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DemocratNikki Budzinski
U.S. Representative · Illinois
Illinois's 13th district
U.S. Representative from Illinois
0 tracked promises
How they won their seat
Nikki Budzinski won the 2024 U.S. House election in Illinois (District 13) with 58.1% of the vote (191,339 votes).
- Nikki Budzinski · Democrat58.1%191,339
- Joshua Loyd · Republican41.9%137,917
- 1 Other Candidate0.1%244
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
Nikki Budzinski's record includes sponsorship of multiple bills such as the Grocery, Farm, and Food Worker Stabilization Grant Program Act and various veterans' experience improvement acts. Her committee memberships include roles related to agriculture and veterans' issues. Focus areas (from the record): Veterans Affairs · Agriculture · Rural Development · Mental Health · Postal Services Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There is a lack of available data on declared positions or tracked promises to compare against her legislative activities, which limits the ability to assess alignment. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal the effectiveness of her sponsored bills; There is no information on her unlogged work or informal commitments; The absence of declared positions limits understanding of her overall policy priorities. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Nikki Budzinski 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 Nikki Budzinski 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
- 131
- Voted nay
- 117
- Bills sponsored
- 6
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)$98K4%
- Large individual (itemized)$1.3M55%
- PAC / committee$992K41%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on AgricultureOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Veterans' AffairsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Agriculture — General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and CreditOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Agriculture — Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural DevelopmentOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Agriculture — Conservation, Research, and BiotechnologyOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Ranking Member, House Committee on Veterans' Affairs — Technology ModernizationOn record since Jan 2025Ranking
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
34 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 $2,458,602, spent $1,633,383, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 8076: PREDICT Act ↗Mar 25, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7938: Grocery, Farm, and Food Worker Stabilization Grant Program Act of 2026 ↗Mar 16, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7864: Gateway Arch National Park Boundary Revision Act of 2026 ↗Mar 9, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7324: More Behavioral Health Providers Act of 2026 ↗Feb 3, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7280: Veteran DATA Act ↗Jan 30, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7241: Protect Veterans from the THIEF Act ↗Jan 27, 2026
- Sponsored HR 5841: Boosting Benefits and COLAs for Seniors Act ↗Oct 28, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4159: To require the Secretary of Defense to issue regulations requiring that optional combat boots worn by members of the Armed Forces wear be made in America, and for other purposes. ↗Jun 26, 2025
- Sponsored HR 3863: VA Mental Health Outreach and Engagement Act ↗Jun 10, 2025
- Sponsored HR 3578: Improving Veterans’ Experience Act of 2025 ↗May 23, 2025
- Sponsored HR 3183: SAFE STEPS for Veterans Act of 2025 ↗May 5, 2025
- Sponsored HR 2536: New Producer Economic Security Act ↗Apr 1, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 34 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 292
- Nay
- 317
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 0
Full voting record
609 votes- HR9237Yea
- HR5362Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR1181Nay
- HR1181Yea
- HR139Yea
- HRES1423Nay
- HRES1423Nay
- HR8897Yea
- HR3106Yea
- HRES1399Yea
- HCONRES108Yea
- HRES1398Nay
- HRES1398Nay
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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