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Senator Tom Cotton
| Party: | Republican |
| State: | Arkansas |
| Joined the Senate: | 2015 |
| Left the Senate: | Incumbent (term ends 2021) |
| Birth Date: | May 13, 1977 |
| Phone: | 202-224-2353 |
| Contact: | Web form |
| URL: | Official site |
| Fundraising History: | Open Secrets |
| Election History: | Ballotpedia |
| Biography: | Wikipedia |
Summary of voting record: Senator Cotton opposes taxing businesses, restrict money in politics, consumer protection, disaster relief, funding education, environmental protection, financial sector regulation, gun control, public health, foreign and humanitarian aid, humane immigration policy, labor rights and wages, lgbt rights, internet freedom, avoiding default, poverty amelioration, increasing revenues, taxing the wealthy, a robust safety net, women's rights and supports big business, taxing the middle class, military spending, domestic surveillance.
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Voting Record: Tom Cotton
Favors
the middle class
0.6% of the time
the middle class
0.6% of the time
Favors
the wealthy
99.4% of the time
the wealthy
99.4% of the time
Favors
broad civil rights
32.4% of the time
broad civil rights
32.4% of the time
Favors
narrow civil rights
67.6% of the time
narrow civil rights
67.6% of the time
Specific Policy Areas
show votes | 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: 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: 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 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: 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 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: Nay (increases 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: Resolution to order removal of troops from Yemen (2019 roll call s94) | |||
| Vote: Nay (increases 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. | |||
| 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: Nay (decreases 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: Aye (decreases score) | Type: passage | Date: 2018-04-18 | Weight: 3 |
| 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: 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: 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: Aye (decreases score) | Type: cloture | Date: 2016-01-20 | Weight: 8 |
| Scoring explanation: Attempt to block asylum for Syrian refugees | |||
| Title: Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 (2013 roll call h55) | |||
| Vote: Nay (decreases 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: Aye (decreases score) | Type: cloture | Date: 2015-08-03 | Weight: 2 |
| Title: Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (2015 roll call s268) | |||
| Vote: Aye (decreases 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: Aye (decreases 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: Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (2018 roll call s25) | |||
| Vote: Aye (decreases 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. | |||
| 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: Nay (decreases 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: Aye (decreases 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: Nay (decreases 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: Nay (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-06-04 | Weight: 6 |
| Title: Amendment to extend civil rights protections to LGBT students (2015 roll call s236) | |||
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-07-14 | Weight: 4 |
| Title: Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act of 2013 (2013 roll call h24) | |||
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) | Type: passage-suspension | Date: 2013-01-22 | Weight: 2 |
| Title: National Pediatric Research Network Act of 2013 (2013 roll call h31) | |||
| Vote: Nay (decreases 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: Nay (decreases 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: 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: Nay (decreases 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: Nay (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-12-03 | Weight: 3 |
| Title: Restoring Americans' Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act of 2015 (2015 roll call s329) | |||
| Vote: Aye (decreases 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 allow Americans to buy prescription drugs from Canada (2017 roll call s20) | |||
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2017-01-11 | Weight: 4 |
| 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: Nay (decreases 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: Aye (decreases 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: Nay (decreases 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: Nay (decreases 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: 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: Nay (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2016-04-19 | 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: 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: Aye (decreases 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: Nay (decreases 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 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 |
| 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: Nay (decreases score) | Type: passage | Date: 2015-10-30 | Weight: 10 |
| 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: Aye (decreases 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 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: Aye (decreases 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: Nay (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-03-26 | Weight: 2 |
| 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: Amendment to allow Americans to buy prescription drugs from Canada (2017 roll call s20) | |||
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2017-01-11 | Weight: 2 |
| Title: Amendment to make it more difficult for big donors to donate to politicians secretly (2015 roll call s107) | |||
| Vote: Nay (decreases 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: 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: Nay (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-01-29 | Weight: 4 |
| Title: Amendment to close corporate tax loopholes and fund infrastructure (2015 roll call s78) | |||
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-03-24 | Weight: 8 |
| 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 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 | |||
| 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 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: Nay (decreases 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 restrict the designation of critical habitats (2015 roll call s128) | |||
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-03-27 | Weight: 4 |
| Title: Amendment to establish a climate change education program (2015 roll call s238) | |||
| Vote: Nay (decreases 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: Aye (decreases 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: Aye (decreases 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: Nay (decreases 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: Nay (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2015-03-25 | Weight: 1 |
| Title: Amendment to establish bonds targeted for clean energy efforts (2016 roll call s52) | |||
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2016-04-19 | Weight: 2 |
| Title: Amendment to add funding for wind energy (2016 roll call s61) | |||
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) | Type: amendment | Date: 2016-04-26 | Weight: 2 |
| Title: 116|sjres53 (2019 roll call s324) | |||
| Vote: Nay (decreases 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. | |||
| 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: Aye (decreases 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: Nay (decreases 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: 116|sres335 (2019 roll call s306) | |||
| Vote: Aye (decreases 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: Nay (decreases 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. | |||
| 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: Aye (decreases 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: Aye (decreases score) | Type: passage | Date: 2017-02-15 | Weight: 8 |
| 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. | |||
| Title: Nullifying FCC rule that prevented ISPs from selling usage data (2017 roll call s94) | |||
| Vote: Aye (decreases score) | Type: passage | Date: 2017-03-23 | Weight: 8 |
| Title: Nullifying FCC rule that eliminated net neutrality (2018 roll call s97) | |||
| Vote: Nay (decreases score) | Type: passage | Date: 2018-05-16 | Weight: 10 |
| Updated: November 28, 2019 | Methodology |
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