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DemocratTed Lieu
U.S. Representative · California
California's 36th district
U.S. Representative from California
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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 sponsored bills such as the 'Federal Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Act of 2026' and the 'Protecting Americans from Unauthorized Surveillance Act.' His involvement in the House Committee on the Judiciary and Foreign Affairs reflects participation in legal and international matters. Focus areas (from the record): Artificial Intelligence · Surveillance · Civil Rights · Foreign Affairs · Refugee Support Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. The absence of declared positions or tracked promises limits the ability to draw conclusions about Lieu's priorities in relation to his sponsored bills and voting record. What this can't tell you: Effectiveness of the sponsored bills is not assessed in the record. 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.
Showing 2015. 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 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. 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)$72K3%
- Large individual (itemized)$1.5M72%
- PAC / committee$495K24%
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
- 655
- Yea
- 277
- Nay
- 362
- Present
- 1
- Not voting
- 15
Full voting record
655 votes- HR4795Nay
- HR1501Nay
- HJRES1Nay
- HRES1498Yea
- HR9436Nay
- HR9436Yea
- HRES1490Nay
- HRES1499Nay
- HRES1499Nay
- HR6500Yea
- S32Yea
- S307Yea
- 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 demanding that DHS and ICE account for their use of Palantir-developed data analytics together with Clearview AI facial recognition, PenLink, L3Harris stingray and Paragon Solutions phone surveillance, and objecting to a mass surveillance ecosystem that has swept in U.S. citizens observing or protesting immigration enforcement.
SourcesLetter from Reps. Dan Goldman and Nydia M. Velazquez, Sen. Ron Wyden and 30 colleagues to DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin and ICE Acting Director Todd M. Lyons on Palantir-developed data surveillance contractsView 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 → - Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyStated position
On record seeking disclosure of the FBI's facial recognition policies and usage, and raising First and Fourth Amendment objections to scanning people engaged in peaceful protest and to arrests resting on facial recognition matches.
SourcesLetter from Rep. Ted W. Lieu, Sen. Jon Ossoff and Rep. Yvette D. Clarke to FBI Director Christopher A. Wray on facial recognition technologyView 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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