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RepublicanMichael Baumgartner
U.S. Representative · Washington
Washington's 5th district
U.S. Representative from Washington
0 tracked promises
Running against
How they won their seat
Michael Baumgartner won the 2024 U.S. House election in Washington (District 5) with 60.6% of the vote (240,619 votes).
- Michael Baumgartner · Republican60.6%240,619
- Carmela Conroy · Democrat39.3%156,074
- 1 Other Candidate0.1%593
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
Michael Baumgartner's record indicates a pattern of involvement in issues related to education, particularly in collegiate athletics and workforce development, as evidenced by his sponsorship of bills like the Protect College Sports Act of 2026 and the Workforce Data Quality Initiative Act of 2026. Additionally, his legislative activity includes foreign affairs, as reflected in bills such as the Foreign Adversary AI Risk Assessment and Diplomacy Act and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations Licensing Reform Act. Focus areas (from the record): Education · Collegiate Athletics · Workforce Development · Foreign Affairs · Artificial Intelligence Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against Baumgartner's legislative activities, making it impossible to assess alignment. What this can't tell you: The record does not provide information on the effectiveness of the sponsored bills; There is no information on the politician's intentions behind the legislation; The absence of declared positions limits the ability to assess alignment with overall policy priorities. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Michael Baumgartner 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 2026. 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 Michael Baumgartner 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
- 248
- Voted yea
- 173
- Voted nay
- 66
- Bills sponsored
- 10
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)$151K11%
- Large individual (itemized)$927K68%
- PAC / committee$293K21%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on the JudiciaryOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Foreign AffairsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- 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 the Judiciary — Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the InternetOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Foreign Affairs — South and Central AsiaOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Education and Workforce — Health, Employment, Labor, and PensionsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on the Judiciary — The Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and AntitrustOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Foreign Affairs — Middle East and North AfricaOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
22 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 $1,413,237, spent $632,015, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 9602: Less Bureaucracy, Better International Foreign Gift Transparency Act ↗Jul 9, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9621: Northwest Endangered Salmon Predation Prevention Act of 2026 ↗Jul 9, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9419: Power and Water for Families Act of 2026 ↗Jun 24, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9137: Protect College Sports Act of 2026 ↗Jun 4, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8649: Expanding the Defense Industrial Base Sales Act ↗May 4, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8196: Workforce Data Quality Initiative Act of 2026 ↗Apr 6, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8170: MATCH Act ↗Apr 2, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8037: Protect American AI Act of 2026 ↗Mar 24, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1011: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the structure and governance of the Football Bowl Subdivision postseason should prioritize broad-based athletic opportunity, financial sustainability for college athletics, and competitive balance, and that innovative proposals to expand broad based postseason participation-such as proposals advanced by Coach Mike Leach-warrant serious consideration to mitigate anticompetitive effects in top-division college football. ↗Jan 20, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7058: Foreign Adversary AI Risk Assessment and Diplomacy Act ↗Jan 14, 2026
- Sponsored HR 5812: Correcting Opportunity and Accountability in Collegiate Hiring Act (COACH Act) ↗Oct 24, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5693: PROTECT Act ↗Oct 6, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 22 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 458
- Nay
- 138
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 13
Full voting record
609 votes- HR9237Nay
- HR5362Yea
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR1181Yea
- HR1181Nay
- HR139Yea
- HRES1423Yea
- HRES1423Yea
- HR8897Yea
- HR3106Yea
- HRES1399Yea
- HCONRES108Nay
- HRES1398Yea
- HRES1398Yea
Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.
Stated positions
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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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