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DemocratTed Lieu
U.S. Representative · California
California's 36th district
U.S. Representative from California
0 tracked promises
How they won their seat
Ted Lieu won the 2024 U.S. House election in California (District 36) with 68.7% of the vote (246,002 votes).
- Ted Lieu · Democrat68.7%246,002
- Melissa Toomim · Republican31.3%111,985
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
Ted Lieu's record includes legislation related to technology, surveillance, and civil rights, as evidenced by his sponsorship of bills like the 'Federal Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Act of 2026' and the 'Protecting Americans from Unauthorized Surveillance Act.' Additionally, he has sponsored legislation addressing refugee well-being and renewable energy. Focus areas (from the record): Artificial Intelligence · Surveillance · Civil Rights · Refugee Support · Renewable Energy Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against Lieu's legislative activities, making it impossible to assess alignment. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal the effectiveness of the sponsored bills; There is no information on Lieu's motives or intentions behind his legislative actions; The absence of declared positions limits the ability to assess his priorities or commitments. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Ted Lieu 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.
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Activity in office
What Ted Lieu 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
- 8
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)$75K3%
- Large individual (itemized)$1.5M65%
- PAC / committee$765K32%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on the JudiciaryOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Foreign AffairsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on the Judiciary — Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the InternetOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
263 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 $1,493,399, spent $1,211,263, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 9558: 21st Century Federal Writers’ Project Act ↗Jun 30, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1375: Reaffirming the importance of the United States promoting the safety, health, and well-being of refugees and displaced persons in the United States and around the world. ↗Jun 18, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9319: Keeping Pets and Families Together Act ↗Jun 15, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1352: Electing Members to certain standing committees of the House of Representatives. ↗Jun 9, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8819: Federal Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Act of 2026 ↗May 14, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8696: Russia is a State Sponsor of Terrorism Act ↗May 7, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1242: Supporting the first Friday of May as "National Space Day" in recognition of the significant positive impact the aerospace community has and will continue to have on the United States of America. ↗Apr 30, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8516: American Leadership in AI Act ↗Apr 27, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8451: Prevent the Misuse of Federal Law Enforcement Act ↗Apr 22, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8178: Protecting Americans from Unauthorized Surveillance Act ↗Apr 2, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7738: Government Surveillance Transparency Act of 2026 ↗Feb 26, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7434: AI Grand Challenges Act of 2026 ↗Feb 9, 2026
Showing the 12 most recent of 263 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 264
- Nay
- 329
- Present
- 1
- Not voting
- 15
Full voting record
609 votes- HR9237Yea
- HR5362Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR1181Nay
- HR1181Yea
- HR139Nay
- HRES1423Nay
- HRES1423Nay
- HR8897Yea
- HR3106Yea
- HRES1399Yea
- HCONRES108Yea
- 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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