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Senator Mark Kirk
| Party: | Republican |
| State: | Illinois |
| Joined the Senate: | 2010 |
| Left the Senate: | Incumbent (term ends 2017) |
| Birth Date: | September 15, 1959 |
| Phone: | 202-224-2854 |
| Contact: | Web form |
| URL: | Official site |
| Fundraising History: | Open Secrets |
| Election History: | Ballotpedia |
| Biography: | Wikipedia |
Summary of voting record: Senator Kirk opposes taxing businesses, consumer protection, disaster relief, funding education, gun control, hawkish foreign policy, foreign and humanitarian aid, labor rights and wages, poverty amelioration, increasing revenues, taxing the wealthy, a robust safety net and supports big business, restrict money in politics, lgbt rights, taxing the middle class, military spending, racial equality, domestic surveillance, women's rights.
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Voting Record: Mark Kirk
Favors
the middle class
16.1% of the time
the middle class
16.1% of the time
Favors
the wealthy
83.9% of the time
the wealthy
83.9% of the time
Favors
broad civil rights
90% of the time
broad civil rights
90% of the time
Favors
narrow civil rights
10% of the time
narrow civil rights
10% of the time
Specific Policy Areas
show votes | Title: Amendment to remove the authority under VAWA for tribal courts to try non-Native Americans accused of raping Native Americans (2013 roll call s14) | |||
| Vote: Nay (increases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2013-02-11 | Weight: 5 |
| Title: Amendment to enact various tax relief for the middle class (2015 roll call s125) | |||
| Vote: Nay (increases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-03-26 | Weight: 10 |
| 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: Nay (increases 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: Aye (increases 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: Nay (increases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-05-22 | Weight: 1 |
| Title: Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015 (2015 roll call s219) | |||
| Vote: Aye (increases score) | Type: passage | Date: 2015-06-24 | Weight: 8 |
| Title: Grassley Amendments to VAWA (2013 roll call s13) | |||
| Vote: Nay (increases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2013-02-07 | Weight: 7 |
| Scoring explanation: Amendment to remove protection of LGBT victims of domestic violence | |||
| Title: Amendment to permit employment discrimination by businesses owned by religious organizations (2013 roll call s230) | |||
| Vote: Nay (increases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2013-11-07 | Weight: 8 |
| Title: Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2013 (2013 roll call s232) | |||
| Vote: Aye (increases score) | Type: passage | Date: 2013-11-07 | Weight: 10 |
| 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: Nay (decreases 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 |
| Title: American Family Economic Protection Act of 2013 (2013 roll call s27) | |||
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) | Type: cloture | Date: 2013-02-28 | Weight: 4 |
| Title: Amendment to require that the campaign against ISIS be paid for with new revenues (2015 roll call s110) | |||
| Vote: Nay (increases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-03-26 | Weight: 10 |
| Title: Amendment to replace the sequester (2015 roll call s134) | |||
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-03-27 | Weight: 3 |
| Title: 2015 budget (2015 roll call s135) | |||
| Vote: Aye (increases 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: Aye (increases 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 |
| 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: Nay (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-01-28 | Weight: 2 |
| Title: Amendment to remove the appointment of an attorney to represent the subject and the public in FISA hearings (2015 roll call s198) | |||
| Vote: Aye (decreases 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: Aye (increases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-06-02 | Weight: 5 |
| Title: Amendment to protect domestic surveillance capaibilities of the NSA (2015 roll call s200) | |||
| Vote: Aye (increases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-06-02 | Weight: 6 |
| Title: Grassley Amendments to VAWA (2013 roll call s13) | |||
| Vote: Nay (increases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2013-02-07 | Weight: 8 |
| Scoring explanation: Amendment to remove various protections of undocumented immigrant victims of domestic violence | |||
| Title: Amendment to remove the authority under VAWA for tribal courts to try non-Native Americans accused of raping Native Americans (2013 roll call s14) | |||
| Vote: Nay (increases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2013-02-11 | Weight: 5 |
| Title: Amendment to cut funding to various VAWA programs (2013 roll call s17) | |||
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2013-02-12 | Weight: 2 |
| Scoring explanation: This amendment ostensibly sought to cut funding to VAWA programs in order to free up funds to tackle a backlog of rape kit testing. However, funding to tackle the backlog was already in place and the cuts to funding of the VAWA programs would have substantially undermined the capability of VAWA. Anti-domestic violence groups uniformly opposed this amendment. | |||
| Title: Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 (2013 roll call s19) | |||
| Vote: Aye (increases score) | Type: passage | Date: 2013-02-12 | 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: Nay (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-03-24 | Weight: 10 |
| Title: National Sea Grant College Program Amendments Act of 2015 (2016 roll call s37) | |||
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) | Type: cloture | Date: 2016-03-16 | Weight: 1 |
| Scoring explanation: Seeking to defund Planned Parenthood | |||
| Title: Amendment to deter the migration of unaccompanied children (2015 roll call s124) | |||
| Vote: Aye (decreases 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: Aye (decreases score) | Type: cloture | Date: 2015-02-27 | Weight: 10 |
| Title: American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act of 2015 (2016 roll call s4) | |||
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) | Type: cloture | Date: 2016-01-20 | Weight: 6 |
| Scoring explanation: Attempt to block asylum for Syrian refugees | |||
| Title: Amendment to reject cuts to Medicare (2015 roll call s111) | |||
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-03-26 | Weight: 8 |
| Title: 2015 budget (2015 roll call s135) | |||
| Vote: Aye (decreases 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: Nay (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-03-26 | Weight: 8 |
| Title: Amendment to transfer national forests, wildlife refuges and wildernesses to states (2015 roll call s106) | |||
| Vote: Aye (decreases 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: Aye (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-03-26 | Weight: 4 |
| Title: Amendment to weaken environmental protections of rivers (2015 roll call s118) | |||
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-03-26 | 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: Aye (decreases 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: Aye (decreases 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: Aye (decreases 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: Nay (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-01-28 | Weight: 3 |
| Title: Amendment to eliminate certain wilderness study areas (2015 roll call s39) | |||
| Vote: Aye (decreases 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: Aye (decreases 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: Nay (decreases 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: Nay (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-01-29 | Weight: 1 |
| Title: Keystone XL Pipeline Approval Act (2015 roll call s68) | |||
| Vote: Aye (decreases 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: Aye (decreases 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: No Budget, No Pay Act of 2013 (2013 roll call s11) | |||
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) | Type: passage | Date: 2013-01-31 | Weight: 7 |
| Title: Amendment to prohibit increasing the debt limits using reconciliation (2015 roll call s132) | |||
| Vote: Aye (decreases 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 |
| Title: Amendment to reduce discretionary spending across the board (2013 roll call s3) | |||
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2013-01-28 | Weight: 2 |
| Title: Sandy Recovery Improvement Act of 2013 (2013 roll call s4) | |||
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) | Type: passage | Date: 2013-01-28 | Weight: 1 |
| Title: Amendment to reject cuts to Medicare (2015 roll call s111) | |||
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-03-26 | Weight: 6 |
| Title: Amendment to replace the sequester (2015 roll call s134) | |||
| Vote: Nay (decreases 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: Aye (decreases 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: Aye (decreases 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: Nay (increases 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: Aye (increases 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: Nay (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-03-25 | Weight: 10 |
| Title: Rejecting cuts to Medicaid (2015 roll call s95) | |||
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-03-26 | Weight: 4 |
| Title: Cloture motion on the nomination of Kent Yoshiho Hirozawa to the NLRB (2013 roll call s189) | |||
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) | Type: cloture | Date: 2013-07-30 | Weight: 3 |
| 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: Nay (decreases 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: Aye (decreases score) | Type: passage | Date: 2015-03-04 | Weight: 6 |
| Title: Amendment to promote increases in the minimum wage (2015 roll call s93) | |||
| Vote: Nay (decreases 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 |
| Title: Amendment to require that the campaign against ISIS be paid for with new revenues (2015 roll call s110) | |||
| Vote: Nay (increases 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: Aye (increases 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: Aye (decreases score) | Type: cloture | Date: 2015-09-17 | Weight: 8 |
| Title: Amendment to block implementation of the UN's Arms Trade Treaty (2015 roll call s108) | |||
| Vote: Aye (decreases 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: Amendment to tax the wealthy and use the revenues to provide for free community college (2015 roll call s100) | |||
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-03-26 | Weight: 10 |
| Title: Amendment to restore funding for Pell grants (2015 roll call s101) | |||
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-03-26 | Weight: 10 |
| Title: Amendment to fund pre-K education (2015 roll call s119) | |||
| Vote: Nay (decreases 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: Nay (decreases 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: Nay (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-03-25 | Weight: 10 |
| Title: American Family Economic Protection Act of 2013 (2013 roll call s27) | |||
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) | Type: cloture | Date: 2013-02-28 | Weight: 4 |
| Title: Amendment to reject cuts to Medicare (2015 roll call s111) | |||
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-03-26 | Weight: 10 |
| Title: Amendment to increase social security benefits (2015 roll call s131) | |||
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-03-27 | Weight: 10 |
| Title: Amendment to replace the sequester (2015 roll call s134) | |||
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-03-27 | Weight: 3 |
| Title: 2015 budget (2015 roll call s171) | |||
| Vote: Aye (decreases 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: Nay (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-03-26 | Weight: 10 |
| Title: Amendment to tax the wealthy and use the revenues to provide for free community college (2015 roll call s100) | |||
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-03-26 | Weight: 3 |
| Title: Amendment to fund pre-K education (2015 roll call s119) | |||
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-03-26 | Weight: 4 |
| Title: 2015 budget (2015 roll call s135) | |||
| Vote: Aye (decreases 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: Nay (decreases 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: Nay (decreases 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: Nay (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-07-16 | Weight: 6 |
| Title: Amendment to require that the campaign against ISIS be paid for with new revenues (2015 roll call s110) | |||
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-03-26 | Weight: 8 |
| Title: Amendment to eliminate the estate tax (2015 roll call s114) | |||
| Vote: Aye (decreases 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 |
| Title: Amendment to tax the product of oil sands as crude oil (2015 roll call s48) | |||
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-01-29 | Weight: 4 |
| Title: Amendment to eliminate tax benefits of offshoring jobs (2015 roll call s94) | |||
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-03-26 | Weight: 10 |
| Title: Amendment to establish reserve fund for CFPB (2015 roll call s117) | |||
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-03-26 | Weight: 4 |
| Title: Sandy Recovery Improvement Act of 2013 (2013 roll call s4) | |||
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) | Type: passage | Date: 2013-01-28 | Weight: 9 |
| Title: Amendment to increase the difficulty of accepting refugees (2015 roll call s323) | |||
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-12-03 | Weight: 3 |
| Title: American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act of 2015 (2016 roll call s4) | |||
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) | Type: cloture | Date: 2016-01-20 | Weight: 8 |
| Scoring explanation: Attempt to block asylum for Syrian refugees | |||
| Title: American Family Economic Protection Act of 2013 (2013 roll call s27) | |||
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) | Type: cloture | Date: 2013-02-28 | Weight: 5 |
| Title: Amendment to tax the wealthy and use the revenues to provide for free community college (2015 roll call s100) | |||
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-03-26 | Weight: 10 |
| Title: Amendment to eliminate the estate tax (2015 roll call s114) | |||
| Vote: Aye (decreases 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: Nay (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-03-27 | Weight: 10 |
| Title: 2015 budget (2015 roll call s171) | |||
| Vote: Aye (decreases 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: Nay (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-03-25 | Weight: 10 |
| Updated: November 28, 2019 | Methodology |
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