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Mary Peltola

Former U.S. representative for Alaska's at-large district (2022 to January 2025). Campaign affiliation: Registered Democrat.

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Background, stated goals, record, and money

Background comes from official records, and from the campaign's own biography where the bullet says so; goals are summarized from the campaign's own platform and stay attributed; the record lines are official actions with the government source attached; money is shown as filed, with the filing window and the reconciliation in the note under the table, and is not evidence of why any position was taken.

Mary Peltola

Background

  • Alaska's member of the U.S. House from 2022 to January 2025; Congress.gov lists her as Mary Sattler Peltola. Congress.gov
  • Her pamphlet statement lists ten years in the Alaska House of Representatives (1999 to 2009), two on the Bethel City Council (2011 to 2013), and work as executive director of the Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission. Alaska Division of Elections
  • She grew up fishing salmon on the Kuskokwim River and describes herself as a lifelong Alaskan, a fisherman and a military mom; two of her sons have served in the Coast Guard. Alaskans for Mary, Alaska Division of Elections
  • Placed first in the August 18, 2026 primary with 82,244 votes, 49.54 per cent. Alaska Division of Elections

What they say they want to do

  • Twelve-year term limits for Congress, a ban on stock trading by members, and a constitutional amendment overturning Citizens United. Alaskans for Mary
  • A ban on factory trawling, with mid-water trawlers kept off the bottom and federal bycatch standards enforced. Alaskans for Mary
  • No federal income tax for working Alaskans earning less than $92,000, paid for by higher taxes on millionaires and billionaires, and no tax on Social Security benefits. Alaskans for Mary
  • More refining of Alaska oil in the state, the Alaska LNG pipeline, and permitting reform. Alaskans for Mary
  • A stronger VA health system, more mental health care for veterans, and a transition stipend of up to $2,000 a month for recently separated veterans. Alaskans for Mary

What the official record shows

Campaign money from other committees, by type

Transfers and contributions from joint fundraising committees 10 committees$1,648,275
Leadership PACs 45 committees$354,500
PAC - Qualified 17 committees$83,000
Hybrid PAC (with Non-Contribution Account) - Qualified 10 committees$60,946
Labor Organization PACs 10 committees$49,000
Senate 4 committees$13,500
Committees the FEC records no type for 2 committees$10,000
Membership Organization PACs 4 committees$8,550
House 5 committees$7,900
Party - Qualified 1 committee$5,000
Super PAC (Independent Expenditure-Only) 1 committee$5,000
Hybrid PAC (with Non-Contribution Account) - Nonqualified 2 committees$3,750
Party committees 2 committees$1,500
PAC - Nonqualified 1 committee$1,000

Source: Federal Election Commission

Money from political committees in the 2025-2026 cycle filings through July 29, 2026: filing lines 11B (party committees), 11C (other political committees) and 12 (transfers from joint fundraising committees), grouped by the FEC's recorded type of the contributing committee. Each line's itemized rows reconcile to the campaign's own summary total: $1,500.00 on line 11B, $602,145.64 on line 11C and $1,648,275.45 on line 12, for a table total of $2,251,921.09. Memo entries, which restate money already counted, are left out. Donations individuals made through ActBlue or WinRed are individual contributions and are not in the table, and neither is any other individual contribution: the table is a part of what her committee raised, not its total. The rows sum to 2,251,921.09 dollars.

Words and record

Where statements meet the record

Each card is labeled narrowly, by rule, and states its own limit.

Mary Peltola

Legal help for domestic violence survivors: her House POWER 2.0 bill

Matches stated record claim

What they say

Her campaign lists among her record that she sponsored House legislation giving survivors of domestic violence pro bono legal services, which later became law through an identical Senate companion bill.

“which was later signed into law via an identical Senate companion bill”

Source: Alaskans for Mary

What the record shows ·

She introduced H.R. 9113, the POWER 2.0 Act, on September 30, 2022; it was referred to a House Judiciary subcommittee and went no further. Its operative section is word for word the section of the Senate bill that became law: both strike “for a period of 4 years” from section 3(a) of the 2018 POWER Act, so that its pro bono program no longer expires. That Senate bill, S. 3115, was sponsored by Dan S. Sullivan, introduced on October 28, 2021 and passed by the Senate on August 6, 2022, before her House bill existed. In the House debate, Representative Jerrold Nadler thanked her “for leading the House version” and called her “the House sponsor of the bill”. The House passed S. 3115 on December 1, 2022, 406 to 14, with her vote (roll call 499), and it became Public Law 117-252 on December 20, 2022.

Sources: Congress.gov, Congress.gov, U.S. Government Publishing Office, U.S. Government Publishing Office, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives

Limit: Her campaign's sentence is accurate. The Senate bill, sponsored by Dan S. Sullivan, came first and had passed the Senate eight weeks before she filed hers. In the House she was named its sponsor, spoke for it and voted for it. Both candidates claim this law; each claim has its own card.

Mary Peltola

The FISHES Act

Matches stated record claim

What they say

Her campaign says she was the lead Democratic co-sponsor of the FISHES Act, which became law in 2025 and helps get fishery disaster relief to fishermen.

“Was the lead Democratic co-sponsor of the FISHES Act”

Source: Alaskans for Mary

What the record shows ·

Congress.gov lists her as the first original cosponsor of H.R. 5103, the FISHES Act, introduced by Representative Byron Donalds of Florida on August 1, 2023; she signed on the day it was introduced. It became Public Law 118-229 on January 4, 2025.

Sources: Congress.gov

Limit: Congress.gov records the order in which members cosponsor, not a party lead; being first on the list is consistent with “lead Democratic co-sponsor” without proving the title. The law's effect on how quickly disaster money reaches fishermen is not something its text or this record measures.

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Laws she cosponsored

Matches stated record claim

What they say

Her campaign lists five laws she cosponsored: the Native American Child Protection Act (2024), the Protecting Hunting Heritage and Education Act (2023), the Social Security Fairness Act (2025), the Range Access Act as part of the EXPLORE Act (2025), and the Strengthening Tribal Families Act as part of a larger package (2025).

“Co-sponsored the Social Security Fairness Act which became law in 2025”

Source: Alaskans for Mary

What the record shows ·

Each checks out as described. She cosponsored H.R. 663, which became Public Law 118-160 on December 23, 2024; H.R. 5110, which became Public Law 118-17 on October 6, 2023; and H.R. 82, which became Public Law 118-273 on January 5, 2025, after she voted Yea on its House passage. The Range Access Act she cosponsored, H.R. 1614, stopped in subcommittee, but the same text is section 123 of the EXPLORE Act, Public Law 118-234 of January 4, 2025, which she cosponsored from its introduction. The Strengthening Tribal Families Act she cosponsored, H.R. 3461, stopped in subcommittee; provisions to the same end, in modified form, are in the Supporting America's Children and Families Act, Public Law 118-258 of January 4, 2025, which she voted for. On House passage of the first two, the Clerk records her as Not Voting.

Sources: Congress.gov, Congress.gov, Congress.gov, Congress.gov, Congress.gov, U.S. Government Publishing Office, Congress.gov, Congress.gov, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives

Limit: Cosponsoring is signing on to a bill, not writing it, and the campaign says “co-sponsored”, which is accurate for all five. Two of them reached law inside other bills, as the campaign says; the enacted tribal-families provisions follow the purpose of the bill she signed but are not identical to it. She did not vote when the first two passed the House.

Mary Peltola

Land for the University of Alaska

Matches stated record claim

What they say

Her campaign says she led the charge on legislation to grant hundreds of thousands of acres of federal land to the University of Alaska, and that thanks to her it was incorporated into the Fiscal Year 2023 Consolidated Appropriations Act and signed into law.

“Thanks to Mary, this legislation was re-packaged and incorporated into the FY 2023 Consolidated Appropriations Act”

Source: Alaskans for Mary

What the record shows ·

She introduced H.R. 9496, the Alaska Land Conveyances and Trails Act, on December 12, 2022. Its University of Alaska program is in section 302 of Division DD of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, Public Law 117-328, signed December 29, 2022: up to 500,000 acres of State-selected land identified, of which not more than 360,000 acres may be conveyed to the University. She voted Yea on that act on December 23, 2022 (House roll call 549). The same program had been before the Senate since April 14, 2021 as S. 1128, the University of Alaska Fiscal Foundation Act, sponsored by Senator Lisa Murkowski with Dan S. Sullivan as an original cosponsor.

Sources: Congress.gov, U.S. Government Publishing Office, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Congress.gov

Limit: The provision she names became law in the act she names, and she voted for it. “Thanks to Mary” says she caused that, and the record cannot show it: her bill was introduced seventeen days before the act was signed and was never acted on, while the same program had been in the Senate for twenty months.

Mary Peltola

The 2024 military pay raise

Not comparable yet

What they say

In a campaign ad she says she pushed through the largest pay increase for soldiers in decades; her campaign elsewhere puts it at 5.2 per cent.

“That’s why I pushed through the largest pay increase for our soldiers in decades.”

Source: Alaskans for Mary, Alaskans for Mary

What the record shows ·

The defense authorization for Fiscal Year 2024, Public Law 118-31, sets no rate of basic pay: its basic-pay subtitle has three sections, on parental leave for reservists, reserve training pay, and pay during an absence. When a year's law sets no figure, the raise follows the standing formula in 37 U.S.C. 1009, tied to the Employment Cost Index. On the Act itself she voted Nay on the House's version on July 14, 2023 (roll call 328) and Yea on the final conference report on December 14, 2023 (roll call 723). The next year's act, for Fiscal Year 2025, Public Law 118-159, did set basic pay by statute: its section 601 put new monthly basic pay tables into effect on April 1, 2025, and its funding table carries $1.6 billion for a junior enlisted pay increase. She voted Aye on the House's version on June 14, 2024 (roll call 279) and Yea on the final bill on December 11, 2024 (roll call 500).

Sources: U.S. Government Publishing Office, Office of the Law Revision Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Government Publishing Office, Congress.gov, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives

Limit: The Fiscal Year 2024 law has no pay provision for her, or anyone, to have pushed through: that year's raise, the 5.2 per cent her campaign cites, came from a formula already in statute. The Fiscal Year 2025 law did set pay rates by statute and she voted for it at both stages, so the ad's words could be read to cover that raise, though her campaign's own gloss does not mention it. Her campaign's fact-check page quotes her July 2023 explanation of the Nay, a vote against Republican amendments added to the House bill: “We shouldn’t be pitting pay raises that they [military members] deserve against the reproductive freedoms that they also deserve.” A vote shows support for a bill; whether any member “pushed through” a raise is not something a vote can settle.

Mary Peltola

Money for Alaska military bases

Matches stated direction

What they say

Her campaign says she delivered over $150 million for Alaska military bases: $107 million for Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, $34 million for housing at Fort Wainwright, $9.5 million for housing at Eielson Air Force Base, and $6.1 million for Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.

“Delivered over $150 million in funding for Alaska military bases”

Source: Alaskans for Mary

What the record shows ·

All four figures are in the military construction table, section 4601, of the Fiscal Year 2024 defense authorization, Public Law 118-31, whose final version she voted for (roll call 723): $107,500,000 to extend a runway at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson and $34,000,000 to complete enlisted unaccompanied housing at Fort Wainwright, both in the President's budget request; and $9,500,000 to plan and design a permanent-party dormitory at Eielson Air Force Base and $6,100,000 to plan and design a precision-guided-missile complex at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, both added by Congress. The four sum to $157,100,000. Neither added amount was in the bill the House passed in July 2023. The same two projects, at the same amounts, were funded in that year's military construction appropriations as Senate congressionally directed spending: the Senate Appropriations Committee's report names Senator Lisa Murkowski as the requester of both, and the final explanatory statement, printed in the Congressional Record on March 5, 2024, lists her in its Senate column with no House requester. On those appropriations she voted Nay on the House's own bill in July 2023 (roll call 380) and Yea on the final package in March 2024 (roll call 64).

Sources: U.S. Government Publishing Office, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Government Publishing Office, U.S. Government Publishing Office, U.S. Government Publishing Office, U.S. House of Representatives (docs.house.gov), Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives

Limit: The amounts are real and she voted for the laws that carry them. The section 4601 figures are authorizations, which permit spending; the appropriations provide it. The published record names who asked for each amount, and it is not her: two were in the President's request, and the two Congress added were requested in the Senate by Senator Murkowski, with the House requester column blank. So the record shows the money arriving in bills she voted for, not that she delivered it. Whether “delivered” still earns this label is put to the owner.

Mary Peltola

Oil and gas development and the Willow project

No verdict

What they say

Her campaign says she has consistently stood up to anyone, including President Biden, to promote oil and gas development and secure approval of the Willow oil project.

“consistently standing up to anyone – including Joe Biden – to promote oil and gas development, secure approval of the Willow Oil Project”

Source: Alaskans for Mary

What the record shows ·

She was an original cosponsor of H.R. 6285, the Alaska's Right to Produce Act of 2023, introduced November 8, 2023, and voted Present when the House passed it on May 1, 2024 (roll call 174). On the floor that day she said she still supported the bill's intent but that it would nullify the Northern Bering Sea Climate Resilience Area, and she introduced her own version the same day, H.R. 8214, which would void any pause on oil and gas leasing in the Coastal Plain. On the other House bills of her term about oil and gas leasing, production or export, she voted Yea on H.R. 22, barring Strategic Petroleum Reserve sales to buyers tied to China (January 12, 2023, roll call 31), on H.R. 7176, lifting restrictions on natural gas exports (February 15, 2024, roll call 52), and on H.R. 1121, barring a presidential moratorium on fracking (March 20, 2024, roll call 93); Nay on H.R. 1, the Lower Energy Costs Act (March 30, 2023, roll call 182), and on H.R. 6009, withdrawing a Bureau of Land Management rule on oil and gas leasing (March 20, 2024, roll call 95); and did not vote on H.R. 21, the Strategic Production Response Act (January 27, 2023). The Willow approval was an Interior Department decision, on which no member of Congress voted. On the Senate floor on March 8, 2023, Dan S. Sullivan thanked her for “a really strong job” on Willow, “particularly in the meeting last week with the President”. On March 14, 2023, Senator Lisa Murkowski named her in “a united delegation” that led the effort.

Sources: Congress.gov, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Government Publishing Office, Congress.gov, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Government Publishing Office, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Government Publishing Office, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Government Publishing Office, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Government Publishing Office, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Government Publishing Office, U.S. Government Publishing Office, U.S. Government Publishing Office, U.S. Government Publishing Office, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives

Why there is no verdict here

The record points both ways. On Willow, both Alaska senators said on the Senate floor that she helped lead the push, including at a meeting with the President. On oil and gas bills, she voted for three, against two, missed one, and voted Present on one she had cosponsored because of one provision. Votes on single bills cannot settle “consistently”, so no label is given.

Sources: Congress.gov, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Government Publishing Office, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Government Publishing Office, U.S. Government Publishing Office, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives

Limit: The votes listed are every House passage vote of her term on a bill whose text is about oil and gas leasing, production or export, found by searching the Clerk's roll-call titles for 2022 to 2024; votes on other land and energy rules are left out, such as the WEST Act on a Bureau of Land Management conservation rule, on which she voted No (roll call 165 of 2024). They are votes on particular bills rather than on the claim, which is about advocacy.

Mary Peltola

Fundraising: her 2026 quarters

Matches stated record claim

What they say

Her campaign announced a $7 million second quarter of 2026.

“Mary Peltola announced a $7 million second quarter haul”

Source: Alaskans for Mary

What the record shows ·

Her principal committee, Alaskans for Mary, reported $6,913,876.92 in receipts for April 1 to June 30, 2026, which rounds to the $7 million announced.

Sources: Federal Election Commission, Federal Election Commission, Alaskans for Mary

Limit: The second-quarter figure matches the filing. The campaign's first-quarter 2026 announcement, $8.9 million, is not settled by the principal committee's report, which shows $8,661,662.38 in receipts for January 1 to March 31, 2026, $238,337.62 less. The announcement does not say whether it counts money raised through a joint fundraising committee; if it does, the principal committee's report would not show all of it yet, and adding the committees' reports together would count transfers twice. So the first-quarter figure is not settled here in either direction.

Issues in this record

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Energy and resource developmentFisheries, bycatch and trawlingTaxes and the cost of livingThe military, the Coast Guard and veteransLegal help for survivors of domestic violenceElections, ethics and the power of Congress

Evidence timeline

Dated records, with sources attached.

  1. race event

    General-election candidate list reviewed

    The Division of Elections listed four certified candidates for U.S. Senator when The Stated Record checked it on September 23, 2026: Gerald L. Heikes, Mary Peltola, Dan S. Sullivan and Daniel J. Sullivan Jr.

    Alaska Division of Elections

  2. race event

    Top-four primary

    Official results: Mary Peltola 82,244 (49.54%), Dan S. Sullivan 68,726 (41.40%), Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. 4,107 (2.47%), Gerald L. Heikes 1,741 (1.05%), among sixteen candidates.

    Alaska Division of Elections

  3. finance

    FEC filing snapshot

    Pre-Primary 2026, principal campaign committee ALASKANS FOR MARY.

    Federal Election Commission

  4. race event

    The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 becomes law

    Public Law 117-328 carried the Alaska Salmon Research Task Force Act, Dan S. Sullivan's S. 3429, and the University of Alaska land program that was also in Mary Peltola's H.R. 9496. He voted Nay on the act and she voted Yea.

    U.S. Government Publishing Office U.S. Government Publishing Office Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives

  5. race event

    POWER 2.0 becomes law

    S. 3115, sponsored by Dan S. Sullivan, became Public Law 117-252, removing the four-year limit. Mary Peltola had introduced a House bill with the same operative text, H.R. 9113, on September 30, 2022, and spoke and voted for S. 3115 in the House. Both candidates claim this law.

    Congress.gov U.S. Government Publishing Office Congress.gov U.S. Government Publishing Office Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives

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