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DemocratVal T. Hoyle
U.S. Representative · Oregon
Oregon's 4th district
U.S. Representative from Oregon
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How they won their seat
Val T. Hoyle won the 2024 U.S. House election in Oregon (District 4) with 51.7% of the vote (195,862 votes).
- Val T. Hoyle · Democrat51.7%195,862
- Monique Despain · Republican43.9%166,430
- Justin Filip · Pacific Green2.7%10,315
- Dan Bahlen · Libertarian1.5%5,704
- 1 Other Candidate0.1%454
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
Val T. Hoyle's record includes sponsored bills related to environmental issues, such as the Columbia River Clean-Up Act and the Wildfire Resilient Communities Act. Additionally, there are sponsored bills related to social welfare and economic reform, including the Social Security Expansion Act and the Wall Street Tax Act. Focus areas (from the record): Environmental Protection · Social Welfare · Economic Reform · Transportation Infrastructure · Community Resilience Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against Hoyle's sponsored bills and voting patterns, 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 the politician's strategic priorities or unlogged activities; The absence of declared positions limits understanding of potential motivations or goals. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Val T. Hoyle 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 2024. 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 Val T. Hoyle 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)$65K5%
- Large individual (itemized)$547K45%
- PAC / committee$610K50%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on Natural ResourcesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Transportation and InfrastructureOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Ranking Member, House Committee on Natural Resources — Water, Wildlife and FisheriesOn record since Jan 2025Ranking
- Member, House Committee on Natural Resources — Indian and Insular AffairsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure — AviationOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure — Water Resources and EnvironmentOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure — Highways and TransitOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
24 sponsored billsFacts 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.
Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 9281: To provide rental vouchers for the homeless, and for other purposes. ↗Jun 11, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8719: Shared Micromobility Investment Act ↗May 11, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8592: No WAR Act ↗Apr 30, 2026
- Sponsored HR 6864: SAW Act ↗Dec 18, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5433: POP Act ↗Sep 17, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5041: Smith River National Recreation Area Expansion Act ↗Aug 26, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4675: Columbia River Clean-Up Act ↗Jul 23, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4453: To amend title 5, United States Code, to include Parkinson's disease in the list of illnesses and diseases deemed to be proximately caused by employment in fire protection activities, and for other purposes. ↗Jul 16, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4295: Wildfire Resilient Communities Act ↗Jul 7, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4035: Wall Street Tax Act of 2025 ↗Jun 17, 2025
- Sponsored HR 2847: Vote at Home Act of 2025 ↗Apr 10, 2025
- Sponsored HR 1700: Social Security Expansion Act ↗Feb 27, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 24 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 655
- Yea
- 277
- Nay
- 367
- Present
- 2
- Not voting
- 9
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
4 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 SafetyRecorded vote
On record voting NAY in the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on Perry Amendment No. 221 to H.R. 8870, an amendment providing that a recipient of assistance under title 23, United States Code, may not use automated license plate readers for any purpose other than tolling. The amendment was not agreed to, 20 yeas to 44 nays.
SourcesCommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 119th Congress, Full Committee Record of Committee Votes 75 to 127 on H.R. 8870 (markup of May 21, 2026); Vote 104 on Perry Amendment No. 221, restricting automated license plate reader use by recipients of title 23 highway assistance. Not agreed to, 20 yeas to 44 nays.View position & sources → - Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyStated position
On record urging congressional leadership to attach Fourth Amendment protections to FISA Section 702 reauthorization: closing the data broker loophole and requiring a judicial warrant before the government accesses Americans' sensitive information, ending the Section 702 backdoor search loophole, and repealing the Section 702 'visa vetting' provision.
SourcesLetter from 53 Members of Congress to Speaker Mike Johnson, Leader John Thune, Leader Charles E. Schumer and Leader Hakeem Jeffries urging Fourth Amendment protections in FISA Section 702 reauthorizationView position & sources → - 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 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.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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