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 education, such as the Protecting Student Athletes from Concussions Act and the Funding Early Childhood is the Right IDEA Act, as well as several bills aimed at gun violence prevention, including the Advancing Gun Safety Technology Act and the Gun Safety Board and Research Act. He is involved in the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Focus areas (from the record): Education · Gun Safety · Transportation · Corporate Accountability · Mental Health Alignment with declared positions: Mixed. DeSaulnier's sponsored bills include various topics, and his declared positions cover similar areas. However, the evidence does not support a direct alignment between the two. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal the effectiveness of the sponsored bills or their impact on legislation; There is no information on the politician's public statements or responses to constituents; The record does not provide insight into the politician's strategic priorities or unlogged activities. Confidence: high (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 2021. 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. The tracked-positions tile counts sourced stated positions — claims about what they believe, not conduct — and is likewise never scored.
Roll-call data last updated September 7, 2026 · 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.
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)$281K45%
- PAC / committee$302K48%
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 promisesThe line steps at each recorded assessment and holds between them; it ends on the current published score.
| Date | Integrity Score |
|---|---|
| Jul 2026 | 75 |
| Jul 2026 | 75 |
| Jul 2026 | 75 |
| Jul 2026 | 75 |
| Jul 2026 | 75 |
| Jul 2026 | 75 |
| Jul 2026 | 75 |
| Jan 2027 | 75 (current, held from last rating) |
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
- 655
- Yea
- 266
- Nay
- 376
- Present
- 2
- Not voting
- 11
Full voting record
655 votes- HR4795Nay
- HR1501Nay
- HJRES1Nay
- HRES1498Yea
- HR9436Nay
- HR9436Yea
- HRES1490Nay
- HRES1499Nay
- HRES1499Nay
- HR6500Yea
- S32Yea
- S307Yea
- HR8884Nay
- HCONRES89Yea
- HCONRES113Nay
- HR7008Nay
- HR7008Yea
- HR8800Nay
- HR8800Yea
- HR8800Nay
Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.
Positions on record
9 positions on recordThe record on this issue — recorded votes this official cast, and sourced claims about what they believe. Each is labelled with which it is, because a vote is what someone did and a statement is what they said. Neither is scored, and neither affects the Integrity Score.
- Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyRecorded vote
On record voting NAY in the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on Perry Amendment No. 221 to H.R. 8870, an amendment providing that a recipient of assistance under title 23, United States Code, may not use automated license plate readers for any purpose other than tolling. The amendment was not agreed to, 20 yeas to 44 nays.
SourcesCommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 119th Congress, Full Committee Record of Committee Votes 75 to 127 on H.R. 8870 (markup of May 21, 2026); Vote 104 on Perry Amendment No. 221, restricting automated license plate reader use by recipients of title 23 highway assistance. Not agreed to, 20 yeas to 44 nays.View position & sources → - Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyStated position
On record urging congressional leadership to attach Fourth Amendment protections to FISA Section 702 reauthorization: closing the data broker loophole and requiring a judicial warrant before the government accesses Americans' sensitive information, ending the Section 702 backdoor search loophole, and repealing the Section 702 'visa vetting' provision.
SourcesLetter from 53 Members of Congress to Speaker Mike Johnson, Leader John Thune, Leader Charles E. Schumer and Leader Hakeem Jeffries urging Fourth Amendment protections in FISA Section 702 reauthorizationView position & sources → - Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyRecorded vote
On record voting AYE on Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 1 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act, an amendment to prohibit warrantless searches of United States persons' communications in the FISA Section 702 database, with exceptions for imminent threats to life or bodily harm, consent searches, and known cybersecurity threat signatures. The amendment failed on a 212 to 212 tie.
SourcesHouse Roll Call Vote 114, 118th Congress, 2nd Session: On Agreeing to the Amendment, Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 1 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act. Failed by recorded vote, 212 ayes to 212 noes, April 12, 2024.View position & sources → - 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.
SourcesWikipediaCongress.gov (Library of Congress)View 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.
SourcesCongress.gov (Library of Congress)· archivedCongress.gov (Library of Congress)View 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.
SourcesCongress.gov (Library of Congress)Congress.gov (Library of Congress)View 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.
SourcesCongress.gov (Library of Congress)Congress.gov (Library of Congress)View 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.
SourcesCongress.gov (Library of Congress)· archivedCongress.gov (Library of Congress)· archivedView 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.
SourcesCongress.gov (Library of Congress)· archivedCongress.gov (Library of Congress)Congress.gov (Library of Congress)View 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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