The candidates and ballot details for this 2026 U.S. House race, with the original election records attached.
The Stated Record analysis: Toss-up
Updated September 13, 2026
Who is running?
Printed ballot candidates
Elaine G. LuriaDemocratic
Jen A. KiggansRepublican
Geral D. "Bishop" StatenIndependent
J. Matt BakerIndependent
Source: Virginia Department of Elections federal candidate list
Checked September 13, 2026
Voter guide
The candidates, side by side
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 and are not additive with the rest; other memo entries, reimbursements, and receipts from organizations that are not political committees are excluded; each candidate's note gives the filing window and the reconciliation to the FEC summary.
Represented Virginia's 2nd district for two terms, in the 116th and 117th Congresses, from January 3, 2019 to January 3, 2023. She sponsored 45 bills and resolutions plus two floor amendments and cosponsored 1,002 measures, and six of the bills she sponsored became law. Congress.gov
Her campaign plan, read in the Internet Archive's snapshot of August 3, 2026 because her campaign site refuses automated readers, says she joined the Navy at 17 and spent 20 years on combatant ships. Elaine Luria for Congress
The same page says that after the Navy she started and grew a small business in Hampton Roads. Elaine Luria for Congress
What they say they want to do
Ban members of Congress and their families from trading individual stocks while in office, the first item on her plan. Elaine Luria for Congress
Repeal the tariffs and reverse the decisions she says raised energy costs. Elaine Luria for Congress
Reinstate the Affordable Care Act tax credits, cut prescription drug prices, and fund Medicaid and Medicare. Elaine Luria for Congress
H.R. 1200, the first of four Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Acts she sponsored, became Public Law 116-58. Two more became law, on October 20, 2020 and October 10, 2022; the fourth, H.R. 3909 of 2021, went no further than a subcommittee. Congress.gov, Congress.gov, Congress.gov, Congress.gov
The House agreed 231 to 192 to her amendment to H.R. 3, clarifying that federal employee health plans are covered by the bill's price reduction provisions; that bill did not become law. Congress.gov, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
H.R. 1620, the Chesapeake Bay Program Reauthorization Act she sponsored, passed the House by voice vote and then had no further action in a Senate committee. Its engrossed text authorizes $455,000,000 across five fiscal years. Congress.gov, U.S. Congress via Congress.gov
Itemized receipts from political committees in this committee's 2025-2026 cycle filings, grouped by the FEC's recorded organization type or designation of the contributing committee, and read at the commission on September 13, 2026. The nine rows sum to $405,663.08, which is the FEC summary's other-committee contributions of $405,442.31 plus its party-committee contributions of $220.77. No row appears for corporation-connected PACs, because the filings itemize no contribution from a committee the FEC records with that organization type. Every figure here is a sum of the filings' own itemized rows, not the matching line on the FEC's summary of the cycle, and the two can differ by whatever the filings did not itemize. Not in the table: contributions from individuals, transfers from joint fundraising committees, and the memo entries, which restate money the report already counts elsewhere and would be counted twice if they were added.
The sitting member for Virginia's 2nd district, in the 118th and 119th Congresses since January 3, 2023. She sits on the Armed Services, Veterans' Affairs and Natural Resources Committees and chairs the Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. She has sponsored 78 bills and resolutions plus five floor amendments and cosponsored 700 measures, and one of the bills she sponsored has become law. Office of Representative Jen Kiggans, Congress.gov, Congress.gov
Her office's biography records ten years as a Navy helicopter pilot, flying H-46 and H-3 aircraft, with two deployments to the Persian Gulf. Office of Representative Jen Kiggans
The same page records that after active duty she used her GI Bill benefits to qualify as a nurse practitioner and practised in Virginia Beach and Norfolk. Office of Representative Jen Kiggans
What they say they want to do
Renew and reform the Affordable Care Act premium tax credits, an effort her campaign says she led. Kiggans for Congress
Hold federal taxes down; her campaign points to the Working Families Tax Cuts, which it says made the 2017 tax cuts permanent and ended most taxes on tips and overtime. Kiggans for Congress
Keep border security funding and interior enforcement in place. Kiggans for Congress
Leave Medicare and Social Security untouched for those receiving or near receiving benefits. Kiggans for Congress
What the official record shows
H.R. 3581, the COPE Act, the first of her own bills to pass the House, agreed to by voice vote on a motion to suspend the rules. It was referred to a Senate committee, had no further action there, and is not law. Congress.gov
H.R. 5490, the Bolstering Ecosystems Against Coastal Harm Act, became Public Law 118-117. It is the only bill she has sponsored that has become law. Congress.gov
Itemized receipts from political committees in this committee's 2025-2026 cycle filings, grouped by the FEC's recorded organization type or designation of the contributing committee, and read at the commission on September 13, 2026. The twelve rows sum to $1,255,600.68, which is the FEC summary's other-committee contributions of $1,250,100.68 plus its party-committee contributions of $5,500.00. Every figure here is a sum of the filings' own itemized rows, not the matching line on the FEC's summary of the cycle, and the two can differ by whatever the filings did not itemize. Not in the table: contributions from individuals, transfers from joint fundraising committees, and the memo entries, which restate money the report already counts elsewhere and would be counted twice if they were added. This committee is also the one whose filing column and the commission's computed cycle totals diverge, which the note on its Pre-Primary report sets out; the rows here are a grouping of the filings' own itemized entries and reconcile to the commission's summary of contributions from other committees.
His Facebook profile, his only social account and the one Ballotpedia lists for him, carries his own description of himself in full. Facebook
He submitted an unedited biography to WAVY for a different office and a different election, Suffolk Commissioner of Revenue on the November 4, 2025 ballot; nothing in it is carried as a position in this race. WAVY
What they say they want to do
Names affordability first among the policy areas he says he cares about, without stating a position within them. Ballotpedia
Wants Hampton Roads represented by someone from the district, one of his three campaign messages. Ballotpedia
Runs on purpose rather than party, the first of those three messages. Ballotpedia
Would keep the two-year House term, asked whether it is the right length. Ballotpedia
What the official record shows
Holds no legislative record this desk can compare: the desk found no federal or state legislative office for him. The state's own candidate lists, revised September 8 and September 10, 2026, record him in every locality of the district and not as the incumbent. Virginia Department of Elections, Virginia Department of Elections
Bishop Staten for Congress filed its first statement of organization with the Federal Election Commission, with the candidate himself as treasurer. Federal Election Commission
The last of the committee's four miscellaneous submissions to the commission, filed between January 27 and July 2, 2026. Each is his own words on file and each says the committee has neither raised nor spent anything and stays under the $5,000 threshold. Federal Election Commission
Campaign money from other committees, by type
Bishop Staten for Congress has filed no report of receipts and disbursements. Its filings with the Federal Election Commission are three statements of organization and four miscellaneous submissions, each of the four stating that the committee has neither raised nor spent anything, and the commission carries no cycle totals for it, so there is nothing to group by type. Federal Election Commission
Holds no office. Virginia's candidate list for this election records him as not the incumbent, and his campaign home page describes him as a retired Marine Corps colonel of 28 years and gives his Naval Academy class as '87. Virginia Department of Elections, Matt Baker for Congress
His platform describes him as an engineer who has worked on power systems for utilities and the Department of Defense. Matt Baker for Congress
Make flood resilience funding for Hampton Roads a first-term priority. Matt Baker for Congress
Restore consensus requirements for lifetime judicial appointments and back independent redistricting nationwide. Matt Baker for Congress
Negotiate an immigration settlement rather than perform outrage over one. Matt Baker for Congress
What the official record shows
Holds no legislative record this desk can compare: the desk found no federal or state legislative office for him. The state's own candidate lists, revised September 8 and September 10, 2026, record him in every locality of the district and not as the incumbent. Virginia Department of Elections, Virginia Department of Elections
Matt Baker for Congress filed its statement of organization with the Federal Election Commission, giving a Washington, DC address. It is the committee's only filing to date. Federal Election Commission
Campaign money from other committees, by type
Matt Baker for Congress has filed no report of receipts and disbursements. Its one filing with the Federal Election Commission is a statement of organization received July 22, 2026, and the commission carries no cycle totals for it, so there is nothing to group by type. Federal Election Commission
Race outlook
How election analysts rate this race
Categories are ordered judgments, not win probabilities.
The Stated Record analysisToss-up
Based on 2 verified rating sources. 1 stale or missing rating was excluded.
DemocraticToss-upRepublican
Cook Political ReportToss Up
Cook Political Report assessed this Aug 25, 2026; checked Sep 3, 2026.
Inside ElectionsToss-up · stale
Inside Elections assessed this Dec 5, 2025; checked Sep 3, 2026. Stale ratings are shown for transparency but excluded from our synthesis.
Sabato's Crystal BallToss-up
Sabato's Crystal Ball assessed this Aug 26, 2026; checked Sep 3, 2026.
Our synthesis uses the median-style ordinal rule described in Methodology. It is our analysis, not another independent rating.
What to know
The race in context
House Speaker Mike Johnson campaigned with Jen Kiggans on August 17, Virginia Mercury reported.
Former U.S. representative for Virginia's 2nd Congressional District, in the 116th and 117th Congresses, from January 3, 2019 to January 3, 2023. She does not hold the seat now.
X: not foundHer campaign home page, read in the Internet Archive snapshot of 2026-08-25 because the live site refuses automated readers, links one X profile, at twitter.com/ElaineLuriaVA. That username did not resolve when the desk checked it on 2026-09-13: x.com/ElaineLuriaVA answered HTTP 404, and X's own username lookup answered HTTP 200 with no user for the name. No cause is inferred from either answer, and no other handle was substituted, so the desk records the link her site carries and does not carry the account as available.
Instagram: not foundHer campaign home page, read in the 2026-08-25 Internet Archive snapshot, links Facebook and X and no Instagram account. No account is claimed here on other evidence.
X: not foundNo X handle could be established for him, and the desk did not guess one from his name. His own Facebook profile, his only social account, was read on 2026-09-13 in a signed-in browser session, and it carries exactly one outbound link: labelled twitter.com, its address resolves to https://twitter.com/, the bare homepage with no username. His own profile therefore links no X account. His Ballotpedia candidate page lists that same Facebook profile and no X account; he has no campaign website to read a link from, because the state's candidate list leaves his campaign-website column empty and all three of his FEC statements of organization leave the website field blank; and no other source read on 2026-09-13 links one. This records that no handle could be established, not that no account exists.
Instagram: not foundNo Instagram handle could be established for him, and the desk did not guess one from his name. His own Facebook profile, his only social account, was read on 2026-09-13 in a signed-in browser session, and its one outbound link is the bare twitter.com homepage; it links no Instagram account. His Ballotpedia candidate page lists that same Facebook profile and no Instagram account; he has no campaign website to read a link from, and no other source read on 2026-09-13 links one. This records that no handle could be established, not that no account exists.
Facebook bishop.statenHis only social account, and the only one Ballotpedia's contact block lists for him. It is not confirmed through a campaign site, because he has none: the address is the one Ballotpedia links and the one Virginia Scope quoted posts from on 2026-09-04. The profile sits behind Facebook's sign-in wall, which refuses automated readers, and the Internet Archive holds no capture of it at any timestamp, so it was read on 2026-09-13 in an ordinary signed-in browser session by a person at The Stated Record rather than by any automated reader, and no wall was bypassed. The profile and its Reels tab were read in that session; his ordinary post timeline never rendered on any route tried and is still unread.
Profile links show what is public now, not a complete archive. Each link was confirmed through the campaign site unless a note says otherwise. Individual social posts enter the evidence record only with a post URL, date, context, and review note.
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Issue comparison
What each campaign says
These are attributed platform positions, not promises The Stated Record has verified or endorsed.
Her plan says Virginians tell her they are working harder than ever and can barely keep up, and that she will address a cost-of-living crisis she attributes to her opponent and the administration, fight to repeal tariffs, and reverse decisions that raised energy costs.
Her campaign says she fought to reduce federal spending by helping to pass what it calls Washington's first meaningful spending cuts in years, supported the Working Families Tax Cuts that made the 2017 tax cuts permanent and ended most taxes on tips and overtime, and fought to expand the Child Tax Credit.
His Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey, which Ballotpedia dates to information he submitted on December 4, 2025, names affordability first among the areas of public policy he says he is personally passionate about: "Affordability, Public Safety and Equal Opportunity". Its three campaign messages are "Purpose Over Politics", "Giving Hampton Roads a Candidate from the 2nd Congressional District to Represent the 2nd Congressional District." and "The Face of The Political Future in Hampton Roads". He names affordability as a priority and sets out no position on prices, wages, taxes, tariffs, energy costs or federal spending.
His platform says the shipyards, the port, the bases and the businesses around them are the district's economy and are squeezed by the same costs squeezing families, and that he will practice rather than perform fiscal conservatism with honest budgets passed on time and tradeoffs stated out loud. His home page puts the national debt at $40 trillion and climbing, built by both parties over 36 years.
Her plan says she will build on what was done in Congress to strengthen the Affordable Care Act, reinstate the ACA tax credits, expand access to care, cut prescription drug prices, and see that Medicaid and Medicare are properly funded.
Her campaign says affordability and access are among her top priorities as a nurse practitioner, that she led the bipartisan effort to renew and reform the Affordable Care Act tax credits, and that she has worked to expand Medicare coverage, improve access to virtual care, lower prescription costs and expand mental health resources.
No stated position on health care. The only statement of his own the desk could source for this race, the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey he submitted on December 4, 2025, names affordability, public safety and equal opportunity as the policy areas he cares about and does not mention health care, insurance or prescription costs. He has no campaign website, and nothing else the desk could read — his Facebook profile and the ten reels on it, opened in a signed-in browser on September 13, 2026 — states a policy position on any subject. The search is bounded and unfinished, and the page it has not reached is the Virginia Mercury's voter guide for this contest, which is where a reader would most expect his answers; the source notes below record what was read, what was not, and why.
His platform names health care only as one of the costs squeezing families, in the line about bills nobody can predict, and offers no separate health-care section among its eight standalone stances or its four pillars.
Her plan says she served on the House Veterans' Affairs Committee and was instrumental in passing the PACT Act, introduced and passed the Gold Star Families Act, and championed legislation providing three cost-of-living increases to veterans, and that she will cut red tape in the VA system and reverse cuts she attributes to DOGE.
Her campaign says she fought to fully fund the Department of Veterans Affairs and give it its largest-ever budget in her first term, chairs the Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, and that her first standalone bill to pass the House was the COPE Act on caregivers' mental health resources and safety at VA facilities.
No stated position on veterans or the military. The Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey he submitted on December 4, 2025 names no defence, shipyard or veterans' policy, and his FEC filings carry only his own statements that the committee has raised and spent nothing. He has no campaign website, and nothing else the desk could read — his Facebook profile and the ten reels on it, opened in a signed-in browser on September 13, 2026 — states a policy position on any subject. The search is bounded and unfinished, and the page it has not reached is the Virginia Mercury's voter guide for this contest, which is where a reader would most expect his answers; the source notes below record what was read, what was not, and why.
His platform says the district has more veterans and military families per square mile than almost anywhere in America and that they are being failed on readiness, and that he will measure his own performance by whether readiness improves.
Her plan leads with banning members of Congress and their families from trading individual stocks while in office, and adds an end to prediction-market insider trading, mandatory jail time for members who steal from taxpayers, campaign finance reform to get dark money out of politics, and an end to what she calls a broken pardon system.
Her campaign's issues page states no position on this subject. Its fifteen sections run from the cost of living to the protection of women's sports and include government spending, oversight of federal agencies and securing our elections, but none addresses members' stock trading, campaign finance or money in politics. Her record holds action on the subject her page does not claim: she cosponsored the ETHICS Act in both of her Congresses, H.R. 2678 in the 118th and H.R. 4890 in the 119th, and was an original cosponsor of H.R. 7008, the Stop Insider Trading Act, voting Yea when the House passed it 232 to 198 on July 22, 2026. Her own X posts were collected into this desk's private, unreviewed research packet in this pass, and no excerpt from them may be displayed before the human review and the deletion-and-edit recheck the collection policy requires, so no silence is claimed beyond that page.
No stated position on government accountability or money in politics. The nearest thing in his own words is one answer in the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey he submitted on December 4, 2025, that two years is the right term length for a representative, "Yes. Keeps the seat fresh or steady pending voters choice.", which is a view on term length and not on ethics rules, disclosure or campaign money; his campaign message "Purpose Over Politics" is a slogan the survey does not develop into a position. He has no campaign website, and nothing else the desk could read — his Facebook profile and the ten reels on it, opened in a signed-in browser on September 13, 2026 — states a policy position on any subject. The search is bounded and unfinished, and the page it has not reached is the Virginia Mercury's voter guide for this contest, which is where a reader would most expect his answers; the source notes below record what was read, what was not, and why.
His platform says billionaire donors have too much power over the courts and policy, that the campaign accepts no PAC money, and that he will support restoring consensus requirements for lifetime judicial appointments and independent redistricting nationwide.
Her plan says a strong border is essential to national security and that she was proud to support comprehensive efforts in Congress to deter illegal immigration and strengthen border security while providing a pathway to citizenship for those who follow the law.
Her campaign says she supports the administration's efforts to secure the border, has backed increased border security funding including $47 billion to finish the wall, and voted for and, it says, cosponsored the Laken Riley Act on interior enforcement.
No stated position on immigration or the border. The Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey he submitted on December 4, 2025 does not mention immigration or border enforcement, and no other statement of his on either could be sourced. He has no campaign website, and nothing else the desk could read — his Facebook profile and the ten reels on it, opened in a signed-in browser on September 13, 2026 — states a policy position on any subject. The search is bounded and unfinished, and the page it has not reached is the Virginia Mercury's voter guide for this contest, which is where a reader would most expect his answers; the source notes below record what was read, what was not, and why.
His platform says a workable solution exists in a lawful pathway, real enforcement and human dignity, and that it takes the courage to negotiate; he says he served alongside Marines who were immigrants and would give them a path to citizenship while holding to accountability for crimes.
Her plan says she secured funding to mitigate sea-level rise, supported climate-resilient infrastructure, founded the bipartisan Offshore Wind Caucus, and led legislation on the EPA's Chesapeake Bay Program, and that she will fight offshore drilling and work to restore the Bay.
Her campaign's issues page carries no coastal or Chesapeake Bay section. Her campaign's own news item on oyster reefs quotes her saying she is proud to lead the effort to protect them, and her office's biography names the Armed Services, Veterans' Affairs and Natural Resources Committees together and says that on them she works to strengthen national security, support veterans and protect Virginia's coastal communities.
No stated position on the coast, flooding or the Chesapeake Bay. The Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey he submitted on December 4, 2025 does not mention water, flooding, sea level or the Bay. He has no campaign website, and nothing else the desk could read — his Facebook profile and the ten reels on it, opened in a signed-in browser on September 13, 2026 — states a policy position on any subject. The search is bounded and unfinished, and the page it has not reached is the Virginia Mercury's voter guide for this contest, which is where a reader would most expect his answers; the source notes below record what was read, what was not, and why.
His platform says Hampton Roads floods on sunny days and Norfolk has the highest rate of sea-level rise on the East Coast, that this is a drainage, insurance and national security problem rather than a debate, and that flood resilience funding for the region is a first-term priority.
Her plan says the decision belongs to a woman, her doctor and her faith, that in Congress she voted to codify Roe v. Wade and to protect the right to travel for abortion services, and that she will keep working to write the right to choose into federal law.
Her campaign says she believes abortion laws should be set at the state level and opposes what it calls radical policies allowing abortion up to the moment of birth, that she has advocated for women to choose life while respecting exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother, and that she has supported expanding access to contraception and protecting access to in vitro fertilization.
No stated position on reproductive rights. The Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey he submitted on December 4, 2025 does not mention abortion or reproductive health care. He has no campaign website, and nothing else the desk could read — his Facebook profile and the ten reels on it, opened in a signed-in browser on September 13, 2026 — states a policy position on any subject. The search is bounded and unfinished, and the page it has not reached is the Virginia Mercury's voter guide for this contest, which is where a reader would most expect his answers; the source notes below record what was read, what was not, and why.
His platform says a woman has a right to choose, that the question is settled for him, and that he will neither relitigate nor hedge it, adding that he hopes she chooses life and that the decision belongs to the woman rather than to government.
Her plan says she will advocate for strengthening Medicare and Social Security, stand against efforts to cut seniors' earned benefits, and oppose cuts to those programs.
Her campaign says she is a fierce advocate for seniors who fights to protect and preserve Medicare and Social Security, that benefits for those receiving or near receiving them will not be touched, and that she opposes Medicare for All.
No stated position on Medicare, Social Security or retirement. The Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey he submitted on December 4, 2025 does not mention Medicare, Social Security or retirement security. He has no campaign website, and nothing else the desk could read — his Facebook profile and the ten reels on it, opened in a signed-in browser on September 13, 2026 — states a policy position on any subject. The search is bounded and unfinished, and the page it has not reached is the Virginia Mercury's voter guide for this contest, which is where a reader would most expect his answers; the source notes below record what was read, what was not, and why.
His platform states no position on Medicare, Social Security or retirement. Above its four pillars it carries eight standalone stances, from democracy and the rule of law to ending donor control, and the pillars themselves cover the Constitution and democracy, Congress as a system, energy and technology, and Hampton Roads; none of the twelve reaches these programs, and the words Medicare, Social Security, retirement and retiree appear nowhere in the pages this desk captured. His campaign site links no X account, so this pass collected no posts of his, and no silence is claimed beyond his platform and home pages.
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, and a card never says why someone did something.
Her plan says she championed legislation that gave veterans three cost-of-living increases.
“In Congress, I served on the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee and was instrumental in passing the PACT Act–the largest expansion of veterans’ benefits in our lifetime. I also introduced and passed the Gold Star Families Act to provide tax relief for Gold Star families and championed legislation to provide three cost of living increases to veterans.”
She sponsored four Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Acts across the 116th and 117th Congresses, and three became law: H.R. 1200 as Public Law 116-58 on September 26, 2019, H.R. 6168 as Public Law 116-178 on October 20, 2020, and H.R. 7846 as Public Law 117-191 on October 10, 2022. The fourth, H.R. 3909 of 2021, was referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs and went no further.
Limit: The number in the claim is the number in the record: three of her four cost-of-living bills became law. The check reads the official titles and action histories of all 45 bills and resolutions she sponsored in the 116th and 117th Congresses. What a given increase was worth to any veteran is set by the rate the act adopts and is not assessed here, and she left office on January 3, 2023, so nothing after that date is hers. Her words here were read in the Internet Archive's snapshot of 2026-08-03, because her campaign site returns HTTP 403 to automated readers, and the wording is unconfirmed against the live page.
Her plan says she introduced and passed the Gold Star Families Act to give Gold Star families tax relief.
“In Congress, I served on the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee and was instrumental in passing the PACT Act–the largest expansion of veterans’ benefits in our lifetime. I also introduced and passed the Gold Star Families Act to provide tax relief for Gold Star families and championed legislation to provide three cost of living increases to veterans.”
The bill she introduced was H.R. 2481, the Gold Star Family Tax Relief Act, on May 2, 2019. It drew 172 cosponsors and its only recorded action is the referral to the Committee on Ways and Means on the day of introduction; the House never voted on it. Its identical Senate companion, S. 1370, passed the Senate without amendment by unanimous consent on May 21, 2019 and was then ordered held at the House desk, where the House never took it up; no version of the bill became law. The harm it addressed was ended seven months later in another bill, by a different and much broader instrument than the one she proposed. Her bill would have amended section 1(g)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code to treat military survivor benefits as earned income, a change confined to those benefits. Division O, title V, section 501 of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 instead struck paragraph (4) of section 1(j) outright, repealing the trust-rate treatment for every child's unearned income rather than reclassifying survivor benefits; the amendment her bill proposed was never enacted, and no subparagraph (D) was added to section 1(g)(4). She voted for that act on December 17, 2019 (Roll Call 689, agreed to 297 to 120), and it became Public Law 116-94 on December 20, 2019.
Limit: The relief she describes did become law, and she voted for the act that made it. What the record does not bear out is that the bill she introduced passed: H.R. 2481 never left committee and never received a vote. Her bill did get further than the House: its identical Senate companion passed the Senate by unanimous consent, so the measure was not killed for want of a vote everywhere, only in the chamber she sat in, and neither version reached the President. The check read the action history of every bill she sponsored in the 116th and 117th Congresses and searched the enrolled text of Public Law 116-94 for the provision; a provision inside another act that no title or index names could still be missed. This card tests the word "passed" and nothing about her part in the negotiation that produced section 501, which leaves no record of its own. Her words here were read in the Internet Archive's snapshot of 2026-08-03, because her campaign site returns HTTP 403 to automated readers, and the wording is unconfirmed against the live page.
Health care: prescription drug costs and the insulin cap
Matches stated direction
What they say
Her plan says she voted to slash prescription drug costs, cap out-of-pocket expenses for seniors, and cap insulin at $35 a month for seniors.
“I also proudly voted to stand up to Big Pharma and slash prescription drug costs, cap out of pocket expenses for seniors, and cap the price of insulin at $35 a month for seniors.”
She voted Yea on the motion to concur in the Senate amendment to H.R. 5376, the reconciliation act known as the Inflation Reduction Act, on August 12, 2022 (Roll Call 420, agreed to 220 to 207); it became Public Law 117-169 four days later. Earlier, on December 12, 2019, the House agreed 231 to 192 to her own amendment to H.R. 3, the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act, clarifying that federal employee health plans are covered by the bill's price reduction provisions.
Limit: The recorded votes move in the direction the statement describes. The card does not verify the specific effects she names, whose scope is a question about the text of Public Law 117-169 rather than about her votes, and it does not claim she wrote any of those provisions. Her amendment was to a different bill, which did not become law. Her words here were read in the Internet Archive's snapshot of 2026-08-03, because her campaign site returns HTTP 403 to automated readers, and the wording is unconfirmed against the live page.
Money in politics: Citizens United and the For the People Act
Matches stated record claim
What they say
Her plan says she supported legislation overturning Citizens United while in Congress and will keep fighting for the For the People Act.
“I was proud to support legislation that overturns the disastrous Citizens United decision when in Congress, and I will continue to fight for the For the People Act to restore fairness and power back to the people.”
She cosponsored the constitutional amendment offered to overturn the decision in both of her Congresses: H.J.Res. 2 in the 116th, one of 221 cosponsors, and H.J.Res. 1 in the 117th, one of 180. Both were referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties and went no further. She also cosponsored the For the People Act, H.R. 1 of the 117th Congress, and voted Yea on its passage on March 3, 2021 (Roll Call 62, passed 220 to 210); it was received in the Senate and was not enacted.
Limit: She says she supported the legislation, which is what cosponsoring and voting for it are; she does not claim to have sponsored either measure, and she did not. Neither became law and the constitutional amendment never left subcommittee. The check reads the cosponsor rosters and the Clerk's roll call, not the bills' contents, so nothing here assesses whether either measure would have the effect she describes. Her words here were read in the Internet Archive's snapshot of 2026-08-03, because her campaign site returns HTTP 403 to automated readers, and the wording is unconfirmed against the live page.
Across the 116th and 117th Congresses she sponsored 45 bills and resolutions and two floor amendments and cosponsored 1,002 measures. Reading the official titles of all of them, the check found none on congressional stock trading, insider trading by members, divestment, blind trusts, or members' conflicts of interest. This is a proposal for a future term, and her two terms hold no action on it either way.
Limit: A candidate's plan for a term not yet served has no matching record, so this card compares nothing and reaches no verdict about her. The search was of official bill and resolution titles across her 1,049 sponsorships and cosponsorships; a measure whose title does not name the subject, or work done inside a committee or a rule, would not appear. It says nothing about any other candidate's record on the same subject. Her words here were read in the Internet Archive's snapshot of 2026-08-03, because her campaign site returns HTTP 403 to automated readers, and the wording is unconfirmed against the live page.
Her plan says she led legislation to secure $85 billion and fully fund the EPA's Chesapeake Bay Program.
“In Congress, I secured funding to mitigate the impacts of sea-level rise, supported legislation to invest in climate resilient infrastructure, and founded the bipartisan Offshore Wind Caucus. I have also been a strong advocate for the Chesapeake Bay and led legislation to secure $85 billion and fully fund the EPA’s Chesapeake Bay Program, and ensure a clean and healthy Bay for our communities, economy, and way of life.”
The bill she led is H.R. 1620, the Chesapeake Bay Program Reauthorization Act, which she sponsored on March 7, 2019. The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure reported it on December 12, 2019 as House Report 116-338, the House passed it by voice vote on February 5, 2020, and it was received in the Senate on February 10, 2020 and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works, where it had no further action. Its engrossed text authorizes $90,000,000 for fiscal year 2021 and rises each year to $92,000,000 for fiscal year 2025: $455,000,000 across the five years. The word "billion" appears no times in either the introduced or the engrossed text, and because the bill never became law it secured nothing.
Limit: She did lead the legislation: she sponsored it and the House passed it. Two other things the sentence says are not in the record. The bill authorizes roughly $455 million over five years and not $85 billion. The desk takes no view on how that gap arose: reading billion as a slip for million gives $85 million, which is neither the bill's total nor any year's figure, and the digits 85 appear nowhere in either the introduced or the engrossed text. And the bill never became law, so it secured no money at all. This card tests the figure and the word "secure" and nothing about what the Chesapeake Bay Program received in any act that did pass. Her words here were read in the Internet Archive's snapshot of 2026-08-03, because her campaign site returns HTTP 403 to automated readers, and the wording is unconfirmed against the live page.
Veterans: the first standalone bill to pass the House
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What they say
Her campaign says her first standalone bill to pass the House was the COPE Act.
“Her first standalone bill to pass the House – the Caregiver Outreach and Program Enhancement (COPE) Act – would provide increased mental health resources to veterans’ caregivers and improve safety at VA medical facilities, ensuring that America’s veterans are properly cared for and feel safe when they access the benefits they earned.”
H.R. 3581, the COPE Act, which she sponsored on May 22, 2023 with no cosponsors at introduction and five who joined later, three Democrats and two Republicans, passed the House on December 4, 2023 on a motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended, agreed to by voice vote. No bill she sponsored had any House-passage action before that date; the next two came the following September, H.R. 8108 on the 23rd and H.R. 5490 on the 24th. The COPE Act was received in the Senate the following day and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, where it had no further action. It is not law.
Limit: The claim is about House passage and House passage is what the record shows, first among her own bills. The bill is not law. Whether it would do what the sentence says it would is a question about the bill's text, which this card does not assess. The check reads the action history of all 78 bills and resolutions she has sponsored in the 118th and 119th Congresses.
Her campaign says she voted for and cosponsored the Laken Riley Act, which was signed into law.
“She has also proudly voted in favor of bipartisan legislation and cosponsored the Laken Riley Act, which aims to strengthen interior enforcement and was signed into law.”
She is not on the cosponsor roster of either bill of that name: H.R. 7511 of the 118th Congress, which has 78 cosponsors, or H.R. 29 of the 119th, which has 54, and no measure among her 700 cosponsorships carries the title. She did vote for it twice: Yea on H.R. 29 on January 7, 2025 (Roll Call 6, passed 264 to 159) and Yea on the Senate's S. 5 on January 22, 2025 (Roll Call 23, passed 263 to 156). S. 5, not the House bill, became Public Law 119-1 on January 29, 2025. That is what settles the cosponsorship: a member of the House cannot cosponsor a Senate bill, so the Act that was signed into law is one she had no way to cosponsor, and a cosponsorship could only have been of one of the two House companions, neither of which carries her name. No cosponsorship was withdrawn either: on all three bills the roster count and the count including withdrawn cosponsors are the same number, so she was not on a roster and later taken off one.
Limit: Two of the three things the sentence says hold: she voted for the act, twice, and it was signed into law. The cosponsorship does not: she is on neither bill's roster. The check read both full rosters and the official titles of all 700 measures she has cosponsored, and no withdrawn cosponsorship is hiding behind either roster: Congress.gov reports the count including withdrawn cosponsors as equal to the count on both bills, 78 of 78 and 54 of 54. Voting for a bill is not cosponsoring it.
Her campaign's item of October 16, 2024, published under its own headline "Kiggans sponsors Oyster Reef Recovery Act", says she introduced the bill and that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez cosponsored it, and quotes her on leading the effort.
“Congresswoman Jen Kiggans (VA-02) has introduced H.R. 9705 in the US House of Representatives, the Oyster Reef Recovery Act”
“Reps. Jen Kiggans (R-Va.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) have introduced legislation to create a competitive grant program to support restoring and protecting oyster reefs.”
What the record shows ·
She is on the bill from the day it was introduced, in both Congresses that have carried it. H.R. 9705, introduced on September 19, 2024, is sponsored by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and its cosponsor roster holds one name, Kiggans, an original cosponsor on the day of introduction. It was reintroduced in the next Congress as H.R. 360 on January 13, 2025, again sponsored by Ocasio-Cortez, with Kiggans again an original cosponsor, one of three. Both were referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and went no further, and she has sponsored no oyster or reef bill of her own in either Congress.
Limit: Her campaign said this accurately on October 15 and inaccurately on October 16, and the desk shows both. The earlier item says the two members introduced the bill together, which is what the record shows. The later one reverses the roles, and it is the campaign's own claim rather than an outlet's: the page carries the campaign's headline, "Kiggans sponsors Oyster Reef Recovery Act", and the word backs appears nowhere on it except inside the address of the outlet the body is reposted from. On the record Ocasio-Cortez is the sponsor of both bills, Kiggans an original cosponsor of both, and she has never sponsored an oyster or reef bill. An original cosponsor on the day of introduction is a real and substantial part in a bill, which is why the earlier framing holds and only the later one does not. Neither bill passed. The check read the sponsor and cosponsor entries of all 78 bills and resolutions she has sponsored and all 700 she has cosponsored in the 118th and 119th Congresses.
She has introduced a Pay Our Troops Act four times: H.R. 5641 on September 21, 2023, H.R. 9699 on September 19, 2024, H.R. 1932 on March 6, 2025, and H.R. 5401 on September 16, 2025. All four were referred to the Committee on Appropriations; the first also drew her own introductory remarks a week later, on September 28, 2023. None was reported out of committee, voted on, or enacted.
Limit: The claim is to have introduced and championed the legislation, and that is what the record shows, four times over. It is not a claim of passage and none of the four passed. Whether troops were in fact paid during any shutdown depends on other measures this card does not read.
Health care: the Affordable Care Act premium tax credits
Matches stated record claim
What they say
Her campaign says she led the bipartisan effort to renew and reform the Affordable Care Act tax credits and co-led a bipartisan group announcing a framework to extend premium tax credit relief.
“Jen led the bipartisan effort to renew and reform the Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits. And co-lead a bipartisan group announcing CommonGround 2025, a framework to extend premium tax credit relief for American families — a direct affordability action for working families’ healthcare costs.”
She sponsored two bills on the subject in the 119th Congress: H.R. 5145, the Bipartisan Premium Tax Credit Extension Act, on September 4, 2025, with 30 cosponsors, 16 Democrats and 14 Republicans, whose section 2 extends the enhanced credit by one year by striking "before January 1, 2026" and inserting "before January 1, 2027"; and H.R. 6575, the CommonGround for Affordable Health Care Act, on December 10, 2025, with 38 cosponsors, 23 Democrats and 15 Republicans. Both were referred to committee and neither has been reported. On December 17, 2025 the House took two recorded votes on H.R. 6703, a health bill she did not sponsor, whose sponsor is Rep. Miller-Meeks: she voted Nay on the motion to recommit, which Rep. Underwood offered to extend the enhanced premium tax credits for three years and which failed 210 to 218 (Roll Call 348), and Yea on passage, which carried 216 to 211 (Roll Call 349). The engrossed text of H.R. 6703 carries no occurrence of "premium tax credit" and none of "36B".
Limit: She sponsored both bills and the cosponsors of each cross party lines, so "led" and "bipartisan" hold as descriptions of these two measures. Neither has moved out of committee and neither is law. Her opponent's platform says she voted against extending the same credits, and both sentences are true of different things: the credits she sponsored a bill to extend by one year are the credits the motion to recommit would have extended by three, and on December 17, 2025 she voted against that motion and for the bill that passed instead, whose text does not mention the credits at all. Which of those facts weighs more is a judgement this card does not make, and the card reads these votes and her two bills, not the rest of her record on health care.
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Campaign finance
FEC snapshot through Jul 15, 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.
Elaine G. Luria: Pre-Primary 2026, coverage Jul 1, 2026 to Jul 15, 2026, received Jul 23, 2026, file 2001554, image 202607239894434277.
Jen A. Kiggans: Pre-Primary 2026, coverage Jul 1, 2026 to Jul 15, 2026, received Jul 23, 2026, file 2001494, image 202607239894421752.
Retrieved from OpenFEC on Sep 13, 2026. FEC amendments can revise these committee-reported figures.
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Chronology
How the field took shape
The seat changed hands
Luria's second term ended and Kiggans's first began on January 3, 2023. Congress.gov records Luria for the 116th and 117th Congresses and Kiggans for the 118th and 119th, so every vote and sponsorship on this page belongs to one of them and to one side of that date.
Elaine Luria for Congress filed its first statement of organization with the FEC on November 12, 2025, under a new candidate id, H6VA02198. Her earlier committee, Elaine for Congress, belongs to the 2018 to 2022 candidacies under candidate id H8VA02111.
Kiggans's committee has been registered since 2021
Kiggans for Congress filed its first statement of organization on April 8, 2021 and is the same principal campaign committee across the 2022, 2024 and 2026 cycles, so unlike the other three committees on this page it did not register for this election. A second committee of hers is designated as authorized rather than principal and last filed in June 2023.
Bishop Staten for Congress filed its first statement of organization on December 13, 2025, with the candidate as treasurer. It has filed no report of receipts and disbursements since.
The Virginia Department of Elections revised its candidate lists for the November 3, 2026 general election, the federal-offices list on September 8 and the fuller all-offices list on September 10, each dated by the name of its own downloadable file. Read on September 13, both show the same four candidates for the 2nd District: Luria, Kiggans, Staten and Baker. The state has since replaced both files; the source note records what could and could not be read back.
Virginia Department of Elections. Four candidates for the 2nd District: Elaine G. Luria (Democratic, incumbent No), Jen A. Kiggans (Republican, incumbent Yes), Geral D. "Bishop" Staten (Independent, incumbent No) and J. Matt Baker (Independent, incumbent No). Its Campaign Website column names elaineforcongress.com, www.jenforcongress.com and mattbakerindependent.com and is empty for Staten; his row gives a Yahoo campaign mailbox and a Suffolk post-office box that match the contact on his most recent FEC statement of organization. The page's own downloadable list is named 2026-November-Federal-Offices-Candidate-List-(rev-9-8-2026).xlsx.
Virginia Department of Elections. The state's fuller candidate list, revised September 10, 2026 by the name of its own downloadable file and by that file's internal modification stamp, and so more recent than the federal-offices list this desk also cites. The revision read on September 13, 2026 carried a Status column the federal list does not, and that is no longer checkable: the September 8 and September 10 files now return 404, the Internet Archive answered no query for them, this desk holds no capture of the workbook, and the revision the state serves now, read on September 15, 2026, has no status column and contains the word Qualified nowhere. What follows is the row as this desk read it that day, kept as the record of what was read rather than as a claim a reader can reproduce, and no claim on any page rests on its status field. Staten's Virginia Beach City row read, field by field: VIRGINIA BEACH CITY, 3, 5, Member, House of Representatives, 2nd District, 1, 2 year, Qualified, Independent, Geral D. "Bishop" Staten, No, bishopstatenforcongress@yahoo.com, 757-372-7580, PO Box 5, Suffolk, VA, 23439-0005. He is carried in all eight of the district's localities alongside Luria, Kiggans and Baker. The workbook's two order columns are office and party: his row reads 3 for the office and 5 for the party slot, and that 5 is the independent slot he shares with Baker rather than a position on a four-name ballot. This is the state's own record of who is on the ballot and the only basis on which this desk states that any of these four is; the page renders the table inline, so a reader following this link sees the row without downloading anything.
Congress.gov. Two terms, the 116th and 117th Congresses, Virginia's 2nd District, 2019 to 2023; 45 sponsored bills and resolutions plus 2 floor amendments, and 1,002 cosponsorships. The member page refuses automated readers, so these were read on 2026-09-13 through the same publisher's API at api.congress.gov/v3/member/L000591.
Congress.gov. Two terms, the 118th and 119th Congresses, Virginia's 2nd District, since 2023; 78 sponsored bills and resolutions plus 5 floor amendments, and 700 cosponsorships. The member page refuses automated readers, so these were read on 2026-09-13 through the same publisher's API at api.congress.gov/v3/member/K000399.
Office of Representative Jen Kiggans. Her office's own page: she represents Virginia's Second Congressional District, served ten years as a Navy helicopter pilot, and sits on the Armed Services, Veterans' Affairs and Natural Resources Committees, chairing the Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
Elaine Luria for Congress. Read in an Internet Archive snapshot: elaineforcongress.com returns HTTP 403 to automated readers. Snapshot of 2026-08-03. This is the campaign's only platform page: the site's own navigation links to /about, /issues and /news all return 404 in the archive's crawls, the most recent on 2026-08-03. The page carries no publication date.
Elaine Luria for Congress. Read in an Internet Archive snapshot: elaineforcongress.com returns HTTP 403 to automated readers. Snapshot of 2026-08-25, the most recent capture that returned 200. It links to Facebook and to twitter.com/ElaineLuriaVA and to no Instagram account, and reuses text from her 2022 campaign, including a paragraph written in the present tense as the sitting member.
Elaine Luria for Congress. The handle her campaign home page links as its X account, read from the campaign site's own markup in the 2026-08-25 Internet Archive snapshot. The account itself did not resolve on 2026-09-13: this URL answered HTTP 404, and the username lookup in the desk's own X collection run for this race, under manifest virginia-us-house-02-2026, answered HTTP 200 with no user for ElaineLuriaVA. No cause is inferred from either answer, and no posts of hers were collected.
Kiggans for Congress. Her campaign's platform page, read live on 2026-09-13. Fifteen headed sections, from The Cost of Living to Protection of Women's Sports. It carries no publication date, and some passages date from her first term, including "In just over a year" and references to holding the Biden Administration accountable.
Kiggans for Congress. Her campaign's own item, dated October 16, 2024 on the page, headlined "Kiggans sponsors Oyster Reef Recovery Act" and saying she "has introduced H.R. 9705" as a "bipartisan initiative, co-sponsored with Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14)". Read live on 2026-09-13. The item ends by linking out to a full article published elsewhere, so its body is a republished excerpt under the campaign's own headline; the sentence quoted inside it, in which she says she is proud to lead the effort, is her own.
Kiggans for Congress. Her campaign's item of October 15, 2024, the day before the item headlined "Kiggans sponsors Oyster Reef Recovery Act", read live on 2026-09-13. It says "Reps. Jen Kiggans (R-Va.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) have introduced legislation to create a competitive grant program to support restoring and protecting oyster reefs", which is how the official record reads it: a sponsor and an original cosponsor from the day of introduction. Like the later item it ends by linking out to a full article published elsewhere.
Kiggans for Congress. The handle her campaign home page at jenforcongress.com links as its X account, read from that page's markup on 2026-09-13, HTTP 200. The platform's username lookup returned this account on 2026-09-13 and 250 of its own posts were collected into this desk's private research packet under manifest virginia-us-house-02-2026. None of them is quoted on this page: an excerpt may be displayed only after the human review and the deletion-and-edit recheck that the collection policy requires.
Kiggans for Congress. The handle her campaign home page at jenforcongress.com links as its Instagram account, read from that page's markup on 2026-09-13. The account itself was not collected in this pass.
Matt Baker for Congress. Read live on 2026-09-13. Describes him as "Colonel, USMC (Ret.) · 28 Years" and carries no publication date. It links a Facebook page and instagram.com/MattBakerVA and no X account.
Matt Baker for Congress. His platform page, read live on 2026-09-13: four numbered pillars covering the Constitution, Congress as a system, technology and energy, and Hampton Roads. It carries no publication date.
Matt Baker for Congress. The handle his campaign home page links as its Instagram account. Read from the campaign site's markup; the account itself was not collected in this pass.
Congress.gov. Sponsored by Luria, introduced 2019-02-13; passed the House by voice vote on 2019-05-21, passed the Senate by unanimous consent on 2019-09-12, became Public Law 116-58 on 2019-09-26.
Congress.gov. Sponsored by Luria, introduced 2020-03-10; passed the House by voice vote on 2020-05-28, passed the Senate by unanimous consent on 2020-09-24, became Public Law 116-178 on 2020-10-20.
Congress.gov. Sponsored by Luria, introduced 2022-05-19; passed the House under suspension on 2022-09-14, passed the Senate by voice vote on 2022-09-22, became Public Law 117-191 on 2022-10-10.
Congress.gov. The fourth cost-of-living bill she sponsored, introduced 2021-06-15. Its last action is referral to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs on 2021-09-07; it did not pass.
Congress.gov. Sponsored by Luria, introduced 2019-05-02, 172 cosponsors. Its only recorded action is referral to the Committee on Ways and Means on the day of introduction; the House never voted on it. Congress.gov records S. 1370 as its identical Senate companion.
Congress.gov. The identical Senate companion to H.R. 2481, recorded by Congress.gov as related to it. Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance on 2019-05-08; on 2019-05-21 the committee was discharged by unanimous consent, the Senate passed the bill without amendment by unanimous consent, with the text as passed printed at Congressional Record S2985, and the bill was ordered held at the desk by unanimous consent the same day. Congress.gov carries a short title as passed Senate for it. The House never voted on the measure in either form and no version of it became law.
U.S. Congress via Congress.gov. The enrolled text of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020. The provision is in division O, the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019, at title V, section 501, under a heading that runs across three lines of the enrolled text: title V, tax relief for certain children, section 501, modification of rules relating to the taxation of unearned income of certain children. Its operative sentence reads "Section 1(j) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking paragraph (4).", the paragraph that had taxed survivor benefits at trust rates. The division has to be named because the enrolled act carries 34 division headings and ten strings matching "sec. 501", so a citation to title V, section 501 alone does not identify one provision. The words "Gold Star" appear in the act only in an appropriation for the Congressional Gold Star Family Fellowship Program, and the word "kiddie" appears nowhere in it.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. On the motion to concur in the Senate amendment to H.R. 1865 with an amendment, agreed to 297 to 120 on 17 December 2019; Luria Yea. The Clerk labels the measure by its original vehicle, the National Law Enforcement Museum Commemorative Coin Act.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. On the motion to concur in the Senate amendment to H.R. 5376, the reconciliation act known as the Inflation Reduction Act, agreed to 220 to 207 on 12 August 2022; Luria Yea.
Congress.gov. Became Public Law 117-169 on 2022-08-16. The desk cites it for the fact of enactment only, and makes no claim here about which of its provisions produced which effect.
Congress.gov. Offered by Luria to the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act, "to clarify that federal employee health plans are covered by the price reduction provisions of the bill"; agreed to by recorded vote.
Congress.gov. Sponsored by Rep. Theodore E. Deutch with 221 cosponsors, Luria among them. It proposes a constitutional amendment relating to contributions and expenditures intended to affect elections, the measure offered to overturn Citizens United. Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties; no further action.
Congress.gov. Sponsored by Rep. Theodore E. Deutch with 180 cosponsors, Luria among them; the same constitutional amendment carried into the next Congress. Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties; no further action.
Congress.gov. Luria is recorded as a cosponsor. The bill passed the House on 2021-03-03, the date the Clerk's roll call 62 carries and the only passage date in its action list, and was received in the Senate on 2021-03-11; it was not enacted.
Congress.gov. Sponsored by Luria, introduced 2019-03-07; reported by the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on 2019-12-12 as House Report 116-338; passed the House by voice vote on 2020-02-05; received in the Senate on 2020-02-10 and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works, where it had no further action. It did not become law.
U.S. Congress via Congress.gov. The bill's text as passed by the House. It authorizes $90,000,000 for fiscal year 2021, $90,500,000 for 2022, $91,000,000 for 2023, $91,500,000 for 2024 and $92,000,000 for fiscal year 2025: $455,000,000 across the five years. The word "billion" appears no times in this text and no times in the introduced text, which carries the same schedule one year earlier, from fiscal year 2020 to fiscal year 2024. This desk cites the engrossed text because it is the version the House passed.
Congress.gov. Sponsored by Kiggans, introduced 2023-05-22 with no cosponsors. Its five cosponsors all joined later, so none was an original cosponsor: Houlahan on 2023-05-30, Mace on 2023-07-25, Pettersen on 2023-08-04, Moulton on 2023-09-26 and Lawler on 2023-10-11, three Democrats and two Republicans. Passed the House on 2023-12-04 on a motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended, agreed to by voice vote; received in the Senate on 2023-12-05 and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, where it had no further action. It is not law.
Congress.gov. Sponsored by Kiggans, introduced 2023-09-14; passed the House by voice vote on 2024-09-24, passed the Senate by voice vote on 2024-11-19, became Public Law 118-117 on 2024-11-25. It is the only bill she has sponsored that has become law, and it is the third of her bills to pass the House, after the COPE Act and H.R. 8108.
Congress.gov. Sponsored by Kiggans, introduced 2024-04-23; agreed to by the House by voice vote on 2024-09-23, with the text printed at Congressional Record H5575, and received in the Senate on 2024-09-24. Cited here to date the second of her bills to pass the House, after the COPE Act and one day before H.R. 5490.
Congress.gov. Sponsored by Kiggans, introduced 2023-09-21 and referred to the Committee on Appropriations the same day. Its last recorded action is her own introductory remarks on 2023-09-28; it was not reported, voted on or enacted.
Congress.gov. Sponsored by Kiggans, introduced 2025-09-16 and referred to the Committee on Appropriations; no further action. The fourth bill of this name she has introduced.
Congress.gov. Sponsored by Kiggans, introduced 2025-09-04, 30 cosponsors, 16 Democrats and 14 Republicans. Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means; not reported.
Congress.gov. Sponsored by Kiggans, introduced 2025-12-10, 38 cosponsors, 23 Democrats and 15 Republicans. Referred to Energy and Commerce and, in addition, to Ways and Means and Rules; not reported.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. On the motion to recommit H.R. 6703, failed 210 to 218, action date 17 December 2025 at 6:21 PM Eastern; Kiggans Nay.
U.S. Government Publishing Office. Granule CREC-2025-12-17-pt1-PgH5956-3. Offering the motion to recommit, Rep. Underwood states at page H5977 that it would extend the enhanced premium tax credits for three years. Cited for what the motion would have done, which the Clerk's roll call does not record.
U.S. Congress via Congress.gov. The text as passed by the House of the bill Kiggans voted for on 2025-12-17, sponsored by Rep. Miller-Meeks and not by her. A search of it returns no occurrence of "premium tax credit" and none of "36B", the section of the Internal Revenue Code the enhanced credits amend.
Congress.gov. The Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks Act of the 118th Congress, which would bar members from holding or trading covered investments. Kiggans is on its cosponsor roster, joining on 2023-09-08. Referred to committee; it did not pass.
Congress.gov. The same bill carried into the 119th Congress. Kiggans is on its cosponsor roster as an original cosponsor from the day of introduction, 2025-08-05. Referred to committee; it did not pass.
Congress.gov. Kiggans is an original cosponsor, from the day of introduction, 2026-01-12. The House passed it on 2026-07-22; it is on the Senate calendar and is not law.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. On passage of the Stop Insider Trading Act, passed 232 to 198, action date 22 July 2026 at 4:51 PM Eastern; Kiggans Yea.
Congress.gov. The full roster of 54 cosponsors, read through the Congress.gov API on 2026-09-13. Kiggans is not on it, and the count including withdrawn cosponsors is also 54, so no cosponsor was withdrawn from it. The bill passed the House on 2025-01-07 and was placed on the Senate calendar; it did not become law.
Congress.gov. The full roster of 78 cosponsors of the 118th Congress bill of the same name, read through the Congress.gov API on 2026-09-13. Kiggans is not on it, and the count including withdrawn cosponsors is also 78, so no cosponsor was withdrawn from it.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. On passage of S. 5, the Senate's Laken Riley Act, passed 263 to 156 on 22 January 2025; Kiggans Yea.
Congress.gov. Introduced 2024-09-19, sponsored by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez [D-NY-14]. Its cosponsor roster holds one name, Rep. Jennifer A. Kiggans [R-VA-2], an original cosponsor on the day of introduction. Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources; no further action.
Congress.gov. Introduced 2025-01-13, sponsored by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez [D-NY-14], three cosponsors, of whom Kiggans is one, an original cosponsor on the day of introduction. Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources; no further action.
Federal Election Commission. Principal campaign committee of FEC candidate H6VA02198, first statement of organization filed 2025-11-12, active in the 2026 cycle only. A separate candidate record, H8VA02111, carries her 2018 to 2022 candidacies and its committee C00664375; that committee is not this candidacy's.
Federal Election Commission. File number 2001554, image 202607239894434277, covering 2026-07-01 to 2026-07-15, received 2026-07-23, not amended and not superseded. Cycle-to-date receipts $4,659,795.30 and disbursements $1,077,072.09; cash on hand $3,582,723.21 and no debt at period end. The FEC's own computed 2026-cycle totals for this committee are the same two figures exactly, so this filing and the commission's summary agree.
Federal Election Commission. Principal campaign committee of FEC candidate H2VA02064, first statement of organization filed 2021-04-08. A second committee, C00775890, is designated as authorized rather than principal and last filed on 2023-06-08.
Federal Election Commission. File number 2001494, image 202607239894421752, covering 2026-07-01 to 2026-07-15, received 2026-07-23, not amended and not superseded. The figures this desk carries are the filing's own cycle-to-date column: receipts $6,021,834.53 and disbursements $2,818,745.85; cash on hand $3,391,740.42 and debts owed by the committee $38,100.66 at period end. The FEC's computed 2026-cycle totals for this committee are lower on both lines: receipts $5,954,338.07, $67,496.46 below the column, and disbursements $2,608,075.05, $210,670.80 below it. The computed totals are the exact sum of her seven non-superseded period reports. The desk carries the filing's own column, as the Iowa desks do, and names the filing by file number and image number; for Luria the filing and the commission's computed summary agree exactly, so the divergence on this page is on this committee alone.
Federal Election Commission. Committee C00926303, itemized receipts from committees in the 2025-2026 cycle filings. The guide's nine rows group these entries by the FEC's recorded organization type or designation of the contributing committee and sum to $405,663.08, which reconciles to the commission's own summary as other-committee contributions of $405,442.31 plus party-committee contributions of $220.77.
Federal Election Commission. Committee C00776120, itemized receipts from committees in the 2025-2026 cycle filings. The guide's twelve rows group these entries by the FEC's recorded organization type or designation of the contributing committee and sum to $1,255,600.68, which reconciles to the commission's own summary as other-committee contributions of $1,250,100.68 plus party-committee contributions of $5,500.00. This is the committee whose filing column and the commission's computed cycle totals diverge; that divergence is set out on its Pre-Primary report and does not touch these rows, which are a grouping of the filings' own itemized entries.
Federal Election Commission. Principal campaign committee of FEC candidate H6VA02222, first statement of organization filed 2025-12-13, the candidate himself as treasurer. It has filed no report of receipts and disbursements for the 2026 cycle: its filings are three Form 1 statements of organization and four Form 99 miscellaneous submissions, and the FEC carries no cycle totals for it. All three Form 1s leave the committee's website field blank, and the most recent, received 2026-08-13, gives a Suffolk post-office box and a Yahoo mailbox as the committee's only contact. The four Form 99 texts, filed 2026-01-27, 2026-03-31, 2026-04-10 and 2026-07-02, are his own words on file with the commission, and each says only that the committee has neither raised nor spent anything and stays under the $5,000 threshold. No filing carries a platform, a website or a social account.
Federal Election Commission. Principal campaign committee of FEC candidate H6VA02263, one filing to date: a Form 1 statement of organization received 2026-07-22, with a Washington, DC address. No report of receipts and disbursements has been filed and the FEC carries no cycle totals for it.
Ballotpedia. Read live on 2026-09-13, HTTP 200. Its campaign-themes section carries Candidate Connection survey answers in his own words, which Ballotpedia's own footnote dates to information he submitted on December 4, 2025. He gives three campaign messages, "Purpose Over Politics", "Giving Hampton Roads a Candidate from the 2nd Congressional District to Represent the 2nd Congressional District." and "The Face of The Political Future in Hampton Roads"; names "Affordability, Public Safety and Equal Opportunity" as the areas of public policy he is personally passionate about; answers "Fighter. Hard Worker." on the legacy he wants to leave; answers "Yes. Keeps the seat fresh or steady pending voters choice." on whether two years is the right term length; and names Barack Obama as the representative he would model himself after. The answers name no policy on health care, immigration, the Bay, reproductive rights, veterans, Medicare or Social Security. Ballotpedia states it may edit a survey answer and marks any edit in brackets; none of these answers carries a bracket. The page's contact block lists one social account for him, a Facebook profile, and no X or Instagram account. Ballotpedia publishes the answers and is not their author.
Facebook. Read on 2026-09-13 in an ordinary signed-in browser session, by a person at The Stated Record and not by any automated reader. How it was read is part of the record, because a later checker cannot repeat the read unaided: a request from the desk on 2026-09-13 was redirected to Facebook's sign-in page, and the Internet Archive holds no snapshot of this profile at any timestamp, so there is no reachable copy to check this reading against. That is why this note records the session and not only the finding: a later reader whose own request is refused has not found a gap in the record, and none of this material is to be recorded as unverifiable, or quietly dropped, on the strength of that refusal. No wall was bypassed; the profile was opened by signing in as any reader may. The address is not a guess: Ballotpedia's contact block for him links it, and Virginia Scope quoted posts from it on 2026-09-04. The profile is listed as a "Public figure" with 6.8K followers, and its own self-reported details are "Lives in Suffolk, Virginia", "From Suffolk, Virginia" and the schools "Nansemond River High" and "CCBC"; the desk carries those as what the profile states and has verified none of them. Its bio is his own words in full: "Future Congressman. I’m Running for A Seat In The U.S House • VA-02. #Independent ✅⭐️ #HistoryMade". The profile carries exactly one outbound link, labelled twitter.com, whose address resolves to https://twitter.com/, the bare homepage with no username, so his own profile links no X account and no Instagram account. What the session could read is this profile and its Reels tab: his ordinary post timeline never rendered on any route tried, the profile itself and /posts alike, across repeated scrolls and reloads, and remains unread.
Facebook. Read on 2026-09-13 in the same signed-in browser session as the profile, by a person at The Stated Record and not by any automated reader: the tab sits behind Facebook's sign-in wall and the Internet Archive holds no capture of it at any timestamp, so a later checker cannot repeat the read unaided. No wall was bypassed. The tab listed ten reels, with view counts of 335, 275, 371, 1K, 620, 7.1K, 115, 867, 605 and 509 as Facebook displays them. Ten is what the session saw and is not a count of every reel he has posted, and no date was visible on any of them, so this desk assigns none. None of the ten states a policy position. Three carry the same ballot-access text card, one is a screenshot of a third-party fundraising table, and the most-viewed is a funeral service; each of those three findings is recorded as its own source. This bounds what these ten reels carry and supports no claim that his Facebook account carries no policy anywhere: his ordinary post timeline never rendered and is unread.
Facebook. Read on 2026-09-13 in the same signed-in browser session as the profile, by a person at The Stated Record and not by any automated reader: the reels sit behind Facebook's sign-in wall with no Internet Archive capture at any timestamp, so a later checker cannot repeat the read unaided. No wall was bypassed. Three of the ten reels on his Reels tab carry the same full-bleed text card over a map of Virginia's 2nd district. Its text in full, with its four line breaks shown here as slashes, is ATTENTION VOTERS ‼️🚨 / IF YOU LIVE IN THE GREEN AREA / "BISHOP" STATEN IS ON YOUR / BALLOT 🗳️✅🔥 #CONGRESS, and nothing else. It is cited to the Reels tab because no address for the individual reels was recorded. No date was visible on any of the three and the desk assigns none. This is his own public assertion that he is on the ballot in this contest, and it is carried as that and as nothing more. The state's own candidate list for the November 3, 2026 general election carries him in this race. This desk makes no claim about his ballot qualification beyond what the state's own candidate list shows, and that list carries him in all eight of the district's localities (va-elections-2026-all-offices).
Facebook. Read on 2026-09-13 in the same signed-in browser session as the profile, by a person at The Stated Record and not by any automated reader: the reel sits behind Facebook's sign-in wall with no Internet Archive capture at any timestamp, so a later checker cannot repeat the read unaided. No wall was bypassed. One of the ten reels on his Reels tab is a screenshot of a fundraising table he did not compile, captioned in his own words "THE STAGE IS SET 🗳️✅". The table is headed "US Representative - District 2" and "Nov 3 2026" over two columns, "Candidate" and "Raised", and its rows for this desk's candidates read Kiggans, Jen (R) $5,954,338; Luria, Elaine (D) $4,660,386; and Staten, Bishop (I) N/A. It is recorded as a third-party artefact he shared and not as a roll of the field, for two reasons. First, it lists two further names that do not appear on the Virginia Department of Elections' candidate list for this contest; this desk does not repeat them and does not treat them as candidates in this race. Second, its figures do not sit where the filings do: the Kiggans figure matches the FEC's own computed 2026-cycle receipts total for her committee, $5,954,338.07, to the dollar, rather than the $6,021,834.53 her filing's own cycle-to-date column prints, which is the divergence this desk documents at fec-kiggans-12p and carries the column for, so the table cites the computed figure; the Luria figure is $590.70 above both her filing's column and the FEC's computed total for her committee, which agree with each other exactly; and the table shows no as-of date for its figures, so the desk cannot say what period or source they come from. The N/A against his own name is consistent with his committee's four Form 99 statements to the commission, each of which says it has neither raised nor spent anything. No date was visible on the reel and the desk assigns none.
Facebook. Read on 2026-09-13 in the same signed-in browser session as the profile, by a person at The Stated Record and not by any automated reader: the reel sits behind Facebook's sign-in wall with no Internet Archive capture at any timestamp, so a later checker cannot repeat the read unaided. No wall was bypassed. This is the most-viewed of the ten reels on his Reels tab, which Facebook shows at 7.1K views, with 92 likes, 6 comments and 9 shares. Its caption, his own words, is "the promise still stands! [a name this desk does not repeat] preach a funeral DOWN TODAY! Much love to him 💪". What it shows is another person preaching at a funeral service. It is recorded for one reason: his account's own view counts put it far ahead of every other reel, and it is not a campaign statement, states no position, and is not Staten speaking. No date was visible on it and the desk assigns none.
Virginia Mercury. Not read. The page answered HTTP 403 to the desk on 2026-09-13, and an Internet Archive index query for this URL, and for every page under the guide's contests path, returned no capture at any timestamp, so there is no archived copy to read instead. The guide's own index does list him in this contest, so this is the page expected to carry his answers. The desk did not attempt to work around the refusal; this source is flagged for a human to open in an ordinary browser.
Virginia Mercury. The live index refuses automated readers like the rest of the site, so it was read in the Internet Archive snapshot of 2026-08-05. Under the heading for the 2nd District it lists five names, the four Democratic primary candidates and "(I) Bishop Staten", and links the contest page. The index carries the race summary and the candidate names only: no statement by any candidate, and nothing in Staten's words. It is cited to establish that the guide covers him, which is what makes the unreadable contest page a gap rather than a guess.
Virginia Public Access Project. Not read. On 2026-09-13 vpap.org answered HTTP 403 to the desk on every path tried, including the site root, and an Internet Archive listing of the domain holds no page for Staten at any timestamp. The desk did not attempt to work around the refusal; this source is flagged for a human to open in an ordinary browser.
WAVY. A different office and a different election: Suffolk Commissioner of Revenue on the November 4, 2025 ballot, not this congressional race. WAVY's live site refuses automated readers, so this was read in the Internet Archive snapshot of 2025-09-30. The station states that it sent every candidate in that race a request for a bio and a list of questions and that the bio is unedited and is what the candidate submitted, so the answers are his own words. Its own form fields record his website as N/A and his party as Democratic. Nothing here is carried as a position in this congressional race. It is cited because it is his own words, because it independently dates the absence of a campaign website, and because the station's own November 3, 2026 voter guide could not be read at all: that page answered HTTP 403 on 2026-09-13 and its only Internet Archive capture, on 2026-09-06, is itself a 403.
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The details
Election facts. Original sources.
Election date
November 3, 2026
Launch rating
Cook Political Report: Toss Up; dated August 25, 2026
Ballot source updated
All-offices list revised September 10, 2026 by the name of its own downloadable file, which carries a Status column; reviewed September 13, 2026.
Candidate field
Printed candidates checked against official election records.
What this page includes, and what is not yet included.
As of Sep 23, 2026. Each area lists only what has passed its source check. How coverage works.
BallotIncluded
4 printed candidates, checked September 13, 2026 against the official election record.
Race outlookPartial
2 of 3 specialist ratings are current as of Sep 23, 2026. 1 stale rating stays visible with its date but is excluded from our analysis.
Reported contextIncluded
1 dated development with original reporting attached.
Words and recordIncluded
11 statement-to-action comparisons across 4 candidate records, each with a stated limitation.
Campaign financeIncluded
FEC filing snapshots for 2 principal campaign committees, with a common coverage cutoff.
PollingNot yet
No published poll has been reviewed for this race yet.
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Printed brief
Sources for this brief
Snapshot as of Sep 23, 2026. The live page may have changed since this copy was printed: https://statedrecord.com/races/virginia-us-house-02-2026
Virginia Department of Elections federal candidate listhttps://www.elections.virginia.gov/casting-a-ballot/candidate-list/november-3-2026-gen-elect-federal-offices/
Cook Political Report House ratingshttps://www.cookpolitical.com/ratings/house-race-ratings
Virginia Mercuryhttps://virginiamercury.com/2026/08/18/alongside-kiggans-us-house-speaker-says-va-s-2nd-district-will-determine-the-fate-of-the-country/