Representative Claudia Tenney
Summary of voting record: Representative Tenney opposes taxing businesses, consumer protection, environmental protection, financial sector regulation, gun control, public health, humane immigration policy, racial equality, increasing revenues, taxing the wealthy, countering russian interference, a robust safety net, higher spending, women's rights and supports big business, hawkish foreign policy.
Voting Record: Claudia Tenney
Favors
the middle class
0% of the time
Favors
the wealthy
100% of the time
Favors
broad civil rights
0% of the time
Favors
narrow civil rights
100% of the time
Specific Policy Areas
supports
Big Business
100% of the time
| Title: Standard Merger and Acquisition Reviews Through Equal Rules Act of 2018 (2018 roll call h177) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-05-09 |
Weight: 2 |
| Scoring explanation: Undermining the FTC's powers of antitrust regulation. |
supports
Hawkish Foreign Policy
100% of the time
| Title: Strengthening Oversight of Iran's Access to Finance Act (2017 roll call h684) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2017-12-14 |
Weight: 8 |
| Scoring explanation: This bill was an attempt to undermine the nuclear deal with Iran. |
supports
Public Health
18.2% of the time
| Title: Resolution to permit blocking HHS from funding organizations that provide family planning services (2017 roll call h99) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2017-02-16 |
Weight: 4 |
| Title: Spending Cuts to Expired and Unnecessary Programs Act (2018 roll call h243) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases 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: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-06-22 |
Weight: 2 |
| Scoring explanation: Providing broader access to opioid treatment |
supports
Countering Russian Interference
0% of the time
| Title: Instructing DOJ to provide details of ongoing Russia investigation to the House (2018 roll call h305) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases 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: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-07-19 |
Weight: 6 |
| Scoring explanation: Bill eliminated funding for election security measures implemented by states. |
supports
Taxing the Wealthy
0% of the time
| Title: Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (2017 roll call h699) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2017-12-20 |
Weight: 10 |
| Scoring explanation: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act massively cut taxes on the wealthy. |
supports
a Robust Safety Net
0% of the time
| Title: Spending Cuts to Expired and Unnecessary Programs Act (2018 roll call h243) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases 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
Higher Spending
0% of the time
| Title: Spending Cuts to Expired and Unnecessary Programs Act (2018 roll call h243) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases 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
Women's Rights
0% of the time
| Title: Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (2017 roll call h549) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases 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: Aye (decreases 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: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2017-02-16 |
Weight: 8 |
supports
Increasing Revenues
0% of the time
| Title: Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (2017 roll call h699) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases 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
0% of the time
| Title: Rescinding CFPB rule that extended anti-discrimination protections to auto loans (2018 roll call h171) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-05-08 |
Weight: 3 |
supports
Gun Control
0% of the time
| Title: Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017 (2017 roll call h663) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases 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
Financial Sector Regulation
0% of the time
| Title: Financial CHOICE Act of 2017 (2017 roll call h295) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases 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: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2017-01-12 |
Weight: 2 |
| Title: Regulation A+ Improvement Act of 2017 (2018 roll call h110) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases 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: Aye (decreases 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: Aye (decreases 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: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-02-08 |
Weight: 2 |
| Title: Protecting Consumers' Access to Credit Act of 2017 (2018 roll call h78) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases 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
Consumer Protection
0% of the time
| Title: Standard Merger and Acquisition Reviews Through Equal Rules Act of 2018 (2018 roll call h177) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-05-09 |
Weight: 2 |
| Scoring explanation: Undermining the FTC's powers of antitrust regulation. |
supports
Taxing Businesses
0% of the time
| Title: Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (2017 roll call h699) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2017-12-20 |
Weight: 10 |
| Scoring explanation: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act massively cut taxes on businesses. |
supports
Humane Immigration Policy
0% of the time
| Title: Securing America's Future Act of 2018 (2018 roll call h282) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases 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: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-06-21 |
Weight: 2 |
| Title: Expressing support for ICE (2018 roll call h337) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases 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
0% of the time
| Title: Ozone Standards Implementation Act of 2017 (2017 roll call h391) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases 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: Aye (decreases 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: Aye (decreases 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: Aye (decreases 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: Aye (decreases 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: Aye (decreases 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. |
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