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DemocratSteny H. Hoyer
U.S. Representative · Maryland
Maryland's 5th district
U.S. Representative from Maryland
0 tracked promises
How they won their seat
Steny H. Hoyer won the 2024 U.S. House election in Maryland (District 5) with 67.8% of the vote (283,619 votes).
- Steny H. Hoyer · Democrat67.8%283,619
- Michelle Talkington · Republican32%133,985
- 1 Other Candidate0.2%999
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
Steny H. Hoyer's record demonstrates a pattern of involvement in appropriations and legislative procedures, as evidenced by his role as a ranking member on the House Committee on Appropriations and his sponsorship of multiple resolutions related to the rules and operations of the House. Additionally, he has sponsored bills addressing issues such as disability rights and historical representation. Focus areas (from the record): Appropriations · Disability Rights · Legislative Procedures · Historical Representation · Community Initiatives Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against Hoyer's legislative activity, making it difficult to determine alignment. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal the effectiveness of the sponsored bills; There is no information on the politician's unlogged work or informal influence; The absence of declared positions limits the understanding of his priorities. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Steny H. Hoyer 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 2019–2021 term. 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 Steny H. Hoyer 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.
- Bills sponsored
- 27
Roll-call data last updated July 20, 2026 · 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.
Bill success rate
Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.
Campaign finance over time
- Small-dollar (unitemized)$33K1%
- Large individual (itemized)$940K27%
- PAC / committee$2.5M72%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on AppropriationsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Appropriations — Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related AgenciesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Appropriations — Legislative BranchOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Ranking Member, House Committee on Appropriations — Financial Services and General GovernmentOn record since Jan 2025Ranking
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
351 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 $402,330, spent $657,959, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 9867: Combatting Global Deforestation Act of 2024 ↗Sep 27, 2024
- Sponsored HCONRES 43: Authorizing the use of the Capitol Grounds for the Greater Washington Soap Box Derby. ↗May 17, 2023
- Sponsored HRES 1507: Providing for the printing of a revised edition of the Rules and Manual of the House of Representatives for the One Hundred Eighteenth Congress. ↗Dec 2, 2022
- Sponsored HRES 1270: Recognizing the importance of independent living for individuals with disabilities made possible by the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and calling for further action to strengthen home and community living for individuals with disabilities. ↗Jul 26, 2022
- Sponsored HCONRES 88: Authorizing the use of the Capitol Grounds for the Greater Washington Soap Box Derby. ↗May 10, 2022
- Sponsored HR 5830: AMAZON21 Act ↗Nov 3, 2021
- Sponsored HRES 552: Recognizing the importance of independent living for individuals with disabilities made possible by the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and calling for further action to strengthen home and community living for individuals with disabilities. ↗Jul 26, 2021
- Sponsored HR 3005: To direct the Joint Committee on the Library to replace the bust of Roger Brooke Taney in the Old Supreme Court Chamber of the United States Capitol with a bust of Thurgood Marshall to be obtained by the Joint Committee on the Library and to remove certain statues from areas of the United States Capitol which are accessible to the public, to remove all statues of individuals who voluntarily served the Confederate States of America from display in the United States Capitol, and ↗May 7, 2021
- Sponsored HR 2024: Southern Maryland National Heritage Area Act ↗Mar 18, 2021
- Sponsored HRES 8: Adopting the Rules of the House of Representatives of the One Hundred Seventeenth Congress, and for other purposes. ↗Jan 4, 2021
- Sponsored HRES 1: Authorizing and directing the Speaker to administer the oath of office. ↗Jan 3, 2021
- Sponsored HRES 5: Authorizing the Clerk to inform the President of the election of the Speaker and the Clerk. ↗Jan 3, 2021
Showing the 12 most recent of 351 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 264
- Nay
- 324
- Present
- 2
- Not voting
- 19
Full voting record
609 votes- HR9237Yea
- HR5362Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR1181Nay
- HR1181Yea
- HR139Nay
- HRES1423Nay
- HRES1423Nay
- HR8897Yea
- HR3106Yea
- HRES1399Yea
- HCONRES108Nay
- HRES1398Nay
- HRES1398Nay
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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