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RepublicanMichael Lawler
U.S. Representative · New York
New York's 17th district
U.S. Representative from New York
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How they won their seat
Michael Lawler won the 2024 U.S. House election in New York (District 17) with 52.1% of the vote (197,845 votes).
- Michael Lawler · Conservative52.1%197,845
- Mondaire L. Jones · Democrat45.8%173,899
- Blank · Na3.7%13,917
- Anthony Frascone · Working Families2%7,530
- 2 Other Candidates0.2%769
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 Lawler's record shows legislation related to financial services, foreign affairs, and public safety. Examples of sponsored bills include the Protecting America’s Food Supply Act of 2026 and the Economic Recovery for Nuclear-Affected Communities Act. His committee memberships are in financial services and foreign affairs. Focus areas (from the record): Financial Services · Foreign Affairs · Public Safety · Economic Recovery · Humanitarian Assistance Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against Lawler's legislative activity, making it impossible to assess alignment. What this can't tell you: The motivations behind the sponsored bills are not disclosed; There is no information on the effectiveness of the proposed legislation; The absence of declared positions limits the understanding of his policy priorities. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Michael Lawler 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 Michael Lawler 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)$426K8%
- Large individual (itemized)$2.8M54%
- PAC / committee$1.9M38%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on Financial ServicesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Foreign AffairsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Foreign Affairs — Western HemisphereOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Financial Services — Capital MarketsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Chair, House Committee on Foreign Affairs — Middle East and North AfricaOn record since Jan 2025Chair
- Member, House Committee on Financial Services — Housing and InsuranceOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
184 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 $7,472,987, spent $3,286,804, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 9750: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish a cap on income taxes on certain pensions. ↗Jul 16, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9749: Protecting America’s Food Supply Act of 2026 ↗Jul 16, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9680: Replace UNRWA with Real Humanitarian Assistance Act ↗Jul 14, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1422: Congratulating the New York Knicks on winning the 2026 National Basketball Association Finals. ↗Jul 9, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9584: The Housing Voucher Funding Reallocation Act ↗Jul 2, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9585: Advancing American Quantum Leadership Act of 2026 ↗Jul 2, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9520: War Hazards Compensation Reform Act ↗Jun 29, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9472: The Protecting Homeowners from Squatters Act ↗Jun 25, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9436: To amend the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 to extend the time period for which certain regulations concerning the North Atlantic right whale are effective. ↗Jun 24, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9356: Veteran Headstone Honor Act ↗Jun 18, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9318: National Security Commission Quantum Computing Act of 2026 ↗Jun 15, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9285: Heat Emergency Assessment and Tracking using AI Act ↗Jun 11, 2026
Showing the 12 most recent of 184 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 655
- Yea
- 492
- Nay
- 151
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 12
Full voting record
655 votes- HR4795Yea
- HR1501Yea
- HJRES1Yea
- HRES1498Yea
- HR9436Yea
- HR9436Nay
- HRES1490Yea
- HRES1499Yea
- HRES1499Yea
- HR6500Yea
- S32Yea
- S307Yea
- HR8884Yea
- HCONRES89Nay
- HCONRES113Yea
- HR7008Yea
- HR7008Nay
- HR8800Yea
- HR8800Nay
- HR8800Nay
Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.
Positions on record
1 position 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.
- Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyRecorded vote
On record voting NO 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 →
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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