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RepublicanKen Calvert
U.S. Representative · California
California's 41st district
U.S. Representative from California
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How they won their seat
Ken Calvert won the 2024 U.S. House election in California (District 41) with 51.7% of the vote (183,216 votes).
- Ken Calvert · Republican51.7%183,216
- Will Rollins · Democrat48.3%171,229
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
Ken Calvert's record has sponsored legislation related to defense appropriations, energy policy, and environmental issues, as evidenced by his sponsorship of multiple Department of Defense Appropriations Acts and the HRES 1227 condemning state-level energy policies. Additionally, he has sponsored legislation related to water rights and conservation, such as the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians Water Rights Settlement Act and the Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program Amendment Act. Focus areas (from the record): Defense · Energy Policy · Environmental Protection · Water Rights · Homelessness Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file for Ken Calvert, making it difficult to assess alignment with his activity patterns. What this can't tell you: The record does not include stated goals or intentions, limiting the analysis to legislative actions alone; There is no information on the effectiveness of the sponsored legislation; The absence of declared positions limits the ability to assess consistency with public statements. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Ken Calvert 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 2021–2023 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 Ken Calvert 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. The tracked-positions tile counts sourced stated positions — claims about what they believe, not conduct — and is likewise never scored.
Roll-call data last updated September 7, 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)$5K0%
- Large individual (itemized)$698K48%
- PAC / committee$743K51%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on AppropriationsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Chair, House Committee on Appropriations — DefenseOn record since Jan 2025Chair
- Member, House Committee on Appropriations — Energy and Water Development and Related AgenciesOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
255 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 9495: Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2027 ↗Jun 26, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8951: Zero Tolerance for Fraudsters Act of 2026 ↗May 21, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8593: Fireworks for Freedom Act ↗Apr 30, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1227: Condemning State-level energy policies that restrict domestic oil production, increase gasoline prices, and undermine American energy security and national defense. ↗Apr 29, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8396: ACCESS Act of 2026. ↗Apr 21, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 978: Expressing the profound sorrow of the House of Representatives on the death of the Honorable Doug LaMalfa. ↗Jan 7, 2026
- Sponsored HR 5992: Stuck On Hold Act ↗Nov 10, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5935: Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians Water Rights Settlement Act ↗Nov 7, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5726: DOD Entrepreneurial Innovation Act ↗Oct 10, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4638: Federal Working Animal Protection Act ↗Jul 23, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4016: Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2026 ↗Jun 16, 2025
- Sponsored HR 2093: To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act with respect to permitting terms, and for other purposes. ↗Mar 14, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 255 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 655
- Yea
- 494
- Nay
- 159
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 2
Full voting record
655 votes- HR4795Yea
- HR1501Yea
- HJRES1Yea
- HRES1498Yea
- HR9436Yea
- HR9436Nay
- HRES1490Yea
- HRES1499Yea
- HRES1499Yea
- HR6500Yea
- S32Yea
- S307Yea
- HR8884Yea
- HCONRES89Nay
- HCONRES113Yea
- HR7008Yea
- HR7008Nay
- HR8800Yea
- HR8800Nay
- HR8800Yea
Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.
Positions on record
1 position on recordThe record on this issue — recorded votes this official cast, and sourced claims about what they believe. Each is labelled with which it is, because a vote is what someone did and a statement is what they said. Neither is scored, and neither affects the Integrity Score.
- Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyRecorded vote
On record voting NO on Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 1 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act, an amendment to prohibit warrantless searches of United States persons' communications in the FISA Section 702 database, with exceptions for imminent threats to life or bodily harm, consent searches, and known cybersecurity threat signatures. The amendment failed on a 212 to 212 tie.
SourcesHouse Roll Call Vote 114, 118th Congress, 2nd Session: On Agreeing to the Amendment, Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 1 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act. Failed by recorded vote, 212 ayes to 212 noes, April 12, 2024.View position & sources →
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.
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