Senator Gary Peters


photo of Senator Gary Peters
Party:Democratic
State:Michigan
Joined the Senate:2015
Left the Senate:Incumbent (term ends 2021)
Birth Date:December 1, 1958
Phone:202-224-6221
Contact:Web form
URL:Official site
Fundraising History:Open Secrets
Election History:Ballotpedia
Biography:Wikipedia


Summary of voting record: Senator Peters opposes big business, financial sector regulation, domestic surveillance and supports restrict money in politics, consumer protection, disaster relief, funding education, environmental protection, gun control, public health, foreign and humanitarian aid, humane immigration policy, labor rights and wages, lgbt rights, internet freedom, avoiding default, poverty amelioration, racial equality, increasing revenues, taxing the wealthy, a robust safety net, higher spending, women's rights.
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Voting Record: Gary Peters


Favors
the middle class
82.1% of the time
 
 
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Favors
the wealthy
17.9% of the time


 
Favors
broad civil rights
97.6% of the time
 
 
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Favors
narrow civil rights
2.4% of the time


 

Specific Policy Areas


supports
Avoiding Default
100% of the time
 
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Title: Amendment to prohibit increasing the debt limits using reconciliation (2015 roll call s132)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-27 Weight: 10

Title: Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (2015 roll call s294)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: passage Date: 2015-10-30 Weight: 10

supports
Internet Freedom
100% of the time
 
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Title: Nullifying FCC rule that prevented ISPs from selling usage data (2017 roll call s94)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: passage Date: 2017-03-23 Weight: 8

Title: Nullifying FCC rule that eliminated net neutrality (2018 roll call s97)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: passage Date: 2018-05-16 Weight: 10

supports
LGBT Rights
100% of the time
 
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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: Amendment to provide equal social security and veteran's benefits for same sex couples (2015 roll call s121)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-26 Weight: 10

Title: Amendment to reauthorize the Runaway and Homeless Youth and Trafficking Prevention Act and add protections for LGBT youth (2015 roll call s156)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-04-22 Weight: 2

Title: Amendment to strike protections for LGBT youth from the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act (2015 roll call s158)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-04-22 Weight: 6

Title: Amendment to include protections for LGBT youth in the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act (2015 roll call s159)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-04-22 Weight: 6

Title: Amendment to treat same-sex spouses the same as opposite-sex spouses with regard to veteran's benefits (2015 roll call s203)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-06-04 Weight: 6

Title: Amendment to extend civil rights protections to LGBT students (2015 roll call s236)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-07-14 Weight: 4

supports
Humane Immigration Policy
100% of the time
 
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Title: Amendment to deter the migration of unaccompanied children (2015 roll call s124)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-26 Weight: 2

Title: Stop Sanctuary Policies and Protect Americans Act (2015 roll call s280)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: cloture Date: 2015-10-20 Weight: 8

Title: Amendment to remove language denying funding for President Obama's immigration orders (2015 roll call s61)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-02-27 Weight: 8

Title: Immigration Rule of Law Act of 2015 (2015 roll call s63)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: cloture Date: 2015-02-27 Weight: 10

Title: American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act of 2015 (2016 roll call s4)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: cloture Date: 2016-01-20 Weight: 6
Scoring explanation: Attempt to block asylum for Syrian refugees

Title: 116|sres335 (2019 roll call s306)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: passage Date: 2019-09-25 Weight: 1
Scoring explanation: Bill to direct funds to be used to build the border wall.

Title: 116|sjres54 (2019 roll call s325)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: passage Date: 2019-10-17 Weight: 4
Scoring explanation: Resolution to terminate the "emergency" declaration to build a wall on the southern border.

supports
Poverty Amelioration
100% of the time
 
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Title: Amendment to tax the wealthy and use the revenues to provide for free community college (2015 roll call s100)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-26 Weight: 3

Title: Amendment to fund pre-K education (2015 roll call s119)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-26 Weight: 4

Title: 2015 budget (2015 roll call s135)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: passage Date: 2015-03-27 Weight: 10
Scoring explanation: The 2015 Republican budget would have greatly reduced or eliminated a wide variety of poverty amelioration programs.

Title: Amendment to reauthorize the Runaway and Homeless Youth and Trafficking Prevention Act and add protections for LGBT youth (2015 roll call s156)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-04-22 Weight: 4

Title: Amendment to strike protections for LGBT youth from the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act (2015 roll call s158)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-04-22 Weight: 2

Title: Amendment to include protections for LGBT youth in the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act (2015 roll call s159)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-04-22 Weight: 2

Title: Amendment to add youth jobs to education bill (2015 roll call s243)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-07-16 Weight: 4

Title: Amendment to establish pre-kindergarten programs for low income families (2015 roll call s247)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-07-16 Weight: 6

supports
Racial Equality
100% of the time
 
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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: Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 roll call s141)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: passage Date: 2018-06-28 Weight: 2
Scoring explanation: Improving access to agricultural programs for minority and other under-served populations.

Title: Rescinding CFPB rule that extended anti-discrimination protections to auto loans (2018 roll call s76)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: passage Date: 2018-04-18 Weight: 3

supports
a Robust Safety Net
100% of the time
 
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Title: Amendment to reject cuts to Medicare (2015 roll call s111)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-26 Weight: 10

Title: Amendment to increase social security benefits (2015 roll call s131)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-27 Weight: 10

Title: Amendment to replace the sequester (2015 roll call s134)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-27 Weight: 3

Title: 2015 budget (2015 roll call s171)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: passage Date: 2015-05-05 Weight: 10
Scoring explanation: The Republican 2015 budget would have dramatically reduced spending on a wide range of safety net programs, including Medicaid and food stamps

Title: Restoring Americans' Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act of 2015 (2015 roll call s329)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: passage Date: 2015-12-03 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: Rejecting cuts to Medicaid (2015 roll call s95)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-26 Weight: 10

supports
Taxing the Wealthy
100% of the time
 
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Title: Amendment to tax the wealthy and use the revenues to provide for free community college (2015 roll call s100)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-26 Weight: 10

Title: Amendment to eliminate the estate tax (2015 roll call s114)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-26 Weight: 10

Title: Amendment to eliminate tax deductions for corporate compensation over $1 million (2015 roll call s127)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-27 Weight: 10

Title: 2015 budget (2015 roll call s171)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: passage Date: 2015-05-05 Weight: 10
Scoring explanation: The Republican 2015 budget would have dramatically reduced taxes on the wealthy.

Title: Amendment to greatly reduce student loan interest and fund by establishing a minimum tax on the wealthy (2015 roll call s86)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-25 Weight: 10

supports
Increasing Revenues
100% of the time
 
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Title: Amendment to require that the campaign against ISIS be paid for with new revenues (2015 roll call s110)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-26 Weight: 8

Title: Amendment to eliminate the estate tax (2015 roll call s114)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-26 Weight: 8

Title: Amendment to establish bonds targeted for clean energy efforts (2016 roll call s52)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2016-04-19 Weight: 2

supports
Foreign and Humanitarian Aid
100% of the time
 
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Title: Amendment to increase the difficulty of accepting refugees (2015 roll call s323)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-12-03 Weight: 3

Title: American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act of 2015 (2016 roll call s4)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: cloture Date: 2016-01-20 Weight: 8
Scoring explanation: Attempt to block asylum for Syrian refugees

supports
Labor Rights and Wages
100% of the time
 
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Title: Amendment to increase taxes on companies that offshore jobs and reduce taxes for companies that pay a living wage (2015 roll call s104)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-26 Weight: 6

Title: Amendment to prohibit labor agreements in government construction contracts (2015 roll call s120)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-26 Weight: 6

Title: Resolution to nullify NLRB rule regarding the length of the voting window (2015 roll call s67)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: passage Date: 2015-03-04 Weight: 6

Title: Amendment to promote increases in the minimum wage (2015 roll call s93)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-26 Weight: 4

Title: Amendment to promote paid sick time (2015 roll call s98)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-26 Weight: 2

supports
Funding Education
100% of the time
 
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Title: Amendment to tax the wealthy and use the revenues to provide for free community college (2015 roll call s100)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-26 Weight: 10

Title: Amendment to restore funding for Pell grants (2015 roll call s101)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-26 Weight: 10

Title: Amendment to fund pre-K education (2015 roll call s119)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-26 Weight: 6

Title: Trade Adjustment Assistance Reauthorization Act of 2015 (2015 roll call s220)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: cloture Date: 2015-06-24 Weight: 4
Scoring explanation: Providing job retraining assistance to workers who are adversely affected by globalization.

Title: Amendment to introduce voucher program to ECAA (2015 roll call s232)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-07-14 Weight: 3
Scoring explanation: While the proposed voucher program would not reduce the total educational expenditures, it would shift funds from public education to vouchers which go to the parents of private school students, most of whom would pay the same amount for education either way, so it would cause a net reduction in education spending.

Title: Amendment to establish a climate change education program (2015 roll call s238)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-07-15 Weight: 1

Title: Amendment to reinstate grants to improve the mental health of children (2015 roll call s239)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-07-15 Weight: 1

Title: Amendment to establish pre-kindergarten programs for low income families (2015 roll call s247)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-07-16 Weight: 8

Title: Every Student Succeeds Act (2015 roll call s334)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: passage Date: 2015-12-09 Weight: 4

Title: Amendment to greatly reduce student loan interest and fund by establishing a minimum tax on the wealthy (2015 roll call s86)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-25 Weight: 10

supports
Disaster Relief
100% of the time
 
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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
 
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Title: Amendment to establish reserve fund for CFPB (2015 roll call s117)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-26 Weight: 4

Title: Amendment to allow Americans to buy prescription drugs from Canada (2017 roll call s20)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2017-01-11 Weight: 2

supports
Restrict Money in Politics
100% of the time
 
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Title: Amendment to make it more difficult for big donors to donate to politicians secretly (2015 roll call s107)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-26 Weight: 8

Title: Amendment to require campaign finance disclosures related to tar sands development (2015 roll call s36)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-01-28 Weight: 2

supports
Public Health
100% of the time
 
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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: Amendment to reject cuts to Medicare (2015 roll call s111)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-26 Weight: 8

Title: 2015 budget (2015 roll call s135)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: passage Date: 2015-03-27 Weight: 10
Scoring explanation: The 2015 Republican budget would have significantly reduced public health budgets.

Title: Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (2015 roll call s144)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: passage Date: 2015-04-14 Weight: 4

Title: Amendment to reinstate grants to improve the mental health of children (2015 roll call s239)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-07-15 Weight: 2

Title: Amendment of ACA repeal to preserve the Prevention and Public Health Fund (2015 roll call s314)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-12-03 Weight: 3

Title: Restoring Americans' Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act of 2015 (2015 roll call s329)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: passage Date: 2015-12-03 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: Rejecting cuts to Medicaid (2015 roll call s95)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-26 Weight: 8

Title: Amendment to allow Americans to buy prescription drugs from Canada (2017 roll call s20)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2017-01-11 Weight: 4

supports
Environmental Protection
100% of the time
 
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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: Amendment to transfer national forests, wildlife refuges and wildernesses to states (2015 roll call s106)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-26 Weight: 10
Scoring explanation: The underlying goal of this amendment was to enable states to sell federal land to industry.

Title: Amendment to direct various agencies to consider deficit-neutral ways to respond to climate change (2015 roll call s115)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-26 Weight: 3

Title: Amendment to prohibit the EPA from penalizing states that refuse to comply with the Clean Power Plan (2015 roll call s116)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-26 Weight: 4

Title: Amendment to weaken environmental protections of rivers (2015 roll call s118)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-26 Weight: 4

Title: Amendment to restrict the designation of critical habitats (2015 roll call s128)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-27 Weight: 4

Title: Amendment to establish a climate change education program (2015 roll call s238)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-07-15 Weight: 3

Title: Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016 (2015 roll call s278)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: cloture Date: 2015-10-08 Weight: 5
Scoring explanation: Curtailing investments in renewable energy.

Title: Federal Water Quality Protection Act (2015 roll call s295)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: cloture Date: 2015-11-03 Weight: 2
Scoring explanation: The bill would have established more barriers to the regulation of bodies of water by the EPA and the Department of the Army.

Title: Resolution to nullify the 'waters of the United States' rule (2015 roll call s297)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: passage Date: 2015-11-04 Weight: 6

Title: Resolution to nullify the Clean Power Plan (2015 roll call s306)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: passage Date: 2015-11-17 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 s307)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: passage Date: 2015-11-17 Weight: 8

Title: Amendment to increase solar power tax rebates. (2015 roll call s33)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-01-28 Weight: 3

Title: Amendment to eliminate certain wilderness study areas (2015 roll call s39)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-01-28 Weight: 2

Title: Amendment to permanently reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund (2015 roll call s43)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-01-29 Weight: 2

Title: Energy Efficiency Improvement Act of 2015 (2015 roll call s45)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: cloture Date: 2015-01-29 Weight: 4

Title: Amendment to defer to the President's determination on the XL pipeline (2015 roll call s47)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-01-29 Weight: 2

Title: Amendment to tax the product of oil sands as crude oil (2015 roll call s48)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-01-29 Weight: 1

Title: Keystone XL Pipeline Approval Act (2015 roll call s68)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: veto-override Date: 2015-03-04 Weight: 2

Title: Amendment to limit the reach of the Water Pollution Control Act (2015 roll call s88)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-25 Weight: 4

Title: Amendment to recognize the contribution human activity makes to climate change (2015 roll call s89)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-25 Weight: 1

Title: Amendment to establish bonds targeted for clean energy efforts (2016 roll call s52)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2016-04-19 Weight: 2

Title: Amendment to add funding for wind energy (2016 roll call s61)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2016-04-26 Weight: 2

Title: 116|sjres53 (2019 roll call s324)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: passage Date: 2019-10-17 Weight: 3
Scoring explanation: Resolution that would have nullified the EPA rule that repealed the Clean Power Plan.

supports
Gun Control
100% of the time
 
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Title: Amendment to block implementation of the UN's Arms Trade Treaty (2015 roll call s108)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-26 Weight: 6

Title: Amendment to eliminate gun control measures in DC (2015 roll call s325)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-12-03 Weight: 2

Title: Resolution to block measures to prevent the mentally ill from buying firearms (2017 roll call s66)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: passage Date: 2017-02-15 Weight: 8

supports
Women's Rights
92.7% of the time
 
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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: Amendment to require businesses to accommodate pregnant workers (2015 roll call s113)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-26 Weight: 8

Title: Amendment to VAWA to ease the process of terminating parental rights of fathers who impregnated the mother through rape (2015 roll call s160)
Vote: Aye (decreases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-04-22 Weight: 4

Title: Trafficking Awareness Training for Health Care Act of 2015 (2015 roll call s163)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: passage Date: 2015-04-22 Weight: 4

Title: Cloture motion on defunding Planned Parenthood (2015 roll call s262)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: cloture Date: 2015-08-03 Weight: 2

Title: Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (2015 roll call s268)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: cloture Date: 2015-09-22 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: Restoring Americans' Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act of 2015 (2015 roll call s329)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: passage Date: 2015-12-03 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: Amendment to expand the ability of victims of gender discrimination to assert a claim (2015 roll call s82)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-24 Weight: 10

Title: National Sea Grant College Program Amendments Act of 2015 (2016 roll call s37)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: cloture Date: 2016-03-16 Weight: 1
Scoring explanation: Seeking to defund Planned Parenthood

Title: Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (2018 roll call s25)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: passage Date: 2018-01-29 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.

supports
Higher Spending
85% of the time
 
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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: Amendment to reject cuts to Medicare (2015 roll call s111)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-26 Weight: 6

Title: Amendment to replace the sequester (2015 roll call s134)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-27 Weight: 3

Title: Amendment to require that the Medicare "doctor fix" be offset by spending cuts or tax increases (2015 roll call s139)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-04-14 Weight: 6

Title: Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (2015 roll call s144)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: passage Date: 2015-04-14 Weight: 4

Title: 2015 budget (2015 roll call s171)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: passage Date: 2015-05-05 Weight: 10
Scoring explanation: The Republican 2015 budget would have cut spending dramatically.

Title: Amendment to prevent military spending from exceeding the sequester caps (2015 roll call s205)
Vote: Aye (decreases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-06-09 Weight: 3

Title: Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (2015 roll call s215)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: passage Date: 2015-06-18 Weight: 5
Scoring explanation: This version of the Act would have exceeded the sequester cap by moving some of the spending into a program that is outside of those caps.

Title: Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2016 (2015 roll call s298)
Vote: Nay (decreases score) Type: cloture Date: 2015-11-05 Weight: 6
Scoring explanation: This version of the appropriations for the DoD would have increased military spending beyond the sequester cap by shifting base operating costs to the budget of the Overseas Contingency Operations.

Title: Eliminating the sequester cuts (2015 roll call s91)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-25 Weight: 10

Title: Rejecting cuts to Medicaid (2015 roll call s95)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-26 Weight: 4

supports
Taxing Businesses
57.9% of the time
 
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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: Amendment to tax the product of oil sands as crude oil (2015 roll call s48)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-01-29 Weight: 4

Title: Amendment to close corporate tax loopholes and fund infrastructure (2015 roll call s78)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-24 Weight: 8

Title: Amendment to eliminate tax benefits of offshoring jobs (2015 roll call s94)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-26 Weight: 10

supports
Taxing the Middle Class
54.5% of the time
 
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Title: Federal Employee Tax Accountability Act of 2013 (2013 roll call h105)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: passage-suspension Date: 2013-04-15 Weight: 2

Title: Child Tax Credit Improvement Act of 2014 (2014 roll call h451)
Vote: Aye (increases 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.

Title: Amendment to enact various tax relief for the middle class (2015 roll call s125)
Vote: Aye (decreases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-26 Weight: 10

supports
Hawkish Foreign Policy
38.1% of the time
 
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Title: Requiring DOD to preserve current active ICBM silos in warm status (2013 roll call h223)
Vote: Nay (decreases score) Type: amendment Date: 2013-06-13 Weight: 2

Title: Amendment to require that the campaign against ISIS be paid for with new revenues (2015 roll call s110)
Vote: Aye (decreases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-26 Weight: 2

Title: Amendment to prevent the Iran nuclear deal unless the US can certify that Iran has not supported an act of terrorism against the U.S. (2015 roll call s168)
Vote: Nay (decreases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-04-29 Weight: 2

Title: Amendment to reaffirm prohibition on torture (2015 roll call s209)
Vote: Aye (decreases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-06-16 Weight: 4

Title: Cloture motion on an amendment prohibiting the President from entering into the Iranian nuclear disarmament deal (2015 roll call s266)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: cloture Date: 2015-09-17 Weight: 8

Title: Resolution to order removal of troops from Yemen (2019 roll call s94)
Vote: Aye (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2019-05-02 Weight: 3
Scoring explanation: A resolution directing the President to remove U.S. armed forces from hostilities in Yemen.

supports
Military Spending
35% of the time
 
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Title: Amendment to require that the campaign against ISIS be paid for with new revenues (2015 roll call s110)
Vote: Aye (decreases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-26 Weight: 10

Title: Amendment to replace the sequester (2015 roll call s134)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-27 Weight: 3

Title: 2015 budget (2015 roll call s135)
Vote: Nay (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2015-03-27 Weight: 10
Scoring explanation: The 2015 Republican budget would have greatly increased military spending.

Title: Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (2015 roll call s215)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: passage Date: 2015-06-18 Weight: 5

Title: Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2016 (2015 roll call s298)
Vote: Nay (decreases score) Type: cloture Date: 2015-11-05 Weight: 6

Title: The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (2015 roll call s301)
Vote: Aye (increases score) Type: passage Date: 2015-11-10 Weight: 6

supports
Domestic Surveillance
21.4% of the time
 
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Title: Amendment to remove the appointment of an attorney to represent the subject and the public in FISA hearings (2015 roll call s198)
Vote: Nay (increases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-06-02 Weight: 3

Title: Amendment delaying the elimination of bulk data collection by the NSA (2015 roll call s199)
Vote: Nay (decreases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-06-02 Weight: 5

Title: Amendment to protect domestic surveillance capaibilities of the NSA (2015 roll call s200)
Vote: Nay (decreases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-06-02 Weight: 6

supports
Big Business
0% of the time
 
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Title: Amendment to increase taxes on companies that offshore jobs and reduce taxes for companies that pay a living wage (2015 roll call s104)
Vote: Aye (decreases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-26 Weight: 6

Title: Amendment to transfer national forests, wildlife refuges and wildernesses to states (2015 roll call s106)
Vote: Nay (decreases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-03-26 Weight: 4
Scoring explanation: The underlying goal of this amendment was to enable states to sell federal land to industry.

Title: Amendment to require legislative approval before adding countries to the TPP (2015 roll call s189)
Vote: Aye (decreases score) Type: amendment Date: 2015-05-22 Weight: 1

Title: Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015 (2015 roll call s219)
Vote: Nay (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2015-06-24 Weight: 8

supports
Financial Sector Regulation
0% of the time
 
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Title: Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (2018 roll call s54)
Vote: Aye (decreases score) Type: passage Date: 2018-03-14 Weight: 1
Scoring explanation: Providing for a modest lessening of regulation of the financial sector, but including some consumer protection compromises.



Updated: November 28, 2019Methodology


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