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RepublicanJefferson Van Drew
U.S. Representative · New Jersey
New Jersey's 2nd district
U.S. Representative from New Jersey
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How they won their seat
Jefferson Van Drew won the 2024 U.S. House election in New Jersey (District 2) with 58.1% of the vote (215,946 votes).
- Jefferson Van Drew · Republican58.1%215,946
- Joseph F. Salerno · Democrat41.2%153,117
- 1 Other Candidate0.7%2,557
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
Jefferson Van Drew has sponsored bills related to military and veterans' issues, such as the Military Pension Protection Act and the Veterans Bill of Rights Act. He has also sponsored bills related to immigration policies, including the No Medicaid for Illegals Act and the No CDLs for Illegals Act. His committee memberships include those related to transportation and infrastructure. Focus areas (from the record): Military Affairs · Veterans Issues · Immigration Policy · Transportation · Public Safety Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against his legislative activity, making it impossible to assess alignment. 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 motives or intentions; The absence of declared positions limits understanding of his overall policy priorities. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Jefferson Van Drew 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 Jefferson Van Drew 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
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- 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)$219K12%
- Large individual (itemized)$1.3M71%
- PAC / committee$327K17%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on Transportation and InfrastructureOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on the JudiciaryOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure — AviationOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure — Coast Guard and Maritime TransportationOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on the Judiciary — Immigration Integrity, Security, and EnforcementOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Chair, House Committee on the Judiciary — OversightOn record since Jan 2025Chair
- Member, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure — Highways and TransitOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
163 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 $1,701,892, spent $1,071,272, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 9207: Military Pension Protection Act ↗Jun 8, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8194: Agent Orange Service Medal Act ↗Apr 2, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7991: STOP RGGI Act ↗Mar 18, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7931: IDA Act of 2026 ↗Mar 12, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7667: TRICARE Fairness for National Guard and Reserve Retirees Act ↗Feb 24, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7459: Coastal Trust Fund Act ↗Feb 10, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 967: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that European laws and regulations unfairly and unreasonably burden American speech and innovation. ↗Dec 18, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6604: Presidential Fitness Test Act of 2025 ↗Dec 10, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6316: Tax Credit Extension Act ↗Nov 25, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6017: Veterans Bill of Rights Act ↗Nov 10, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5897: Public Access to Defibrillation in Transportation Facilities Act of 2025 ↗Oct 31, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5896: GRID Act ↗Oct 31, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 163 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 655
- Yea
- 507
- Nay
- 141
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 7
Full voting record
655 votes- HR4795Yea
- HR1501Yea
- HJRES1Yea
- HRES1498Yea
- HR9436Yea
- HR9436Nay
- HRES1490Yea
- HRES1499Yea
- HRES1499Yea
- HR6500Yea
- S32Yea
- S307Yea
- HR8884Yea
- HCONRES89Nay
- HCONRES113Yea
- HR7008Yea
- HR7008Nay
- HR8800Yea
- HR8800Nay
- HR8800Nay
Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.
Positions on record
2 positions 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 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 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
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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