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Jason Smith

RepublicanJason Smith

U.S. Representative · Missouri

Missouri's 8th district

RepublicanFederal

U.S. Representative from Missouri

4 tracked promises, 4 rated

Missouri · Missouri's 8th district

Missouri's 8th district

Their congressional district

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97/100
Trust rating
Strongly keeps promises
97
0 · Broken50 · Mixed100 · Kept
A transparent rescale of the Integrity Score (+94) to 0–100, aggregated from 4 rated promises. Never an opaque single score. Provisional — based on 4 rated promises they could act on; a settled rating needs at least 5.
How this is calculated →

How they won their seat

Jason Smith won the 2024 U.S. House election in Missouri (District 8) with 76.2% of the vote (271,249 votes).

76.2%
Win share
271,249
Votes for winner
356,064
Total cast
  • Jason Smith · Republican76.2%
  • Randi McCallian · Democrat21.8%
  • Jake Dawson · Libertarian2%

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

Jason Smith's record has sponsored legislation related to tax policy, healthcare, and small businesses. He has sponsored multiple bills aimed at tax relief, such as the 'Tax Cuts for Working Families Act' and the 'Taxpayer Data Protection Act', as well as healthcare initiatives like the 'Health Care Price Transparency Act of 2023'. Focus areas (from the record): Tax Policy · Healthcare · Small Business Support · Economic Development · Infrastructure Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against Smith's legislative activities, making it impossible to assess alignment. What this can't tell you: The absence of declared positions limits the ability to assess alignment with stated goals; No information on the effectiveness of the sponsored bills or their impact; The record does not reveal any potential unlogged work or informal activities. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. Jason Smith 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 Jason Smith 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
016324864VotesSep '25: 52 YeaSep '25: 12 NaySep '25Nov '25: 18 YeaNov '25: 2 NayNov '25Dec '25: 38 YeaDec '25: 19 NayDec '25Jan '26: 34 YeaJan '26: 13 NayJan '26Feb '26: 22 YeaFeb '26: 8 NayFeb '26Mar '26: 23 YeaMar '26: 6 NayMar '26Apr '26: 35 YeaApr '26: 11 NayApr '26May '26: 28 YeaMay '26: 8 NayMay '26Jun '26: 29 YeaJun '26: 13 NayJun '26Jul '26: 36 YeaJul '26: 14 NayJul '26Aug '26: 2 YeaAug '26: 0 NayAug '26Sep '26: 9 YeaSep '26: 1 NaySep '26Sep '25: 64 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: 50 totalAug '26: 2 totalSep '26: 10 total
Measures voted on:492 passed162 failed1 procedural/other

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

Vote attendance

98.6%
attendance
646 of 655 roll calls9 missed
Monthly participation rate
0255075100100%Sep 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Aug 26Sep 26

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

Bills sponsored over time

105bills sponsored
2 became law2 passed a chamber18 pending83 awaiting status
05101520Bills2013: 1 awaiting status120132014: 3 awaiting status320142015: 4 awaiting status420152016: 6 awaiting status620162017: 14 awaiting status1420172018: 11 awaiting status1120182019: 9 awaiting status920192020: 11 awaiting status1120202021: 20 awaiting status2020212022: 4 awaiting status420222023: 2 became law, 1 passed a chamber, 8 pending2023: 2 became law, 1 passed a chamber, 8 pending2023: 2 became law, 1 passed a chamber, 8 pending1120232024: 3 pending320242025: 1 passed a chamber, 6 pending2025: 1 passed a chamber, 6 pending720252026: 1 pending12026

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
14 of 646 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

9%
2 of 22 sponsored bills became law
2 became law2 passed a chamber18 pending

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

Campaign finance over time

$0
Cash on hand · 2026
$6.5M
Raised, 20262026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$2.5M$5M$7.5M$10M2026: raised $6.5M2026: spent $4.0M20262026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $529K (9%)9%Large individual (itemized): $1.8M (30%)30%PAC / committee: $3.5M (60%)60%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$529K9%
  • Large individual (itemized)$1.8M30%
  • PAC / committee$3.5M60%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Source: Congress.gov.

Integrity

Promises kept vs. worked against — weighted breakdown

+94 · based on 4 rated promises

  • Championed 1
  • Fully Kept 3

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 · 4 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 2026100
Jul 2026100
Jul 2026100
Jul 202694
Jan 202794 (current, held from last rating)

Promise status over time

How the tracked promise record has evolved.

4 tracked
  • Kept4
  • Against0
  • No opportunity0
  • In progress0
01234Jul 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.

Topic coverage

4 promises across 1 topic

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.

  • Taxes4 promises

Evidence & significance

Evidence quality

Strongest source cited per promise.

  • Primary (official record)4100%

Significance mix

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

10
20
30
43
51

Significance weights each promise in the Integrity Score.

Tracked promises

4 tracked promises

Fully Kepthigh confidence

As Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Smith committed to writing and passing tax legislation that makes the individual and small-business provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act permanent, preventing their scheduled 2025 expiration and the resulting tax increase.

TaxesSpecific · measurable
SourcesCongress.gov (Library of Congress)· archivedU.S. Government Publishing Office (govinfo.gov)· archivedWikipediaTax FoundationWikipediaHouse Committee on Ways and Means· archived
Championedhigh confidence

Smith committed to expanding the Child Tax Credit for working families, which he pursued by introducing and passing through the House the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024 (H.R.7024).

TaxesSpecific · measurablePromised Jan 2024
SourcesWikipediaCongress.gov (Library of Congress)· archivedHouse Committee on Ways and Means· archivedU.S. Senate Committee on Finance· archived
Fully Kepthigh confidence

As Ways and Means Chairman, Smith committed to enacting a federal tax exemption for overtime pay ('No Tax on Overtime') through his committee's tax package.

TaxesSpecific · measurable
SourcesHouse Committee on Ways and Means· archivedCongress.gov (Library of Congress)· archivedTax FoundationWikipediaWikipediaInternal Revenue Service· archived
Fully Kepthigh confidence

As Ways and Means Chairman, Smith committed to enacting a federal tax exemption for tipped income ('No Tax on Tips') through his committee's tax package.

TaxesSpecific · measurable
SourcesCongress.gov (Library of Congress)· archivedInternal Revenue Service· archivedWikipediaTax FoundationHouse Committee on Ways and Means· archived

Verified record

105 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 Mar 31, 2026

FEC 2026 cycle — raised $4,460,550, spent $2,593,543, cash on hand $0.

View the FEC filing ↗

Voting record

Total votes
655
Yea
509
Nay
137
Present
0
Not voting
9

Full voting record

655 votes
  • S32Yea
  • S307Yea
120 of 655
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Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.

Positions on record

2 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.

  • TaxesStated position

    As Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Smith committed to writing and passing tax legislation that makes the individual and small-business provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act permanent, preventing their scheduled 2025 expiration and the resulting tax increase.

    SourcesHouse Committee on Ways and Means· archivedCongress.gov (Library of Congress)· archived
    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
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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