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Checked against the record · Iowa 1st District 2026

Where does Michael Bridgford stand on term limits for Congress?

Not comparable yet. He has never held office, so there is no vote or bill of his to set beside this pledge.

Michael Bridgford

Government accountability: term limits and a trading ban

Not comparable yet

What they say

His campaign says he would vote for a constitutional amendment capping House service at four terms and for a ban on members trading individual stocks.

“I will support and vote for a Constitutional Amendment strictly limiting U.S. Representatives to four terms (eight years) and U.S. Senators to two terms (twelve years) to end the era of career politicians.”

What the record shows · Jun 1, 2026

There is no official legislative record to set beside this. He has held no seat in Congress or the Iowa Legislature, so no roll call, sponsorship or cosponsorship exists in his name; the Iowa Secretary of State's candidate list is the only government record of him this desk found, and his FEC candidate record carries 2026 as his only election year. A stock-trading ban did pass the House on July 22, 2026 without him, since he is not a member.

Limit: A pledge about future votes cannot be checked against a record that does not exist. He has never held office, so this desk records the pledge and the absence of any comparable action, and nothing more. That absence is not a finding about him; it is what a first candidacy looks like in the official record.

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  • Did Mariannette Miller-Meeks vote for the Affordable Insulin Now Act in 2022?

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  1. Issueshttps://bridgfordforiowa.com/Issues

    Bridgford for Iowa · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026

    Eleven issue panels. The site is a client-rendered application: it answers a plain request with HTTP 200 but serves the same shell for every route and has no content API, so the panels were read twice, once rendered in a browser with each panel expanded and once extracted verbatim from the site's own JavaScript bundle. This is not a block and no archive was used.

    candidate statement

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  2. Candidate List, November 3, 2026 General Election (document)

    Iowa Secretary of State · Published Aug 19, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026

    The document is stamped last updated 8/19/2026 1:36 PM. Its United States Representative District 1 block lists Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks (filed 3/6/2026), Democratic Christina Bohannan (filed 2/25/2026) and No Party Michael Bridgford (filed 6/1/2026), in that order, which is the ballot order this desk follows. Every page of the document carries the same header line on filing: the period for federal and state offices for No Party and petition candidates runs February 23 to June 2 at 5:00 p.m.

    official election record

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  3. July Quarterly 2026, Bridgford for Iowahttps://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00947432/1994648/

    Federal Election Commission · Published Jul 15, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026

    Committee C00947432, file number 1994648, image 202607159875316403, covering 2026-04-01 to 2026-06-30, received 2026-07-15. It is the committee's only report of the cycle, which is why its period starts six weeks before the other two. The image number is the beginning_image_number OpenFEC returns for this filing, confirmed on 2026-09-13 on both its committee-reports and its filings endpoint; OpenFEC's own image_number field is null for this filing.

    fec filing

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  4. Roll Call 280, 119th Congress, on passage of H.R. 7008 (document)

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Published Jul 22, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026

    The House passed the Stop Insider Trading Act, 232 to 198. Miller-Meeks is recorded Yea.

    official legislative record

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