This record is only as complete as the public makes it
No one has catalogued Michael K. Simpson's campaign promises yet — and an empty page holds no one accountable. StumpWatch is built by volunteers, one sourced promise at a time. Be the first to add this official's promises: paste a campaign pledge or public statement with a link to where it was said, and we'll start tracking whether it's kept. Every entry is sourced, neutral, and open to correction.

RepublicanMichael K. Simpson
U.S. Representative · Idaho
Idaho's 2nd district
U.S. Representative from Idaho
0 tracked promises
How they won their seat
Michael K. Simpson won the 2024 U.S. House election in Idaho (District 2) with 58.4% of the vote (250,119 votes).
- Michael K. Simpson · Republican58.4%250,119
- David Roth · Democrat29.5%126,229
- Todd Corsetti · Libertarian5%21,310
- Under Votes · Na4.8%20,500
- Idaho Law - Carta Sierra · Constitution2.3%9,804
- 1 Other Candidate0.1%552
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 K. Simpson's record shows a pattern of appropriations related to the Department of the Interior and environmental issues, as evidenced by multiple sponsored bills such as the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Acts for various years. Additionally, there are several bills related to judicial matters in Idaho, including those aimed at authorizing additional district judgeships and reorganizing the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Focus areas (from the record): Appropriations · Judicial Matters · Environmental Policy · Infrastructure · Water Management Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against Simpson's legislative activities, making it difficult to assess alignment. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal the effectiveness of the sponsored bills or their impact; There is no information on Simpson's unlogged work or informal activities; The absence of declared positions limits understanding of his priorities or goals. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Michael K. Simpson 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. 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 K. Simpson 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
- 7
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)$23K2%
- Large individual (itemized)$252K25%
- PAC / committee$741K73%
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
- Chair, House Committee on Appropriations — Interior, Environment, and Related AgenciesOn record since Jan 2025Chair
- Member, House Committee on Appropriations — Energy and Water Development and Related AgenciesOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
154 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 $924,725, spent $607,181, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 9171: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2027 ↗Jun 5, 2026
- Sponsored HR 6279: Urban Canal Modernization Act ↗Nov 21, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4754: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026 ↗Jul 24, 2025
- Sponsored HR 634: Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judgeship and Reorganization Act of 2025 ↗Jan 22, 2025
- Sponsored HR 319: To authorize an additional district judgeship for the district of Idaho. ↗Jan 9, 2025
- Sponsored HR 8998: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025 ↗Jul 11, 2024
- Sponsored HR 6107: Urban Canal Modernization Act ↗Oct 26, 2023
- Sponsored HR 6064: Don’t DO IT Act ↗Oct 25, 2023
- Sponsored HR 4821: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024 ↗Jul 24, 2023
- Sponsored HR 2694: To amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to authorize the use of funds for certain additional Carey Act projects, and for other purposes. ↗Apr 18, 2023
- Sponsored HR 1422: SMILED Act ↗Mar 7, 2023
- Sponsored HR 270: Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judgeship and Reorganization Act of 2023 ↗Jan 10, 2023
Showing the 12 most recent of 154 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 451
- Nay
- 144
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 14
Full voting record
609 votes- HR9237Nay
- HR5362Yea
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- 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
No stated positions are on record for this official yet. A stated position is what the official says they believe on an issue — a sourced claim, separate from any assessment of what they did. Know one? Add it with a link to where it was said.
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.
Office context & community edits
Suggest a correction to this official's info
Suggest a sourced correction to the biography, party, jurisdiction, common name, or photo. Your suggestion is reviewed before it changes the record.
Sign in and complete the Contributor Agreement to propose an edit.