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Thomas Massie

RepublicanThomas Massie

U.S. Representative · Kentucky

Kentucky's 4th district

RepublicanFederal

U.S. Representative from Kentucky

1 tracked promise

Kentucky · Kentucky's 4th district

Kentucky's 4th district

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How they won their seat

Thomas Massie won the 2024 U.S. House election in Kentucky (District 4) with 99.6% of the vote (278,386 votes).

99.6%
Win share
278,386
Votes for winner
279,517
Total cast
  • Thomas Massie · Republican99.6%
  • 1 Other Candidate0.4%

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

Thomas Massie's record includes bills such as the 'Gold Reserve Transparency Act of 2025' and the 'No Capital Gains Tax on Family Farms Act', which address financial accountability and tax policy. His involvement in the House Committee on the Judiciary includes participation in legal and constitutional matters. Focus areas (from the record): government transparency · individual rights · fiscal policy · constitutional issues · agriculture Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. The lack of evidence does not support any claims about alignment. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal any declared positions or promises to assess alignment; It does not indicate the effectiveness of the sponsored bills or his influence in committee work; The record lacks information on his public statements or specific motivations behind his legislative actions. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. Thomas Massie 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 2022. 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 Thomas Massie 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

2bills sponsored
2 awaiting status
01234Bills2022: 2 awaiting status22022

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

0%
0 of 0 sponsored bills became law

Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.

Campaign finance over time

$0
Cash on hand · 2026
$1.1M
Raised, 20262026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$500K$1M$1.5M$2M2026: raised $1.1M2026: spent $977K20262026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $330K (31%)31%Large individual (itemized): $614K (57%)57%PAC / committee: $135K (13%)13%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$330K31%
  • Large individual (itemized)$614K57%
  • PAC / committee$135K13%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Integrity

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Integrity over time

The integrity timeline appears here once this official's promises are rated. In office since Jan 2019.
Not yet scoredNot yet rated 1— tracked, but not counted toward Integrity

Topic coverage

1 promise across 1 topic

What this record covers — the number of tracked promises per topic. This is coverage, not a verdict; the kept/against shading within each bar mirrors the Integrity breakdown above.

  • Congressional ethics and transparency — sexual harassment settlements1 promise

Evidence & significance

Evidence quality

Strongest source cited per promise.

  • Primary (official record)1100%

Significance mix

How weighty the tracked promises are (1 = minor, 5 = defining).

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Significance weights each promise in the Integrity Score.

Tracked promises

1 tracked promise

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Will produce greater public transparency about what happened during the first 20 years of the congressional workplace-claims settlement program.

Congressional ethics and transparency — sexual harassment settlementsPromised Jun 2026
SourcesCongressional Record, Volume 172, Number 109 (House), Pages H4345-H4346

Verified record

96 sponsored bills · finance on file

Facts 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.

Campaign financeas of Apr 29, 2026

FEC 2026 cycle — raised $5,541,900, spent $5,840,666, cash on hand $0.

View the FEC filing ↗

Voting record

Total votes
655
Yea
401
Nay
212
Present
2
Not voting
40

Full voting record

655 votes
  • S32Nay
  • S307Yea
120 of 655
Page 1 / 33

Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.

Positions on record

2 positions on record

The 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.

  • Congressional ethics and transparency — sexual harassment settlementsStated position

    Will produce greater public transparency about what happened during the first 20 years of the congressional workplace-claims settlement program.

    SourcesCongressional Record, Volume 172, Number 109 (House), Pages H4345-H4346
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  • Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyRecorded vote

    On record voting AYE 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.
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Disclosure
No undisclosed priorities on record

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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