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John R. Moolenaar

RepublicanJohn R. Moolenaar

U.S. Representative · Michigan

Michigan's 2nd district

RepublicanFederal

U.S. Representative from Michigan

0 tracked promises

Michigan · Michigan's 2nd district

Michigan's 2nd district

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Running against

How they won their seat

John R. Moolenaar won the 2024 U.S. House election in Michigan (District 2) with 65.1% of the vote (279,167 votes).

65.1%
Win share
279,167
Votes for winner
428,550
Total cast
  • John R. Moolenaar · Republican65.1%
  • Michael Lynch · Democrat31.7%
  • Ben Dejong · Libertarian1.6%
  • Scott Adams · U.S. Taxpayers1.5%

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

John R. Moolenaar's record includes legislation related to national security, agriculture, and health care, as evidenced by his sponsorship of bills such as the 'Protecting U.S. Farmland and Sensitive Sites From Foreign Adversaries Act' and the 'Medicare Access to Rural Anesthesiology Act'. His committee memberships further reflect involvement in appropriations related to national security and agriculture. Focus areas (from the record): National Security · Agriculture · Health Care · Foreign Relations · Transportation Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. The lack of declared positions or tracked promises limits the ability to assess alignment with Moolenaar's legislative activity. What this can't tell you: There is no information on the effectiveness of the bills he sponsored; The record does not reveal any unlogged work or informal commitments he may have made. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. John R. Moolenaar 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 2023–2025 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 John R. Moolenaar 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.

Votes cast
4
Voted yea
3
Voted nay
1
Bills sponsored
28
Committees
5

Roll-call data last updated July 20, 2026 · source: Voteview.

Monthly voting activity

  • Yea
  • Nay
  • Total
01234VotesJan '25: 3 YeaJan '25: 1 NayJan '25Jan '25: 4 total
Measures voted on:2 passed1 failed1 procedural/other

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

Vote attendance

100%
attendance
4 of 4 roll calls0 missed

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

Bills sponsored over time

28bills sponsored
1 became law27 pending
05101520Bills2023: 17 pending1720232024: 1 became law, 10 pending2024: 1 became law, 10 pending112024

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

0%
Votes against own party
0 of 4 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

4%
1 of 28 sponsored bills became law
1 became law27 pending

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

Campaign finance over time

$0
Cash on hand · 2026
$1.2M
Raised, 20262026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$500K$1M$1.5M$2M2026: raised $1.2M2026: spent $1.1M20262026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $41K (4%)Large individual (itemized): $651K (57%)57%PAC / committee: $454K (40%)40%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$41K4%
  • Large individual (itemized)$651K57%
  • PAC / committee$454K40%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Voting record

Total votes
609
Yea
464
Nay
143
Present
0
Not voting
2

Full voting record

609 votes
120 of 609
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Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.

Stated positions

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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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