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Mike Carey

RepublicanMike Carey

U.S. Representative · Ohio

Ohio's 15th district

RepublicanFederal

U.S. Representative from Ohio

1 tracked promise

Ohio · Ohio's 15th district

Ohio's 15th district

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How they won their seat

Mike Carey won the 2024 U.S. House election in Ohio (District 15) with 56.5% of the vote (196,338 votes).

56.5%
Win share
196,338
Votes for winner
347,749
Total cast
  • Mike Carey · Republican56.5%
  • Adam Miller · Democrat43.5%

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 Carey's record includes sponsored bills related to housing, energy, and economic development, as evidenced by the Housing Opportunities and Preservation Enhancement Act of 2026 and the Supporting Energy and Economic Development (SEED) Act. Additionally, his committee memberships on the House Committee on Ways and Means provide some context, but specific details regarding welfare and social security issues are not clearly defined. Focus areas (from the record): Housing · Energy · Economic Development Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There is a lack of available data for comparison against Carey's sponsored bills and voting record. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal Carey's motives or intentions behind the sponsored bills; There is no information on the effectiveness of the bills that became law; The absence of declared positions limits understanding of his priorities. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. Mike Carey 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 2023–2025 term. 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 Carey 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
01234VotesJan '25: 3 YeaJan '25: 1 NayJan '25Jan '25: 4 total
Measures voted on:2 passed1 failed1 procedural/other

Roll-call votes per month — most recent on file. Source: Voteview.

Vote attendance

100%
attendance
4 of 4 roll calls0 missed

Share of roll calls participated in — most recent votes on file. Source: Voteview.

Bills sponsored over time

29bills sponsored
1 became law1 passed a chamber27 pending
05101520Bills2023: 1 became law, 1 passed a chamber, 9 pending2023: 1 became law, 1 passed a chamber, 9 pending2023: 1 became law, 1 passed a chamber, 9 pending1120232024: 18 pending182024

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

0%
Votes against own party
0 of 4 recent votes

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

3%
1 of 29 sponsored bills became law
1 became law1 passed a chamber27 pending

Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.

Campaign finance over time

$0
Cash on hand · 2026
$8.4M
Raised, 20222026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$1.3M$2.5M$3.8M$5M2022: raised $2.4M2022: spent $2.3M20222024: raised $2.7M2024: spent $2.6M20242026: raised $3.3M2026: spent $1.4M20262022: cash on hand $02024: cash on hand $02026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $51K (2%)Large individual (itemized): $849K (32%)32%PAC / committee: $1.7M (66%)66%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$51K2%
  • Large individual (itemized)$849K32%
  • PAC / committee$1.7M66%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Integrity

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Integrity over time

The integrity timeline appears here once this official's promises are rated. In office since Nov 2021.
Not yet scoredNot yet rated 1— tracked, but not counted toward Integrity

Topic coverage

1 promise across 1 topic

What 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.

  • Taxation, conservation easements and historic preservation tax incentives1 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).

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Significance weights each promise in the Integrity Score.

Tracked promises

1 tracked promise

Not yet rated

Will generate billions of dollars in current-year revenue for the Treasury, help resolve the backlog of conservation easement cases at the U.S. Tax Court, and address abuse within the conservation easement program.

Taxation, conservation easements and historic preservation tax incentivesPromised Jun 2026
SourcesOffice of Representative Mike Carey

Voting record

Total votes
655
Yea
500
Nay
148
Present
0
Not voting
7

Full voting record

655 votes
  • S32Yea
  • S307Yea
120 of 655
Page 1 / 33

Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.

Positions on record

2 positions on record

The 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.

  • Taxation, conservation easements and historic preservation tax incentivesStated position

    Will generate billions of dollars in current-year revenue for the Treasury, help resolve the backlog of conservation easement cases at the U.S. Tax Court, and address abuse within the conservation easement program.

    SourcesOffice of Representative Mike Carey
    View 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
Disclosure
No undisclosed priorities on record

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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