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DemocratRichard E. Neal
U.S. Representative · Massachusetts
Massachusetts's 1st district
U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
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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).
- Richard E. Neal · Democrat58%223,325
- Nadia Donya Milleron · Independent34.7%133,552
- Blanks · Na7%26,947
- 1 Other Candidate0.3%1,181
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.
Showing 2011. 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 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.
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.
Bill success rate
Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.
Campaign finance over time
- Small-dollar (unitemized)$00%
- Large individual (itemized)$00%
- PAC / committee$267K100%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, Joint Committee on TaxationOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Ranking Member, House Committee on Ways and MeansOn record since Jan 2025Ranking
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
231 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 $1,840,072, spent $1,580,414, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 8060: Elder Justice Reauthorization and Modernization Act of 2026 ↗Mar 24, 2026
- Sponsored HR 6722: Automatic IRA Act of 2025 ↗Dec 15, 2025
- Sponsored HR 1337: To add Ireland to the E3 nonimmigrant visa program. ↗Feb 13, 2025
- Sponsored HRES 1345: Recognizing the 100th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the United States and Ireland. ↗Jul 9, 2024
- Sponsored HR 8392: To add Ireland to the E3 nonimmigrant visa program. ↗May 14, 2024
- Sponsored HR 7293: Automatic IRA Act of 2024 ↗Feb 7, 2024
- Sponsored HR 4260: Public Servants Protection and Fairness Act of 2023 ↗Jun 21, 2023
- Sponsored HR 2718: Elder Justice Reauthorization and Modernization Act of 2023 ↗Apr 19, 2023
- Sponsored HRES 43: Marking the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement. ↗Jan 17, 2023
- Sponsored HR 9640: Presidential Tax Filings and Audit Transparency Act of 2022 ↗Dec 21, 2022
- Sponsored HR 8761: To add Ireland to the E-3 nonimmigrant visa program. ↗Aug 30, 2022
- Sponsored HR 7108: Suspending Normal Trade Relations with Russia and Belarus Act ↗Mar 17, 2022
Showing the 12 most recent of 231 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 655
- Yea
- 256
- Nay
- 352
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 47
Full voting record
655 votes- HR4795Nay
- HR1501Nay
- HJRES1Nay
- HRES1498Not voting
- HR9436Not voting
- HR9436Not voting
- HRES1490Not voting
- HRES1499Not voting
- HRES1499Not voting
- HR6500Not voting
- S32Not voting
- S307Not voting
- HR8884Nay
- HCONRES89Yea
- HCONRES113Nay
- HR7008Nay
- HR7008Yea
- HR8800Nay
- HR8800Yea
- HR8800Nay
Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.
Positions on record
2 positions on recordThe 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 componentsView 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
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.
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