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DemocratJosh Harder
U.S. Representative · California
California's 9th district
U.S. Representative from California
0 tracked promises
How they won their seat
Josh Harder won the 2024 U.S. House election in California (District 9) with 51.8% of the vote (130,183 votes).
- Josh Harder · Democrat51.8%130,183
- Kevin Lincoln · Republican48.2%121,174
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
Josh Harder's sponsored bills include health care, housing, and environmental issues, as seen in bills like the 'Health Investment Zones Act of 2026' and the 'Gas Prices Relief Act of 2026'. His committee memberships on Appropriations also suggest engagement with funding for health and environmental initiatives. Focus areas (from the record): Health Care · Housing · Environmental Policy · Public Safety · Veterans Affairs Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises available to compare against Harder's legislative activity. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal any stated goals or positions Harder may have; There is no information on the effectiveness or impact of the sponsored bills; The record does not indicate how Harder's campaign finance sources may influence his legislative priorities. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Josh Harder 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. 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 Josh Harder 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
- 22
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)$358K12%
- Large individual (itemized)$2.3M75%
- PAC / committee$429K14%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on AppropriationsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Appropriations — Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related AgenciesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Appropriations — Interior, Environment, and Related AgenciesOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
152 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 HR 9406: To amend title 38, United States Code, to eliminate the cap on the number of waivers to certain pay limitations that the Secretary of Veterans Affairs may issue for critical health care personnel of the Department of Veterans Affairs. ↗Jun 23, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9243: Wildfire Smoke Emergency Declaration Act of 2026 ↗Jun 10, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1311: Expressing support for the designation of May 2026 as "Necrotizing Fasciitis Awareness Month". ↗May 21, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8750: COPS Reauthorization Act of 2026 ↗May 12, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8572: Gas Prices Relief Act of 2026 ↗Apr 29, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7791: To authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to prioritize the award of certain housing grants to applicants located in, or serving, low-income communities. ↗Mar 4, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7496: Health Investment Zones Act of 2026 ↗Feb 11, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7329: FREEDOM Act ↗Feb 3, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7215: Stop SCAMS Act ↗Jan 22, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7214: End PG&E Lobbying Act ↗Jan 22, 2026
- Sponsored HR 6863: CAT Act of 2025 ↗Dec 18, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6862: Protecting Health Care Workforce Pipelines Act ↗Dec 18, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 152 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 297
- Nay
- 309
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 3
Full voting record
609 votes- HR9237Yea
- HR5362Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR1181Nay
- HR1181Yea
- HR139Yea
- HRES1423Nay
- HRES1423Nay
- HR8897Yea
- HR3106Yea
- HRES1399Yea
- HCONRES108Yea
- HRES1398Nay
- HRES1398Nay
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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