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DemocratLaura Friedman
U.S. Representative · California
California's 30th district
U.S. Representative from California
0 tracked promises
How they won their seat
Laura Friedman won the 2024 U.S. House election in California (District 30) with 68.4% of the vote (213,100 votes).
- Laura Friedman · Democrat68.4%213,100
- Alex Balekian · Republican31.6%98,559
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
Laura Friedman's record has sponsored bills related to transportation, infrastructure, and environmental issues, as evidenced by her sponsorship of bills like the Next Gen Road Safety Act (HR 8217) and the Safe and Affordable Transit Act (HR 6298). Additionally, her involvement in multiple committees related to transportation and infrastructure is reflected in her committee involvement. Focus areas (from the record): Transportation · Infrastructure · Environmental Policy · Public Safety · Housing Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against her legislative activity. Therefore, it is not possible to assess alignment with any stated goals. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal any declared positions or promises that could provide context for her legislative actions; It does not indicate the effectiveness of her sponsored bills or her influence within her committees; The record does not provide insight into her constituents' responses or feedback regarding her legislative focus. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Laura Friedman 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.
Activity in office
What Laura Friedman 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
- 262
- Voted nay
- 342
- Bills sponsored
- 11
- Committees
- 7
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)$52K7%
- Large individual (itemized)$455K61%
- PAC / committee$239K32%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on Transportation and InfrastructureOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Science, Space, and TechnologyOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure — Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous MaterialsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology — EnergyOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure — Water Resources and EnvironmentOn 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
11 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 $749,342, spent $610,924, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 9348: Public Access Protection Act ↗Jun 18, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8217: Next Gen Road Safety Act ↗Apr 9, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7062: Build HUBS Act ↗Jan 14, 2026
- Sponsored HR 6298: Safe and Affordable Transit Act ↗Nov 25, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5085: To exempt Federal actions related to the construction of infill housing from the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, and for other purposes. ↗Sep 2, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4796: Restoring Essential Healthcare Act ↗Jul 29, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4662: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 6444 San Fernando Road in Glendale, California, as the "Paul Ignatius Post Office". ↗Jul 23, 2025
- Sponsored HR 3874: Rim of the Valley Corridor Preservation Act ↗Jun 10, 2025
- Sponsored HR 2428: Wildfire Homeowner Relief Act ↗Mar 27, 2025
- Sponsored HR 2427: Stop Disaster Price Gouging Act ↗Mar 27, 2025
- Sponsored HR 2254: Don’t Penalize Victims Act ↗Mar 21, 2025
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 262
- Nay
- 342
- Present
- 1
- Not voting
- 4
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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