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Scott DesJarlais

RepublicanScott DesJarlais

U.S. Representative · Tennessee

Tennessee's 4th district

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U.S. Representative from Tennessee

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Tennessee · Tennessee's 4th district

Tennessee's 4th district

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How they won their seat

Scott Desjarlais won the 2024 U.S. House election in Tennessee (District 4) with 70% of the vote (219,133 votes).

70%
Win share
219,133
Votes for winner
313,255
Total cast
  • Scott Desjarlais · Republican70%
  • Victoria Isabel Broderick · Democrat26.8%
  • Keith Nolan · Independent1.8%
  • Earnest Ensley · Independent1.5%

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

Scott DesJarlais has sponsored a range of bills primarily related to veterans' services, animal protection, and student loan accountability. His record includes multiple iterations of the Student Loan Accountability Act and various bills addressing horse protection, showing a pattern of legislative activity in these areas. Additionally, he has participated in committees related to armed services and agriculture, demonstrating participation in committees related to military and agricultural issues. Focus areas (from the record): Veterans' Services · Animal Protection · Student Loans · Military Affairs · Agriculture Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against his legislative activities, making it impossible to assess alignment. What this can't tell you: The effectiveness of the sponsored bills, as none have become law; Any potential unlogged work or advocacy outside of the sponsored bills; The impact of campaign finance sources on legislative behavior. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. Scott DesJarlais 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 2013. 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 Scott DesJarlais 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

4bills sponsored
4 awaiting status
01234Bills2013: 4 awaiting status42013

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

0%
0 of 0 sponsored bills became law

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

Campaign finance over time

$0
Cash on hand · 2026
$608K
Raised, 20262026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$250K$500K$750K$1M2026: raised $608K2026: spent $542K20262026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $16K (3%)Large individual (itemized): $393K (65%)65%PAC / committee: $200K (33%)33%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$16K3%
  • Large individual (itemized)$393K65%
  • PAC / committee$200K33%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Verified record

52 sponsored bills · finance on file

Facts 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.

Campaign financeas of Mar 31, 2026

FEC 2026 cycle — raised $380,918, spent $317,023, cash on hand $0.

View the FEC filing ↗

Voting record

Total votes
655
Yea
484
Nay
142
Present
0
Not voting
29

Full voting record

655 votes
  • S32Not voting
  • S307Not voting
120 of 655
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Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.

Positions on record

1 position on record

The 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 SafetyRecorded vote

    On record voting AYE 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.
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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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