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RepublicanMark B. Messmer
U.S. Representative · Indiana
Indiana's 8th district
U.S. Representative from Indiana
0 tracked promises
How they won their seat
Mark Messmer won the 2024 U.S. House election in Indiana (District 8) with 68% of the vote (219,941 votes).
- Mark Messmer · Republican68%219,941
- Erik Hurt · Democrat29.5%95,311
- K. Richard Fitzlaff · Libertarian2.6%8,381
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
Mark B. Messmer's record includes sponsorship of legislation related to agriculture, education, and workforce issues, as evidenced by his sponsorship of bills such as the Critical Industry Skills Act and the Empowering Employer Child and Elder Care Solutions Act. His committee memberships include roles in agriculture and education-related subcommittees. Focus areas (from the record): Agriculture · Education · Workforce Development · Child Care · Energy Policy Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. The lack of available declared positions or tracked promises limits the ability to compare against his legislative activity and voting record. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Mark B. Messmer 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 Mark B. Messmer 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
- 462
- Voted nay
- 134
- Bills sponsored
- 15
- Committees
- 10
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)$6K1%
- Large individual (itemized)$223K40%
- PAC / committee$324K59%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on AgricultureOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Armed ServicesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Education and WorkforceOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Agriculture — Livestock, Dairy, and PoultryOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Agriculture — Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural DevelopmentOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Agriculture — Conservation, Research, and BiotechnologyOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Armed Services — Strategic ForcesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Education and Workforce — Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary EducationOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Armed Services — ReadinessOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Education and Workforce — Workforce ProtectionsOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
15 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 $943,183, spent $578,358, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 9128: CFTC Protection of Information and Data Act of 2026 ↗Jun 3, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8181: Critical Industry Skills Act ↗Apr 2, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7720: Child Care Payment Integrity and Fraud Accountability Act of 2026 ↗Feb 26, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7547: DOD and USDA Interagency Research Act ↗Feb 12, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7469: SNAP Online Access Act of 2026 ↗Feb 10, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7264: Restoring America’s Floodplains Act ↗Jan 27, 2026
- Sponsored HR 6657: Restaurant Meals Program Reform Act of 2025 ↗Dec 11, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6466: Forced Abortion Prevention and Accountability Act ↗Dec 4, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6213: Heat Workforce Standards Act of 2025 ↗Nov 20, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4107: GOLDEN DOME Act of 2025 ↗Jun 24, 2025
- Sponsored HRES 428: Expressing support for the designation of May 2025 as "Moving Month". ↗May 19, 2025
- Sponsored HR 3044: No Vaccine Mandates in Higher Education Act ↗Apr 28, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 15 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 462
- Nay
- 134
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 13
Full voting record
609 votes- HR9237Nay
- HR5362Yea
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR1181Yea
- HR1181Nay
- HR139Yea
- HRES1423Yea
- HRES1423Yea
- HR8897Yea
- HR3106Yea
- HRES1399Yea
- HCONRES108Nay
- HRES1398Yea
- HRES1398Yea
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
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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