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RepublicanVern Buchanan
U.S. Representative · Florida
Florida's 16th district
U.S. Representative from Florida
0 tracked promises
Running against
How they won their seat
Vern Buchanan won the 2024 U.S. House election in Florida (District 16) with 59.5% of the vote (247,516 votes).
- Vern Buchanan · Republican59.5%247,516
- Jan Schneider · Democrat40.5%168,625
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
Vern Buchanan's record includes a variety of sponsored bills related to health care, technology, and veteran services, such as the 'Health Care Efficiency Through Flexibility Act' and the 'Veterans Mental Health Crisis Referral Enhancement Act of 2025.' Additionally, his committee memberships, particularly in the House Committee on Ways and Means, may relate to fiscal policy and trade issues. Focus areas (from the record): Health Care · Veteran Services · Technology · Tax Policy · Trade Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. The lack of declared positions or tracked promises limits the ability to assess alignment with Buchanan's legislative activities and voting patterns. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal Buchanan's motives or intentions behind the sponsored bills; There is no information on the effectiveness of the proposed legislation; The absence of declared positions limits the ability to assess alignment with constituents' views. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Vern Buchanan 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 2026. 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 Vern Buchanan 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.
- Votes cast
- 248
- Voted yea
- 155
- Voted nay
- 69
- Bills sponsored
- 3
Roll-call data last updated July 20, 2026 · source: Voteview.
Monthly voting activity
- Yea
- Nay
- Total
Roll-call votes per month — most recent on file. Source: Voteview.
Vote attendance
Share of roll calls participated in — most recent votes on file. 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.
Independence
How often they break with their party’s majority — neither good nor bad, just the record.
Most recent roll-call votes on file. Source: Voteview.
Bill success rate
Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.
Campaign finance over time
- Small-dollar (unitemized)$22K1%
- Large individual (itemized)$879K54%
- PAC / committee$730K45%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, Joint Committee on TaxationOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Ways and MeansOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Ways and Means — TradeOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Chair, House Committee on Ways and Means — HealthOn record since Jan 2025Chair
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
209 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 $929,818, spent $893,273, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 9501: AI Tax Integrity Act of 2026 ↗Jun 29, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8959: Semiconductor Superiority Act ↗May 21, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7786: AI Fraud Accountability Act ↗Mar 4, 2026
- Sponsored HR 6514: Protecting Animals in Military Training Act ↗Dec 9, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6513: MINKS are Superspreaders Act ↗Dec 9, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6130: ASAP Act ↗Nov 19, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6051: To Inform Families First Act of 2025 ↗Nov 17, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5347: Health Care Efficiency Through Flexibility Act ↗Sep 15, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4974: DETECT Act of 2025 ↗Aug 15, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4548: Small Nonprofit Retirement Security Act of 2025 ↗Jul 21, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4313: Hospital Inpatient Services Modernization Act ↗Jul 10, 2025
- Sponsored HR 3904: U.S. Bicycle Production and Assembly Act ↗Jun 11, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 209 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 412
- Nay
- 141
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 56
Full voting record
609 votes- HR9237Nay
- HR5362Yea
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR1181Yea
- HR1181Nay
- HR139Yea
- HRES1423Yea
- HRES1423Yea
- HR8897Not voting
- HR3106Not voting
- HRES1399Yea
- HCONRES108Nay
- HRES1398Yea
- HRES1398Yea
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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