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Lisa C. McClain

RepublicanLisa C. McClain

U.S. Representative · Michigan

Michigan's 9th district

RepublicanFederal

U.S. Representative from Michigan

2 tracked promises, 2 rated

Michigan · Michigan's 9th district

Michigan's 9th district

Their congressional district

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84/100
Trust rating
Strongly keeps promises
84
0 · Broken50 · Mixed100 · Kept
A transparent rescale of the Integrity Score (+68) to 0–100, aggregated from 2 rated promises. Never an opaque single score.
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Running against

How they won their seat

Lisa C. McClain won the 2024 U.S. House election in Michigan (District 9) with 66.8% of the vote (312,593 votes).

66.8%
Win share
312,593
Votes for winner
468,238
Total cast
  • Lisa C. McClain · Republican66.8%
  • Clinton St. Mosley · Democrat29.5%
  • Jim Walkowicz · Working Class2.6%
  • 1 Other Candidate1.1%

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

The record shows a pattern of sponsored bills related to education, housing, and financial services, as evidenced by sponsored bills such as the College Financial Aid Clarity Act of 2025 and the Modular Housing Production Act. Additionally, there is evidence of sponsored bills related to women's issues, reflected in bills like the Save Women’s Sports Act of 2023 and the Woman’s Right To Know Act. Focus areas (from the record): Education · Housing · Women's Rights · Financial Services · Transparency Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. The analysis does not include declared positions or tracked promises to compare against the activity patterns from the sponsored bills and committee memberships. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal the effectiveness of the sponsored bills or the politician's influence on legislation; There is no information on the politician's public statements or positions that could provide context to their actions; The absence of tracked promises limits the ability to assess consistency between declared intentions and legislative actions. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. Lisa C. McClain 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 Lisa C. McClain 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
457
Voted nay
136
Bills sponsored
70
Committees
6

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

Monthly voting activity

  • Yea
  • Nay
  • Total
016324864VotesJun '25: 32 YeaJun '25: 8 NayJun '25Jul '25: 25 YeaJul '25: 8 NayJul '25Sep '25: 44 YeaSep '25: 19 NaySep '25Nov '25: 21 YeaNov '25: 2 NayNov '25Dec '25: 36 YeaDec '25: 19 NayDec '25Jan '26: 33 YeaJan '26: 14 NayJan '26Feb '26: 22 YeaFeb '26: 8 NayFeb '26Mar '26: 25 YeaMar '26: 5 NayMar '26Apr '26: 33 YeaApr '26: 12 NayApr '26May '26: 28 YeaMay '26: 8 NayMay '26Jun '26: 29 YeaJun '26: 13 NayJun '26Jul '26: 11 YeaJul '26: 5 NayJul '26Jun '25: 40 totalJul '25: 33 totalSep '25: 64 totalNov '25: 23 totalDec '25: 57 totalJan '26: 47 totalFeb '26: 30 totalMar '26: 30 totalApr '26: 47 totalMay '26: 36 totalJun '26: 42 totalJul '26: 16 total
Measures voted on:463 passed145 failed1 procedural/other

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

Vote attendance

97.4%
attendance
593 of 609 roll calls16 missed
Monthly participation rate
0255075100100%Jun 25Sep 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Jul 26

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

Bills sponsored over time

70bills sponsored
6 passed a chamber44 pending20 awaiting status
06131925Bills2021: 12 awaiting status1220212022: 8 awaiting status820222023: 2 passed a chamber, 21 pending2023: 2 passed a chamber, 21 pending2320232024: 2 passed a chamber, 7 pending2024: 2 passed a chamber, 7 pending920242025: 2 passed a chamber, 15 pending2025: 2 passed a chamber, 15 pending1720252026: 1 pending12026

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
11 of 593 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 50 sponsored bills became law
6 passed a chamber44 pending

Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.

Campaign finance over time

$0
Cash on hand · 2026
$6.3M
Raised, 20242026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$1.3M$2.5M$3.8M$5M2024: raised $2.0M2024: spent $2.3M20242026: raised $4.3M2026: spent $3.6M20262024: cash on hand $02026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $808K (24%)24%Large individual (itemized): $1.4M (42%)42%PAC / committee: $1.2M (34%)34%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$808K24%
  • Large individual (itemized)$1.4M42%
  • PAC / committee$1.2M34%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Integrity

Promises kept vs. worked against — weighted breakdown

+68 · based on 2 rated promises

  • Attempted 1
  • Fully Kept 1

Teal segments are promises kept; amber and stone segments are promises worked against. The signed score weights each rated promise by significance and evidence confidence. Promise-keeping is shown separately from popularity, finance, disclosure, and stated positions. Methodology is open.

Integrity over time

In office since Jan 2021 · 2 rated promises

Each step is a real change in the sourced record — the score holds between assessments.

−100 worked against0+100 kept

Promise status over time

How the tracked promise record has evolved.

2 tracked
  • Kept2
  • Against0
  • No opportunity0
  • In progress0
01122Jul 2026Jul 2026

Replayed from this official’s sourced assessment history — the bands step only when an assessment is recorded or changed. Based on the most recent roll-call votes on file and the tracked promise assessments; never interpolated.

Topic coverage

2 promises across 1 topic

What this record covers — the number of tracked promises per topic. This is coverage, not a verdict; the kept/against shading within each bar mirrors the Integrity breakdown above.

  • Taxes2 promises

Evidence & significance

Evidence quality

Strongest source cited per promise.

  • Primary (official record)2100%

Significance mix

How weighty the tracked promises are (1 = minor, 5 = defining).

10
20
30
41
51

Significance weights each promise in the Integrity Score.

Tracked promises

2 tracked promises

Fully Kepthigh confidence

Signed the Americans for Tax Reform Taxpayer Protection Pledge, committing to oppose any and all efforts to increase federal income tax rates on individuals or businesses and to oppose any net reduction or elimination of tax deductions or credits unless matched dollar-for-dollar by further rate cuts.

TaxesSpecific · measurablePromised Feb 2020
Sourceshttps://atr.org/pledge/lisa-mcclain/https://ballotpedia.org/Lisa_McClainhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_McClainhttps://www.atr.org/take-the-pledge/https://www.uschamber.com/taxes/u-s-chamber-rep-lisa-mcclain-a-leader-on-tax-reform-fighting-for-local-businesses
Attemptedhigh confidence

Signed the Death Tax (Estate Tax) Repeal Pledge and pledged to vote for and fight to fully repeal the federal estate tax.

TaxesSpecific · measurable
Sourceshttps://web.archive.org/web/20211017074820/https://lisamcclainforcongress.com/home/f/business-leader-and-conservative-outsider-lisa-mcclain-announceshttps://web.archive.org/web/20201201000000/https://lisamcclainforcongress.com/home/f/an-open-letter-from-lisa-mcclain-to-the-people-of-mi-10https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1301/cosponsorshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1712/cosponsorshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7035/cosponsors

Verified record

70 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 Mar 31, 2026

FEC 2026 cycle — raised $4,291,417, spent $3,600,465, cash on hand $0.

View the FEC filing ↗

Voting record

Total votes
609
Yea
457
Nay
136
Present
0
Not voting
16

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

1 position on record

What this official says they believe — sourced claims, shown distinctly from tracked promises and from any assessment of what they did. A stated position is never scored and never affects the Integrity Score.

  • TaxesStated position

    Signed the Americans for Tax Reform Taxpayer Protection Pledge, committing to oppose any and all efforts to increase federal income tax rates on individuals or businesses and to oppose any net reduction or elimination of tax deductions or credits unless matched dollar-for-dollar by further rate cuts.

    Sourceshttps://atr.org/pledge/lisa-mcclain/https://ballotpedia.org/Lisa_McClain
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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.

Office context & community edits
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