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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”

Source: Kean for Congress Inc

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.

Sources: Congress.gov, Congress.gov, Congress.gov, Congress.gov, Congress.gov, Congress.gov, Congress.gov, Congress.gov / GovInfo, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives

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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