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Russ Fulcher

RepublicanRuss Fulcher

U.S. Representative · Idaho

Idaho's 1st district

RepublicanFederal

U.S. Representative from Idaho

0 tracked promises

Idaho · Idaho's 1st district

Idaho's 1st district

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How they won their seat

Russ Fulcher won the 2024 U.S. House election in Idaho (District 1) with 67.7% of the vote (331,049 votes).

67.7%
Win share
331,049
Votes for winner
489,086
Total cast
  • Russ Fulcher · Republican67.7%
  • Kaylee Peterson · Democrat24.3%
  • Under Votes · Na4.6%
  • Matt Loesby · Libertarian2%
  • 4 Other Candidates1.5%

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

Russ Fulcher's record shows legislative activity related to natural resources, energy, and broadband access, as evidenced by his sponsorship of bills such as the PARKS Act, the SILVER Act, and multiple acts aimed at enhancing geothermal production and reducing barriers for broadband on federal lands. His committee memberships further reflect this concentration, particularly in the House Committee on Natural Resources and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Focus areas (from the record): Natural Resources · Energy · Broadband Access · Environmental Regulation · Consumer Protection Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against Fulcher's legislative activities, which limits the ability to assess alignment. What this can't tell you: Effectiveness and reasons for lack of passage of the sponsored bills are not documented in the record; Unlogged work or informal activities are not part of the available record; The absence of declared positions limits the ability to draw conclusions about priorities. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. Russ Fulcher 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 2025. 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 Russ Fulcher 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
361
Voted yea
288
Voted nay
68
Bills sponsored
14
Committees
7

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

Monthly voting activity

  • Yea
  • Nay
  • Total
016324864VotesJan '25: 21 YeaJan '25: 5 NayJan '25Feb '25: 21 YeaFeb '25: 5 NayFeb '25Mar '25: 26 YeaMar '25: 6 NayMar '25Apr '25: 22 YeaApr '25: 4 NayApr '25May '25: 28 YeaMay '25: 5 NayMay '25Jun '25: 30 YeaJun '25: 9 NayJun '25Jul '25: 28 YeaJul '25: 5 NayJul '25Sep '25: 52 YeaSep '25: 10 NaySep '25Nov '25: 21 YeaNov '25: 2 NayNov '25Dec '25: 39 YeaDec '25: 17 NayDec '25Jan '25: 26 totalFeb '25: 26 totalMar '25: 32 totalApr '25: 27 totalMay '25: 33 totalJun '25: 40 totalJul '25: 33 totalSep '25: 64 totalNov '25: 23 totalDec '25: 57 total
Measures voted on:281 passed79 failed1 procedural/other

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

Vote attendance

98.6%
attendance
356 of 361 roll calls5 missed
Monthly participation rate
025507510098.2%Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Nov 25Dec 25

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

Bills sponsored over time

14bills sponsored
14 pending
05101520Bills2025: 14 pending142025

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

6%
Votes against own party
20 of 356 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 14 sponsored bills became law
14 pending

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

Campaign finance over time

$0
Cash on hand · 2026
$578K
Raised, 20262026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$250K$500K$750K$1M2026: raised $578K2026: spent $499K20262026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $15K (3%)Large individual (itemized): $312K (55%)55%PAC / committee: $244K (43%)43%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$15K3%
  • Large individual (itemized)$312K55%
  • PAC / committee$244K43%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Voting record

Total votes
609
Yea
459
Nay
139
Present
0
Not voting
11

Full voting record

609 votes
120 of 609
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Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.

Stated positions

No stated positions are on record for this official yet. A stated position is what the official says they believe on an issue — a sourced claim, separate from any assessment of what they did. Know one? Add it with a link to where it was said.

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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