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DemocratRobert Menendez
U.S. Representative · New Jersey
New Jersey's 8th district
U.S. Representative from New Jersey
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How they won their seat
Robert Menendez won the 2024 U.S. House election in New Jersey (District 8) with 59.2% of the vote (116,434 votes).
- Robert Menendez · Democrat59.2%116,434
- Anthony Valdes · Republican34.6%68,152
- Christian J. Robbins · Green2.8%5,465
- Pablo R. Olivera · Labour2.2%4,295
- 1 Other Candidate1.2%2,419
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
The record indicates a pattern of community-oriented legislation, particularly in areas such as environmental protection, public safety, and urban development. Notable sponsored bills include the 'Community Parks Revitalization Act' and the 'Protecting Communities from Helicopter Noise Act', reflecting an emphasis on improving local environments and quality of life. Additionally, the lack of bills that became law is noted without suggesting challenges in effectiveness. Focus areas (from the record): Community Development · Environmental Protection · Public Safety · Urban Agriculture · Cultural Recognition Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against the inferred activity patterns. 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 in achieving legislative goals; There is no information on the politician's engagement outside of sponsored bills and votes; The absence of declared positions limits understanding of the politician's priorities and intentions. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Robert Menendez 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 Robert Menendez 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
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)$13K1%
- Large individual (itemized)$1.1M60%
- PAC / committee$734K39%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on Energy and CommerceOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Energy and Commerce — EnergyOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Energy and Commerce — EnvironmentOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Energy and Commerce — Communications and TechnologyOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
35 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 $1,550,178, spent $1,078,528, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 9614: NRC Staff Pay Alignment Act ↗Jul 9, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8620: CARES Hotline Act ↗Apr 30, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7943: Communications Equity and Diversity Council Act ↗Mar 16, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7797: Toll Evasion Prevention and Plate Visibility Act of 2026 ↗Mar 4, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7294: AI for Secure Networks Act ↗Jan 30, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7263: Safe Intersections for Buses and Pedestrians Act ↗Jan 27, 2026
- Sponsored HR 6984: Data Center Transparency Act ↗Jan 8, 2026
- Sponsored HR 6983: PRICE Act ↗Jan 8, 2026
- Sponsored HR 6927: Noise Oversight and Information for Safe Environments Act ↗Dec 23, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6406: Parental Workforce Training Act ↗Dec 3, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6153: Communities Before Air Tourism Act ↗Nov 19, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5967: Strategic Task Force on Scam Prevention Act ↗Nov 7, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 35 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 655
- Yea
- 275
- Nay
- 380
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 0
Full voting record
655 votes- HR4795Nay
- HR1501Nay
- HJRES1Nay
- HRES1498Yea
- HR9436Nay
- HR9436Yea
- HRES1490Nay
- HRES1499Nay
- HRES1499Nay
- HR6500Yea
- S32Yea
- S307Yea
- 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
3 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 demanding that DHS and ICE account for their use of Palantir-developed data analytics together with Clearview AI facial recognition, PenLink, L3Harris stingray and Paragon Solutions phone surveillance, and objecting to a mass surveillance ecosystem that has swept in U.S. citizens observing or protesting immigration enforcement.
SourcesLetter from Reps. Dan Goldman and Nydia M. Velazquez, Sen. Ron Wyden and 30 colleagues to DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin and ICE Acting Director Todd M. Lyons on Palantir-developed data surveillance contractsView position & sources → - 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.
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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