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RepublicanRichard Hudson
U.S. Representative · North Carolina
North Carolina's 9th district
U.S. Representative from North Carolina
0 tracked promises
How they won their seat
Richard Hudson won the 2024 U.S. House election in North Carolina (District 9) with 56.3% of the vote (210,042 votes).
- Richard Hudson · Republican56.3%210,042
- Nigel William Bristow · Democrat37.8%140,852
- Shelane Etchison · Unaffiliated5.9%22,183
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 Hudson's record indicates involvement in healthcare, emergency services, and energy regulation, as evidenced by sponsored bills such as the 'Protect Medicaid Act' and the 'When Minutes Count for Emergency Medical Patients Act.' Additionally, his involvement in the House Committee on Energy and Commerce indicates involvement in energy-related issues, including the 'Transparency and Honesty in Energy Regulations Act.' Focus areas (from the record): healthcare · emergency services · energy regulation · public safety · infrastructure Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against Hudson's legislative activity. Therefore, it is not possible to assess alignment. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal the effectiveness of the sponsored bills; There is no information on the politician's motives or intentions; The absence of declared positions limits understanding of his priorities. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Richard Hudson 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 2021. 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 Hudson 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.
- Bills sponsored
- 18
Roll-call data last updated July 20, 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)$81K3%
- Large individual (itemized)$1.3M45%
- PAC / committee$1.5M53%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on Energy and CommerceOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Chair, House Committee on Energy and Commerce — Communications and TechnologyOn record since Jan 2025Chair
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
128 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 $2,777,387, spent $1,872,759, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 7181: Replacement Parts Availability Act ↗Jan 21, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7136: Special Operator Protection Act of 2026 ↗Jan 16, 2026
- Sponsored HR 6505: Next Generation 9–1–1 Act ↗Dec 9, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5318: RAPID Act ↗Sep 11, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5269: RESULTS Act ↗Sep 10, 2025
- Sponsored HR 3668: Improving Interagency Coordination for Pipeline Reviews Act ↗Jun 2, 2025
- Sponsored HR 3443: When Minutes Count for Emergency Medical Patients Act ↗May 15, 2025
- Sponsored HR 3147: Transparency and Honesty in Energy Regulations Act ↗May 1, 2025
- Sponsored HR 2440: SIFIA Act ↗Mar 27, 2025
- Sponsored HR 2196: National Emergency Medical Services Memorial Extension Act ↗Mar 18, 2025
- Sponsored HR 1870: SPEED for BEAD Act ↗Mar 5, 2025
- Sponsored HR 1476: PLASMA Act ↗Feb 21, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 128 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 467
- Nay
- 134
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 8
Full voting record
609 votes- HR9237Nay
- HR5362Yea
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Yea
- HR1181Yea
- HR1181Nay
- HR139Yea
- HRES1423Yea
- HRES1423Yea
- HR8897Yea
- HR3106Yea
- HRES1399Yea
- HCONRES108Nay
- HRES1398Yea
- HRES1398Yea
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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