Representative Paul Ryan
Summary of voting record: Representative Ryan opposes taxing businesses, consumer protection, disaster relief, funding education, environmental protection, gun control, labor rights and wages, poverty amelioration, racial equality, increasing revenues, taxing the wealthy, a robust safety net, higher spending and supports big business, taxing the middle class, military spending, avoiding default, countering russian interference, domestic surveillance.
Voting Record: Paul Ryan
Favors
the middle class
10.4% of the time
Favors
the wealthy
89.6% of the time
Favors
broad civil rights
32.5% of the time
Favors
narrow civil rights
67.5% of the time
Specific Policy Areas
supports
Military Spending
100% of the time
| Title: Amendment to increase spending on the war on terror without offset (2015 roll call h141) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-03-25 |
Weight: 10 |
| Title: 2015 budget (2015 roll call h183) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-04-30 |
Weight: 10 |
| Scoring explanation: The 2015 Republican budget would have greatly increased military spending. |
| Title: Amendment to strike funding for the OCO from the defense authorization (2015 roll call h184) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-04-30 |
Weight: 5 |
| Title: Amendment to reduce military spending by $167 million (2015 roll call h203) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-04-30 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Amendment to reduce the minimum required number of aircraft carriers (2015 roll call h228) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-05-14 |
Weight: 3 |
| Title: Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2016 (2015 roll call h358) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-06-11 |
Weight: 6 |
| Title: Amendment to block an increase in funding for the Maritime Security Fleet (2015 roll call h545) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-10-09 |
Weight: 1 |
supports
Countering Russian Interference
100% of the time
| Title: Instructing DOJ to provide details of ongoing Russia investigation to the House (2018 roll call h305) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-06-28 |
Weight: 3 |
| Scoring explanation: Insisting that the Department of Justice fully comply with the requests, including subpoenas, of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the subpoena issued by the Committee on the Judiciary relating to potential violations of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by personnel of the Department of Justice and related matters. |
| Title: Interior, Environment, Financial Services, and General Government Appropriations Act, 2019 (2018 roll call h365) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-07-19 |
Weight: 6 |
| Scoring explanation: Bill eliminated funding for election security measures implemented by states. |
supports
Big Business
94.9% of the time
| Title: Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection Advisory Boards Act (2015 roll call h167) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-04-22 |
Weight: 8 |
| Scoring explanation: Seeks to give business more control over CFPB |
| Title: Country of Origin Labeling Amendments Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h333) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-06-10 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h374) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-06-18 |
Weight: 8 |
| Title: Ratepayer Protection Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h384) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-06-24 |
Weight: 3 |
| Title: Amendment to make it more difficult to raise the amount oil companies pay to drill on public land (2015 roll call h408) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-07-08 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h482) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-07-28 |
Weight: 6 |
| Scoring explanation: While regulatory actions can be either pro-big business or anti-big business, on balance, having administrative agencies that are capable of regulating does more to constrain big business than to benefit it. In 2015, the administration was clearly more prone to regulating big business than the legislature, but even during Republican administrations, on balance, the administrative agencies largely tend to serve as a check on big business. |
| Title: LNG Permitting Certainty and Transparency Act (2015 roll call h50) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-01-28 |
Weight: 2 |
| 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: Unfunded Mandates Information and Transparency Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h64) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-02-04 |
Weight: 6 |
| Title: Standard Merger and Acquisition Reviews Through Equal Rules Act of 2018 (2018 roll call h177) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-05-09 |
Weight: 2 |
| Scoring explanation: Undermining the FTC's powers of antitrust regulation. |
supports
Taxing the Middle Class
92% of the time
| 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: Democratic FY2016 budget (2015 roll call h139) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-03-25 |
Weight: 10 |
| Title: Federal Employee Tax Accountability Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h157) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: passage-suspension |
Date: 2015-04-15 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: State and Local Sales Tax Deduction Fairness Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h159) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-04-16 |
Weight: 2 |
supports
Avoiding Default
83.3% of the time
| 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: Aye (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-10-28 |
Weight: 10 |
supports
Domestic Surveillance
71.4% of the time
| Title: National Cybersecurity Protection Advancement Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h173) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-04-23 |
Weight: 2 |
| Scoring explanation: Improvement in a the privacy protections in cybersecurity information sharing |
| Title: Amendment to prohibit compelling a journalist to reveal his or her source (2015 roll call h284) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-06-03 |
Weight: 6 |
| Title: Amendment to prohibit NIST from consulting with the NSA to crack encryption technologies (2015 roll call h290) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-06-03 |
Weight: 2 |
| Title: Amendment to limit warrantless searches of government databases (2015 roll call h356) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-06-11 |
Weight: 4 |
supports
Hawkish Foreign Policy
63% of the time
| Title: Requiring DOD to preserve current active ICBM silos in warm status (2013 roll call h223) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2013-06-13 |
Weight: 2 |
| Title: Amendment to reduce the minimum required number of aircraft carriers (2015 roll call h228) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-05-14 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Amendment to make it more difficult to release detainees from Guantanamo Bay (2015 roll call h230) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-05-14 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Amendment to provide for the closing of Guantanamo Bay (2015 roll call h231) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-05-14 |
Weight: 3 |
| Title: Amendment to limit funding for the START treaty (2015 roll call h234) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-05-15 |
Weight: 4 |
| Title: Amendment to protect the funding of disarming nuclear weapons (2015 roll call h237) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-05-15 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Amendment to strike a prohibition on releasing or transferring detainees at Guantanamo Bay (2015 roll call h336) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-06-10 |
Weight: 2 |
| Title: Amendment to prohibit the provision of counsel to detainees are Guantanamo Bay (2015 roll call h355) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-06-11 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Amendment to remove restrictions on closing Guantanamo Bay (2015 roll call h367) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-06-16 |
Weight: 4 |
| Title: Directing the removal of troops from Iraq and Syria (2015 roll call h370) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-06-17 |
Weight: 4 |
| Title: Amendment to prohibit the President from entering into the Iranian nuclear disarmament treaty (2015 roll call h494) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-09-11 |
Weight: 8 |
| 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: Strengthening Oversight of Iran's Access to Finance Act (2017 roll call h684) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2017-12-14 |
Weight: 8 |
| Scoring explanation: This bill was an attempt to undermine the nuclear deal with Iran. |
supports
Financial Sector Regulation
60% of the time
| Title: Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h151) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-04-14 |
Weight: 4 |
| Title: Mortgage Choice Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h152) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-04-14 |
Weight: 2 |
| Title: Commodity End-User Relief Act (2015 roll call h309) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-06-09 |
Weight: 5 |
| Scoring explanation: Reducing regulatory oversight of the commodities and derivatives markets. |
| 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: Financial CHOICE Act of 2017 (2017 roll call h295) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2017-06-08 |
Weight: 9 |
| Scoring explanation: Repeals Dodd-Frank and various other financial regulations. |
| Title: Regulation A+ Improvement Act of 2017 (2018 roll call h110) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-03-15 |
Weight: 1 |
| Scoring explanation: Amends the Securities Act of 1933 to increase the dollar limit of certain securities offerings exempt from registration requirements from $50 million annually to $75 million annually. |
| Title: Financial Institutions Examination Fairness and Reform Act (2018 roll call h112) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-03-15 |
Weight: 1 |
| Scoring explanation: Putting strict limits on bank examiners. |
| Title: Volcker Rule Regulatory Harmonization Act (2018 roll call h139) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-04-13 |
Weight: 4 |
| Scoring explanation: Bill to undermine the Volcker Rule, which prohibits lenders from making speculative investments with account holders' funds. |
| Title: Mortgage Choice Act of 2017 (2018 roll call h64) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-02-08 |
Weight: 2 |
| Title: Protecting Consumers' Access to Credit Act of 2017 (2018 roll call h78) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-02-14 |
Weight: 4 |
| Scoring explanation: Bill allowing non-bank lenders to charge higher interest rates than are typically permitted. |
supports
LGBT Rights
42.1% of the time
| Title: Amendment to VAWA to remove protections for Native Americans and LGBT individuals (2013 roll call h54) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2013-02-28 |
Weight: 7 |
| Title: Amendment to prohibit federal funding to law enforcement agencies that engage in demographic profiling in violation of the DOJ guidance (2015 roll call h281) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-06-03 |
Weight: 4 |
| Title: Amendment to prohibit federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity (2015 roll call h326) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-06-09 |
Weight: 8 |
supports
Humane Immigration Policy
42.1% of the time
| Title: Amendment to strike language requesting that the DOD consider admitting immigrants covered by the DACA (2015 roll call h229) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-05-14 |
Weight: 3 |
| Title: Amendment to prohibit undocumented immigrants from obtaining housing assistance (2015 roll call h319) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-06-09 |
Weight: 1 |
| Scoring explanation: Note that undocumented immigrants were already prohibited from obtaining housing assistance. |
| Title: Amendment to provide for recognition of academic achievement in languages other than English (2015 roll call h415) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-07-08 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Enforce the Law for Sanctuary Cities Act (2015 roll call h466) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-07-23 |
Weight: 4 |
| Title: Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h482) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-07-28 |
Weight: 2 |
| Scoring explanation: While immigration regulations can be either humane or inhumane with regard to immigration, in the present climate they tend to shift policy in a more humane direction. |
| Title: Securing America's Future Act of 2018 (2018 roll call h282) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-06-21 |
Weight: 5 |
| Scoring explanation: A particularly restrictive immigration reform bill introduced by Representative Goodlatte. |
| Title: Proceeding with a vote on restrictive immigration legislation (2018 roll call h286) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-06-21 |
Weight: 2 |
| Title: Expressing support for ICE (2018 roll call h337) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-07-18 |
Weight: 1 |
| Scoring explanation: Expresses support for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the wake of the implementation of the policy of separating families at the border. |
supports
Women's Rights
37.2% of the time
| Title: Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 (2013 roll call h55) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2013-02-28 |
Weight: 10 |
| Title: Amendment to direct the CFPB to include minority and women-owned businesses on the SBAB (2015 roll call h165) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-04-22 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Resolution to block a DC law that protects against discrimination on the basis of reproductive decisions (2015 roll call h194) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-04-30 |
Weight: 3 |
| Title: Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (2015 roll call h223) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-05-13 |
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: 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: Amendment to authorize the STEM Gateways program (2015 roll call h95) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-02-26 |
Weight: 2 |
| Scoring explanation: The STEM Gateways program provided funding to support the success of women in STEM fields |
| 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: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2017-10-03 |
Weight: 6 |
| Scoring explanation: Prohibiting abortions after 20 weeks except in very narrow circumstances such as a case of incest that had been reported the law enforcement, cases of rape where the woman received medical treatment for the rape and cases where the pregnancy poses particular kinds of threats to the life of the mother, but prohibits abortion in other cases of rape, incest or threat to the life of the mother. |
supports
Public Health
36.2% of the time
| Title: Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act of 2013 (2013 roll call h24) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: passage-suspension |
Date: 2013-01-22 |
Weight: 2 |
| Title: National Pediatric Research Network Act of 2013 (2013 roll call h31) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: passage-suspension |
Date: 2013-02-04 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Children's Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 2013 (2013 roll call h32) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: passage-suspension |
Date: 2013-02-04 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Poison Center Network Act (2014 roll call h3) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: passage-suspension |
Date: 2014-01-08 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Trauma Systems and Regionalization of Emergency Care Reauthorization Act (2015 roll call h114) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: passage-suspension |
Date: 2015-03-16 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h144) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-03-26 |
Weight: 4 |
| Title: 2015 budget (2015 roll call h183) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-04-30 |
Weight: 10 |
| Scoring explanation: The 2015 Republican budget would have significantly reduced public health budgets. |
| Title: Ratepayer Protection Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h384) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-06-24 |
Weight: 2 |
| Scoring explanation: The bill would allow governors to delay or avoid compliance with the Clean Air Act. |
| Title: Amendment to make the NIH Cures Innovation Fund discretionary (2015 roll call h431) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-07-10 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: 21st Century Cures Act (2015 roll call h433) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-07-10 |
Weight: 4 |
| Title: Amendment to expand water testing requirements for coal residual surface impoundments (2015 roll call h455) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-07-22 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Amendment to allow the EPA to prevent coal residuals legislation from taking effect based on public health (2015 roll call h456) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-07-22 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Amendment to exclude public health and safety rules from REINS Act (2015 roll call h477) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-07-28 |
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: Spending Cuts to Expired and Unnecessary Programs Act (2018 roll call h243) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-06-07 |
Weight: 3 |
| Scoring explanation: Cutting funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program. |
| Title: Comprehensive Opioid Recovery Centers Act of 2018 (2018 roll call h258) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases 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
Foreign and Humanitarian Aid
33.3% of the time
| Title: Amendment to reduce foreign aid to Pakistan (2015 roll call h340) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-06-10 |
Weight: 3 |
| 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
Higher Spending
28.1% of the time
| Title: Amendment to increase relief funding following Hurricane Sandy (2013 roll call h22) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2013-01-15 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Sandy Recovery Improvement Act of 2013 (2013 roll call h23) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2013-01-15 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Amendment to the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (2013 roll call h7) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: passage-suspension |
Date: 2013-01-04 |
Weight: 1 |
| Scoring explanation: Establishing additional funding for flood relief |
| Title: 2015 budget (2015 roll call h142) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-03-25 |
Weight: 9 |
| Scoring explanation: The Republican 2015 budget would have cut spending dramatically. |
| Title: Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h144) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-03-26 |
Weight: 4 |
| Title: Amendment to strike funding for the OCO from the defense authorization (2015 roll call h184) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-04-30 |
Weight: 3 |
| Scoring explanation: The version of the defense authorization that this amendment would amend attempted to evade the sequester caps by using an excluded fund. The amendment would have enforced the caps. |
| Title: Amendment to eliminate $1.66 billion in renewable energy funding (2015 roll call h199) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-04-30 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Amendment to eliminate all kinds of energy funding (2015 roll call h200) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-04-30 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Amendment to reduce military spending by $167 million (2015 roll call h203) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-04-30 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Amendment to reduce funding for the energy appropriates bill by 11% (2015 roll call h205) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-04-30 |
Weight: 3 |
| Title: Amendment to cut spending on energy programs by 1% (2015 roll call h210) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-05-01 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Amendment to reduce the minimum required number of aircraft carriers (2015 roll call h228) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-05-14 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Amendment to apply a 1% cut to most spending in an appropriations bill (2015 roll call h246) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-05-19 |
Weight: 2 |
| Title: Amendment to reduce funding of law enforcement by 1% (2015 roll call h278) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-06-03 |
Weight: 2 |
| Title: Amendment to reduce funding of various agencies by 2.5% (2015 roll call h292) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-06-03 |
Weight: 4 |
| Title: Science Appropriations Act, 2016 (2015 roll call h297) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-06-03 |
Weight: 3 |
| Title: Amendment to eliminate federal subsidies of Amtrak (2015 roll call h303) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-06-04 |
Weight: 2 |
| Title: Amendment to reduce funding of DOT and HUD by 1% (2015 roll call h310) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-06-09 |
Weight: 3 |
| Title: Department of Transportation Appropriations Act, 2016 (2015 roll call h329) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-06-09 |
Weight: 4 |
| Title: Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2016 (2015 roll call h358) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-06-11 |
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: Amendment to reduce funding of the Department of Interior (2015 roll call h407) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-07-08 |
Weight: 3 |
| Title: Spending Cuts to Expired and Unnecessary Programs Act (2018 roll call h243) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-06-07 |
Weight: 1 |
| Scoring explanation: Cutting $15b in funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program, Medicare and Hurricane Sandy relief. |
supports
Racial Equality
18.2% of the time
| Title: Amendment to VAWA to remove protections for Native Americans and LGBT individuals (2013 roll call h54) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2013-02-28 |
Weight: 7 |
| Title: Amendment to direct the CFPB to include minority and women-owned businesses on the SBAB (2015 roll call h165) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-04-22 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Amendment to prohibit federal funding to law enforcement agencies that engage in demographic profiling in violation of the DOJ guidance (2015 roll call h281) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-06-03 |
Weight: 8 |
| Title: Amendment to block an executive order requiring localities to analyze racial segregation in housing (2015 roll call h311) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-06-09 |
Weight: 6 |
| Title: Amendment to block HUD's implementation of disparate impact analysis to apply the Fair Housing Act (2015 roll call h323) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-06-09 |
Weight: 3 |
| Title: Federal Employee Antidiscrimination Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h448) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: passage-suspension |
Date: 2015-07-21 |
Weight: 2 |
| 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 authorize the STEM Gateways program (2015 roll call h95) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-02-26 |
Weight: 2 |
| Scoring explanation: The STEM Gateways program provided funding to support the success of minorities in STEM fields |
| Title: Rescinding CFPB rule that extended anti-discrimination protections to auto loans (2018 roll call h171) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-05-08 |
Weight: 3 |
supports
Environmental Protection
12.3% of the time
| Title: Amendment to remove funding for Regional Ocean Partnership grants (2013 roll call h16) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2013-01-15 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Amendment to strike funding of Amtrak (2015 roll call h110) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-03-04 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: EPA Science Advisory Board Reform Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h121) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-03-17 |
Weight: 8 |
| Scoring explanation: This bill would have dramatically increased industry and political control over the EPA's science board |
| Title: Amendment to shift money from renewable energy research to fossil fuel research (2015 roll call h197) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-04-30 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Amendment to eliminate $1.66 billion in renewable energy funding (2015 roll call h199) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-04-30 |
Weight: 3 |
| Title: Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016 (2015 roll call h215) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-05-01 |
Weight: 4 |
| Title: Amendment to protect the 'waters of the united states' regulation (2015 roll call h217) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-05-12 |
Weight: 2 |
| Title: Regulatory Integrity Protection Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h219) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-05-12 |
Weight: 7 |
| Title: Amendment to remove species from the endangered species list (2015 roll call h236) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-05-15 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Amendment to place congressionally-appointed members of committees in science agencies (2015 roll call h253) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-05-20 |
Weight: 2 |
| Title: Amendment to restore the ARPA-E goal of developing green energy technologies (2015 roll call h256) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-05-20 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h258) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-05-20 |
Weight: 6 |
| Scoring explanation: The principle changes in the Act are focused on shifting research funding away from climate research. |
| Title: Strengthening Fishing Communities and Increasing Flexibility in Fisheries Management Act (2015 roll call h267) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-06-01 |
Weight: 4 |
| Scoring explanation: The bill would restrict environmental regulation of fishing. |
| Title: Amendment to block implementation of an executive order protecting the oceans and great lakes (2015 roll call h291) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-06-03 |
Weight: 2 |
| Title: Amendment to eliminate federal subsidies of Amtrak (2015 roll call h303) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-06-04 |
Weight: 2 |
| Title: Ratepayer Protection Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h384) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-06-24 |
Weight: 5 |
| Scoring explanation: The bill would allow governors to delay or avoid compliance with the Clean Air Act. |
| Title: Amendment to remove deregulation of surface mining (2015 roll call h397) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-07-08 |
Weight: 2 |
| Title: Amendment to remove prohibition on components of the National Ocean Policy (2015 roll call h398) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-07-08 |
Weight: 2 |
| Title: Amendment to remove a provision that would have impeding regulation of fracking on tribal lands (2015 roll call h402) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-07-08 |
Weight: 2 |
| Title: Amendment to preserve executive orders on climate change (2015 roll call h406) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-07-08 |
Weight: 2 |
| Title: Amendment to make it more difficult to raise the amount oil companies pay to drill on public land (2015 roll call h408) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-07-08 |
Weight: 2 |
| Title: Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h428) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-07-09 |
Weight: 6 |
| Scoring explanation: Increasing logging of federal land and reducing regulatory oversight. |
| Title: Private Investment in Housing Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h436) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: passage-suspension |
Date: 2015-07-14 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Amendment to apply groundwater safety monitoring requirements to inactive surface impoundments (2015 roll call h454) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-07-22 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Amendment to expand water testing requirements for coal residual surface impoundments (2015 roll call h455) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-07-22 |
Weight: 2 |
| Title: Amendment to allow the EPA to prevent coal residuals legislation from taking effect based on public health (2015 roll call h456) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-07-22 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Improving Coal Combustion Residuals Regulation Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h458) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-07-22 |
Weight: 6 |
| Title: Amendment to exclude oil and natural gas safety and cleanups from REINS Act (2015 roll call h476) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-07-28 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h482) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-07-28 |
Weight: 2 |
| Scoring explanation: While environmental agencies can either increase or reduce environmental protection and enforcement, in the present climate they are clearly pushing in the direction of more protective policy. |
| Title: LNG Permitting Certainty and Transparency Act (2015 roll call h50) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-01-28 |
Weight: 4 |
| 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: Ozone Standards Implementation Act of 2017 (2017 roll call h391) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2017-07-18 |
Weight: 1 |
| Scoring explanation: Easing ozone restrictions |
| Title: Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2017 (2017 roll call h598) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2017-11-01 |
Weight: 2 |
| Scoring explanation: Bill to reduce environmental environmental review of initiatives in federal forests. |
| Title: Energy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 2019 (2018 roll call h253) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-06-08 |
Weight: 2 |
| Scoring explanation: Cutting funding for various clean energy initiatives. |
| Title: Sense of Congress on Carbon Tax (2018 roll call h363) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-07-19 |
Weight: 1 |
| Scoring explanation: Expresses the sense of Congress that a carbon tax would be detrimental to American families and businesses and is not in the best interest of the United States. |
| Title: Interior, Environment, Financial Services, and General Government Appropriations Act, 2019 (2018 roll call h365) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-07-19 |
Weight: 6 |
| Scoring explanation: Bill dramatically reducing funding for environmental protection programs in the EPA and Department of the Interior and forbidding those agencies from engaging in certain environmental regulation. |
supports
Consumer Protection
11.8% of the time
| Title: Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection Advisory Boards Act (2015 roll call h167) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-04-22 |
Weight: 10 |
| Scoring explanation: Seeks to give business more control over CFPB |
| Title: Country of Origin Labeling Amendments Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h333) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-06-10 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Unfunded Mandates Information and Transparency Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h64) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-02-04 |
Weight: 2 |
| Title: Amendment to protect FDA consumer safety regulations (2015 roll call h66) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-02-05 |
Weight: 2 |
| Title: Standard Merger and Acquisition Reviews Through Equal Rules Act of 2018 (2018 roll call h177) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-05-09 |
Weight: 2 |
| Scoring explanation: Undermining the FTC's powers of antitrust regulation. |
supports
Increasing Revenues
11.1% of the time
| Title: Contracting and Tax Accountability Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h156) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: passage-suspension |
Date: 2015-04-15 |
Weight: 3 |
| Title: State and Local Sales Tax Deduction Fairness Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h159) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-04-16 |
Weight: 2 |
| Scoring explanation: The lost revenue under this bill was not offset with spending cuts |
| Title: American Research and Competitiveness Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h260) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-05-20 |
Weight: 3 |
| Title: Protect Medical Innovation Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h375) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-06-18 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Amendment to make it more difficult to raise the amount oil companies pay to drill on public land (2015 roll call h408) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-07-08 |
Weight: 4 |
| Title: America's Small Business Tax Relief Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h82) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-02-13 |
Weight: 4 |
| 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
Funding Education
7.1% of the time
| Title: Amendment to provide for school dropout prevention (2015 roll call h413) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-07-08 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Expanding technical resources to rural schools (2015 roll call h416) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-07-08 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Amendment to establish grants for early-childhood education scholarships (2015 roll call h417) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-07-08 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Amendment to convert federal education funding to block grants (2015 roll call h419) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-07-08 |
Weight: 4 |
| Scoring explanation: Converting federal education dollars to block grants would result in some states transferring the funds over to vouchers and subsidies to existing private schools, both of which would partially offset current private expenditures, resulting in less total educational spending. |
| Title: STEM Education Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h88) |
| Vote: Aye (increases score) |
Type: passage-suspension |
Date: 2015-02-25 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Amendment to authorize the STEM Gateways program (2015 roll call h95) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-02-26 |
Weight: 4 |
| Title: Amendment to prevent the Student Success Act from cutting funding to high poverty schools (2015 roll call h99) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-02-26 |
Weight: 2 |
supports
a Robust Safety Net
6.3% of the time
| Title: Democratic FY2016 budget (2015 roll call h139) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-03-25 |
Weight: 10 |
| Title: 2015 budget (2015 roll call h142) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-03-25 |
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 (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: Nay (increases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2018-06-07 |
Weight: 2 |
| Scoring explanation: Cutting funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program, Medicare and Hurricane Sandy relief. |
supports
Labor Rights and Wages
5.6% of the time
| Title: Resolution to disapprove of the NLRB's shortened election window rulemaking (2015 roll call h128) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-03-19 |
Weight: 2 |
| Title: Amendment to prohibit funding companies with recent wage theft convictions (2015 roll call h189) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-04-30 |
Weight: 5 |
| Title: Amendment to restrict paying Veteran's Administration employees while engaged in labor organizing activity (2015 roll call h190) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-04-30 |
Weight: 3 |
| Title: Amendment to block application of the Davis-Bacon Act (2015 roll call h191) |
| Vote: Nay (increases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-04-30 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Amendment to prohibit entering into contracts with businesses that repeatedly violate the Fair Labor Standards Act (2015 roll call h354) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-06-11 |
Weight: 6 |
| Title: Unfunded Mandates Information and Transparency Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h64) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-02-04 |
Weight: 1 |
supports
Taxing Businesses
0% of the time
| Title: America's Small Business Tax Relief Act of 2014 (2014 roll call h309) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2014-06-12 |
Weight: 8 |
| Title: S Corporation Permanent Tax Relief Act of 2014 (2014 roll call h311) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2014-06-12 |
Weight: 8 |
| Title: American Research and Competitiveness Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h260) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-05-20 |
Weight: 3 |
| Title: America's Small Business Tax Relief Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h82) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-02-13 |
Weight: 10 |
| 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
Disaster Relief
0% of the time
| Title: Amendment to increase relief funding following Hurricane Sandy (2013 roll call h22) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2013-01-15 |
Weight: 6 |
| Title: Sandy Recovery Improvement Act of 2013 (2013 roll call h23) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2013-01-15 |
Weight: 10 |
| Title: Amendment to the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (2013 roll call h7) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: passage-suspension |
Date: 2013-01-04 |
Weight: 7 |
| Scoring explanation: Establishing additional funding for flood relief |
supports
Gun Control
0% of the time
| Title: Amendment to restrict the DOJ from regulating armor piercing ammunition (2015 roll call h289) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-06-03 |
Weight: 3 |
| Title: Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017 (2017 roll call h663) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2017-12-06 |
Weight: 7 |
| Scoring explanation: The Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017 would allow concealed carry permit holders in one state to carry in another state. |
supports
Poverty Amelioration
0% of the time
| Title: 2015 budget (2015 roll call h183) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-04-30 |
Weight: 10 |
| Scoring explanation: The 2015 Republican budget would have greatly reduced or eliminated a wide variety of poverty amelioration programs. |
| Title: Department of Transportation Appropriations Act, 2016 (2015 roll call h329) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-06-09 |
Weight: 8 |
| Title: Amendment to provide for school dropout prevention (2015 roll call h413) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-07-08 |
Weight: 1 |
| Title: Amendment to prevent the Student Success Act from cutting funding to high poverty schools (2015 roll call h99) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-02-26 |
Weight: 4 |
supports
Taxing the Wealthy
0% of the time
| Title: Democratic FY2016 budget (2015 roll call h139) |
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) |
Type: amendment |
Date: 2015-03-25 |
Weight: 10 |
| Title: 2015 budget (2015 roll call h142) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-03-25 |
Weight: 10 |
| Scoring explanation: The Republican 2015 budget would have dramatically reduced taxes on the wealthy. |
| Title: Death Tax Repeal Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h161) |
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) |
Type: passage |
Date: 2015-04-16 |
Weight: 10 |
| 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. |
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