Politician
American politician (born 1954)
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Total votes
643
Missed
8 (1.2%)
Committees
2
Legislative data from the official House/Senate roll-call record via Voteview (UCLA) and the unitedstates/congress-legislators dataset.
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Methodology: stated positions are AI-compiled from cited public sources; conflicts cross-reference them against the official roll-call record. Consistency = 100 − 12 per significant − 6 per moderate − 2 per minor conflict. Severity is editorial-model judgment — every item links its underlying vote so you can decide for yourself.
Supports real spending cuts, timely single-subject appropriations, and no short-term continuing resolutions.
Supported budget resolution but also voted for continuing appropriations.
🗳 Yea on HCONRES113 (2026-07-22)🗳 Yea on HR9770 (2026-07-21)
Views federal spending, not revenue, as the core problem, opposes stimulus spending, and calls for addressing the national debt.
Voted yea on fiscal year budget resolution establishing levels through 2036.
Supports protecting the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms from restrictions.
Voted yea on Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act.
Supports capital punishment.
Voted yea on Keeping Violent Offenders Off Our Streets Act.
Supports a strong, well-funded military essential to America's security.
Voted yea on National Defense Authorization Act and security appropriations.
Opposes tax increases, favors cutting corporate and individual tax rates, capital gains taxes, repealing the estate ('death') tax, and eventually adopting a FairTax system.
No votes or bills address tax rates, FairTax, or estate tax.
Opposes amnesty for illegal immigrants and supports enforcing immigration law.
No votes or bills on amnesty or immigration enforcement.
Supports devolving federal programs to the states, requiring photo ID for voting, full disclosure of campaign contribution sources, and once pledged to a 6-year congressional term limit.
No votes or bills on term limits, voter ID, or campaign disclosure.
Supports expanded domestic energy development and has worked to limit EPA regulatory authority, including introducing the Stopping EPA Overreach Act.
No votes or bills on EPA authority or domestic energy development.
Opposes government-run, single-payer style health care, citing concerns about wait times and reduced quality based on other countries' systems.
No votes or bills on ACA repeal or single-payer alternatives.
Supports protecting religious liberty from federal mandates, including opposing use of federal funds to enforce policies he views as compelling actions against religious conscience.
No votes or bills on religious liberty protections or mandates.
Opposes abortion rights and supports banning most abortions after 20 weeks except to save the mother's life.
No votes or bills on abortion restrictions or right to life measures.
Opposes nationwide Common Core standards and supports local control and school choice.
No votes or bills on Common Core, local control, or school choice.
Supports responsibly developing domestic energy resources through free markets rather than federal regulation.
No votes or bills on domestic energy resources or free-market development.
Opposes EPA regulatory overreach and supports reforms to permitting processes.
No votes or bills on EPA overreach or permitting reforms.
Supports requiring photo identification to vote.
No votes or bills on photo ID requirements for voting.
Supports a constitutional amendment limiting House members to three terms.
No votes or bills on term limit amendments.
Opposes student loan forgiveness as fiscally irresponsible and unfair to taxpayers.
No votes or bills on student loan policies.
Supports protecting women's sports by prohibiting biological males from competing.
No votes or bills on biological males in women's sports.
Opposes CRT and DEI initiatives in health care and Medicare reimbursement policies.
No votes or bills on CRT or DEI in health care.
Opposes tax increases and supports replacing income taxes with the FairTax while repealing the death tax.
No votes or bills on tax increases or FairTax replacement.
Opposes amnesty for illegal immigrants and supports enforcing the rule of law.
No votes or bills on border enforcement or amnesty.