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James R. Walkinshaw
Serving in office
Scheduled research active
Main board
Too little promise evidence has been reviewed. Treat this score as provisional.
This profile keeps a lifetime office and promise record. The trust score is designed to stay close to 50 until enough claims and evidence are reviewed.
Breakdown
- Delivered during the term promised: 2 x 1.0
- Delivered in a later elected term: 0 x 0.8
- Partial delivery: 0 x 0.4
- Failed by documented deadline: 0 x 0.0
- Excluded from denominator: pending 4, unverified 28, timing unknown 0.
- Historical coverage: not established.
- Disputed claims tracked separately: 0
- Reviewed promises in current record: 2
- Confidence: 14%
- Current claim count: 34
- Current evidence count: 117
Office History
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U.S. Representative
Virginia 11th · current
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- Reauthorize and strengthen the Violence Against Women Act by improving services for victims, addressing underserved communities, and protecting non-citizen survivors seeking immigration relief.
- Support legislation to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, close the Charleston loophole, require background checks on all gun sales, and oppose federal concealed carry mandates that override state protections.
- Protect the Department of Education, fully fund IDEA and Title I, and increase support for military-connected students through the Impact Aid program.
- Support bold federal investments in clean energy innovation, energy efficiency, and electrification, while strengthening protections for clean air and water and accelerating Chesapeake Bay restoration.
- Fight for infrastructure investments that grow the economy and improve quality of life.
- Support legislation to strengthen the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, increase funding for the Housing Trust Fund, and incentivize zoning reform to allow more housing options.
- Advocate for justice reform and due process while ensuring law enforcement resources are focused on violent crime, including increased funding for the COPS program and evidence-based, community-oriented policing.
- Support expanded federal non-discrimination protections, adding sexual orientation and gender identity to the Fair Housing Act, and requiring stronger anti-harassment and Title IX enforcement at colleges and universities.
- Fight for improved oversight of the VA, stronger mental health care and suicide prevention programs, and enhanced survivor benefits for veterans and military families.
- Stand up and defend democracy against Trump’s assaults, including efforts to expand access to early voting and protect voting rights.
- Stand with working families in Congress by fighting for fair wages, quality benefits, and worker dignity.
- Fight USDA’s relocation of food assistance employees and work to reverse it.
- Ban partisan gerrymandering nationally and restore the protections of the Voting Rights Act.
- Support legislation requiring the Department of Homeland Security to establish clear performance metrics, improve data sharing, and fully implement fentanyl trafficking assessment programs to better combat fentanyl trafficking.
- Work with union leaders and civil service organizations to rebuild the federal workforce, shield career civil servants from politicization, and modernize it so it serves American families more effectively.
- Fight to pass legislation counting U.S. Capitol Police officers' overtime pay toward their federal pensions so they can retire with dignity and the force can retain experienced officers.
- Use Congress's power of the purse to stop a proposed $1.7 billion taxpayer-funded fund for January 6 defendants, Trump-connected entities, and MAGA allies.
- Require the Department of Homeland Security to notify Congress within 72 hours of any serious bodily injury or death involving individuals in federal custody or caused by DHS personnel.
- Prevent reductions in staffing at military service review agencies through December 31, 2030, and require the Department of Defense to report to Congress on review timelines and post a public summary online for discharge-appeal cases involving PTSD, MST, or TBI.
- Support legislation that creates a tax credit for landowners who voluntarily conserve land along National Scenic Trails to complete trail gaps, expand public access, and protect open space from development.
- Require the Department of Homeland Security to report to Congress on gaps preventing full compliance with federal cybersecurity event logging requirements, brief relevant committees, and publish an unclassified public summary.
- Continue seeking answers about what happened to José Mejía Hernandez in Arlington after his encounter with ICE agents, pursue consequences if misconduct caused his injuries or impeded treatment, and work to ensure he receives access to medical care and recovery support.
- Demand a public House Homeland Security Committee hearing requiring Department of Homeland Security leadership, Elon Musk, senior DOGE staff, and GAO investigators to testify under oath about DOGE-related DHS savings claims, contract terminations, taxpayer costs, and mission damage.
- Keep working to lower costs for families.
- Establish responsible artificial intelligence safeguards, including protections for consumers, workers, children, privacy, transparency, accountability, safety testing, data protection, and programs addressing potential job loss.
- Fight for fair pay for federal workers and oppose policies, including federal civilian pay freezes, that make it harder for federal employees to serve the public.
- Work across party lines to make health care more accessible while protecting patients and taxpayers, including through Medicare telehealth transparency and oversight.
- Work with Flight 5342 families and bipartisan colleagues to strengthen aviation safety and help prevent another tragedy.
- Advance legislation to help locate and return abducted Ukrainian children, support their recovery, preserve evidence of Russian crimes, and hold perpetrators accountable.
- Support legislation requiring CISA to assess whether it has the personnel, training, certifications, and resources needed to protect federal networks, support state and local governments, and secure critical infrastructure, and report gaps and recommendations to Congress.
- Support legislation directing the Director of National Intelligence to report to Congress on the use of artificial intelligence systems to acquire, analyze, query, disseminate, or otherwise access information under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
- Fight to reverse federal Medicaid cuts.
- Fight to restore Affordable Care Act tax credits that help middle-class and working families afford health coverage.
- Fight to bring down prescription drug costs.
Method note
Long term, this app should score against a manually reviewed promise ledger that spans every elected office the candidate has held. The current model uses a Bayesian-style shrinkage step: thin records are pulled back toward 50 so the UI does not overstate certainty.
Claim occurrences, evidence, and future AI adjudications are all designed to store provider and model provenance. Formula version: 0.2.0.