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DemocratJosh Riley
U.S. Representative · New York
New York's 19th district
U.S. Representative from New York
0 tracked promises
How they won their seat
Josh Riley won the 2024 U.S. House election in New York (District 19) with 51.1% of the vote (192,647 votes).
- Josh Riley · Democrat51.1%192,647
- Marcus J. Molinaro · Conservative48.8%184,290
- Blank · Na3.1%11,862
- 2 Other Candidates0.1%527
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 Riley's record shows a concentration on agricultural issues, rural development, and energy-related initiatives. Notable sponsored bills include the 'Rural Investment for Producers and the Environment (RIPE) Act of 2026' and the 'Boosting the Rural STEM Pipeline Act', suggesting involvement in rural communities and agricultural support. Additionally, his committee memberships align with these themes, particularly in agriculture and energy. Focus areas (from the record): Agriculture · Rural Development · Energy · Nutrition Access · Price Regulation Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. It is not possible to assess alignment due to the lack of direct comparison with declared positions or tracked promises. What this can't tell you: The status of the sponsored bills does not provide evidence of effectiveness; There is no information on the politician's stated goals or positions. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Josh Riley 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. 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 Riley 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
- 361
- Voted yea
- 163
- Voted nay
- 186
- Bills sponsored
- 10
- Committees
- 5
Roll-call data last updated July 20, 2026 · source: Voteview.
Monthly voting activity
- Yea
- Nay
- 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)$416K11%
- Large individual (itemized)$2.8M72%
- PAC / committee$656K17%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on Science, Space, and TechnologyOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on AgricultureOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Agriculture — Forestry and HorticultureOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Agriculture — Livestock, Dairy, and PoultryOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology — EnergyOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
15 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 9655: FAIR Data Act ↗Jul 13, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8350: No Taxes on Utility Bills Act ↗Apr 16, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7949: NSF Plant Biology Act ↗Mar 16, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7149: Veteran Housing Promise Act ↗Jan 20, 2026
- Sponsored HR 6969: Rural Investment for Producers and the Environment (RIPE) Act of 2026 ↗Jan 7, 2026
- Sponsored HR 6590: No Bonuses for Utility Executives Act ↗Dec 10, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6366: Boosting the Rural STEM Pipeline Act ↗Dec 2, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5487: Keep the Lights Local Act ↗Sep 18, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5055: Increasing Nutrition Access for Seniors Act of 2025 ↗Aug 26, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4720: Cracking Down on Price Gouging Act ↗Jul 23, 2025
- Sponsored HR 3695: Social Security Access Act ↗Jun 3, 2025
- Sponsored HR 3078: To amend the Department of Energy Research and Innovation Act to direct the Secretary of Energy to coordinate with certain Federal officials to conduct research, development, testing, and evaluation of novel technologies to detect fentanyl vapor or particles in support of rapid screening of the mails, at prisons, at United States borders, and in other related use cases, and for other purposes. ↗Apr 29, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 15 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 302
- Nay
- 295
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 12
Full voting record
609 votes- HR9237Yea
- HR5362Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR1181Nay
- HR1181Yea
- HR139Nay
- 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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