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Richard E. Neal

DemocratRichard E. Neal

U.S. Representative · Massachusetts

Massachusetts's 1st district

DemocratFederal

U.S. Representative from Massachusetts

0 tracked promises

Massachusetts · Massachusetts's 1st district

Massachusetts's 1st district

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How they won their seat

Richard E. Neal won the 2024 U.S. House election in Massachusetts (District 1) with 58% of the vote (223,325 votes).

58%
Win share
223,325
Votes for winner
385,005
Total cast
  • Richard E. Neal · Democrat58%
  • Nadia Donya Milleron · Independent34.7%
  • Blanks · Na7%
  • 1 Other Candidate0.3%

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

Richard E. Neal's record includes multiple sponsored bills related to retirement security, elder justice, and tax policy, as evidenced by bills such as the Automatic IRA Act and the Elder Justice Reauthorization and Modernization Act. His committee membership on the Joint Committee on Taxation and as Ranking Member of the House Committee on Ways and Means includes roles related to fiscal matters. Focus areas (from the record): Retirement Security · Elder Justice · Tax Policy · Public Servants · Health Care Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. The absence of declared positions or tracked promises on file limits the ability to assess alignment with Neal's legislative activity. What this can't tell you: The record does not provide information on the effectiveness of the sponsored bills; The record does not provide information on motives or intentions; The absence of declared positions limits the ability to assess priorities. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. Richard E. Neal 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.

Activity in office

What Richard E. Neal 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
016324864VotesSep '25: 14 YeaSep '25: 48 NaySep '25Nov '25: 4 YeaNov '25: 16 NayNov '25Dec '25: 25 YeaDec '25: 32 NayDec '25Jan '26: 25 YeaJan '26: 22 NayJan '26Feb '26: 13 YeaFeb '26: 17 NayFeb '26Mar '26: 12 YeaMar '26: 18 NayMar '26Apr '26: 21 YeaApr '26: 24 NayApr '26May '26: 12 YeaMay '26: 13 NayMay '26Jun '26: 24 YeaJun '26: 15 NayJun '26Jul '26: 15 YeaJul '26: 35 NayJul '26Aug '26: 0 YeaAug '26: 0 NayAug '26Sep '26: 0 YeaSep '26: 3 NaySep '26Sep '25: 64 totalNov '25: 23 totalDec '25: 57 totalJan '26: 47 totalFeb '26: 30 totalMar '26: 30 totalApr '26: 47 totalMay '26: 36 totalJun '26: 42 totalJul '26: 50 totalAug '26: 2 totalSep '26: 10 total
Measures voted on:492 passed162 failed1 procedural/other

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

Vote attendance

92.8%
attendance
608 of 655 roll calls47 missed
Monthly participation rate
025507510030%Sep 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Aug 26Sep 26

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

Bills sponsored over time

231bills sponsored
9 pending222 awaiting status
05101520Bills1989: 1 awaiting status119891990: 2 awaiting status219901991: 7 awaiting status719911992: 3 awaiting status319921993: 12 awaiting status1219931994: 1 awaiting status119941995: 7 awaiting status719951996: 1 awaiting status119961997: 3 awaiting status319971998: 15 awaiting status1519981999: 13 awaiting status1319992000: 1 awaiting status120002001: 10 awaiting status1020012002: 9 awaiting status920022003: 7 awaiting status720032004: 1 awaiting status120042005: 11 awaiting status1120052006: 1 awaiting status120062007: 15 awaiting status1520072008: 3 awaiting status320082009: 12 awaiting status1220092010: 2 awaiting status220102011: 2 awaiting status220112012: 17 awaiting status1720122013: 7 awaiting status720132014: 2 awaiting status220142015: 5 awaiting status520152016: 2 awaiting status220162017: 12 awaiting status1220172018: 6 awaiting status620182019: 13 awaiting status1320192020: 8 awaiting status820202021: 8 awaiting status820212022: 3 awaiting status320222023: 3 pending320232024: 3 pending320242025: 2 pending220252026: 1 pending12026

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

0.99%
Votes against own party
6 of 608 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

0%
0 of 9 sponsored bills became law
9 pending

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

Campaign finance over time

$0
Cash on hand · 2026
$458K
Raised, 20262026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$125K$250K$375K$500K2026: raised $458K2026: spent $250K20262026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $0 (0%)Large individual (itemized): $0 (0%)PAC / committee: $267K (100%)100%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$00%
  • Large individual (itemized)$00%
  • PAC / committee$267K100%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Source: Congress.gov.

Verified record

231 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 Mar 31, 2026

FEC 2026 cycle — raised $1,840,072, spent $1,580,414, cash on hand $0.

View the FEC filing ↗

Voting record

Total votes
655
Yea
256
Nay
352
Present
0
Not voting
47

Full voting record

655 votes
  • HRES1498Not voting
  • HR9436Not voting
  • HR9436Not voting
  • HRES1490Not voting
  • HRES1499Not voting
  • HRES1499Not voting
  • HR6500Not voting
  • S32Not voting
  • S307Not voting
120 of 655
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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.

  • Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyStated position

    On record asserting that the government ordinarily must obtain a judicial warrant to compel cell phone location data, and urging the DHS Inspector General to open a second investigation into ICE and other DHS components purchasing Americans' location data from commercial data brokers without one.

    SourcesBicameral letter to DHS Inspector General Joseph V. Cuffari requesting a second investigation of warrantless purchases of Americans' cell phone location data by ICE and other DHS components
    View position & sources
  • Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyRecorded vote

    On record voting NO 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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