Not vote for Republican House leadership or help advance the Republican agenda.

Chris Van Hollen · Maryland · Democratic

rhetoric_only impact 0.31 specificity 0.52 extraction confidence 82%

Commitment kind: unknown. Promised action: not established. Promised outcome: not established. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired.

Occurrences

I will not do what Connie Morella does at the beginning of each session – vote for the Republican leadership in the House. That means I will not contribute to a Republican agenda that is turning back the clock on so many issues that are important to our community and on which we have made progress in Maryland.

Makes a negative commitment not to support Republican House leadership.

Primary 2002: Chris Van Hollen
primary · news_report · model gpt-5.4-mini

Evidence

unverified · Source version 62225 · locator unknown

Vote Question: Election of the Speaker. Status: Hastert. In the all-votes section, Chris Van Hollen appears among the members listed under Pelosi, indicating he voted for Nancy Pelosi rather than the Republican Speaker nominee.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Van Hollen voted for Pelosi in the 108th Congress speaker election, not for Republican House leadership.

delivered same_term

Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
secondary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 98%

unverified · Source version 62228 · locator unknown

Vote Question: Election of the Speaker. Status: Pelosi. Chris Van Hollen is listed in the Pelosi vote list, and the Republican nominee was John Boehner.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Van Hollen voted for Pelosi in the 110th Congress speaker election, opposing Republican House leadership.

delivered same_term

Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
secondary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 99%

unverified · Source version 14487 · locator unknown

Vote Question: Election of the Speaker. Status: Pelosi. Chris Van Hollen is listed in the Pelosi vote list; John Boehner was the Republican nominee.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Van Hollen again voted for Pelosi, not the Republican Speaker nominee, in the 111th Congress.

delivered same_term

Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives - Roll Call 2 (Election of the Speaker)
secondary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 99%

unverified · Source version 14488 · locator unknown

Vote Question: Election of the Speaker. Status: Boehner. The roll-call list places Chris Van Hollen under Pelosi, showing he voted for Pelosi instead of Republican Speaker John Boehner.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Van Hollen voted for Pelosi in the 112th Congress speaker election, not for Republican House leadership.

delivered same_term

Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives - Roll Call 2 (Election of the Speaker)
secondary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 99%

unverified · Source version 14489 · locator unknown

Vote Question: Election of the Speaker. Status: Boehner. The roll-call list places Chris Van Hollen under Pelosi, showing he voted for Pelosi rather than the Republican Speaker nominee.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Van Hollen voted for Pelosi in the 113th Congress speaker election, continuing to oppose Republican House leadership.

delivered same_term

Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives - Roll Call 2 (Election of the Speaker)
secondary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 99%

unverified · Source version 62229 · locator unknown

Vote Question: Election of the Speaker. Status: Boehner. Chris Van Hollen is listed under Pelosi in the all-votes section, showing he voted for Pelosi rather than Republican Speaker John Boehner.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Van Hollen voted for Pelosi again in the 114th Congress speaker election, not for Republican House leadership.

delivered same_term

Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
secondary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 99%

unverified · Source version 62225 · locator unknown

Jan 07, 2003, 12:50 PM | 108th Congress, 1st Session Vote Question: Election of the Speaker Status: Hastert Hastert: 228 Pelosi: 201 ## Pelosi Van Hollen Democratic Maryland MD

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): In Van Hollen's first House term after the 2002 campaign, the official Clerk record places him in the Pelosi vote list, not the Republican Hastert vote list, for Speaker.

delivered same_term

Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 99%

unverified · Source version 62227 · locator unknown

Jan 04, 2005, 01:37 PM | 109th Congress, 1st Session Vote Question: Election of the Speaker Status: Hastert Hastert: 226 Pelosi: 199 ## Pelosi Van Hollen | Van Hollen | Democratic | MD

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The official Clerk record for the next Speaker election again lists Van Hollen under Pelosi rather than Republican Speaker Hastert.

delivered later_term

Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 99%

unverified · Source version 62228 · locator unknown

Jan 04, 2007, 01:44 PM | 110th Congress, 1st Session Vote Question: Election of the Speaker Status: Pelosi Pelosi: 233 Boehner: 202 ## Pelosi Van Hollen | Van Hollen | Democratic | MD

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The official Clerk record shows Van Hollen voting for Pelosi over Republican John Boehner in the 110th Congress Speaker election.

delivered later_term

Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 99%

unverified · Source version 62229 · locator unknown

Jan 06, 2015, 02:02 PM | 114th Congress, 1st Session Vote Question: Election of the Speaker Status: Boehner Boehner: 216 Pelosi: 164 ## Pelosi Van Hollen Democratic Maryland MD

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The official Clerk record from Van Hollen's final House term again lists him under Pelosi, not Republican Speaker Boehner.

delivered later_term

Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 99%

Assessments

Public state: unverified As of unknown · legacy_unverified · . Original AI recommendation (not independently established): delivered. same_term

As a U.S. House Democrat, Van Hollen repeatedly voted for Nancy Pelosi for Speaker rather than Republican House leadership across multiple Congresses, which directly satisfies the promise not to vote for Republican House leadership or help advance it. The evidence shows consistent same-term fulfillment while he was in office.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 99%

Public state: unverified As of unknown · legacy_unverified · . Original AI recommendation (not independently established): delivered. same_term

In the federal House context after the 2002 campaign, Van Hollen consistently voted for Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi rather than Republican Speaker nominees in documented Speaker elections from his first term onward. That directly satisfies the concrete, checkable part of the promise not to vote for Republican House leadership. The broader phrase about not advancing the Republican agenda is rhetorical and less objectively bounded, but the available evidence supports compliance with the central campaign commitment during his House service.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 96%