50
Richard E. Neal
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: 0 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 2, unverified 36, timing unknown 0.
- Historical coverage: not established.
- Disputed claims tracked separately: 0
- Reviewed promises in current record: 0
- Confidence: 0%
- Current claim count: 38
- Current evidence count: 273
Office History
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Candidate for U.S. Representative
Massachusetts 1st congressional district · current
Pending 2026 reelection campaign for the same federal House seat; included as a federal campaign sought, not an additional office held. -
U.S. Representative
Massachusetts 1st congressional district · current
Current federal House service in MA-01, including the 119th Congress. Successful campaigns for this district begin with the 2012 election; pending 2026 candidacy is listed separately. -
U.S. Representative
Massachusetts 1st · current
Historical elected offices still need research. -
U.S. Representative
Massachusetts 2nd congressional district
Federal House service in MA-02. Elected in 1988 and served from the 101st through 112th Congresses; redistricted to MA-01 beginning with the 113th Congress. Local Springfield offices excluded.
- He will keep fighting for hard-working families across the district and across America.
- He will always have constituents' backs.
- He will support middle-class tax cuts and an expansion of the Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit.
- He will support tax incentives for affordable housing.
- He will support expanding and increasing the American Opportunity Tax Credit and other tax incentives for students, families, and student loan borrowers.
- He will always fight for the right to organize.
- He will continue to protect and improve the Affordable Care Act.
- He will keep advancing his automatic IRA bill legislatively to protect and expand retirement savings opportunities for workers.
- He will continue to work with his colleagues to address the opioid public health crisis.
- He will continue to expand treatment and prevention efforts for opioid addiction rather than rely on stricter criminal penalties.
- He will continue to protect Medicaid expansion and related health coverage programs that help people facing opioid addiction.
- He will continue to fight to enshrine voting rights into law.
- Trade policy should be grounded in the law, coordinated with our allies, and focused on strengthening American workers and businesses, not undermining them.
- He will restore Congress's rightful role in trade policy and rein in the limits of executive authority.
- He will reauthorize the Elder Justice Act and commit dedicated funding to programs that prevent, detect, and treat abuse against seniors and people with disabilities.
- Congress must reassert its constitutionally mandated war power and debate military action on its merits in plain view.
- The President must seek congressional approval before conducting military operations, and Neal will continue to insist on that requirement.
- He will support the House Democrats' resolution to rein in the President's military operations in Iran.
- Congress must fully brief Congress on the President's objectives and justification for military action.
- He will continue to make sustainability and environmental protection part of how he approaches policy challenges across areas like trade, infrastructure, and health care.
- He will restore the expanded Child Tax Credit for working parents, create a new refundable tax credit to cover startup costs for family childcare centers, create a new tax credit for working family caregivers, and increase the dependent care Flexible Spending Account contribution limit.
- He will push the Public Servants Protection and Fairness Act to fix the Windfall Elimination Provision and provide monthly payments to current WEP retirees.
- He will keep fighting to get answers about the Trump Administration's exposure and handling of sensitive personal data, including Social Security numbers in Medicare systems.
- He will support creating a universal paid family and medical leave program providing up to 12 weeks of paid leave for full-time, part-time, and self-employed workers.
- He will support expanding access to child care by creating a provider-availability portal and investing $15 billion over five years to improve child care facilities.
- He will support making the expanded Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit permanent.
- He will support creating a refundable payroll tax credit of up to $5,000 per year for wages paid by certain child care providers.
- His office will do its best to help constituents receive a fair and timely response when they have problems with federal agencies.
- He will support making the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit fairer and available to more families who need it.
- He will support legislation to help working families access affordable, high-quality child care.
- He will support clarifying that federal tax provisions respecting marriage apply equally to legally married same-sex couples.
- He will support extending certain expiring tax provisions, including the New Markets Tax Credit and Work Opportunity Tax Credit, while providing disaster tax relief.
- He will approach tax extenders in a fiscally responsible manner.
- He will fight Republican efforts to dismantle or privatize Social Security and work to make Social Security stronger for the future.
- He will support legislation to curb mega-retirement-account tax shelters by requiring ultra-wealthy individuals to take distributions from retirement accounts over $10 million, prohibiting additional IRA contributions above that threshold, and leaving middle-class retirement accounts unchanged.
- He will continue to seek bicameral, bipartisan negotiations to craft Russia sanctions legislation that can win support in both chambers and deliver on U.S. support for Ukraine.
- He will fight to stop the Trump Administration's actions targeting schools and private institutions over campus diversity efforts.
- He will continue working to combat antisemitism in all its forms.
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.