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DemocratKristen McDonald Rivet
U.S. Representative · Michigan
Michigan's 8th district
U.S. Representative from Michigan
0 tracked promises
Running against
How they won their seat
Kristen McDonald Rivet won the 2024 U.S. House election in Michigan (District 8) with 51.3% of the vote (217,490 votes).
- Kristen McDonald Rivet · Democrat51.3%217,490
- Paul Junge · Republican44.6%189,317
- Kathy Goodwin · Working Class2%8,492
- 3 Other Candidates2.1%9,051
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
The record includes legislation related to economic support, infrastructure, and agriculture. Sponsored bills such as the 'Working Parents Tax Relief Act of 2026' and the 'Affordable Clean Water Infrastructure Act' indicate financial relief and community resources. Additionally, committee memberships in Transportation and Infrastructure and Agriculture further highlight these areas. Focus areas (from the record): Economic Support · Infrastructure · Agriculture · Disaster Relief · Financial Transparency Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. No declared positions or tracked promises are available to compare against the activity patterns from the sponsored bills and voting record. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Kristen McDonald Rivet 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 2025–2027 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 Kristen McDonald Rivet 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
- 609
- Voted yea
- 304
- Voted nay
- 289
- Bills sponsored
- 18
- Committees
- 6
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)$328K8%
- Large individual (itemized)$2.4M61%
- PAC / committee$1.2M30%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on Transportation and InfrastructureOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on AgricultureOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Agriculture — General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and CreditOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Agriculture — Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural DevelopmentOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure — Highways and TransitOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure — Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency ManagementOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
18 sponsored bills · finance on fileFacts 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.
FEC 2026 cycle — raised $4,384,972, spent $966,936, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 9560: No Profiting from Public Service Act ↗Jun 30, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9474: Local Foods for Healthy Schools Act of 2026 ↗Jun 25, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8698: Lower Prices at the Pump Act ↗May 7, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8305: Working Parents Tax Relief Act of 2026 ↗Apr 15, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8056: Military Financial Literacy Act of 2026 ↗Mar 24, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7437: BASICS Act ↗Feb 9, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7069: Affordable Food and Energy Act of 2026 ↗Jan 14, 2026
- Sponsored HR 6720: FARM Home Loans Act of 2025 ↗Dec 15, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6656: Child Care Access and Affordability Act of 2025 ↗Dec 11, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6464: Affordable Clean Water Infrastructure Act ↗Dec 4, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6272: Early Education Savings Program Act ↗Nov 21, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5594: Protect Your PIN Act of 2025 ↗Sep 26, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 18 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 304
- Nay
- 289
- Present
- 1
- Not voting
- 15
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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