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DemocratStephen F. Lynch
U.S. Representative · Massachusetts
Massachusetts's 8th district
U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
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How they won their seat
Stephen F. Lynch won the 2024 U.S. House election in Massachusetts (District 8) with 66.7% of the vote (265,432 votes).
- Stephen F. Lynch · Democrat66.7%265,432
- Robert G. Burke · Republican27.8%110,638
- Blanks · Na5.3%20,937
- 1 Other Candidate0.2%760
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
Stephen F. Lynch's record shows a concentration on consumer protection, financial services, and military affairs. Notable sponsored bills include the 'Vote by Mail Protection Act of 2026' and the 'Military Consumer Protection Task Force Act of 2025', reflecting legislative activity in electoral integrity and veteran issues. His committee memberships include oversight and financial services, with involvement in digital assets and technology. Focus areas (from the record): Consumer Protection · Financial Services · Military Affairs · Oversight · Technology Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against Lynch's legislative activity, making it impossible to assess alignment. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal Lynch's motives or intentions behind his sponsored bills; There is no information on the effectiveness of the bills he has sponsored; The absence of declared positions limits understanding of his priorities and commitments. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Stephen F. Lynch 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 2012. 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 Stephen F. Lynch 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
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)$38K5%
- Large individual (itemized)$212K30%
- PAC / committee$464K65%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on Oversight and Government ReformOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Financial ServicesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform — Military and Foreign AffairsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Ranking Member, House Committee on Financial Services — Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial IntelligenceOn record since Jan 2025Ranking
- Member, House Committee on Financial Services — Capital MarketsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Financial Services — Financial InstitutionsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform — Delivering on Government EfficiencyOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
224 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 $542,308, spent $447,477, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HJRES 184: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection relating to the withdrawal of the rule relating to "Fair Credit Reporting; File Disclosure". ↗May 13, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8666: Vote by Mail Protection Act of 2026 ↗May 7, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8053: DPA Emerging Technology Act of 2026 ↗Mar 24, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7183: Youth Financial Learning Act ↗Jan 21, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 973: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the designation of the "Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts" constitutes a violation of Federal law, and for other purposes. ↗Dec 30, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6556: Failing Bank Acquisition Fairness Act ↗Dec 10, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6269: Modular Housing Production Act ↗Nov 21, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5915: K2 Veterans Total Coverage Act of 2025 ↗Nov 4, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5683: Military Consumer Protection Task Force Act of 2025 ↗Oct 3, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5344: Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Rewards Program Act ↗Sep 15, 2025
- Sponsored HRES 316: Of inquiry requesting the President to transmit certain documents relating to the use of insecure electronic communication platforms, including Signal, for official communications and to the compliance of the Administration with all Federal records laws. ↗Apr 9, 2025
- Sponsored HR 1484: Air Traffic Noise and Pollution Expert Consensus Act of 2025 ↗Feb 21, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 224 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 655
- Yea
- 273
- Nay
- 348
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 34
Full voting record
655 votes- HR4795Nay
- HR1501Nay
- HJRES1Nay
- HRES1498Not voting
- HR9436Not voting
- HR9436Not voting
- HRES1490Not voting
- HRES1499Not voting
- HRES1499Not voting
- HR6500Not voting
- S32Not voting
- S307Not voting
- HR8884Nay
- HCONRES89Yea
- HCONRES113Nay
- HR7008Nay
- HR7008Yea
- HR8800Nay
- HR8800Yea
- HR8800Nay
Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.
Positions on record
3 positions on recordThe 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 SafetyStated position
On record asserting that the government ordinarily must obtain a judicial warrant to compel cell phone location data, and urging the DHS Inspector General to open a second investigation into ICE and other DHS components purchasing Americans' location data from commercial data brokers without one.
SourcesBicameral letter to DHS Inspector General Joseph V. Cuffari requesting a second investigation of warrantless purchases of Americans' cell phone location data by ICE and other DHS componentsView position & sources → - Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyStated position
On record objecting to ICE's acquisition of Penlink tools that collect and search cellphone location data across entire neighborhoods, and demanding that DHS identify any legal justification for mass electronic surveillance conducted without a judicial or administrative warrant.
SourcesLetter from Rep. Shontel M. Brown and 12 colleagues to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem on ICE's acquisition of Penlink neighborhood-scale cellphone location surveillanceView position & sources → - Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyRecorded vote
On record voting NO 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.View position & sources →
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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