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Jared Huffman

DemocratJared Huffman

U.S. Representative · California

California's 2nd district

DemocratFederal

U.S. Representative from California

8 tracked promises, 2 rated

California · California's 2nd district

California's 2nd district

Their congressional district

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88/100
Trust rating
Strongly keeps promises
88
0 · Broken50 · Mixed100 · Kept
A transparent rescale of the Integrity Score (+75) to 0–100, aggregated from 2 rated promises. Never an opaque single score. Provisional — based on 2 rated promises they could act on; a settled rating needs at least 5.
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How they won their seat

Jared Huffman won the 2024 U.S. House election in California (District 2) with 71.9% of the vote (272,883 votes).

71.9%
Win share
272,883
Votes for winner
379,617
Total cast
  • Jared Huffman · Democrat71.9%
  • Chris Coulombe · Republican28.1%

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

Jared Huffman's record indicates a pattern of bills related to environmental conservation, public lands management, and wildlife protection. He has sponsored multiple bills related to these themes, such as the Northwest California Wilderness, Recreation, and Working Forests Act and the Migratory Bird Protection Act. Additionally, his committee memberships indicate committee memberships related to natural resources and infrastructure. Focus areas (from the record): Environmental Conservation · Public Lands Management · Wildlife Protection · Health Care Transparency · Education Funding Alignment with declared positions: Consistent. Huffman's sponsored bills are related to his declared positions on public lands and conservation, such as the Arctic Refuge Protection Act and the IDEA Full Funding Act. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal the effectiveness of the sponsored bills; There are no statements on file to assess his public communication or rhetoric; The campaign finance composition does not indicate specific influences on his legislative priorities. Confidence: high (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. Jared Huffman 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 2014. 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 Jared Huffman 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

10bills sponsored
10 awaiting status
035810Bills2014: 10 awaiting status102014

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
$939K
Raised, 20262026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$250K$500K$750K$1M2026: raised $939K2026: spent $932K20262026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $57K (6%)Large individual (itemized): $453K (49%)49%PAC / committee: $418K (45%)45%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$57K6%
  • Large individual (itemized)$453K49%
  • PAC / committee$418K45%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Integrity

Promises kept vs. worked against — weighted breakdown

+75 · based on 2 rated promises

  • Championed 2

Teal segments are promises kept; amber and stone segments are promises worked against. The signed score weights each rated promise by significance and evidence confidence. Promise-keeping is shown separately from popularity, finance, disclosure, and stated positions. Methodology is open.

Integrity over time

In office since Jan 2019 · 2 rated promises

The line steps at each recorded assessment and holds between them; it ends on the current published score.

−100 worked against0+100 kept
Integrity Score by assessment date. Score ranges from −100 (worked against) to +100 (kept).
DateIntegrity Score
Jul 202675
Jul 202675
Jan 202775 (current, held from last rating)

Promise status over time

How the tracked promise record has evolved.

2 tracked
  • Kept2
  • Against0
  • No opportunity0
  • In progress0
01122Jul 2026Jul 2026

Replayed from this official’s sourced assessment history — the bands step only when an assessment is recorded or changed. Based on the most recent roll-call votes on file and the tracked promise assessments; never interpolated.

Not yet scoredNot yet rated 6— tracked, but not counted toward Integrity

Topic coverage

8 promises across 8 topics

What this record covers — the number of tracked promises per topic. This is coverage, not a verdict; the kept/against shading within each bar mirrors the Integrity breakdown above.

  • Climate / Fossil Fuels1
  • Education / Special Education1
  • Environment / Offshore Drilling1
  • Environment / Plastic Pollution1
  • Health Care / Consumer Protection1
  • Public Lands / Conservation1
  • Public Lands / Energy1
  • Wildlife / Conservation1
Kept Worked against No opportunity / not yet scored

Evidence & significance

Evidence quality

Strongest source cited per promise.

  • Primary (official record)8100%

Significance mix

How weighty the tracked promises are (1 = minor, 5 = defining).

10
20
30
40
58

Significance weights each promise in the Integrity Score.

Tracked promises

8 tracked promises

Championedhigh confidence

Sponsor and pass the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act, a comprehensive federal plan to cut plastic pollution through extended producer responsibility for packaging, a pause on permits for new plastic-production facilities, and a national beverage-container refund program.

Environment / Plastic PollutionSpecific · measurablePromised Oct 2023
SourcesCongress.gov (Library of Congress)· archivedGovTrack.usBillSponsorOffice of U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley· archived
Championedhigh confidence

Sponsor and pass the Keep It in the Ground Act to end new federal fossil-fuel leases and halt new oil, gas, and coal extraction on all federal public lands and offshore waters.

Climate / Fossil FuelsSpecific · measurablePromised Apr 2021
SourcesGovTrack.usCongress.gov (Library of Congress)· archivedU.S. Government Publishing Office (govinfo.gov)· archivedU.S. Government Publishing Office (govinfo.gov)· archivedCongress.gov (Library of Congress)Congress.gov (Library of Congress)· archived
Not yet rated

Sponsor and pass the Northwest California Wilderness, Recreation, and Working Forests Act to designate new wilderness areas, wild and scenic rivers, and restoration areas across his North Coast district.

Public Lands / ConservationSpecific · measurablePromised Dec 2025
SourcesGovTrack.usCongress.gov (Library of Congress)· archived
Not yet rated

Sponsor and pass the Migratory Bird Protection Act to reaffirm the Migratory Bird Treaty Act's prohibition on the incidental killing of migratory birds and establish a permitting system for incidental take.

Wildlife / ConservationSpecific · measurablePromised May 2025
SourcesGovTrack.usCongress.gov (Library of Congress)
Not yet rated

Sponsor and pass the Health Share Transparency Act to require health care sharing ministries to publicly report financial and enrollment data and clearly disclose that they are not health insurance.

Health Care / Consumer ProtectionSpecific · measurablePromised Apr 2025
SourcesCongress.gov (Library of Congress)GovTrack.us
Not yet rated

Sponsor and pass the Arctic Refuge Protection Act to designate the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as wilderness, permanently barring oil and gas drilling there.

Public Lands / EnergySpecific · measurablePromised Apr 2025
SourcesCongress.gov (Library of Congress)· archivedGovTrack.us
Not yet rated

Sponsor and pass the West Coast Ocean Protection Act to permanently prohibit new federal oil and gas leasing in the ocean waters off California, Oregon, and Washington.

Environment / Offshore DrillingSpecific · measurablePromised Apr 2025
SourcesCongress.gov (Library of Congress)· archivedCongress.gov (Library of Congress)GovTrack.us
Not yet rated

Sponsor and pass the IDEA Full Funding Act to phase in mandatory funding for the full 40 percent federal share of special-education costs long promised under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

Education / Special EducationSpecific · measurablePromised Apr 2025
SourcesCongress.gov (Library of Congress)· archivedGovTrack.us

Verified record

218 sponsored bills · finance on file

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.

Campaign financeas of May 13, 2026

FEC 2026 cycle — raised $868,510, spent $775,170, cash on hand $0.

View the FEC filing ↗

Sponsored legislation

Showing the 12 most recent of 218 sponsored measures.

Voting record

Total votes
655
Yea
257
Nay
380
Present
1
Not voting
17

Full voting record

655 votes
  • S32Yea
  • S307Yea
120 of 655
Page 1 / 33

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

Positions on record

11 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 NAY in the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on Perry Amendment No. 221 to H.R. 8870, an amendment providing that a recipient of assistance under title 23, United States Code, may not use automated license plate readers for any purpose other than tolling. The amendment was not agreed to, 20 yeas to 44 nays.

    SourcesCommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 119th Congress, Full Committee Record of Committee Votes 75 to 127 on H.R. 8870 (markup of May 21, 2026); Vote 104 on Perry Amendment No. 221, restricting automated license plate reader use by recipients of title 23 highway assistance. Not agreed to, 20 yeas to 44 nays.
    View position & sources
  • Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyStated position

    On record urging congressional leadership to attach Fourth Amendment protections to FISA Section 702 reauthorization: closing the data broker loophole and requiring a judicial warrant before the government accesses Americans' sensitive information, ending the Section 702 backdoor search loophole, and repealing the Section 702 'visa vetting' provision.

    SourcesLetter from 53 Members of Congress to Speaker Mike Johnson, Leader John Thune, Leader Charles E. Schumer and Leader Hakeem Jeffries urging Fourth Amendment protections in FISA Section 702 reauthorization
    View position & sources
  • Public Lands / ConservationStated position

    Sponsor and pass the Northwest California Wilderness, Recreation, and Working Forests Act to designate new wilderness areas, wild and scenic rivers, and restoration areas across his North Coast district.

    SourcesGovTrack.usCongress.gov (Library of Congress)· archived
    View position & sources
  • Wildlife / ConservationStated position

    Sponsor and pass the Migratory Bird Protection Act to reaffirm the Migratory Bird Treaty Act's prohibition on the incidental killing of migratory birds and establish a permitting system for incidental take.

    SourcesCongress.gov (Library of Congress)GovTrack.us
    View position & sources
  • Health Care / Consumer ProtectionStated position

    Sponsor and pass the Health Share Transparency Act to require health care sharing ministries to publicly report financial and enrollment data and clearly disclose that they are not health insurance.

    SourcesGovTrack.usCongress.gov (Library of Congress)
    View position & sources
  • Public Lands / EnergyStated position

    Sponsor and pass the Arctic Refuge Protection Act to designate the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as wilderness, permanently barring oil and gas drilling there.

    SourcesCongress.gov (Library of Congress)· archivedGovTrack.us
    View position & sources
  • Environment / Offshore DrillingStated position

    Sponsor and pass the West Coast Ocean Protection Act to permanently prohibit new federal oil and gas leasing in the ocean waters off California, Oregon, and Washington.

    SourcesCongress.gov (Library of Congress)· archivedCongress.gov (Library of Congress)GovTrack.us
    View position & sources
  • Education / Special EducationStated position

    Sponsor and pass the IDEA Full Funding Act to phase in mandatory funding for the full 40 percent federal share of special-education costs long promised under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

    SourcesCongress.gov (Library of Congress)· archivedGovTrack.us
    View position & sources
  • Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyRecorded vote

    On record voting AYE 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.
    View position & sources
  • Environment / Plastic PollutionStated position

    Sponsor and pass the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act, a comprehensive federal plan to cut plastic pollution through extended producer responsibility for packaging, a pause on permits for new plastic-production facilities, and a national beverage-container refund program.

    SourcesCongress.gov (Library of Congress)· archivedGovTrack.us
    View position & sources
  • Climate / Fossil FuelsStated position

    Sponsor and pass the Keep It in the Ground Act to end new federal fossil-fuel leases and halt new oil, gas, and coal extraction on all federal public lands and offshore waters.

    SourcesGovTrack.usCongress.gov (Library of Congress)· archivedCongress.gov (Library of Congress)· archived
    View position & sources
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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