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DemocratWesley Bell
U.S. Representative · Missouri
Missouri's 1st district
U.S. Representative from Missouri
0 tracked promises
Running against
How they won their seat
Wesley Bell won the 2024 U.S. House election in Missouri (District 1) with 75.9% of the vote (233,312 votes).
- Wesley Bell · Democrat75.9%233,312
- Andrew Jones · Republican18.4%56,453
- Rochelle A. Riggins · Libertarian3.3%10,070
- Don Fitz · Green1.7%5,151
- 1 Other Candidate0.7%2,279
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
Wesley Bell's record includes legislation related to public safety, emergency management, and education, as evidenced by sponsored bills such as the Tornado Preparedness Act (HR 8846), FEMA Accountability Act (HR 7461), and Reinvest in Public Schools Act of 2026 (HR 7570). Additionally, his committee memberships on the House Committee on Armed Services and Oversight and Government Reform reflect involvement in national security and government oversight issues. Focus areas (from the record): Public Safety · Emergency Management · Education · Government Oversight · Mental Health Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. The absence of declared positions or tracked promises limits the ability to assess alignment with Bell's legislative activity. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal the effectiveness of the sponsored bills; There is no information on Bell's specific motivations or strategic goals; The absence of declared positions limits understanding of his overall policy priorities. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Wesley Bell 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 2025–2027 term. 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 Wesley Bell 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
- 609
- Voted yea
- 258
- Voted nay
- 332
- Bills sponsored
- 30
- Committees
- 6
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)$35K2%
- Large individual (itemized)$1.4M76%
- PAC / committee$427K23%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on Armed ServicesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Oversight and Government ReformOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform — Federal Law EnforcementOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Armed Services — Tactical Air and Land ForcesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Armed Services — Strategic ForcesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform — Health Care and Financial ServicesOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
30 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 $1,903,759, spent $1,100,409, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 9180: CDBG–DR Automated Assessment Act ↗Jun 8, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9011: Vacancy to Value Act of 2026 ↗May 22, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8846: Tornado Preparedness Act ↗May 15, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8599: St. Louis Postal Accountability and Reform Act ↗Apr 30, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1167: Expressing support for the designation of the month of April 2026 as "Parkinson's Awareness Month". ↗Apr 14, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1138: Recognizing the critical missions of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and expressing concern that the systematic reduction of its career workforce has undermined those missions and endangered the safety and security of United States citizens. ↗Mar 26, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7998: BRIDGE Act ↗Mar 19, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7814: EPSTEIN Act ↗Mar 5, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7746: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 8390 North Broadway in St. Louis, Missouri, as the "Chuck Stone Post Office". ↗Mar 2, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7570: Reinvest in Public Schools Act of 2026 ↗Feb 13, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7461: FEMA Accountability Act ↗Feb 10, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7395: NO ICE ADs Act ↗Feb 5, 2026
Showing the 12 most recent of 30 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 258
- Nay
- 332
- Present
- 1
- Not voting
- 18
Full voting record
609 votes- HR9237Yea
- HR5362Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR1181Nay
- HR1181Yea
- HR139Yea
- 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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