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RepublicanRyan K. Zinke
U.S. Representative · Montana
Montana's 1st district
U.S. Representative from Montana
0 tracked promises
How they won their seat
Ryan K. Zinke won the 2024 U.S. House election in Montana (District 1) with 52.3% of the vote (168,529 votes).
- Ryan K. Zinke · Republican52.3%168,529
- Monica Tranel · Democrat44.6%143,783
- Dennis Hayes · Libertarian3.1%9,954
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
Ryan K. Zinke's record shows legislative activity related to military and veterans' issues, as evidenced by the sponsorship of bills such as the COVID–19 Military Backpay Act of 2025 and the Veteran Prescription Safety Improvement Act. Additionally, there is legislative activity related to public lands and environmental management, highlighted by multiple iterations of the Public Lands in Public Hands Act and the Greater Yellowstone Recreation Enhancement And Tourism Act. Focus areas (from the record): Military Affairs · Veterans' Issues · Public Lands · Environmental Management · Water Rights Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against Zinke's legislative activity. What this can't tell you: The motivations behind Zinke's legislative choices are not disclosed; The effectiveness of the sponsored bills is unclear, as none have become law; There is no information on unlogged work or informal activities that may influence his legislative focus. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Ryan K. Zinke 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.
Campaign finance over time
- Small-dollar (unitemized)$1.9M36%
- Large individual (itemized)$2.7M50%
- PAC / committee$780K15%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on AppropriationsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Foreign AffairsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Appropriations — Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related AgenciesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Foreign Affairs — East Asia and PacificOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Appropriations — Interior, Environment, and Related AgenciesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Foreign Affairs — Middle East and North AfricaOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Appropriations — Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related AgenciesOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
52 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 $10,117,221, spent $9,546,738, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 8665: Allied Defense Sales Act ↗May 4, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 932: Denouncing dangerous and seditious rhetoric by Members of Congress and expressing condemnation of Senator Mark Kelly, Senator Elissa Slotkin, Representative Jason Crow, Representative Christopher Deluzio, Representative Maggie Goodlander, and Representative Chrissy Houlahan for attempting to sow disallegiance amongst members of the United States military and intelligence community and encouraging them to act against the Commander in Chief and President of the United States an ↗Dec 4, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6120: SROS Act ↗Nov 18, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5102: Greater Yellowstone Recreation Enhancement And Tourism Act ↗Sep 2, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4870: Greater Yellowstone Recreation Enhancement And Tourism Act ↗Aug 1, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4871: COVID–19 Military Backpay Act of 2025 ↗Aug 1, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4753: LEAD Act of 2025 ↗Jul 23, 2025
- Sponsored HR 3613: Streamlining Foreign Military Sales Act of 2025 ↗May 23, 2025
- Sponsored HR 1762: Forest Service Accountability Act ↗Feb 27, 2025
- Sponsored HR 907: Northern Montana Water Security Act of 2025 ↗Jan 31, 2025
- Sponsored HR 718: Public Lands in Public Hands Act ↗Jan 23, 2025
- Sponsored HR 716: Fill the Lake Act ↗Jan 23, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 52 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 448
- Nay
- 142
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 19
Full voting record
609 votes- HR9237Nay
- HR5362Yea
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR1181Yea
- HR1181Nay
- HR139Nay
- 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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