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DemocratJames R. Walkinshaw
U.S. Representative · Virginia
Virginia's 11th district
U.S. Representative from Virginia
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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.
Showing 2025–2027 term. 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 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. 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)$392K14%
- Large individual (itemized)$1.4M52%
- PAC / committee$922K34%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on Homeland SecurityOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Oversight and Government ReformOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform — Military and Foreign AffairsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Homeland Security — Border Security and EnforcementOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Homeland Security — Cybersecurity and Infrastructure ProtectionOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform — Delivering on Government EfficiencyOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
18 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 9492: Cybersecurity Logging Enforcement and Accountability Reporting Act ↗Jun 25, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9448: Federal Workforce Reproductive Rights Protection Act ↗Jun 24, 2026
- Sponsored HCONRES 110: Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran. ↗Jun 11, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1366: Commending Taiwan on the 30th anniversary of its first direct presidential election in 1996, and expressing support for Taiwan in the preservation of its democratic institutions. ↗Jun 11, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9168: Complete America’s Great Trails Act ↗Jun 4, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9113: To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to notify Congress of any serious injury or death of any individual in the custody of the Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes. ↗Jun 2, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8949: Capitol Police Retirement Reform Act of 2026 ↗May 20, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8535: Measuring Illicit Fentanyl Trafficking Act ↗Apr 27, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7952: Streamline Upgrades for Veterans Act ↗Mar 16, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7643: Veteran Technology Employment Success Act ↗Feb 23, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7600: Postal Supervisors, Managers, and Postmasters Fairness Act of 2026 ↗Feb 17, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7480: FAIR Act ↗Feb 10, 2026
Showing the 12 most recent of 18 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 412
- Yea
- 179
- Nay
- 229
- Present
- 2
- Not voting
- 2
Full voting record
412 votes- HR4795Nay
- 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
1 position 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 SafetyStated position
On record objecting to ICE's acquisition of Penlink tools that collect and search cellphone location data across entire neighborhoods, and demanding that DHS identify any legal justification for mass electronic surveillance conducted without a judicial or administrative warrant.
SourcesLetter from Rep. Shontel M. Brown and 12 colleagues to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem on ICE's acquisition of Penlink neighborhood-scale cellphone location surveillanceView 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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