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Campaign positions remain attributed. Official actions are shown separately, with narrow relationship labels and limits.
Campaign positions
Her plan says she served on the House Veterans' Affairs Committee and was instrumental in passing the PACT Act, introduced and passed the Gold Star Families Act, and championed legislation providing three cost-of-living increases to veterans, and that she will cut red tape in the VA system and reverse cuts she attributes to DOGE.
Her campaign says she fought to fully fund the Department of Veterans Affairs and give it its largest-ever budget in her first term, chairs the Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, and that her first standalone bill to pass the House was the COPE Act on caregivers' mental health resources and safety at VA facilities.
No stated position on veterans or the military. The Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey he submitted on December 4, 2025 names no defence, shipyard or veterans' policy, and his FEC filings carry only his own statements that the committee has raised and spent nothing. He has no campaign website, and nothing else the desk could read — his Facebook profile and the ten reels on it, opened in a signed-in browser on September 13, 2026 — states a policy position on any subject. The search is bounded and unfinished, and the page it has not reached is the Virginia Mercury's voter guide for this contest, which is where a reader would most expect his answers; the source notes below record what was read, what was not, and why.
His platform says the district has more veterans and military families per square mile than almost anywhere in America and that they are being failed on readiness, and that he will measure his own performance by whether readiness improves.
Evidence timeline
official action
Her campaign says she introduced and championed legislation to make sure U.S. troops are paid if the government shuts down. She has introduced a Pay Our Troops Act four times: H.R. 5641 on September 21, 2023, H.R. 9699 on September 19, 2024, H.R. 1932 on March 6, 2025, and H.R. 5401 on September 16, 2025. All four were referred to the Committee on Appropriations; the first also drew her own introductory remarks a week later, on September 28, 2023. None was reported out of committee, voted on, or enacted. Limit: The claim is to have introduced and championed the legislation, and that is what the record shows, four times over. It is not a claim of passage and none of the four passed. Whether troops were in fact paid during any shutdown depends on other measures this card does not read.
official action
Her campaign says her first standalone bill to pass the House was the COPE Act. H.R. 3581, the COPE Act, which she sponsored on May 22, 2023 with no cosponsors at introduction and five who joined later, three Democrats and two Republicans, passed the House on December 4, 2023 on a motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended, agreed to by voice vote. No bill she sponsored had any House-passage action before that date; the next two came the following September, H.R. 8108 on the 23rd and H.R. 5490 on the 24th. The COPE Act was received in the Senate the following day and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, where it had no further action. It is not law. Limit: The claim is about House passage and House passage is what the record shows, first among her own bills. The bill is not law. Whether it would do what the sentence says it would is a question about the bill's text, which this card does not assess. The check reads the action history of all 78 bills and resolutions she has sponsored in the 118th and 119th Congresses.
official action
Her plan says she championed legislation that gave veterans three cost-of-living increases. She sponsored four Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Acts across the 116th and 117th Congresses, and three became law: H.R. 1200 as Public Law 116-58 on September 26, 2019, H.R. 6168 as Public Law 116-178 on October 20, 2020, and H.R. 7846 as Public Law 117-191 on October 10, 2022. The fourth, H.R. 3909 of 2021, was referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs and went no further. Limit: The number in the claim is the number in the record: three of her four cost-of-living bills became law. The check reads the official titles and action histories of all 45 bills and resolutions she sponsored in the 116th and 117th Congresses. What a given increase was worth to any veteran is set by the rate the act adopts and is not assessed here, and she left office on January 3, 2023, so nothing after that date is hers. Her words here were read in the Internet Archive's snapshot of 2026-08-03, because her campaign site returns HTTP 403 to automated readers, and the wording is unconfirmed against the live page.
official action
Her plan says she introduced and passed the Gold Star Families Act to give Gold Star families tax relief. The bill she introduced was H.R. 2481, the Gold Star Family Tax Relief Act, on May 2, 2019. It drew 172 cosponsors and its only recorded action is the referral to the Committee on Ways and Means on the day of introduction; the House never voted on it. Its identical Senate companion, S. 1370, passed the Senate without amendment by unanimous consent on May 21, 2019 and was then ordered held at the House desk, where the House never took it up; no version of the bill became law. The harm it addressed was ended seven months later in another bill, by a different and much broader instrument than the one she proposed. Her bill would have amended section 1(g)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code to treat military survivor benefits as earned income, a change confined to those benefits. Division O, title V, section 501 of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 instead struck paragraph (4) of section 1(j) outright, repealing the trust-rate treatment for every child's unearned income rather than reclassifying survivor benefits; the amendment her bill proposed was never enacted, and no subparagraph (D) was added to section 1(g)(4). She voted for that act on December 17, 2019 (Roll Call 689, agreed to 297 to 120), and it became Public Law 116-94 on December 20, 2019. Limit: The relief she describes did become law, and she voted for the act that made it. What the record does not bear out is that the bill she introduced passed: H.R. 2481 never left committee and never received a vote. Her bill did get further than the House: its identical Senate companion passed the Senate by unanimous consent, so the measure was not killed for want of a vote everywhere, only in the chamber she sat in, and neither version reached the President. The check read the action history of every bill she sponsored in the 116th and 117th Congresses and searched the enrolled text of Public Law 116-94 for the provision; a provision inside another act that no title or index names could still be missed. This card tests the word "passed" and nothing about her part in the negotiation that produced section 501, which leaves no record of its own. Her words here were read in the Internet Archive's snapshot of 2026-08-03, because her campaign site returns HTTP 403 to automated readers, and the wording is unconfirmed against the live page.
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