DemocratMark DeSaulnier
U.S. Representative · California
California's 10th district
U.S. Representative from California
7 tracked promises, 7 rated
How they won their seat
Mark Desaulnier won the 2024 U.S. House election in California (District 10) with 66.5% of the vote (242,325 votes).
- Mark Desaulnier · Democrat66.5%242,325
- Katherine Piccinini · Republican33.5%122,219
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 DeSaulnier's record includes sponsored bills related to transportation, education, and gun safety, as evidenced by his sponsorship of bills such as the 'Jobs for a Carbon Free Transportation System Act' and the 'Equitable Transit Oriented Development Support Act'. His involvement in various committees related to transportation and education is also noted. Focus areas (from the record): Transportation · Education · Gun Safety · Mental Health · Worker Rights Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. The absence of declared positions limits the analysis of legislative patterns. What this can't tell you: Effectiveness of the sponsored bills is not assessed in the available data. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Mark DeSaulnier 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 2023–2025 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 DeSaulnier 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
- 4
- Voted yea
- 1
- Voted nay
- 3
- Bills sponsored
- 40
- Committees
- 9
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)$43K7%
- Large individual (itemized)$190K31%
- PAC / committee$384K62%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on Transportation and InfrastructureOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Education and WorkforceOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Ranking Member, House Committee on EthicsOn record since Jan 2025Ranking
- Member, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure — AviationOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure — Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous MaterialsOn 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 Education and Workforce — Higher Education and Workforce DevelopmentOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Ranking Member, House Committee on Education and Workforce — Health, Employment, Labor, and PensionsOn record since Jan 2025Ranking
Source: Congress.gov.
Integrity
Promises kept vs. worked against — weighted breakdown+75 · based on 7 rated promises
- Championed 7
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 2019 · 7 rated promisesEach step is a real change in the sourced record — the score holds between assessments.
Promise status over time
How the tracked promise record has evolved.
- Kept7
- Against0
- No opportunity0
- In progress0
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
7 promises across 6 topicsWhat 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.
- Gun Violence Prevention2
- Education1
- Jobs and Economy1
- Media and Local Journalism1
- Technology and Elections1
- Transportation1
Evidence & significance
Evidence quality
Strongest source cited per promise.
- Primary (official record)7100%
Significance mix
How weighty the tracked promises are (1 = minor, 5 = defining).
Significance weights each promise in the Integrity Score.
7 tracked promises
“Enact the CEO Accountability and Responsibility Act to raise the corporate income tax rate on publicly traded corporations that pay their CEO or highest-paid employee more than 100 times the median compensation of their U.S. workers.”
“Enact the Gun Safety Board and Research Act to establish a federal Gun Safety Board within the Department of Health and Human Services that conducts original research on reducing firearm violence, publishes policy recommendations, and runs a grant program funding firearm-violence-reduction research.”
“Enact the Bots Research Act to direct the Federal Trade Commission to establish a task force studying the impact of automated bot accounts on social media, public discourse, and elections.”
“Enact the Protecting Student Athletes from Concussions Act to condition states' receipt of federal education funds on schools adopting and enforcing minimum concussion prevention and management plans for student athletics.”
“Enact the Transportation Megaprojects Accountability and Oversight Act to impose additional federal cost, risk, and accountability requirements on transportation 'megaprojects' with an estimated total cost of $2.5 billion or more.”
“Enact the Saving Local News Act to let local news organizations qualify as tax-exempt 501(c)(3) charitable organizations so nonprofit local journalism can be sustained.”
“Enact the Advancing Gun Safety Technology Act to authorize an Attorney General pilot grant program funding development of gun safety technology, including smart guns, user-authorized handguns, childproof guns, and personalized locking devices.”
Verified record
196 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 $515,092, spent $516,173, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 9737: To amend the Employment Retirement Income Security Act to establish a Benefits Assistance Program to improve access to benefits under employee welfare benefit plans, and for other purposes. ↗Jul 16, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9045: Early Childhood Mental Health Support Act ↗May 29, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8608: Federal Law Enforcement and Public Protection Act ↗Apr 30, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8607: Equitable Transit Oriented Development Support Act ↗Apr 30, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8465: Funding Early Childhood is the Right IDEA Act ↗Apr 23, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8073: Protection and Advocacy for Student Success Act ↗Mar 25, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7590: Protecting Student Athletes from Concussions Act ↗Feb 17, 2026
- Sponsored HR 6923: Jobs for a Carbon Free Transportation System Act ↗Dec 23, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6849: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2121 Meridian Park Boulevard in Concord, California, as the "Carl Jefferson Post Office Building". ↗Dec 18, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6435: Transportation Megaprojects Accountability and Oversight Act ↗Dec 4, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5731: School Food Modernization Act ↗Oct 10, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5711: Metropolitan Planning Enhancement Act ↗Oct 8, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 196 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 253
- Nay
- 343
- Present
- 2
- Not voting
- 11
Full voting record
609 votes- HR9237Yea
- HR5362Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- 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
6 positions on recordWhat 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.
- Technology and ElectionsStated position
Enact the Bots Research Act to direct the Federal Trade Commission to establish a task force studying the impact of automated bot accounts on social media, public discourse, and elections.
Sourceshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_DeSaulnierhttps://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7492View position & sources → - EducationStated position
Enact the Protecting Student Athletes from Concussions Act to condition states' receipt of federal education funds on schools adopting and enforcing minimum concussion prevention and management plans for student athletics.
Sourceshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/5704https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7590View position & sources → - TransportationStated position
Enact the Transportation Megaprojects Accountability and Oversight Act to impose additional federal cost, risk, and accountability requirements on transportation 'megaprojects' with an estimated total cost of $2.5 billion or more.
Sourceshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4608https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/6435View position & sources → - Jobs and EconomyStated position
Enact the CEO Accountability and Responsibility Act to raise the corporate income tax rate on publicly traded corporations that pay their CEO or highest-paid employee more than 100 times the median compensation of their U.S. workers.
Sourceshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1284https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5019View position & sources → - Media and Local JournalismStated position
Enact the Saving Local News Act to let local news organizations qualify as tax-exempt 501(c)(3) charitable organizations so nonprofit local journalism can be sustained.
Sourceshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/6068https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7306View position & sources → - Gun Violence PreventionStated position
Enact the Gun Safety Board and Research Act to establish a federal Gun Safety Board within the Department of Health and Human Services that conducts original research on reducing firearm violence, publishes policy recommendations, and runs a grant program funding firearm-violence-reduction research.
Sourceshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5273https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/9962https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4882View 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.
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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