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Pete Aguilar

DemocratPete Aguilar

U.S. Representative · California

California's 33rd district

DemocratFederal

U.S. Representative from California

3 tracked promises, 1 rated

California · California's 33rd district

California's 33rd district

Their congressional district

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75/100
Trust rating
Generally keeps promises
75
0 · Broken50 · Mixed100 · Kept
A transparent rescale of the Integrity Score (+50) to 0–100, aggregated from 1 rated promise. Never an opaque single score.
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How they won their seat

Pete Aguilar won the 2024 U.S. House election in California (District 33) with 58.8% of the vote (137,197 votes).

58.8%
Win share
137,197
Votes for winner
233,275
Total cast
  • Pete Aguilar · Democrat58.8%
  • Tom Herman · Republican41.2%

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

Pete Aguilar's record shows a significant focus on committee-related activities, with a majority of his sponsored bills pertaining to the election of members to various standing committees of the House of Representatives. Additionally, he has sponsored legislation related to affordable housing and student rights, showing involvement in housing and education issues. Focus areas (from the record): Committee Elections · Affordable Housing · Education Rights Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. The record does not provide information on the effectiveness of the bills he sponsored or his overall impact in office. What this can't tell you: The record does not provide information on the effectiveness of the bills; The absence of declared positions limits the analysis of his legislative focus. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. Pete Aguilar 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 Pete Aguilar 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
4
Voted yea
1
Voted nay
3
Bills sponsored
27
Committees
3

Roll-call data last updated July 20, 2026 · source: Voteview.

Monthly voting activity

  • Yea
  • Nay
  • Total
01234VotesJan '25: 1 YeaJan '25: 3 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

27bills sponsored
2 became law18 passed a chamber7 pending
05101520Bills2023: 2 became law, 11 passed a chamber, 6 pending2023: 2 became law, 11 passed a chamber, 6 pending2023: 2 became law, 11 passed a chamber, 6 pending1920232024: 7 passed a chamber, 1 pending2024: 7 passed a chamber, 1 pending82024

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

7%
2 of 27 sponsored bills became law
2 became law18 passed a chamber7 pending

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

Campaign finance over time

$0
Cash on hand · 2026
$462K
Raised, 20262026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$125K$250K$375K$500K2026: raised $462K2026: spent $442K20262026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $40K (9%)9%Large individual (itemized): $283K (62%)62%PAC / committee: $133K (29%)29%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$40K9%
  • Large individual (itemized)$283K62%
  • PAC / committee$133K29%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Integrity

Promises kept vs. worked against — weighted breakdown

+50 · based on 1 rated promise

  • Partial 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 promise

Each step is a real change in the sourced record — the score holds between assessments.

−100 worked against0+100 kept

Promise status over time

How the tracked promise record has evolved.

1 tracked
  • Kept1
  • Against0
  • No opportunity0
  • In progress0
011Jul 2026

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.

Not yet scoredNot yet rated 2— tracked, but not counted toward Integrity

Topic coverage

3 promises across 3 topics

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.

  • Federal Funding / Community Investment1
  • Healthcare / Prescription Drug Costs1
  • Housing1
Kept Worked against No opportunity / not yet scored

Evidence & significance

Evidence quality

Strongest source cited per promise.

  • Primary (official record)3100%

Significance mix

How weighty the tracked promises are (1 = minor, 5 = defining).

10
20
30
40
53

Significance weights each promise in the Integrity Score.

Tracked promises

3 tracked promises

Not yet rated

Secure the nearly $49.7 million in federal Community Project Funding requested for 20 Inland Empire community projects (FY2027) covering job training, water/flood infrastructure, public safety, affordable housing, transportation, and healthcare.

Federal Funding / Community InvestmentSpecific · measurablePromised May 2026
Sourceshttps://aguilar.house.gov/2026/05/04/rep-aguilar-requests-nearly-50-million-in-funding-for-20-community-projects-in-the-inland-empire/https://www.legistorm.com/stormfeed/view_rss/1827023/member/3081/title/aguilar-announces-community-project-funding-submissions-for-the-inland-empire.html
Not yet rated

Reintroduce and pass the Affordable Housing Resident Services Act (H.R. 4874) to establish a competitive HHS grant program funding resident services (health, education, and self-sufficiency programs) in federally assisted affordable housing.

HousingSpecific · measurablePromised Aug 2025
Sourceshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4874https://aguilar.house.gov/2025/08/06/rep-aguilar-re-introduces-the-affordable-housing-resident-services-act-2https://www.quiverquant.com/news/New+Bill:+Representative+Pete+Aguilar+introduces+H.R.+4874:+Affordable+Housing+Resident+Services+Acthttps://hthf.org/aguilar-joins-local-housing-leaders-to-highlight-affordable-housing-resident-services-act/
Partialhigh confidence

Lower prescription drug costs for Inland Empire families and seniors by empowering Medicare to negotiate drug prices directly with manufacturers and capping out-of-pocket insulin costs at $35 per month.

Healthcare / Prescription Drug CostsSpecific · measurable
Sourceshttps://aguilar.house.gov/2022/04/04/rep-aguilar-votes-to-make-insulin-affordable-for-the-inland-empire/https://aguilar.house.gov/2023/08/16/rep-aguilar-highlights-lower-health-care-costs-one-year-after-passage-of-inflation-reduction-act/https://iecn.com/over-108000-californians-on-medicare-to-see-35-insulin-cap-inland-empire-to-benefit-from-healthcare-savings/https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2022/roll420.xmlhttps://clerk.house.gov/evs/2022/roll102.xmlhttps://www.cms.gov/inflation-reduction-act-and-medicare/medicare-drug-price-negotiation

Verified record

85 sponsored bills · finance on file

Facts 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.

Campaign financeas of May 13, 2026

FEC 2026 cycle — raised $4,194,305, spent $3,503,428, cash on hand $0.

View the FEC filing ↗

Voting record

Total votes
609
Yea
271
Nay
333
Present
1
Not voting
4

Full voting record

609 votes
120 of 609
Page 1 / 31

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

Stated positions

3 positions on record

What 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.

  • Healthcare / Prescription Drug CostsStated position

    Lower prescription drug costs for Inland Empire families and seniors by empowering Medicare to negotiate drug prices directly with manufacturers and capping out-of-pocket insulin costs at $35 per month.

    Sourceshttps://aguilar.house.gov/2022/04/04/rep-aguilar-votes-to-make-insulin-affordable-for-the-inland-empire/https://aguilar.house.gov/2023/08/16/rep-aguilar-highlights-lower-health-care-costs-one-year-after-passage-of-inflation-reduction-act/https://iecn.com/over-108000-californians-on-medicare-to-see-35-insulin-cap-inland-empire-to-benefit-from-healthcare-savings/
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  • Federal Funding / Community InvestmentStated position

    Secure the nearly $49.7 million in federal Community Project Funding requested for 20 Inland Empire community projects (FY2027) covering job training, water/flood infrastructure, public safety, affordable housing, transportation, and healthcare.

    Sourceshttps://aguilar.house.gov/2026/05/04/rep-aguilar-requests-nearly-50-million-in-funding-for-20-community-projects-in-the-inland-empire/https://www.legistorm.com/stormfeed/view_rss/1827023/member/3081/title/aguilar-announces-community-project-funding-submissions-for-the-inland-empire.html
    View position & sources →
  • HousingStated position

    Reintroduce and pass the Affordable Housing Resident Services Act (H.R. 4874) to establish a competitive HHS grant program funding resident services (health, education, and self-sufficiency programs) in federally assisted affordable housing.

    Sourceshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4874https://aguilar.house.gov/2025/08/06/rep-aguilar-re-introduces-the-affordable-housing-resident-services-act-2https://www.quiverquant.com/news/New+Bill:+Representative+Pete+Aguilar+introduces+H.R.+4874:+Affordable+Housing+Resident+Services+Acthttps://hthf.org/aguilar-joins-local-housing-leaders-to-highlight-affordable-housing-resident-services-act/
    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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