RepublicanJason Smith
U.S. Representative · Missouri
Missouri's 8th district
U.S. Representative from Missouri
4 tracked promises, 4 rated
Running against
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).
- Jason Smith · Republican76.2%271,249
- Randi McCallian · Democrat21.8%77,649
- Jake Dawson · Libertarian2%7,166
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.
Showing 2013. 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 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.
- Bills sponsored
- 1
Roll-call data last updated July 20, 2026 · 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.
Bill success rate
Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.
Campaign finance over time
- Small-dollar (unitemized)$529K9%
- Large individual (itemized)$1.8M30%
- PAC / committee$3.5M60%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Vice Chairman, Joint Committee on TaxationOn record since Jan 2025Chair
- Chair, House Committee on Ways and MeansOn record since Jan 2025Chair
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 promisesEach step is a real change in the sourced record — the score holds between assessments.
Promise status over time
How the tracked promise record has evolved.
- Kept4
- Against0
- No opportunity0
- In progress0
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 topicWhat 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).
Significance weights each promise in the Integrity Score.
4 tracked promises
“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.”
“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).”
“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.”
“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.”
Verified record
105 sponsored bills · finance on fileFacts 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.
FEC 2026 cycle — raised $4,460,550, spent $2,593,543, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 9645: Health Care Price Certainty for All Americans Act ↗Jul 13, 2026
- Sponsored HR 6599: Leasing and Infrastructure Act of 2025 ↗Dec 10, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6500: AGOA Extension Act ↗Dec 9, 2025
- Sponsored HRES 212: Returning Senate Joint Resolution 3 to the Senate. ↗Mar 11, 2025
- Sponsored HR 1156: Pandemic Unemployment Fraud Enforcement Act ↗Feb 10, 2025
- Sponsored HRES 109: Providing amounts for the expenses of the Committee on Ways and Means in the One Hundred Nineteenth Congress. ↗Feb 5, 2025
- Sponsored HR 591: Defending American Jobs and Investment Act ↗Jan 21, 2025
- Sponsored HR 33: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide special rules for the taxation of certain residents of Taiwan with income from sources within the United States. ↗Jan 3, 2025
- Sponsored HR 8813: Preventing Child Welfare Entry Caused by Poverty Act ↗Jun 25, 2024
- Sponsored HR 8292: Taxpayer Data Protection Act ↗May 8, 2024
- Sponsored HR 7024: Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024 ↗Jan 17, 2024
- Sponsored HR 5988: United States-Taiwan Expedited Double-Tax Relief Act ↗Oct 19, 2023
Showing the 12 most recent of 105 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 473
- Nay
- 127
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 9
Full voting record
609 votes- HR9237Nay
- HR5362Yea
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Yea
- HR1181Yea
- HR1181Nay
- HR139Yea
- HRES1423Yea
- HRES1423Yea
- HR8897Yea
- HR3106Yea
- HRES1399Yea
- HCONRES108Nay
- HRES1398Yea
- HRES1398Yea
Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.
Stated positions
1 position on recordWhat this official says they believe — sourced claims, shown distinctly from tracked promises and from any assessment of what they did. A stated position is never scored and never 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.
Sourceshttps://waysandmeans.house.gov/theonebigbeautifulbill/https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1View 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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