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RepublicanScott DesJarlais
U.S. Representative · Tennessee
Tennessee's 4th district
U.S. Representative from Tennessee
0 tracked promises
Running against
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).
- Scott Desjarlais · Republican70%219,133
- Victoria Isabel Broderick · Democrat26.8%83,832
- Keith Nolan · Independent1.8%5,601
- Earnest Ensley · Independent1.5%4,689
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 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 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.
- Votes cast
- 248
- Voted yea
- 171
- Voted nay
- 66
Roll-call data last updated July 20, 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.
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.
Campaign finance over time
- Small-dollar (unitemized)$3K1%
- Large individual (itemized)$205K62%
- PAC / committee$124K37%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on AgricultureOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Armed ServicesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Agriculture — Livestock, Dairy, and PoultryOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Agriculture — Nutrition and Foreign AgricultureOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Chairman, House Committee on Armed Services — Strategic ForcesOn record since Jan 2025Chair
- Member, House Committee on Armed Services — Seapower and Projection ForcesOn 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 $380,918, spent $317,023, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 1675: Protecting Horses from Soring Act of 2025 ↗Feb 27, 2025
- Sponsored HR 2648: Protecting Horses from Soring Act of 2023 ↗Apr 17, 2023
- Sponsored HR 1211: Student Loan Accountability Act ↗Feb 27, 2023
- Sponsored HR 1210: Stop Fentanyl Border Crossings Act ↗Feb 27, 2023
- Sponsored HJRES 35: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to require individuals to demonstrate cognitive competence as a condition of holding the office of President or Vice President. ↗Feb 21, 2023
- Sponsored HRES 1310: Acknowledging and commemorating the women in the Army who served in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and the Women's Army Corp during World War II. ↗Aug 2, 2022
- Sponsored HRES 1187: Recognizing the exemplary service of the soldiers of the 30th Infantry Division of the Army during World War I and World War II. ↗Jun 17, 2022
- Sponsored HR 8102: Student Loan Accountability Act ↗Jun 16, 2022
- Sponsored HR 8076: Student Loan Accountability Act ↗Jun 15, 2022
- Sponsored HR 7359: Stop Fentanyl Border Crossings Act ↗Apr 1, 2022
- Sponsored HR 6540: Respecting the Rights of Organ Donor Recipients Act of 2022 ↗Feb 1, 2022
- Sponsored HR 6341: Protecting Horses from Soring Act of 2021 ↗Dec 23, 2021
Showing the 12 most recent of 52 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 450
- Nay
- 132
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 27
Full voting record
609 votes- HR9237Nay
- HR5362Yea
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- 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
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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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