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Checked against the record · New Jersey 7th District 2026

Does Tom Kean Jr. work across party lines?

Matches stated direction. Twenty of his 36 bills this Congress had a Democratic cosponsor from the start, and his bipartisan fire grants bill became law in 2024 inside a larger act.

Thomas H. Kean Jr.

Working with both parties

Matches stated direction

What they say

His campaign says he brings both sides together to find common-sense solutions.

“I bring both sides together to find common-sense solutions that help New Jersey families succeed”

What the record shows · Sep 10, 2026

In the 119th Congress, through September 10, 2026, he sponsored 36 bills and resolutions. Twenty had at least one Democrat as an original cosponsor, among them the HELP Copays Act (H.R. 6423), the One Seat Ride Act (H.R. 1478) and the Promoting United States Wireless Leadership Act (H.R. 1765); sixteen had none. Three passed the House, one of them (H.R. 1765) with a Democratic original cosponsor, and none has become law under its own number. In the 118th Congress he sponsored the Fire Grants and Safety Act (H.R. 4090) with five Democratic original cosponsors; its text was enacted word for word as Division A of Public Law 118-67 in July 2024, and he voted for the bill that carried it.

Limit: Signing up a member of the other party at introduction is one signal of bipartisan work, and a weak one: it costs little and says nothing about how he votes when the parties split. His votes on party-line measures are not scored here. His other 118th-Congress bills were not counted, and his 119th-Congress bills were checked for enactment under their own numbers, not searched clause by clause through every law enacted since.

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  1. Tom Kean for Congress, home pagehttps://tomkean.com/

    Kean for Congress Inc · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Campaign-controlled source; the "Paid for by Kean for Congress Inc" line matches the committee's filed website, WWW.TOMKEAN.COM. It carries one paragraph of positions and links X (@keanforcongress), Facebook (KeanForCongress), Instagram (@tomkean) and YouTube. Its Media page carries no content.

    candidate statement

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  2. Legislation sponsored by Thomas H. Kean, Jr., 119th Congresshttps://www.congress.gov/member/thomas-kean/K000398

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    The 36 bills and resolutions he sponsored in the 119th Congress through September 10, 2026, each read with its cosponsor list from the Congress.gov API on September 23, 2026. Twenty had at least one Democratic original cosponsor, among them H.R. 6423 (Reps. Barragán, Auchincloss, Watson Coleman), H.R. 1478 (Watson Coleman) and H.R. 1765 (Dingell, Clarke). Sixteen had none. Three passed the House by voice vote: H.R. 1765 (July 14, 2025), H.R. 2503 (September 2, 2025) and H.R. 5419 (March 3, 2026). None has become law under its own number; the bills were not searched clause by clause through every law enacted since.

    official legislative record

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  3. H.R. 6423, HELP Copays Act, 119th Congresshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/6423

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Sponsored by Kean; original cosponsors include Reps. Barragán, Auchincloss and Watson Coleman, Democrats.

    official legislative record

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  4. H.R. 1478, One Seat Ride Act, 119th Congresshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1478

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Sponsored by Kean; original cosponsor Rep. Watson Coleman, a Democrat.

    official legislative record

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  5. H.R. 1765, Promoting United States Wireless Leadership Act of 2025https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1765

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Sponsored by Kean; original cosponsors include Reps. Dingell and Clarke, Democrats. Passed the House by voice vote July 14, 2025.

    official legislative record

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  6. H.R. 2503, Undersea Cable Control Act, 119th Congresshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/2503

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Sponsored by Kean. Passed the House by voice vote under suspension of the rules on September 2, 2025; referred in the Senate to the Banking Committee.

    official legislative record

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  7. H.R. 5419, Enhancing Administrative Reviews for Broadband Deployment Acthttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5419

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Sponsored by Kean, with no Democratic original cosponsor. Passed the House by voice vote under suspension of the rules on March 3, 2026; referred in the Senate to the Energy and Natural Resources Committee on March 4, 2026.

    official legislative record

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  8. H.R. 4090, Fire Grants and Safety Act of 2023, 118th Congresshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4090

    Congress.gov · Published Jun 14, 2023 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Sponsored by Kean, introduced June 14, 2023. Original cosponsors: Democrats Pascrell, Golden, Hoyer, Stevens and Lofgren, and Republicans Bost, Fitzpatrick, Collins and Lucas. Ordered reported 29 to 0 by the Science, Space, and Technology Committee (H. Rept. 118-177); never passed the House under its own number. Its introduced text (BILLS-118hr4090ih) matches Division A of Public Law 118-67 section by section, down to the same amendments to 15 U.S.C. 2216(g)(1), 2229(q)(1) and (r), 2229a(j)(1) and (k), and the GAO audit. The Senate-passed S. 870 (BILLS-118s870es) carried different text, with sunsets in 2032 and authorisations through 2030; the House amendment replaced it with H.R. 4090's, which is what became law.

    official legislative record

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  9. Public Law 118-67 (S. 870), Division A: Fire Grants and Safety Act of 2023https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ67/html/PLAW-118publ67.htm

    Congress.gov / GovInfo · Published Jul 9, 2024 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    S. 870 became Public Law 118-67 on July 9, 2024. Division A, the Fire Grants and Safety Act of 2023, reauthorises the U.S. Fire Administration at 95,000,000 dollars a year for fiscal 2024 to 2028, authorises 750,000,000 dollars a year for the assistance-to-firefighters grants, extends the AFG and SAFER programs to 2030, and orders a GAO audit: the text of Kean's H.R. 4090 as introduced.

    official legislative record

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  10. Roll Call 194, 2024: S. 870, on motion to suspend the rules and pass, as amendedhttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024194

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Recorded vote of May 8, 2024, agreed 393 to 13 with 1 present. Kean: Yea. The House amendment added the fire-grants text as Division A.

    official legislative record

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