Representative Darin LaHood


photo of Representative Darin LaHood
Party:Republican
State:Illinois (District 18)
Joined the House:2015
Left the House:Incumbent (term ends 2021)
Birth Date:July 5, 1968
Phone:202-225-6201
Contact:Web form
URL:Official site
Fundraising History:Open Secrets
Election History:Ballotpedia
Biography:Wikipedia


Summary of voting record: Representative LaHood opposes taxing businesses, consumer protection, environmental protection, financial sector regulation, gun control, public health, foreign and humanitarian aid, humane immigration policy, labor rights and wages, lgbt rights, avoiding default, racial equality, increasing revenues, taxing the wealthy, countering russian interference, a robust safety net, women's rights and supports big business, hawkish foreign policy, military spending.
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Voting Record: Darin LaHood


Favors
the middle class
6.2% of the time
 
 
Economics scale
 
Favors
the wealthy
93.8% of the time


 
Favors
broad civil rights
1.9% of the time
 
 
Social Policy scale
 
Favors
narrow civil rights
98.1% of the time


 

Specific Policy Areas


supports
Big Business
100% of the time
 
Big Business scale
Title: Responsibly And Professionally Invigorating Development Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h518)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: passage Date: 2015-09-25 Weight: 2

Title: Amendment designed to protect the independence of regulatory agencies (2016 roll call h14)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2016-01-07 Weight: 1
Scoring explanation: Certain regulatory agencies, such as the SEC and CFPB, are structured to be somewhat independent to minimize the ability of business lobbyists to pressure them. This amendment to the SCRUB Act was intended to protect the independence of those agencies.

Title: Searching for and Cutting Regulations that are Unnecessarily Burdensome Act of 2015 (2016 roll call h20)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: passage Date: 2016-01-07 Weight: 6
Scoring explanation: This bill is intended to structure the regulatory process in a way that would result in dramatic deregulation of big business.

Title: Amendment to reduce the burden placed on plaintiffs by a bill to curtail class actions (2016 roll call h29)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2016-01-08 Weight: 2
Scoring explanation: Class actions are generally a means by which individuals can seek compensation from businesses that have harmed them. Suing a large business as an individual is often not feasible, while it is more often feasible for a large group that can pool their resources. The bill which this amendment would revise (HR 1927) to lessen the burden the bill would place on litigants who wish to proceed as a class.

Title: Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act of 2015 (2016 roll call h33)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: passage Date: 2016-01-08 Weight: 6
Scoring explanation: This bill would raise the bar for forming a class dramatically. Class actions are typically used by individuals when a large business does a small amount of harm to a large number of people. For example, if a company were to do $50 worth of harm to each of one million of its customers, it would not be feasible for each individual to sue, so the company would only be forced to compensate the customers it harmed if they are able to form a class. By setting a very high burden of proof for forming a class, this bill would block many class actions.

Title: Amendment to exempt plaintiffs seeking compensation from the bad faith of an insurer from an act restricting the filing of suits. (2016 roll call h87)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2016-02-25 Weight: 2

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.

Title: FAIR Act (2019 roll call h540)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: passage Date: 2019-09-20 Weight: 1
Scoring explanation: Bill prohibiting mandatory arbitration clauses in employment agreements being applied to civil rights offenses by employers.

supports
Hawkish Foreign Policy
100% of the time
 
Hawkish Foreign Policy scale
Title: Justice for Victims of Iranian Terrorism Act (2015 roll call h533)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: passage Date: 2015-10-01 Weight: 7
Scoring explanation: Prohibiting the president from ending sanctions against Iran or entering into a nuclear disarmament treaty until all judgments against Iran have been paid.

Title: Prohibiting Future Ransom Payments to Iran Act (2016 roll call h554)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: passage Date: 2016-09-22 Weight: 2

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
Military Spending
90.9% of the time
 
Military Spending scale
Title: Amendment to block an increase in funding for the Maritime Security Fleet (2015 roll call h545)
Vote: Aye (decreases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-10-09 Weight: 1

Title: The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (2015 roll call h618)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: passage-suspension Date: 2015-11-05 Weight: 6

Title: Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (2015 roll call h649)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: passage-suspension Date: 2015-12-01 Weight: 4

supports
Funding Education
50% of the time
 
Funding Education scale
Title: Every Student Succeeds Act (2015 roll call h665)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: passage Date: 2015-12-02 Weight: 4

Title: SOAR Reauthorization Act (2016 roll call h179)
Vote: Aye (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2016-04-29 Weight: 4

supports
Higher Spending
33.3% of the time
 
Higher Spending scale
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.

Title: Rehabilitation for Multiemployer Pensions Act (2019 roll call h505)
Vote: Nay (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2019-07-24 Weight: 3
Scoring explanation: Bill to provide loans to multi-employer pension funds facing bankruptcy.

Title: Bipartisan Budget Act of 2019 (2019 roll call h511)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: passage Date: 2019-07-25 Weight: 2
Scoring explanation: Budget bill that included significant limits on certain discretionary spending.

supports
Public Health
13.6% of the time
 
Public Health scale
Title: Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Reauthorization Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h695)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: passage-suspension Date: 2015-12-16 Weight: 1

Title: Restoring Americans' Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act of 2015 (2016 roll call h6)
Vote: Aye (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2016-01-06 Weight: 10
Scoring explanation: Although the effect of repealing many provisions of the ACA that this bill would repeal is a matter of policy judgment, and hence have not entered into the rating, this bill would dramatically reduce funding for healthcare, including ending the Medicare expansion, which would unambiguously undermine public health.

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
Humane Immigration Policy
7.7% of the time
 
Humane Immigration Policy scale
Title: Amendment to file a brief with the SCOTUS opposing DACA (2016 roll call h128)
Vote: Aye (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2016-03-17 Weight: 1

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.

Title: Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019 (2019 roll call h437)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: passage Date: 2019-07-10 Weight: 2
Scoring explanation: Bill to increase caps for certain high-skill visa categories.

Title: Humanitarian Standards for Individuals in Customs and Border Protection Custody Act (2019 roll call h507)
Vote: Nay (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2019-07-24 Weight: 10
Scoring explanation: Bill to establish minimum treatment standards for detained immigrants.

Title: Homeland Security Improvement Act (2019 roll call h546)
Vote: Nay (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2019-09-25 Weight: 3
Scoring explanation: Bill to establish an ombudsman in DHS to address mistreatment of detained immigrants.

Title: U.S. Border Patrol Medical Screening Standards Act (2019 roll call h552)
Vote: Nay (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2019-09-26 Weight: 2
Scoring explanation: Bill to establish standard for medical care of detained immigrants.

supports
Racial Equality
5.6% of the time
 
Racial Equality scale
Title: Amendment to require that environmental impact statements assess the impact on low-income and minority communities (2015 roll call h509)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-09-25 Weight: 1

Title: Amendment to the Red River Private Property Protection Act to preserve surface and mineral rights of Native American tribes (2015 roll call h684)
Vote: Nay (decreases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-12-09 Weight: 1

Title: Amendment to exclude violations of the Civil Rights Act Title VII from a bill curtailing class actions (2016 roll call h24)
Vote: Nay (decreases score) Type: amendment Date: 2016-01-08 Weight: 3
Scoring explanation: The bill (HR 1927) that this amendment would revise would create substantial burdens to filing class actions, especially class actions based on a pattern of racial discrimination in employment. This amendment sought to protect the viability of civil rights class actions.

Title: Amendment to exclude violations of the Fair Housing Act and Equal Credit Opportunity Act from a bill curtailing class actions (2016 roll call h26)
Vote: Nay (decreases score) Type: amendment Date: 2016-01-08 Weight: 2
Scoring explanation: This amendment would have protected housing discrimination suits from a bill that would make it significantly more difficult to file a class action.

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

Title: FAIR Act (2019 roll call h540)
Vote: Nay (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2019-09-20 Weight: 4

Title: Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act of 2019 (2019 roll call h597)
Vote: Nay (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2019-10-30 Weight: 1
Scoring explanation: Bill to protect the Chaco Cultural Heritage Area from commercial exploitation.

Title: Improving Corporate Governance Through Diversity Act of 2019 (2019 roll call h630)
Vote: Nay (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2019-11-19 Weight: 3
Scoring explanation: Bill to require corporations to disclose the racial and gender composition of their boards.

supports
Taxing the Wealthy
0% of the time
 
Taxing the Wealthy scale
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
Increasing Revenues
0% of the time
 
Increasing Revenues scale
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
Countering Russian Interference
0% of the time
 
Countering Russian Interference scale
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.

Title: SHIELD Act (2019 roll call h583)
Vote: Nay (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2019-10-23 Weight: 10
Scoring explanation: Bill to counter foreign election interference.

supports
a Robust Safety Net
0% of the time
 
a Robust Safety Net scale
Title: Restoring Americans' Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act of 2015 (2016 roll call h6)
Vote: Aye (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2016-01-06 Weight: 10
Scoring explanation: Although the effect of repealing many provisions of the ACA that this bill would repeal is a matter of policy judgment, and hence have not entered into the rating, this bill would end the Medicare expansion, which would unambiguously and dramatically weaken the safety net.

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
Women's Rights
0% of the time
 
Women's Rights scale
Title: Women's Public Health and Safety Act (2015 roll call h524)
Vote: Aye (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2015-09-29 Weight: 9
Scoring explanation: A bill to allow states to refuse to make Medicaid payments to healthcare providers that perform abortions.

Title: Resolution to defund Planned Parenthood (2015 roll call h527)
Vote: Aye (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2015-09-30 Weight: 2

Title: Restoring Americans' Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act of 2015 (2016 roll call h6)
Vote: Aye (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2016-01-06 Weight: 4
Scoring explanation: This bill includes provisions prohibiting states from using federal funds to fund Planned Parenthood and other organizations that perform abortions except in cases of rape, incest or threat to the life of the pregnant woman.

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

Title: Equality Act (2019 roll call h217)
Vote: Nay (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2019-05-17 Weight: 10
Scoring explanation: Broad bill to prohibit discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation or gender identity.

Title: FAIR Act (2019 roll call h540)
Vote: Nay (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2019-09-20 Weight: 4

supports
Taxing Businesses
0% of the time
 
Taxing Businesses scale
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
Avoiding Default
0% of the time
 
Avoiding Default scale
Title: Default Prevention Act (2015 roll call h557)
Vote: Aye (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2015-10-21 Weight: 2
Scoring explanation: Although this bill was presented as a means to avoid default, it actually only permitted the treasury to ignore the debt limit and continue to honor its payment obligations with regard to certain types of payments, such as bonds and social security, which would have made a partial default more politically feasible.

Title: Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h579)
Vote: Nay (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2015-10-28 Weight: 10

Title: Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and Further Health Extenders Act of 2019 (2019 roll call h631)
Vote: Nay (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2019-11-19 Weight: 1
Scoring explanation: Continuing resolution to fund the government

supports
Foreign and Humanitarian Aid
0% of the time
 
Foreign and Humanitarian Aid scale
Title: American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h643)
Vote: Aye (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2015-11-19 Weight: 6
Scoring explanation: Establishing substantial barriers to the admittance of refugees from Iraq and Syria.

supports
Financial Sector Regulation
0% of the time
 
Financial Sector Regulation scale
Title: Small Bank Exam Cycle Reform Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h534)
Vote: Aye (decreases score) Type: passage-suspension Date: 2015-10-06 Weight: 1
Scoring explanation: Easing regulatory examination procedures for small banks.

Title: Homebuyers Assistance Act (2015 roll call h540)
Vote: Aye (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2015-10-07 Weight: 1
Scoring explanation: Delaying the start of the regulation of various mortgage regulations.

Title: Retail Investor Protection Act (2015 roll call h575)
Vote: Aye (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2015-10-27 Weight: 1
Scoring explanation: The bill would have applied limits to the powers of the Secretary of Labor and the SEC's abilities to regulate the financial sector.

Title: Portfolio Lending and Mortgage Access Act (2015 roll call h636)
Vote: Aye (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2015-11-18 Weight: 6
Scoring explanation: The Act would substantially reduce the regulation of banks' issuance of mortgages by rolling back CFPB regulations designed to prevent some of the lending practices that led to the 2008 recession.

Title: Resolution to prevent fiduciary duties from being imposed on retirement advisors (2016 roll call h176)
Vote: Aye (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2016-04-28 Weight: 4

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.

Title: Corporate Transparency Act of 2019 (2019 roll call h577)
Vote: Nay (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2019-10-22 Weight: 2
Scoring explanation: Bill to require shell corporations to reveal their beneficial owner.

supports
Environmental Protection
0% of the time
 
Environmental Protection scale
Title: Amendment to require that environmental impact statements assess the impact on low-income and minority communities (2015 roll call h509)
Vote: Aye (decreases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-09-25 Weight: 1

Title: Amendment to remove a provision that would limit the allowable time for the evaluation of environmental impacts (2015 roll call h511)
Vote: Nay (decreases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-09-25 Weight: 3

Title: Responsibly And Professionally Invigorating Development Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h518)
Vote: Aye (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2015-09-25 Weight: 4
Scoring explanation: The bill would have significantly curtailed the process of developing environmental impact statements.

Title: National Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h565)
Vote: Aye (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2015-10-22 Weight: 2
Scoring explanation: The bill would have reduced environmental regulations pertaining to mining on federal lands.

Title: Amendment to extend incentives for electric cars to natural gas cars (2015 roll call h620)
Vote: Aye (decreases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-11-05 Weight: 6

Title: Resolution to nullify the Clean Power Plan (2015 roll call h650)
Vote: Aye (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2015-12-01 Weight: 9
Scoring explanation: This resolution would have nullified the EPA's standards for greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants.

Title: Resolution to nullify the EPA rule establishing Clean Air Act standards for carbon dioxide emissions (2015 roll call h651)
Vote: Aye (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2015-12-01 Weight: 8

Title: Amendment curtailing review of the environmental impact of international oil pipelines (2015 roll call h658)
Vote: Aye (decreases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-12-02 Weight: 2

Title: Amendment to protect funding for energy efficiency programs (2015 roll call h661)
Vote: Nay (decreases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-12-02 Weight: 4

Title: Amendment to provide funding and technical assistance to renewable energy projects (2015 roll call h662)
Vote: Nay (decreases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-12-02 Weight: 2

Title: Amendment to repeal EPA regulations of residential wood heaters (2015 roll call h669)
Vote: Aye (decreases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-12-03 Weight: 2

Title: North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h672)
Vote: Aye (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2015-12-03 Weight: 8
Scoring explanation: This bill was an attempt to counter the Obama administration's shifting of our energy policy to be more favorable for more environmentally sound sources of energy. It included many provisions favorable to the fossil fuel industry and unfavorable to the renewable energy sector and was uniformly opposed by environmental groups.

Title: Amendment to strike a provision that would have undermined the EPA's cross-state air pollution rule (2016 roll call h118)
Vote: Nay (decreases score) Type: amendment Date: 2016-03-15 Weight: 2

Title: SENSE Act (2016 roll call h123)
Vote: Aye (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2016-03-15 Weight: 6
Scoring explanation: Bill to undermine the EPA's powerplant regulations.

Title: Amendment to designate ANWR as a national wilderness. (2016 roll call h99)
Vote: Nay (decreases score) Type: amendment Date: 2016-02-26 Weight: 4

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.

Title: Arctic Cultural and Coastal Plain Protection Act (2019 roll call h530)
Vote: Nay (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2019-09-12 Weight: 4
Scoring explanation: Bill prohibiting drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Title: Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act of 2019 (2019 roll call h597)
Vote: Nay (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2019-10-30 Weight: 1
Scoring explanation: Bill to protect the Chaco Cultural Heritage Area from commercial exploitation, including oil and gas production and mining.

Title: Grand Canyon Centennial Protection Act (2019 roll call h602)
Vote: Nay (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2019-10-30 Weight: 2
Scoring explanation: Bill to protect the Grand Canyon from commercial exploitation, including mining.

supports
Labor Rights and Wages
0% of the time
 
Labor Rights and Wages scale
Title: Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h633)
Vote: Aye (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2015-11-17 Weight: 1
Scoring explanation: The Act would exclude workers at businesses owned by Native American tribes from the jurisdiction of the NLRB.

Title: Raise the Wage Act (2019 roll call h496)
Vote: Nay (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2019-07-18 Weight: 10
Scoring explanation: Bill to increase the federal minimum wage.

Title: Rehabilitation for Multiemployer Pensions Act (2019 roll call h505)
Vote: Nay (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2019-07-24 Weight: 5
Scoring explanation: Bill to provide loans to multi-employer pension funds facing bankruptcy.

supports
Consumer Protection
0% of the time
 
Consumer Protection scale
Title: Amendment to increase the safety information auto makers must disclose (2015 roll call h619)
Vote: Nay (decreases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-11-05 Weight: 1

Title: Portfolio Lending and Mortgage Access Act (2015 roll call h636)
Vote: Aye (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2015-11-18 Weight: 6
Scoring explanation: The Act would substantially reduce the regulation of banks' issuance of mortgages by rolling back CFPB regulations designed to prevent some of the lending practices that led to the 2008 recession.

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
LGBT Rights
0% of the time
 
LGBT Rights scale
Title: Equality Act (2019 roll call h217)
Vote: Nay (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2019-05-17 Weight: 10
Scoring explanation: Broad bill to prohibit discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation or gender identity.

supports
Gun Control
0% of the time
 
Gun Control scale
Title: Amendment to exclude suits against gun makers for manufacturing defects from a bill curtailing class actions (2016 roll call h25)
Vote: Nay (decreases score) Type: amendment Date: 2016-01-08 Weight: 1

Title: Amendment to prohibit individuals who are prohibited from possessing a firearm from using target ranges. (2016 roll call h92)
Vote: Nay (decreases score) Type: amendment Date: 2016-02-26 Weight: 2

Title: Amendment to prohibit firearm bans in airports and similar locations (2016 roll call h96)
Vote: Aye (decreases score) Type: amendment Date: 2016-02-26 Weight: 6

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.



Updated: November 28, 2019Methodology


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