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U.S. House

Colorado
District 8

Election day: November 3, 2026

Three candidates are on the U.S. House ballot in Colorado's District 8.

Sabato's Crystal Ball: Toss-up

Ratings checked October 1, 2026

Updated October 10, 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 10, 2026. Money dates are shown separately.

Gabe Evans

Republican Party

One stated goal Secure the border, strengthen public safety and make life more affordable.

One checked action Voted Yea on House passage of H.R. 1 and Aye on the final House vote. It became Public Law 119-21, which adds a temporary deduction for people 65 and older and requires states to set Medicaid work requirements.

Campaign cash $3,880,463 on , principal committee only.

Listed committee funding Transfers and contributions from joint fundraising committees: $1,796,382; Leadership PACs: $393,800.

Through June 30, 2026. Cash above has its own date.

Funding scope

Money from committees in the 2025-2026 filings through June 30, 2026: lines 11B (party committees), 11C (other political committees) and 12 (transfers from joint fundraising committees), grouped by the FEC's record of the giving committee. Memo entries are left out because they repeat money counted elsewhere. Each line adds up to the campaign's own filed total. The rows sum to 3,214,308.76 dollars, part of what the campaign raised. Donations people made through ActBlue or WinRed are individual contributions and are not in this table. The joint fundraising row includes 10,000.00 dollars reported on line 11C from committees the FEC designates as joint fundraising committees.

Manny Rutinel

Democratic Party

One stated goal Lower costs: expand tax credits for working parents, make billionaires pay what they owe and close corporate loopholes.

One checked action Prime sponsor of HB24-1134, signed into law, which raised Colorado's earned income tax credit to 50% of the federal credit for 2024.

Campaign cash $601,232 on , principal committee only.

Listed committee funding Leadership PACs: $37,000; Labor Organization PACs: $22,500.

Through June 30, 2026. Cash above has its own date.

Funding scope

Money from committees in the 2025-2026 filings through June 30, 2026: lines 11B (party committees), 11C (other political committees) and 12 (transfers from joint fundraising committees), grouped by the FEC's record of the giving committee. Memo entries are left out because they repeat money counted elsewhere. Each line adds up to the campaign's own filed total. The rows sum to 111,000.20 dollars, part of what the campaign raised. Donations people made through ActBlue or WinRed are individual contributions and are not in this table.

Dave Wood

Libertarian Party

One stated goal Lower taxes, so people keep more of their income and can give to local charities.

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

His campaign committee is registered with the FEC but had filed no financial report by October 1, 2026, so there are no figures to show.

Who is running?

Printed ballot candidates

  • Gabe EvansRepublican Party
  • Manny RutinelDemocratic Party
  • Dave WoodLibertarian Party

Source: Colorado Secretary of State 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.

Gabe Evans

Background

  • The sitting member for the 8th District, in his first term; Congress.gov records his service from 2025.
  • His office says he spent twelve years in the Army, flew Black Hawk helicopters and commanded a company in the Colorado Army National Guard, then joined the Arvada police in 2011 and reached lieutenant.
  • Served in the Colorado House for District 48 in the 2023 and 2024 sessions, where he was a prime sponsor of 21 bills.
  • Sits on the Energy and Commerce Committee and the Homeland Security Committee.

What they say they want to do

  • Secure the border, strengthen public safety and make life more affordable.
  • Lower the cost of living by cutting deficit spending, and eventually eliminate the federal deficit.
  • More domestic energy production of every kind, and an end to the summer reformulated-gasoline mandate on the Front Range.
  • School choice and more career and technical education.
  • Protect Social Security and make it tax-free.

What the official record shows

  • Voted Yea on House passage of H.R. 1 and Aye on the final House vote. It became Public Law 119-21, which adds a temporary deduction for people 65 and older and requires states to set Medicaid work requirements.
  • Voted Nay on the discharge motion and on passage of H.R. 1834, which would extend the enhanced marketplace premium tax credits. It passed the House 230 to 196.
  • His FIRE Act, H.R. 6387, passed the House 220 to 198 and went to the Senate. On September 29, 2026 the Senate passed S. 5045, which makes several of the same changes to the same Clean Air Act section in revised form; the House has not acted on it.
  • The Homeland Security appropriations law, Public Law 119-86, funded his $8,685,000 request for Greeley's Gold Hill Pipeline.
  • His Ratepayer Protection Act, H.R. 9340, passed the House 417 to 3 and went to the Senate.

Campaign money from other committees, by type

Transfers and contributions from joint fundraising committees 9 committees$1,796,382
Leadership PACs 90 committees$393,800
Corporation PACs 108 committees$312,500
Trade Association PACs 77 committees$243,500
House 66 committees$159,177
PAC - Qualified 39 committees$158,750
Membership Organization PACs 22 committees$71,700
Labor Organization PACs 5 committees$19,000
Cooperative PACs 5 committees$18,500
Hybrid PAC (with Non-Contribution Account) - Qualified 3 committees$12,500
Corporation w/o capital stock PACs 1 committee$10,000
PAC - Nonqualified 4 committees$5,500
Party committees 1 committee$5,000
Committees the FEC records no type for 4 committees$4,500
Hybrid PAC (with Non-Contribution Account) - Nonqualified 1 committee$3,500

Source: Federal Election Commission

Money from committees in the 2025-2026 filings through June 30, 2026: lines 11B (party committees), 11C (other political committees) and 12 (transfers from joint fundraising committees), grouped by the FEC's record of the giving committee. Memo entries are left out because they repeat money counted elsewhere. Each line adds up to the campaign's own filed total. The rows sum to 3,214,308.76 dollars, part of what the campaign raised. Donations people made through ActBlue or WinRed are individual contributions and are not in this table. The joint fundraising row includes 10,000.00 dollars reported on line 11C from committees the FEC designates as joint fundraising committees.

Manny Rutinel

Background

  • Represented House District 32 in Adams County in the Colorado legislature until he resigned on September 4, 2026.
  • His campaign says he is an attorney with a law degree from Yale and a master's in economics from Johns Hopkins, and that he was an economist for the Army Corps of Engineers.
  • His campaign says he grew up with a single immigrant mother, worked at McDonald's in high school and saw his family's home foreclosed in the Great Recession.

What they say they want to do

  • Lower costs: expand tax credits for working parents, make billionaires pay what they owe and close corporate loopholes.
  • Let Medicare negotiate more drug prices and cap insulin at 35 dollars a month for everyone.
  • Block any cut to Social Security or Medicare and any rise in the retirement age.
  • Ban stock trading by members of Congress, reverse Citizens United and take no corporate PAC money.
  • Rules for ICE agents, including no masks, body cameras and judicial orders, and a path to citizenship for long-time residents and Dreamers.

What the official record shows

  • Prime sponsor of HB24-1134, signed into law, which raised Colorado's earned income tax credit to 50% of the federal credit for 2024.
  • Prime sponsor of SB24-081, signed into law, which bars sale of several product types with intentionally added PFAS from 2026.
  • Prime sponsor of HB24-1338, signed into law, which creates a state environmental justice office and requires refineries to report emissions in real time.
  • Prime sponsor of SB25-006, signed into law, which lets the State Treasurer invest up to fifty million dollars in bonds for affordable for-sale housing.
  • Cosponsor of SB25-276, signed into law, on protecting people's civil rights regardless of immigration status.

Campaign money from other committees, by type

Leadership PACs 11 committees$37,000
Labor Organization PACs 5 committees$22,500
Transfers and contributions from joint fundraising committees 1 committee$18,350
Hybrid PAC (with Non-Contribution Account) - Qualified 3 committees$12,500
PAC - Qualified 3 committees$8,000
Hybrid PAC (with Non-Contribution Account) - Nonqualified 2 committees$7,000
House 3 committees$4,000
Committees the FEC records no type for 5 committees$1,600
Membership Organization PACs 1 committee$50

Source: Federal Election Commission

Money from committees in the 2025-2026 filings through June 30, 2026: lines 11B (party committees), 11C (other political committees) and 12 (transfers from joint fundraising committees), grouped by the FEC's record of the giving committee. Memo entries are left out because they repeat money counted elsewhere. Each line adds up to the campaign's own filed total. The rows sum to 111,000.20 dollars, part of what the campaign raised. Donations people made through ActBlue or WinRed are individual contributions and are not in this table.

Dave Wood

Background

  • His campaign says he was born in 1944 in Rockford, Illinois, and grew up in Boulder.
  • He says he refused the draft in 1966 to challenge it in court, lost, and served 13 months of a federal sentence.
  • He says he worked 28 years at an internet marketing firm before retiring in 2018, and ran for mayor of Superior in 1979.

What they say they want to do

  • Lower taxes, so people keep more of their income and can give to local charities.
  • Stop spending Medicare money on people with high incomes.
  • Fewer foreign wars and less government.

What the official record shows

He has held no public office the desk could find. His own biography names only a 1979 run for mayor of Superior, and he has no FEC candidate registration.

Campaign money from other committees, by type

His campaign committee is registered with the FEC but had filed no financial report by October 1, 2026, so there are no figures to show.

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

  • Manny Rutinel's win in the Democratic primary set up a November race against Republican incumbent Gabe Evans, Colorado Public Radio reported.

    As of Oct 1, 2026.

Latest record

Updates to this race desk.

Public statement

Eight claims from the Colorado 8th debate checked

In the October 7 Berthoud Weekly Surveyor debate, Gabe Evans pointed to his votes on tips and overtime, a Colorado water veto and federal worker unions, nine House-passed measures and three AI bills. Manny Rutinel pointed to his first-session tax credit bill and his trafficking and drunk-driving bills. All eight match the record. Evans's House-passed bills are not law, and the veto override failed.

Named in this record: Gabe Evans, Manny Rutinel

Candidate records

The field, without the campaign gloss

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

Republican Party

Gabe Evans

Current U.S. representative for Colorado's 8th Congressional District, in his first term.

FEC candidate
H4CO08034
Principal committee
C00849844

Public profiles

  • X @GabeforColoradoLinked by the campaign site. A profile link is not a complete archive.
  • Facebook ElectGabeEvansLinked by the campaign site.
  • Instagram: not foundThe campaign site links no Instagram account.

Democratic Party

Manny Rutinel

Holds no public office. He represented Colorado House District 32 until he resigned on September 4, 2026.

FEC candidate
H6CO08013
Principal committee
C00896670

Public profiles

  • X @MannyRutinelLinked by the campaign site. A profile link is not a complete archive.
  • Facebook mannyforcoloradoLinked by the campaign site.
  • Instagram @mannyrutinelLinked by the campaign site.

Libertarian Party

Dave Wood

Holds no public office. His campaign biography says he retired in 2018 after 28 years at an internet marketing firm.

Principal committee
C00950337

Public profiles

  • X: not foundThe campaign site links no social accounts.
  • Instagram: not foundThe campaign site links no social accounts.
  • Facebook: not foundThe campaign site links no social accounts.

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

Evans's campaign wants to lower living costs by reining in deficit spending and regulation. Rutinel's campaign would expand tax credits for working parents and make billionaires pay what they owe. Wood's campaign wants lower taxes and wants Washington to do less. A 2026 law Evans voted for funds his $8,685,000 Greeley pipeline request, though FEMA payment is not shown; Rutinel co-led a 2024 state law raising Colorado's earned income tax credit.

What each campaign says

Gabe Evans

Wants to lower the cost of living by reining in deficit spending and regulation, and to eliminate the federal deficit over time.

Manny Rutinel

Would expand tax credits for working parents, make billionaires pay what they owe, close corporate loopholes and fight junk fees.

Dave Wood

Wants people to keep more of their income and pay lower taxes, and wants Washington to do less.

Health care

Evans's House office says everyone should have access to care and insurance, including for pre-existing conditions. Rutinel's campaign would expand Medicare drug-price negotiation, cap insulin at $35 a month and protect abortion access. Wood's campaign lists no health-care position beyond Medicare on the pages checked. Evans voted for the 2025 law's Medicaid work requirements and a House Republican premium bill now in the Senate, and against extending marketplace premium credits; his statement names no bill.

What each campaign says

Gabe Evans

Says everyone should have access to quality care and insurance, including for pre-existing conditions, and backs drug-price transparency and free-market competition.

Manny Rutinel

Would expand Medicare drug-price negotiation, cap insulin at 35 dollars a month for everyone, curb surprise billing and protect abortion access.

Dave Wood

No statement on health care beyond Medicare was found. His campaign site (home, bio and donate pages), the Libertarian Party of Colorado's candidate list and CPR's voter guide say nothing more.

Social Security and Medicare

Evans's House office says Social Security must be protected and backs making it tax-free. Rutinel's campaign would block any cut to Social Security or Medicare or a higher retirement age, and make the wealthy pay more in. Wood's campaign wants Medicare to stop spending tax money on high earners. Evans voted for the 2025 law adding a $6,000 deduction for people 65 and older through 2028; it leaves Social Security benefits taxed as before.

What each campaign says

Gabe Evans

Says Social Security must be protected and supports making it tax-free; supports Social Security and Medicare benefits.

Manny Rutinel

Would block any cut to Social Security or Medicare or a higher retirement age, and make the wealthy pay more into Social Security.

Dave Wood

Wants Medicare to stop spending tax money on people with high incomes, who he says should pay their own way.

Immigration

Evans's House office backs border security, streamlining legal immigration and deporting immigrants here illegally who commit crimes. Rutinel's campaign would limit how ICE operates, focus deportation on violent criminals and offer Dreamers a path to citizenship. Wood's campaign lists no immigration position on the pages checked. Evans cosponsored the Dignity Act, still in committee, and asked Homeland Security to speed DACA renewals; Rutinel cosponsored and voted for Colorado's 2025 law limiting police help to ICE.

What each campaign says

Gabe Evans

Priorities are securing the physical border, streamlining legal immigration and deporting immigrants here illegally who commit crimes.

Manny Rutinel

Would limit how ICE operates, focus deportation on violent criminals, and create a path to citizenship for long-time residents and Dreamers.

Dave Wood

No statement on immigration was found. His campaign site (home, bio and donate pages), the Libertarian Party of Colorado's candidate list and CPR's voter guide say nothing on this.

Public safety

Evans's House office wants criminals held accountable and police given the tools they need. Rutinel's campaign would fully fund local police, with federal money set aside for small-town and rural departments. Wood's campaign lists no public-safety position on the pages checked. The House passed Evans's counterfeit-pill bill, which is not law; Rutinel led 2026 state laws on fatal-crash toxicology reports and trafficking, and voted for a 2025 police-fund law he did not sponsor.

What each campaign says

Gabe Evans

Wants criminals held accountable and local police given the tools they need; cites Colorado's auto theft and fentanyl deaths.

Manny Rutinel

Would fully fund local police, with dedicated federal money for small-town and rural departments.

Dave Wood

No statement on public safety was found. His campaign site (home, bio and donate pages), the Libertarian Party of Colorado's candidate list and CPR's voter guide say nothing on this.

Energy and environment

Evans's House office backs more U.S. oil, gas, nuclear and renewable energy. Rutinel's campaign would bring down energy bills. Wood's campaign lists no energy or environment position on the pages checked. Evans's Ratepayer Protection Act passed the House 417 to 3 and is not law; Rutinel sponsored 2024 Colorado laws on real-time refinery emissions data and PFAS chemicals in listed products, and his campaign lists the refinery law under a different bill number.

What each campaign says

Gabe Evans

Backs more domestic oil, gas, nuclear and renewable production, and wants the summer reformulated-gasoline mandate dropped.

Manny Rutinel

Would bring down energy bills; his campaign lists state laws he sponsored on refinery emissions monitoring and PFAS chemicals.

Dave Wood

No statement on energy or the environment was found. His campaign site (home, bio and donate pages), the Libertarian Party of Colorado's candidate list and CPR's voter guide say nothing on this.

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.

Matches stated record claim

What they say

His office says his bipartisan Ratepayer Protection Act passed the House 417 to 3.

What the record shows ·

He sponsored H.R. 9340, which passed the House 417 to 3 on September 16, 2026 with his vote and is now in the Senate.

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What they say

His office says his bipartisan Ratepayer Protection Act passed the House 417 to 3.

“Congressman Gabe Evans' bipartisan Ratepayer Protection Act passed the U.S. House of Representatives by an overwhelming vote of 417-3”

What the record shows ·

He is the sponsor of H.R. 9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act. It passed the House 417 to 3 under suspension on September 16, 2026 (Roll Call 312), with his Yea vote, and is in the Senate.

Limit: House passage is not law. Whether the bill would lower anyone's bill is a forecast the record cannot test.

Matches stated record claim

What they say

His office says his Stop Pills That Kill Act, aimed at counterfeit pills containing fentanyl and methamphetamine, passed the House.

What the record shows ·

The House passed his bill, H.R. 8005, by voice vote on September 15, 2026, and it went to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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Quotes, full record and limits

What they say

His office says his Stop Pills That Kill Act, aimed at counterfeit pills containing fentanyl and methamphetamine, passed the House.

“Congressman Gabe Evans’ Stop Pills That Kill Act ... passed the U.S. House of Representatives.”

What the record shows ·

He is the sponsor of H.R. 8005. The House passed it by voice vote under suspension on September 15, 2026, and it went to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Limit: A voice vote records no individual votes. The bill is not law.

Matches stated record claim

What they say

His office says he secured 8,685,000 dollars for Greeley's Gold Hill Pipeline.

What the record shows ·

A 2026 spending law he voted for funds $8,685,000 in FEMA money for the pipeline at his request; whether FEMA has paid the grant is not shown.

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What they say

His office says he secured 8,685,000 dollars for Greeley's Gold Hill Pipeline.

“Congressman Gabe Evans secured $8,685,000 in federal funding for the City of Greeley's Gold Hill Pipeline Project”

What the record shows ·

The explanatory statement for the 2026 Homeland Security appropriations lists FEMA pre-disaster mitigation money for the City of Greeley's Gold Hill Pipeline, 8,685,000 dollars, requested by Evans. Public Law 119-86, signed April 30, 2026, funds the projects in that table. He voted Yea when the House passed the bill on January 22, 2026 (Roll Call 42); the House accepted the final version by voice vote.

Limit: The law funds the project; whether FEMA has paid the grant is not shown here.

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What they say

His office says he appreciates how important it is for everyone to have quality care and insurance, including for pre-existing conditions.

What the record shows ·

He backed Medicaid work rules and a House bill whose group plans cannot deny coverage for pre-existing conditions, but opposed extending premium credits. Coverage effects are estimates.

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What they say

His office says he appreciates how important it is for everyone to have quality care and insurance, including for pre-existing conditions.

“I truly appreciate how important it is for all Americans and Coloradans to have access to quality healthcare and insurance coverage, including for pre-existing conditions.”

What the record shows ·

He voted for H.R. 1 in May and July 2025 (Roll Calls 145 and 190). The law requires states to set Medicaid work requirements for certain adults (section 71119). In December 2025 he voted Yea when the House passed H.R. 6703, the Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act, 216 to 211 (Roll Call 349). It would let groups of employers offer association health plans, which could not deny coverage for a pre-existing condition, and would fund cost-sharing reduction payments from 2027; it is in the Senate. In January 2026 he voted Nay on the discharge motion and on passage of H.R. 1834, which would extend the enhanced marketplace premium credits (Roll Calls 4 and 11); it is on the Senate calendar.

Limit: The statement names no bill or measure. His votes went for tighter Medicaid rules and for the House Republican premium bill, and against extending the premium credits. Neither H.R. 1 nor H.R. 1834 changes the pre-existing condition rules. How many people lose or keep coverage is an estimate, not a record.

Matches stated direction

What they say

His office says he supports efforts to make Social Security tax-free.

What the record shows ·

He voted for H.R. 1, which adds a $6,000 deduction for people 65 and older through 2028 but does not change how Social Security benefits are taxed.

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What they say

His office says he supports efforts to make Social Security tax-free.

“We must protect Social Security and I support efforts to make Social Security tax-free.”

What the record shows ·

He voted for H.R. 1, now Public Law 119-21. Section 70103 adds a 6,000 dollar deduction for each taxpayer 65 or older, for tax years before 2029, phased down above 75,000 dollars of income (150,000 joint). It does not change how Social Security benefits are taxed. None of the 262 measures he had cosponsored by October 1, 2026 would, by its title, end the tax on benefits.

Limit: The deduction lowers tax for many older people, including on benefits, but it is tied to age, not to Social Security, and ends after 2028. It is a step the way he says, not a tax-free benefit.

Matches stated direction

What they say

His office lists his priorities as securing the border, streamlining legal immigration and deporting immigrants here illegally who commit crimes.

What the record shows ·

He cosponsored the Dignity Act, which takes on legal immigration backlogs but has not left committee, and led a letter asking DHS to speed DACA renewals.

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What they say

His office lists his priorities as securing the border, streamlining legal immigration and deporting immigrants here illegally who commit crimes.

“my priorities are: secure the physical border, streamline the system for legal immigration, and deport illegal immigrants who commit crimes.”

What the record shows ·

He is an original cosponsor of the Dignity Act, H.R. 4393, from July 15, 2025. The bill pairs border security and mandatory E-Verify with a Dream Act, a legal-status program, and a title on legal immigration backlogs. It has not left committee. In July 2026 he led a letter asking DHS to speed up DACA renewals. He also voted for H.R. 1, now Public Law 119-21, which adds new fees on asylum, parole, work permits and visas.

Limit: Cosponsoring a bill that has not moved costs little. The letter asks an agency to act; it changes no law. New fees do not by themselves make the system slower or faster.

Matches stated record claim

What they say

In the October 7 debate he said he voted for no tax on tips and no tax on overtime.

What the record shows ·

He voted for the 2025 tax law, which created capped deductions for tips and for the extra pay on overtime that end after 2028, not a full exemption.

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What they say

In the October 7 debate he said he voted for no tax on tips and no tax on overtime.

What the record shows ·

He voted for H.R. 1 when the House first passed it on May 22, 2025 and for the final version on July 3, 2025. It became Public Law 119-21. Its sections titled no tax on tips and no tax on overtime create deductions of up to 25,000 dollars for tips and 12,500 dollars for the extra pay on overtime above a worker's regular rate (25,000 joint), reduced above 150,000 dollars of income (300,000 joint), through 2028.

Limit: They are capped income tax deductions that end after 2028, not a full exemption, and for overtime only the pay above the regular rate counts.

Matches stated record claim

What they say

In the October 7 debate he said his office has passed nine bipartisan bills through the House and is tied for fourth most effective.

What the record shows ·

Eight bills he sponsored and one resolution have passed the House this Congress, two with few Democratic votes; none has become law.

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What they say

In the October 7 debate he said his office has passed nine bipartisan bills through the House and is tied for fourth most effective.

What the record shows ·

Congress.gov lists eight bills he sponsored that passed the House this Congress: H.R. 1679, 1681, 1682, 3628, 6387, 7574, 8005 and 9340. The House also agreed to his resolution condemning the Boulder attack, H.Res. 488, 280 to 113. H.R. 3628 passed 218 to 207 with 4 Democrats voting yes, and H.R. 6387 passed 220 to 198 with 8. None of his measures has become law.

Limit: One of the nine is a resolution, not a bill, and two passed with few Democratic votes. None is law yet. The fourth-most-effective ranking was not checked.

Matches stated record claim

What they say

In the October 7 debate he said he has voted for or sponsored three bills that put guardrails on AI: the KIDS Act, the Open-Source AI Leadership Act and the Ratepayer Protection Act.

What the record shows ·

He voted for the House-passed KIDS Act, which covers AI chatbots, and sponsored the open-source AI and ratepayer bills; none is law.

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What they say

In the October 7 debate he said he has voted for or sponsored three bills that put guardrails on AI: the KIDS Act, the Open-Source AI Leadership Act and the Ratepayer Protection Act.

What the record shows ·

He voted yes when the House passed the KIDS Act, H.R. 7757, 267 to 117 on June 29, 2026; its Title IV covers AI chatbots. He sponsored H.R. 10152, the Open-Source AI Leadership Act, which backs American open AI models and has Commerce assess risks from foreign adversary models; a House committee voted 26 to 21 to advance it. He also sponsored H.R. 9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act, on power costs for data centers, which passed the House 417 to 3. None is law.

Limit: Calling all three AI guardrails is his description. The open-source bill mainly promotes American AI models, and the ratepayer bill is about who pays for data centers' power.

Matches stated record claim

What they say

In the October 7 debate he said he voted to overturn a Trump veto of a water project in Colorado.

What the record shows ·

He voted to override the veto of the Arkansas Valley Conduit bill in January 2026; the override failed, so the veto stands.

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What they say

In the October 7 debate he said he voted to overturn a Trump veto of a water project in Colorado.

What the record shows ·

On January 8, 2026 he voted yes to override the President's veto of H.R. 131, the Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act, which would change repayment terms for a Colorado water project. The override failed, 248 to 177, short of the two-thirds needed; 35 Republicans voted yes.

Limit: The override failed, so the veto stands.

Matches stated record claim

What they say

In the October 7 debate he said he voted to overturn a Trump executive order on the military workforce.

What the record shows ·

He voted for the House-passed bill that would cancel the order, which covers Defense Department civilians among others; it is not law.

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What they say

In the October 7 debate he said he voted to overturn a Trump executive order on the military workforce.

What the record shows ·

On December 11, 2025 he voted yes when the House passed H.R. 2550, the Protect America's Workforce Act, 231 to 195; 20 Republicans voted yes. It would cancel Executive Order 14251 of March 27, 2025, which took many agencies, the Defense Department among them, out of federal union bargaining rules. It is not law.

Limit: He did not name the bill. The order covers civilian workers at many agencies, Defense among them, not military service members. The bill is not law.

Matches stated record claim

What they say

His campaign lists HB24-1134, expanding the earned income tax credit, among bills he sponsored that passed.

What the record shows ·

The signed 2024 law names him as a House prime sponsor; it raised Colorado's credit to 50% of the federal credit for 2024.

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What they say

His campaign lists HB24-1134, expanding the earned income tax credit, among bills he sponsored that passed.

“HB24-1134, to expand the Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income families, which has cut child poverty nearly in half in Colorado.”

What the record shows ·

The signed act names Representatives Weissman and Rutinel as its House prime sponsors. It raised the state credit to 50% of the federal credit for 2024, with later years set by revenue, and was signed on May 14, 2024.

Limit: The child-poverty figure is not tested here; the bill text cannot measure it.

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What they say

His campaign lists SB25-006 as a bill he sponsored to create a 50 million dollar fund for affordable housing.

What the record shows ·

He is a House prime sponsor of the 2025 law, which lets the State Treasurer invest up to $50 million in affordable for-sale housing bonds, not a separate fund.

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What they say

His campaign lists SB25-006 as a bill he sponsored to create a 50 million dollar fund for affordable housing.

“SB25-006, to create a $50 million fund to help finance affordable housing”

What the record shows ·

The signed act names Rutinel and Bradfield as House prime sponsors. It lets the State Treasurer invest state money in bonds for affordable for-sale housing, with an initial investment of no more than fifty million dollars, and reinvest the principal as it is repaid. It was signed on May 15, 2025.

Limit: The law lets the Treasurer invest up to 50 million dollars, and reinvest it, in bonds for affordable for-sale housing; it is not a separate fund.

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What they say

His campaign lists HB24-1388 as a bill he sponsored to crack down on polluters and require impact analyses and real-time monitoring.

What the record shows ·

HB24-1388 is an unrelated bill, but he was first House prime sponsor of HB24-1338, signed in 2024, which requires impact analyses and real-time refinery emissions data.

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What they say

His campaign lists HB24-1388 as a bill he sponsored to crack down on polluters and require impact analyses and real-time monitoring.

“HB24-1388, to crack down on polluters breaking the law and require impact analyses and real-time pollution monitoring.”

What the record shows ·

HB24-1388 is a different bill, on transfers to a nurse home visitor fund, and he is not a sponsor. The bill that fits the description is HB24-1338: he is its first House prime sponsor, and it creates an environmental justice office, requires cumulative impact analyses, and requires refineries to send real-time emissions data. It was signed on May 28, 2024.

Limit: The campaign page prints the wrong bill number. The law he sponsored matches what the page describes.

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What they say

His campaign lists SB24-081, banning forever chemicals in products sold in Colorado, among bills he sponsored that passed.

What the record shows ·

He is a House prime sponsor of SB24-081, signed in 2024, which bars sale of listed product types with added PFAS, not every product.

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What they say

His campaign lists SB24-081, banning forever chemicals in products sold in Colorado, among bills he sponsored that passed.

“SB24-081, to ban toxic “forever chemicals” in products sold in Colorado.”

What the record shows ·

The signed act names Kipp and Rutinel as House prime sponsors. From 2026 it bars sale of cleaning products, cookware, dental floss, menstruation products and ski wax with intentionally added PFAS, with more categories from 2028. It was signed on May 1, 2024.

Limit: The ban covers listed product types, not every product sold in the state.

Matches stated record claim

What they say

His campaign says it takes no corporate PAC money.

What the record shows ·

None of the committees that gave $111,000 through June 30, 2026 is a corporate PAC in FEC records; the largest groups are leadership and union PACs.

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What they say

His campaign says it takes no corporate PAC money.

“My campaign does not take corporate PAC money because I believe elected officials should answer to the people, not corporate special interests.”

What the record shows ·

Through June 30, 2026, his committee reported 111,000.20 dollars from committees on lines 11B, 11C and 12. None of the givers is a corporation PAC in the FEC's records. The largest groups are leadership PACs (37,000 dollars) and labor union PACs (22,500 dollars); 1,600 dollars came from five small committees that are not registered with the FEC.

Limit: The FEC type comes from each committee's own registration. Filings after June 30, 2026 were not yet due when this was read.

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What they say

His campaign says he voted to protect Colorado immigrants from ICE as a cosponsor of SB25-276, which limits Colorado law enforcement's help to ICE.

What the record shows ·

The signed law lists him as a House cosponsor, and he voted yes when the House passed it 42 to 21 in May 2025.

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What they say

His campaign says he voted to protect Colorado immigrants from ICE as a cosponsor of SB25-276, which limits Colorado law enforcement's help to ICE.

“has voted to protect Colorado immigrants from ICE brutality as a cosponsor of Colorado SB25-276, which keeps Colorado law enforcement focused on keeping us safe rather than supporting ICE’s cruelty”

What the record shows ·

The signed act lists Rutinel among its House cosponsors. He voted yes when the House passed it 42 to 21 on May 3, 2025. It was signed on May 23, 2025.

Limit: His page also compares him with the other candidates; a claim about an opponent is outside this site's scope.

No assessment

What they say

His campaign says he championed a bipartisan effort to create a 350 million dollar fund to recruit, train and keep officers.

What the record shows ·

Voters set the $350 million goal. He voted for the law creating the fund's current form, without sponsoring or cosponsoring it; other work for it was not fully reviewed.

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What they say

His campaign says he championed a bipartisan effort to create a 350 million dollar fund to recruit, train and keep officers.

“championed a bipartisan effort, strongly backed by local County Sheriffs, to create a $350 million fund to recruit, thoroughly train, and retain dedicated officers”

What the record shows ·

Proposition 130, which voters approved in November 2024, calls for 350 million dollars more for local law enforcement. SB25-310 carried it out and created the fund in its current form; its sponsors were Senators Kirkmeyer and Bridges and Representatives Bird and Taggart, and Rutinel is not on its sponsor or cosponsor list. He voted yes when the House passed it 55 to 9 on May 5, 2025.

Why there is no assessment here

Championing an effort can mean work a sponsor list does not show. Whether he offered an amendment, spoke for the bill, or backed Proposition 130 before the 2024 vote has not been fully reviewed.

Limit: Proposition 130 set the 350 million dollar goal. SB25-310 put the fund in its current form into law; he voted for it but is not a sponsor.

Matches stated record claim

What they say

In the October 7 debate he said that in his first legislative session he introduced an expansion of the earned income tax credit, and that it cut child poverty in Colorado by 40%.

What the record shows ·

His first session was November 2023, when he was a listed sponsor of a one-year doubling of the state credit; he co-led the 2024 bill, and the poverty figure is not tested.

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What they say

In the October 7 debate he said that in his first legislative session he introduced an expansion of the earned income tax credit, and that it cut child poverty in Colorado by 40%.

What the record shows ·

He was not yet in the House for the 2023 regular session; he is not on its May 7, 2023 roll call. His first session was the November 2023 special session, where he is listed as a sponsor of HB23B-1002. It raised the state credit from 25% to 50% of the federal credit for tax year 2023. He voted yes, and it was signed November 20, 2023. In 2024, his first regular session, he and Weissman were the House prime sponsors of HB24-1134, which set the credit at 50% for 2024.

Limit: He did not name the bill. Colorado lists him as a sponsor, not a prime sponsor, of the 2023 bill, and its increase was for one tax year. The 40% child-poverty figure is not tested; a bill cannot measure it.

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What they say

In the October 7 debate he said he was the lead sponsor of a bill to prevent human trafficking, alongside a Republican co-sponsor.

What the record shows ·

He and Republican Ryan Gonzalez were the House prime sponsors of a 2026 law letting local governments go beyond state rules for massage businesses to prevent trafficking.

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What they say

In the October 7 debate he said he was the lead sponsor of a bill to prevent human trafficking, alongside a Republican co-sponsor.

What the record shows ·

He and Republican Ryan Gonzalez are the House prime sponsors of HB26-1257, signed May 4, 2026. It lets local governments go beyond state rules for massage businesses, to deter illicit ones and prevent human trafficking.

Limit: He did not name the bill. HB26-1257 is the trafficking bill he led, and it works through local rules for massage businesses.

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What they say

In the October 7 debate he said groups such as Mothers Against Drunk Driving have backed him because of his legislation to prevent drunk driving.

What the record shows ·

He led a 2026 law on toxicology reports after fatal crashes and co-sponsored two 2026 drunk-driving laws; MADD's backing is not checked.

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What they say

In the October 7 debate he said groups such as Mothers Against Drunk Driving have backed him because of his legislation to prevent drunk driving.

What the record shows ·

He is a House prime sponsor of HB26-1127, signed May 4, 2026, which has coroners report toxicology results for each person killed in a crash. He co-sponsored two other 2026 laws: HB26-1242, which brings an interlock-restricted license after a first drunk or drugged driving conviction from June 2027, and SB26-132, which has officers offer a voluntary breath test after a crash that kills or seriously injures someone.

Limit: MADD's backing was not checked. The bill he led gathers crash data; the two he co-sponsored act on impaired drivers.

Campaign finance

FEC snapshot through Jun 30, 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.

CandidateCycle receiptsCycle disbursementsCash on handDebt owed
Gabe EvansC00849844$503,977$39,832$3,880,463$154,186
Manny RutinelC00896670$205,085$513,380$601,232$0
Read the filing details

Gabe Evans: July Quarterly 2026 (amended), coverage Jun 11, 2026 to Jun 30, 2026, received Jul 21, 2026, file 2001080, image 202607219894393006.

Manny Rutinel: July Quarterly 2026, coverage Jun 11, 2026 to Jun 30, 2026, received Jul 15, 2026, file 1996970, image 202607159880595361.

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

Chronology

How the field took shape

  1. Earned income tax credit bill signed

    HB24-1134, with Rutinel as a House prime sponsor, became law.

  2. House passes the reconciliation act

    Evans voted Aye on the final House vote on H.R. 1. It became Public Law 119-21 the next day.

  3. House passes a Republican health premium bill

    H.R. 6703 passed 216 to 211 with Evans's Yea. It is in the Senate.

  4. House passes a premium credit extension

    H.R. 1834 passed 230 to 196. Evans voted Nay on it and on the discharge motion that brought it to the floor.

  5. Homeland Security funding becomes law

    Public Law 119-86 funds the Gold Hill Pipeline request Evans made, 8,685,000 dollars.

  6. Ballot order drawn

    The Secretary of State's lot drawing put the Republican first, the Democrat second and the Libertarian third.

  7. Ballot certified to the counties

    The official list for District 8 names Evans, Rutinel and Wood, with no certified write-in.

  8. Rutinel leaves the legislature

    The General Assembly records his resignation from House District 32.

  9. Ratepayer Protection Act passes the House

    Evans's H.R. 9340 passed 417 to 3, a day after the House passed his Stop Pills That Kill Act by voice vote.

  10. Senate passes a wildfire smoke bill

    S. 5045 makes several of the same Clean Air Act changes as Evans's FIRE Act, in revised form. The House has not acted on it.

The details

Election facts. Original sources.

Election date
November 3, 2026
Ballot source updated
Official candidate list dated September 15, 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

    3 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

    21 statement-to-action comparisons across 3 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.

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Sources114 source records

Snapshot as of Oct 18, 2026. The live page may have changed: https://statedrecord.com/races/colorado-us-house-08-2026

How we use sources

  1. Colorado Secretary of State 2026 General Election official candidate listhttps://www.coloradosos.gov/pubs/elections/vote/generalCandidates.html
    2026 General Election official candidate list

    Colorado Secretary of State · Published Sep 15, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Official list reflecting what was certified to the counties on September 4, 2026; page stamped last updated September 15, 2026. District 8 prints Gabe Evans (Republican Party), Manny Rutinel (Democratic Party) and Dave Wood (Libertarian Party), with no certified write-in.

    official election record

    For: Election facts, ratings and race context; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology

  2. How these races were chosenhttps://statedrecord.com/methodology#race-selection

    For: Election facts, ratings and race context

  3. Sabato's Crystal Ball ratingshttps://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/2026-house/

    For: Election facts, ratings and race context

  4. Colorado Public Radiohttps://www.cpr.org/2026/06/30/colorado-district-8-primary-election-2026-results/

    For: Election facts, ratings and race context

  5. Gabe Evans, member profilehttps://www.congress.gov/member/gabe-evans/E000300

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Representative for Colorado's 8th District, Republican, serving since 2025 in the 119th Congress; 27 sponsored measures as of October 1, 2026.

    official legislative record

    For: Candidate roles and profiles; Gabe Evans: background, goals, record and money; Gabe Evans: Seniors: taxes on Social Security; Gabe Evans: Lawmaking: his bills that passed the House

  6. Elect Gabe Evanshttps://www.electgabeevans.com/

    ElectGabeEvans.com (campaign) · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Campaign site; paid for by ElectGabeEvans.com, the committee's FEC-registered name. A single page with biography and four issue headings. Links X @GabeforColorado and Facebook ElectGabeEvans.

    candidate statement

    For: Candidate roles and profiles; Gabe Evans: background, goals, record and money; Costs and taxes

  7. Representative Manny Rutinel, legislator pagehttps://leg.colorado.gov/legislators/manny-rutinel

    Colorado General Assembly · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    House District 32, Adams County, Democrat, attorney. Marked as resigned September 4, 2026.

    official legislative record

    For: Candidate roles and profiles; Manny Rutinel: background, goals, record and money; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology

  8. Manny for Coloradohttps://www.mannyforcolorado.com/

    Manny Rutinel for Congress (campaign) · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Campaign home page; paid for by Manny Rutinel for Congress. Links X @MannyRutinel, Facebook mannyforcolorado and Instagram @mannyrutinel.

    candidate statement

    For: Candidate roles and profiles

  9. Dave Wood biohttps://davewood4colorado.com/dave-wood-bio/

    Dave Wood for Congress (campaign) · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Campaign biography in his own words. Undated.

    candidate statement

    For: Candidate roles and profiles; Dave Wood: background, goals, record and money; Health care; Immigration; Public safety; Energy and environment

  10. Dave Wood for Colorado Congressional District 8https://davewood4colorado.com/

    Dave Wood for Congress (campaign) · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Campaign home page; paid for by Dave Wood For Congress. Links the Libertarian Party of Colorado. No social accounts are linked.

    candidate statement

    For: Candidate roles and profiles; Dave Wood: background, goals, record and money; Costs and taxes; Health care; Social Security and Medicare; Immigration; Public safety; Energy and environment

  11. Abouthttps://gabeevans.house.gov/about/about

    Office of Rep. Gabe Evans · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Office biography: Army and Colorado Army National Guard Black Hawk pilot, Arvada police officer who reached lieutenant, elected to Colorado House District 48 in 2022.

    official office record

    For: Gabe Evans: background, goals, record and money

  12. Representative Gabe Evans, legislator pagehttps://leg.colorado.gov/legislators/gabe-evans

    Colorado General Assembly · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    House District 48, Adams and Weld counties. Lists 108 measures from the 2023 and 2024 sessions, 21 of them bills he prime-sponsored; none concerns construction-defect liability or building codes.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: background, goals, record and money

  13. Representative Gabe Evans, bills as prime sponsorhttps://leg.colorado.gov/legislators/gabe-evans?sponsor_types%5B%5D=Prime+Sponsor&measures%5B%5D=Bill

    Colorado General Assembly · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Filtered to bills he prime-sponsored: 21, from HB23-1045 to SB24-125.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: background, goals, record and money

  14. House Bill 23-1102, signed act (document)

    Colorado General Assembly · Published Jun 5, 2023 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Signed act. Lists Representatives Evans and Bird as the House prime sponsors.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: background, goals, record and money

  15. Committees and Caucuseshttps://gabeevans.house.gov/about/committees-and-caucuses

    Office of Rep. Gabe Evans · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Energy and Commerce and Homeland Security committees; Problem Solvers and Main Street caucuses among others.

    official office record

    For: Gabe Evans: background, goals, record and money

  16. Economyhttps://gabeevans.house.gov/issues/economy-0

    Office of Rep. Gabe Evans · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Issue page. Undated.

    official office record

    For: Gabe Evans: background, goals, record and money; Costs and taxes

  17. Energyhttps://gabeevans.house.gov/issues/energy

    Office of Rep. Gabe Evans · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Issue page. Undated.

    official office record

    For: Gabe Evans: background, goals, record and money; Energy and environment

  18. Education and Parental Rightshttps://gabeevans.house.gov/issues/education-and-parental-rights

    Office of Rep. Gabe Evans · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Issue page. Undated.

    official office record

    For: Gabe Evans: background, goals, record and money

  19. Seniorshttps://gabeevans.house.gov/issues/seniors

    Office of Rep. Gabe Evans · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Issue page. Undated.

    official office record

    For: Gabe Evans: background, goals, record and money; Social Security and Medicare; Gabe Evans: Seniors: taxes on Social Security

  20. Roll Call 145, H.R. 1 (document)

    Clerk of the U.S. House · Published May 22, 2025 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    On passage, May 22, 2025, 215 to 214. Evans (CO) Yea.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: background, goals, record and money; Gabe Evans: Health care: access to coverage; Gabe Evans: Taxes: no tax on tips and overtime

  21. Roll Call 190, H.R. 1 (document)

    Clerk of the U.S. House · Published Jul 3, 2025 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Motion to concur in the Senate amendment, July 3, 2025, 218 to 214. Evans (CO) Aye.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: background, goals, record and money; Gabe Evans: Health care: access to coverage; Gabe Evans: Seniors: taxes on Social Security; Gabe Evans: Immigration: streamlining legal immigration; Gabe Evans: Taxes: no tax on tips and overtime; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology

  22. Public Law 119-21 (H.R. 1, 2025 reconciliation act)https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ21/html/PLAW-119publ21.htm

    GovInfo · Published Jul 4, 2025 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Section 70103 adds a $6,000 deduction for each taxpayer 65 or older for tax years before 2029, phased down above $75,000 of income ($150,000 joint). Section 71119 requires states to set Medicaid community engagement (work) requirements for certain adults.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: background, goals, record and money; Gabe Evans: Health care: access to coverage; Gabe Evans: Seniors: taxes on Social Security; Gabe Evans: Immigration: streamlining legal immigration; Gabe Evans: Taxes: no tax on tips and overtime; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology

  23. Roll Call 4, motion to discharge H. Res. 780 (document)

    Clerk of the U.S. House · Published Jan 7, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Motion to discharge, January 7, 2026. Evans (CO) Nay.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: background, goals, record and money; Gabe Evans: Health care: access to coverage; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology

  24. Roll Call 11, H.R. 1834 (document)

    Clerk of the U.S. House · Published Jan 8, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    On passage, January 8, 2026. Evans (CO) Nay.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: background, goals, record and money; Gabe Evans: Health care: access to coverage; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology

  25. H.R. 1834 (enhanced premium tax credit extension, as passed)https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1834

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Passed the House 230 to 196 on January 8, 2026 (Roll Call 11) after a discharge motion (Roll Call 4). Placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar on February 10, 2026 (Calendar No. 319). It is not law.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: background, goals, record and money; Gabe Evans: Health care: access to coverage; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology

  26. H.R. 6387, FIRE Acthttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/6387

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Sponsor: Rep. Evans. Passed the House 220 to 198 on April 22, 2026 (Roll Call 136); referred to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on April 27, 2026.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: background, goals, record and money; Gabe Evans: Lawmaking: his bills that passed the House

  27. Roll Call 136, H.R. 6387 (document)

    Clerk of the U.S. House · Published Apr 22, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    On passage, April 22, 2026. Evans (CO) Yea.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: background, goals, record and money; Gabe Evans: Lawmaking: his bills that passed the House

  28. H.R. 6387, as passed by the Househttps://www.congress.gov/119/bills/hr6387/BILLS-119hr6387eh.htm

    Congress.gov (GPO text) · Published Apr 22, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Amends Clean Air Act section 319(b) (42 U.S.C. 7619(b)) to bring actions to mitigate wildfire risk, such as prescribed fire, into the exceptional events process.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: background, goals, record and money; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology

  29. S. 5045, Wildfire Emissions Prevention Act of 2026https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/5045

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Sponsor: Sen. Curtis. Passed the Senate without amendment by unanimous consent on September 29, 2026; no House action as of October 1, 2026.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: background, goals, record and money; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology

  30. S. 5045, as passed by the Senatehttps://www.congress.gov/119/bills/s5045/BILLS-119s5045es.htm

    Congress.gov (GPO text) · Published Sep 29, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Amends the same section 319(b). Clause by clause against H.R. 6387: both insert a new (3)(A)(ii) principle that prescribed fire (H.R. 6387: actions to mitigate wildfire risk) can reduce wildfires; both add 'reasonably expected to exist' to the causal test; both add designation, redesignation and classification determinations to what a State may petition on; both strike paragraph (4). S. 5045 also adds deemed approval of petitions after a year and a smoke-ready communities grant program, and drops the FIRE Act's transparency website.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: background, goals, record and money; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology

  31. Public Law 119-86https://www.congress.gov/119/plaws/publ86/PLAW-119publ86.htm

    Congress.gov (GPO text) · Published Apr 30, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Section 4 gives the House explanatory statement of about January 22, 2026 the effect of a conference statement. FEMA's account provides $272,671,513 for the projects in that statement's Community Project Funding table.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: background, goals, record and money; Gabe Evans: Local funding: Greeley's Gold Hill Pipeline; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology

  32. Explanatory statement submitted by Mr. Cole, House Appropriations chair (Book II)https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CREC-2026-01-22/html/CREC-2026-01-22-pt2-PgH1353-2.htm

    Congressional Record, via GovInfo · Published Jan 22, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Homeland Security Community Project Funding table: FEMA pre-disaster mitigation, City of Greeley, Gold Hill Pipeline, $8,685,000, requested by Evans (CO), House origination.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: background, goals, record and money; Gabe Evans: Local funding: Greeley's Gold Hill Pipeline; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology

  33. H.R. 9340, Ratepayer Protection Acthttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/9340

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Sponsor: Rep. Evans. Passed the House 417 to 3 on September 16, 2026 (Roll Call 312) and is in the Senate.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: background, goals, record and money; Gabe Evans: Energy: data centers and electric bills; Gabe Evans: Lawmaking: his bills that passed the House; Gabe Evans: AI: the three bills he named; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology

  34. Roll Call 312, H.R. 9340 (document)

    Clerk of the U.S. House · Published Sep 16, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Motion to suspend the rules and pass, as amended, September 16, 2026. Evans (CO) Yea.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: background, goals, record and money; Gabe Evans: Energy: data centers and electric bills; Gabe Evans: AI: the three bills he named; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology

  35. ElectGabeEvans.com, 2025-2026 committee receiptshttps://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00849844/?cycle=2026

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Lines 11B, 11C and 12 of the cycle's filings through June 30, 2026, read with tools/fec-money/money.py and reconciled to the committee's filed totals.

    fec filing

    For: Gabe Evans: background, goals, record and money

  36. Meet Mannyhttps://www.mannyforcolorado.com/meetmanny

    Manny Rutinel for Congress (campaign) · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Campaign biography. Undated.

    candidate statement

    For: Manny Rutinel: background, goals, record and money

  37. On the Issueshttps://www.mannyforcolorado.com/issues

    Manny Rutinel for Congress (campaign) · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Campaign issues page with a list of state bills he says he sponsored or cosponsored. Undated.

    candidate statement

    For: Manny Rutinel: background, goals, record and money; Costs and taxes; Health care; Social Security and Medicare; Immigration; Public safety; Energy and environment; Manny Rutinel: Costs: the state earned income tax credit; Manny Rutinel: Housing: state money for affordable homes; Manny Rutinel: Environment: polluters and real-time monitoring; Manny Rutinel: Environment: forever chemicals; Manny Rutinel: Money: no corporate PAC donations; Manny Rutinel: Immigration: Colorado's limits on help to ICE; Manny Rutinel: Public safety: the $350 million police fund

  38. House Bill 24-1134, signed act (document)

    Colorado General Assembly · Published May 14, 2024 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Signed May 14, 2024. Prime sponsors in the House: Weissman and Rutinel. Raises the state earned income tax credit to 50% of the federal credit for 2024, with later rates tied to revenue.

    official legislative record

    For: Manny Rutinel: background, goals, record and money; Manny Rutinel: Costs: the state earned income tax credit; Manny Rutinel: Costs: his first-session tax credit bill; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology

  39. Senate Bill 24-081, signed act (document)

    Colorado General Assembly · Published May 1, 2024 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Signed May 1, 2024. House prime sponsors Kipp and Rutinel. Bars sale of listed products with intentionally added PFAS: cleaning products, cookware, dental floss, menstruation products and ski wax from 2026, more categories from 2028.

    official legislative record

    For: Manny Rutinel: background, goals, record and money; Manny Rutinel: Environment: forever chemicals

  40. House Bill 24-1338, signed act (document)

    Colorado General Assembly · Published May 28, 2024 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Signed May 28, 2024. House prime sponsors Rutinel and Velasco. Creates an environmental justice office, requires environmental equity and cumulative impact analyses, and requires petroleum refineries to provide real-time emissions monitoring data.

    official legislative record

    For: Manny Rutinel: background, goals, record and money; Manny Rutinel: Environment: polluters and real-time monitoring

  41. Senate Bill 25-006, signed act (document)

    Colorado General Assembly · Published May 15, 2025 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Signed May 15, 2025. House prime sponsors Rutinel and Bradfield. Lets the State Treasurer invest state money in bonds for affordable for-sale housing; the initial investment may not exceed fifty million dollars.

    official legislative record

    For: Manny Rutinel: background, goals, record and money; Manny Rutinel: Housing: state money for affordable homes

  42. Senate Bill 25-276, signed act (document)

    Colorado General Assembly · Published May 23, 2025 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Signed May 23, 2025. Measures to prevent violation of civil rights based on immigration status. House prime sponsors Velasco and Garcia; Rutinel is listed among the House cosponsors.

    official legislative record

    For: Manny Rutinel: background, goals, record and money; Manny Rutinel: Immigration: Colorado's limits on help to ICE

  43. Manny Rutinel for Congress, 2025-2026 committee receiptshttps://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00896670/?cycle=2026

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Lines 11B, 11C and 12 of the cycle's filings through June 30, 2026, read with tools/fec-money/money.py and reconciled to the committee's filed totals.

    fec filing

    For: Manny Rutinel: background, goals, record and money; Manny Rutinel: Money: no corporate PAC donations

  44. Candidates for U.S. House, Colorado District 8, 2026https://www.fec.gov/data/candidates/house/?state=CO&district=08&election_year=2026

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Eleven 2026 candidate registrations for the district. Evans is H4CO08034 and Rutinel H6CO08013; no candidate registration for Dave Wood was found here or by name search.

    fec filing

    For: Dave Wood: background, goals, record and money

  45. Dave Wood for Congresshttps://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00950337/

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Principal campaign committee C00950337, first filed May 11, 2026. Its filings are five statements of organization; no financial report and no linked candidate registration were on file on October 1, 2026.

    fec filing

    For: Dave Wood: background, goals, record and money

  46. Electronic filings by Dave Wood for Congresshttps://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00950337/

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Lists five filings on October 1, 2026, all statements of organization (one F1N and four F1A, May 11 to August 5, 2026). No financial report is listed.

    fec filing

    For: Dave Wood: background, goals, record and money

  47. Healthcarehttps://gabeevans.house.gov/issues/healthcare

    Office of Rep. Gabe Evans · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Issue page. Undated.

    official office record

    For: Health care; Gabe Evans: Health care: access to coverage

  48. Donate to Win this Novemberhttps://davewood4colorado.com/donate-to-win-this-november/

    Dave Wood for Congress (campaign) · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Gives only a mailing address for checks. The site's sitemap lists this page, the home page, the bio and a WordPress 'Hello World' placeholder post, and nothing else.

    candidate statement

    For: Health care; Immigration; Public safety; Energy and environment

  49. 2026 Libertarian candidateshttps://lpcolorado.org/candidates-2/

    Libertarian Party of Colorado · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Lists 'Congressional District 8 – David Wood' with no positions.

    endorsement

    For: Health care; Immigration; Public safety; Energy and environment

  50. 8th Congressional District voter guidehttps://www.cpr.org/2026/09/24/vg-2026-8th-congressional-district-voter-guide/

    Colorado Public Radio · Published Sep 24, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Names Wood as the Libertarian candidate in one sentence and quotes no position from him.

    original reporting

    For: Health care; Immigration; Public safety; Energy and environment

  51. Border Security and Immigrationhttps://gabeevans.house.gov/issues/border-security-and-immigration

    Office of Rep. Gabe Evans · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Issue page. Undated.

    official office record

    For: Immigration; Gabe Evans: Immigration: streamlining legal immigration

  52. Public Safetyhttps://gabeevans.house.gov/issues/public-safety

    Office of Rep. Gabe Evans · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Issue page. Undated.

    official office record

    For: Public safety

  53. Congressman Gabe Evans' Bipartisan Ratepayer Protection Act Passes the Househttps://gabeevans.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-gabe-evans-bipartisan-ratepayer-protection-act-passes-house

    Office of Rep. Gabe Evans · Published Sep 16, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Press release dated September 16, 2026.

    official office record

    For: Gabe Evans: Energy: data centers and electric bills

  54. Congressman Gabe Evans' Stop Pills That Kill Act Passes Househttps://gabeevans.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-gabe-evans-stop-pills-kill-act-passes-house

    Office of Rep. Gabe Evans · Published Sep 15, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Press release dated September 15, 2026.

    official office record

    For: Gabe Evans: Public safety: counterfeit fentanyl pills

  55. H.R. 8005, Stop Pills That Kill Acthttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8005

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Sponsor: Rep. Evans. Passed the House by voice vote under suspension on September 15, 2026; referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: Public safety: counterfeit fentanyl pills; Gabe Evans: Lawmaking: his bills that passed the House; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology

  56. Rep. Gabe Evans Secures $8.6 Million for Greeley's Gold Hill Pipeline Projecthttps://gabeevans.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-gabe-evans-secures-86-million-greeleys-gold-hill-pipeline-project

    Office of Rep. Gabe Evans · Published May 4, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Press release dated May 4, 2026.

    official office record

    For: Gabe Evans: Local funding: Greeley's Gold Hill Pipeline

  57. H.R. 7147, Homeland Security and Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7147

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Passed the House 220 to 207 on January 22, 2026 (Roll Call 42); the House concurred in the Senate amendment by voice vote on April 30, 2026, and it became Public Law 119-86 the same day.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: Local funding: Greeley's Gold Hill Pipeline

  58. Roll Call 42, H.R. 7147 (document)

    Clerk of the U.S. House · Published Jan 22, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    On passage, January 22, 2026. Evans (CO) Yea.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: Local funding: Greeley's Gold Hill Pipeline

  59. Roll Call 349, H.R. 6703 (document)

    Clerk of the U.S. House · Published Dec 17, 2025 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    On passage, December 17, 2025, 216 to 211. Evans (CO) Yea. On the motion to recommit just before (Roll Call 348) he voted Nay.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: Health care: access to coverage; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology

  60. H.R. 6703, Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Acthttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/6703

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Sponsor: Rep. Miller-Meeks. Passed the House 216 to 211 on December 17, 2025 (Roll Call 349); received in the Senate December 18, 2025. It is not law.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: Health care: access to coverage; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology

  61. H.R. 6703, as passed by the Househttps://www.congress.gov/119/bills/hr6703/BILLS-119hr6703eh.htm

    Congress.gov (GPO text) · Published Dec 17, 2025 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Section 101 sets rules for association health plans, which may not deny coverage on the basis of a pre-existing condition. Section 201 oversees pharmacy benefit managers. Section 202 funds cost-sharing reduction payments from plan year 2027.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: Health care: access to coverage

  62. H.R. 1834, as passed by the Househttps://www.congress.gov/119/bills/hr1834/BILLS-119hr1834eh.htm

    Congress.gov (GPO text) · Published Jan 8, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Its official title is 'To advance policy priorities that will break the gridlock.' Its one section, Extension of enhanced premium tax credit, extends the enhanced credits through 2028. It does not mention pre-existing conditions.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: Health care: access to coverage

  63. H.R. 4393, DIGNIDAD (Dignity) Act of 2025https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4393

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Sponsor: Rep. Salazar. Evans is an original cosponsor, from July 15, 2025, one of 39. Referred to committee; no floor action.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: Immigration: streamlining legal immigration

  64. H.R. 4393, introduced texthttps://www.congress.gov/119/bills/hr4393/BILLS-119hr4393ih.htm

    Congress.gov (GPO text) · Published Jul 15, 2025 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Titles cover border security, mandatory E-Verify, asylum, a Dream Act, a Dignity Program legal status, and a title called Fairness for Legal Immigrants whose section 3201 is Reduction of backlogs.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: Immigration: streamlining legal immigration

  65. Congressman Gabe Evans Leads Congressional Effort to Address DACA Renewal Delayshttps://gabeevans.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-gabe-evans-leads-congressional-effort-address-daca-renewal-delays

    Office of Rep. Gabe Evans · Published Jul 6, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Press release dated July 6, 2026, on a letter to DHS and USCIS asking for faster DACA renewals.

    official office record

    For: Gabe Evans: Immigration: streamlining legal immigration

  66. Berthoud Weekly Surveyor CD8 debate, October 7, 2026 (at 51:39)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOy67ykEoHc&t=3099s

    Berthoud Weekly Surveyor · Published Oct 8, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    The Surveyor's full video of the October 7 debate at Grace Place, Berthoud. Evans says he voted for no tax on tips and no tax on overtime; he also lists both at 10:59. Described from YouTube's captions of the video, read on October 10, 2026; not quoted, because a second transcript to check the wording against was not available.

    candidate statement

    For: Gabe Evans: Taxes: no tax on tips and overtime

  67. Berthoud Weekly Surveyor CD8 debate, October 7, 2026 (at 61:40)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOy67ykEoHc&t=3700s

    Berthoud Weekly Surveyor · Published Oct 8, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    The Surveyor's full video of the October 7 debate at Grace Place, Berthoud. Evans says his office is tied for fourth most effective and has passed nine bipartisan bills through the House. Described from YouTube's captions of the video, read on October 10, 2026; not quoted, because a second transcript to check the wording against was not available.

    candidate statement

    For: Gabe Evans: Lawmaking: his bills that passed the House

  68. H.R. 1679, Global Investment in American Jobs Act of 2025https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1679

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Sponsor: Rep. Evans. Passed the House; not law.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: Lawmaking: his bills that passed the House

  69. H.R. 1681, Expediting Federal Broadband Deployment Reviews Acthttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1681

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Sponsor: Rep. Evans. Passed the House; not law.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: Lawmaking: his bills that passed the House

  70. H.R. 1682, BELO's Acthttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1682

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Sponsor: Rep. Evans. Passed the House; not law.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: Lawmaking: his bills that passed the House

  71. H.R. 3628, State Planning for Reliability and Affordability Acthttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3628

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Sponsor: Rep. Evans. Passed the House; not law.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: Lawmaking: his bills that passed the House

  72. H.R. 7574, ELO Realignment and Strategic Engagement Reform Act of 2026https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7574

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Sponsor: Rep. Evans. Passed the House; not law.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: Lawmaking: his bills that passed the House

  73. H.Res. 488, denouncing the antisemitic terrorist attack in Boulderhttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/488

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Sponsor: Rep. Evans. Agreed to in the House.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: Lawmaking: his bills that passed the House

  74. Roll Call 158, H.Res. 488 (document)

    Clerk of the U.S. House · Published Jun 9, 2025 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Motion to suspend the rules and agree, June 9, 2025, 280 to 113, with 6 present. Evans (CO) Yea.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: Lawmaking: his bills that passed the House

  75. Roll Call 323, H.R. 3628 (document)

    Clerk of the U.S. House · Published Dec 11, 2025 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    On passage, December 11, 2025, 218 to 207. Republicans 214 yes, 1 no; Democrats 4 yes, 206 no.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: Lawmaking: his bills that passed the House

  76. Berthoud Weekly Surveyor CD8 debate, October 7, 2026 (at 40:26)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOy67ykEoHc&t=2426s

    Berthoud Weekly Surveyor · Published Oct 8, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    The Surveyor's full video of the October 7 debate at Grace Place, Berthoud. Evans says he has voted for or sponsored three bills to put guardrails around AI: the KIDS Act, the Open-Source AI Leadership Act and the Ratepayer Protection Act. Described from YouTube's captions of the video, read on October 10, 2026; not quoted, because a second transcript to check the wording against was not available.

    candidate statement

    For: Gabe Evans: AI: the three bills he named

  77. Roll Call 228, H.R. 7757 (document)

    Clerk of the U.S. House · Published Jun 29, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    KIDS Act, motion to suspend the rules and pass, as amended, June 29, 2026, 267 to 117. Evans (CO) Yea.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: AI: the three bills he named

  78. H.R. 7757, KIDS Act, as passed by the Househttps://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119hr7757eh/html/BILLS-119hr7757eh.htm

    GovInfo · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    The Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act. Title IV is on artificial intelligence chatbots. Not law.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: AI: the three bills he named

  79. H.R. 10152, Open-Source AI Leadership Acthttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/10152

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Sponsor: Rep. Evans. A House committee voted 26 to 21 to report it. Not law.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: AI: the three bills he named

  80. H.R. 10152, Open-Source AI Leadership Act, as introducedhttps://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119hr10152ih/html/BILLS-119hr10152ih.htm

    GovInfo · Published Aug 27, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Has the Commerce Secretary support the use of American open AI models and assess the risks of foreign adversary models.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: AI: the three bills he named

  81. H.R. 9340, Ratepayer Protection Act, as passed by the Househttps://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119hr9340eh/html/BILLS-119hr9340eh.htm

    GovInfo · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Requires utility rates for very large computing sites, such as data centers, to recover the full cost of the power upgrades they need.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: AI: the three bills he named

  82. Berthoud Weekly Surveyor CD8 debate, October 7, 2026 (at 60:33)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOy67ykEoHc&t=3633s

    Berthoud Weekly Surveyor · Published Oct 8, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    The Surveyor's full video of the October 7 debate at Grace Place, Berthoud. Evans says he voted to overturn a Trump veto of a water project in Colorado. Described from YouTube's captions of the video, read on October 10, 2026; not quoted, because a second transcript to check the wording against was not available.

    candidate statement

    For: Gabe Evans: Water: the Arkansas Valley Conduit veto

  83. Roll Call 9, H.R. 131 veto override (document)

    Clerk of the U.S. House · Published Jan 8, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Passage over the President's objections, January 8, 2026, 248 to 177 with 1 present; two-thirds were needed, so it failed. Republicans 35 yes, 177 no. Evans (CO) Yea.

    official legislative record

    House Roll Call 9, January 8, 2026

    For: Gabe Evans: Water: the Arkansas Valley Conduit veto; Eight claims from the Colorado 8th debate checked

  84. H.R. 131, Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act, enrolledhttps://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119hr131enr/html/BILLS-119hr131enr.htm

    GovInfo · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Would change the repayment terms for the Arkansas Valley Conduit, a water project in Colorado. Vetoed; not law.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: Water: the Arkansas Valley Conduit veto

  85. Berthoud Weekly Surveyor CD8 debate, October 7, 2026 (at 60:38)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOy67ykEoHc&t=3638s

    Berthoud Weekly Surveyor · Published Oct 8, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    The Surveyor's full video of the October 7 debate at Grace Place, Berthoud. Evans says he voted to overturn a Trump executive order on the military workforce. Described from YouTube's captions of the video, read on October 10, 2026; not quoted, because a second transcript to check the wording against was not available.

    candidate statement

    For: Gabe Evans: Federal workers: the union order

  86. Roll Call 332, H.R. 2550 (document)

    Clerk of the U.S. House · Published Dec 11, 2025 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Protect America's Workforce Act, passage, December 11, 2025, 231 to 195. Republicans 20 yes, 195 no. Evans (CO) Yea.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: Federal workers: the union order

  87. H.R. 2550, Protect America's Workforce Act, as passed by the Househttps://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119hr2550eh/html/BILLS-119hr2550eh.htm

    GovInfo · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Says the March 27, 2025 executive order on exclusions from federal labor-management programs shall have no force or effect. Not law.

    official legislative record

    For: Gabe Evans: Federal workers: the union order

  88. Executive Order 14251, Exclusions From Federal Labor-Management Relations Programshttps://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-04-03/html/2025-05836.htm

    Federal Register (GovInfo) · Published Apr 3, 2025 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Signed March 27, 2025. Takes many agencies out of the federal labor-management (union bargaining) rules; the Department of Defense is on the list.

    official office record

    For: Gabe Evans: Federal workers: the union order

  89. House Bill 24-1388, signed act (document)

    Colorado General Assembly · Published Apr 18, 2024 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Signed April 18, 2024. Transfers money to the Nurse Home Visitor Program Fund. Sponsors Sirota and Taggart; Rutinel is not listed.

    official legislative record

    For: Manny Rutinel: Environment: polluters and real-time monitoring

  90. HB24-1388, bill pagehttps://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1388.html

    Colorado General Assembly · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Sponsor list (prime, sponsor, co-sponsor) does not include Rutinel. The same page layout lists him as a co-sponsor on SB25-276.

    official legislative record

    For: Manny Rutinel: Environment: polluters and real-time monitoring

  91. Manny Rutinel for Congress, line 11C receipts, 2025-2026https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/?committee_id=C00896670&two_year_transaction_period=2026&line_number=F3-11C

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    41 itemized rows through June 30, 2026. The FEC classes none of the contributing committees as a corporation PAC; the five it gives no type are state candidate committees.

    fec filing

    For: Manny Rutinel: Money: no corporate PAC donations

  92. SB25-276 House third reading votehttps://leg.colorado.gov/bill_votes/22380

    Colorado General Assembly · Published May 3, 2025 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    May 3, 2025, 42 yes, 21 no, 2 excused. Rutinel voted yes.

    official legislative record

    For: Manny Rutinel: Immigration: Colorado's limits on help to ICE

  93. Senate Bill 25-310, signed act (document)

    Colorado General Assembly · Published Jun 2, 2025 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Signed June 2, 2025. Implements Proposition 130 and sets the $350 million total. Senate prime sponsors Kirkmeyer and Bridges, House prime sponsors Bird and Taggart; Rutinel is not on the sponsor or cosponsor list.

    official legislative record

    For: Manny Rutinel: Public safety: the $350 million police fund

  94. SB25-310, Proposition 130 Implementation, bill pagehttps://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-310.html

    Colorado General Assembly · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Bill summary: voters approved Proposition 130 at the November 2024 election, requiring $350 million more for local law enforcement; the act creates the peace officer training and support fund. Sponsor list (prime, sponsor, co-sponsor) does not include Rutinel.

    official legislative record

    For: Manny Rutinel: Public safety: the $350 million police fund

  95. SB25-310 House third reading votehttps://leg.colorado.gov/bill_votes/21667

    Colorado General Assembly · Published May 5, 2025 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    May 5, 2025, third reading of the bill, 55 yes, 9 no, 1 excused. Rutinel voted yes.

    official legislative record

    For: Manny Rutinel: Public safety: the $350 million police fund

  96. Berthoud Weekly Surveyor CD8 debate, October 7, 2026 (at 5:37)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOy67ykEoHc&t=337s

    Berthoud Weekly Surveyor · Published Oct 8, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    The Surveyor's full video of the October 7 debate at Grace Place, Berthoud. Rutinel says that in his first legislative session he introduced an expansion of the earned income tax credit, and that it cut child poverty in Colorado by 40%. Described from YouTube's captions of the video, read on October 10, 2026; not quoted, because a second transcript to check the wording against was not available.

    candidate statement

    For: Manny Rutinel: Costs: his first-session tax credit bill

  97. House Bill 23B-1002, Increased Earned Income Tax Credit 2023https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb23b-1002.html

    Colorado General Assembly · Published Nov 20, 2023 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    November 2023 special session. Raises the state credit from 25% to 50% of the federal credit for tax year 2023. Signed November 20, 2023. Rutinel is listed as a sponsor; the prime sponsors are Willford, Young, Fields and Kolker.

    official legislative record

    HB23B-1002, Colorado General Assembly

    For: Manny Rutinel: Costs: his first-session tax credit bill; Eight claims from the Colorado 8th debate checked

  98. HB23B-1002 House third reading votehttps://leg.colorado.gov/bill_votes/23366

    Colorado General Assembly · Published Nov 18, 2023 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    November 18, 2023, 39 yes, 20 no, 6 excused. Rutinel voted yes.

    official legislative record

    For: Manny Rutinel: Costs: his first-session tax credit bill

  99. HB23-1112 House vote, May 7, 2023https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_votes/12474

    Colorado General Assembly · Published May 7, 2023 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Vote to concur in Senate amendments near the end of the 2023 regular session, 57 yes, 7 no, 1 excused. Rutinel is not on the House roll.

    official legislative record

    For: Manny Rutinel: Costs: his first-session tax credit bill

  100. Berthoud Weekly Surveyor CD8 debate, October 7, 2026 (at 33:21)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOy67ykEoHc&t=2001s

    Berthoud Weekly Surveyor · Published Oct 8, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    The Surveyor's full video of the October 7 debate at Grace Place, Berthoud. Rutinel says he was the lead sponsor of a bill to prevent human trafficking, alongside a Republican co-sponsor. Described from YouTube's captions of the video, read on October 10, 2026; not quoted, because a second transcript to check the wording against was not available.

    candidate statement

    For: Manny Rutinel: Public safety: his human trafficking bill

  101. House Bill 26-1257, Local Regulation of Massage Facilitieshttps://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb26-1257.html

    Colorado General Assembly · Published May 4, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Signed May 4, 2026. House prime sponsors Gonzalez and Rutinel; Senate prime sponsors Liston and Mullica. Lets local governments go beyond state rules for massage businesses, including to prevent human trafficking.

    official legislative record

    For: Manny Rutinel: Public safety: his human trafficking bill

  102. Representative Ryan Gonzalezhttps://leg.colorado.gov/legislators/ryan-gonzalez

    Colorado General Assembly · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Legislator page. Party: Republican.

    official legislative record

    For: Manny Rutinel: Public safety: his human trafficking bill

  103. Berthoud Weekly Surveyor CD8 debate, October 7, 2026 (at 29:09)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOy67ykEoHc&t=1749s

    Berthoud Weekly Surveyor · Published Oct 8, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    The Surveyor's full video of the October 7 debate at Grace Place, Berthoud. Rutinel says groups such as Mothers Against Drunk Driving have backed him because of his legislation to prevent drunk driving. Described from YouTube's captions of the video, read on October 10, 2026; not quoted, because a second transcript to check the wording against was not available.

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  104. House Bill 26-1127, Reporting After Fatal Car Crashhttps://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb26-1127.html

    Colorado General Assembly · Published May 4, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Signed May 4, 2026. House prime sponsors Joseph and Rutinel. Coroners must report toxicology results for each person who dies after a motor vehicle crash.

    official legislative record

    For: Manny Rutinel: Public safety: drunk driving bills

  105. House Bill 26-1242, Interlock Device for Impaired Drivershttps://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb26-1242.html

    Colorado General Assembly · Published May 28, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Signed May 28, 2026. Rutinel is a co-sponsor. From June 1, 2027, a first conviction for driving under the influence brings an interlock-restricted license.

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  106. Senate Bill 26-132, Voluntary Alcohol Breath Testhttps://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb26-132.html

    Colorado General Assembly · Published Jun 4, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Signed June 4, 2026. Rutinel is a House co-sponsor. After a crash that kills or seriously injures someone, officers must offer the driver a voluntary breath test, with some exceptions.

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  107. 2026 General Election ballot order for major and minor party candidateshttps://www.coloradosos.gov/pubs/elections/vote/generalBallotOrder.html

    Colorado Secretary of State · Published Jul 28, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Results of the July 28, 2026 lot drawing, with an Excel version. The U.S. House District 8 row reads Democratic Party 2, Republican Party 1, Libertarian Party 3.

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    For: Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology

  108. Rep. Evans Celebrates Passage of Bipartisan FIRE/WEPA Act Through Senatehttps://gabeevans.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-evans-celebrates-passage-bipartisan-firewepa-act-through-senate

    Office of Rep. Gabe Evans · Published Sep 30, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Press release of September 30, 2026. Says the Senate bill incorporates key provisions he championed.

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  109. ElectGabeEvans.com, July Quarterly 2026 (amended)https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00849844/2001080/

    Federal Election Commission · Published Jul 21, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Amended July Quarterly, file 2001080, received July 21, 2026, covering June 11 to June 30, 2026. It replaces file 1995208 with the same totals. Committee C00849844; July Quarterly 2026 (amended); coverage 2026-06-11 to 2026-06-30; received 2026-07-21; file 2001080; image 202607219894393006.

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  110. Manny Rutinel for Congress, July Quarterly 2026https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00896670/1996970/

    Federal Election Commission · Published Jul 15, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    July Quarterly, file 1996970, received July 15, 2026, covering June 11 to June 30, 2026. Committee C00896670; July Quarterly 2026; coverage 2026-06-11 to 2026-06-30; received 2026-07-15; file 1996970; image 202607159880595361.

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  111. Our claim page: Evans's bills that passed the Househttps://statedrecord.com/claims/colorado-us-house-08-2026/evans-house-passed-bills

    For: Eight claims from the Colorado 8th debate checked

  112. Our claim page: Evans on the Colorado water vetohttps://statedrecord.com/claims/colorado-us-house-08-2026/evans-veto-override-vote

    For: Eight claims from the Colorado 8th debate checked

  113. Our claim page: Rutinel's first-session tax credit billhttps://statedrecord.com/claims/colorado-us-house-08-2026/rutinel-first-session-eitc

    For: Eight claims from the Colorado 8th debate checked

  114. Berthoud Weekly Surveyor CD8 debatehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOy67ykEoHc

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