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Stephen F. Lynch
Serving in office
Scheduled research active
Main board
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: 9 x 1.0
- Delivered in a later elected term: 3 x 0.8
- Partial delivery: 21 x 0.4
- Never delivered: 6 x 0.0
- Disputed claims tracked separately: 0
- Reviewed promises in current record: 39
- Confidence: 76%
- Current claim count: 50
- Current evidence count: 181
Office History
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U.S. Representative
Massachusetts 8th congressional district · current
Federal elected office. Current House district after Massachusetts redistricting, beginning with the 113th Congress. -
U.S. Representative
Massachusetts 8th · current
Historical elected offices still need research. -
Candidate for U.S. Senator
Massachusetts
Federal campaign for office sought; Lynch was not elected to the Senate. -
U.S. Representative
Massachusetts 9th congressional district
Federal elected office. Lynch first entered the House after the October 16, 2001 special election; the 9th district listing ends with the 112th Congress before redistricting.
- I will go to Congress every day to fight for the people of our district and be your voice in the halls of power.
- I will continue to be accessible to you, transparent in my work, and unafraid to stand up on your behalf.
- Protect Social Security, Medicare, and pensions that seniors rely on.
- Ensure veterans have access to the best services and opportunities they have earned.
- Make critical investments in transportation, infrastructure, roads, and bridges to create good jobs and improve safety.
- Lower prescription drug costs and put a check on corporate greed.
- Fund green infrastructure initiatives that promote climate resiliency in local communities.
- Help grow and strengthen the manufacturing base to create good jobs at home.
- Provide incentives to employers that invest in workforce training and education.
- Continue to fight for climate change solutions.
- Work to crack down on companies that ship profits and jobs overseas.
- Support equal pay, paid leave, a higher minimum wage, and requiring wealthy individuals and large corporations to pay their fair share.
- I will host a virtual town hall on May 19, 2026 at 6:30 PM.
- I will support legislation to expand affordable housing supply by facilitating financing and construction for modular homes nationwide.
- I will continue to advocate for students, teachers, and families.
- I support universal background checks for all firearms purchases, including sales at gun shows, through classified ads, and on the internet.
- I support extending the initial FBI background check review period from three to ten days.
- I support prohibiting firearm purchases by people on the No-Fly list and people with temporary domestic abuse restraining orders.
- I support red flag laws and federal funding for states to enact them.
- I will continue to help find responsible solutions to America's gun violence crisis.
- I will continue to fight for immediate FAA action to address air traffic noise and pollution affecting 8th District communities.
- I will keep working to increase FAA transparency and accountability on air traffic noise and pollution.
- I will pursue legislation requiring the FAA to obtain an expert consensus report on the health and environmental effects of air traffic noise and pollution.
- I will continue to support efforts to fight opioid addiction and ensure robust funding for treatment and mental health services.
- I will keep fighting to suspend the Weymouth Compressor Station until it is proven safe for surrounding communities.
- I will keep fighting to ensure the West Roxbury Lateral Pipeline receives comprehensive state and federal safety reviews.
- I will pursue legislation to suspend the Weymouth and West Roxbury pipeline projects until state and federal safety officials certify they are not dangerous.
- I will keep working to repeal the Postal Service prefunding requirement to stabilize the Postal Service.
- I will introduce legislation to protect mail-in voting against unlawful interference.
- I will support the Congressional Art Competition for 2026.
- I will maintain and strengthen existing tariffs and trade enforcement measures on Chinese automakers and automobiles.
- I will ensure that Chinese automakers cannot establish manufacturing operations in the United States or use North American production as a backdoor into the U.S. market.
- I will explicitly prohibit vehicles produced by Chinese-owned or controlled entities in Canada or Mexico from qualifying for USMCA benefits or entering the United States.
- I will accelerate and expand restrictions on Chinese-connected vehicle technologies across all vehicle classes.
- I will work with allies to counter China’s coordinated effort to dominate the global auto industry through non-market practices.
- I will support legislation to improve the financial literacy of secondary school students.
- I will host a virtual town hall on March 3, 2025.
- I will support legislation requiring the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the National Biodefense Science Board to establish a National Emergency Biodefense Network using private blockchain technology to monitor Strategic National Stockpile and state biodefense supplies.
- I will support funding to create state biodefense supply repositories and state-based blockchain nodes for tracking Strategic National Stockpile readiness.
- I will continue oversight work to ensure accountability at Veterans Affairs hospitals while being responsive to the needs of these health centers.
- Protect the Affordable Care Act and build upon it to reform and improve it so more Americans are covered.
- Work to increase patient access and rein in exorbitant health insurance premiums.
- Support community health centers that treat vulnerable populations.
- Support teaching hospitals that train future health care workers.
- Invest in preventative care to reduce overall health care costs.
- Request $1.4 million in FY27 Community Project Funding for the Abington Fire Department headquarters portion of a new joint Fire Department and Department of Public Works building.
- Request $2 million in FY27 Community Project Funding for affordable housing construction at the Mary Ellen McCormack public housing community in Boston.
- Request $1.5 million in FY27 Community Project Funding for Brockton to purchase a generator for the Taunton River Desalination Plant.
- Request $3.498 million in FY27 Community Project Funding to design and replace the Hingham Central Fire Station HVAC system.
- Request $5 million in FY27 Community Project Funding for Holbrook to demolish the former John F. Kennedy School and build a new senior and community services center.
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: 0.1.0.