RepublicanMike Bost
U.S. Representative · Illinois
Illinois's 12th district
U.S. Representative from Illinois
1 tracked promise, 1 rated
How they won their seat
Mike Bost won the 2024 U.S. House election in Illinois (District 12) with 74.2% of the vote (272,754 votes).
- Mike Bost · Republican74.2%272,754
- Brian Roberts · Democrat25.8%94,875
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
Mike Bost has sponsored bills related to veterans' affairs, agriculture, and infrastructure. He has sponsored numerous bills related to veterans' healthcare and benefits, such as the 'Take Care of America’s Veterans Act' and the 'Veterans Appeals Efficiency Act of 2025'. Additionally, he has sponsored the 'Agricultural and Rural Road Improvement Program Act'. Focus areas (from the record): Veterans Affairs · Agriculture · Infrastructure · Transportation · Mental Health Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file, making it impossible to assess alignment with any stated goals. What this can't tell you: The motivations behind Bost's legislative actions are not disclosed; There is no information on the effectiveness of the sponsored bills; The record does not reveal any unlogged work or informal commitments. Confidence: high (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Mike Bost 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 2016. 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 Mike Bost 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
- 2
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)$128K4%
- Large individual (itemized)$1.3M43%
- PAC / committee$1.6M52%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on Transportation and InfrastructureOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on AgricultureOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Chair, House Committee on Veterans' AffairsOn record since Jan 2025Chair
- Member, House Committee on Agriculture — General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and CreditOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure — Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous MaterialsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure — Water Resources and EnvironmentOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure — Highways and TransitOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Integrity
Promises kept vs. worked against — weighted breakdown+25 · based on 1 rated promise
- Attempted 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.
- Immigration & Border Security1 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
“Secure the U.S. southern border, including building a wall along the southern border and enforcing the "Remain in Mexico" policy; Bost voted to pass H.R. 2, the Secure the Border Act.”
Verified record
128 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 $1,107,544, spent $753,405, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 9237: Take Care of America’s Veterans Act ↗Jun 10, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9214: TSP Modernization Act ↗Jun 9, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1301: Supporting the designation of May 29, 2026, as "Mental Health Awareness in Agriculture Day" to raise awareness around mental health in the agricultural industry and workforce and to continue to reduce stigma associated with mental illness. ↗May 19, 2026
- Sponsored HR 6779: USDA Loan Modernization Act ↗Dec 17, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6733: VISN Reform Act of 2025 ↗Dec 16, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6710: Fiscal Year 2025 Veterans Affairs Major Medical Facility Authorization Act ↗Dec 15, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4633: USPS Act ↗Jul 23, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4585: Agricultural and Rural Road Improvement Program Act ↗Jul 22, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4217: VA COST SAVINGS Enhancements Act ↗Jun 27, 2025
- Sponsored HRES 508: Supporting the designation of the week of September 14 through September 20, 2025, as "National Truck Driver Appreciation Week". ↗Jun 12, 2025
- Sponsored HR 3862: Clean Water SRF Parity Act of 2025 ↗Jun 10, 2025
- Sponsored HR 3835: Veterans Appeals Efficiency Act of 2025 ↗Jun 9, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 128 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 474
- Nay
- 124
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 11
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
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.
- Immigration & Border SecurityStated position
Secure the U.S. southern border, including building a wall along the southern border and enforcing the "Remain in Mexico" policy; Bost voted to pass H.R. 2, the Secure the Border Act.
Sourceshttps://www.bostforcongress.com/issues/https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2023209View 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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