DemocratMaxine Waters
U.S. Representative · California
California's 43rd district
U.S. Representative from California
2 tracked promises, 2 rated
How they won their seat
Maxine Waters won the 2024 U.S. House election in California (District 43) with 75.1% of the vote (160,080 votes).
- Maxine Waters · Democrat75.1%160,080
- Steve Williams · Republican24.9%53,152
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
Maxine Waters' record indicates a focus on housing and financial services, as evidenced by her sponsorship of multiple bills related to housing affordability, such as the Housing Crisis Response Act (H.R.6771) and the Ending Homelessness Act. Additionally, her role as Ranking Member of the House Committee on Financial Services indicates involvement in banking and consumer protection issues, as seen in bills like the DPA Transparency Act (H.R.8030) and the Failed Bank Executives Accountability and Consequences Act (H.R.7886). Focus areas (from the record): Housing · Homelessness · Financial Services · Consumer Protection · Public Health Alignment with declared positions: Consistent. Waters' sponsored bills align with her declared positions on housing and homelessness, particularly her sponsorship of the Housing Crisis Response Act and the Ending Homelessness Act, which she has supported across multiple Congresses. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal the effectiveness of her sponsored bills in achieving legislative success; There is no information on her engagement with constituents or community feedback; The record does not provide insight into her strategic priorities or decision-making processes. Confidence: high (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Maxine Waters 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. 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 Maxine Waters 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.
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)$9K1%
- Large individual (itemized)$139K21%
- PAC / committee$510K78%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Ranking Member, House Committee on Financial ServicesOn record since Jan 2025Ranking
Source: Congress.gov.
Integrity
Promises kept vs. worked against — weighted breakdown+75 · based on 2 rated promises
- Championed 2
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 · 2 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 |
| Jan 2027 | 75 (current, held from last rating) |
Promise status over time
How the tracked promise record has evolved.
- Kept2
- 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
2 promises across 2 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.
- Housing1 promise
- Housing & Homelessness1 promise
Evidence & significance
Evidence quality
Strongest source cited per promise.
- Primary (official record)2100%
Significance mix
How weighty the tracked promises are (1 = minor, 5 = defining).
Significance weights each promise in the Integrity Score.
2 tracked promises
“Sponsor and push to enact the Ending Homelessness Act, federal legislation to provide a path to end homelessness in the United States; she has introduced it in six consecutive Congresses (114th-119th).”
“Sponsor and push to enact the Housing Crisis Response Act to respond to the U.S. housing affordability crisis; reintroduced in the 118th (H.R.4233) and 119th (H.R.6771) Congresses.”
Verified record
528 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 $734,764, spent $527,178, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 8777: GUIDANCE Act of 2026 ↗May 13, 2026
- Sponsored HJRES 179: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection relating to the withdrawal of the rule relating to "Consumer Financial Protection Circular 2022-04: Insufficient Data Protection or Security for Sensitive Consumer Information". ↗May 7, 2026
- Sponsored HJRES 170: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection relating to the withdrawal of the rule relating to "The Fair Credit Reporting Act's Limited Preemption of State Laws". ↗Apr 30, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8030: DPA Transparency Act of 2026 ↗Mar 20, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7886: Failed Bank Executives Accountability and Consequences Act ↗Mar 9, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7887: Incentivizing Safe and Sound Banking Act ↗Mar 9, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7888: Closing the Enhanced Prudential Standards Loophole Act ↗Mar 9, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1109: Supporting the goals and ideals of National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. ↗Mar 5, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1106: Honoring the life and legacy of Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. ↗Mar 4, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7565: Food for Palestinian Children and Families in Gaza Act of 2026 ↗Feb 12, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7384: Preventing Mass Casualties from Release of Hydrofluoric Acid at Refineries Act of 2026 ↗Feb 4, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1039: Supporting the goals and ideals of "National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day". ↗Feb 4, 2026
Showing the 12 most recent of 528 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 655
- Yea
- 256
- Nay
- 369
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 30
Full voting record
655 votes- HR4795Nay
- HR1501Nay
- HJRES1Nay
- HRES1498Yea
- HR9436Nay
- HR9436Yea
- HRES1490Nay
- HRES1499Nay
- HRES1499Nay
- HR6500Yea
- S32Yea
- S307Yea
- HR8884Nay
- HCONRES89Yea
- HCONRES113Nay
- HR7008Nay
- HR7008Yea
- HR8800Nay
- HR8800Yea
- HR8800Yea
Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.
Positions on record
3 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.
- HousingStated position
Sponsor and push to enact the Housing Crisis Response Act to respond to the U.S. housing affordability crisis; reintroduced in the 118th (H.R.4233) and 119th (H.R.6771) Congresses.
SourcesCongress.gov (Library of Congress)· archivedCongress.gov (Library of Congress)· archivedView 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 → - Housing & HomelessnessStated position
Sponsor and push to enact the Ending Homelessness Act, federal legislation to provide a path to end homelessness in the United States; she has introduced it in six consecutive Congresses (114th-119th).
SourcesCongress.gov (Library of Congress)· archivedGovTrack.usView 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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