DemocratMark Takano
U.S. Representative · California
California's 39th district
U.S. Representative from California
1 tracked promise, 1 rated
How they won their seat
Mark Takano won the 2024 U.S. House election in California (District 39) with 56.7% of the vote (130,191 votes).
- Mark Takano · Democrat56.7%130,191
- David Serpa · Republican43.3%99,469
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 Takano's record includes sponsorship of multiple bills aimed at improving veterans' healthcare and addressing homelessness among veterans, such as the 'End Veteran Homelessness Act of 2025' and the 'VA Health Care Capacity Assessment Act'. He has also sponsored several resolutions supporting LGBTQI+ youth in schools. Focus areas (from the record): Veterans' Affairs · Education · LGBTQI+ Rights · Healthcare Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against his sponsored bills and voting record. What this can't tell you: The effectiveness of the sponsored bills and their impact on the intended issues is not assessed; There is no information on any unlogged work or community engagement outside of the official record. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Mark Takano 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 Takano 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
- 29
- Committees
- 5
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)$85K8%
- Large individual (itemized)$639K60%
- PAC / committee$341K32%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Ranking Member, House Committee on Veterans' AffairsOn record since Jan 2025Ranking
- Member, House Committee on Education and WorkforceOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Education and Workforce — Higher Education and Workforce DevelopmentOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Education and Workforce — Health, Employment, Labor, and PensionsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Education and Workforce — Workforce ProtectionsOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Integrity
Promises kept vs. worked against — weighted breakdown+100 · based on 1 rated promise
- 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 2019 · 1 rated promiseEach 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.
- Kept1
- 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
1 promise across 1 topicWhat 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.
- Veterans1 promise
Evidence & significance
Evidence quality
Strongest source cited per promise.
- Primary (official record)1100%
Significance mix
How weighty the tracked promises are (1 = minor, 5 = defining).
Significance weights each promise in the Integrity Score.
1 tracked promise
“Enact legislation to expand VA health care eligibility and disability benefits for veterans exposed to burn pits and other toxic substances, removing the burden of proof of causation — pursued as the Honoring our PACT Act, which Takano first introduced on June 17, 2021.”
Verified record
197 sponsored billsFacts 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.
Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 9486: Health DATA Act of 2026 ↗Jun 25, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9446: VA Health Care Capacity Assessment Act ↗Jun 24, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9110: Promoting Authenticity with Influencer Disclaimers Act ↗Jun 2, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8868: Restoring Overtime Pay Act of 2026 ↗May 15, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1247: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2102) to amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for concurrent receipt of veterans' disability compensation and retired pay for disability retirees with combat-related disabilities, and for other purposes. ↗Apr 30, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1162: Supporting the goals and ideals of Glisten's (formerly GLSEN's) 2026 Day of Silence in bringing attention to anti-LGBTQI+ bullying, harassment, discrimination, and other forms of victimization faced by individuals in schools, and calling communities across the country to action to demand equal educational opportunity, basic civil rights protections, and freedom from erasure for all students, particularly LGBTQI+ young people, in K-12 schools. ↗Apr 9, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7853: PrEP Access and Coverage Act of 2026 ↗Mar 5, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7238: Commission on Equity and Reconciliation in the Uniformed Services Act ↗Jan 23, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7048: Unsubscribe Act of 2025 ↗Jan 13, 2026
- Sponsored HR 5787: BALL Act ↗Oct 17, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5786: White House NOT FOR SALE Act ↗Oct 17, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5723: Fraud Reduction And Uncovering Deception (FRAUD) in VA Disability Exams Act ↗Oct 8, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 197 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 255
- Nay
- 349
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 5
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
1 position 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.
- VeteransStated position
Enact legislation to expand VA health care eligibility and disability benefits for veterans exposed to burn pits and other toxic substances, removing the burden of proof of causation — pursued as the Honoring our PACT Act, which Takano first introduced on June 17, 2021.
Sourceshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honoring_our_PACT_Act_of_2022https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_TakanoView 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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