- HR139Nay
- 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
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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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