Representative Carol Shea-Porter
Summary of voting record: Representative Shea-Porter opposes big business, hawkish foreign policy, taxing the middle class and supports consumer protection, disaster relief, environmental protection, financial sector regulation, gun control, public health, humane immigration policy, lgbt rights, racial equality, increasing revenues, taxing the wealthy, countering russian interference, a robust safety net, higher spending, women's rights.
Voting Record: Carol Shea-Porter
Favors
the middle class
91.2% of the time
Favors
the wealthy
8.8% of the time
Favors
broad civil rights
100% of the time
Favors
narrow civil rights
0% of the time
Specific Policy Areas
supports
Taxing the Wealthy
100% of the time
| Title: Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (2017 roll call h699) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2017-12-20 |
Weight: 10 |
| Scoring explanation: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act massively cut taxes on the wealthy. |
supports
Increasing Revenues
100% of the time
| Title: Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (2017 roll call h699) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2017-12-20 |
Weight: 10 |
| Scoring explanation: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act cut revenues enough to increase the debt by an estimated $1 trillion, even considering growth generated. |
supports
Racial Equality
100% of the time
| Title: Amendment to VAWA to remove protections for Native Americans and LGBT individuals (2013 roll call h54) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2013-02-28 |
Weight: 7 |
| Title: Rescinding CFPB rule that extended anti-discrimination protections to auto loans (2018 roll call h171) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-05-08 |
Weight: 3 |
supports
Countering Russian Interference
100% of the time
| Title: Instructing DOJ to provide details of ongoing Russia investigation to the House (2018 roll call h305) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-06-28 |
Weight: 3 |
| Scoring explanation: Insisting that the Department of Justice fully comply with the requests, including subpoenas, of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the subpoena issued by the Committee on the Judiciary relating to potential violations of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by personnel of the Department of Justice and related matters. |
| Title: Interior, Environment, Financial Services, and General Government Appropriations Act, 2019 (2018 roll call h365) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-07-19 |
Weight: 6 |
| Scoring explanation: Bill eliminated funding for election security measures implemented by states. |
supports
a Robust Safety Net
100% of the time
| Title: Spending Cuts to Expired and Unnecessary Programs Act (2018 roll call h243) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-06-07 |
Weight: 2 |
| Scoring explanation: Cutting funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program, Medicare and Hurricane Sandy relief. |
supports
Women's Rights
100% of the time
| Title: Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 (2013 roll call h55) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2013-02-28 |
Weight: 10 |
| Title: Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (2017 roll call h549) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2017-10-03 |
Weight: 6 |
| Scoring explanation: Prohibiting abortions after 20 weeks except in very narrow circumstances such as a case of incest that had been reported the law enforcement, cases of rape where the woman received medical treatment for the rape and cases where the pregnancy poses particular kinds of threats to the life of the mother, but prohibits abortion in other cases of rape, incest or threat to the life of the mother. |
| Title: Bill to prohibit private insurance companies from covering abortion (2017 roll call h65) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2017-01-24 |
Weight: 8 |
| Title: Resolution to permit blocking HHS from funding organizations that provide family planning services (2017 roll call h99) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2017-02-16 |
Weight: 8 |
supports
Higher Spending
100% of the time
| Title: Amendment to increase relief funding following Hurricane Sandy (2013 roll call h22) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2013-01-15 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Sandy Recovery Improvement Act of 2013 (2013 roll call h23) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2013-01-15 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Amendment to the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (2013 roll call h7) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: passage-suspension |
Date: 2013-01-04 |
Weight: 1 |
| Scoring explanation: Establishing additional funding for flood relief |
| Title: Spending Cuts to Expired and Unnecessary Programs Act (2018 roll call h243) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-06-07 |
Weight: 1 |
| Scoring explanation: Cutting $15b in funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program, Medicare and Hurricane Sandy relief. |
supports
LGBT Rights
100% of the time
| Title: Amendment to VAWA to remove protections for Native Americans and LGBT individuals (2013 roll call h54) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2013-02-28 |
Weight: 7 |
supports
Humane Immigration Policy
100% of the time
| Title: Securing America's Future Act of 2018 (2018 roll call h282) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-06-21 |
Weight: 5 |
| Scoring explanation: A particularly restrictive immigration reform bill introduced by Representative Goodlatte. |
| Title: Proceeding with a vote on restrictive immigration legislation (2018 roll call h286) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-06-21 |
Weight: 2 |
| Title: Expressing support for ICE (2018 roll call h337) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-07-18 |
Weight: 1 |
| Scoring explanation: Expresses support for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the wake of the implementation of the policy of separating families at the border. |
supports
Environmental Protection
100% of the time
| Title: Amendment to remove funding for Regional Ocean Partnership grants (2013 roll call h16) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2013-01-15 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Ozone Standards Implementation Act of 2017 (2017 roll call h391) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2017-07-18 |
Weight: 1 |
| Scoring explanation: Easing ozone restrictions |
| Title: Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2017 (2017 roll call h598) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2017-11-01 |
Weight: 2 |
| Scoring explanation: Bill to reduce environmental environmental review of initiatives in federal forests. |
| Title: Expressing disapproval of the ANWAR environmental protections (2017 roll call h98) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2017-02-16 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Energy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 2019 (2018 roll call h253) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-06-08 |
Weight: 2 |
| Scoring explanation: Cutting funding for various clean energy initiatives. |
| Title: Sense of Congress on Carbon Tax (2018 roll call h363) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-07-19 |
Weight: 1 |
| Scoring explanation: Expresses the sense of Congress that a carbon tax would be detrimental to American families and businesses and is not in the best interest of the United States. |
| Title: Interior, Environment, Financial Services, and General Government Appropriations Act, 2019 (2018 roll call h365) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-07-19 |
Weight: 6 |
| Scoring explanation: Bill dramatically reducing funding for environmental protection programs in the EPA and Department of the Interior and forbidding those agencies from engaging in certain environmental regulation. |
supports
Disaster Relief
100% of the time
| Title: Amendment to increase relief funding following Hurricane Sandy (2013 roll call h22) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2013-01-15 |
Weight: 6 |
| Title: Sandy Recovery Improvement Act of 2013 (2013 roll call h23) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2013-01-15 |
Weight: 10 |
| Title: Amendment to the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (2013 roll call h7) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: passage-suspension |
Date: 2013-01-04 |
Weight: 7 |
| Scoring explanation: Establishing additional funding for flood relief |
supports
Consumer Protection
100% of the time
| Title: Standard Merger and Acquisition Reviews Through Equal Rules Act of 2018 (2018 roll call h177) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-05-09 |
Weight: 2 |
| Scoring explanation: Undermining the FTC's powers of antitrust regulation. |
supports
Financial Sector Regulation
100% of the time
| Title: Financial CHOICE Act of 2017 (2017 roll call h295) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2017-06-08 |
Weight: 9 |
| Scoring explanation: Repeals Dodd-Frank and various other financial regulations. |
| Title: SEC Regulatory Accountability Act curtailing the regulatory powers of the SEC (2017 roll call h51) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2017-01-12 |
Weight: 2 |
| Title: Regulation A+ Improvement Act of 2017 (2018 roll call h110) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-03-15 |
Weight: 1 |
| Scoring explanation: Amends the Securities Act of 1933 to increase the dollar limit of certain securities offerings exempt from registration requirements from $50 million annually to $75 million annually. |
| Title: Financial Institutions Examination Fairness and Reform Act (2018 roll call h112) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-03-15 |
Weight: 1 |
| Scoring explanation: Putting strict limits on bank examiners. |
| Title: Volcker Rule Regulatory Harmonization Act (2018 roll call h139) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-04-13 |
Weight: 4 |
| Scoring explanation: Bill to undermine the Volcker Rule, which prohibits lenders from making speculative investments with account holders' funds. |
| Title: Mortgage Choice Act of 2017 (2018 roll call h64) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-02-08 |
Weight: 2 |
| Title: Protecting Consumers' Access to Credit Act of 2017 (2018 roll call h78) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-02-14 |
Weight: 4 |
| Scoring explanation: Bill allowing non-bank lenders to charge higher interest rates than are typically permitted. |
supports
Gun Control
100% of the time
| Title: Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017 (2017 roll call h663) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2017-12-06 |
Weight: 7 |
| Scoring explanation: The Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017 would allow concealed carry permit holders in one state to carry in another state. |
supports
Public Health
100% of the time
| Title: Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act of 2013 (2013 roll call h24) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: passage-suspension |
Date: 2013-01-22 |
Weight: 2 |
| Title: National Pediatric Research Network Act of 2013 (2013 roll call h31) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: passage-suspension |
Date: 2013-02-04 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Children's Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 2013 (2013 roll call h32) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: passage-suspension |
Date: 2013-02-04 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Poison Center Network Act (2014 roll call h3) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: passage-suspension |
Date: 2014-01-08 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Resolution to permit blocking HHS from funding organizations that provide family planning services (2017 roll call h99) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2017-02-16 |
Weight: 4 |
| Title: Spending Cuts to Expired and Unnecessary Programs Act (2018 roll call h243) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-06-07 |
Weight: 3 |
| Scoring explanation: Cutting funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program. |
| Title: Comprehensive Opioid Recovery Centers Act of 2018 (2018 roll call h258) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-06-12 |
Weight: 2 |
| Scoring explanation: Requiring the Department of Health and Human Services to award grants to establish or operate comprehensive opioid recovery centers. |
| Title: Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act (2018 roll call h287) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-06-22 |
Weight: 2 |
| Scoring explanation: Providing broader access to opioid treatment |
supports
Taxing Businesses
38.5% of the time
| Title: America's Small Business Tax Relief Act of 2014 (2014 roll call h309) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2014-06-12 |
Weight: 8 |
| Title: S Corporation Permanent Tax Relief Act of 2014 (2014 roll call h311) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2014-06-12 |
Weight: 8 |
| Title: Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (2017 roll call h699) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2017-12-20 |
Weight: 10 |
| Scoring explanation: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act massively cut taxes on businesses. |
supports
Taxing the Middle Class
0% of the time
| Title: Federal Employee Tax Accountability Act of 2013 (2013 roll call h105) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: passage-suspension |
Date: 2013-04-15 |
Weight: 2 |
| Title: Child Tax Credit Improvement Act of 2014 (2014 roll call h451) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2014-07-25 |
Weight: 10 |
| Scoring explanation: This bill would have eliminated or reduced the child tax credit for 11 million families while increasing the credit for families making between $100,000 and $150,000. While arguably both groups are middle class, the impact of denying 11 million lower-income middle class families the credit is not offset by the benefit the bill would have afforded to higher-income middle class families. |
supports
Hawkish Foreign Policy
0% of the time
| Title: Strengthening Oversight of Iran's Access to Finance Act (2017 roll call h684) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2017-12-14 |
Weight: 8 |
| Scoring explanation: This bill was an attempt to undermine the nuclear deal with Iran. |
supports
Big Business
0% of the time
| Title: Standard Merger and Acquisition Reviews Through Equal Rules Act of 2018 (2018 roll call h177) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-05-09 |
Weight: 2 |
| Scoring explanation: Undermining the FTC's powers of antitrust regulation. |
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