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Judy Chu

DemocratJudy Chu

U.S. Representative · California

California's 28th district

DemocratFederal

U.S. Representative from California

0 tracked promises

California · California's 28th district

California's 28th district

Their congressional district

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How they won their seat

Judy Chu won the 2024 U.S. House election in California (District 28) with 64.9% of the vote (204,489 votes).

64.9%
Win share
204,489
Votes for winner
314,944
Total cast
  • Judy Chu · Democrat64.9%
  • April A. Verlato · Republican35.1%

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

Judy Chu's record shows legislative actions related to health, particularly in mental health access and child welfare, as evidenced by bills like the 'Increasing Access to Mental Health in Schools Act' and the 'Increasing Access to Foster Care Through Age 21 Act'. Additionally, there are legislative actions related to language access and Asian American issues, reflected in bills such as the 'Language Access Board Act of 2026' and resolutions recognizing significant cultural events. Focus areas (from the record): Health · Mental Health · Child Welfare · Language Access · Asian American Issues Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against her legislative activity, making it difficult to determine alignment. What this can't tell you: The record does not provide information on the effectiveness of the sponsored bills; There is no information on the politician's motives or personal beliefs; The absence of declared positions limits the ability to assess consistency with stated goals. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. Judy Chu 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 2026. 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 Judy Chu 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
248
Voted yea
123
Voted nay
125
Bills sponsored
14

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

Monthly voting activity

  • Yea
  • Nay
  • Total
012243648VotesJan '26: 25 YeaJan '26: 22 NayJan '26Feb '26: 13 YeaFeb '26: 17 NayFeb '26Mar '26: 12 YeaMar '26: 18 NayMar '26Apr '26: 21 YeaApr '26: 26 NayApr '26May '26: 19 YeaMay '26: 17 NayMay '26Jun '26: 26 YeaJun '26: 16 NayJun '26Jul '26: 7 YeaJul '26: 9 NayJul '26Jan '26: 47 totalFeb '26: 30 totalMar '26: 30 totalApr '26: 47 totalMay '26: 36 totalJun '26: 42 totalJul '26: 16 total
Measures voted on:182 passed66 failed

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

Vote attendance

100%
attendance
248 of 248 roll calls0 missed
Monthly participation rate
0255075100100%Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26

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

Bills sponsored over time

14bills sponsored
14 pending
05101520Bills2026: 14 pending142026

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

2%
Votes against own party
4 of 248 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

0%
0 of 14 sponsored bills became law
14 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 $963K20262026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $46K (4%)Large individual (itemized): $582K (48%)48%PAC / committee: $592K (48%)48%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$46K4%
  • Large individual (itemized)$582K48%
  • PAC / committee$592K48%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Source: Congress.gov.

Verified record

250 sponsored bills · finance on file

Facts 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.

Campaign financeas of May 13, 2026

FEC 2026 cycle — raised $859,302, spent $794,231, cash on hand $0.

View the FEC filing ↗

Sponsored legislation

Showing the 12 most recent of 250 sponsored measures.

Voting record

Total votes
609
Yea
260
Nay
347
Present
0
Not voting
2

Full voting record

609 votes
120 of 609
Page 1 / 31

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

Stated positions

No stated positions are on record for this official yet. A stated position is what the official says they believe on an issue — a sourced claim, separate from any assessment of what they did. Know one? Add it with a link to where it was said.

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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