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The accountability record

Recently Broken Promises

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Oppose congressional earmarks.

Roger WilliamsR· Texas
5 sources · ruled 52 days ago · Read →
BROKEN

I will secure America's southern border and pass H.R. 2, the Secure the Border Act, and will not send additional foreign aid before securing our own border.

Mike JohnsonR· Louisiana
6 sources · ruled 52 days ago · Read →
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Pledged during his 2016 campaign to serve only two terms and not seek a third term in 2022, describing that election as his last campaign and final term. (He later reversed this and ran for and won a third term in 2022.)

Ron JohnsonR· Wisconsin
5 sources · ruled 52 days ago · Read →
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Amend the Alaska Constitution so that no new tax can be created or increased without a statewide vote of the people.

Mike DunleavyR· Alaska
3 sources · ruled 57 days ago · Read →
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Pledged that his 2016 reelection campaign would be his last and that he would not seek a third Senate term.

Ron JohnsonR· Wisconsin
5 sources · ruled 57 days ago · Read →
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Committed to work to reform health care to lower insurance costs, improve care, and protect access for people with pre-existing conditions.

James C. JusticeR· West Virginia
4 sources · ruled 57 days ago · Read →
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Committed to defend Social Security benefits and protect Medicare, and to work to stop what he calls reckless spending so those programs remain solvent.

James C. JusticeR· West Virginia
3 sources · ruled 57 days ago · Read →
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During his 2022 campaign, Fetterman promised to vote to abolish the Senate filibuster. (Note: in 2026 he publicly reversed this position, saying it was wrong for Democrats to try to eliminate it.)

John FettermanD· Pennsylvania
3 sources · ruled 57 days ago · Read →
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Get the federal fiscal house in order by passing a balanced budget amendment while protecting Social Security and Medicare benefits.

David McCormickR· Pennsylvania
4 sources · ruled 57 days ago · Read →
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Pledged to support access to IVF and to fight any effort to restrict IVF treatments.

Tim SheehyR· Montana
3 sources · ruled 57 days ago · Read →
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Pledged to work to impose a lifetime lobbyist ban on former members of Congress.

Tim SheehyR· Montana
5 sources · ruled 57 days ago · Read →
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Alsobrooks advocates for eliminating the payroll cap on Social Security taxes to ensure the program's long-term solvency.

Angela D. AlsobrooksD· Maryland
3 sources · ruled 57 days ago · Read →

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Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock Safety

"Mass surveillance and tracking" describes a set of commercially supplied technologies that record where vehicles go, what faces and bodies can be matched against stored images, and where mobile devices have been.…

782 tracked promises & positions · 91 sources · Read →

Guns & the Second Amendment

The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution reads: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." For most…

110 tracked promises & positions · 17 sources · Read →

Data Centers

Data centres are facilities housing computing, storage, and network equipment. They became a tracked policy issue because three measurable quantities — electricity demand, cooling water, and forgone state tax revenue —…

2 tracked promises & positions · 15 sources · Read →

Government Reform, Ethics & Democracy

Government reform, ethics and democracy is not one subject but several separate legal machineries: who may spend on elections and what must be disclosed; who may change voting rules and under what supervision; what…

422 tracked promises & positions · 29 sources · Read →

Criminal Justice, Policing & Public Safety

The United States does not produce a single official crime count. Two federal statistical programs measure crime by different methods, over different populations, with different denominators, and they do not produce the…

183 tracked promises & positions · 12 sources · Read →

Foreign Policy, Defense & Wars

This page describes the constitutional and statutory machinery through which the United States authorizes, funds, and commits military force, and through which it enters binding security obligations. It describes…

196 tracked promises & positions · 18 sources · Read →

Lab-Grown Meat

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0 tracked promises & positions · Read →

The national promise scorecard

Who's keeping their word

19 officials with 10+ rated promises, ranked by Trust Rating.

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1Charles E. SchumerDNew York1392%91A+0%
2Dan SullivanRAlaska1191%89A3%
3Jeff MerkleyDOregon1090%89A0.94%
4Ted CruzRTexas1275%87A2%
5Kevin CramerRNorth Dakota1060%86A0%
6Cory A. BookerDNew Jersey1479%85A0%
7Elizabeth WarrenDMassachusetts1471%85A0%
8Maura HealeyDMassachusetts1060%85A
9John FettermanDPennsylvania1070%83A−2%
10Joni ErnstRIowa1164%83A−0.56%
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