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James R. Walkinshaw

DemocratJames R. Walkinshaw

U.S. Representative · Virginia

Virginia's 11th district

DemocratFederal

U.S. Representative from Virginia

0 tracked promises

Virginia · Virginia's 11th district

Virginia's 11th district

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Running against

Inferred legislative agendas

James R. Walkinshaw's record includes sponsored bills such as the Complete America’s Great Trails Act and the Capitol Police Retirement Reform Act of 2026. He has committee memberships related to homeland security and oversight. Focus areas (from the record): Homeland Security · Veterans Affairs · Government Accountability · Public Safety · Infrastructure Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against Walkinshaw's sponsored bills and voting record. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal the effectiveness of the sponsored bills; There is no information on the politician's unlogged work or informal activities; The absence of declared positions limits the ability to assess alignment with constituents' views. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. James R. Walkinshaw 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 R. Walkinshaw 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
366
Voted yea
166
Voted nay
196
Bills sponsored
18
Committees
6

Roll-call data last updated July 20, 2026 · source: Voteview.

Monthly voting activity

  • Yea
  • Nay
  • Total
015304560VotesSep '25: 7 YeaSep '25: 30 NaySep '25Nov '25: 9 YeaNov '25: 14 NayNov '25Dec '25: 26 YeaDec '25: 29 NayDec '25Jan '26: 25 YeaJan '26: 22 NayJan '26Feb '26: 12 YeaFeb '26: 17 NayFeb '26Mar '26: 13 YeaMar '26: 17 NayMar '26Apr '26: 23 YeaApr '26: 24 NayApr '26May '26: 20 YeaMay '26: 16 NayMay '26Jun '26: 25 YeaJun '26: 17 NayJun '26Jul '26: 6 YeaJul '26: 10 NayJul '26Sep '25: 38 totalNov '25: 23 totalDec '25: 57 totalJan '26: 47 totalFeb '26: 30 totalMar '26: 30 totalApr '26: 47 totalMay '26: 36 totalJun '26: 42 totalJul '26: 16 total
Measures voted on:269 passed97 failed

Roll-call votes per month — most recent on file. Source: Voteview.

Vote attendance

99.5%
attendance
364 of 366 roll calls2 missed
Monthly participation rate
0255075100100%Sep 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Jul 26

Share of roll calls participated in — most recent votes on file. Source: Voteview.

Bills sponsored over time

18bills sponsored
18 pending
05101520Bills2025: 5 pending520252026: 13 pending132026

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

2%
Votes against own party
6 of 362 recent votes

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

0%
0 of 18 sponsored bills became law
18 pending

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

Campaign finance over time

$0
Cash on hand · 2026
$2.3M
Raised, 20262026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$625K$1.3M$1.9M$2.5M2026: raised $2.3M2026: spent $1.5M20262026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $336K (15%)15%Large individual (itemized): $1.2M (52%)52%PAC / committee: $753K (33%)33%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$336K15%
  • Large individual (itemized)$1.2M52%
  • PAC / committee$753K33%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Verified record

18 sponsored bills

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.

Voting record

Total votes
366
Yea
166
Nay
196
Present
2
Not voting
2

Full voting record

366 votes
120 of 366
Page 1 / 19

Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.

Stated positions

No stated positions are on record for this official yet. A stated position is what the official says they believe on an issue — a sourced claim, separate from any assessment of what they did. Know one? Add it with a link to where it was said.

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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