U.S. House

Arizona
District 6

Election day: November 3, 2026

Four candidates are on the U.S. House ballot in Arizona's District 6.

Sabato's Crystal Ball: Toss-up

Ratings checked October 1, 2026

Updated October 7, 2026

At a glance

A quick look at the candidates

One stated goal, one checked action and the top committee funding for each candidate. Read the detailed guide for the rest.

What the funding line covers

Funding shows up to the two largest listed committee categories, without individual-donor conduit entries.

Record checked Oct 7, 2026. Money dates are shown separately.

JoAnna Mendoza

Democratic

One stated goal Lower costs: a crackdown on price gouging, a modernized Child Tax Credit, and no tariffs that raise prices.

One checked action No official action is listed in this desk. The detailed guide explains the gap.

Campaign cash $3,260,877 on Jul 1, 2026, principal committee only.

Listed committee funding Transfers and contributions from joint fundraising committees: $942,170; Leadership PACs: $162,500.

Through July 1, 2026. Cash above has its own date.

Funding scope

Money from political committees in the 2025-26 cycle, through July 1, 2026 (FEC lines 11B, 11C and 12). The rows sum to 1,430,472.28 dollars. Donations from individuals, including through ActBlue or WinRed, are not counted here.

Juan Ciscomani

Republican

One stated goal Lower taxes and fiscal responsibility, and more federal money back in Arizona for roads, schools and water.

One checked action Dec 16, 2024. Voted Yea on S. 141, the Senator Elizabeth Dole veterans act, which became Public Law 118-210. He had sponsored the House version, H.R. 8371, which passed the House 389 to 9 a month earlier.

Campaign cash $4,135,163 on Jul 1, 2026, principal committee only.

Listed committee funding Transfers and contributions from joint fundraising committees: $2,269,035; Leadership PACs: $504,000.

Through July 1, 2026. Cash above has its own date.

Funding scope

Money from political committees in the 2025-26 cycle, through July 1, 2026 (FEC lines 11B, 11C and 12). The rows sum to 3,861,812.20 dollars. Donations from individuals, including through ActBlue or WinRed, are not counted here.

Jereme Lance Peters

Libertarian

One stated goal No policy statement is included in this desk.

One checked action No official action is listed in this desk. The detailed guide explains the gap.

Campaign cash No campaign cash figure is included in this desk.

Listed committee funding No committee funding breakdown is included here.

Funding scope

There is no money table because his one report shows no money from political committees. It covers January to March 2026 and shows $10,500 raised and spent; the FEC shows no later report from his committee.

Gary Swing

Green

One stated goal A 90 per cent cut to the military budget, with all foreign bases closed.

One checked action No official action is listed in this desk. The detailed guide explains the gap.

Campaign cash No campaign cash figure is included in this desk.

Listed committee funding No committee funding breakdown is included here.

Funding scope

There is no money table because there is no committee. His statement of candidacy names one, but it never registered, and the FEC marks him as not having raised funds. A candidate who raises or spends no more than $5,000 does not have to register one.

Who is running?

Printed ballot candidates

JoAnna MendozaDemocratic
Juan CiscomaniRepublican
Jereme Lance PetersLibertarian
Gary SwingGreen

A certified write-in candidate is listed separately by the election authority.

Source: Pima County 2026 General Election Official Candidate List

Checked October 1, 2026

Read the detailed guide, goals, actions and campaign funding

Voter guide

The candidates, side by side

Goals come from each campaign's own platform. Record lines are official actions.

How this guide is built

Background comes from government or official office records, and from the campaign's own biography where the bullet says so. Goals are summarized from each campaign's own platform page and stay attributed to the campaign. The record lines are official votes, sponsorships, and filings with the government source attached. Money is shown as filed, by the type the FEC records for the contributing committee, and is not evidence of why any position was taken. Money rows are itemized receipts from political committees; transfers from joint fundraising committees and the conduit entries for earmarked individual contributions sit on their own rows; other memo entries, reimbursements, and receipts from organizations that are not political committees are excluded; each candidate's note gives the filings it covers, and some notes also compare the rows with the campaign's own FEC summary.

JoAnna Mendoza

Background

Her campaign says she grew up in a farmworker family in Pinal County, enlisted in the Navy at 17, then served in the Marine Corps, for 20 years in all, including as a drill instructor and in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Her campaign says she earned a master's in leadership from Grand Canyon University and has worked as a nonprofit leader, veteran advocate, congressional staffer and policy expert.
House payroll samples document work on Rep. Tom O’Halleran’s staff as a constituent services representative in May–June and July–September 2018 and July 2019, and as deputy district director in January–March 2021 and January 2022. The sampled records do not certify every intervening month.
She ran for the Arizona Senate in Legislative District 11 in 2020 and lost to Vince Leach, 72,563 to 60,818.

What they say they want to do

Lower costs: a crackdown on price gouging, a modernized Child Tax Credit, and no tariffs that raise prices.
Reversing the 2025 law's health-care cuts, including to AHCCCS and the enhanced ACA subsidies.
Border security at ports of entry, and legal pathways to citizenship.
A ban on members of Congress and their families trading individual stocks.
Protecting VA care and benefits, and restoring VA funding.

What the official record shows

She has never held elective office, so there are no votes or decisions of hers to list. Her House staff work is under background and on her card. An appointment to a rural school board, which other sites report, was not found in an official record.

Campaign money from other committees, by type

Transfers and contributions from joint fundraising committees 10 committees	$942,170
Leadership PACs 45 committees	$162,500
PAC - Qualified 26 committees	$94,663
Hybrid PAC (with Non-Contribution Account) - Qualified 15 committees	$75,215
Labor Organization PACs 11 committees	$47,000
House 15 committees	$29,000
Membership Organization PACs 9 committees	$26,750
PAC - Nonqualified 3 committees	$19,000
Hybrid PAC (with Non-Contribution Account) - Nonqualified 7 committees	$15,000
Corporation PACs 1 committee	$6,860
Trade Association PACs 1 committee	$5,000
Senate 1 committee	$4,000
Committees the FEC records no type for 2 committees	$2,800
Super PAC (Independent Expenditure-Only) 1 committee	$293
Party committees 1 committee	$221

Source: Federal Election Commission

Juan Ciscomani

Background

The sitting member for Arizona's 6th district, in his second term; Congress.gov records House service beginning in 2023.
His campaign says he is the first naturalized citizen from Mexico Arizona has elected to the U.S. House, and the first in his family to go to college, at Pima Community College and the University of Arizona.
The House Historian lists Tucson Hispanic Chamber employment in 2011–2014 and service on Governor Doug Ducey’s staff in 2015–2022. House records list his Appropriations and Veterans’ Affairs assignments.
Congress.gov records 63 bills and resolutions he has sponsored. One became law under its own number: H.R. 2882, which he introduced as a Udall Foundation reauthorization and which Congress used as the vehicle for its 2024 spending package; the law carries the reauthorization.

What they say they want to do

Lower taxes and fiscal responsibility, and more federal money back in Arizona for roads, schools and water.
More agents at the border.
Help for the district's more than 70,000 veterans.
Health care in rural communities, targeted medical research, and less waste and fraud.
A secure future for Fort Huachuca, which his campaign says he won a new military mission for.

What the official record shows

Dec 16, 2024 Voted Yea on S. 141, the Senator Elizabeth Dole veterans act, which became Public Law 118-210. He had sponsored the House version, H.R. 8371, which passed the House 389 to 9 a month earlier.
Apr 9, 2025 His Prioritizing Veterans' Survivors Act passed the House 424 to 0 and went to the Senate, where it sits in committee.
Jul 3, 2025 Voted Aye on the final House vote on H.R. 1, the 2025 reconciliation act, 218 to 214. It became Public Law 119-21 the next day.
Feb 3, 2026 Voted Yea on the final House vote on the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, 217 to 214. It became Public Law 119-75 the same day.
Sep 30, 2026 The Senate passed his Chiricahua National Park Act without changes, after the House passed it by voice vote in March. It goes to the President.

Campaign money from other committees, by type

Transfers and contributions from joint fundraising committees 8 committees	$2,269,035
Leadership PACs 103 committees	$504,000
Corporation PACs 118 committees	$428,250
PAC - Qualified 37 committees	$196,050
Trade Association PACs 42 committees	$192,000
House 60 committees	$144,977
Membership Organization PACs 16 committees	$54,500
Labor Organization PACs 6 committees	$24,000
Hybrid PAC (with Non-Contribution Account) - Qualified 3 committees	$12,000
Corporation w/o capital stock PACs 2 committees	$11,000
PAC - Nonqualified 3 committees	$10,500
Committees the FEC records no type for 3 committees	$7,000
Party committees 1 committee	$5,000
Cooperative PACs 1 committee	$2,000
Super PAC (Independent Expenditure-Only) 1 committee	$1,500
Presidential 1 committee	$0

Source: Federal Election Commission

Jereme Lance Peters

Background

Holds no public office. The FEC lists him as the Libertarian candidate for this seat, from Tucson.
His committee, Jereme Lance Peters for Congress, registered in April 2026 and names him as its treasurer.

What they say they want to do

His aims are not established: no campaign site, social account or questionnaire of his was found. His FEC committee lists no website, the Arizona Libertarian Party's candidate page came back empty, and web searches found only directory profiles he has not claimed.

What the official record shows

He has never held public office, so there is no record of votes or decisions to list.

Campaign money from other committees, by type

Source: Federal Election Commission

Gary Swing

Background

Holds no public office. The FEC lists him as the Green Party candidate for this seat; his statement of candidacy, filed July 19, 2025, gives a Tucson address.
His campaign site calls the campaign Gary Swing for Progress, Green Party of Arizona, 6th Congressional District.

What they say they want to do

A 90 per cent cut to the military budget, with all foreign bases closed.
Congress elected by proportional representation, with the Senate and the Electoral College abolished.
Abolishing ICE, no border wall, and freedom of migration.
Medicare for All, a universal basic income, and student loan forgiveness.
A move from fossil fuels and nuclear power to renewable energy.

What the official record shows

He has never held public office, so there is no record of votes or decisions to list. His site makes no claim about a record of his own.

Campaign money from other committees, by type

Source: Federal Election Commission

Race outlook

How an approved rating source sees this race

Categories are ordered judgments, not win probabilities. A rating appears only when that publisher allows the use.

Sabato's Crystal BallToss-up
Sabato's Crystal Ball assessed this Sep 29, 2026; checked Oct 1, 2026.

Sabato's Crystal Ball allows this rating to be used with credit, so their name and date stay on the row. A Stated Record comparison is added only when two or more approved ratings are current. The rule is in Methodology.

What to know

The race in context

Rep. Juan Ciscomani and JoAnna Mendoza each ran unopposed in their party primaries, setting up a November race in the 6th District, KJZZ reported.
As of Oct 1, 2026.

Latest record

Updates to this race desk.

Public statementPublished Oct 7, 2026

Ciscomani’s veterans work and tribal fee proposal checked

New debate checks cover Ciscomani’s veterans oversight and constituent service, and say which totals come from his office. The temporary tribal ceremonial parole proposal he originally cosponsored, with a conditional $200 fee, is not law or a blanket zero-fee tourism exemption. Mendoza’s service and staff checks keep their source limits.

Named in this record: Juan Ciscomani, JoAnna Mendoza

Public statementPublished Oct 6, 2026

Arizona's $167 million rural-health award checked

CMS awarded Arizona about $167 million for FY2026 from the rural-health program created by the law Ciscomani voted for. It is a first-year state award, not proof of local spending, better care or the law's net effect on Medicaid funding.

Named in this record: Juan Ciscomani

Public statementPublished Oct 6, 2026

Ciscomani's Sierra Vista advocacy checked; keep-open claim remains open

His 2023 letter documents advocacy about an already closed access point and its approved replacement. VA now lists an operating outstation. These records do not show he kept the old site open or caused the replacement to open.

Named in this record: Juan Ciscomani

Public statementPublished Oct 6, 2026

Ciscomani's VA bonus oversight checked; claimed result remains open

His written oversight questions and cosponsorship of a bonus-recovery proposal are documented. These sources do not show his actions recovered money or sent it to veterans.

Named in this record: Juan Ciscomani

CorrectionPublished Oct 5, 2026

Arizona's 6th District debate host corrected

We had credited the September 10 AZ-06 debate to Arizona PBS. It was hosted by the Arizona Clean Elections Commission and the Arizona Media Association. The cited video, timestamps and findings are unchanged.

Named in this record: Juan Ciscomani, JoAnna Mendoza

Affected recordCiscomani's water-veto vote checked

Public statementPublished Oct 5, 2026

Ciscomani’s longer guest-worker validity support checked

Ciscomani originally cosponsored the 2023 HIRE Act, which proposed three-year H-2A and H-2B labor certifications and petitions. It did not pass. That supports the direction of his debate position; he did not name a bill, and the proposal would not guarantee every worker’s return.

Named in this record: Juan Ciscomani

Public statementPublished Oct 4, 2026

Ciscomani's water-veto vote checked

The Clerk confirms Ciscomani voted to override the veto of H.R. 131, the Colorado conduit repayment bill. The 248-177 House vote fell short of two-thirds. The desk also adds the candidates' debate positions on mail voting, legal work pathways and sharing water cuts.

Named in this record: JoAnna Mendoza, Juan Ciscomani

Candidate records

The field, without the campaign gloss

Current public roles come from government sources. Campaign-finance IDs come from the FEC.

Democratic

JoAnna Mendoza

Holds no public office. Her campaign describes her as a retired Marine; House payroll records put her on Rep. Tom O'Halleran's staff in 2018-19 and 2021-22.

FEC candidate: H6AZ06099
Principal committee: C00897090

Public profiles

X @Mendoza4AZLinked by the campaign site.
Instagram @mendoza4azLinked by the campaign site.
Facebook Mendoza4AZLinked by the campaign site.

Republican

Juan Ciscomani

Current U.S. representative for Arizona's 6th Congressional District, in his second term.

FEC candidate: H2AZ02360
Principal committee: C00786194

Public profiles

X @JuanCiscomaniLinked by the campaign site. His House office keeps separate accounts.
Instagram @juanciscomaniLinked by the campaign site.
Facebook juanciscomaniLinked by the campaign site.

Libertarian

Jereme Lance Peters

Holds no public office. The FEC lists him as the Libertarian candidate, with a committee registered in Tucson in April 2026.

FEC candidate: H6AZ06214
Principal committee: C00946525

Public profiles

X: not foundNo campaign site or social account was found; his FEC committee lists no website.

Green

Gary Swing

Holds no public office. The FEC lists him as the Green candidate; he has filed a statement of candidacy and registered no committee.

FEC candidate: H6AZ06164

Public profiles

X @SwingGary2Listed by the Arizona Green Party for his campaign. His own site does not link it.
Facebook RunFromCongressLinked by his campaign site and listed by the Arizona Green Party.

Profile links show what is public now, not a complete archive. Each was confirmed through the campaign site unless a note says otherwise.

How social posts are used

Individual social posts enter the evidence record only with a post URL, date, context, and review note.

Issue comparison

What each campaign says

Each campaign's own positions, not promises The Stated Record has verified or endorsed.

Costs and taxes

Mendoza's campaign would curb price gouging, modernize the Child Tax Credit and oppose Social Security cuts. Ciscomani's campaign backs lower taxes and says he supported tax relief on tips, overtime and Social Security. No campaign site or position was found for Peters; Swing's campaign backs a universal basic income and forgiving student loans. Ciscomani voted for the 2025 law with capped tip and overtime deductions through 2028; it leaves Social Security benefits taxed as before.

What each campaign says

JoAnna Mendoza

Her campaign says she will crack down on price gouging, modernize the Child Tax Credit, oppose tariffs that raise prices, and oppose any cut to Social Security benefits. It also backs workforce training and the right to unionize.

Juan Ciscomani

His campaign says he fights for lower taxes and fiscal responsibility, and that he has supported tax relief including on tips, overtime and Social Security.

Jereme Lance Peters

His position is not established: no campaign site, social account or questionnaire of his was found. His FEC committee lists no website, and the Arizona Libertarian Party's candidate page came back empty.

Gary Swing

His campaign calls for a universal basic income, forgiving student loan debt, and a steady-state economy with pollution taxes built into prices.

Health care

Mendoza's campaign would reverse 2025 cuts to Medicaid and ACA subsidies and let Medicare negotiate more drug prices. Ciscomani's campaign cites rural health care and record cancer research funding. No campaign site or position was found for Peters; Swing's campaign backs Medicare for All. Ciscomani voted for a 2026 law raising National Cancer Institute funding, not counting inflation, and the law behind Arizona's $167 million first-year rural health award, which does not show better care.

What each campaign says

JoAnna Mendoza

Her campaign says she will work to reverse the health-care cuts in the 2025 reconciliation law, including to AHCCCS, Arizona's Medicaid, and to the enhanced ACA subsidies, and to let Medicare negotiate more drug prices.

Juan Ciscomani

His campaign says he has focused on health care in rural communities, targeted medical research and record cancer research funding, and on rooting out waste and fraud.

Jereme Lance Peters

Gary Swing

His campaign calls for Medicare for All and for federal law securing abortion rights.

The border and immigration

Mendoza's campaign would strengthen port-of-entry security, deport violent criminals and oversee detention more closely. Ciscomani's campaign backs stronger enforcement alongside legal paths for people coming to work or study. No campaign site or position was found for Peters; Swing's campaign calls for abolishing ICE and no border wall. Ciscomani voted for the 2025 law with $4.1 billion to hire more border agents and officers, which does not show how many were added.

What each campaign says

JoAnna Mendoza

Would strengthen port-of-entry security, deport violent criminals and oversee detention more closely. In the debate, called for revamping agricultural worker visas to address costs and labor shortages faced by farms, alongside border enforcement.

Juan Ciscomani

Supports stronger enforcement alongside legal pathways for people coming to work or study. In the debate, called for longer guest-worker permits and a solution for DACA recipients and Dreamers. His original cosponsorship of the earlier HIRE Act supports the direction of longer validity for H-2A and H-2B certifications and petitions; it did not become law.

Jereme Lance Peters

Gary Swing

His campaign calls for abolishing ICE, no border wall, and freedom of migration.

Veterans

Mendoza's campaign would oppose VA cuts and expand rural specialty care; Ciscomani's campaign cites work on veterans' home ownership, education and survivors' benefits. No campaign site or position was found for Peters; Swing's campaign site lists no veterans position. House payroll shows Mendoza on Rep. Tom O'Halleran's constituent-service staff, and the veteran focus is her campaign's account. Ciscomani sponsored the House version of the Dole veterans act, which became law through the Senate's matching bill.

What each campaign says

JoAnna Mendoza

Her campaign says she will oppose cuts to the VA, restore funding cut by DOGE, expand rural specialty care and telehealth, and act against 'claim sharks'.

Juan Ciscomani

His campaign says he works for the district's more than 70,000 veterans, and has worked on veterans' home ownership, education benefits and survivors' benefits.

Jereme Lance Peters

Gary Swing

No position on veterans was found on his campaign site, which covers war, the military budget and foreign bases but not veterans' care or benefits.

Water, energy and the environment

Mendoza's campaign would protect groundwater and Arizona's Colorado River share, clean up PFAS chemicals and support clean energy. Ciscomani's campaign points to water-infrastructure funding for the district. No campaign site or position was found for Peters; Swing's campaign calls for moving from fossil fuels and nuclear power to renewables. Spending laws list Ciscomani as House requester of eight water projects totaling about $11.8 million; that is money set aside, not work done.

What each campaign says

JoAnna Mendoza

Would protect groundwater and Arizona's Colorado River share, clean up PFAS, support clean energy and local solar, and make data centers supply their own power. In the debate, emphasized negotiation over water shortages to protect farms and economic development.

Juan Ciscomani

His campaign points to district water-infrastructure funding. In the debate, called for Colorado River reductions to be shared fairly across basin states, rather than falling entirely on Arizona or the lower basin. His vote to override a Colorado conduit bill veto is recorded; the override failed.

Jereme Lance Peters

Gary Swing

His campaign calls for moving off fossil fuels and nuclear power to renewables, pollution taxes, and protecting public lands.

National security

Mendoza's campaign says Congress must approve new troop commitments; Ciscomani's campaign says he secured a new Fort Huachuca mission. No campaign site or position was found for Peters; Swing's campaign would cut the military budget 90 percent. Marine Corps reports show Mendoza's rank and training role; other service details are her account. Ciscomani voted for a defense law barring Army electronic warfare testing cuts until a report to Congress, without naming Fort Huachuca's proving ground.

What each campaign says

JoAnna Mendoza

Her campaign says Congress must approve any new commitment of troops, that diplomacy should come first, and that the U.S. should honor alliances like NATO.

Juan Ciscomani

His campaign says he advocated for and secured a new military mission for Fort Huachuca.

Jereme Lance Peters

Gary Swing

His campaign calls for cutting the military budget by 90 per cent, closing all foreign bases, ending foreign military aid and abolishing nuclear weapons.

Government and elections

Mendoza's campaign backs banning individual-stock trading by Congress members and their families. In the debate, Mendoza backed voter ID and mail voting; Ciscomani backed photo ID, mail and in-person voting. No campaign site or position was found for Peters; Swing's campaign backs proportional representation and ending the Senate and Electoral College. Ciscomani cosponsored and voted for a House bill limiting stock buying by members and families and requiring voter photo ID; it is not law.

What each campaign says

JoAnna Mendoza

Her campaign supports banning individual-stock trading by members of Congress and their families, and holding district town halls. In the debate, supported retaining voter-ID requirements and mail voting, emphasizing access for rural and tribal voters.

Juan Ciscomani

In the debate, supported both mail and in-person voting, opposed all-mail-only elections, and called for photo ID and updated voter rolls. On ethics, he is an original cosponsor of the House-passed stock-trading restrictions, which also contain federal voter photo-ID requirements.

Jereme Lance Peters

Gary Swing

His campaign calls for electing Congress by proportional representation, abolishing the Senate and the Electoral College, and public campaign financing.

Words and record

Where statements meet official action

Each card sets one thing a candidate says beside their own official record, with one label from a fixed list and its limit. No card says why someone did something.

How the cards work

The number of cards varies with what each candidate's official record supports, and every card carries the same required parts: what they say, what the official record shows, one label from the fixed list, and its limit. Each card is labeled narrowly, by rule. A single vote, sponsorship, or filing can match one claim without proving a candidate's whole record.

Juan Ciscomani

Taxes: tips, overtime, child credit and business incentives

Matches stated direction

What they say

His campaign says he supported eliminating taxes on tips, overtime and Social Security. In the September 10 debate, he also described the law as ending taxes on tips and overtime, making the expanded Child Tax Credit permanent and giving small businesses incentives to expand and invest.

What the record shows · Jul 4, 2025

He backed capped tips, overtime and senior deductions ending after 2028, plus permanent child-credit and business provisions. The law leaves Social Security benefit taxation unchanged.

Read the full check

Quotes, full record and limits

What they say

What the record shows · Jul 4, 2025

He voted Yea on passage of H.R. 1 on May 22, 2025 (Roll Call 145) and Aye on agreeing to the Senate's version on July 3 (Roll Call 190); it became Public Law 119-21 the next day. Its sections are titled "No tax on tips" and "No tax on overtime", but both are deductions, not exemptions. Tips: up to $25,000. Overtime: up to $12,500, or $25,000 on a joint return, and only the extra pay above the regular rate that federal wage law requires. Both shrink above $150,000 of income ($300,000 joint) and end after 2028. On Social Security, the law does not change how benefits are taxed. It adds a $6,000 deduction for each person 65 or older, shrinking above $75,000 of income ($150,000 joint), also through 2028. Section 70104 removes the expanded Child Tax Credit’s scheduled 2025 sunset, raises the maximum to $2,200 for 2025 and indexes it afterward. Section 70105 retains the qualified-business-income deduction without its old sunset. Section 70301 makes 100% bonus expensing permanent for qualifying property generally acquired after January 19, 2025; section 70306 raises section 179 expensing limits to $2.5 million, with the phaseout starting at $4 million, for property placed in service in tax years after 2024, then indexed.

Limit: He voted for the law he means, and its own section titles use his campaign's words for tips and overtime. What it gives is capped deductions that end after 2028, and the overtime one covers only the premium part of overtime pay. The Social Security part goes furthest: the law's deduction is for age, not for benefits, and the tax on benefits is unchanged. The child-credit and business provisions support his additional debate examples. Permanent means no scheduled sunset, rather than immunity from future amendment. Child-credit eligibility, income phaseouts, Social Security number rules and a separate refundable limit remain; $2,200 is a maximum, not a guaranteed payment. Business provisions apply to qualifying income or property and have transition and acquisition rules. This comparison does not establish measured household or business gains, or the separate SNAP, Medicaid and fraud assertions around the tax passage.

Juan Ciscomani

The border: more agents

Matches stated direction

What they say

His campaign lists more agents at the border among the results it says he works for.

What the record shows · Jul 4, 2025

He voted for H.R. 1, which gives Customs and Border Protection $4.1 billion to hire and train more agents and officers; his own two agency bills have not become law.

Read the full check

Quotes, full record and limits

What they say

His campaign lists more agents at the border among the results it says he works for.

“His focus is on getting results for the people he represents, whether it's more agents at the border”

What the record shows · Jul 4, 2025

He voted for H.R. 1 (Roll Calls 145 and 190), now Public Law 119-21. Its section 90002 gives Customs and Border Protection $4.1 billion, available through September 2029, to hire and train more Border Patrol agents, port officers and Air and Marine agents, and $2.05 billion for hiring, retention and performance bonuses. He sponsored the CBP HiRe Act of 2024 (H.R. 7369), to give the agency more flexible hiring rules; it was referred to committee and went no further. He also sponsored the Pay Our Homeland Defenders Act (H.R. 8029), full-year 2026 funding for Homeland Security including Customs and Border Protection. It passed the House 218 to 206 on March 26, 2026, with his vote, and has not passed the Senate.

Limit: He voted for the money to hire more agents. A law that pays for hiring does not show how many agents were actually added, and his vote was on the whole act, not this section alone. His own two bills on the agency's staff and funding have not become law.

Juan Ciscomani

Veterans: education benefits

Matches stated record claim

What they say

His campaign says he has led efforts to expand veterans' education benefits.

What the record shows · Jan 2, 2025

He sponsored the House version of the Dole veterans act; the Senate's matching bill became law in January 2025, adding a VA tech training program and ending the Fry Scholarship time limit.

Read the full check

Quotes, full record and limits

What they say

His campaign says he has led efforts to expand veterans' education benefits.

“He has also led to expand veteran education benefits”

What the record shows · Jan 2, 2025

He sponsored H.R. 8371, the House's Senator Elizabeth Dole veterans act, which passed the House 389 to 9 on November 18, 2024 (Roll Call 466). The Senate put the same package into its own bill, S. 141, which the House passed 382 to 12 on December 16 with his Yea (Roll Call 504); it became Public Law 118-210 on January 2, 2025. All 75 of the law's section titles match his House bill, one with a one-word change. Its education sections set up a VA high-technology training program for up to 4,000 veterans a year, for courses that start by September 30, 2027 (section 212), pay the full housing stipend in a final semester (section 208), and end the time limit on the Fry Scholarship for surviving spouses (section 202). His earlier VET-TEC Authorization Act (H.R. 1669) would have run a larger program, up to 6,000 a year through fiscal 2028; it passed the House 409 to 9 in May 2023 and stopped in the Senate. His VETS Opportunity Act (H.R. 1458), on GI Bill repayments and which independent study programs the benefits cover, passed the House by voice vote in February 2026 and awaits the Senate.

Limit: The law was enacted under the Senate's bill number, sponsored by Senator Moran, but its section titles match the House bill he sponsored. The committee chairman, Mike Bost, managed it on the floor, so how much of the drafting was his is not shown.

Juan Ciscomani

Veterans: home ownership and survivors

Matches stated direction

What they say

His campaign says he worked to help veterans own homes, and to make sure veterans' surviving families get the benefits they were promised.

What the record shows · Apr 9, 2025

His survivors bill passed the House but not the Senate; the one home-loan change that became law covers Native American veterans on trust land.

Read the full check

Quotes, full record and limits

What they say

His campaign says he worked to help veterans own homes, and to make sure veterans' surviving families get the benefits they were promised.

“expand opportunities for military veterans to achieve the dream of homeownership”

What the record shows · Apr 9, 2025

His Prioritizing Veterans' Survivors Act, which moves the VA's Office of Survivors Assistance into the Secretary's office, passed the House by voice vote in September 2024 (H.R. 7100) and 424 to 0 in April 2025 (H.R. 1228, Roll Call 99). It has not passed the Senate. The Dole act he sponsored in the House, now Public Law 118-210, rewrites the VA's direct home loan program for Native American veterans (section 231) and ends the time limit on the Fry Scholarship for surviving spouses (section 202). He cosponsored the VA Home Loan Program Reform Act in 2024 (H.R. 8647), which did not pass, and two VA home loan bills in 2026 (H.R. 8532 and H.R. 9404), both in committee.

Limit: His survivors bill has not become law. The home-loan change that did is for Native American veterans on trust land, a small group, and the home-loan bills he cosponsored have not passed. The record shows the direction he claims, not a broad expansion of home ownership.

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Health: cancer research funding

Matches stated direction

What they say

His campaign says he supported the largest investment in cancer research in American history.

What the record shows · Feb 3, 2026

He backed $7.35 billion for NCI in 2026, a nominal high in its table back to 1976, $32 million above 2023 with Moonshot funds. Largest-ever cancer investment is not shown.

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His campaign says he supported the largest investment in cancer research in American history.

“Juan supported the largest investment in cancer research in American history”

What the record shows · Feb 3, 2026

He voted Yea on passage of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 on January 22, 2026 (Roll Call 45, 341 to 88) and on agreeing to the Senate's changes on February 3 (Roll Call 53, 217 to 214); it became Public Law 119-75. It gives the National Cancer Institute $7,352,159,000. The 2024 spending law gave it $7,224,159,000 and the 2023 law $7,104,159,000. The institute's own budget table, which goes back to 1976, shows fiscal 2026 as its largest year. The next largest is fiscal 2023, $7,320,159,000 once $216,000,000 of Cancer Moonshot money is counted.

Limit: NCI's table covers one institute, is not adjusted for inflation, and puts 2026 $32 million above 2023, so "largest in American history" is not shown. How much of NIH's Cures Act money reached cancer research after 2023 is not settled, and his vote was on the whole spending law, not this line.

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Community projects: $60 million

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What they say

His campaign says he secured more than $60 million for Southern Arizona community projects in his first three years. In the September 10 debate, he described directing funding to hospital emergency rooms and renovations, and to fire, police and other first responders.

What the record shows · Feb 3, 2026

Lists name him on 28 projects worth $60.87 million, including hospitals and first responders; $33.9 million came after his third year. Appropriations do not show completed work.

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What the record shows · Feb 3, 2026

Community project money is listed by project, amount and requesting member in the statements filed with each spending law, not in the laws themselves. The fiscal 2024 statements name him as House requester of 13 projects, $26,633,927 in all. The fiscal 2026 statements name him on 15 more, $34,239,522, including $2,000,000 for the Bisbee-Douglas International Airport, which his campaign names. Together that is 28 projects and $60,873,449. Arizona's senators also requested 17 of them. Fiscal 2025 was funded by a full-year stopgap with no new projects. The final FY2024 Agriculture table includes $859,000 for Northern Cochise Community Hospital improvements, requested by Ciscomani and Senator Kelly, and $2 million for Pima’s multipurpose building. His office’s project memo describes structural upgrades to the hospital’s main entrance and Emergency Department, and a fire station and community-use facility in Pima. The already-counted first-responder rows include Pima County radio replacement and Marana crime-scene scanning in FY2024, and Sahuarita police radios and Tucson police vehicles in FY2026.

Limit: The total counts every project that names him as House requester, including those the senators also asked for. $33,899,473 of it came in two laws signed in late January and early February 2026, weeks after his third year ended, from requests made in 2025. The matching record here is the qualified appropriated total and these named funding examples. They are not added to the $60,873,449 total again. The hospital and Pima purpose details are his office’s account linked to final appropriation rows. They do not establish every hospital referent, payment, completed renovations, better capacity or faster first-responder service.

JoAnna Mendoza

Work: veteran caseworker for Rep. O'Halleran

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What they say

Her campaign describes veteran casework for Rep. Tom O’Halleran. In the September 10 debate, Mendoza said she worked to help veterans and their families access earned benefits after returning from military service.

What the record shows · Jan 30, 2022

Payroll samples support constituent services and deputy district director roles in 2018-2022. Veteran-benefit help is her campaign's account; individual outcomes remain unverified.

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What the record shows · Jan 30, 2022

House payroll samples name Joanna H. Mendoza on Rep. Tom O’Halleran’s staff as a constituent services representative in May 21–June 30, 2018, July–September 2018 and July 2019. They list her as deputy district director in January 19–March 31, 2021 and January 2022. Her campaign’s veterans page attributes veteran-benefit assistance to this work.

Why there is no assessment here

The staff roles are documented. The specific veteran caseload and benefits assistance are attributed to her campaign and debate account, rather than independently published case records.

Limit: Payroll supports dated constituent-service employment, rather than a veteran-specific job title, continuous coverage of every intervening month or individual case outcomes. The veteran focus and specific help remain her account. The debate says she worked on helping; it does not claim a quantified recovered total. No private benefits or family records were inspected.

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Water: projects back home

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What they say

His campaign says he works to bring tax dollars back to Arizona for things like roads, schools and water infrastructure.

What the record shows · Jan 23, 2026

Spending laws in 2024 and 2026 list him as House requester of eight water projects totaling about $11.8 million; the lists show money set aside, not work done.

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His campaign says he works to bring tax dollars back to Arizona for things like roads, schools and water infrastructure.

“bringing more of our tax dollars back to Arizona to invest in things that matter – like roads, schools and water infrastructure”

What the record shows · Jan 23, 2026

The project lists filed with the spending laws name him as House requester of eight water projects, $11,786,786 in all. In the 2024 law (Public Law 118-42, signed March 9, 2024): $1,250,000 to expand Tucson Water's recharge, $2,250,000 for a Tucson Water well and PFAS removal plant, $1,823,000 for a CAIDD drought-resiliency water project, and $274,000 from the rural water and wastewater grant account for drainage work in Duncan. In the 2026 law (Public Law 119-74, signed January 23, 2026): $989,786 for Tombstone's water reclamation plant, $1,200,000 for a Graham County water line, and $1,750,000 for PFAS treatment and $2,250,000 for source-water work in Marana.

Limit: These eight are among the 28 projects on his community-projects card. Sen. Sinema also asked for all four 2024 projects and Sen. Kelly for three. The lists show money set aside, not work done.

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Defense: the 2026 defense bill

Matches stated direction

What they say

His House office says the 2026 defense bill secured wins for the district, starting with language for Fort Huachuca's Electronic Proving Ground.

What the record shows · Dec 18, 2025

He voted for the 2026 defense law, which bars the Army from cutting its electronic warfare testing until it reports to Congress but does not name the Electronic Proving Ground.

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His House office says the 2026 defense bill secured wins for the district, starting with language for Fort Huachuca's Electronic Proving Ground.

“This year’s NDAA secures several major wins for our district — including critical language for the Electronic Proving Ground (EPG)”

What the record shows · Dec 18, 2025

He voted Aye when the House passed its 2026 defense bill, H.R. 3838, 231 to 196 on September 10, 2025 (Roll Call 262), and Yea on the final version, S. 1071, which passed the House 312 to 112 on December 10 (Roll Call 320). It became Public Law 119-60 on December 18, 2025. Section 1546 bars the Army from closing, merging or cutting back its electronic warfare testing until it reports to Congress. Section 1047 lets the Air Force give five retired T-37B trainers to the Arizona Aviation Historical Group. Section 2608 lets it acquire 10 acres for an earlier project at Tucson International Airport.

Limit: The law does not name the Electronic Proving Ground, and it does not show who asked for each section. His votes were on the whole bill.

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Ethics: stock trading by members

Matches stated direction

What they say

His House office quotes him saying members of Congress should not get rich from their position in office.

What the record shows · Sep 30, 2026

He cosponsored and voted for a 2026 House bill barring members and their families from buying most stocks, which also required voter photo ID; a Senate vote to take it up failed.

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His House office quotes him saying members of Congress should not get rich from their position in office.

“Members of Congress should not be getting rich because of their position in public office”

What the record shows · Sep 30, 2026

He is an original cosponsor of the Stop Insider Trading Act (H.R. 7008), introduced January 12, 2026; Rep. Bryan Steil is the sponsor. As the House passed it, it bars members, their spouses and dependent children from buying stock in public companies, with exceptions such as diversified funds, and requires public notice 7 to 14 days before a sale. The same version requires photo ID to vote in federal elections. The House passed it 232 to 198 on July 22, 2026 (Roll Call 280), with his Yea. On September 30 a Senate vote to take it up failed, 53 to 47.

Limit: It has not become law. His vote also covered the photo ID rule in the same bill.

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Water: presidential veto override vote

Matches stated record claim

What they say

In the September 10 Clean Elections Commission debate, Ciscomani said he was among the Republicans who voted to override a presidential veto of a water bill, describing it as authorizing new infrastructure in the western United States.

What the record shows · Jan 8, 2026

He voted Yea on the January 2026 H.R. 131 override. It was a Colorado conduit repayment bill, and the 248-177 vote failed to reach two-thirds.

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What the record shows · Jan 8, 2026

The Clerk records Ciscomani voting Yea on January 8, 2026 to pass H.R. 131 over the President's veto (Roll Call 9). He was one of 35 Republican Yeas. The tally was 248-177, with one Present; it failed to reach the required two-thirds. The Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act changed repayment terms for a Colorado water conduit, including a longer repayment period and reduced simple interest for hardship. It had passed both chambers by voice vote before the December 29 veto and has not become law.

Limit: This confirms a vote to override, not a successful override. The bill addressed repayment for a Colorado conduit, not a new Arizona water project. The vote does not establish his claimed personal courage or a complete record of independence from his party. His introductory infrastructure description is broader than the enrolled bill’s mechanism: repayment changes for an already authorized project. His full answer claimed a vote to override, rather than that the override succeeded.

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Guest workers: longer certification and petition periods

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What they say

In the September 10 AZ-06 debate, Ciscomani described supporting legislation to lengthen guest-worker work permits beyond one year.

What the record shows · Jul 18, 2023

He originally cosponsored a 2023 bill proposing three-year H-2A and H-2B certifications and petitions; it did not become law, and his debate did not name its intended bill.

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In the September 10 AZ-06 debate, Ciscomani described supporting legislation to lengthen guest-worker work permits beyond one year.

What the record shows · Jul 18, 2023

Ciscomani was an original cosponsor of the HIRE Act, H.R. 4708, on July 18, 2023; Rep. Tony Gonzales introduced it. Section 2 proposed three-year validity for H-2A agricultural and H-2B nonagricultural labor certifications and petitions. Section 3 would allow an in-person interview to be waived for a worker renewing either status within four years after it expired. The complete action list records introduction and referral to two House committees on July 18, 2023. The proposal did not pass or become law in the 118th Congress.

Limit: The debate did not name a bill. This verifies a related action supporting longer validity, not the identity of the unnamed proposal. His formal role was original cosponsor. Three-year certifications and petitions would not guarantee that every worker could return or remain for three years; the interview waiver would be discretionary. This earlier proposal is not a current entitlement or an enacted permit extension.

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Rural health: Arizona’s $167 million award

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What they say

In the September 10 Clean Elections debate, Ciscomani said the 2025 reconciliation law brought $167 million for rural health care.

What the record shows · Dec 29, 2025

CMS awarded Arizona about $167 million for FY2026 under the program created by the law he voted for; the award does not establish local spending or improved care.

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In the September 10 Clean Elections debate, Ciscomani said the 2025 reconciliation law brought $167 million for rural health care.

What the record shows · Dec 29, 2025

Ciscomani voted Aye on July 3, 2025, to agree to the Senate amendment to H.R. 1 (Roll Call 190); the House agreed, 218 to 214. The bill became Public Law 119-21 on July 4. Section 71401 created the Rural Health Transformation Program with $10 billion for each fiscal year from 2026 through 2030. On December 29, 2025, CMS announced Arizona’s FY2026 award of $166,988,956. The actual notice to Arizona’s Medicaid agency records $166,988,955.92, which rounds to $167 million. Its February 24, 2026 budget revision retains that amount.

Limit: The $167 million is Arizona’s first-year federal award, not the national program’s total or money already spent by local providers. CMS awarded it after reviewing the state’s plan; his recorded action is a vote for the whole law. This award alone does not establish the law’s net effect on Medicaid or other health funding, or demonstrate improved care. The February revision records $0 in newly obligated funds; it is not a second $167 million award or a promise of the same Arizona amount each year.

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Veterans: executive bonus oversight

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What they say

In the September 10 Clean Elections debate, Ciscomani said he acted on millions in VA executive bonuses and made sure that money was going to veterans.

What the record shows · Feb 2, 2026

Written hearing questions and a recovery bill still in committee show VA bonus oversight. They do not establish how much his actions recovered or that it reached veterans.

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In the September 10 Clean Elections debate, Ciscomani said he acted on millions in VA executive bonuses and made sure that money was going to veterans.

What the record shows · Feb 2, 2026

The June 4, 2024 hearing discusses $10.8 million in improper critical-skill incentive payments to senior VA executives. The House Veterans’ Affairs hearing record for June 4, 2024 prints Ciscomani’s written questions to VA and its inspector general about executive incentive repayments, accountability and future controls. On February 2, 2026 he was an original cosponsor of H.R. 7319, introduced by Rep. Keith Self. It would extend VA’s authority to recoup certain bonuses and relocation expenses from former employees, with debt collection permitted after an upheld order remains unpaid for 180 days. The complete action list ends with a subcommittee referral on March 2, 2026; the bill has not passed or become law. The inspector general’s witness said it had heard that a significant amount was recouped, while explicitly stating that recoupment was outside its audit scope. VA testimony describes corrective action beginning in 2023.

Limit: This supports documented oversight and support for recovery legislation. It does not establish how much his actions recovered, that he personally caused recoupment, or that recovered money was redirected to veterans. The broader claimed result remains unverified by these sources. The witness’s reported recoupment status is not an audited recovery amount. The 2024 written questions cannot establish the cause of corrective action begun in 2023. The proposed bill provides no veteran allocation or recovered amount.

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Veterans: Sierra Vista counseling advocacy

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What they say

In the September 10 Clean Elections debate, Ciscomani said he got involved after rumors of closure and helped keep the Sierra Vista Vet Center open.

What the record shows · Jul 20, 2023

His letter concerns an already closed access point and an approved replacement; VA lists a current outstation, but these records do not prove he kept the earlier site open.

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In the September 10 Clean Elections debate, Ciscomani said he got involved after rumors of closure and helped keep the Sierra Vista Vet Center open.

What the record shows · Jul 20, 2023

Ciscomani’s signed July 20, 2023 letter asked VA about veterans’ counseling in Sierra Vista. It described the Community Access Point at the Warrior Healing Center as closed and a transition to a Vet Center Outstation as already approved, then requested answers about the closure, access and opening timetable. VA’s December 1, 2023 announcement placed the new outstation in the leasing phase. Its current status page says the Sierra Vista outstation provides services in person and virtually Monday through Friday and records a community dedication on October 2, 2025.

Limit: The letter documents advocacy, and VA confirms a current outstation. These sources do not establish uninterrupted operation of the earlier access point or that his intervention caused VA’s approval or opening. The current page gives a dedication date, not the date services first began. The signed letter already describes replacement approval, so it does not show that his later request caused that earlier approval. The broader keep-open outcome remains unresolved; no adverse finding is made.

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Biography: citizenship anniversary

No assessment

What they say

In the September 10 debate, Ciscomani described 2026 as his twentieth year as a United States citizen.

What the record shows

His office consistently places citizenship in September 2006. These dated accounts support the chronology as his own account; an independent naturalization record was not inspected.

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In the September 10 debate, Ciscomani described 2026 as his twentieth year as a United States citizen.

What the record shows

His September 2025 House-office newsletter says he became a citizen on September 18, 2006 and was celebrating nineteen years. An August 2026 office report again describes him recounting citizenship twenty years earlier. These are consistent dated public accounts from his own office.

Why there is no assessment here

The 2006 date is a consistent first-person official-office account. Independent documentary corroboration of the naturalization date is not established by these sources.

Limit: The office publications independently establish what he has publicly said, rather than the naturalization date itself. No certificate or adjudicative record was inspected. September 10 precedes September 18, but his debate wording referred to the anniversary year.

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Bipartisanship: every-year Arizona ranking

No assessment

What they say

In the September 10 debate, Ciscomani said he had ranked as Arizona’s most bipartisan member every year he had been in office.

What the record shows

The published 2023 House index places him ahead of Arizona’s other House members. That one annual, House-only table does not verify every year or a House-and-Senate comparison.

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In the September 10 debate, Ciscomani said he had ranked as Arizona’s most bipartisan member every year he had been in office.

What the record shows

The complete 2023 Lugar Center–McCourt House index places Ciscomani 45th overall, with a score of 0.74924. He is ahead of all eight other Arizona House members in that table; the next Arizona member is Greg Stanton, 49th, at 0.62369. This establishes the Arizona House comparison for that published year.

Why there is no assessment here

The 2023 Arizona House result is supported. The every-year claim and a comparison across both chambers remain unverified.

Limit: The retrieved annual series does not establish the same result for 2024, 2025 and the 2026 debate date, or an Arizona comparison combining House and Senate members. A later Bridge grade and a legislative-effectiveness ranking use different methods and cannot fill those gaps. None of these limits disproves an unlocated annual ranking.

JoAnna Mendoza

Military service: what contemporary Marine records show

No assessment

What they say

In the September 10 debate, Mendoza described enlisting at seventeen, serving first in the Navy and then the Marine Corps for twenty years, combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, and serving as a Marine drill instructor.

What the record shows

Marine reports document her gunnery sergeant rank and training role in 2011 and 2014. The enlistment, Navy service, 20-year career and deployment details remain her campaign's account.

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Contemporary Marine Corps reporting identifies Gunnery Sgt. JoAnna Mendoza in August 2011 as the staff noncommissioned officer in charge of a Corporals Course at Combat Logistics Regiment 17. January 2014 reporting identifies her as a company gunnery sergeant in the same regiment. Her campaign biography supplies the Navy-to-Marines sequence, enlistment age, twenty-year career, drill-instructor role and Iraq and Afghanistan deployments.

Why there is no assessment here

Marine service and named leadership roles are independently corroborated. The complete service chronology, specific deployments and recruit drill-instructor assignment are not established by the reviewed public military reports.

Limit: The two military reports corroborate Marine service and those leadership roles. They do not independently date enlistment at seventeen, Navy service or transfer, the full twenty-year duration, each deployment or its combat characterization, or a recruit drill-instructor billet. A Corporals Course assignment and close-order drill are different roles. Those specific details remain her attributed account; the absence of a public service record is not evidence against them.

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Committee service: Appropriations and Veterans’ Affairs

No assessment

What they say

In the September 10 debate, Ciscomani described serving on Appropriations and said he was the only member in Congress serving on both Appropriations and Veterans’ Affairs.

What the record shows

Current House rosters overlap only at Ciscomani; Moran held both Senate counterparts in 2025. The intended chamber scope and exact debate-date uniqueness remain unsettled.

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In the September 10 debate, Ciscomani described serving on Appropriations and said he was the only member in Congress serving on both Appropriations and Veterans’ Affairs.

What the record shows

The Clerk and House Historian document his service on both House committees. The complete House membership lists retrieved October 7 have one shared member: Ciscomani. The Senate has separate committees; Senator Jerry Moran’s January 7, 2025 assignment announcement lists him on Senate Appropriations and Senate Veterans’ Affairs.

Why there is no assessment here

His two House assignments are documented. Current House-only uniqueness does not settle the debate’s chamber ambiguity or precise debate-date roster continuity.

Limit: Membership on both House committees is supported. The current House intersection is a House-only finding, not an all-Congress one. Native captions use Congress, while the answer discusses his own House assignments; the intended chamber reference and exact September 10 roster continuity are not settled. These records establish committee roles, not delivery of every funding claim.

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Medicaid: opposing a proposed matching-rate cut

No assessment

What they say

In the September 10 debate, Ciscomani said he opposed a proposed Medicaid expansion matching-rate cut, held his vote until it was removed and then supported the bill. He said the proposal would have taken the expansion population off Arizona’s books and described Arizona as having expanded more aggressively than any other state.

What the record shows

A letter and office account document his opposition, but the rejected proposal, withheld-vote sequence and effect on Arizona beneficiaries remain unverified.

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Ciscomani signed the April 14, 2025 joint letter opposing reductions in Medicaid coverage for vulnerable populations. His May newsletter specifically reports pushing against changes to federal matching rates, per-capita caps and provider taxes during House negotiations. The Clerk records his Yea on House passage of H.R. 1 in May and Aye on final House concurrence in July. The resulting law changes other Medicaid financing rules, including emergency-care matching and a separate expansion incentive in sections 71110 and 71114.

Why there is no assessment here

The public record supports opposition and eventual support for H.R. 1. It does not establish the exact withheld-vote sequence, the rejected proposal’s full Arizona consequence or the comparative expansion claim.

Limit: Public advocacy and his eventual votes are documented. The exact rejected proposal, its withdrawal sequence, a withheld vote and private White House discussions are not independently reconstructed. The hypothetical end of expansion eligibility depends on that unidentified proposal and the defined group covered by Arizona’s statutory trigger; it is not established for every beneficiary. The more-aggressive-than-every-state comparison remains unverified. Opposition to one proposed cut does not show that every matching-rate or Medicaid-financing change was removed.

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Veterans: work with two administrations

No assessment

What they say

In the September 10 debate, Ciscomani said he had worked with both the Biden and Trump administrations and brought both administrations’ VA secretaries to Southern Arizona. He also described the local VA as a national example.

What the record shows

His office documents visits with VA secretaries in both administrations; the local VA’s claimed nationwide standing remains unverified.

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An August 2024 House-office newsletter reports hosting Biden’s VA Secretary Denis McDonough at Tucson VA and discussing local services. His April 29, 2025 release documents a Tucson VA tour and veteran-advisory meeting with Trump’s VA Secretary Doug Collins. These are named public examples of work with executive officials from both administrations.

Why there is no assessment here

Named engagement with both administrations is documented. The broader national-model description and causal credit for surrounding funding and policy results are not settled by visit reports.

Limit: The visits are dated office reports, not independently inspected visitor logs. They support the modest engagement claim but do not establish that his contacts caused every allocation or policy outcome. A formal nationwide ranking or comparative performance measure supporting the local-VA-as-national-example description was not identified.

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Veterans: annual VA funding

No assessment

What they say

In the September 10 debate, Ciscomani said VA funding had increased every year he had been in office and that only Homeland Security, Veterans and Defense had that annual-increase record.

What the record shows

Aggregate VA totals rise from FY2023 to FY2026, while discretionary funding does not rise each year; the broader comparison with other funding areas remains unverified.

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In the September 10 debate, Ciscomani said VA funding had increased every year he had been in office and that only Homeland Security, Veterans and Defense had that annual-increase record.

What the record shows

VA’s historical table reports Total VA funding of $308.8 billion in FY2023, $335.2 billion in FY2024, $401.3 billion in FY2025 and $453.3 billion in FY2026. The Clerk records his Yea on the FY2024 concurrence, FY2025 full-year funding and FY2026 package votes (2024 roll 64; 2025 rolls 70 and 285). These are later packages; FY2023 supplies the baseline. The same VA table’s discretionary row is $135.0 billion, $135.0 billion, $129.2 billion and $133.4 billion.

Why there is no assessment here

The aggregate FY2023–FY2026 trend and later package votes are documented. The only-three-areas comparison remains unverified because its funding measure and complete cross-government comparison are undefined.

Limit: The rise is in aggregate nominal funding, not every account or the discretionary row alone. The table combines mandatory and discretionary funding with medical collections and the transformational fund; it excludes specified emergency supplements and rounds amounts. FY2027 is a request and is excluded. The checked votes do not imply he enacted the pre-service FY2023 baseline or solely caused increases. No consistent all-area denominator was established for the only-three-areas assertion, and these totals do not establish services delivered or inflation-adjusted gains.

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Veterans: more than $8 million through casework

No assessment

What they say

In the September 10 debate, Ciscomani said his office had returned more than $8 million in benefits owed to veterans after problems with VA and other government bureaucracy.

What the record shows

His office reported over $9 million for veteran constituents before the debate; the multi-agency aggregate is self-reported and does not establish audited payments.

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In the September 10 debate, Ciscomani said his office had returned more than $8 million in benefits owed to veterans after problems with VA and other government bureaucracy.

What the record shows

His May 4, 2026 office release reports over $7.5 million returned to veterans. The August 27 release reports over $9 million, before the debate, and identifies owed funds across VA, the IRS, Social Security and other federal agencies. An earlier first-100-days report separately lists $8.9 million for all constituents and $3.65 million for veterans, so the whole-office total is not substituted for veteran casework.

Why there is no assessment here

The office publicly reported a veteran-specific total above the debate’s $8 million threshold beforehand. Independent payment reconciliation and the precise share recovered through VA remain unverified.

Limit: The dated office aggregate supports the threshold as an attributable office report. It is not an independent beneficiary-payment audit, a VA-only total, or proof of the exact deduplicated amounts and personal causal contribution in every case. No private benefits, medical or family files were inspected.

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Work before Congress: chamber and governor’s office

Matches stated record claim

What they say

In the September 10 debate, Ciscomani described earlier work at a Hispanic chamber of commerce and the governor’s office.

What the record shows

The House Historian lists Tucson Hispanic Chamber roles in 2011–2014 and employment in Governor Doug Ducey’s office in 2015–2022.

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In the September 10 debate, Ciscomani described earlier work at a Hispanic chamber of commerce and the governor’s office.

What the record shows

The House Historian lists him as membership director and vice president of outreach for the Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in 2011–2014, and on the staff of Arizona Governor Doug Ducey in 2015–2022.

Limit: This confirms the two employment affiliations he named. The biography does not establish the surrounding claims about lifelong accessibility, a retained cellphone number or everyone’s ability to reach his office.

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Constituent access: town halls and mobile office hours

No assessment

What they say

In the September 10 debate, Ciscomani described town halls at companies, telephone town halls and mobile office hours across the district, and said everyone could reach his office.

What the record shows

An office report describes a held telephone town hall; specific workplace events, mobile hours and everyone’s ability to reach the office remain unverified.

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In the September 10 debate, Ciscomani described town halls at companies, telephone town halls and mobile office hours across the district, and said everyone could reach his office.

What the record shows

A 2024 office newsletter retrospectively describes a healthcare telephone town hall with Julia Strange from Tucson Medical Center, with a linked recording. The Tucson Association of Realtors separately advertised an August 27, 2026 town hall with him. The host’s listing is an announcement, rather than proof the event was held.

Why there is no assessment here

The telephone event is documented. The workplace and mobile-hours portions, and universal accessibility, remain source-limited.

Limit: A specific telephone town hall is documented as an office-reported held event. Specific workplace occurrence and mobile-office-hours examples are not established by these reviewed captures. Closed registration does not prove occurrence. His assertion that everyone can reach the office and the broader accessibility comparison are not measured here; no numerical event total is inferred.

Juan Ciscomani

National security: committee roles and Mexico intelligence sharing

No assessment

What they say

In the September 10 debate, Ciscomani described service on intelligence committees and said intelligence sharing with Mexico was greater than ever before.

What the record shows

His roles include national-security appropriations, not the current House Intelligence roster. His intended committees, debate-date roles and record Mexico sharing remain unsettled.

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Quotes, full record and limits

What they say

In the September 10 debate, Ciscomani described service on intelligence committees and said intelligence sharing with Mexico was greater than ever before.

What the record shows

The Clerk and his office list Appropriations and Veterans’ Affairs. His appropriations subcommittees include Homeland Security and National Security, Department of State, and Related Agencies. The current formal House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence roster does not list him. These are different committee structures.

Why there is no assessment here

Formal committee structures are documented, but the intended intelligence-committee reference and historical Mexico-sharing superlative remain unresolved. No classified material is requested or inferred.

Limit: The plural intelligence-committees wording may refer informally to funding oversight or briefings; formal roster records do not resolve his intended meaning. They do not show he never receives intelligence briefings or lacks access. A defined public measure and consistent historical series establishing more sharing with Mexico than ever before were not identified. Current rosters also do not reconstruct every assignment at the September 10 debate date.

Juan Ciscomani

Tribal crossings: a narrow parole-fee proposal

No assessment

What they say

In the September 10 debate, Ciscomani said he had worked toward keeping cross-border tourism fees from applying to members of the nation in both the United States and Mexico.

What the record shows

He cosponsored a temporary tribal ceremonial parole proposal with a conditional $200 fee; it is not law or a blanket zero-fee tourism exemption.

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Quotes, full record and limits

What they say

In the September 10 debate, Ciscomani said he had worked toward keeping cross-border tourism fees from applying to members of the nation in both the United States and Mexico.

What the record shows

Ciscomani was an original cosponsor of Rep. Andy Biggs’s H.R. 5904 on November 4, 2025. Its introduced text would create a two-year conditional exception for parole into the United States for sacred tribal or religious ceremonies, cultural exchange or celebrations. It requires a preliminary criminal background check, a written request from a federally recognized tribe with trust land at or near the Southwest border, and enrollment in that tribe’s cultural-participant program. Under those conditions, the applicant would pay $200 in place of the applicable parole fee. The bill’s action record shows introduction and committee referral, not enactment.

Why there is no assessment here

The targeted introduced proposal is documented. The intended tourism fee and any universal or enacted tribal exemption remain unverified.

Limit: This is concrete work toward targeted fee relief. It does not establish zero fees, a blanket exemption for every tribal member on both sides of the border or relief from every tourism charge. The debate does not identify which fee he meant. Parole admission, citizenship status and the bill’s temporary conditions matter; the separate I-94 land-border charge is not the charge this text amends.

Juan Ciscomani

Trade: Arizona-Mexico Commission leadership

No assessment

What they say

In the September 10 debate, Ciscomani described leading the Arizona-Mexico Commission under the governor with a focus on expanding trade, calling trade expansion its sole focus and Mexico Arizona’s number-one trading partner.

What the record shows

A 2019 review calls him vice-chair and carries his trade advocacy; an archived governor page says director. Title continuity, an exclusively trade remit and partner rank are unsettled.

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Quotes, full record and limits

What they say

What the record shows

A March 2019 trade policy review identifies Ciscomani as commission vice-chair and includes his signed advocacy for the USMCA. An archived governor page separately describes him as the commission’s director. These institutional records support leadership and trade advocacy. The commission’s current mission also includes quality of life, networking and information.

Why there is no assessment here

Institutional records support leadership and trade focus. Exact title continuity, literal sole-focus scope and the debate-date largest-trading-partner ranking remain source-limited.

Limit: The records do not reconstruct an exact continuous title chronology or establish that every aspect of his role or the commission’s work had an exclusively trade remit. This is a role-and-purpose claim, not a claimed numerical increase personally achieved. A directly reviewed dated trade dataset supporting the neighboring number-one-partner assertion was not established in this audit; an inaccessible response is not ranking proof.

Juan Ciscomani

Water: a two-year Colorado River approach

No assessment

What they say

In the September 10 debate, Ciscomani said Arizona advanced a water proposal through his White House relationship and that it had been accepted for the next two years, buying time for a longer-term solution.

What the record shows

Interior adopted 2027–2028 operating guidelines; the record does not establish his personal causal role, and Arizona’s share depends on implementing agreements.

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Quotes, full record and limits

What they say

What the record shows

Interior announced final operating guidelines for 2027 and 2028 on August 21, 2026 within a 2027–2036 decision framework. The guidelines incorporate concepts from Upper and Lower Basin proposals and Basin tribes. They provide for 1.25 million acre-feet in annual Lower Basin delivery reductions in each of those two years; the stated Arizona share is 760,000 acre-feet if the Lower Basin implementing agreement is in place.

Why there is no assessment here

Federal adoption for two operating years is supported. The exact state proposal and claimed personal route to acceptance remain unverified.

Limit: The two-year federal approach is documented, rather than a long-term settlement or an elimination of Arizona cuts. The public decision does not identify the exact Arizona proposal he meant or independently establish his White House relationship as the causal route. It credits multiple contributors; the debate does not claim Arizona exclusively supplied every provision. Conditional state shares must not be described as unconditional.

Juan Ciscomani

Voting: mail-ballot tracking advocacy

No assessment

What they say

In the September 10 debate, Ciscomani said he supported mail voting and had advocated for Arizona’s system. In the surrounding answer, he described Arizona as better at it than every other state and as using it longer than most states, while also supporting in-person voting.

What the record shows

He cosponsored mail-ballot tracking proposals that did not become law; broader comparisons of Arizona’s performance and history remain unverified.

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Quotes, full record and limits

What they say

What the record shows

He was an original cosponsor of the Vote by Mail Tracking Act in the 118th Congress (H.R. 5658) and again on January 27, 2026 in the 119th (H.R. 7265). The current introduced text would require postal tracking barcodes, envelope-design and machineability standards and an Election Mail logo, with a federal write-in absentee ballot exception. The earlier bill passed the House without becoming law; the current bill reached a committee order to report in February 2026.

Why there is no assessment here

Mail-ballot tracking advocacy is documented. The broad comparative claims about Arizona’s performance and duration remain unverified.

Limit: These are concrete actions supporting mail-ballot tracking. They do not establish an enacted change, endorsement of every Arizona procedure, opposition to every possible restriction or a universal mail-only system. The comparative better-than-every-state and longer-than-most-state descriptions were not independently established.

Campaign finance

FEC snapshot through Jul 1, 2026

Principal campaign committees only. Receipts and disbursements are the election-cycle-to-date figures, Column B on each filing's summary page; cash on hand and debt are period-end figures. All are carried by reports covering the same period. Money is not a score of candidate quality or voter support.

Candidate	Cycle receipts	Cycle disbursements	Cash on hand	Debt owed
JoAnna MendozaC00897090	$2,020,096	$2,264,267	$3,260,877	$3,300
Juan CiscomaniC00786194	$1,089,320	$785,888	$4,135,163	$0

Read the filing details

JoAnna Mendoza: Pre-Primary 2026 (amended), coverage Apr 1, 2026 to Jul 1, 2026, received Aug 27, 2026, file 2010002, image 202608279903423910.

Juan Ciscomani: Pre-Primary 2026, coverage Apr 1, 2026 to Jul 1, 2026, received Jul 9, 2026, file 1989592, image 202607099874836779.

Retrieved from OpenFEC on Oct 1, 2026. FEC amendments can revise these committee-reported figures.

Chronology

How the field took shape

Jul 18, 2023
Ciscomani joins a guest-worker validity proposal
As an original cosponsor of the HIRE Act, backed three-year H-2A and H-2B labor certifications and petitions. The bill was referred to two House committees and did not become law.
Jul 20, 2023
Ciscomani asks VA about Sierra Vista counseling closure and replacement
His signed letter describes an already closed Community Access Point and an approved transition to an outstation, then asks about access and opening plans. It does not establish continuous operation or a causal role in approval.
Dec 1, 2023
VA places Sierra Vista outstation in leasing phase
VA announced that the outstation was in the leasing phase and anticipated a 2024 opening. That forecast does not establish the actual service-opening date.
Jun 4, 2024
Hearing record includes Ciscomani written questions on VA bonuses
The June 4 hearing record attributes written questions about executive incentives, repayments and controls to Ciscomani. This establishes written oversight, without proving money recovered or redirected to veterans.
Jan 2, 2025
The Dole veterans act becomes law
S. 141 became Public Law 118-210. Ciscomani sponsored its House version, H.R. 8371, and voted for the final bill.
Jul 4, 2025
The reconciliation act becomes law
H.R. 1 became Public Law 119-21. Ciscomani voted for it on passage and on the final vote.
Jul 19, 2025
Swing files to run
Gary Swing filed a statement of candidacy with the FEC as the Green candidate for District 6.
Oct 2, 2025
VA records a Sierra Vista outstation dedication
VA records a community dedication on this date. Its current page lists in-person and virtual weekday services; the dedication date is not treated as the start of service.
Jan 8, 2026
Ciscomani votes to override a water-bill veto
Ciscomani voted Yea on H.R. 131, the Colorado conduit repayment bill. The 248-177 vote failed the two-thirds threshold, so the veto stood.
Feb 2, 2026
Ciscomani is an original cosponsor of VA recovery proposal
Keith Self introduced H.R. 7319 with Ciscomani as an original cosponsor. The bill proposes recovery authority concerning former VA employees; it has not passed or become law.
Feb 3, 2026
The 2026 spending law is signed
The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 became Public Law 119-75. Ciscomani voted for it on passage and on the final vote.
Apr 1, 2026
Peters files to run
Jereme Lance Peters filed a statement of candidacy with the FEC as the Libertarian candidate for District 6.
Sep 9, 2026
Official candidate list
Pima County's official general-election candidate list, updated September 9, 2026, prints four candidates for District 6. Its write-in list names one certified write-in, Michael Dorland.
Sep 30, 2026
Chiricahua National Park Act clears Congress
The Senate passed Ciscomani's bill to make Chiricahua National Monument a national park, without changes. It goes to the President.

The details

Election facts. Original sources.

Election date: November 3, 2026
Added: October 2026
Ballot source updated: Official candidate list dated September 9, 2026; reviewed October 1, 2026.
Candidate field: Printed candidates checked against official election records.

Coverage

What this page includes, and what is not yet included.

As of Oct 18, 2026. Only what passed a source check is listed. How coverage works.

BallotIncluded
4 printed candidates, checked October 1, 2026 against the official election record.
Race outlookIncluded
1 of 1 specialist rating is current as of Oct 18, 2026.
Reported contextIncluded
1 dated development with original reporting attached.
Words and recordIncluded
30 statement-to-action comparisons across 4 candidate records, each with a stated limitation.
Campaign financeIncluded
FEC filing snapshots for 2 principal campaign committees, with a common coverage cutoff.
PollingNot yet
No published poll has been reviewed for this race yet.

1 correction recorded for this race; each is dated in the corrections log. Report an error.

Sources170 source records

Snapshot as of Oct 18, 2026. The live page may have changed: https://statedrecord.com/races/arizona-us-house-06-2026

How we use sources

Pima County 2026 General Election Official Candidate Listhttps://content.civicplus.com/api/assets/az-pimacounty/d2c310c3-ade7-484e-a6f0-1ddaebec0799
2026 General Election Official Candidate List
Pima County Elections Department · Published Sep 9, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
The county's official list, stamped updated September 9, 2026 and linked from pima.gov's election page. It prints four District 6 candidates. The Arizona Secretary of State's site refused automated readers (HTTP 403) and was not used.
official election record
For: Election facts, ratings and race context; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology
Separate write-in recordhttps://content.civicplus.com/api/assets/az-pimacounty/b54c9e42-8520-4201-be8d-10b859da80df
2026 General Election Official Write-In List
Pima County Elections Department · Published Sep 11, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Names Michael Dorland (Independent) as the one certified write-in for District 6. Only listed write-in names are counted.
official election record
For: Election facts, ratings and race context; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology
How these races were chosenhttps://statedrecord.com/methodology#race-selection
For: Election facts, ratings and race context
Sabato's Crystal Ball ratingshttps://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/2026-house/
For: Election facts, ratings and race context
KJZZhttps://www.kjzz.org/elections/2026-07-21/juan-ciscomani-to-face-joanna-mendoza-in-arizona-cd6-race
For: Election facts, ratings and race context
Meet Johttps://www.joannamendoza.com/meet-jo/
Mendoza for Congress · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Campaign biography. Her military service is as the campaign describes it; no service record was read.
candidate statement
For: Candidate roles and profiles; JoAnna Mendoza: background, goals, record and money; JoAnna Mendoza: Military service: what contemporary Marine records show
Home pagehttps://www.joannamendoza.com/
Mendoza for Congress · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Campaign-controlled source, the site her FEC committee lists; 'Paid for by Mendoza for Congress'. It links her X, Instagram, Facebook and Bluesky accounts.
candidate statement
For: Candidate roles and profiles
Juan Ciscomani, member recordhttps://www.congress.gov/member/juan-ciscomani/C001133
Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Used for his office, district and the two terms recorded, the first beginning in 2023. It also counts 63 sponsored and 684 cosponsored items.
official office record
For: Candidate roles and profiles; Juan Ciscomani: background, goals, record and money
Home pagehttps://juanciscomani.com/
Juan Ciscomani for Congress · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Campaign-controlled source, the site his FEC committee lists. It links his X, Instagram and Facebook accounts. Positions are attributed, not independently verified.
candidate statement
For: Candidate roles and profiles; Juan Ciscomani: background, goals, record and money; The border and immigration; Juan Ciscomani: The border: more agents
PETERS, JEREME LANCE, candidate overviewhttps://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H6AZ06214/
Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Libertarian candidate for this seat, Tucson. His committee, JEREME LANCE PETERS FOR CONGRESS (C00946525), lists no website and names him as treasurer.
fec filing
For: Candidate roles and profiles; Jereme Lance Peters: background, goals, record and money; Costs and taxes; Health care; The border and immigration; Veterans; Water, energy and the environment; National security; Government and elections
SWING, GARY, candidate overviewhttps://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H6AZ06164/
Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Green candidate for this seat. No principal committee is registered and the FEC marks him as not having raised funds.
fec filing
For: Candidate roles and profiles; Gary Swing: background, goals, record and money
2026 Candidateshttps://www.azgp.org/2026_candidates
Arizona Green Party · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
The state party's candidate list. Its entry for him gives his campaign site, the Facebook page RunFromCongress and the X account @SwingGary2.
endorsement
For: Candidate roles and profiles
Gary Swing for Progresshttps://theswingvote.wixsite.com/unity
Gary Swing · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
His campaign site, headed 'Green Party of Arizona, 6th Congressional District', with his campaign message. It carries no paid-for line (he has no committee). Its social bar links one account, the Facebook page RunFromCongress.
candidate statement
For: Candidate roles and profiles; Gary Swing: background, goals, record and money; Costs and taxes; Health care; The border and immigration; Veterans; Water, energy and the environment; National security; Government and elections
Statement of Disbursements, April to June 2018, detail file (document)
U.S. House of Representatives, Chief Administrative Officer · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Rep. Tom O'Halleran's personnel lines list MENDOZA JOANNA H as CONSTITUENT SERVICES REPRESENT[ative] from May 21 to June 30, 2018, her first pay line in his office. The January to March 2018 file has no line for her.
official office record
For: JoAnna Mendoza: background, goals, record and money; JoAnna Mendoza: Work: veteran caseworker for Rep. O'Halleran
Statement of Disbursements, July to September 2018, detail file (document)
U.S. House of Representatives, Chief Administrative Officer · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
The same title for the whole quarter.
official office record
For: JoAnna Mendoza: background, goals, record and money; JoAnna Mendoza: Work: veteran caseworker for Rep. O'Halleran
Statement of Disbursements, July to September 2019, detail file (document)
U.S. House of Representatives, Chief Administrative Officer · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Her last pay line in that post, July 1 to 31, 2019. The January to March 2020 file has no salary line for her in his office.
official office record
For: JoAnna Mendoza: background, goals, record and money; JoAnna Mendoza: Work: veteran caseworker for Rep. O'Halleran
Statement of Disbursements, January to March 2021, detail file (document)
U.S. House of Representatives, Chief Administrative Officer · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
She returns to Rep. O'Halleran's payroll on January 19, 2021, as DEPUTY DISTRICT DIRECTOR.
official office record
For: JoAnna Mendoza: background, goals, record and money; JoAnna Mendoza: Work: veteran caseworker for Rep. O'Halleran
Statement of Disbursements, January to March 2022, detail file (document)
U.S. House of Representatives, Chief Administrative Officer · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Her last pay line as deputy district director, January 3 to 30, 2022. The April to June 2022 file has no line for her.
official office record
For: JoAnna Mendoza: background, goals, record and money; JoAnna Mendoza: Work: veteran caseworker for Rep. O'Halleran
2020 General Election Official Canvass (document)
Arizona Secretary of State · Published Nov 24, 2020 · Reviewed Oct 2, 2026
The state's official 2020 results. State Senator, District 11: Vince Leach 72,563, JoAnna Mendoza 60,818. Read in the owner's browser because the site blocks scripts.
official election record
For: JoAnna Mendoza: background, goals, record and money
Lowering Costs & Protecting Our Families and Seniorshttps://www.joannamendoza.com/issues/cost-of-living/
Mendoza for Congress · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Campaign issue page.
candidate statement
For: JoAnna Mendoza: background, goals, record and money; Costs and taxes
Strengthening our Healthcare Systemhttps://www.joannamendoza.com/issues/healthcare/
Mendoza for Congress · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Campaign issue page.
candidate statement
For: JoAnna Mendoza: background, goals, record and money; Health care
Safe Communities, Strong Borders & Real Immigration Solutionshttps://www.joannamendoza.com/issues/immigration-border-security/
Mendoza for Congress · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Campaign issue page.
candidate statement
For: JoAnna Mendoza: background, goals, record and money; The border and immigration
Restoring Trust and Accountability in Governmenthttps://www.joannamendoza.com/issues/oversight-accountability/
Mendoza for Congress · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Campaign issue page.
candidate statement
For: JoAnna Mendoza: background, goals, record and money; Government and elections
Keeping Our Promise to Veteranshttps://www.joannamendoza.com/issues/veterans/
Mendoza for Congress · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Campaign issue page, and the source of her claim to have been a veteran caseworker for Rep. O'Halleran.
candidate statement
For: JoAnna Mendoza: background, goals, record and money; Veterans; JoAnna Mendoza: Work: veteran caseworker for Rep. O'Halleran
MENDOZA FOR CONGRESS, receipts from political committeeshttps://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/?committee_id=C00897090&two_year_transaction_period=2026&line_number=F3-11C
Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Read with tools/fec-money/money.py on October 1, 2026: lines 11B (2 rows), 11C (237 rows, 33 memo) and 12 (345 rows, 314 memo), each reconciled to the committee's filed totals with no difference.
fec filing
For: JoAnna Mendoza: background, goals, record and money
Meet Juanhttps://juanciscomani.com/meet-juan-2026
Juan Ciscomani for Congress · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Campaign biography. The older /meet-juan address returns 404.
candidate statement
For: Juan Ciscomani: background, goals, record and money; Costs and taxes; Veterans; Juan Ciscomani: Water: projects back home
House Historian: Juan Ciscomani biography and committee historyhttps://history.house.gov/People/Listing/C/CISCOMANI,-Juan-(C001133)/
U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Historian · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Substantive named biography with correct C001133 identity; the failed numeric error document is not used. Lists dated chamber and governor-office employment.
official office record
For: Juan Ciscomani: background, goals, record and money; Juan Ciscomani: Committee service: Appropriations and Veterans’ Affairs; Juan Ciscomani: Work before Congress: chamber and governor’s office
Clerk: Juan Ciscomani committee assignmentshttps://clerk.house.gov/Members/C001133
Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Current formal House assignments list Appropriations and Veterans’ Affairs; intelligence-related funding responsibilities are distinct from the select intelligence committee.
official office record
For: Juan Ciscomani: background, goals, record and money; Juan Ciscomani: Committee service: Appropriations and Veterans’ Affairs; Juan Ciscomani: National security: committee roles and Mexico intelligence sharing
H.R. 2882, 118th Congress, Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2882
Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
He introduced it on April 26, 2023 as the Udall Foundation Reauthorization Act of 2023. Congress later used it as the vehicle for the fiscal 2024 spending package, Public Law 118-47.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: background, goals, record and money
H.R. 2882, Public Law 118-47https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/PLAW-118publ47
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Enacted text, approved March 23, 2024. Used for its National Cancer Institute line and for the Udall Foundation Reauthorization Act of 2024 it carries.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: background, goals, record and money; Juan Ciscomani: Health: cancer research funding
Resultshttps://juanciscomani.com/results
Juan Ciscomani for Congress · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
The campaign's list of what it says he has done: veterans, taxes, community projects, Fort Huachuca, health care and cancer research. Every card on his column starts from this page or the home page.
candidate statement
For: Juan Ciscomani: background, goals, record and money; Costs and taxes; Health care; Veterans; Water, energy and the environment; National security; Juan Ciscomani: Taxes: tips, overtime, child credit and business incentives; Juan Ciscomani: Veterans: education benefits; Juan Ciscomani: Veterans: home ownership and survivors; Juan Ciscomani: Health: cancer research funding; Juan Ciscomani: Community projects: $60 million
Roll Call 504, S. 141, Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Acthttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024504
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Recorded vote of December 16, 2024, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML. On suspending the rules and passing the Senate bill; 382 to 12.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: background, goals, record and money; Juan Ciscomani: Veterans: education benefits; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology
S. 141, Public Law 118-210https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/PLAW-118publ210
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
The enacted Dole Act, approved January 2, 2025. Used for sections 202, 208, 212 and 231. Section 212's high-technology program ends for programs that begin after September 30, 2027 (new 38 U.S.C. 3699C(i)). Its sponsor was Senator Moran.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: background, goals, record and money; Juan Ciscomani: Veterans: education benefits; Juan Ciscomani: Veterans: home ownership and survivors; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology
H.R. 8371, 118th Congress, Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Acthttps://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8371
Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Sponsorship (Ciscomani), House passage and the House-passed text. Bost, the committee chairman, moved it on the floor. The Senate did not take it up; it passed S. 141 instead.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: background, goals, record and money; Juan Ciscomani: Veterans: education benefits; Juan Ciscomani: Veterans: home ownership and survivors; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology
Roll Call 99, H.R. 1228, Prioritizing Veterans' Survivors Acthttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202599
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Recorded vote of April 9, 2025, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML. On suspending the rules and passing the bill; 424 to 0.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: background, goals, record and money; Juan Ciscomani: Veterans: home ownership and survivors
H.R. 1228, 119th Congress, Prioritizing Veterans' Survivors Acthttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1228
Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Sponsorship (Ciscomani), House passage and its referral in the Senate.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: background, goals, record and money; Juan Ciscomani: Veterans: home ownership and survivors
Roll Call 190, H.R. 1, on concurring in the Senate amendmenthttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025190
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Recorded vote of July 3, 2025, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML. On the motion to concur in the Senate amendment; 218 to 214.
official legislative record
Clerk Roll Call 190
For: Juan Ciscomani: background, goals, record and money; Juan Ciscomani: Taxes: tips, overtime, child credit and business incentives; Juan Ciscomani: The border: more agents; Juan Ciscomani: Rural health: Arizona’s $167 million award; Juan Ciscomani: Medicaid: opposing a proposed matching-rate cut; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology; Arizona's $167 million rural-health award checked
H.R. 1, 119th Congress, Public Law 119-21https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/PLAW-119publ21
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
The enacted text. Used for sections 70103 (the $6,000 deduction for people 65 and older), 70201 (tips), 70202 (overtime) and 90002 (Customs and Border Protection personnel). A search of the full text finds no change to how Social Security benefits are taxed.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: background, goals, record and money; Juan Ciscomani: Taxes: tips, overtime, child credit and business incentives; Juan Ciscomani: The border: more agents; Juan Ciscomani: Rural health: Arizona’s $167 million award; Juan Ciscomani: Medicaid: opposing a proposed matching-rate cut; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology
Roll Call 53, H.R. 7148, on concurring in the Senate amendmentshttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202653
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Recorded vote of February 3, 2026, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML. On the motion to concur in the Senate amendments; 217 to 214.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: background, goals, record and money; Juan Ciscomani: Health: cancer research funding; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology
H.R. 7148, Public Law 119-75, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/PLAW-119publ75
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Enacted text, approved February 3, 2026. Division B is the Labor, Health and Human Services act; used for the National Cancer Institute line.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: background, goals, record and money; Juan Ciscomani: Health: cancer research funding; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology
H.R. 6380, 119th Congress, Chiricahua National Park Acthttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/6380
Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Sponsorship (Ciscomani). Passed the House by voice vote on March 16, 2026 and the Senate without amendment by unanimous consent on September 30, 2026; not yet signed when read.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: background, goals, record and money; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology
CISCOMANI FOR CONGRESS, receipts from political committeeshttps://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/?committee_id=C00786194&two_year_transaction_period=2026&line_number=F3-11C
Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Read with tools/fec-money/money.py on October 1, 2026: lines 11B (1 row), 11C (736 rows, 61 memo) and 12 (1,476 rows, 1,417 memo), each reconciled to the committee's filed totals with no difference.
fec filing
For: Juan Ciscomani: background, goals, record and money
Candidateshttps://azlp.org/candidates
Arizona Libertarian Party · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Searched for a statement from him. The page redirects to a candidate directory that returned an empty page on October 1, 2026.
endorsement
For: Jereme Lance Peters: background, goals, record and money; Costs and taxes; Health care; The border and immigration; Veterans; Water, energy and the environment; National security; Government and elections
JEREME LANCE PETERS FOR CONGRESS, April Quarterly 2026 (document)
Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
A paper filing covering January 1 to March 31, 2026: $10,500 received, $10,500 spent, nothing on lines 11B, 11C or 12 (checked with money.py). It is the only report of receipts the FEC shows for his committee.
fec filing
For: Jereme Lance Peters: background, goals, record and money
Gary Swing, Statement of Candidacy (Form 2) (document)
Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Filed July 19, 2025, with a Tucson address. It names 'Gary Swing for Congress' as his committee, but no statement of organization for it is on file.
fec filing
For: Gary Swing: background, goals, record and money; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology
Bring Good-Paying Jobs to Southern Arizona & Protecting Workershttps://www.joannamendoza.com/issues/economy/
Mendoza for Congress · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Campaign issue page.
candidate statement
For: Costs and taxes
Clean Elections debate: guest workers and legal pathwayshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxRgt6zIqo&t=2280s
Arizona Clean Elections Commission and Arizona Media Association · Published Sep 10, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 5, 2026
Publisher corrected October 5 from the same video’s visible channel and production description. 38:00-39:44 Mendoza; 39:54-41:05 Ciscomani. His own-record assertion begins 40:21. He gives no bill number, so H.R. 4708 is a separately verified related action supporting longer validity, not a certified match to an unnamed intended bill. Paraphrase from this video’s native captions captured October 4; no independently confirmed exact quotation. Full native payload retained privately.
candidate statement
For: The border and immigration; Juan Ciscomani: Guest workers: longer certification and petition periods
H.R. 4708, 118th Congress: HIRE Acthttps://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4708
Congress.gov · Published Jul 18, 2023 · Reviewed Oct 5, 2026
Gonzales is the sponsor; Ciscomani is an original July 18, 2023 cosponsor. Complete official records checked October 5: four actions, all introduction or referral on July 18, 2023; 37 cosponsors. No passage or enactment in the 118th Congress. The CRS summary, updated February 28, 2024, describes the agricultural H-2A and nonagricultural H-2B certification and petition provisions.
official legislative record
H.R. 4708, 118th Congress
For: The border and immigration; Juan Ciscomani: Guest workers: longer certification and petition periods; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology; Ciscomani’s longer guest-worker validity support checked
HIRE Act: introduced H-2A and H-2B texthttps://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-118hr4708ih/html/BILLS-118hr4708ih.htm
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Published Jul 18, 2023 · Reviewed Oct 5, 2026
Section 2 covers three-year employer certifications and petitions in the H-2A and H-2B programs. Section 3 permits interview waivers for status renewals within four years of expiration. Introduced proposal, not law, guaranteed visa issuance or guaranteed reentry.
official legislative record
HIRE Act introduced text
For: The border and immigration; Juan Ciscomani: Guest workers: longer certification and petition periods; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology; Ciscomani’s longer guest-worker validity support checked
Climate, Water & Energy Security for Rural Arizonahttps://www.joannamendoza.com/issues/environment/
Mendoza for Congress · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Campaign issue page. Its sentence about her opponent's votes is out of scope here.
candidate statement
For: Water, energy and the environment
Clean Elections debate: sharing Colorado River cutshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxRgt6zIqo&t=2745s
Arizona Clean Elections Commission and Arizona Media Association · Published Sep 10, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 4, 2026
45:45-47:22 Ciscomani; 47:27-48:28 Mendoza. Their proposed approach is distinguished from unverified personal credit for acceptance of a water plan. Paraphrase from the host-matched native captions captured October 4; no independently confirmed exact quotation. Full native payload retained privately.
candidate statement
For: Water, energy and the environment
Clerk: H.R. 131 veto override, Roll Call 9https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/20269
U.S. House Clerk · Published Jan 8, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 4, 2026
Ciscomani Yea; 248 Yeas, 177 Nays, one Present and five Not Voting. Two-thirds required; Failed. Thirty-five Republican Yeas. This establishes his vote, not a successful override.
official legislative record
Clerk Roll Call 9
For: Water, energy and the environment; Juan Ciscomani: Water: presidential veto override vote; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology; Ciscomani's water-veto vote checked
National Security and Standing with Our Allieshttps://www.joannamendoza.com/issues/national-security/
Mendoza for Congress · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Campaign issue page.
candidate statement
For: National security
Clean Elections debate: mail voting and voter IDhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxRgt6zIqo&t=2943s
Arizona Clean Elections Commission and Arizona Media Association · Published Sep 10, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 4, 2026
49:03-49:40 Ciscomani policy; 50:03-50:49 Mendoza policy. Candidate assertions about the opponent and the asserted turnout percentage are excluded. Paraphrase from the host-matched native captions captured October 4; no independently confirmed exact quotation. Full native payload retained privately.
candidate statement
For: Government and elections
Rep. Ciscomani Votes to Ban Stock Trading by Members of Congresshttps://ciscomani.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-ciscomani-votes-ban-stock-trading-members-congress
Office of Congressman Juan Ciscomani · Published Jul 23, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
House office press release of July 23, 2026, with his statement after the House passed H.R. 7008.
official office record
For: Government and elections; Juan Ciscomani: Ethics: stock trading by members
H.R. 7008, 119th Congress, Stop Insider Trading Acthttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7008
Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Introduced January 12, 2026. Rep. Bryan Steil is the sponsor; Ciscomani is listed as an original cosponsor. Passed the House July 22, 2026; a Senate cloture vote on taking it up failed 53 to 47 on September 30, 2026.
official legislative record
For: Government and elections; Juan Ciscomani: Ethics: stock trading by members
H.R. 7008, engrossed in the Househttps://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/BILLS-119hr7008eh
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
The text the House passed. Section 2 sets the stock purchase ban and sale notices; section 3 requires photo identification to vote in federal elections.
official legislative record
For: Government and elections; Juan Ciscomani: Ethics: stock trading by members
AZ-06 Clean Elections debate: tax lawhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxRgt6zIqo&t=430s
Arizona Clean Elections Commission and Arizona Media Association · Published Sep 10, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Paraphrase from native publisher captions, beginning at 07:10.462 in the original window. The original and surrounding/repeat context were reviewed; no audio-authenticated verbatim quotation is claimed.
candidate statement
For: Juan Ciscomani: Taxes: tips, overtime, child credit and business incentives
AZ-06 Clean Elections debate: tax lawhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxRgt6zIqo&t=637s
Arizona Clean Elections Commission and Arizona Media Association · Published Sep 10, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Paraphrase from native publisher captions, beginning at 07:10.462 in the original window. The original and surrounding/repeat context were reviewed; no audio-authenticated verbatim quotation is claimed.
candidate statement
For: Juan Ciscomani: Taxes: tips, overtime, child credit and business incentives
Roll Call 145, H.R. 1, on passagehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025145
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Recorded vote of May 22, 2025, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML. On passage; 215 to 214, one Present.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Taxes: tips, overtime, child credit and business incentives; Juan Ciscomani: The border: more agents; Juan Ciscomani: Medicaid: opposing a proposed matching-rate cut; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology
H.R. 7369, 118th Congress, CBP HiRe Act of 2024https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7369
Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Sponsorship (Ciscomani). Also titled the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Hiring and Retention Act of 2024; official title 'To provide U.S. Customs and Border Protection with adequate flexibility in its employment authorities.' Referred to committee on February 15, 2024, with no further action.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: The border: more agents
H.R. 8029, 119th Congress, Pay Our Homeland Defenders Acthttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8029
Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Sponsorship (Ciscomani) and the CRS summary: full-year fiscal 2026 funding for Homeland Security, including Customs and Border Protection, after the partial shutdown that began February 14, 2026. Passed the House March 26, 2026; received in the Senate April 2.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: The border: more agents
Roll Call 104, H.R. 8029, Pay Our Homeland Defenders Acthttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2026104
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Recorded vote of March 26, 2026, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML. On passage; 218 to 206.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: The border: more agents
Roll Call 466, H.R. 8371, Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Acthttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024466
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Recorded vote of November 18, 2024, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML. On suspending the rules and passing the bill as amended; 389 to 9.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Veterans: education benefits
S. 141, 118th Congresshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/141
Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
The enacted vehicle: passed the Senate with a substitute on December 12, 2024, the House on December 16, signed January 2, 2025.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Veterans: education benefits
H.R. 8371, 118th Congress, as passed by the Househttps://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/BILLS-118hr8371eh
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
House-passed text. Compared with Public Law 118-210 by table of contents: all 75 section titles match, and one (section 403) differs by a single word ('to use of' in the House bill, 'to use' in the law).
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Veterans: education benefits
H.R. 1669, 118th Congress, VET-TEC Authorization Act of 2023https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1669
Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Sponsorship (Ciscomani), the CRS summary (up to 6,000 veterans a year through fiscal 2028) and its referral in the Senate, where it stopped.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Veterans: education benefits
Roll Call 235, H.R. 1669, VET-TEC Authorization Act of 2023https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2023235
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Recorded vote of May 24, 2023, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML. On suspending the rules and passing the bill as amended; 409 to 9.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Veterans: education benefits
H.R. 1458, 119th Congress, VETS Opportunity Act of 2025https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1458
Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Sponsorship (Ciscomani) and the CRS summary: GI Bill repayment within 60 days, and changes to which independent study programs VA education benefits cover. Passed the House by voice vote on February 2, 2026; referred in the Senate.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Veterans: education benefits
H.R. 7100, 118th Congress, Prioritizing Veterans' Survivors Acthttps://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7100
Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Sponsorship (Ciscomani) and passage by voice vote on September 17, 2024. The CRS summary says it moves the Office of Survivors Assistance into the Office of the Secretary.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Veterans: home ownership and survivors
H.R. 8647, 118th Congress, VA Home Loan Program Reform Acthttps://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8647
Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
He is listed as a cosponsor. The bill was forwarded by subcommittee and went no further in that Congress.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Veterans: home ownership and survivors
H.R. 8532, 119th Congress, VA Home Loan Affordability Acthttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8532
Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
He is listed as a cosponsor. Referred to committee.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Veterans: home ownership and survivors
H.R. 9404, 119th Congress, VA Home Loan Navigator Acthttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/9404
Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
He is listed as a cosponsor. Referred to committee.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Veterans: home ownership and survivors
Roll Call 45, H.R. 7148, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, on passagehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202645
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Recorded vote of January 22, 2026, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML. On passage; 341 to 88.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Health: cancer research funding; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology
H.R. 2617, Public Law 117-328, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/PLAW-117publ328
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Used only for the fiscal 2023 National Cancer Institute line, before he took office.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Health: cancer research funding
NCI Professional Judgment Budget, President's Budget and Appropriationshttps://www.cancer.gov/about-nci/budget/fact-book/historical-trends/bypass-appropriations
National Cancer Institute · Reviewed Oct 2, 2026
The institute's enacted budgets for fiscal 1976 to 2026. Its fiscal 2023 total includes $216,000,000 of Cancer Moonshot funding.
official office record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Health: cancer research funding
AZ-06 Clean Elections debate: hospital first responder fundshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxRgt6zIqo&t=953s
Arizona Clean Elections Commission and Arizona Media Association · Published Sep 10, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Paraphrase from native publisher captions, beginning at 15:53.785 in the original window. The original and surrounding/repeat context were reviewed; no audio-authenticated verbatim quotation is claimed.
candidate statement
For: Juan Ciscomani: Community projects: $60 million
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (H.R. 4366, Public Law 118-42), committee print with explanatory statement (document)
U.S. House Committee on Appropriations · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
The enacted text and explanatory statement. Its project tables are page images with no text layer, so they were OCR'd page by page and every row naming him was read on the page image. Thirteen rows, $26,633,927 in all, on printed pages 232, 285, 481, 518, 742, 930, 978, 1262, 1341 and 1342.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Community projects: $60 million; Juan Ciscomani: Water: projects back home
FY24 Community Project Funding tableshttps://appropriations.house.gov/fiscal-year-2024-community-project-funding
U.S. House Committee on Appropriations · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
The committee's own text tables for each 2024 bill, most marked updated March 6, 2024. They carry the same 13 rows and amounts naming him as the committee print, and are the text the verifier reads.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Community projects: $60 million; Juan Ciscomani: Water: projects back home
Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (H.R. 2882, Public Law 118-47), committee print with explanatory statement (document)
U.S. House Committee on Appropriations · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
The second 2024 package (defense, homeland security, labor and health, and others). An OCR search of all 504 table pages found no row naming him.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Community projects: $60 million
Explanatory statement for H.R. 5371, Agriculture, Legislative Branch and Military Construction, 2026https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/CREC-2025-11-09/CREC-2025-11-09-pt1-PgS8043-2
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Congressional Record, November 9, 2025, for the act that became Public Law 119-37 on November 12, 2025. One row names him: $340,049 for the Oracle Fire District. The military construction table, printed as text, has no row naming him.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Community projects: $60 million
Earmark list for H.R. 6938, Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water; and Interior, 2026https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/CREC-2026-01-06/CREC-2026-01-06-pt1-PgH13-3
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Congressional Record, January 6, 2026. H.R. 6938 passed the Senate unchanged and became Public Law 119-74 on January 23, 2026. Six rows name him, $11,199,473 in all: Sahuarita police radios $809,687, Tucson police vehicles $4,200,000, Tombstone water reclamation $989,786, Graham County water line $1,200,000, Marana PFAS treatment $1,750,000 and Marana source water $2,250,000.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Community projects: $60 million; Juan Ciscomani: Water: projects back home
H.R. 6938, 119th Congress, Public Law 119-74https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/6938
Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Passed the House January 8, 2026 and the Senate without amendment January 15; signed January 23, 2026.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Community projects: $60 million; Juan Ciscomani: Water: projects back home
Explanatory statement for H.R. 7148, community project funding tableshttps://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/CREC-2026-01-22/CREC-2026-01-22-pt2-PgH1353-2
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Congressional Record, January 22, 2026; section 4 of Public Law 119-75 gives it effect for divisions A to D. Eight transportation and housing rows name him as House requester, $22,700,000 in all: Bisbee-Douglas airport $2,000,000, Duncan Main Street $1,900,000 (marked House and Senate), Buffalo Soldier Trail $7,000,000, Oro Valley bridge $7,000,000, Frontier Street $1,000,000, Town of Pima $1,000,000, Casa Grande Elementary $1,000,000 and Casa Grande Union High $1,800,000.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Community projects: $60 million
Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025, Public Law 119-4https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/PLAW-119publ4
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Fiscal 2025 was funded by this full-year stopgap. Its section 1111 gives the 2024 earmarks no effect, so 2025 carried no new community projects.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Community projects: $60 million
Community Project Fundinghttps://ciscomani.house.gov/issues/community-project-funding
Office of Congressman Juan Ciscomani · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
His House office's page of community project funding disclosures for fiscal 2025 to 2027. These are requests; what was funded is in the explanatory statements.
official office record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Community projects: $60 million
Final FY2024 Agriculture community-project table (document)
U.S. House Committee on Appropriations · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Final rows name $859,000 for Northern Cochise hospital improvements, Ciscomani and Kelly requesters, and $2 million for Pima’s multipurpose building with Ciscomani as House requester.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Community projects: $60 million
Ciscomani FY2024 community-project purpose memo (document)
Office of Representative Juan Ciscomani · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Office memo describes hospital Main Entry/Emergency Department structural upgrades and Pima’s multi-use fire station/community facility. It states intended purpose, not expenditure or completion.
official office record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Community projects: $60 million
AZ-06 Clean Elections debate: veteran caseworkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxRgt6zIqo&t=1643s
Arizona Clean Elections Commission and Arizona Media Association · Published Sep 10, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Paraphrase from native publisher captions, beginning at 27:23.074 in the original window. The original and surrounding/repeat context were reviewed; no audio-authenticated verbatim quotation is claimed.
candidate statement
For: JoAnna Mendoza: Work: veteran caseworker for Rep. O'Halleran
H.R. 4366, 118th Congress, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law 118-42)https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4366
Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Became Public Law 118-42 on March 9, 2024. It carries the fiscal 2024 Energy and Water and Interior acts whose project lists name him.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Water: projects back home
Ciscomani Secures Wins for District in Annual Defense Authorization Billhttps://ciscomani.house.gov/media/press-releases/ciscomani-secures-wins-district-annual-defense-authorization-bill
Office of Congressman Juan Ciscomani · Published Dec 12, 2025 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
House office press release of December 12, 2025, listing what it says the fiscal 2026 defense bill does for the district.
official office record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Defense: the 2026 defense bill
H.R. 3838, 119th Congress, the House's fiscal 2026 defense authorization billhttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3838
Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Passed the House 231 to 196 on September 10, 2025 (Roll Call 262). The final text moved as S. 1071.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Defense: the 2026 defense bill
Roll Call 262, H.R. 3838, on passagehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025262
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Recorded vote of September 10, 2025, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML. He voted Aye.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Defense: the 2026 defense bill
S. 1071, 119th Congress, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1071
Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Passed the House 312 to 112 on December 10, 2025 (Roll Call 320); the Senate agreed December 17. Became Public Law 119-60 on December 18, 2025.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Defense: the 2026 defense bill
Roll Call 320, S. 1071, on passagehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025320
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Recorded vote of December 10, 2025, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML. He voted Yea.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Defense: the 2026 defense bill
S. 1071, Public Law 119-60, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/PLAW-119publ60
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Enacted text. Used for sections 1047 (T-37 trainers), 1546 (Army electronic warfare testing) and 2608 (Tucson International Airport land). A search of the full text finds no mention of the Electronic Proving Ground by name.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Defense: the 2026 defense bill
Roll Call 280, H.R. 7008, on passagehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2026280
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Recorded vote of July 22, 2026, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML. On passage, 232 to 198; he voted Yea.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Ethics: stock trading by members
Clean Elections debate: water-bill veto votehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxRgt6zIqo&t=3091s
Arizona Clean Elections Commission and Arizona Media Association · Published Sep 10, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 4, 2026
51:31-51:49; Ciscomani describes voting to override a presidential water-bill veto. Paraphrase from the host-matched native captions captured October 4; no independently confirmed exact quotation. Full native payload retained privately.
candidate statement
Clean Elections AZ-06 debate
For: Juan Ciscomani: Water: presidential veto override vote; Arizona's 6th District debate host corrected; Ciscomani's water-veto vote checked
H.R. 131: Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Acthttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/131
Congress.gov · Published Jan 3, 2025 · Reviewed Oct 4, 2026
Full 37-action record captured October 4: House voice-vote passage July 21, Senate voice-vote passage December 16, veto December 29, failed House override January 8. No enactment.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Water: presidential veto override vote; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology
H.R. 131: enrolled Colorado conduit repayment texthttps://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119hr131enr/html/BILLS-119hr131enr.htm
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Oct 4, 2026
Changes repayment terms for the Arkansas Valley Conduit in Colorado, including up to 75 years at reduced simple interest upon demonstrated financial hardship. Enrolled text is not enacted law; the bill was vetoed.
official legislative record
H.R. 131 enrolled text
For: Juan Ciscomani: Water: presidential veto override vote; Ciscomani's water-veto vote checked
September 10 debate: Ciscomani on longer guest-worker permitshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxRgt6zIqo&t=2415s
Arizona Clean Elections Commission and Arizona Media Association · Published Sep 10, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Own-record window beginning 40:15, within the retained native captions. Paraphrase only; the earlier wider exchange source is retained separately.
candidate statement
For: Juan Ciscomani: Guest workers: longer certification and petition periods
Clean Elections debate: Arizona rural health fundinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxRgt6zIqo&t=967s
Arizona Clean Elections Commission and Arizona Media Association · Published Sep 10, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 5, 2026
16:07-16:26, including the $167 million assertion at 16:12. Paraphrase from native captions, with the funding claim kept separate from opponent allegations.
candidate statement
Clean Elections AZ-06 debate, 16:07
For: Juan Ciscomani: Rural health: Arizona’s $167 million award; Arizona's $167 million rural-health award checked
CMS: FY2026 Rural Health Transformation awardshttps://www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cms-announces-50-billion-awards-strengthen-rural-health-all-50-states
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · Published Dec 29, 2025 · Reviewed Oct 5, 2026
The FY26 state award table gives Arizona $166,988,956. CMS ties the program to Public Law 119-21, distinguishes first-year awards from five-year funding, and explains state-plan review and allocation. Award notice separately verifies cents and recipient.
official office record
CMS FY2026 rural-health awards
For: Juan Ciscomani: Rural health: Arizona’s $167 million award; Arizona's $167 million rural-health award checked
Arizona rural health award: February 24 budget revision (document)
CMS, published by Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System · Published Feb 24, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 5, 2026
Award RHTCMS332059-01-01, FAIN RHTCMS332059. Page 1 identifies AHCCCS, Section 71401 statutory authority, $166,988,955.92 for budget period December 29, 2025 through October 30, 2026, and performance through October 30, 2030. Page 3 lifts a contractual restriction while retaining reporting duties. The revision obligates $0 in new money; it preserves the existing award, rather than adding a second award.
official office record
Arizona CMS award revision
For: Juan Ciscomani: Rural health: Arizona’s $167 million award; Arizona's $167 million rural-health award checked
Clean Elections debate: VA executive bonuseshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxRgt6zIqo&t=1325s
Arizona Clean Elections Commission and Arizona Media Association · Published Sep 10, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 6, 2026
22:05.190–22:25.110, with another own-record assertion around 24:08–24:21. Paraphrase from native captions captured October 4; exact words have not been independently authenticated. The full original and surrounding window remain private.
candidate statement
Clean Elections debate: VA executive bonuses
For: Juan Ciscomani: Veterans: executive bonus oversight; Ciscomani's VA bonus oversight checked; claimed result remains open
House Veterans’ Affairs: written questions on VA executive incentives (document)
U.S. House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, published by Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Oct 6, 2026
Hearing Serial 118-65. Printed pages 51–52 (PDF pages 55–56) attribute written questions for VA and the inspector general to Ciscomani. Visually checked because the appendix is scanned. This does not establish oral attendance or live questioning. June 4, 2024 is the hearing date; the GPO title page says Washington 2025. An exact publication date is not supplied here.
official legislative record
House Veterans’ Affairs: written questions on VA executive incentives
For: Juan Ciscomani: Veterans: executive bonus oversight; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology; Ciscomani's VA bonus oversight checked; claimed result remains open
H.R. 7319: VA Bonus and Relocation Recovery Acthttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7319
Congress.gov · Published Feb 2, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 6, 2026
Original cosponsor Ciscomani, February 2, 2026; sponsor Keith Self. Fresh API captures contain all four actions and the single cosponsor with no pagination continuation. Latest action: referral to Oversight and Investigations, March 2, 2026.
official legislative record
H.R. 7319: VA Bonus and Relocation Recovery Act
For: Juan Ciscomani: Veterans: executive bonus oversight; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology; Ciscomani's VA bonus oversight checked; claimed result remains open
H.R. 7319: introduced texthttps://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119hr7319ih/html/BILLS-119hr7319ih.htm
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Published Feb 2, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 6, 2026
Section 2 proposes changes to 38 U.S.C. 721 and 723 for former employees; the 180-day debt-collection rule follows an upheld recoupment order. No veteran allocation or recovered amount is specified.
official legislative record
H.R. 7319: introduced text
For: Juan Ciscomani: Veterans: executive bonus oversight; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology; Ciscomani's VA bonus oversight checked; claimed result remains open
Clean Elections debate: Sierra Vista Vet Centerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxRgt6zIqo&t=1272s
Arizona Clean Elections Commission and Arizona Media Association · Published Sep 10, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 6, 2026
21:12.771–21:33.391. Paraphrase from native captions captured October 4; exact words have not been independently authenticated. Context distinguishes the Sierra Vista assertion from the following secretary-visit claim.
candidate statement
Clean Elections debate: Sierra Vista Vet Center
For: Juan Ciscomani: Veterans: Sierra Vista counseling advocacy; Ciscomani's Sierra Vista advocacy checked; keep-open claim remains open
Ciscomani’s letter on Sierra Vista veterans’ counseling (document)
Office of Representative Juan Ciscomani · Published Jul 20, 2023 · Reviewed Oct 6, 2026
Both scanned pages visually checked. The signed letter describes a closed Community Access Point at the Warrior Healing Center and an already approved transition to a Vet Center Outstation. It asks VA for answers about service access, the closure and the new site’s timetable.
official office record
Ciscomani’s letter on Sierra Vista veterans’ counseling
For: Juan Ciscomani: Veterans: Sierra Vista counseling advocacy; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology; Ciscomani's Sierra Vista advocacy checked; keep-open claim remains open
VA announcement of new Vet Centers and outstationshttps://news.va.gov/press-room/va-adds-new-vet-center-and-outstations/
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs · Published Dec 1, 2023 · Reviewed Oct 6, 2026
Sierra Vista was in the leasing phase with an anticipated 2024 opening. The projection does not establish an actual opening date.
official office record
VA announcement of new Vet Centers and outstations
For: Juan Ciscomani: Veterans: Sierra Vista counseling advocacy; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology; Ciscomani's Sierra Vista advocacy checked; keep-open claim remains open
VA: Sierra Vista Vet Center Outstation statushttps://vetcenter.va.gov/VETCENTER/New_Vet_Centers.asp
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs · Reviewed Oct 6, 2026
Current VA page says services are available in person and virtually Monday through Friday under the Tucson Vet Center, and records an October 2, 2025 community dedication. The dedication date is not treated as the service-opening date.
official office record
VA: Sierra Vista Vet Center Outstation status
For: Juan Ciscomani: Veterans: Sierra Vista counseling advocacy; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology; Ciscomani's Sierra Vista advocacy checked; keep-open claim remains open
AZ-06 Clean Elections debate: citizenshiphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxRgt6zIqo&t=232s
Arizona Clean Elections Commission and Arizona Media Association · Published Sep 10, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Paraphrase from native publisher captions, beginning at 03:52.532 in the original window. The original and surrounding/repeat context were reviewed; no audio-authenticated verbatim quotation is claimed.
candidate statement
For: Juan Ciscomani: Biography: citizenship anniversary
Ciscomani newsletter: citizenship anniversaryhttps://iqconnect.house.gov/iqextranet/view_newsletter.aspx?c=AZ06JC&id=104653
Office of Representative Juan Ciscomani · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
First-person official-office account gives September 18, 2006. It is not a naturalization certificate or court record.
official office record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Biography: citizenship anniversary
Ciscomani district-week report: naturalization ceremonyhttps://ciscomani.house.gov/media/press-releases/ciscomani-wraps-district-work-week-focused-delivering-results-arizonas-sixth
Office of Representative Juan Ciscomani · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Office report describes his account of becoming a citizen twenty years earlier. The year is attributed, not independently adjudicated.
official office record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Biography: citizenship anniversary
AZ-06 Clean Elections debate: bipartisan rankhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxRgt6zIqo&t=249s
Arizona Clean Elections Commission and Arizona Media Association · Published Sep 10, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Paraphrase from native publisher captions, beginning at 04:09.449 in the original window. The original and surrounding/repeat context were reviewed; no audio-authenticated verbatim quotation is claimed.
candidate statement
For: Juan Ciscomani: Bipartisanship: every-year Arizona ranking
Lugar Center and McCourt School: 2023 House Bipartisan Index (document)
The Lugar Center and Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Complete published 2023 House table reviewed. Ciscomani ranks 45th with 0.74924, above the other eight Arizona House members. The table is House-only; excluded members are specified in its notes.
original reporting
For: Juan Ciscomani: Bipartisanship: every-year Arizona ranking
Publisher announcement of the 2023 Bipartisan Indexhttps://www.thelugarcenter.org/newsroom-pressreleases-82.html
The Lugar Center · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Identifies the released annual House and Senate rankings for Congress in 2023; the two chambers have separate tables.
original reporting
For: Juan Ciscomani: Bipartisanship: every-year Arizona ranking
AZ-06 Clean Elections debate: servicehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxRgt6zIqo&t=305s
Arizona Clean Elections Commission and Arizona Media Association · Published Sep 10, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Paraphrase from native publisher captions, beginning at 05:05.104 in the original window. The original and surrounding/repeat context were reviewed; no audio-authenticated verbatim quotation is claimed.
candidate statement
For: JoAnna Mendoza: Military service: what contemporary Marine records show
AZ-06 Clean Elections debate: drill instructorhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxRgt6zIqo&t=331s
Arizona Clean Elections Commission and Arizona Media Association · Published Sep 10, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Paraphrase from native publisher captions, beginning at 05:31.296 in the original window. The original and surrounding/repeat context were reviewed; no audio-authenticated verbatim quotation is claimed.
candidate statement
For: JoAnna Mendoza: Military service: what contemporary Marine records show
Marine reporting: Mendoza leads a Corporals Coursehttps://www.dvidshub.net/news/75941/corporals-course-gives-ncos-leadership-tools-success
Defense Visual Information Distribution Service / U.S. Marine Corps · Published Aug 25, 2011 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Contemporary Marine Corps reporting names Gunnery Sgt. JoAnna Mendoza as staff noncommissioned officer in charge of Corporals Course, CLR-17. This is not proof of recruit drill-instructor assignment.
official office record
For: JoAnna Mendoza: Military service: what contemporary Marine records show
Marine reporting: Mendoza as company gunnery sergeanthttps://www.dvidshub.net/news/119944/always-fight-wounded-warrior-overcomes-challenges
Defense Visual Information Distribution Service / U.S. Marine Corps · Published Jan 31, 2014 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Names Gunnery Sgt. Joanna Mendoza as company gunnery sergeant. The twenty-year retirement and deployment narrative in the article concerns Pedro Aquino, not Mendoza.
official office record
For: JoAnna Mendoza: Military service: what contemporary Marine records show
AZ-06 Clean Elections debate: appropriations memberhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxRgt6zIqo&t=478s
Arizona Clean Elections Commission and Arizona Media Association · Published Sep 10, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Paraphrase from native publisher captions, beginning at 07:58.410 in the original window. The original and surrounding/repeat context were reviewed; no audio-authenticated verbatim quotation is claimed.
candidate statement
For: Juan Ciscomani: Committee service: Appropriations and Veterans’ Affairs
AZ-06 Clean Elections debate: only dual committeehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxRgt6zIqo&t=1239s
Arizona Clean Elections Commission and Arizona Media Association · Published Sep 10, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Paraphrase from native publisher captions, beginning at 20:39.637 in the original window. The original and surrounding/repeat context were reviewed; no audio-authenticated verbatim quotation is claimed.
candidate statement
For: Juan Ciscomani: Committee service: Appropriations and Veterans’ Affairs
House Appropriations membershiphttps://appropriations.house.gov/about/membership
U.S. House Committee on Appropriations · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Complete current committee membership compared with the House Veterans’ Affairs list.
official office record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Committee service: Appropriations and Veterans’ Affairs
House Veterans’ Affairs membershiphttps://veterans.house.gov/about/members.htm
U.S. House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Complete current committee membership compared with the House Appropriations list.
official office record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Committee service: Appropriations and Veterans’ Affairs
Moran’s announced 119th Congress committee assignmentshttps://www.moran.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2025/1/sen-moran-appointed-to-influential-committees-for-the-119th-congress
Office of Senator Jerry Moran · Published Jan 7, 2025 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Dated Senate-office announcement includes Senate Appropriations and Senate Veterans’ Affairs. The House and Senate have separate committees.
official office record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Committee service: Appropriations and Veterans’ Affairs
AZ-06 Clean Elections debate: fmap held votehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxRgt6zIqo&t=1065s
Arizona Clean Elections Commission and Arizona Media Association · Published Sep 10, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Paraphrase from native publisher captions, beginning at 17:45.130 in the original window. The original and surrounding/repeat context were reviewed; no audio-authenticated verbatim quotation is claimed.
candidate statement
For: Juan Ciscomani: Medicaid: opposing a proposed matching-rate cut
April 2025 joint House letter on Medicaid coverage (document)
Offices of the signing U.S. Representatives · Published Apr 14, 2025 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Signed joint advocacy letter includes Ciscomani. It documents a stated condition on support, not the full private negotiation sequence.
official office record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Medicaid: opposing a proposed matching-rate cut
Ciscomani May 2025 negotiation accounthttps://iqconnect.house.gov/iqextranet/view_newsletter.aspx?c=AZ06JC&id=104280
Office of Representative Juan Ciscomani · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
His office reports opposing per-capita caps, provider-tax cuts and FMAP changes in the House negotiation. It is an attributed negotiating account, not proof those changes were all absent from the final law.
official office record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Medicaid: opposing a proposed matching-rate cut
AZ-06 Clean Elections debate: two administrationshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxRgt6zIqo&t=1189s
Arizona Clean Elections Commission and Arizona Media Association · Published Sep 10, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Paraphrase from native publisher captions, beginning at 19:49.154 in the original window. The original and surrounding/repeat context were reviewed; no audio-authenticated verbatim quotation is claimed.
candidate statement
For: Juan Ciscomani: Veterans: work with two administrations
AZ-06 Clean Elections debate: va secretary visitshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxRgt6zIqo&t=1286s
Arizona Clean Elections Commission and Arizona Media Association · Published Sep 10, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Paraphrase from native publisher captions, beginning at 21:26.251 in the original window. The original and surrounding/repeat context were reviewed; no audio-authenticated verbatim quotation is claimed.
candidate statement
For: Juan Ciscomani: Veterans: work with two administrations
Ciscomani newsletter: hosting VA Secretary McDonoughhttps://iqconnect.house.gov/iqextranet/view_newsletter.aspx?c=AZ06JC&id=103110
Office of Representative Juan Ciscomani · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
August 2024 office report describes hosting Secretary Denis McDonough at Tucson VA. No exact visit day is supplied here.
official office record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Veterans: work with two administrations
Ciscomani and VA Secretary Collins: Tucson visithttps://ciscomani.house.gov/media/press-releases/ciscomani-va-secretary-collins-reiterate-support-veterans-during-tucson-visit
Office of Representative Juan Ciscomani · Published Apr 29, 2025 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Dated office release documents a Tucson VA visit and veteran-advisory engagement with Secretary Doug Collins; not an independent visitor log.
official office record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Veterans: work with two administrations
AZ-06 Clean Elections debate: va funding every yearhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxRgt6zIqo&t=1252s
Arizona Clean Elections Commission and Arizona Media Association · Published Sep 10, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Paraphrase from native publisher captions, beginning at 20:52.751 in the original window. The original and surrounding/repeat context were reviewed; no audio-authenticated verbatim quotation is claimed.
candidate statement
For: Juan Ciscomani: Veterans: annual VA funding
VA FY2027 Budget in Brief: historical funding table (document)
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Printed BiB-3 visually reviewed. FY2023–FY2026 Total VA rises 308.8, 335.2, 401.3 and 453.3 billion dollars; FY2027 is a request and excluded. Aggregate includes mandatory/discretionary funding, collections and RETF, with exclusions and rounding.
official office record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Veterans: annual VA funding
House roll call 64: FY2024 appropriations concurrencehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202464
Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives · Published Mar 6, 2024 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Ciscomani Yea on H.Res.1061 concurrence in Senate amendment to H.R.4366 with amendment, 339–85. Corrects unrelated roll reference 70.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Veterans: annual VA funding
House roll call 70: FY2025 full-year appropriationshttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202570
Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives · Published Mar 11, 2025 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Ciscomani Yea on H.R.1968 passage, 217–213. Corrects unrelated roll reference 77.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Veterans: annual VA funding
House roll call 285: FY2026 appropriations concurrencehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025285
Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives · Published Nov 12, 2025 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Ciscomani Yea on Senate amendment to H.R.5371, 222–209. Enacted package includes FY2026 VA appropriations.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Veterans: annual VA funding
AZ-06 Clean Elections debate: veterans 8 millionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxRgt6zIqo&t=1303s
Arizona Clean Elections Commission and Arizona Media Association · Published Sep 10, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Paraphrase from native publisher captions, beginning at 21:43.368 in the original window. The original and surrounding/repeat context were reviewed; no audio-authenticated verbatim quotation is claimed.
candidate statement
For: Juan Ciscomani: Veterans: more than $8 million through casework
Ciscomani office: May 2026 veteran casework totalhttps://ciscomani.house.gov/media/press-releases/reps-ciscomani-and-van-orden-introduce-va-home-loan-affordability-act-expand
Office of Representative Juan Ciscomani · Published May 4, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Reports over $7.5 million returned to veterans through casework. Self-reported aggregate, not an audited beneficiary-payment file.
official office record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Veterans: more than $8 million through casework
Ciscomani office: August 2026 veteran casework totalhttps://ciscomani.house.gov/media/press-releases/ciscomani-honors-local-heroes-fifth-veteran-servant-leader-awards-meets
Office of Representative Juan Ciscomani · Published Aug 27, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Reports over $9 million owed to veteran constituents through VA, IRS, Social Security and other federal agencies. Predates the debate and is not VA-only.
official office record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Veterans: more than $8 million through casework
Ciscomani first 100 days: separate casework totalshttps://ciscomani.house.gov/media/press-releases/ciscomani-highlights-accomplishments-first-100-days-119th-congress
Office of Representative Juan Ciscomani · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Separately reports $8.9 million for all constituents and $3.65 million for veterans, preventing substitution of the whole-office total for a veteran total.
official office record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Veterans: more than $8 million through casework
AZ-06 Clean Elections debate: employmenthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxRgt6zIqo&t=1540s
Arizona Clean Elections Commission and Arizona Media Association · Published Sep 10, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Paraphrase from native publisher captions, beginning at 25:40.371 in the original window. The original and surrounding/repeat context were reviewed; no audio-authenticated verbatim quotation is claimed.
candidate statement
For: Juan Ciscomani: Work before Congress: chamber and governor’s office
AZ-06 Clean Elections debate: townhalls office hourshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxRgt6zIqo&t=1560s
Arizona Clean Elections Commission and Arizona Media Association · Published Sep 10, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Paraphrase from native publisher captions, beginning at 26:00.024 in the original window. The original and surrounding/repeat context were reviewed; no audio-authenticated verbatim quotation is claimed.
candidate statement
For: Juan Ciscomani: Constituent access: town halls and mobile office hours
Ciscomani newsletter: held healthcare telephone town hallhttps://iqconnect.house.gov/iqextranet/view_newsletter.aspx?c=AZ06JC&id=103021
Office of Representative Juan Ciscomani · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Retrospectively describes a healthcare telephone town hall with Julia Strange of Tucson Medical Center and links a recording. It is distinguished from an event announcement.
official office record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Constituent access: town halls and mobile office hours
Tucson Association of Realtors: August 27 town hall announcementhttps://tucsonportal.ramcoams.net/Meetings/Registration/MeetingDetails.aspx?mid=44603c50-2998-f111-a750-00155d100665
Tucson Association of Realtors · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Primary event-host listing advertises August 27, 2026 at its conference room. Closed registration does not prove the event occurred.
original reporting
For: Juan Ciscomani: Constituent access: town halls and mobile office hours
AZ-06 Clean Elections debate: intelligence committeeshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxRgt6zIqo&t=2239s
Arizona Clean Elections Commission and Arizona Media Association · Published Sep 10, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Paraphrase from native publisher captions, beginning at 37:19.136 in the original window. The original and surrounding/repeat context were reviewed; no audio-authenticated verbatim quotation is claimed.
candidate statement
For: Juan Ciscomani: National security: committee roles and Mexico intelligence sharing
Ciscomani office: committees and subcommitteeshttps://ciscomani.house.gov/about/committees-and-caucuses
Office of Representative Juan Ciscomani · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Includes Homeland Security and National Security, Department of State, and Related Agencies appropriations subcommittees.
official office record
For: Juan Ciscomani: National security: committee roles and Mexico intelligence sharing
Clerk: House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence membershiphttps://clerk.house.gov/committees/IG00
Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Complete current roster reviewed; it does not list Ciscomani. A roster is not proof that he lacks briefing access or intelligence-related duties.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: National security: committee roles and Mexico intelligence sharing
AZ-06 Clean Elections debate: tribal tourism feeshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxRgt6zIqo&t=2511s
Arizona Clean Elections Commission and Arizona Media Association · Published Sep 10, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Paraphrase from native publisher captions, beginning at 41:51.842 in the original window. The original and surrounding/repeat context were reviewed; no audio-authenticated verbatim quotation is claimed.
candidate statement
AZ-06 Clean Elections debate: tribal tourism fees
For: Juan Ciscomani: Tribal crossings: a narrow parole-fee proposal; Ciscomani’s veterans work and tribal fee proposal checked
H.R. 5904: tribal ceremonial parole-fee proposalhttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5904
Library of Congress / Congress.gov · Published Nov 4, 2025 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Biggs sponsored; Ciscomani original cosponsor November 4, 2025. Complete captured action list contains introduction and Judiciary referral; no passage or enactment.
official legislative record
H.R. 5904: tribal ceremonial parole-fee proposal
For: Juan Ciscomani: Tribal crossings: a narrow parole-fee proposal; Ciscomani’s veterans work and tribal fee proposal checked
H.R. 5904: introduced tribal parole-fee texthttps://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119hr5904ih/html/BILLS-119hr5904ih.htm
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Published Nov 4, 2025 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Two-year conditional parole exception for specified tribal/religious ceremonies, cultural exchange or celebrations. It substitutes $200, rather than zero, and requires background screening, tribal written request and cultural-program enrollment. This is a parole charge, not a universal tourism or I-94 fee waiver.
official legislative record
H.R. 5904: introduced tribal parole-fee text
For: Juan Ciscomani: Tribal crossings: a narrow parole-fee proposal; Ciscomani’s veterans work and tribal fee proposal checked
AZ-06 Clean Elections debate: arizona mexico commissionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxRgt6zIqo&t=2637s
Arizona Clean Elections Commission and Arizona Media Association · Published Sep 10, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Paraphrase from native publisher captions, beginning at 43:57.034 in the original window. The original and surrounding/repeat context were reviewed; no audio-authenticated verbatim quotation is claimed.
candidate statement
For: Juan Ciscomani: Trade: Arizona-Mexico Commission leadership
March 2019 USMCA policy review: commission leadership (document)
Office of the Arizona Governor / Arizona-Mexico Commission · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Page 3 identifies Ciscomani as Arizona-Mexico Commission vice-chair and signs trade-agreement advocacy. Not a measured-growth attribution.
official office record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Trade: Arizona-Mexico Commission leadership
Archived governor page: Arizona-Mexico Commission directorhttps://azgovernor.gov/governor/files/arizona-week-arizona-mexico-commission-director-juan-ciscomani-talk-mexico
Office of the Arizona Governor · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
The institutional page title identifies him as director; an exact continuous director/vice-chair title chronology is not reconstructed.
official office record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Trade: Arizona-Mexico Commission leadership
Arizona-Mexico Commission: present missionhttps://azmc.org/about-us/
Arizona-Mexico Commission · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Institutional mission covers economic prosperity and quality of life through advocacy, trade, networking and information. A current mission is not his historical job remit.
official office record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Trade: Arizona-Mexico Commission leadership
AZ-06 Clean Elections debate: two year water proposalhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxRgt6zIqo&t=2803s
Arizona Clean Elections Commission and Arizona Media Association · Published Sep 10, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Paraphrase from native publisher captions, beginning at 46:43.366 in the original window. The original and surrounding/repeat context were reviewed; no audio-authenticated verbatim quotation is claimed.
candidate statement
For: Juan Ciscomani: Water: a two-year Colorado River approach
Interior’s 2027–2028 Colorado River operations announcementhttps://www.usbr.gov/newsroom/news-release/5392
U.S. Department of the Interior / Bureau of Reclamation · Published Aug 21, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Announces two-year operational guidelines within a ten-year decision framework and credits concepts from Upper/Lower Basin and tribal proposals. Does not identify Ciscomani’s causal contribution.
official office record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Water: a two-year Colorado River approach
Colorado River operating guidelines for 2027 and 2028 (document)
U.S. Department of the Interior / Bureau of Reclamation · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Final agency action for operating years 2027 and 2028. Lower Basin reductions and state shares depend on implementing agreements; formal section 5.3.C places additional conservation across 2026, 2027 and 2028.
official office record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Water: a two-year Colorado River approach
AZ-06 Clean Elections debate: mail voting advocacyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxRgt6zIqo&t=2951s
Arizona Clean Elections Commission and Arizona Media Association · Published Sep 10, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Paraphrase from native publisher captions, beginning at 49:11.915 in the original window. The original and surrounding/repeat context were reviewed; no audio-authenticated verbatim quotation is claimed.
candidate statement
For: Juan Ciscomani: Voting: mail-ballot tracking advocacy
H.R. 5658: Vote by Mail Tracking Acthttps://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/5658
Library of Congress / Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Ciscomani original cosponsor; House passage November 18, 2024, then Senate referral. Complete 118th Congress action history does not show enactment.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Voting: mail-ballot tracking advocacy
H.R. 7265: Vote by Mail Tracking Acthttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7265
Library of Congress / Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Ciscomani original January 27, 2026 cosponsor. Latest captured action is committee order to report an amended bill on February 4; not enacted.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Voting: mail-ballot tracking advocacy
H.R. 7265: introduced ballot-envelope tracking texthttps://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119hr7265ih/html/BILLS-119hr7265ih.htm
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Published Jan 27, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026
Requires postal tracking barcodes, design/machineability standards and Election Mail logo, with federal write-in absentee exception. Neither a mail-only voting requirement nor enactment.
official legislative record
For: Juan Ciscomani: Voting: mail-ballot tracking advocacy
Jereme Lance Peters, Statement of Candidacy (Form 2) (document)
Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Received April 1, 2026, per the FEC's candidate record.
fec filing
For: Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology
MENDOZA FOR CONGRESS, Pre-Primary 2026 (amended) (document)
Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Principal campaign committee only, covering April 1 to July 1, 2026, the same period as her opponent's. This amendment, received August 27, 2026, replaced the July 9 original and is the version OpenFEC marks most recent. Committee C00897090; Pre-Primary 2026 (amended); coverage 2026-04-01 to 2026-07-01; received 2026-08-27; file 2010002; image 202608279903423910.
fec filing
For: Campaign finance
CISCOMANI FOR CONGRESS, Pre-Primary 2026 (document)
Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026
Principal campaign committee only, covering April 1 to July 1, 2026, received July 9, 2026. The latest report filed by both major campaigns; their October quarterly reports are not due until October 15. Committee C00786194; Pre-Primary 2026; coverage 2026-04-01 to 2026-07-01; received 2026-07-09; file 1989592; image 202607099874836779.
fec filing
For: Campaign finance
Public Law 119-21, section 71401https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ21/html/PLAW-119publ21.htm
For: Arizona's $167 million rural-health award checked
Arizona Media Association AZ-06 debate, 40:21https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxRgt6zIqo&t=2421s
For: Ciscomani’s longer guest-worker validity support checked
H.R. 131 actionshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/131/all-actions
For: Ciscomani's water-veto vote checked

A quick look at the candidates

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What they say they want to do

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What they say they want to do

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What they say they want to do

What the official record shows

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The race in context

Updates to this race desk.

Ciscomani’s veterans work and tribal fee proposal checked

Arizona's $167 million rural-health award checked

Ciscomani's Sierra Vista advocacy checked; keep-open claim remains open

Ciscomani's VA bonus oversight checked; claimed result remains open

Ciscomani’s longer guest-worker validity support checked

Ciscomani's water-veto vote checked

The field, without the campaign gloss

What each campaign says

Where statements meet official action

FEC snapshot through Jul 1, 2026

How the field took shape

Ciscomani joins a guest-worker validity proposal

Ciscomani asks VA about Sierra Vista counseling closure and replacement

VA places Sierra Vista outstation in leasing phase

Hearing record includes Ciscomani written questions on VA bonuses

The Dole veterans act becomes law

The reconciliation act becomes law

Swing files to run

VA records a Sierra Vista outstation dedication

Ciscomani votes to override a water-bill veto

Ciscomani is an original cosponsor of VA recovery proposal

The 2026 spending law is signed

Peters files to run

Official candidate list

Chiricahua National Park Act clears Congress

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