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DemocratMark Pocan
U.S. Representative · Wisconsin
Wisconsin's 2nd district
U.S. Representative from Wisconsin
0 tracked promises
Running against
How they won their seat
Mark Pocan won the 2024 U.S. House election in Wisconsin (District 2) with 70.1% of the vote (320,317 votes).
- Mark Pocan · Democrat70.1%320,317
- Erik Olsen · Republican29.8%136,357
- 1 Other Candidate0.1%583
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 Pocan's record includes sponsorship of bills related to health care, education, and social justice, as evidenced by his sponsorship of bills such as the 'Pell Grant Preservation and Expansion Act' and multiple measures aimed at reforming Medicare. Additionally, his record includes sponsorship of bills related to LGBTQI+ rights and anti-harassment initiatives through bills like the 'National Museum of American LGBTQI+ History and Culture Act' and the 'Tyler Clementi Higher Education Anti-Harassment Act'. Focus areas (from the record): Health Care · Education · Social Justice · LGBTQI+ Rights · Medicare Reform Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. The alignment assessment is based on the lack of declared positions or tracked promises to compare against legislative activities. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal any declared positions or promises that could provide context for his legislative focus; There is no information on the effectiveness of the sponsored bills or their reception in Congress; The record does not indicate any potential unlogged work or advocacy outside of sponsored bills. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Mark Pocan 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 2021–2023 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 Pocan 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.
- Bills sponsored
- 29
Roll-call data last updated July 20, 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)$263K23%
- Large individual (itemized)$333K29%
- PAC / committee$548K48%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on AppropriationsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Appropriations — Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related AgenciesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Appropriations — Financial Services and General GovernmentOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
159 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 $643,149, spent $672,984, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 9414: Pell Grant Preservation and Expansion Act of 2026 ↗Jun 23, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9075: Tax the Grift Act ↗May 29, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1223: Expressing support for the designation of Undiagnosed Awareness Month. ↗Apr 28, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7803: Save Medicare Act ↗Mar 4, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1084: HIV is Not a Crime Day Resolution ↗Feb 25, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7555: Audit the Pentagon Act of 2026 ↗Feb 12, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7189: PrEP Access Act ↗Jan 21, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 919: Commemorating and supporting the goals of World AIDS Day. ↗Dec 2, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6109: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish certain requirements with respect to rates of reversed prior authorization coverage determinations under Medicare Advantage plans. ↗Nov 18, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6108: To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary to exclude certain individuals and entities who commit fraud from participation in any Federal health care program. ↗Nov 18, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6113: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to impose limitations on contracts with Medicare Advantage organizations offering multiple Medicare Advantage plans under the Medicare program. ↗Nov 18, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6111: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require any advertisement of a Medicare Advantage plan to include information related to the rates of prior authorization denials under such plan. ↗Nov 18, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 159 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 251
- Nay
- 349
- Present
- 1
- Not voting
- 8
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
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Disclosure
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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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