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RepublicanJoe Wilson
U.S. Representative · South Carolina
South Carolina's 2nd district
U.S. Representative from South Carolina
0 tracked promises
How they won their seat
Joe Wilson won the 2024 U.S. House election in South Carolina (District 2) with 59.5% of the vote (211,514 votes).
- Joe Wilson · Republican59.5%211,514
- David Robinson Ii · Democrat40.2%142,985
- 1 Other Candidate0.2%786
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
Joe Wilson's record includes significant activity in foreign affairs, particularly related to the Middle East, Russia, and China, as evidenced by his sponsorship of bills like the 'Countering Russia’s War on Faith Act' and the 'Countering China’s Control of the Caucasus Act'. Additionally, he has sponsored education-related legislation, as seen in the 'Less Bureaucracy, Better International Education Oversight Act'. Focus areas (from the record): Foreign Affairs · Education · National Security · International Relations · Labor Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against Wilson's legislative activity, making alignment assessment challenging. What this can't tell you: The absence of declared positions limits understanding of his priorities; No information on the effectiveness of his sponsored bills is available; The record does not reveal any potential unlogged work or informal influence. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Joe Wilson 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 2016. 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 Joe Wilson 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
- 4
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)$189K19%
- Large individual (itemized)$367K38%
- PAC / committee$416K43%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on Armed ServicesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Foreign AffairsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Education and WorkforceOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Armed Services — Strategic ForcesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Education and Workforce — Higher Education and Workforce DevelopmentOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Armed Services — ReadinessOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Education and Workforce — Health, Employment, Labor, and PensionsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Foreign Affairs — EuropeOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Foreign Affairs — Middle East and North AfricaOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
335 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 HRES 1424: Expressing the profound sorrow of the House of Representatives on the death of the Honorable Lindsey Graham. ↗Jul 13, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9603: Less Bureaucracy, Better International Education Oversight Act ↗Jul 9, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9451: SABER Act of 2026 ↗Jun 24, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9450: Countering Russian Trafficking Act ↗Jun 24, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9256: Ending Child Soldiers in Africa Act ↗Jun 10, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8775: Ending Predator Access to Union Power Act ↗May 12, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8718: Countering Russia’s Forced Recruitment and Kidnapping in Africa Act ↗May 7, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8433: Countering Russia’s War on Faith Act ↗Apr 22, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8069: Strategic Subsea Cables Act of 2026 ↗Mar 24, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7724: No Waivers for Fraud Act of 2026 ↗Feb 26, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7668: Countering China’s Control of the Caucasus Act ↗Feb 24, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7415: HARM Act 2.0 ↗Feb 9, 2026
Showing the 12 most recent of 335 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 446
- Nay
- 129
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 34
Full voting record
609 votes- HR9237Nay
- HR5362Yea
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- 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
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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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