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DemocratPaul Tonko
U.S. Representative · New York
New York's 20th district
U.S. Representative from New York
0 tracked promises
How they won their seat
Paul Tonko won the 2024 U.S. House election in New York (District 20) with 61.1% of the vote (221,997 votes).
- Paul Tonko · Democrat61.1%221,997
- Kevin M. Waltz · Conservative38.8%141,151
- Blank · Na3.9%14,140
- 2 Other Candidates0.1%460
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
Paul Tonko's record includes sponsored bills related to health issues, particularly mental health and wellness, as evidenced by his sponsorship of bills like the Community Mental Wellness and Resilience Act of 2025 and the Medicare Mental Health Inpatient Equity Act of 2025. Additionally, he has sponsored bills related to environmental concerns, reflected in his sponsorship of the Climate Pollution Standard and Community Investment Act of 2025. Focus areas (from the record): Mental Health · Environmental Policy · Public Health · Energy · Awareness Campaigns Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. What this can't tell you: The effectiveness of the sponsored bills in achieving their intended goals; The specific motivations behind the sponsorship of various bills; Any unlogged work or initiatives that may not be reflected in the official record. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Paul Tonko 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 Paul Tonko 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
- 124
- Voted nay
- 123
- Bills sponsored
- 4
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)$170K13%
- Large individual (itemized)$303K23%
- PAC / committee$862K65%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on Energy and CommerceOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on the BudgetOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Energy and Commerce — Oversight and InvestigationsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Energy and Commerce — EnergyOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Ranking Member, House Committee on Energy and Commerce — EnvironmentOn record since Jan 2025Ranking
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
194 sponsored billsFacts 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.
Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HRES 1290: Recognizing the significant and often overlooked behavioral health needs experienced by individuals and families affected by rare diseases, and for other purposes. ↗May 14, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8241: Power for the People Act of 2026 ↗Apr 9, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8209: To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the school-based health centers grant program. ↗Apr 6, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1060: Expressing support for the designation of April 5, 2026, as "Barth Syndrome Awareness Day". ↗Feb 11, 2026
- Sponsored HR 6918: Climate Pollution Standard and Community Investment Act of 2025 ↗Dec 19, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6822: Stopping Grinch Bots Act of 2025 ↗Dec 17, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6676: State Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2025 ↗Dec 11, 2025
- Sponsored HRES 903: Expressing support for the designation of November as "Complex Regional Pain Syndrome and Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Awareness Month". ↗Nov 20, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5762: New York-New Jersey Watershed Protection Act of 2025 ↗Oct 14, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5123: Indoor Air Quality and Healthy Schools Act of 2025 ↗Sep 3, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4745: Medicaid Bump Act ↗Jul 23, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4744: Community Mental Wellness and Resilience Act of 2025 ↗Jul 23, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 194 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 257
- Nay
- 342
- Present
- 1
- Not voting
- 9
Full voting record
609 votes- HR9237Yea
- HR5362Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR1181Nay
- HR1181Yea
- HR139Nay
- 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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