Russ Fulcher

Republican · ID · U.S. Representative, Idaho's 1st Congressional District

Russ Fulcher has represented Idaho's 1st District in Congress since 2019 and served in the Idaho Senate from 2005 to 2014. A fourth-generation Idahoan raised on a dairy farm, he spent 24 years in the high-technology industry, including at Micron Technology.

Supports

AI Regulation (1 record), Public Safety and Crime Control (17 records), Election Integrity (6 records),

Opposes

Gun Control (19 records)

Mixed record

Healthcare Affordability (37 support · 21 oppose), Environment and Public Health (28 support · 111 oppose), Reduce Wealth Gap (7 support · 9 oppose),

Track record

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AI Regulation · 1 support

Voted to pass S. 146, the TAKE IT DOWN Act, which makes posting nonconsensual intimate images, including deepfakes, a crime and orders 48-hour takedowns. The House passed it 409-2, and it became law on May 19, 2025.
April 28, 2025Supports AI Regulation
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Healthcare Affordability · 37 support · 21 oppose

Voted to pass H.R. 4541, which reauthorizes through 2030 the federal program paying for breast and cervical cancer screening and treatment for low-income women. It passed the House 394-6.
July 20, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to pass H.R. 2493, which renews through 2030 the federal grant programs that fund health care providers serving rural America. It passed the House 406-4.
April 21, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted against passing H.R. 1834, which extends the larger Affordable Care Act premium tax credits through 2028, including for higher-earning households. It passed the House 230-196.
January 8, 2026Opposes Healthcare Affordability
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Signed a letter supporting Idaho’s application to the Rural Health Transformation Program, emphasizing rural access to timely care, technology, workforce needs, population-specific projects and investment in rural health infrastructure and partnerships.
December 19, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to pass H.R. 2483, the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act of 2025. It renews federal drug addiction prevention, treatment, recovery, and mental health programs through 2030. The House passed it 366-57, and it became law on December 1, 2025 (Public Law 119-44).
June 4, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for H.R.382, a proposal to terminate the January 31, 2020 COVID-19 public health emergency immediately upon enactment. CBO’s analysis identified related reductions in expanded Medicare benefits and Medicaid/CHIP funding and the end of a SNAP participation-limit pause, with implementation uncertainty. The House passed it 220–210.
January 31, 2023Opposes Healthcare Affordability
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Voted against H. R. 6878, a proposal to require pregnancy-related health care, contraception access and clinical evaluation for federally incarcerated women, limit restrictive housing with individualized emergency exceptions, and allow agreed transfers for high-risk pregnancies. The House passed it 324–90.
December 1, 2022Opposes Healthcare Affordability
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Signed a letter asking the Defense Health Agency to preserve TRICARE access to independent pharmacies, consider tighter travel-time standards and equal reimbursement terms, and explain early contract terminations and specialty-care transitions.
October 31, 2022Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted against H. R. 7780, a proposal to fund expanded school-based mental-health providers in high-need and low-income schools through proposed federal grant appropriations, enforce insurance mental-health parity, restrict mandatory arbitration and benefit-review clauses in employer-sponsored plans, and research workplace mental-health hazards. The House passed it 220–205.
September 29, 2022Opposes Healthcare Affordability
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Voted against H. R. 8542, a proposal to authorize $250 million over fiscal years 2023–2027 for grants dispatching mental-health professionals instead of police in suitable emergencies, with de-escalation training, voluntary services and revocation safeguards against increased incarceration. The House passed it 223–206.
September 22, 2022Opposes Healthcare Affordability
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Voted against H. R. 8454, a proposal to streamline federal approvals for registered cannabis researchers and research manufacturers with deadlines and diversion safeguards, and protect physicians’ discussions of cannabis risks and benefits with patients. The House passed it 325–95.
July 26, 2022Opposes Healthcare Affordability
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Signed a delegation letter to the VA Secretary seeking answers about electronic health-record failures before the Boise rollout. It raised delays in care, missing lab orders and suicide alerts, asked about staff training and permanent software fixes, and sought measures to prevent unauthorized access to veterans’ medical records.
April 27, 2022Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Signed a letter asking CMS to extend blended rural durable-medical-equipment reimbursement rates and consider payment adjustments to preserve access to oxygen, ventilators and other equipment.
October 12, 2021Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Signed a letter urging HHS to prevent disability discrimination in COVID-19 treatment decisions and care rationing, including decisions based on perceived quality of life or resource needs.
March 25, 2020Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted against H.R. 6201, the initial Families First Coronavirus Response Act proposal, providing temporary paid sick and family leave with employer tax credits, insurance coverage of coronavirus testing without cost sharing, additional food assistance and an increased federal Medicaid match. The House passed the suspension amendment 363–40.
March 14, 2020Opposes Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for H. R. 6074, a proposal to provide initial emergency coronavirus-response appropriations for public-health surveillance, laboratories, vaccine and countermeasure development, and health-center response, and permit limited Medicare telehealth waivers. The House passed it 415–2.
March 4, 2020Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted against H.R. 2339, restricting flavored tobacco and remote retail sales, expanding FDA regulation and tobacco fees, and strengthening enforcement of youth-advertising rules. It protected individual consumers from flavor-ban criminal penalties and police searches, while temporarily exempting qualifying premium cigars from premarket review. The bill funded tobacco prevention and cessation, taxed vaping nicotine with medical-product exceptions, waived certain Medicare colorectal-screening copays and allowed inhalers before high-deductible plan deductibles. The House passed it 213–195.
February 28, 2020Opposes Healthcare Affordability
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Voted against H.R.3, a package of federal drug-price negotiation, a $2,000 annual cap on Medicare prescription-drug costs, new Medicare dental, hearing and vision benefits, and broader drug subsidies for low-income beneficiaries. Its pricing rules also covered participating private insurance plans. The House passed it 230–192.
December 12, 2019Opposes Healthcare Affordability
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Signed a letter supporting rules allowing employers to reimburse individual-market health insurance through health reimbursement arrangements, with safeguards and more coverage choices. The proposal concerned employer-funded benefits.
July 18, 2019Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for H. R. 3401, a proposal to provide additional emergency funding for migrant care and processing, medical care, immigration courts and shelters for unaccompanied children at the southern border. The Senate-amended proposal also funded detainee transport and immigration enforcement and imposed shelter-licensing, monitoring and reporting safeguards. The House agreed to the Senate amendment 305–102.
June 27, 2019Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted against H. R. 987, a proposal to limit drug-company pay-for-delay agreements with specified exceptions, fund state health-insurance exchange establishment and enrollment outreach, and block the 2018 expansion of short-term insurance lacking ACA coverage safeguards. The House passed it 234–183.
May 16, 2019Opposes Healthcare Affordability
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Voted against H.R. 986 in the 116th Congress, a proposal to nullify the October 2018 ACA state-waiver guidance, preserving comprehensive coverage and cost-sharing protections for people with preexisting conditions while leaving compliant reinsurance waivers available. The House passed the bill 230–183.
May 9, 2019Opposes Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for H.R. 840 in the 116th Congress, a proposal to require VA-funded childcare assistance, including full-cost stipends, for eligible veteran caregivers attending mental-health and other intensive treatment. The House passed the bill 400–9.
February 8, 2019Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Signed a letter urging CMS to preserve affordable Medicare Advantage coverage, beneficiary protections and supplemental benefits while allowing value-based care and plan flexibility for 2020.
February 6, 2019Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted against Idaho S1428’s additional $2.12 million for behavioural-health community crisis centres, comprising $1.52 million in ongoing state funding and $600,000 in one-time federal funding. He earlier opposed S1352’s centre framework. S1428 passed the Senate 29–6 and became law.
March 19, 2014Opposes Healthcare Affordability
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Voted against Idaho H352, repealing the Children’s Access Card premium-assistance programme and limiting remaining assistance when comparable coverage was available. It also changed income definitions. The fiscal note projected $64,000 in annual savings. The Senate passed it 25–10, and it became law.
March 6, 2014Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted against Idaho H395, restoring preventive dental benefits for adult Medicaid recipients with disabilities or special health needs. The fiscal note projected $1,418,100 in General Fund costs in the FY2015 Medicaid request. The Senate passed it 23–8, and it became law.
March 4, 2014Opposes Healthcare Affordability
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Voted against Idaho S1329’s amended proposal for a voluntary statewide trauma, stroke and heart-attack care system. It added regional coordination and hospital-designation standards, and expanded the emergency-care registry. The Senate passed it 21–12, and it became law.
February 28, 2014Opposes Healthcare Affordability
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Voted against Idaho S1224, integrating regional mental-health and substance-use governance and allowing regional boards to manage recovery support. It added readiness standards, service reporting and state backup when boards failed. Existing departmental funds supported board operations. The Senate passed it 26–9, and it became law.
February 12, 2014Opposes Healthcare Affordability
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Voted against Idaho H178, extending the Immunization Board’s authority from July 2013 to July 2015. Its programme used private-carrier assessments for state vaccine purchases for children outside federal vaccine coverage. He supported the 2010 foundation and definition follow-up. H178 passed the Senate 28–5 and became law.
March 28, 2013Opposes Healthcare Affordability
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Voted against Idaho H248, creating a voluntary state health-insurance marketplace to help individuals and small employers compare and purchase coverage. It required public meetings, independent audits and personal-data security, and barred state financial support. The Senate passed it 23–12, and it became law.
March 21, 2013Opposes Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for Idaho S1063, clarifying patients’ entitlement to directed life-sustaining or comfort care while preserving valid directives to withdraw treatment. Futile-care and competing-patient exceptions remained. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
February 27, 2013Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for Idaho H299, completing an expansion of independent review of health-insurance claim denials. His earlier H131 vote supported broader review grounds, urgent appeals and removal of patients’ filing fees. H299 added voluntary participation by single-employer self-funded plans, with administrator fees permitted. Both bills became law.
April 4, 2011Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for Idaho S1115, prohibiting abortion coverage in health-exchange plans except for life-saving treatment, rape, or court-determined incest. It reduced required physician recommendations for qualifying publicly funded abortions from two to one. The Senate passed it 27–7, and it became law.
March 1, 2011Opposes Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for H.508, restricting medical providers’ balance billing for services covered by crime-victim compensation payments, with a limited unpaid-balance exception when the commission underpaid. The Senate passed it 34–0.
March 18, 2010Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for S.1365, revising the underserved-area primary-care loan-repayment programme’s funding sources and removing the cap tying commitments to annual deposits, while retaining service and repayment obligations. The Senate passed it 33–0.
March 9, 2010Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for S. 1320, expanding donation of previously dispensed medicines through qualifying sealed packaging and pharmacist safeguards, excluding controlled drugs and retaining programme controls. The Senate passed it 35–0.
February 24, 2010Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for S. 1314, allowing experienced physician assistants to own practices while retaining continuous physician supervision, delegation, registration and disciplinary safeguards. The Senate passed it 34–0.
February 16, 2010Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for H. 108, removing the student condition from dependent health-insurance eligibility for unmarried children under twenty-five receiving over half their support from a parent, while retaining disabled-dependent coverage. The Senate passed it 35–0.
March 31, 2009Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for S.1076, authorizing state support for national-interest waivers for foreign physicians serving underserved communities, with final federal approval, service, wage, leave and sliding-fee care requirements. The Senate passed it 35–0.
February 23, 2009Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to adopt HCR. 58, authorizing conditional planning and financing for a three-hundred-bed secure mental-health facility, without itself documenting construction or treatment delivered. The Senate adopted it 35–0.
March 20, 2008Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for S. 1443, allowing students to carry and self-administer prescribed epinephrine and permitting schools to keep duplicate medication. The Senate passed it 32–0.
March 3, 2008Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for S. 1395, allowing advance application to the high-risk health-insurance pool within ninety days of exhausting qualifying lifetime benefits, with secondary-coverage safeguards. The Senate passed it 34–0.
February 21, 2008Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for H.159, creating a community-health-centre grant framework subject to appropriation, for centres serving uninsured and Medicaid patients without regard to ability to pay and using income-based fees. The Senate passed it 32–0.
March 19, 2007Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted against S. 1147, proposing a three-year school mental-health and substance-abuse counselling pilot for at-risk seventh-through-twelfth graders, subject to available funding and appropriations. The Senate passed it 27–8.
March 6, 2007Opposes Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for S. 1149, authorizing courts to order substance-abuse or mental-health assessments and treatment as a probation condition for certain felony defendants and probation violators, with reports shared with defendants and prosecutors. The Senate passed it 34–0.
March 1, 2007Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for S. 1142, authorizing juvenile substance-abuse assessments and cost-effective treatment orders, with initial Department of Health and Welfare assessment costs and parental contributions based on ability to pay. The Senate passed it 34–0.
March 1, 2007Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for S. 1143, extending regional mental-health development grants to substance-abuse services and multiagency, multiyear treatment projects, subject to appropriations. The Senate passed it 35–0.
February 26, 2007Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for Idaho H877, establishing Medicaid respite support for up to 500 qualifying people and their fatigued family caregivers. Participation depended on available funding, and the programme had a 2009 sunset. The Senate passed it 34–0, and it became law.
April 6, 2006Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted against Idaho H868, appropriating $650,000 for a Terry Reilly community health centre in Caldwell. The grant covered medical equipment, supplies and two years of clinic operations, with accounting and unused-fund return requirements. The Senate passed it 22–13, and it became law.
April 5, 2006Opposes Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for Idaho H825, creating separate oversight of joint public-agency health plans, including previously exempt county-only pools. It required actuarial reserves, stop-loss coverage and public financial reports, barred trust-fund political contributions and conflicts of interest, and required specified newborn, pregnancy-complication and mammography coverage. It assigned examination costs to the state Insurance Department and set maximum fraud penalties of $15,000 and 15 years in prison. The Senate passed it 34–0, with one absent.
April 3, 2006Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for Idaho H738, creating a health-quality planning commission and provider grants for health-information technology, subject to appropriations. It required public planning, patient-safety recommendations and privacy safeguards. The Senate passed it 34–0, and it became law.
March 21, 2006Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for Idaho H649, prohibiting providers from billing injured workers above allowable workers’ compensation medical charges. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 16, 2006Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for Idaho H664, creating Medicaid eligibility for qualifying employed people with disabilities aged 16–64. The programme included income, asset and premium rules, with no premium below 133% of poverty. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 14, 2006Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted against Idaho H615, requiring state employee and family insurance to cover serious mental illnesses equitably with major physical illnesses. The bill included clinical care and specified conditions. It passed the Senate 26–9 and became law.
March 10, 2006Opposes Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for Idaho S1370, extending annual inflation adjustments in Medicaid reimbursement to dentists. Payments remained capped by usual private-patient charges and federal limits. The Senate passed it 34–0, and it became law.
February 22, 2006Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for Idaho S1339, removing the physician-order requirement for Medicaid personal-care services. Department authorization and provider standards remained. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
February 14, 2006Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for Idaho H393, adding $1.2 million for drug courts, mental-health courts and family-court services. It added $337,100 for community mental-health services. The Senate passed it 34–0, and it became law.
March 31, 2005Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Environment and Public Health · 28 support · 111 oppose

Voted to pass H.J.Res. 213, which would revoke EPA's approval of California's stricter engine pollution rules for tugboats, ferries, fishing boats and harbor craft. It passed the House 214-208.
September 16, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted to pass H.J.Res. 210, which would revoke EPA's approval of California's rule requiring more ocean-going ships to cut engine pollution while docked. It passed the House 216-211.
September 15, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted to pass H.R. 2140, the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act, which would extend EPA grants through 2029 for replacing or cleaning up old diesel engines. It passed the House 343-79.
September 15, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
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Voted to pass H.R. 3276, which would write the Urban Bird Treaty Program into law, funding grants for groups that protect birds in cities. It passed the House 345-60.
September 14, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
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Voted to pass H.R. 4219, which would write the Fish and Wildlife Service's invasive species strike teams for national wildlife refuges into law. It passed the House 371-33.
September 14, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
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Voted to pass H.R. 1501, the Protecting Domestic Mining Act of 2025, which permanently makes certain mining infrastructure projects eligible for faster federal environmental review. It passed the House 218-201.
September 2, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted to pass H.R. 9436, a bill to delay new right whale protection rules for lobster and crab gear from 2028 to 2035. It passed the House 219-196.
September 1, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted to pass S. 629, which widens who can get federal payments to repair farmland and forest land damaged by natural disasters. It passed the House 368-19.
June 23, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
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Voted to pass H.R. 2860, which reauthorizes for seven years the Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative that protects and restores marine waters and habitats. It passed the House 374-49.
June 3, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
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Voted against passing H.R. 1346, a bill to let higher-ethanol gasoline be sold through the summer smog season under a Clean Air Act waiver. It passed the House 218-203.
May 13, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
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Voted to pass H.R. 5587, the HEATS Act, exempting geothermal drilling on state and private land from federal permits and environmental review. It passed the House 231-186.
April 23, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted to pass H.R. 6387, the FIRE Act, a bill to change how wildfire smoke and other exceptional events count under the Clean Air Act. It passed the House 220-198.
April 22, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted to pass H.R. 4690, the Reliable Federal Infrastructure Act, repealing the standards phasing fossil fuel use out of new federal buildings by 2030. It passed the House 215-202.
April 22, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted to pass H.R. 6398, the RED Tape Act, dropping the Clean Air Act requirement that the EPA review and comment on major federal projects. It passed the House 222-205.
April 16, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted to pass H.R. 6409, the FENCES Act, which shields states from Clean Air Act penalties for pollution that blows in from outside their borders. It passed the House 220-208.
April 16, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted to pass H.R. 1011, which widens who can get federal payments to repair farmland and forest land damaged by natural disasters. It passed the House 395-10.
April 14, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
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Voted to pass H.R. 6422, the American Water Stewardship Act, renewing EPA water quality and restoration programs through 2031, including the Great Lakes program. It passed the House 378-32.
March 24, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
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Voted to pass H.R. 556, a bill stopping federal land agencies from banning or regulating lead ammunition and fishing tackle on federal land. It passed the House 215-202.
March 18, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted to pass H.R. 4758, the Homeowner Energy Freedom Act, repealing the Energy Department's home electrification rebates for lower-income households and contractor training grants. It passed the House 210-199.
February 25, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted to pass H.R. 4626, a bill to change how the Energy Department sets appliance efficiency standards, adding cost factors it must weigh. It passed the House 217-190.
February 24, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted to pass H.R. 261, the Undersea Cable Protection Act, ending Commerce Department permits for undersea fiber optic cable work inside national marine sanctuaries. It passed the House 218-212.
February 11, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted to pass H.R. 4090, the Critical Mineral Dominance Act, which directs the Interior Department to speed up and expand mineral production on federal land. It passed the House 224-195.
February 4, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted for H.J.Res. 140, which cancels the land order protecting about 225,504 acres of northeastern Minnesota national forest and reopens it to mineral leasing. It passed the House 214-208.
January 21, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted to pass H.R. 4593, the SHOWER Act, which writes a looser definition of showerhead into law for federal water efficiency rules. It passed the House 226-197.
January 13, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted to pass H.R. 5184, the Affordable HOMES Act, cancelling Energy Department efficiency rules for manufactured housing and its power to issue similar rules. It passed the House 263-147.
January 9, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted yes on H.R. 845, a bill ordering the Interior Department to drop the gray wolf from the endangered species list, beyond court review. The House passed it 211-204; the bill is in a Senate committee and has not become law.
December 18, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted yes on H.R. 1366, the Mining Regulatory Clarity Act. It would let mining operators use federal land for waste rock disposal and other support work even where no valuable mineral deposit was proven. The House passed it 219-198; the bill sits on the Senate calendar and has not become law.
December 18, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted yes on H.R. 4776, the SPEED Act. It would narrow the main federal environmental review law, cutting how many federal projects need a review and limiting court challenges. The House passed it 221-196, and the bill went to a Senate committee and has not become law.
December 18, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted to pass H.R. 3668, a bill making federal energy regulators the sole lead agency for gas pipeline reviews and ending states' water quality sign-off. The House passed it 213-184, but the Senate has not acted, so it is not law.
December 12, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted to pass H.R. 3898, the PERMIT Act, speeding Clean Water Act permits, limiting states' power to block projects and dropping groundwater from protection. The House passed it 221-205, but the Senate has not acted, so it is not law.
December 11, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted to pass H.R. 1949, the Unlocking our Domestic LNG Potential Act, ending Energy Department approval of gas exports, deemed in the public interest. The House passed it 217-188, but the Senate has not acted, so it is not law.
November 20, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted to send S.J.Res. 80 to the President, cancelling the 2022 plan that closed about 48% of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska to drilling. The House passed it 216-209, and it became Public Law 119-47 on December 5, 2025.
November 18, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted to pass H.J.Res. 131, which cancelled the 2024 decision closing about 1.2 million acres of the Arctic refuge to oil and gas leasing. The House passed it 217-209, the Senate agreed, and it became Public Law 119-52 on December 11, 2025.
November 18, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted to pass H.J.Res. 130, which cancelled a federal plan change that had ended new coal leasing in Wyoming's Powder River Basin. The House passed it 214-212, the Senate agreed, and it became Public Law 119-51 on December 11, 2025.
November 18, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted to pass H.R. 3062, a bill to replace the presidential permit for cross-border oil, gas, and power lines with a faster agency certificate. The House passed it 224-203, but the Senate has not acted, so it is not law.
September 18, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted to pass H.J.Res. 105 in the House, canceling the federal land plan for North Dakota. That plan guided leasing on 4.1 million acres of federally owned minerals. The House passed it 215-211, and it became Public Law 119-49 on December 11, 2025.
September 3, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted to pass H.J.Res. 106 in the House, canceling the federal land plan for Alaska's Central Yukon area. That plan had set aside about 3.6 million acres as specially protected areas. The House passed it 215-210, and it became Public Law 119-50 on December 11, 2025.
September 3, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted for H.J.Res. 104 to cancel the federal land plan for the Miles City field office in eastern Montana, reopening those lands to coal leasing. The House passed it 211-208.
September 3, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted to send S.J.Res. 31 to the President, canceling the EPA rule keeping toxic air pollutant controls on plants moving to a lower category. The House passed it 216-212, and it became law on June 20, 2025 (Public Law 119-20).
May 22, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted to pass H.J.Res. 88, which revoked the Clean Air Act waiver letting California enforce Advanced Clean Cars II, its zero-emission new car rule. The House passed it 246-164. It was signed on June 12, 2025 as Public Law 119-16.
May 1, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted to pass H.J.Res. 78, which would cancel the Fish and Wildlife Service rule listing the San Francisco Bay-Delta longfin smelt as endangered. The House passed it 216-195. The Senate has not taken it up, so the fish still has Endangered Species Act protection.
May 1, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted to pass H.J.Res. 89, which revoked the Clean Air Act waiver letting California enforce its Omnibus Low NOx limits on heavy-duty engine pollution. The House passed it 225-196. It was signed on June 12, 2025 as Public Law 119-17.
April 30, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted to pass H.J.Res. 87, which revoked the Clean Air Act waivers letting California enforce its Advanced Clean Trucks and zero-emission fleet standards. The House passed it 231-191. It was signed on June 12, 2025 as Public Law 119-15.
April 30, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted against H.R. 1442 in the 119th Congress, a proposal to ban consumer products containing at least 10% sodium nitrite by weight, with exceptions for industrial uses, foods, drugs, devices and cosmetics. The House passed the bill 378–42.
April 29, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted to pass H.J.Res. 60 by 219-205, cancelling the National Park Service rule that closed an off-road route and shoreline driving areas at Lake Powell. It became law on May 23, 2025 (Public Law 119-13).
April 29, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted against H.R. 973 in the 119th Congress, a proposal to make specified lithium-ion battery and e-bike electrical-system safety standards mandatory for covered consumer products, including a controlled process for later safety revisions. The House passed the bill 365–42.
April 28, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.J.Res. 75, canceling the Energy Department's new, stricter efficiency standards for commercial refrigerators and freezers used in stores and restaurants. The House passed it 214-193, and it became law.
March 27, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.J.Res. 24, canceling the Energy Department's new, stricter efficiency standards for walk-in coolers and freezers, the refrigerated rooms stores and restaurants use. The House passed it 203-182, and it became law.
March 27, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass S.J.Res. 11, canceling the new rule that made offshore oil and gas companies list possible shipwrecks in their drilling plans. The House passed it 221-202, and it became law.
March 6, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.J.Res. 42, canceling the Energy Department's new rule tightening testing, labeling, and enforcement for appliance efficiency standards. The House passed it 222-203, and it became law.
March 5, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.J.Res. 61, canceling the EPA's 2024 limits on hazardous air pollution from rubber tire factories. The House passed it 216-202, and it became law.
March 5, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.J.Res. 20, 221-198 in the House, using the law that lets Congress cancel new federal rules. It wiped out the Energy Department's efficiency standards for consumer gas-fired tankless water heaters. The Senate agreed in April and it became law on May 9, 2025.
February 27, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.J.Res. 35, 220-206 in the House, using the law that lets Congress cancel new federal rules. It wiped out the EPA rule carrying out the charge on methane leaked by oil and gas facilities. The Senate agreed and the President signed it in March 2025.
February 26, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 26, the Protecting American Energy Production Act, a bill to bar the President from halting fracking without a law from Congress. The House passed it 226-188, but the Senate never acted, so it did not become law.
February 7, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 776 in the 119th Congress, a proposal to extend the Nutria Eradication and Control Act’s authorization through 2030. The House passed the bill 361–56.
February 4, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 375 in the 119th Congress, a proposal to continue federal and Hawaiian collaboration on rapid ohia death, including forest restoration, research and disease-control activities. The House passed the bill 359–62.
January 23, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 471, the Fix Our Forests Act, speeding tree-thinning in high-risk wildfire zones on federal land by skipping full environmental review. The House passed it 279-141, but the Senate has not passed it.
January 23, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 7673, the Liberty in Laundry Act, barring clothes washer efficiency rules unless found workable and unlikely to raise buyers' costs. The House passed it 215-200, but the Senate never acted, so the bill died when the 118th Congress ended.
December 10, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 8790, the Fix Our Forests Act, speeding federal wildfire work by exempting many forest projects from environmental review. The House passed it 268-151, but the Senate never acted, so the bill died when the 118th Congress ended.
September 24, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.J.Res. 136, which would cancel the federal environmental agency's tailpipe pollution standards for cars and trucks from model year 2027 onward. It passed the House 215-191, but the Senate never acted, so the standards stayed in effect.
September 20, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted yes on H.R. 7700, the Stop Unaffordable Dishwasher Standards Act. It would bar the Energy Department from setting or enforcing dishwasher efficiency rules that cost consumers more or save little energy. The House passed it 214-192, but the Senate never acted and the bill died at the end of the 118th Congress.
July 9, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 7637, the Refrigerator Freedom Act, barring refrigerator and freezer efficiency standards unless found workable and not costlier for consumers. The House passed it 212-192, but the Senate never acted and the bill died.
July 9, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 2925, a bill letting mining claim holders use federal land for roads and facilities without finding a valuable mineral deposit. The House passed it 216-195, but the Senate never took it up and it died.
May 8, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 6192, a bill to end the Energy Department's duty to keep tightening home appliance efficiency rules. The House passed it 212-195, but the Senate never acted and the bill died.
May 7, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 6285, a bill to reissue cancelled Arctic Refuge oil and gas leases and order another coastal plain lease sale. The House passed it 214-199, but the Senate never voted, so it died.
May 1, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 4877 in the 118th Congress, a proposal to establish abandoned-well identification and remediation research, including methane and groundwater impacts, with funding carved from previously authorized energy-research amounts rather than a net-new appropriation. The House passed the bill 333–75.
April 30, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 4824 in the 118th Congress, a proposal to expand and coordinate federal research on terrestrial and geologic carbon sequestration, including soil, agricultural and forest carbon storage. The House passed the bill 364–44.
April 30, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 3195, a bill to cancel the 20-year mining ban near Minnesota's Boundary Waters and reissue cancelled mineral leases. The House passed it 212-203, but the Senate never voted, so the bill died.
April 30, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 764, the Trust the Science Act, ordering the Interior Department to drop the gray wolf from the endangered species list. The House passed it 209-205, but the Senate never acted and the bill died.
April 30, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 615, the Protecting Access for Hunters and Anglers Act, blocking federal land agencies from banning lead ammunition or fishing tackle. The House passed it 214-201, but the Senate never acted and the bill died.
April 30, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 3397, the WEST Act, voiding the public lands rule that put conservation on equal footing with grazing and drilling. The House passed it 212-202, but the Senate never acted and the bill died.
April 30, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 1023, the Cutting Green Corruption and Taxes Act, 209-204. It would repeal the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and the methane fee created by the 2022 climate law, and claw back unspent money. The bill never passed the Senate and died when the 118th Congress ended.
March 22, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 7023, the Creating Confidence in Clean Water Permitting Act, 213-205. It would have loosened Clean Water Act permit rules and set a 60-day deadline to sue over dredge-and-fill permits. The bill never passed the Senate and died when the 118th Congress ended.
March 21, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 6009, the Restoring American Energy Dominance Act, forcing the Bureau of Land Management to drop its proposed leasing rule. The House passed it 216-200, but it died in the Senate.
March 20, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 1121, the Protecting American Energy Production Act, a bill to bar any President from halting fracking without approval from Congress. The House passed it 229-188, but the Senate never acted, so it did not become law.
March 20, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter asking EPA to rescind its revised annual fine-particulate air-quality standard, which lowered the limit from 12 to 9 micrograms per cubic meter, and use its regular review schedule instead.
February 16, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 7176, the Unlocking our Domestic LNG Potential Act, ending Energy Department approval of gas exports, deemed in the public interest. The House passed it 224-200, but the Senate never acted, so it did not become law.
February 15, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter asking NHTSA to withdraw its proposed passenger-car and light-truck fuel-economy standards and replace them with a technology-neutral approach, questioning their treatment of electric vehicles and costs.
January 23, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 4468, a bill to stop the EPA's 2027-and-later vehicle emissions rule and limit tailpipe rules that reduce vehicle choice. The House passed it 221-197, but the Senate never acted and the bill died.
December 6, 2023Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 1435, which would stop any state from getting Clean Air Act permission for rules that limit sales of gas-powered vehicles. It would also cancel such permissions granted since January 2022. The House passed it 222-190, but the Senate never acted and the bill died.
September 14, 2023Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to send S.J.Res. 24 to the President, which would have canceled the rule listing the northern long-eared bat as endangered. The House passed it 220-209. The President vetoed it on September 26, 2023, and the Senate override failed.
July 27, 2023Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to send S.J.Res. 9 to the President, which would have canceled the rule listing the lesser prairie-chicken as threatened and endangered. The House passed it 221-206. The President vetoed it on September 26, 2023, and the Senate override failed.
July 27, 2023Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 1640, the Save Our Gas Stoves Act, a bill to block the Energy Department's efficiency rule for kitchen ranges and ovens. The House passed it 249-181, but the Senate never voted, so the bill died.
June 14, 2023Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 1615, the Gas Stove Protection and Freedom Act, 248-180 in the House. It would bar the Consumer Product Safety Commission from spending federal money to ban gas stoves or to set rules sharply raising their price. The Senate never voted, so the bill died.
June 13, 2023Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass S.J.Res. 11, which would have cancelled the EPA rule tightening smog-forming nitrogen oxide limits for new heavy-duty trucks and engines. The House passed it 221-203 and sent it to the President. He vetoed it on June 14, 2023, and the Senate override attempt failed, so the rule stayed in force.
May 23, 2023Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 1, a bill to expand oil, gas and mineral leasing on federal land, speed permits and repeal the methane fee. The House passed it 225-204, but the Senate never voted, so it died.
March 30, 2023Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.J.Res. 27, which would have canceled the federal rule defining which streams and wetlands the Clean Water Act protects. The House passed it 227-198. The President vetoed it on April 6, 2023, and the House override attempt failed.
March 9, 2023Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 21, a bill to block the next non-emergency Strategic Petroleum Reserve release until officials planned more federal drilling leases. The House passed it 221-205, but the Senate never acted, so it did not become law.
January 27, 2023Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter seeking records and a briefing on the Forest Service’s prescribed-fire failures and 90-day pause. It supported safe prescribed burning, expedited review of the failures and increased mechanical thinning during the pause to reduce wildfire risk.
June 27, 2022Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 7790 in the 117th Congress, a proposal to add $28 million in emergency FDA appropriations to address infant-formula shortages and prevent fraudulent formula products. The House passed the bill 231–192.
May 18, 2022Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Joined a Supreme Court brief urging narrower federal jurisdiction over wetlands under the Clean Water Act. It supported the Idaho property owners challenging the EPA’s authority to require a permit for their land.
April 18, 2022Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: grassley.senate.gov
Signed a letter urging the administration not to extend the federal public-transportation mask mandate, questioning its continued justification and effects on travelers.
March 17, 2022Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 550 in the 117th Congress, a proposal to modernize confidential immunization-information databases through data standards, secure exchange and governmental grants, with a proposed $400 million authorization. The House passed the bill 294–130.
November 30, 2021Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter asking DHS to suspend the federal-worker COVID-19 vaccine mandate for Border Patrol personnel and requesting staffing information. An earlier October 27 letter sought medical and religious accommodations with testing and mask alternatives.
November 1, 2021Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter urging OSHA to halt its then-unpublished COVID-19 workplace emergency standard and align workplace guidance with CDC’s updated guidance for vaccinated people.
May 24, 2021Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted for both final House motions on H.R. 133, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 proposal. The package included $600 second-round recovery rebates, $10 billion in additional coronavirus childcare funding, southwest-border barrier funding, and Tibetan religious-freedom, dialogue and environmental provisions. The House agreed to Divisions B, C, E and F 327–85 and to the remaining divisions 359–53.
December 21, 2020Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against the House amendment to H.R.925, the updated HEROES emergency-relief proposal, including broad emergency federal funding. Its provisions included workplace infectious-disease standards with protective-equipment and anti-retaliation duties, and temporary limits on consumer-debt repossession, garnishment, eviction and utility shutoffs, with repayment and arbitration protections. The House approved the amendment 214–207.
October 1, 2020Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 4447, the Clean Economy Jobs and Innovation Act proposal. Its environmental-justice provisions added cumulative-impact review and federal civil-rights enforcement, including private lawsuits over racial discrimination. Its specified federally assisted projects also faced prevailing-wage, union-neutrality and worker-compliance requirements with stated exceptions. The House passed it 220–185.
September 24, 2020Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H. R. 7327, a proposal to expand childcare support through federal essential-worker care and facility-safety funding, larger refundable dependent-care income-tax credits, provider and employer credits, and increased mandatory childcare funding. The House passed it 250–161.
July 29, 2020Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter asking DOE to prioritize road-ready packaging and multipurpose-canister work for spent nuclear fuel at Idaho National Laboratory, to support removal commitments under Idaho’s settlement agreement.
April 8, 2020Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter requesting pandemic relief for oil and gas producers through temporary federal royalty and offshore-lease relief, additional funding to fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, less restrictive OCC energy-lending guidance and methane regulatory relief.
April 2, 2020Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 6201, the initial Families First Coronavirus Response Act proposal, providing temporary paid sick and family leave with employer tax credits, insurance coverage of coronavirus testing without cost sharing, additional food assistance and an increased federal Medicaid match. The House passed the suspension amendment 363–40.
March 14, 2020Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for H. R. 6074, a proposal to provide initial emergency coronavirus-response appropriations for public-health surveillance, laboratories, vaccine and countermeasure development, and health-center response, and permit limited Medicare telehealth waivers. The House passed it 415–2.
March 4, 2020Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 2339, restricting flavored tobacco and remote retail sales, expanding FDA regulation and tobacco fees, and strengthening enforcement of youth-advertising rules. It protected individual consumers from flavor-ban criminal penalties and police searches, while temporarily exempting qualifying premium cigars from premarket review. The bill funded tobacco prevention and cessation, taxed vaping nicotine with medical-product exceptions, waived certain Medicare colorectal-screening copays and allowed inhalers before high-deductible plan deductibles. The House passed it 213–195.
February 28, 2020Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for H.R. 4704 in the 116th Congress, a proposal to direct NSF to award competitive fundamental research grants relevant to suicide prevention and treatment, subject to available appropriations. The House passed the bill 385–8.
January 27, 2020Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for H. R. 5430, a proposal to implement the United States–Mexico–Canada trade agreement, including labor and environmental monitoring and enforcement, customs rules, and funding for border facilities and inspection technology. The House passed it 385–41.
December 19, 2019Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter urging EPA to use hourly emissions increases, rather than annual emissions increases, to determine when power-plant upgrades triggered New Source Review permits, to ease approval of efficiency and maintenance work.
December 9, 2019Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H. R. 4863, a proposal to renew the Export-Import Bank through 2029, increase its loan and guarantee authority, expand outreach to disadvantaged export businesses, and strengthen environmental reviews and support for renewable-energy exports. The House passed it 235–184.
November 15, 2019Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 9 in the 116th Congress, a proposal to prohibit federal funds for withdrawing from the Paris Agreement and require a plan for a 26–28% greenhouse-gas reduction from 2005 levels by 2025. The House passed the bill 231–190.
May 2, 2019Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter requesting CDC research, surveillance, training and coordination resources for vector-borne disease prevention in Idaho and the Northwest, following a congressional report identifying regional gaps.
March 11, 2019Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted for Idaho H470, creating a wolf-depredation control board and continuously appropriated fund for lethal wolf-control activities. Funding included livestock assessments and annual Fish and Game transfers, with a 2019 sunset. The Senate passed it 28–6, and it became law.
March 18, 2014Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H392, requiring case-by-case review of water degradation previously treated as automatically insignificant below a 10% threshold. Degradation above that threshold remained significant, while exempting insignificant discharges from further analysis. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law. This amended the water-review framework he supported in 2011.
February 28, 2014Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho S1329’s amended proposal for a voluntary statewide trauma, stroke and heart-attack care system. It added regional coordination and hospital-designation standards, and expanded the emergency-care registry. The Senate passed it 21–12, and it became law.
February 28, 2014Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H178, extending the Immunization Board’s authority from July 2013 to July 2015. Its programme used private-carrier assessments for state vaccine purchases for children outside federal vaccine coverage. He supported the 2010 foundation and definition follow-up. H178 passed the Senate 28–5 and became law.
March 28, 2013Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho S1274, making handheld texting while driving an infraction, with hands-free exceptions. The final version excluded violations from license-point counts and insurance moving-violation classifications. The Senate passed it 29–5, and it became law.
March 23, 2012Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H632, requiring schools to remove young athletes with suspected concussions from play until qualified medical clearance. It required information for athletes, parents and coaches, while protecting reasonable protocol compliance from negligence claims. The Senate passed it 34–0, and it became law.
March 21, 2012Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho S1358’s proposal to require school anti-bullying intervention, staff training and reporting, with expanded cyberbullying coverage and infractions. He supported an earlier intervention-and-training proposal in 2011 after opposing the original 2006 measure. The Senate passed S1358 25–8; it stalled in the House.
March 15, 2012Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H91, requiring highway loads to be secured and dirt, sand or gravel loads to be covered or retain sufficient freeboard. The final bill preserved exemptions for agricultural transport and specified public-road and irrigation work. The Senate passed it 19–16, and it became law.
April 4, 2011Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho S1001, requiring unlicensed children riding specified vehicles on national-forest roads to complete a safety course. It defined nearby adult supervision and allowed proof of prior course completion to prevent conviction. The Senate passed it 26–9, and it became law.
March 29, 2011Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for S. 1407, creating a continuously appropriated aquifer-planning implementation fund receiving appropriations and voluntary contributions, without itself specifying an appropriation amount. The Senate passed it 34–0.
March 29, 2010Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against S. 1344, authorizing invasive-species boat inspection stations and specified reasonable-suspicion inspection, impoundment and release procedures. The Senate passed it 25–8.
March 19, 2010Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H. 453, raising the nonpoint-source share of the existing water-pollution revolving fund from 5% to 20%, with a municipal-service nexus. The Senate passed it 33–0.
February 19, 2010Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against H.586, requiring vehicle-emissions inspection or equivalent local controls in qualifying polluted airsheds, with vehicle exemptions and notice and appeal safeguards. The Senate passed it 20–15.
March 24, 2008Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for amended H.422, setting a 10–30% efficiency target for qualifying state-funded buildings when fiscally prudent and feasible, with ten-year operating savings required to cover added construction costs. The Senate passed it 35–0.
March 12, 2008Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H.557, moving crop-burning approval to environmental regulators, setting air-quality thresholds for approval and requiring public burn information. The Senate passed it 34–0.
March 6, 2008Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for S. 1398, requiring reduced-ignition-propensity cigarette testing and certification, with compliance enforcement, existing-inventory exceptions and equivalent-test provisions. The Senate passed it 34–1.
March 4, 2008Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against overriding the governor’s veto of H. 121, which removed bowling alleys’ exemption from Idaho’s public smoking ban. The Senate overrode the veto 29–6; other statutory exemptions remained.
March 28, 2007Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H.150, establishing matching grants of up to 50% for retail biofuel infrastructure, subject to appropriations and operation or recapture requirements. The Senate passed it 33–0; he also supported the programme’s companion nonrefundable infrastructure tax credit in H.177.
March 16, 2007Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for amended S.1136, authorizing donated surface-water rights to support minimum flows in the Big Wood and Little Wood rivers, with existing-rights and recharge safeguards. The Senate passed it 35–0; the proposal included a 2012 sunset.
March 9, 2007Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against S. 1094, removing exceptions to the child-safety-restraint requirement for children age six and younger; the proposal stalled in House Transportation. The Senate passed it 29–4.
March 1, 2007Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against S. 1135, extending seat-belt coverage above 8,000-pound vehicles and raising the fine from $10 to $25, while retaining secondary enforcement; the proposal stalled in House Transportation. The Senate passed it 22–12.
March 1, 2007Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H.33, establishing federal-consistent underground-storage-tank inspections, containment and delivery restrictions near drinking-water sources, with public compliance information and free operator training. The Senate passed it 29–6.
February 16, 2007Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H791, imposing a two-year moratorium on specified coal-power plants while environmental and economic effects were studied. Regulated utilities, cooperatives, municipalities and specified technologies were exempt. The Senate passed it 30–5, and it became law.
March 29, 2006Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H636, establishing minimum flows below Dworshak Dam to protect fish, wildlife and water quality. Existing rights, dam operations and specified future uses retained priority. Effectiveness depended on a governor’s proclamation concerning the 2004 water agreement. The Senate passed it 35–0, and the governor signed it.
March 16, 2006Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H530, requiring locked or staff-controlled pseudoephedrine sales, photo identification and purchase limits. Violations became misdemeanors, and stricter local retail rules were preempted. He was the sole Senate opponent; the bill passed 33–1 and became law.
March 9, 2006Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H560, requiring drivers to slow down or change lanes safely near stationary police or emergency vehicles displaying flashing lights. The Senate passed it 17–15, and it became law.
March 7, 2006Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1255, establishing enforceable environmental covenants that preserved contamination-related land-use restrictions across changes in ownership. It required recording, notices, and a state registry, with agency and judicial safeguards for changes. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
January 31, 2006Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H336, extending the state species-conservation office’s coordination duties to candidate, petitioned, and rare or declining species. The bill preserved existing water rights. The Senate passed it 34–0, and it became law.
March 31, 2005Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H230, limiting state air-pollution permit rules to federal definitions and requirements. Fugitive emissions counted only when federal law required them. The Senate passed it 25–9, and it became law.
March 31, 2005Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: legislature.idaho.gov

Reduce Wealth Gap · 7 support · 9 oppose

Voted to pass S. 723, the Tribal Trust Land Homeownership Act, setting deadlines for the Bureau of Indian Affairs to process tribal land mortgages. It passed the House 384-40.
March 4, 2026Supports Reduce Wealth Gap
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for H.R. 2262, the Flexibility for Workers Education Act, stopping certain voluntary training outside normal hours from counting as paid work time. It failed the House 209-215.
January 13, 2026Opposes Reduce Wealth Gap
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 6531 in the 117th Congress, a proposal to target a greater share of federal investment toward areas of persistent poverty, publish poverty-area lists and authorize $5 million for administration. The House passed the bill 258–165.
May 18, 2022Opposes Reduce Wealth Gap
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R.7309, a proposal to expand workforce training and subsidized employment programmes through rising proposed federal funding authorizations. It reserved at least 75 percent of specified adult-service funds for public-assistance recipients, low-income people and other priority groups, provided needs-related support payments, and required information on wage, safety and union rights. The House passed it 220–196.
May 17, 2022Opposes Reduce Wealth Gap
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 3617, a proposal to remove cannabis from federal controlled-substance schedules, expunge qualifying nonviolent federal cannabis records, prevent cannabis-based denial of federal benefits and immigration protections, and fund reentry and disadvantaged-business programmes through cannabis taxes. It preserved FDA authority and certain federal and transportation drug testing. The House passed it 220–204.
April 1, 2022Opposes Reduce Wealth Gap
Source: clerk.house.gov
Reported working with the Idaho delegation after SBA selected the Idaho Hispanic Foundation for a Community Navigator grant supporting entrepreneurs in underserved communities. The public grant program connected minority-owned, rural and other underserved businesses with support and resources.
October 28, 2021Supports Reduce Wealth Gap
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H. R. 4863, a proposal to renew the Export-Import Bank through 2029, increase its loan and guarantee authority, expand outreach to disadvantaged export businesses, and strengthen environmental reviews and support for renewable-energy exports. The House passed it 235–184.
November 15, 2019Opposes Reduce Wealth Gap
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 582 in the 116th Congress, a proposal to phase the federal minimum wage up to $15 over six annual increases and phase out separate tipped, youth and disability subminimum wages. The House passed the bill 231–199.
July 18, 2019Opposes Reduce Wealth Gap
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H. R. 1500, a proposal to strengthen CFPB consumer and fair-lending enforcement, restore restrictions on forced arbitration, require public anonymized complaint information and free annual credit scores, and prohibit rules allowing unlimited debt-collection emails or texts. The House passed it 231–191.
May 22, 2019Opposes Reduce Wealth Gap
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against Idaho S1041, allowing noncompetitive state appointments for qualified veterans with service-connected disabilities of at least 30%. The proposal also removed the requirement to interview other applicants for those appointments. It failed in the Senate, 10–24.
March 5, 2013Opposes Reduce Wealth Gap
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against H. 217, creating the Idaho Opportunity Scholarship programme and a perpetually appropriated fund for economically disadvantaged students’ unmet postsecondary costs. The Senate passed it 28–7.
March 22, 2007Opposes Reduce Wealth Gap
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H422, widening property-tax relief for eligible older, disabled, widowed and other qualifying homeowners. The bill raised the maximum reduction to $1,320 and the income limit to at least $28,000, with a poverty-guideline alternative. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 23, 2006Supports Reduce Wealth Gap
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H743, appropriating $25 million for unsafe public-school facilities and expanding maintenance and bond-equalization support. Poorer districts received greater state assistance; qualifying projects involved local repayment levies and state supervision. The Senate passed it 22–12, and it became law.
March 23, 2006Supports Reduce Wealth Gap
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H680, allowing qualifying low-income elderly, disabled or widowed homeowners to defer property taxes. State reimbursements to counties were capped at $500,000 annually, with secured repayment and 6% interest. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 22, 2006Supports Reduce Wealth Gap
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H664, creating Medicaid eligibility for qualifying employed people with disabilities aged 16–64. The programme included income, asset and premium rules, with no premium below 133% of poverty. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 14, 2006Supports Reduce Wealth Gap
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1371, extending workers’ compensation survivor income benefits to qualifying full-time students until age 23. The extension applied to specified future workplace accidents or occupational diseases. The Senate passed it 34–0, and it became law.
February 23, 2006Supports Reduce Wealth Gap
Source: legislature.idaho.gov

Labor Rights · 13 support · 28 oppose

Voted for H.R. 2262, the Flexibility for Workers Education Act, stopping certain voluntary training outside normal hours from counting as paid work time. It failed the House 209-215.
January 13, 2026Opposes Labor Rights
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter asking President Trump to rescind the federal construction project-labor-agreement mandate for contracts of at least $35 million, arguing for competition among union and nonunion contractors.
July 1, 2025Opposes Labor Rights
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter asking appropriators to freeze H-2A agricultural guest-worker wage rates at January 2023 levels in fiscal year 2025 funding legislation, to limit employers’ required wage increases.
May 21, 2024Opposes Labor Rights
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted to pass H.J.Res. 98 by 206-177, a resolution cancelling a labor board rule that eased treating franchise chains and owners as joint employers. The Senate agreed, but the president vetoed it on May 3, 2024, and the House override failed.
January 12, 2024Opposes Labor Rights
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H. R. 7780, a proposal to fund expanded school-based mental-health providers in high-need and low-income schools through proposed federal grant appropriations, enforce insurance mental-health parity, restrict mandatory arbitration and benefit-review clauses in employer-sponsored plans, and research workplace mental-health hazards. The House passed it 220–205.
September 29, 2022Opposes Labor Rights
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for H.R. 6087, a bill letting injured federal workers be treated by nurse practitioners and physician assistants under federal workers' compensation. The House passed it 325-83, but the Senate never voted on it, so it did not become law.
June 7, 2022Supports Labor Rights
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R.7309, a proposal to expand workforce training and subsidized employment programmes through rising proposed federal funding authorizations. It reserved at least 75 percent of specified adult-service funds for public-assistance recipients, low-income people and other priority groups, provided needs-related support payments, and required information on wage, safety and union rights. The House passed it 220–196.
May 17, 2022Opposes Labor Rights
Source: clerk.house.gov
Joined a brief urging the National Labor Relations Board to retain its independent-contractor test emphasizing entrepreneurial opportunity. The test determined which workers qualified as employees covered by federal union-organizing protections.
February 10, 2022Opposes Labor Rights
Source: edworkforce.house.gov
Signed a letter urging OSHA to halt its then-unpublished COVID-19 workplace emergency standard and align workplace guidance with CDC’s updated guidance for vaccinated people.
May 24, 2021Opposes Labor Rights
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 7, the Paycheck Fairness Act, narrowing employers' defenses for paying men and women differently and protecting workers who discuss pay. The House passed it 217-210.
April 15, 2021Opposes Labor Rights
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 447, a proposal to expand registered apprenticeship programmes and grants through rising proposed federal funding authorizations, require progressively increasing wages and safe supervised training, and maintain equal-opportunity access standards. The House passed it 247–173.
February 5, 2021Opposes Labor Rights
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against the House amendment to H.R.925, the updated HEROES emergency-relief proposal, including broad emergency federal funding. Its provisions included workplace infectious-disease standards with protective-equipment and anti-retaliation duties, and temporary limits on consumer-debt repossession, garnishment, eviction and utility shutoffs, with repayment and arbitration protections. The House approved the amendment 214–207.
October 1, 2020Opposes Labor Rights
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 4447, the Clean Economy Jobs and Innovation Act proposal. Its environmental-justice provisions added cumulative-impact review and federal civil-rights enforcement, including private lawsuits over racial discrimination. Its specified federally assisted projects also faced prevailing-wage, union-neutrality and worker-compliance requirements with stated exceptions. The House passed it 220–185.
September 24, 2020Opposes Labor Rights
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 6201, the initial Families First Coronavirus Response Act proposal, providing temporary paid sick and family leave with employer tax credits, insurance coverage of coronavirus testing without cost sharing, additional food assistance and an increased federal Medicaid match. The House passed the suspension amendment 363–40.
March 14, 2020Opposes Labor Rights
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for H. R. 5430, a proposal to implement the United States–Mexico–Canada trade agreement, including labor and environmental monitoring and enforcement, customs rules, and funding for border facilities and inspection technology. The House passed it 385–41.
December 19, 2019Supports Labor Rights
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter requesting a federal child-labor exemption allowing supervised 16- and 17-year-olds to operate mechanized equipment in family logging businesses.
September 12, 2019Opposes Labor Rights
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 582 in the 116th Congress, a proposal to phase the federal minimum wage up to $15 over six annual increases and phase out separate tipped, youth and disability subminimum wages. The House passed the bill 231–199.
July 18, 2019Opposes Labor Rights
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 790 in the 116th Congress, a proposal to raise federal civilian basic pay by 2.6% in 2019. The House passed the bill 259–161.
January 30, 2019Opposes Labor Rights
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for S. 24 in the 116th Congress, a proposal to guarantee standard-rate back pay after shutdowns for furloughed and excepted federal and specified District of Columbia employees, including paid leave for excepted employees. The House passed the bill 411–7.
January 11, 2019Supports Labor Rights
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against Idaho H638’s $770.1 million teacher budget, which raised the minimum salary to $31,750 and funded leadership premiums and professional development. Its fiscal note showed a 1.6% funding increase after adjustments. Earlier that month, he supported H504’s leadership-premium framework. H638 passed the Senate 29–5 and became law.
March 20, 2014Opposes Labor Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1273’s proposal to presume specified firefighters’ cancers work-related for disability or death compensation. It required minimum service, medical-screening conditions, and ten tobacco-free years, with rebuttal permitted. The Senate passed it 28–7; it did not become law.
March 11, 2014Supports Labor Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1040, permitting uniformly shorter teacher contracts or lower salaries without declaring a financial emergency. It moved contract notices to July and used a single informal review for affected employees. These provisions had a one-year sunset. The Senate passed it 21–14, and it became law.
March 29, 2013Opposes Labor Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1149, requiring teacher organizations to prove majority representation annually when school boards requested it. It required open ratification and written majority approval, while retaining exclusive representation and good-faith bargaining. The Senate passed it 24–10, and it became law.
March 22, 2013Opposes Labor Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1146, lowering two funding-decline thresholds for school financial emergencies to 1.5%. The emergency framework permitted salary and contract renegotiation and, after failed negotiations and a hearing, imposition of the board’s last offer. Public-input and reserve-balance conditions remained. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 19, 2013Opposes Labor Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1373, barring local public-works contracts from requiring wage or benefit rates beyond governing law, with federal prevailing-wage exceptions. It prohibited requiring or prohibiting union agreements while preserving voluntary agreements and federal labor rights. The Senate passed it 26–8, and it became law.
March 14, 2012Opposes Labor Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for amendments to Idaho’s Students Come First package, retaining restricted teacher-contract renewal and bargaining while changing implementation rules. He had supported the original 2011 package, including performance bonuses and digital learning. The amendments specified nullification if voters rejected the underlying laws. Voters rejected all three laws on November 6.
February 23, 2012Opposes Labor Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1007, banning contractors’ and unions’ use of union-collected funds to subsidize contracting bids or wages. Violations carried escalating misdemeanor fines and civil challenges. The Senate passed it 25–8, and it became law.
February 4, 2011Opposes Labor Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H. 509, creating a youth employment framework subject to funding, with protections against displacing existing employees and filling positions affected by layoffs. The Senate passed it 32–0.
March 24, 2010Supports Labor Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for S.1347, adding federal minimum-wage exemptions and exemptions for qualifying seasonal recreation, camp and educational-conference employers, with specified federal-land contractor exceptions. The Senate passed it 29–6.
February 24, 2010Opposes Labor Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted to adopt SJM. 102, formally opposing the federal Employee Free Choice Act’s proposed union-card recognition and mandatory first-contract arbitration; the memorial did not change federal law. The Senate adopted it 27–7.
March 30, 2009Opposes Labor Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for S.1111, establishing a $100,000 line-of-duty permanent-disability benefit for qualifying public-safety officers, financed solely by officers rather than employers. The Senate passed it 34–1.
February 26, 2009Supports Labor Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for S.1076, authorizing state support for national-interest waivers for foreign physicians serving underserved communities, with final federal approval, service, wage, leave and sliding-fee care requirements. The Senate passed it 35–0.
February 23, 2009Supports Labor Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for S. 1444, expanding volunteer emergency-medical-service workers’ workers-compensation coverage and establishing a first-year disability-benefit floor tied to state wages or regular earnings. The Senate passed it 34–0.
March 11, 2008Supports Labor Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for S.1393, establishing enforceable reasonable noncompete agreements for key employees and contractors, an 18-month limit without added consideration, rebuttable presumptions and court modification of excessive restrictions. The Senate passed it 25–10.
February 29, 2008Opposes Labor Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for the final amended S.1123, providing full base salary during qualifying temporary disability for peace and detention officers injured during emergency response or pursuit, subject to available funds and workers-compensation offsets. The Senate passed it 32–3.
March 28, 2007Supports Labor Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H. 184, tying Idaho’s minimum wage to the federal rate and requiring employers to cover tipped workers’ shortfalls to that minimum, with at least $3.35 in direct hourly wages. The Senate passed it 25–10.
March 26, 2007Supports Labor Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H. 55, extending job restoration, seniority, pay and back-pay remedies to Idaho employees called to active service in another state’s National Guard. The Senate passed it 35–0.
March 22, 2007Supports Labor Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho S1438’s proposal for school support-staff evaluations, informal grievance reviews, and meetings on employment terms requested by a staff majority. It expressly denied an employment property right. The Senate passed it 20–15; it did not become law.
March 27, 2006Opposes Labor Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1373, granting full-time state employees paid organ-donation leave of 30 workdays and five days for bone-marrow donation. Benefits and service credit continued, with protection from penalties for taking leave. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 1, 2006Supports Labor Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1375, applying state employees’ 15 days of paid military leave to ordered or authorized military duty. The Senate passed it 34–0, and it became law.
February 22, 2006Supports Labor Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1173, limiting paid sick-leave entitlement to school staff working at least 20 hours weekly and half-time teachers. The Senate passed it 33–1, and it became law.
March 29, 2005Opposes Labor Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov

Anti-Corruption · 23 support · 7 oppose

Voted to pass H.R. 10326, the PROOF Act. It would require states to give the Justice Department records it requests to investigate fraud in Medicaid, SNAP, welfare and other federal programs. It passed the House 217-207.
September 16, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 9576, which would write the Justice Department's new National Fraud Enforcement Division into law. The division, set up in April 2026, investigates fraud against taxpayer-funded programs. It passed the House 352-72.
September 16, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for H.R. 4646 in the 119th Congress, a proposal to clarify that federal whistleblower protections applied to all HUD-funded contracts, subcontracts, grants and personal-services contracts regardless of execution date. The House passed the bill 424–0.
September 15, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 7008, the Stop Insider Trading Act, barring members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from buying stocks. It passed the House 232-198.
July 22, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for H.Res. 1399 in the 119th Congress, a proposal to require public reporting of members’ taxpayer-funded sexual-harassment settlements and aggregate reporting of related House settlements. The House agreed to the resolution 420–0.
June 30, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 7401, which makes Small Business Administration staff certify they have no conflict of interest before working on a loan. It passed the House 415-0.
June 24, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 4405, the Epstein Files Transparency Act, ordering the Justice Department to publish its unclassified Jeffrey Epstein investigation records, including flight logs. The House passed it 427-1, the Senate agreed the next day, and it became law on November 19, 2025.
November 18, 2025Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for H. R. 300, a proposal to require a searchable public database of executive-agency settlements, their payments and legal bases, with FOIA/confidentiality exceptions and written explanations for public-interest nondisclosure. The House passed it 425–0.
January 24, 2023Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against S. 2687 in the 117th Congress, a proposal to give the VA Inspector General temporary authority to subpoena nonfederal witnesses for noncriminal oversight, subject to notice and Justice Department objections. The House passed the bill 404–6.
May 17, 2022Opposes Anti-Corruption
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter asking CBO to include debt-service costs in legislative estimates, to make the long-term borrowing consequences of proposals more visible.
May 21, 2021Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H. R. 3233, a proposal to create an independent bipartisan commission with subpoena authority to investigate the January 6 attack and recommend preventive measures; the proposal authorized necessary funding subject to appropriation. The House passed it 252–175.
May 19, 2021Opposes Anti-Corruption
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter opposing restoration of congressional earmarks, arguing that the practice encouraged favoritism, corruption and higher spending.
March 10, 2021Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H. Res. 24, a proposal to impeach President Donald Trump for incitement of insurrection following the January 6 attack on the Capitol. The House passed it 232–197.
January 13, 2021Opposes Anti-Corruption
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R.6782 (TRUTH Act), requiring searchable public reports identifying PPP and disaster-loan recipients receiving over $2 million, with loan-decision processes, employee counts, disbursement dates and lenders. It also required aggregate reporting on assistance to disadvantaged, women-owned and veteran-owned businesses from voluntarily provided information, and separated existing regular SBA loan commitments from PPP loans. The motion failed 269–147, short of the required two-thirds majority.
May 28, 2020Opposes Anti-Corruption
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against both articles of H.Res. 755, impeaching President Donald Trump for abuse of power concerning Ukraine and obstruction of Congress. The House adopted Article I 230–197 and Article II 229–198, with one member present on each.
December 18, 2019Opposes Anti-Corruption
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for H.Con.Res. 24 in the 116th Congress, a resolution to release Special Counsel Mueller’s report in full to Congress and publicly except where disclosure was prohibited by law. The House agreed to the resolution 420–0.
March 14, 2019Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for H.R. 135 in the 116th Congress, a proposal to require independent federal-agency equal-employment programmes, public notices and disciplinary referrals following discrimination findings, and protection of employee disclosures about official abuse and waste. The House passed the bill 424–0.
January 15, 2019Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for Idaho SCR131, requiring recorded and livestreamed legislative proceedings, with a two-thirds override and archival retention. It barred legislative certification of recordings and kept journals as the official record. The Senate adopted it 35–0.
March 26, 2013Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H248, creating a voluntary state health-insurance marketplace to help individuals and small employers compare and purchase coverage. It required public meetings, independent audits and personal-data security, and barred state financial support. The Senate passed it 23–12, and it became law.
March 21, 2013Opposes Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho SR105, requiring senators to disclose conflicts before floor or committee votes and record disclosures in journals or minutes. Senators retained permission to vote after disclosure. The Senate adopted the rule change 35–0.
March 29, 2012Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1026, authorizing notices and court action to recover public records improperly removed from official custody. The final bill protected qualifying public archives and limited recovery to possessions acquired from July 2011 onward. The Senate passed it 32–0, and it became law.
March 18, 2011Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for S.1156, requiring financial-interest disclosures from specified public officers, candidates and spouses, with security exceptions and notice before late-filing penalties. The Senate passed it 34–0.
April 2, 2009Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for S. 1142, requiring public agendas, reasons for late agenda changes and specific executive-session purposes, while allowing specified timely correction of open-meeting violations. The Senate passed it 34–0.
March 19, 2009Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H.680, creating public community-infrastructure districts with infrastructure borrowing powers, public records and budgets, purchaser debt disclosures, resident and owner voting, debt caps and specified election safeguards. The Senate passed it 29–4.
April 1, 2008Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against S. 1085, requiring specific statutory grounds and general subjects in executive-session minutes, limiting litigation exceptions to pending or imminent cases and adding insurer or risk-manager claim discussions. The Senate passed it 24–9.
February 22, 2007Opposes Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H825, creating separate oversight of joint public-agency health plans, including previously exempt county-only pools. It required actuarial reserves, stop-loss coverage and public financial reports, barred trust-fund political contributions and conflicts of interest, and required specified newborn, pregnancy-complication and mammography coverage. It assigned examination costs to the state Insurance Department and set maximum fraud penalties of $15,000 and 15 years in prison. The Senate passed it 34–0, with one absent.
April 3, 2006Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H724, removing an exception that let conflicted planning officials testify in the affected land-use proceedings. The bill retained disclosure requirements and misdemeanor penalties for knowing violations. The Senate passed it 22–10, and it became law.
March 20, 2006Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H415, counting contributions from controlled political committees together under campaign-donation limits. The bill also treated commonly controlled entities as one contributor. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 2, 2006Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H556, expressly banning personal use of campaign contributions, including ordinary rent, vacations and tuition. Campaign, office-duty and other listed lawful uses remained permitted. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 2, 2006Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1303, extending public-money misuse law to government credit cards and credit accounts used for personal or unauthorized purposes. The law included prison penalties and disqualification from public office. The Senate passed it 34–0, and it became law.
February 6, 2006Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.idaho.gov

Government Efficiency · 46 support · 6 oppose

Voted for H.R. 8278 in the 119th Congress, a proposal to require financial regulators to assess supervisory technology, data-security and procurement obstacles and report jointly on modernization and information-sharing needs. The House passed the bill 417–7.
September 15, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 1501, the Protecting Domestic Mining Act of 2025, which permanently makes certain mining infrastructure projects eligible for faster federal environmental review. It passed the House 218-201.
September 2, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 1118, the Value Over Cost Act, letting the General Services Administration award supply-schedule contracts on best value rather than lowest price. It passed the House 421-1.
July 21, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 8823, which lets the Labor Department stop paying federal workers' compensation claims to medical providers convicted of fraud. It passed the House 396-0.
July 20, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 8464, the Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act, which requires agencies to pause or condition suspect payment requests before approving them. It passed the House 218-200.
June 10, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 8312, a bill to move federal payment-integrity work to the Treasury and create a new inspector general for fraud and recovery. It passed the House 240-181.
June 10, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 7892, the No Aid for Ghost Students Act, making the Education Department screen every federal student aid application for identity fraud. It passed the House 249-172.
June 10, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 7726, which adds penalties for states that misuse the federal block grant helping low-income working families pay for child care. It passed the House 217-207.
June 3, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 8365, the Monitor Accountability Act, setting conditions on appointing the independent monitors who oversee governments under court consent decrees. It passed the House 219-204.
May 14, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter requesting transfer of full management of withdrawn Idaho National Laboratory lands from Interior and the Bureau of Land Management to Energy, removal of outdated land-order limits and department contacts to coordinate the transfer. It supported simpler administration for research facilities, transmission lines and power rights-of-way while preserving grazing arrangements, county PILT funds and tribal engagement.
April 10, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Won committee approval of his Enhancing Geothermal Production on Federal Lands Act, which speeds permits for geothermal energy on federal land.
March 5, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
Source: congress.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 6329, a bill to make the White House budget office rewrite the rules agencies follow when publishing influential information. It passed the House 362-1.
February 24, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
Source: clerk.house.gov
Questioned FCC commissioners about rural carriers’ access to spectrum auctions and backup systems for GPS. He advocated an environmental-review exemption for broadband deployment on previously disturbed federal land, criticizing redundant reviews.
January 14, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
Source: congress.gov
Signed a letter asking ATF to keep National Firearms Act application examiners working during shutdowns and develop a plan to prevent indefinite processing delays, following earlier requests for secure electronic transfer signatures.
October 16, 2025Supports Government Efficiency
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter asking DOJ to release already appropriated fiscal year 2025 Regional Information Sharing Systems grants, including Idaho’s Rocky Mountain Information Network, and provide a distribution timeline.
September 15, 2025Supports Government Efficiency
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Presided over a Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade hearing on motor-vehicle safety. In his opening statement he advocated streamlined regulations that maintained safety standards and a regulatory framework for autonomous vehicles; he questioned witnesses about rural deployment and distracted driving.
June 26, 2025Supports Government Efficiency
Source: govinfo.gov
Wrote the FILM Act, which became law in January 2025 inside the larger EXPLORE Act package; it eases permit and fee rules for commercial filming on national park and other federal lands (H.R. 8258).
January 7, 2025Supports Government Efficiency
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Reported that Customs and Border Protection had approved a 120-day extension of Porthill Port of Entry operating hours after an earlier joint request that he made with Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo. A later DHS report documented that Porthill maintained extended hours after the pilot.
March 29, 2023Supports Government Efficiency
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H. R. 8454, a proposal to streamline federal approvals for registered cannabis researchers and research manufacturers with deadlines and diversion safeguards, and protect physicians’ discussions of cannabis risks and benefits with patients. The House passed it 325–95.
July 26, 2022Opposes Government Efficiency
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter asking IRS to explain tax-refund delays, improve processing and refund-status information, and address in-person staffing and interest owed on delayed refunds.
June 27, 2022Supports Government Efficiency
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter seeking records and a briefing on the Forest Service’s prescribed-fire failures and 90-day pause. It supported safe prescribed burning, expedited review of the failures and increased mechanical thinning during the pause to reduce wildfire risk.
June 27, 2022Supports Government Efficiency
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Questioned the heads of EEOC and OFCCP and delivered an opening statement opposing mandatory contractor pay-equity audits and withdrawal of the prior religious-contractor rule. He urged EEOC to reopen field offices for in-person service and challenged the audit directive’s treatment of attorney-client privilege.
April 27, 2022Supports Government Efficiency
Source: govinfo.gov
Signed a delegation letter to the VA Secretary seeking answers about electronic health-record failures before the Boise rollout. It raised delays in care, missing lab orders and suicide alerts, asked about staff training and permanent software fixes, and sought measures to prevent unauthorized access to veterans’ medical records.
April 27, 2022Supports Government Efficiency
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter asking the National Personnel Records Center to restore full operating capacity, address delayed DD214 requests and brief Congress on its backlog and staffing plans.
January 24, 2022Supports Government Efficiency
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter asking Interior to reverse the return of BLM headquarters personnel to Washington, D.C., arguing that regional staffing improved land-management decisions and reduced relocation and travel burdens.
December 9, 2021Supports Government Efficiency
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 550 in the 117th Congress, a proposal to modernize confidential immunization-information databases through data standards, secure exchange and governmental grants, with a proposed $400 million authorization. The House passed the bill 294–130.
November 30, 2021Opposes Government Efficiency
Source: clerk.house.gov
Delivered an opening statement and questioned USDA Deputy Under Secretary Stacy Dean about school-meal policy. He opposed further tightening of federal sodium targets, defended low-fat flavored milk, and advocated budget-neutral reauthorization focused on needy pupils and simpler rules for schools.
May 12, 2021Supports Government Efficiency
Source: govinfo.gov
Signed a letter supporting Idaho State University’s distance-learning grant application for evidence-based management training in rural hospitals, to improve hospital operations and services.
November 30, 2020Supports Government Efficiency
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 8015 in the 116th Congress, a proposal to temporarily bar postal operational changes that reduced service, give election mail first-class and same-day processing treatment, and add $25 billion to the Postal Service Fund. The House passed the bill 257–150.
August 22, 2020Opposes Government Efficiency
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter urging EPA to use hourly emissions increases, rather than annual emissions increases, to determine when power-plant upgrades triggered New Source Review permits, to ease approval of efficiency and maintenance work.
December 9, 2019Supports Government Efficiency
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter asking HRSA to delay its shortage-designation modernization process until providers received notice, an opportunity to comment and consistent data treatment, citing risks to recruitment in underserved communities.
October 17, 2019Supports Government Efficiency
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Urged Interior Secretary David Bernhardt at a House hearing to support a forest-management arbitration pilot requiring objectors to submit alternatives. The proposal specified binding arbitration in place of ordinary judicial review, a 90-day decision deadline and limited statutory review.
May 15, 2019Supports Government Efficiency
Source: govinfo.gov
Signed a delegation letter asking Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to address delays in the Stibnite Gold Project’s draft environmental impact statement, complete the statutory review promptly, work with the company and cooperating agencies, and provide monthly progress updates.
May 14, 2019Supports Government Efficiency
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter urging USDA to expedite Dairy Margin Coverage enrollment, outreach and retroactive payments under the 2018 Farm Bill, and to implement its dairy pricing provisions.
March 27, 2019Supports Government Efficiency
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against Idaho H629’s $157.1 million service-integration and welfare budget, including $11.8 million in one-time federal funding to integrate eligibility systems with the state exchange. It also funded benefit payments and system maintenance. The Senate passed it 26–8, and it became law.
March 18, 2014Opposes Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H542, creating a public-defense commission with attorney-training and caseload-reporting rules. It revised county defense arrangements and prohibited single fixed-fee contracts covering both attorney services and expenses. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 17, 2014Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1357’s justice-reinvestment reforms, adding detention-review deadlines, limits on specified parole-violation confinement and validated programme assessments. It also required short local sanctions and inmate restitution deductions. Its fiscal note projected prison-cost avoidance while identifying upfront implementation costs. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
February 27, 2014Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho S1224, integrating regional mental-health and substance-use governance and allowing regional boards to manage recovery support. It added readiness standards, service reporting and state backup when boards failed. Existing departmental funds supported board operations. The Senate passed it 26–9, and it became law.
February 12, 2014Opposes Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H362, temporarily replacing certified-mail tax-deficiency and levy notices with first-class mail. Appeal rights remained, and certified-mail requirements returned after one year. The official fiscal note projected $200,000 in mailing savings. The Senate passed it 24–10, and it became law.
January 31, 2012Opposes Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H. 727, revising Idaho Education Network oversight through a thirteen-member resource advisory council, competitive procurement and conditional funding requirements. The Senate passed it 34–0.
March 29, 2010Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H.600, allowing design-build and construction-manager contracts for suitable highway projects when found superior to existing methods, capped together at 20% of the annual construction budget. The Senate passed it 34–0.
March 29, 2010Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H. 510, allowing requested electronic unemployment notices and revising claim appeals, recovery and compromise procedures, while retaining fair-hearing and reasoned-decision requirements. The Senate passed it 35–0.
March 17, 2010Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H. 413, making the electronic monthly Administrative Bulletin Idaho’s official rule-publication format, alongside the companion electronic Administrative Code framework. The Senate passed it 33–0.
February 18, 2010Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H. 372, centralizing specified local elections under county clerks, appropriating $1.5 million for election equipment and software, and establishing an annual county election-fund distribution of at least $4.1 million. The Senate passed it 27–8.
May 5, 2009Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for amended H.422, setting a 10–30% efficiency target for qualifying state-funded buildings when fiscally prudent and feasible, with ten-year operating savings required to cover added construction costs. The Senate passed it 35–0.
March 12, 2008Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H. 167, separating participant-directed Medicaid fiscal-intermediary services from personal-assistance employer agencies and specifying their payroll, quality-control and participant-control duties. The Senate passed it 34–0.
March 20, 2007Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H.152, creating Public Utilities Commission route certificates for qualifying high-voltage transmission facilities in federally designated national-interest corridors, with public hearings, a twelve-month decision deadline and conditional local siting preemption. The Senate passed it 32–0.
March 19, 2007Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H.106, reorganizing the Office of Drug Policy and requiring coordinated agency substance-abuse budget requests through that office. The Senate passed it 34–0.
March 1, 2007Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for S. 1018, recognizing electronic real-property documents and signatures and permitting electronic recording and fees while continuing paper-record acceptance. The Senate passed it 32–0.
February 2, 2007Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H776, reorganizing Medicaid into health-needs-based plans for children and working-age adults, people with disabilities, and elders. The bill authorized coordinated primary care, benefit design and cost-sharing, subject to federal approval. It passed the Senate 33–0 and became law.
March 23, 2006Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H708, creating a voluntary online registry for living wills, health-care powers of attorney and revocations. File-number and password controls limited access, and registry information was excluded from public-record disclosure. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 8, 2006Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H300, requiring state-agency strategic plans, measurable results and annual performance reports. Agencies presented results to legislative committees. The Senate passed it 33–0, and it became law.
March 29, 2005Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.idaho.gov

Cost of Living Reduction · 1 support · 1 oppose

Voted to pass H.R. 9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act. It would require state regulators to consider making big data centers pay the full cost of grid upgrades built for them. It passed the House 417-3.
September 16, 2026Supports Cost of Living Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass S.J.Res. 18, sending it to the President to repeal the consumer bureau rule limiting overdraft fees at very large banks to $5. The House passed it 217-211, and it became Public Law 119-10 on May 9, 2025.
April 9, 2025Opposes Cost of Living Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov

Immigration · 2 support · 34 oppose

Voted to pass S. 2, the Secure America Act, a bill to provide $70 billion through 2029 for immigration enforcement and border security. It passed the House 214-212.
June 9, 2026Opposes Immigration
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against passing H.R. 1689, which orders Homeland Security to grant Haitians temporary protected status for 18 months, shielding them from immigration detention. It passed the House 224-204.
April 16, 2026Opposes Immigration
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 4638, the BOWOW Act, making harming a law enforcement working animal grounds to bar a non-citizen from entry or deport them. It passed the House 228-190.
March 19, 2026Opposes Immigration
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 1958, the Deporting Fraudsters Act, making public benefits fraud grounds to bar someone from entry or deport them. It passed the House 231-186.
March 18, 2026Opposes Immigration
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 4371, the Kayla Hamilton Act, requiring locked placement for immigrant children 12 and older with gang tattoos or criminal records. The House passed it 225-201, but the Senate has not acted, so it is not law.
December 16, 2025Opposes Immigration
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 3486, the Stop Illegal Entry Act, raising prison penalties for illegal entry and re-entry, up to life for serious criminals. The House passed it 226-197, but the Senate has not acted, so it is not law.
September 11, 2025Opposes Immigration
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 875, a bill making drunk or drugged driving grounds to bar an immigrant from entry or deport one already here. The House passed it 246-160, but the Senate has not acted, so it is not law.
June 26, 2025Opposes Immigration
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 2056, a bill to bar the District of Columbia from limiting how its agencies share immigration information or honor federal detainers. The House passed it 224-194, but the Senate has not acted, so it is not law.
June 12, 2025Opposes Immigration
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 2966, the American Entrepreneurs First Act, a bill to limit Small Business Administration loans to citizens, nationals, and green card holders. The House passed it 217-190; the Senate has not acted, so it is not law.
June 6, 2025Opposes Immigration
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 35, a bill making fleeing Border Patrol by vehicle near the border a crime punishable by prison. The House passed it 264-155, but the Senate never acted, so it did not become law.
February 13, 2025Opposes Immigration
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass S. 5, the Laken Riley Act, sending it to the president to require jailing immigrants here illegally who are arrested for theft. The House passed it 263-156, and it became law on January 29, 2025.
January 22, 2025Opposes Immigration
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 30, a bill barring entry and allowing deportation of non-citizens for sex offenses, domestic violence, stalking or child abuse. The House passed it 274-145, but the Senate has not passed it.
January 16, 2025Opposes Immigration
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 29, the Laken Riley Act, making federal officers detain immigrants here unlawfully who are charged with theft or burglary. The House passed it 264-159; the Senate's broader version, S. 5, became law instead in January 2025.
January 7, 2025Opposes Immigration
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H. R. 3012, a proposal to renew North-Korean human-rights, information-access and refugee-assistance programs through 2028 and support protection of refugees from forced repatriation and religious persecution. The House passed it 335–37.
November 20, 2024Opposes Immigration
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 5717, a bill denying certain federal immigration funds to states and localities that limit information sharing or ignore detention requests. It passed the House 219-186, but the Senate never acted and the bill died.
September 20, 2024Opposes Immigration
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 7909, a bill making immigrants deportable or barred from entry for stalking, child abuse, sex offenses or domestic violence. It passed the House 266-158, but the Senate never acted and the bill died.
September 18, 2024Opposes Immigration
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 7343, a bill to make federal officials detain immigrants lacking legal status who are charged with assaulting a police officer. The House passed it 265-148, but the Senate never acted and it died.
May 15, 2024Opposes Immigration
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 8035, providing additional Ukraine-related defense procurement, equipment replacement and security assistance. It extended refugee-equivalent benefits for screened Ukrainian parolees, funded refugee services, and required repayment arrangements for economic assistance with conditional debt forgiveness. The House passed it 311–112.
April 20, 2024Opposes Immigration
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 3602 after the House replaced its whole text with the End the Border Catastrophe Act, a broad border and immigration package. It would have funded border wall building, narrowed asylum eligibility, and expanded detention. Under a fast-track process needing two-thirds, it failed 215-199 and died.
April 20, 2024Opposes Immigration
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 7511, the Laken Riley Act, requiring federal detention of people in the country illegally who are charged with theft or burglary. The House passed it 251-170, but the Senate never voted and the bill died.
March 7, 2024Opposes Immigration
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 6976, the Protect Our Communities from DUIs Act, 274-150 in the House. It would make a drunk or drugged driving offense, even a misdemeanor, grounds to bar or deport an immigrant. The Senate never acted, so it did not become law.
February 1, 2024Opposes Immigration
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 6678, the Consequences for Social Security Fraud Act, 272-155 in the House. It would make Social Security fraud, fake-ID fraud, or COVID relief fraud grounds to bar or deport an immigrant. The Senate never acted, so it did not become law.
January 31, 2024Opposes Immigration
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 5585, a bill making fleeing Border Patrol by vehicle near the border a crime punishable by prison. The House passed it 271-154, but the bill died when that Congress ended.
January 30, 2024Opposes Immigration
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 5283, a bill to bar housing certain immigrants on federal land and cancel New York City's Floyd Bennett Field lease. The House passed it 224-203, but the Senate never acted and the bill died in the 118th Congress.
November 30, 2023Opposes Immigration
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 3941, the Schools Not Shelters Act, cutting federal funding to public schools and colleges that shelter immigrants who entered without admission. The House passed it 222-201, but the Senate never acted and the bill died with the 118th Congress.
July 19, 2023Opposes Immigration
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 2494, the POLICE Act. It would make assaulting a police officer, firefighter, or other first responder grounds to deport a noncitizen. The House passed it 255-175, but the Senate never acted, so it did not become law.
May 17, 2023Opposes Immigration
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 2, the Secure the Border Act, restarting border wall building, narrowing asylum and requiring employers to verify workers' legal status. The House passed it 219-213, but the Senate never acted, so it died.
May 11, 2023Opposes Immigration
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 7946, the Veteran Service Recognition Act, letting Homeland Security grant green cards to noncitizen military veterans facing deportation. The House passed it 220-208.
December 6, 2022Opposes Immigration
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 3617, a proposal to remove cannabis from federal controlled-substance schedules, expunge qualifying nonviolent federal cannabis records, prevent cannabis-based denial of federal benefits and immigration protections, and fund reentry and disadvantaged-business programmes through cannabis taxes. It preserved FDA authority and certain federal and transportation drug testing. The House passed it 220–204.
April 1, 2022Opposes Immigration
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 1573, the Access to Counsel Act, guaranteeing citizens, green card and visa holders a lawyer when held for extra border screening. The House passed it 217-207.
April 21, 2021Opposes Immigration
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 1333, the NO BAN Act, which limited the President's power to bar entry and barred religious discrimination in immigration decisions. The House passed it 218-208.
April 21, 2021Opposes Immigration
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 1603, the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, which created legal status and a path to permanent residence for undocumented farmworkers. The House passed it 247-174.
March 18, 2021Opposes Immigration
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 6, the American Dream and Promise Act, offering green cards to immigrants brought here as children and others under temporary protection. The House passed it 228-197.
March 18, 2021Opposes Immigration
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 549 in the 116th Congress, a proposal to designate Venezuela for an initial 18 months of temporary protected status for eligible nationals present at enactment. The House passed the bill 272–158.
July 25, 2019Opposes Immigration
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for H.R. 1044 in the 116th Congress, a proposal to eliminate employment-based immigrant per-country caps and raise the family-sponsored per-country limit from 7% to 15%, with transition protections for employment-based visas. The House passed the bill 365–65.
July 10, 2019Supports Immigration
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for S.1076, authorizing state support for national-interest waivers for foreign physicians serving underserved communities, with final federal approval, service, wage, leave and sliding-fee care requirements. The Senate passed it 35–0.
February 23, 2009Supports Immigration
Source: legislature.idaho.gov

Government Spending Reduction · 58 support · 64 oppose

Voted to accept the Senate's changes to H.R. 6500, the 2027 stopgap funding law, keeping agencies at 2026 levels through December 11, 2026. The House agreed 370-48.
September 1, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 9770, the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2027, which would keep federal agencies funded at current levels through December 4, 2026. It passed the House 220-205.
July 21, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 8595, the 2027 State Department and national security appropriations bill, setting the year's funding for the State Department and related programs. It passed the House 217-209.
July 15, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass S. 2, the Secure America Act, a bill to provide $70 billion through 2029 for immigration enforcement and border security. It passed the House 214-212.
June 9, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 8646, the 2027 Agriculture and FDA appropriations bill, setting the year's funding for the Agriculture Department and the FDA. It passed the House 213-210.
June 4, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 6047, a bill to widen several veterans and survivors benefits and add an $833.33 monthly allowance for certain disabled veterans. It passed the House 235-179.
May 21, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 8469, the 2027 appropriations bill setting the year's funding for military construction and the Department of Veterans Affairs. It passed the House 400-15.
May 15, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 7567, the 2026 farm bill, renewing Agriculture Department crop support, conservation, food aid and rural development programs through 2031. It passed the House 224-200.
April 30, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter supporting the Pacific Northwest Mass Timber Tech Hub’s federal grant application, which requested $33 million for market development, university research and prototyping, housing production methods and workforce training. The letter distinguished that federal investment request from $420 million in private commitments.
April 20, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter requesting a fiscal year 2027 Labor-HHS appropriations restriction on federal funding for vertebrate-animal research into interventions intended to alter human sex characteristics. It requested a continuing funding prohibition in that and later appropriations acts.
March 27, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 8029, the Pay Our Homeland Defenders Act, funding Homeland Security and ending the partial shutdown that began February 14, 2026. It passed the House 218-206.
March 26, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for H.J.Res. 139, a proposed constitutional amendment capping yearly federal spending at the prior three years' average revenue, adjusted for population and inflation. It failed the House 211-207, short of the two-thirds majority needed.
March 18, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 7744, a bill funding Homeland Security for the rest of the year and ending the partial shutdown begun February 14, 2026. It passed the House 221-209.
March 5, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 4758, the Homeowner Energy Freedom Act, repealing the Energy Department's home electrification rebates for lower-income households and contractor training grants. It passed the House 210-199.
February 25, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to accept the Senate's changes to H.R. 7148, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, which funds several federal departments and became law. The House agreed 217-214.
February 3, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 7006, which sets 2026 funding for financial services and general government agencies and the State Department. It passed the House 341-79.
January 14, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 6938, which sets 2026 funding for the Commerce, Justice, Science, Energy, Water, Interior and Environment parts of the budget. It passed the House 397-28.
January 8, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 4, the Rescissions Act of 2025, canceling about $9.4 billion in approved but unspent foreign aid and public broadcasting money. The House vote was 214-212; the Senate trimmed it, and the smaller package became law July 24, 2025.
June 12, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter proposing terrorism designations and sanctions for specified Iran-backed Iraqi militias and an end to U.S. security assistance while such groups remained legally part of, funded or trained by Iraq’s government.
January 28, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 82 in the 118th Congress, a proposal to repeal Social Security’s government pension offset and windfall elimination provision for benefits after December 2023. The House passed the bill 327–75.
November 12, 2024Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 8035, providing additional Ukraine-related defense procurement, equipment replacement and security assistance. It extended refugee-equivalent benefits for screened Ukrainian parolees, funded refugee services, and required repayment arrangements for economic assistance with conditional debt forgiveness. The House passed it 311–112.
April 20, 2024Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 8036, providing funds for the submarine industrial base, replacement of defense articles supplied to Taiwan, Indo-Pacific military financing and regional military priorities. The House passed it 385–34, with one member voting present.
April 20, 2024Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for H.R.382, a proposal to terminate the January 31, 2020 COVID-19 public health emergency immediately upon enactment. CBO’s analysis identified related reductions in expanded Medicare benefits and Medicaid/CHIP funding and the end of a SNAP participation-limit pause, with implementation uncertainty. The House passed it 220–210.
January 31, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against final House passage of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, the law that funded the federal government for the rest of the budget year. The House agreed 225-201 and it became Public Law 117-328.
December 23, 2022Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Also on this bill
- March 9, 2022 · Voted against the second half of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022, which the House split into two questions. The act funded the federal government for the rest of the budget year and became Public Law 117-103. The House agreed to this half 260-171. (Supports Government Spending Reduction)
- March 9, 2022 · Voted for the first half of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022, which the House split into two questions. The act funded the federal government for the rest of the budget year and became Public Law 117-103. The House agreed to this half 361-69. (Opposes Government Spending Reduction)
Voted against the Further Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2023, a stopgap that kept federal agencies funded to December 23, 2022. The House agreed 224-201 and it became Public Law 117-229.
December 14, 2022Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H. R. 7780, a proposal to fund expanded school-based mental-health providers in high-need and low-income schools through proposed federal grant appropriations, enforce insurance mental-health parity, restrict mandatory arbitration and benefit-review clauses in employer-sponsored plans, and research workplace mental-health hazards. The House passed it 220–205.
September 29, 2022Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H. R. 8542, a proposal to authorize $250 million over fiscal years 2023–2027 for grants dispatching mental-health professionals instead of police in suitable emergencies, with de-escalation training, voluntary services and revocation safeguards against increased incarceration. The House passed it 223–206.
September 22, 2022Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against final House passage of the CHIPS and Science Act, which put about $52 billion into U.S. semiconductor manufacturing and research. The House agreed 243-187 and it became Public Law 117-167.
July 28, 2022Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H. R. 6929, a proposal to restore full vested pension benefits for eligible Delphi retirees and fund increased benefits and past-due payments from a new Treasury trust fund, while accelerating certain pension-premium payment dates. The House passed it 254–175.
July 27, 2022Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 7790 in the 117th Congress, a proposal to add $28 million in emergency FDA appropriations to address infant-formula shortages and prevent fraudulent formula products. The House passed the bill 231–192.
May 18, 2022Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R.7309, a proposal to expand workforce training and subsidized employment programmes through rising proposed federal funding authorizations. It reserved at least 75 percent of specified adult-service funds for public-assistance recipients, low-income people and other priority groups, provided needs-related support payments, and required information on wage, safety and union rights. The House passed it 220–196.
May 17, 2022Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 3807, a proposal to add $42 billion to Restaurant Revitalization grants and establish a separate $13 billion Hard Hit Industries Award Program for small businesses with at least 40 percent pandemic-related revenue loss, excluding previous restaurant or shuttered-venue grant recipients. The proposal included award caps, fraud audits and transfers of recovered relief funds. The House passed it 223–203.
April 7, 2022Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 3617, a proposal to remove cannabis from federal controlled-substance schedules, expunge qualifying nonviolent federal cannabis records, prevent cannabis-based denial of federal benefits and immigration protections, and fund reentry and disadvantaged-business programmes through cannabis taxes. It preserved FDA authority and certain federal and transportation drug testing. The House passed it 220–204.
April 1, 2022Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against the second half of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022, which the House split into two questions. The act funded the federal government for the rest of the budget year and became Public Law 117-103. The House agreed to this half 260-171.
March 9, 2022Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Also on this bill
- December 23, 2022 · Voted against final House passage of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, the law that funded the federal government for the rest of the budget year. The House agreed 225-201 and it became Public Law 117-328. (Supports Government Spending Reduction)
- March 9, 2022 · Voted for the first half of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022, which the House split into two questions. The act funded the federal government for the rest of the budget year and became Public Law 117-103. The House agreed to this half 361-69. (Opposes Government Spending Reduction)
Voted for the first half of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022, which the House split into two questions. The act funded the federal government for the rest of the budget year and became Public Law 117-103. The House agreed to this half 361-69.
March 9, 2022Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Also on this bill
- December 23, 2022 · Voted against final House passage of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, the law that funded the federal government for the rest of the budget year. The House agreed 225-201 and it became Public Law 117-328. (Supports Government Spending Reduction)
- March 9, 2022 · Voted against the second half of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022, which the House split into two questions. The act funded the federal government for the rest of the budget year and became Public Law 117-103. The House agreed to this half 260-171. (Supports Government Spending Reduction)
Voted against H. R. 1836, a proposal to count additional National Guard and Reserve training toward Post-9/11 GI Bill eligibility in phases and extend and raise certain VA housing-loan fees. The House passed it 287–135.
January 12, 2022Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 550 in the 117th Congress, a proposal to modernize confidential immunization-information databases through data standards, secure exchange and governmental grants, with a proposed $400 million authorization. The House passed the bill 294–130.
November 30, 2021Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Reported working with the Idaho delegation after SBA selected the Idaho Hispanic Foundation for a Community Navigator grant supporting entrepreneurs in underserved communities. The public grant program connected minority-owned, rural and other underserved businesses with support and resources.
October 28, 2021Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H. R. 485, a proposal to expand child-abuse prevention and family-strengthening grants with proposed federal funding, prioritize low-income communities, and establish interstate registry exchange with child-safety-only use, privacy-law compliance and procedural due-process assurances. The House passed it 345–73.
March 16, 2021Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 447, a proposal to expand registered apprenticeship programmes and grants through rising proposed federal funding authorizations, require progressively increasing wages and safe supervised training, and maintain equal-opportunity access standards. The House passed it 247–173.
February 5, 2021Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R.9051 (CASH Act), which proposed raising second-round COVID-19 relief from $600 to $2,000 per person through refundable income-tax credits and payments. It also included adult dependents in both 2020 rebate rounds. The House passed it 275–134.
December 28, 2020Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for both final House motions on H.R. 133, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 proposal. The package included $600 second-round recovery rebates, $10 billion in additional coronavirus childcare funding, southwest-border barrier funding, and Tibetan religious-freedom, dialogue and environmental provisions. The House agreed to Divisions B, C, E and F 327–85 and to the remaining divisions 359–53.
December 21, 2020Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against the House amendment to H.R.925, the updated HEROES emergency-relief proposal, including broad emergency federal funding. Its provisions included workplace infectious-disease standards with protective-equipment and anti-retaliation duties, and temporary limits on consumer-debt repossession, garnishment, eviction and utility shutoffs, with repayment and arbitration protections. The House approved the amendment 214–207.
October 1, 2020Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 8015 in the 116th Congress, a proposal to temporarily bar postal operational changes that reduced service, give election mail first-class and same-day processing treatment, and add $25 billion to the Postal Service Fund. The House passed the bill 257–150.
August 22, 2020Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter urging enforcement of restrictions on U.S. funding for international abortion lobbying, proportional reductions for noncompliant United Nations entities and removal of a multilateral exemption from global-health assistance restrictions.
August 13, 2020Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H. R. 7327, a proposal to expand childcare support through federal essential-worker care and facility-safety funding, larger refundable dependent-care income-tax credits, provider and employer credits, and increased mandatory childcare funding. The House passed it 250–161.
July 29, 2020Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 1957 in the 116th Congress, a proposal to create a public-land deferred-maintenance fund with up to $1.9 billion annually in FY2021–2025 and make Land and Water Conservation Fund deposits available without further appropriation. The House passed the bill 310–107.
July 22, 2020Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter requesting pandemic relief for oil and gas producers through temporary federal royalty and offshore-lease relief, additional funding to fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, less restrictive OCC energy-lending guidance and methane regulatory relief.
April 2, 2020Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 6201, the initial Families First Coronavirus Response Act proposal, providing temporary paid sick and family leave with employer tax credits, insurance coverage of coronavirus testing without cost sharing, additional food assistance and an increased federal Medicaid match. The House passed the suspension amendment 363–40.
March 14, 2020Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for H. R. 6074, a proposal to provide initial emergency coronavirus-response appropriations for public-health surveillance, laboratories, vaccine and countermeasure development, and health-center response, and permit limited Medicare telehealth waivers. The House passed it 415–2.
March 4, 2020Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H. R. 4863, a proposal to renew the Export-Import Bank through 2029, increase its loan and guarantee authority, expand outreach to disadvantaged export businesses, and strengthen environmental reviews and support for renewable-energy exports. The House passed it 235–184.
November 15, 2019Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 3877, a proposal to raise discretionary spending limits for fiscal years 2020–2021 and suspend the debt limit through July 31, 2021. It also extended customs user fees and mandatory spending cuts through fiscal year 2029 and excluded its budget effects from PAYGO scorecards. The House passed it 284–149.
July 25, 2019Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H. R. 397, a proposal to create federally financed 30-year loans and conditional PBGC grants for distressed multiemployer pension plans, with repayment, benefit-restoration and oversight conditions and retirement-related tax offsets. The House passed it 264–169.
July 24, 2019Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for H. R. 3401, a proposal to provide additional emergency funding for migrant care and processing, medical care, immigration courts and shelters for unaccompanied children at the southern border. The Senate-amended proposal also funded detainee transport and immigration enforcement and imposed shelter-licensing, monitoring and reporting safeguards. The House agreed to the Senate amendment 305–102.
June 27, 2019Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter supporting Idaho’s request for a federal disaster declaration after April flooding and seeking assistance to restore damaged public infrastructure. FEMA recorded approval on June 12, 2019, providing cost-shared public assistance and statewide hazard-mitigation eligibility.
May 28, 2019Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: crapo.senate.gov
Voted against H. R. 987, a proposal to limit drug-company pay-for-delay agreements with specified exceptions, fund state health-insurance exchange establishment and enrollment outreach, and block the 2018 expansion of short-term insurance lacking ACA coverage safeguards. The House passed it 234–183.
May 16, 2019Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter requesting a new Corps of Engineers investigation study and funding consideration for Boise River flood-risk reduction through Garden City, after the project exceeded the smaller Section 205 program’s scope.
April 19, 2019Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted for H.R. 840 in the 116th Congress, a proposal to require VA-funded childcare assistance, including full-cost stipends, for eligible veteran caregivers attending mental-health and other intensive treatment. The House passed the bill 400–9.
February 8, 2019Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 790 in the 116th Congress, a proposal to raise federal civilian basic pay by 2.6% in 2019. The House passed the bill 259–161.
January 30, 2019Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for S. 24 in the 116th Congress, a proposal to guarantee standard-rate back pay after shutdowns for furloughed and excepted federal and specified District of Columbia employees, including paid leave for excepted employees. The House passed the bill 411–7.
January 11, 2019Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against Idaho H638’s $770.1 million teacher budget, which raised the minimum salary to $31,750 and funded leadership premiums and professional development. Its fiscal note showed a 1.6% funding increase after adjustments. Earlier that month, he supported H504’s leadership-premium framework. H638 passed the Senate 29–5 and became law.
March 20, 2014Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho S1428’s additional $2.12 million for behavioural-health community crisis centres, comprising $1.52 million in ongoing state funding and $600,000 in one-time federal funding. He earlier opposed S1352’s centre framework. S1428 passed the Senate 29–6 and became law.
March 19, 2014Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H629’s $157.1 million service-integration and welfare budget, including $11.8 million in one-time federal funding to integrate eligibility systems with the state exchange. It also funded benefit payments and system maintenance. The Senate passed it 26–8, and it became law.
March 18, 2014Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H470, creating a wolf-depredation control board and continuously appropriated fund for lethal wolf-control activities. Funding included livestock assessments and annual Fish and Game transfers, with a 2019 sunset. The Senate passed it 28–6, and it became law.
March 18, 2014Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H580’s $3.62 million drug-policy budget, including added federal grant authority for substance-abuse prevention. The budget authorized six positions and merit-based compensation adjustments. The Senate passed it 29–5, and it became law.
March 12, 2014Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H352, repealing the Children’s Access Card premium-assistance programme and limiting remaining assistance when comparable coverage was available. It also changed income definitions. The fiscal note projected $64,000 in annual savings. The Senate passed it 25–10, and it became law.
March 6, 2014Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H395, restoring preventive dental benefits for adult Medicaid recipients with disabilities or special health needs. The fiscal note projected $1,418,100 in General Fund costs in the FY2015 Medicaid request. The Senate passed it 23–8, and it became law.
March 4, 2014Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1357’s justice-reinvestment reforms, adding detention-review deadlines, limits on specified parole-violation confinement and validated programme assessments. It also required short local sanctions and inmate restitution deductions. Its fiscal note projected prison-cost avoidance while identifying upfront implementation costs. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
February 27, 2014Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1199, creating one-year school grants for achievement awards and technology pilots within the education budget. Award plans required staff input but excluded collective bargaining, with public reporting of results. The Senate passed it 31–3, and it became law.
April 3, 2013Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho’s H206/H221 charter-school reform package, adding school-facility payments and authorizer fees alongside performance contracts and periodic renewals. Qualified public and private colleges received authorizing powers. The bills also established fiscal monitoring, closure procedures and public reports. Both passed the Senate with his recorded support and became law.
March 28, 2013Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1091’s amended education proposal, including an online-course portal and public reimbursements for eligible dual credits and advanced-placement exams. It also revised digital-academy funding and online-course participation. The Senate passed it 34–0, and it became law.
March 4, 2013Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho HCR47, approving state-building-authority financing agreements for a new multilevel parking facility at the Capitol Mall. It also supported reviewing parking fees. The Senate adopted it 28–7; the resolution did not itself appropriate a construction amount.
March 26, 2012Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H181, creating a state grant programme reimbursing small businesses up to $4,000 for preparing federal funding applications. Funding depended on later appropriations or other contributions, with repayment linked to successful federal awards. The Senate passed it 34–0, and it became law.
March 31, 2011Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H109, adding a temporary three-year unemployment lookback to maintain eligibility for federally financed extended unemployment benefits. Its fiscal note reported no state or local fund impact. The Senate passed it 24–7, and it became law.
March 11, 2011Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for S. 1407, creating a continuously appropriated aquifer-planning implementation fund receiving appropriations and voluntary contributions, without itself specifying an appropriation amount. The Senate passed it 34–0.
March 29, 2010Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H. 509, creating a youth employment framework subject to funding, with protections against displacing existing employees and filling positions affected by layoffs. The Senate passed it 32–0.
March 24, 2010Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against S. 1427, authorizing another $12 million of GARVEE transportation borrowing with a State Highway 16 right-of-way priority and up to $4 million in debt-service transfers from existing funds. The Senate passed it 25–9.
March 24, 2010Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted to adopt HJR. 5, proposing a constitutional exception for airport revenue borrowing without a General Fund or tax pledge, subject to voter ratification rather than documenting actual borrowing. The Senate adopted it 34–1.
March 16, 2010Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted to adopt HJR. 4, proposing a constitutional exception permitting public-hospital revenue borrowing without a tax pledge, subject to voter ratification rather than authorizing an actual bond issue. The Senate adopted it 34–0.
March 16, 2010Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted to adopt HJR. 7, proposing municipal-electric revenue borrowing under majority-vote and revenue-security conditions, subject to voter ratification rather than documenting actual borrowing. The Senate adopted it 35–0.
March 16, 2010Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H.379, repealing the publicly funded political-party campaign tax-checkoff programme and ending new tax-form designations after its transition period. The Senate passed it 35–0.
February 8, 2010Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H. 372, centralizing specified local elections under county clerks, appropriating $1.5 million for election equipment and software, and establishing an annual county election-fund distribution of at least $4.1 million. The Senate passed it 27–8.
May 5, 2009Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for S.1074, replacing the deaf-and-blind school framework with a statewide education bureau, regional services and a new continuously appropriated state-treasury trust receiving appropriations and other funds. The Senate passed it 33–0; no increased General Fund amount was specified.
March 18, 2009Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted to adopt HCR. 6, rejecting the proposed legislative-pay increase and continuing the existing legislative compensation schedule. The Senate adopted it 33–0.
January 30, 2009Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H.680, creating public community-infrastructure districts with infrastructure borrowing powers, public records and budgets, purchaser debt disclosures, resident and owner voting, debt caps and specified election safeguards. The Senate passed it 29–4.
April 1, 2008Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H. 532, providing conditional four-year stabilization-fund replacement payments for school districts losing federal Secure Rural Schools payments, with declining percentages and reimbursement if federal funds arrived. The Senate passed it 34–1.
March 27, 2008Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H.661, repealing the Corporate Headquarters Incentive Act of 2005 and its related continuous rebate authority. The Senate passed it 25–10.
March 26, 2008Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted to adopt HCR. 58, authorizing conditional planning and financing for a three-hundred-bed secure mental-health facility, without itself documenting construction or treatment delivered. The Senate adopted it 35–0.
March 20, 2008Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for amended H.422, setting a 10–30% efficiency target for qualifying state-funded buildings when fiscally prudent and feasible, with ten-year operating savings required to cover added construction costs. The Senate passed it 35–0.
March 12, 2008Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted to adopt SCR. 124, authorizing a twenty-year lease-purchase arrangement for the four-hundred-bed Ada County correctional facility, with maximum payments of $50,416,857 and projected rather than realized savings. The Senate adopted it 34–0.
January 31, 2008Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for the final amended S.1123, providing full base salary during qualifying temporary disability for peace and detention officers injured during emergency response or pursuit, subject to available funds and workers-compensation offsets. The Senate passed it 32–3.
March 28, 2007Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted to adopt HCR.32, authorizing the Lewis-Clark State College Health Sciences Building and referencing $16 million approved from the Permanent Building Fund by the budget committee. The Senate adopted it 35–0; the resolution granted construction approval rather than itself making that appropriation.
March 26, 2007Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted to adopt HCR.30, authorizing Idaho State University to purchase 102,000 square feet in the former Jabil building in Meridian for health-sciences education, with a private foundation’s $5 million grant pledge. The Senate adopted it 34–1; the resolution did not specify a new appropriation or borrowing amount.
March 23, 2007Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted to adopt HCR. 31, authorizing Boise State University nursing and student-health facilities financing backed by university revenues and private gifts, without a pledge of state appropriations. The Senate adopted it 32–0.
March 23, 2007Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against H. 217, creating the Idaho Opportunity Scholarship programme and a perpetually appropriated fund for economically disadvantaged students’ unmet postsecondary costs. The Senate passed it 28–7.
March 22, 2007Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H. 250, authorizing qualifying developers to recover public-interchange construction costs through refunds of 60% of related sales taxes, capped at $35 million and actual qualifying costs. The Senate passed it 24–10.
March 20, 2007Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H.159, creating a community-health-centre grant framework subject to appropriation, for centres serving uninsured and Medicaid patients without regard to ability to pay and using income-based fees. The Senate passed it 32–0.
March 19, 2007Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H.150, establishing matching grants of up to 50% for retail biofuel infrastructure, subject to appropriations and operation or recapture requirements. The Senate passed it 33–0; he also supported the programme’s companion nonrefundable infrastructure tax credit in H.177.
March 16, 2007Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for S. 1172, making English Idaho’s official government language and returning funds for non-exempt translation services to the General Fund, with constitutional, federal-law, public-health, safety, education and other exceptions. The Senate passed it 20–15.
March 7, 2007Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against S. 1147, proposing a three-year school mental-health and substance-abuse counselling pilot for at-risk seventh-through-twelfth graders, subject to available funding and appropriations. The Senate passed it 27–8.
March 6, 2007Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for S. 1142, authorizing juvenile substance-abuse assessments and cost-effective treatment orders, with initial Department of Health and Welfare assessment costs and parental contributions based on ability to pay. The Senate passed it 34–0.
March 1, 2007Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for S. 1143, extending regional mental-health development grants to substance-abuse services and multiagency, multiyear treatment projects, subject to appropriations. The Senate passed it 35–0.
February 26, 2007Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H877, establishing Medicaid respite support for up to 500 qualifying people and their fatigued family caregivers. Participation depended on available funding, and the programme had a 2009 sunset. The Senate passed it 34–0, and it became law.
April 6, 2006Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H873, appropriating $2 million to a new revolving loan fund for businesses training existing workers. Loans supported tuition and other training expenses. The Senate passed it 23–12, and it became law.
April 6, 2006Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H872, appropriating $250,000 to provide rural communities with growth-management expertise. The Senate passed it 19–14, and it became law.
April 6, 2006Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho S1494, appropriating $100,000 for a Treasure Valley air-quality public-awareness campaign. The bill provided up to $50,000 in General Fund matching support within that funding. The Senate passed it 21–12, and it became law.
April 5, 2006Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho S1495, appropriating an additional $54,200 for baseline water-quality monitoring in the Clark Fork River and Lake Pend Oreille. The Senate passed it 26–7, and it became law.
April 5, 2006Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H868, appropriating $650,000 for a Terry Reilly community health centre in Caldwell. The grant covered medical equipment, supplies and two years of clinic operations, with accounting and unused-fund return requirements. The Senate passed it 22–13, and it became law.
April 5, 2006Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H825, creating separate oversight of joint public-agency health plans, including previously exempt county-only pools. It required actuarial reserves, stop-loss coverage and public financial reports, barred trust-fund political contributions and conflicts of interest, and required specified newborn, pregnancy-complication and mammography coverage. It assigned examination costs to the state Insurance Department and set maximum fraud penalties of $15,000 and 15 years in prison. The Senate passed it 34–0, with one absent.
April 3, 2006Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H770, adding two state-funded instructional staff allowances for each qualifying separate high school. The Senate passed the final amended version 34–0, and it became law.
March 30, 2006Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H705, authorizing additional local levies to construct and maintain cooperative school-service facilities. Each levy required two-thirds voter approval and could continue through approved ten-year renewals. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 28, 2006Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H743, appropriating $25 million for unsafe public-school facilities and expanding maintenance and bond-equalization support. Poorer districts received greater state assistance; qualifying projects involved local repayment levies and state supervision. The Senate passed it 22–12, and it became law.
March 23, 2006Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H680, allowing qualifying low-income elderly, disabled or widowed homeowners to defer property taxes. State reimbursements to counties were capped at $500,000 annually, with secured repayment and 6% interest. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 22, 2006Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H738, creating a health-quality planning commission and provider grants for health-information technology, subject to appropriations. It required public planning, patient-safety recommendations and privacy safeguards. The Senate passed it 34–0, and it became law.
March 21, 2006Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H602’s new $3 annual vehicle-registration charge for a state-police career ladder and hiring and retention salaries. Spending from the fund required legislative appropriation. The Senate passed the bill 29–5, and it became law.
March 21, 2006Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho HCR47, approving financing agreements for Capitol restoration, atrium hearing-room additions and new elevators. The Senate adopted it 33–2. His earlier cigarette-tax vote supported restoration funding; these votes did not prove completed construction.
March 15, 2006Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H664, creating Medicaid eligibility for qualifying employed people with disabilities aged 16–64. The programme included income, asset and premium rules, with no premium below 133% of poverty. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 14, 2006Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1373, granting full-time state employees paid organ-donation leave of 30 workdays and five days for bone-marrow donation. Benefits and service credit continued, with protection from penalties for taking leave. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 1, 2006Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1370, extending annual inflation adjustments in Medicaid reimbursement to dentists. Payments remained capped by usual private-patient charges and federal limits. The Senate passed it 34–0, and it became law.
February 22, 2006Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1375, applying state employees’ 15 days of paid military leave to ordered or authorized military duty. The Senate passed it 34–0, and it became law.
February 22, 2006Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H393, adding $1.2 million for drug courts, mental-health courts and family-court services. It added $337,100 for community mental-health services. The Senate passed it 34–0, and it became law.
March 31, 2005Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1173, limiting paid sick-leave entitlement to school staff working at least 20 hours weekly and half-time teachers. The Senate passed it 33–1, and it became law.
March 29, 2005Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov

Public Safety and Crime Control · 17 support

Voted to pass H.R. 2978, the GUARD Act, which would let police spend federal grants investigating elder financial fraud and crypto 'pig butchering' scams. It passed the House 414-7.
September 15, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 4371, the Kayla Hamilton Act, requiring locked placement for immigrant children 12 and older with gang tattoos or criminal records. The House passed it 225-201, but the Senate has not acted, so it is not law.
December 16, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 5214, a bill to require pretrial jail for violent crimes in Washington, DC and bar no-cash release for other public-safety crimes. The House passed it 237-179, but the Senate has not acted, so it is not law.
November 19, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 5140 in the House, 225-203. It would let District of Columbia prosecutors charge children as young as 14 as adults for certain serious crimes, down from 16. The Senate has not acted, so it is not law.
September 16, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 4922, the DC CRIMES Act, limiting D.C. youth-offender sentencing to people under 18 and barring sentences below mandatory minimums. The House passed it 240-179, but the Senate has not acted, so it is not law.
September 16, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 3486, the Stop Illegal Entry Act, raising prison penalties for illegal entry and re-entry, up to life for serious criminals. The House passed it 226-197, but the Senate has not acted, so it is not law.
September 11, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass S. 331, the HALT Fentanyl Act. It permanently placed fentanyl-related substances in Schedule I, the strictest federal drug category, with the same trafficking penalties as fentanyl. The House passed it 321-104, and it became law July 16, 2025 (Public Law 119-26).
June 12, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 35, a bill making fleeing Border Patrol by vehicle near the border a crime punishable by prison. The House passed it 264-155, but the Senate never acted, so it did not become law.
February 13, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 27, the HALT Fentanyl Act, 312-108 in the House. It permanently places fentanyl-like drugs as a group in Schedule I, the strictest drug class, and applies fentanyl's trafficking penalties. This House bill stalled in the Senate, but the same text became law in July 2025 through S. 331.
February 6, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 7909, a bill making immigrants deportable or barred from entry for stalking, child abuse, sex offenses or domestic violence. It passed the House 266-158, but the Senate never acted and the bill died.
September 18, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 7343, a bill to make federal officials detain immigrants lacking legal status who are charged with assaulting a police officer. The House passed it 265-148, but the Senate never acted and it died.
May 15, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 7530, the DC CRIMES Act, a bill to cut DC's youth offender age from 24 to 18 and freeze existing sentences. The House passed it 225-181, but the Senate never acted and it died.
May 15, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 6976, the Protect Our Communities from DUIs Act, 274-150 in the House. It would make a drunk or drugged driving offense, even a misdemeanor, grounds to bar or deport an immigrant. The Senate never acted, so it did not become law.
February 1, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 5585, a bill making fleeing Border Patrol by vehicle near the border a crime punishable by prison. The House passed it 271-154, but the bill died when that Congress ended.
January 30, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 467, the HALT Fentanyl Act. It would have permanently placed fentanyl copycat drugs in the strictest federal drug category, with the same trafficking penalties as fentanyl itself. The House passed it 289-133, but the Senate never passed it and the bill died in that Congress.
May 25, 2023Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 2494, the POLICE Act. It would make assaulting a police officer, firefighter, or other first responder grounds to deport a noncitizen. The House passed it 255-175, but the Senate never acted, so it did not become law.
May 17, 2023Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.J.Res. 26, which blocked the District of Columbia's rewritten criminal code, which lowered maximum sentences for carjacking and robbery. The House passed it 250-173. It was signed on March 20, 2023 as Public Law 118-1.
February 9, 2023Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: clerk.house.gov

Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties · 30 support · 23 oppose

Voted against H. R. 3012, a proposal to renew North-Korean human-rights, information-access and refugee-assistance programs through 2028 and support protection of refugees from forced repatriation and religious persecution. The House passed it 335–37.
November 20, 2024Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter asking Transportation to explain privacy, constitutional, disability and safety safeguards for the Infrastructure Act’s impaired-driving monitoring mandate, including access to vehicle data and possible false determinations.
November 17, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H. R. 6878, a proposal to require pregnancy-related health care, contraception access and clinical evaluation for federally incarcerated women, limit restrictive housing with individualized emergency exceptions, and allow agreed transfers for high-risk pregnancies. The House passed it 324–90.
December 1, 2022Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 5455 in the 117th Congress, a proposal to extend eligibility for retroactive crack-cocaine sentencing reductions to covered low-level offenders previously excluded by Terry v. United States. The House passed the bill 307–101.
November 29, 2022Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H. R. 7780, a proposal to fund expanded school-based mental-health providers in high-need and low-income schools through proposed federal grant appropriations, enforce insurance mental-health parity, restrict mandatory arbitration and benefit-review clauses in employer-sponsored plans, and research workplace mental-health hazards. The House passed it 220–205.
September 29, 2022Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H. R. 8542, a proposal to authorize $250 million over fiscal years 2023–2027 for grants dispatching mental-health professionals instead of police in suitable emergencies, with de-escalation training, voluntary services and revocation safeguards against increased incarceration. The House passed it 223–206.
September 22, 2022Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: clerk.house.gov
Delivered an opening statement supporting local, community and faith-based prevention programmes to reduce youth involvement in the juvenile-justice system, including work-experience and technical-training opportunities. He questioned Boys Town’s director about its partnerships and endorsed prevention and rehabilitation rather than avoidable detention; this continued the same initiative discussed at his May 17 hearing.
September 8, 2022Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Signed a letter requesting DOJ investigation of attacks on religious organizations and crisis pregnancy centers, asking how it would prevent violence that chilled religious exercise and speech.
June 15, 2022Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Signed a letter questioning DHS about the Disinformation Governance Board’s authority, mission, resources and leadership vetting, expressing concern about its implications for domestic speech.
May 5, 2022Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted against H.R. 3617, a proposal to remove cannabis from federal controlled-substance schedules, expunge qualifying nonviolent federal cannabis records, prevent cannabis-based denial of federal benefits and immigration protections, and fund reentry and disadvantaged-business programmes through cannabis taxes. It preserved FDA authority and certain federal and transportation drug testing. The House passed it 220–204.
April 1, 2022Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Signed a letter asking ATF to reverse denials of homemade-silencer Form 1 applications and clarify when raw materials constituted regulated silencer parts, raising registration and self-incrimination concerns.
March 18, 2022Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Signed a letter requesting Education Secretary Cardona’s testimony and records concerning the National School Boards Association and DOJ’s school-board memorandum, while defending parents’ lawful speech.
January 13, 2022Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Signed a letter requesting congressional hearings on January 6 defendants’ reported pretrial confinement, access to counsel and medical care, and opposing punitive or coercive treatment before trial.
January 4, 2022Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Signed a letter opposing proposed IRS reporting of aggregate bank-account inflows and outflows, including revised reporting thresholds, on financial-privacy grounds.
October 21, 2021Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Signed a letter asking FAA to lift restrictions on press drones near the southern border and requesting information from DHS about those restrictions and border operations.
September 23, 2021Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Signed a letter asking the Biden administration to stop working with private platforms to suppress lawful speech and provide records of content and users it had flagged for platforms.
July 22, 2021Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Signed a letter urging democratic governments to end diplomatic and financial support for Cuba’s government, release political prisoners, support democratic opposition and independent media, and restore uncensored communications.
July 21, 2021Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted against H. R. 1996, a proposal to shield banks, insurers and related businesses from federal penalties or forfeiture solely for serving state-legal cannabis businesses, retain general bank supervision and suspicious-transaction reporting, and require valid written reasons and limited customer notice for federal account-termination orders. The House passed it 321–101.
April 19, 2021Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted against H. R. 485, a proposal to expand child-abuse prevention and family-strengthening grants with proposed federal funding, prioritize low-income communities, and establish interstate registry exchange with child-safety-only use, privacy-law compliance and procedural due-process assurances. The House passed it 345–73.
March 16, 2021Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted against the House amendment to H.R.925, the updated HEROES emergency-relief proposal, including broad emergency federal funding. Its provisions included workplace infectious-disease standards with protective-equipment and anti-retaliation duties, and temporary limits on consumer-debt repossession, garnishment, eviction and utility shutoffs, with repayment and arbitration protections. The House approved the amendment 214–207.
October 1, 2020Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Signed a letter asking the Forest Service to protect privacy in trail-camera enforcement, post clear notice of route restrictions and favor warnings for unintentional violations before penalties.
August 3, 2020Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for S. 1838, a proposal to impose sanctions for arbitrary detention, torture and other gross human-rights abuses in Hong Kong and protect Americans against rendition to China. The House passed it 417–1.
November 20, 2019Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for S. 2710 in the 116th Congress, a proposal to prohibit commercial exports of tear gas, rubber bullets and other listed crowd-control items to Hong Kong police for one year, with a national-interest certification exception. The House passed the bill 417–0.
November 20, 2019Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted against H. R. 1500, a proposal to strengthen CFPB consumer and fair-lending enforcement, restore restrictions on forced arbitration, require public anonymized complaint information and free annual credit scores, and prohibit rules allowing unlimited debt-collection emails or texts. The House passed it 231–191.
May 22, 2019Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for Idaho H542, creating a public-defense commission with attorney-training and caseload-reporting rules. It revised county defense arrangements and prohibited single fixed-fee contracts covering both attorney services and expenses. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 17, 2014Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for Idaho S1357’s justice-reinvestment reforms, adding detention-review deadlines, limits on specified parole-violation confinement and validated programme assessments. It also required short local sanctions and inmate restitution deductions. Its fiscal note projected prison-cost avoidance while identifying upfront implementation costs. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
February 27, 2014Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho S1337, which made certain entry, record-gathering and unauthorized recording at agricultural facilities crimes, alongside intentional physical damage. The bill set penalties of up to one year in jail, a $5,000 fine and twice the resulting damage in restitution. It passed the Senate 23–10, with two absent.
February 14, 2014Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for the final Idaho S1134, restricting targeted drone surveillance without a warrant or consent, with emergency, rescue, and drug-investigation exceptions. It protected recording privacy through civil damages and excluded mapping and resource-management aircraft. The Senate passed it 30–4, and it became law.
April 3, 2013Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for Idaho H149, barring use of juvenile diversion statements as evidence of guilt and strengthening access to defense counsel. It prohibited counsel waivers in specified serious cases and imposed safeguards for other waivers. County cost-reimbursement rules also changed. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 25, 2013Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for Idaho S1151, permitting specified felony convictions to be reduced to misdemeanors after probation ended. Prosecutorial approval applied during the first five years and for listed serious offences afterward. Courts retained public-interest review, and sex offenders were excluded. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 20, 2013Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for Idaho SCR112 opposing marijuana legalization for any purpose, and for SJM101 urging federal enforcement of drug prohibition nationwide. The Senate adopted the first resolution 29–5 but rejected the second memorial 13–21.
February 25, 2013Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted against Idaho S1035, allowing sheriffs to designate detention officers to make warrantless arrests for probable-cause crimes inside county jails. The Senate passed it 21–14, and it became law.
February 22, 2013Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted against Idaho H514’s proposal to expand the disturbing-the-peace misdemeanor to conduct intended to alarm or harass someone enough to cause substantial emotional distress. The proposal failed in the Senate, 12–22.
March 20, 2012Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for Idaho H163, restricting restraints on prisoners during labor and delivery and banning leg and waist restraints then. Exceptional restraints required individual findings, public reporting without identifying the prisoner, and removal at a clinician’s request. The Senate passed it 34–0, and it became law.
March 31, 2011Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for Idaho H205, requiring public libraries to filter minors’ access to specified sexual content and adopt public internet-safety policies. Adult filtering remained optional, and libraries could disable filters for lawful use. The Senate passed the amended bill 34–0, and it became law.
March 31, 2011Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for Idaho H235, expanding offenses covered by gang-related sentencing enhancements and increasing felony enhancements to two to five years. The bill retained proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt requirements. The Senate passed it 34–1, and it became law. It extended the gang-enforcement programme he supported in 2006.
March 29, 2011Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for Idaho H225, allowing drug courts to admit some defendants otherwise excluded for violent offences, with prosecutorial consent. It required substance-use and reoffending-risk assessments and retained the sex-offence exclusion. The Senate passed it 34–0, and it became law.
March 29, 2011Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1067, extending mandatory DNA and thumbprint collection from specified crimes to all felony convictions and felony attempts. The law included qualifying people already incarcerated or under supervision and allowed existing cost-recovery restitution. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 14, 2011Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for Idaho S1030, expressly authorizing research-based rehabilitation for incarcerated people and offenders supervised in the community. Services remained discretionary and dependent on available resources. The Senate passed it 32–0, and it became law.
February 3, 2011Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for Idaho S1003, permitting courts to house youths charged as adults in juvenile detention facilities. Administrators also received discretion to place them with other juveniles when safety and security allowed. The Senate passed it 32–0, and it became law.
February 1, 2011Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for H.498, removing the specified deadline for post-conviction DNA-testing petitions, allowing guilty-plea petitioners and accredited independent testing at their expense while retaining evidentiary safeguards and indigent-testing provisions. The Senate passed it 32–2.
March 18, 2010Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H.60, allowing prosecutor-issued administrative subpoenas for subscriber, connection and payment records in specified child-related criminal investigations, excluding communication contents and browsed locations and retaining provider court challenges. The Senate passed it 33–0.
March 18, 2009Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H. 158, authorizing patient prescription disclosures to law enforcement under a search warrant, subpoena or court order while retaining confidentiality restrictions on other disclosures. The Senate passed it 34–0.
March 13, 2007Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for H. 23, allowing last-weekday discharge when a prisoner’s maximum-sentence end fell on a weekend or holiday, preventing confinement beyond that sentence. The Senate passed it 35–0.
February 19, 2007Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H734, expanding specified hospital mental-health detention and transfer authority without an initial hearing. The bill retained prompt court review, examination deadlines and a ban on detention in nonmedical jail units. The Senate passed it 33–0, and it became law.
March 20, 2006Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for Idaho H555, restricting eminent-domain transfers to private interests and economic-development takings. The bill retained specified exceptions and made condemnation rationales reviewable in court. The Senate passed it 34–0, and it became law.
March 9, 2006Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H430, requiring mental-health records to be shared between providers caring for detainees, prisoners and other covered offenders. The bill removed the need for their consent or a court order, with an exception for substance-abuse treatment records. It passed the Senate 34–0 and became law.
March 9, 2006Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for Idaho H589, increasing additional penalties for specified methamphetamine or amphetamine offenses committed where children were present. The bill set maximums of ten years and $25,000, with consecutive prison terms. The Senate passed it 34–0, and it became law.
March 9, 2006Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H533, adding specified child-sex offenses committed during a murder to death-penalty aggravating circumstances. The bill retained jury, proof and mitigation requirements. The Senate passed it 34–0, and it became law.
March 7, 2006Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for Idaho S1312, raising prison penalties for specified sexual and violent offenses and violations of sex-offender registration requirements. It also tightened registration deadlines and address verification. The Senate passed it 34–0, and it became law.
February 22, 2006Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1304, barring dismissal or reduction of convictions for offenses requiring sex-offender registration. The bill also included guilty findings or pleas despite withheld judgments. The Senate passed it 34–0, and it became law.
February 13, 2006Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1301, increasing mandatory minimum confinement for qualifying repeat sex offenders to 15 years and life for designated violent sexual predators. The bill barred suspension of those consecutive sentences. The Senate passed it 34–0, and it became law.
February 13, 2006Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H393, adding $1.2 million for drug courts, mental-health courts and family-court services. It added $337,100 for community mental-health services. The Senate passed it 34–0, and it became law.
March 31, 2005Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Social Programs and Welfare · 29 support · 30 oppose

Voted to pass H.R. 8884, a bill to extend through 2031 Social Security projects that help disability insurance recipients return to work. It passed the House 232-188.
July 23, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Introduced a bill proposing free yearly passes to federal recreation lands for licensed foster families (H.R. 9145, the PARKS Act).
June 4, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted to pass H.R. 6047, a bill to widen several veterans and survivors benefits and add an $833.33 monthly allowance for certain disabled veterans. It passed the House 235-179.
May 21, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted to pass H.R. 3123, which sets out how Veterans Affairs pays a pension that was owed but unpaid when a veteran died. It passed the House 405-1.
February 2, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted to accept the Senate's version of H.R. 1, which extended the 2017 tax cuts, cut Medicaid and food aid, and raised the debt limit. The House agreed 218-214, and it was signed into law on July 4, 2025 as Public Law 119-21.
July 3, 2025Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
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- May 22, 2025 · Voted to pass H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, at first House passage, 215-214. It extended the 2017 income tax cuts, cut Medicaid and food aid spending, and raised the federal debt limit. The House later accepted the Senate's version 218-214, and it became law on July 4, 2025 (Public Law 119-21). (Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction, Opposes Social Programs and Welfare)
Voted to pass H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, at first House passage, 215-214. It extended the 2017 income tax cuts, cut Medicaid and food aid spending, and raised the federal debt limit. The House later accepted the Senate's version 218-214, and it became law on July 4, 2025 (Public Law 119-21).
May 22, 2025Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
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- July 3, 2025 · Voted to accept the Senate's version of H.R. 1, which extended the 2017 tax cuts, cut Medicaid and food aid, and raised the debt limit. The House agreed 218-214, and it was signed into law on July 4, 2025 as Public Law 119-21. (Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction, Opposes Social Programs and Welfare)
Voted against H.R. 82 in the 118th Congress, a proposal to repeal Social Security’s government pension offset and windfall elimination provision for benefits after December 2023. The House passed the bill 327–75.
November 12, 2024Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted against H.R. 8035, providing additional Ukraine-related defense procurement, equipment replacement and security assistance. It extended refugee-equivalent benefits for screened Ukrainian parolees, funded refugee services, and required repayment arrangements for economic assistance with conditional debt forgiveness. The House passed it 311–112.
April 20, 2024Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted for H.J.Res. 88 to cancel the Education Department's SAVE plan, the student loan plan that lowered payments based on income. The House passed it 210-189.
December 7, 2023Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted to pass H.J.Res. 45, a resolution to cancel the Education Department rule pausing student loan payments and forgiving up to $20,000 per borrower. The House passed it 218-203 and sent it to the Senate. It was vetoed on June 7, 2023, and the House override attempt failed.
May 24, 2023Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted for H.R.382, a proposal to terminate the January 31, 2020 COVID-19 public health emergency immediately upon enactment. CBO’s analysis identified related reductions in expanded Medicare benefits and Medicaid/CHIP funding and the end of a SNAP participation-limit pause, with implementation uncertainty. The House passed it 220–210.
January 31, 2023Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted against H. R. 7780, a proposal to fund expanded school-based mental-health providers in high-need and low-income schools through proposed federal grant appropriations, enforce insurance mental-health parity, restrict mandatory arbitration and benefit-review clauses in employer-sponsored plans, and research workplace mental-health hazards. The House passed it 220–205.
September 29, 2022Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted against H. R. 8542, a proposal to authorize $250 million over fiscal years 2023–2027 for grants dispatching mental-health professionals instead of police in suitable emergencies, with de-escalation training, voluntary services and revocation safeguards against increased incarceration. The House passed it 223–206.
September 22, 2022Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
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Delivered an opening statement supporting local, community and faith-based prevention programmes to reduce youth involvement in the juvenile-justice system, including work-experience and technical-training opportunities. He questioned Boys Town’s director about its partnerships and endorsed prevention and rehabilitation rather than avoidable detention; this continued the same initiative discussed at his May 17 hearing.
September 8, 2022Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted against H. R. 6929, a proposal to restore full vested pension benefits for eligible Delphi retirees and fund increased benefits and past-due payments from a new Treasury trust fund, while accelerating certain pension-premium payment dates. The House passed it 254–175.
July 27, 2022Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted against H.R. 6376 in the 117th Congress, a proposal to expand VA work-study eligibility to at least half-time students through a five-year pilot, offset by extending specified VA home-loan fee rates by nine days. The House passed the bill 370–43.
May 17, 2022Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted against H.R.7309, a proposal to expand workforce training and subsidized employment programmes through rising proposed federal funding authorizations. It reserved at least 75 percent of specified adult-service funds for public-assistance recipients, low-income people and other priority groups, provided needs-related support payments, and required information on wage, safety and union rights. The House passed it 220–196.
May 17, 2022Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted against H.R. 3617, a proposal to remove cannabis from federal controlled-substance schedules, expunge qualifying nonviolent federal cannabis records, prevent cannabis-based denial of federal benefits and immigration protections, and fund reentry and disadvantaged-business programmes through cannabis taxes. It preserved FDA authority and certain federal and transportation drug testing. The House passed it 220–204.
April 1, 2022Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted against H. R. 1836, a proposal to count additional National Guard and Reserve training toward Post-9/11 GI Bill eligibility in phases and extend and raise certain VA housing-loan fees. The House passed it 287–135.
January 12, 2022Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted against H.R. 1652 in the 117th Congress, a proposal to redirect deferred- and nonprosecution settlement receipts into the Crime Victims Fund, raise the victim-compensation grant calculation from 60% to 75%, and waive matching requirements during pandemic emergencies. The House passed the bill 384–38.
March 17, 2021Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted against H. R. 485, a proposal to expand child-abuse prevention and family-strengthening grants with proposed federal funding, prioritize low-income communities, and establish interstate registry exchange with child-safety-only use, privacy-law compliance and procedural due-process assurances. The House passed it 345–73.
March 16, 2021Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted for both final House motions on H.R. 133, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 proposal. The package included $600 second-round recovery rebates, $10 billion in additional coronavirus childcare funding, southwest-border barrier funding, and Tibetan religious-freedom, dialogue and environmental provisions. The House agreed to Divisions B, C, E and F 327–85 and to the remaining divisions 359–53.
December 21, 2020Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted against the House amendment to H.R.925, the updated HEROES emergency-relief proposal, including broad emergency federal funding. Its provisions included workplace infectious-disease standards with protective-equipment and anti-retaliation duties, and temporary limits on consumer-debt repossession, garnishment, eviction and utility shutoffs, with repayment and arbitration protections. The House approved the amendment 214–207.
October 1, 2020Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted against H. R. 7327, a proposal to expand childcare support through federal essential-worker care and facility-safety funding, larger refundable dependent-care income-tax credits, provider and employer credits, and increased mandatory childcare funding. The House passed it 250–161.
July 29, 2020Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted against H.R. 6201, the initial Families First Coronavirus Response Act proposal, providing temporary paid sick and family leave with employer tax credits, insurance coverage of coronavirus testing without cost sharing, additional food assistance and an increased federal Medicaid match. The House passed the suspension amendment 363–40.
March 14, 2020Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted against H.R. 2339, restricting flavored tobacco and remote retail sales, expanding FDA regulation and tobacco fees, and strengthening enforcement of youth-advertising rules. It protected individual consumers from flavor-ban criminal penalties and police searches, while temporarily exempting qualifying premium cigars from premarket review. The bill funded tobacco prevention and cessation, taxed vaping nicotine with medical-product exceptions, waived certain Medicare colorectal-screening copays and allowed inhalers before high-deductible plan deductibles. The House passed it 213–195.
February 28, 2020Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted against H.R.3, a package of federal drug-price negotiation, a $2,000 annual cap on Medicare prescription-drug costs, new Medicare dental, hearing and vision benefits, and broader drug subsidies for low-income beneficiaries. Its pricing rules also covered participating private insurance plans. The House passed it 230–192.
December 12, 2019Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted against H. R. 397, a proposal to create federally financed 30-year loans and conditional PBGC grants for distressed multiemployer pension plans, with repayment, benefit-restoration and oversight conditions and retirement-related tax offsets. The House passed it 264–169.
July 24, 2019Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted for H. R. 3401, a proposal to provide additional emergency funding for migrant care and processing, medical care, immigration courts and shelters for unaccompanied children at the southern border. The Senate-amended proposal also funded detainee transport and immigration enforcement and imposed shelter-licensing, monitoring and reporting safeguards. The House agreed to the Senate amendment 305–102.
June 27, 2019Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted for H.R. 840 in the 116th Congress, a proposal to require VA-funded childcare assistance, including full-cost stipends, for eligible veteran caregivers attending mental-health and other intensive treatment. The House passed the bill 400–9.
February 8, 2019Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted against Idaho S1428’s additional $2.12 million for behavioural-health community crisis centres, comprising $1.52 million in ongoing state funding and $600,000 in one-time federal funding. He earlier opposed S1352’s centre framework. S1428 passed the Senate 29–6 and became law.
March 19, 2014Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted against Idaho H629’s $157.1 million service-integration and welfare budget, including $11.8 million in one-time federal funding to integrate eligibility systems with the state exchange. It also funded benefit payments and system maintenance. The Senate passed it 26–8, and it became law.
March 18, 2014Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted against Idaho H352, repealing the Children’s Access Card premium-assistance programme and limiting remaining assistance when comparable coverage was available. It also changed income definitions. The fiscal note projected $64,000 in annual savings. The Senate passed it 25–10, and it became law.
March 6, 2014Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H395, restoring preventive dental benefits for adult Medicaid recipients with disabilities or special health needs. The fiscal note projected $1,418,100 in General Fund costs in the FY2015 Medicaid request. The Senate passed it 23–8, and it became law.
March 4, 2014Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted for Idaho H331, requiring foreclosure warnings and an opportunity to request loan modifications for qualifying primary residences. Lenders received a 45-day response deadline before sale, and unlicensed modification fees were prohibited. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
April 6, 2011Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted for Idaho H262, requiring food-stamp applicants to verify each listed household member’s identity. It allowed monthly good-cause extensions but excluded illness, transport problems and temporary absences as good cause. The Senate passed it 29–6, and it became law.
April 1, 2011Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted against Idaho H109, adding a temporary three-year unemployment lookback to maintain eligibility for federally financed extended unemployment benefits. Its fiscal note reported no state or local fund impact. The Senate passed it 24–7, and it became law.
March 11, 2011Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho S1080’s proposal for statewide early-childhood coordination covering children through age eight. It added a comprehensive-system framework and fund while retaining infant-toddler intervention services and safeguards. The Senate passed it 27–8; the House rejected it.
March 7, 2011Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H.653, requiring guardians ad litem to report capable children’s wishes about permanency and transition from foster care while clarifying their best-interest advocacy duties. The Senate passed it 33–0.
March 26, 2010Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H.508, restricting medical providers’ balance billing for services covered by crime-victim compensation payments, with a limited unpaid-balance exception when the commission underpaid. The Senate passed it 34–0.
March 18, 2010Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted for H.610, prioritizing safe, suitable relative placements in child-protection cases and allowing documented, reviewed licensing variances that did not endanger the child’s safety. The Senate passed it 34–0.
March 18, 2010Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted for S.1074, replacing the deaf-and-blind school framework with a statewide education bureau, regional services and a new continuously appropriated state-treasury trust receiving appropriations and other funds. The Senate passed it 33–0; no increased General Fund amount was specified.
March 18, 2009Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted for H.501, creating substitute mailing addresses and confidential files for qualifying victims of violence, with agency necessity, law-enforcement and court-order exceptions. The Senate passed it 33–0.
March 14, 2008Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted for final amended H.517, enhancing consumer remedies for knowing deceptive conduct against elderly or disabled consumers causing specified serious losses, with restitution paid before enhanced penalties. The Senate passed it 35–0.
March 13, 2008Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted against H. 217, creating the Idaho Opportunity Scholarship programme and a perpetually appropriated fund for economically disadvantaged students’ unmet postsecondary costs. The Senate passed it 28–7.
March 22, 2007Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted for H. 167, separating participant-directed Medicaid fiscal-intermediary services from personal-assistance employer agencies and specifying their payroll, quality-control and participant-control duties. The Senate passed it 34–0.
March 20, 2007Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted for H.159, creating a community-health-centre grant framework subject to appropriation, for centres serving uninsured and Medicaid patients without regard to ability to pay and using income-based fees. The Senate passed it 32–0.
March 19, 2007Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted against S. 1147, proposing a three-year school mental-health and substance-abuse counselling pilot for at-risk seventh-through-twelfth graders, subject to available funding and appropriations. The Senate passed it 27–8.
March 6, 2007Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted for S. 1142, authorizing juvenile substance-abuse assessments and cost-effective treatment orders, with initial Department of Health and Welfare assessment costs and parental contributions based on ability to pay. The Senate passed it 34–0.
March 1, 2007Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted for S. 1143, extending regional mental-health development grants to substance-abuse services and multiagency, multiyear treatment projects, subject to appropriations. The Senate passed it 35–0.
February 26, 2007Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted for Idaho H877, establishing Medicaid respite support for up to 500 qualifying people and their fatigued family caregivers. Participation depended on available funding, and the programme had a 2009 sunset. The Senate passed it 34–0, and it became law.
April 6, 2006Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H422, widening property-tax relief for eligible older, disabled, widowed and other qualifying homeowners. The bill raised the maximum reduction to $1,320 and the income limit to at least $28,000, with a poverty-guideline alternative. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 23, 2006Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H680, allowing qualifying low-income elderly, disabled or widowed homeowners to defer property taxes. State reimbursements to counties were capped at $500,000 annually, with secured repayment and 6% interest. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 22, 2006Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H567, making ombudsman services for older people eligible for Commission on Aging grants or contracts. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 16, 2006Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H664, creating Medicaid eligibility for qualifying employed people with disabilities aged 16–64. The programme included income, asset and premium rules, with no premium below 133% of poverty. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 14, 2006Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1371, extending workers’ compensation survivor income benefits to qualifying full-time students until age 23. The extension applied to specified future workplace accidents or occupational diseases. The Senate passed it 34–0, and it became law.
February 23, 2006Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H393, adding $1.2 million for drug courts, mental-health courts and family-court services. It added $337,100 for community mental-health services. The Senate passed it 34–0, and it became law.
March 31, 2005Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H325, adding permanent-placement plans and notices for children when courts found reunification efforts unnecessary. It also required case plans and prompt hearings after removals during protective supervision, while changing parental-termination grounds. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 30, 2005Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H226, allowing veterans-services endowment money to support programmes beyond veterans’ homes, including emergency grants and the cemetery. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 29, 2005Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: legislature.idaho.gov

Gun Control · 19 oppose

Voted to pass H.R. 1181, the Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act, barring payment card networks from using a merchant code that singles out gun retailers. It passed the House 221-201.
July 14, 2026Opposes Gun Control
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 1041, the Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act, barring Veterans Affairs from reporting certain veterans to the federal gun background check system. It passed the House 216-201.
May 21, 2026Opposes Gun Control
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 2189, which takes less-than-lethal projectile devices such as certain TASERs out of Gun Control Act regulation. It passed the House 233-185.
February 12, 2026Opposes Gun Control
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 2243, the LEOSA Reform Act, letting qualified working and retired police carry concealed guns in school zones and national parks. The House passed it 229-193, but the Senate has not acted, so it is not law.
May 14, 2025Opposes Gun Control
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 354, the LEOSA Reform Act, letting qualified current and retired police carry concealed guns in school zones and national parks. The House passed it 221-185, but the Senate never acted, so it did not become law.
May 16, 2024Opposes Gun Control
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.J.Res. 44, a resolution to cancel the federal rule treating pistols with stabilizing braces as short-barreled rifles needing stricter registration. The House passed it 219-210, but the Senate rejected it on June 22, 2023, so the rule stayed in force.
June 13, 2023Opposes Gun Control
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 1808, the Assault Weapons Ban of 2022, criminalizing the sale, making or import of semiautomatic assault weapons and large capacity magazines. The House passed it 217-213.
July 29, 2022Opposes Gun Control
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter asking DOJ and ATF to revise their interpretation of willful firearms-dealer violations, opposing license revocations for accidental clerical errors and requesting enforcement records.
June 27, 2022Opposes Gun Control
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against final House passage of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which widened background checks for buyers under 21 and closed the dating-partner gun loophole. The House agreed 234-193 and it became Public Law 117-159.
June 24, 2022Opposes Gun Control
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 2377, a bill letting federal courts temporarily take guns from someone found dangerous and funding state red flag laws. The House passed it 224-202.
June 9, 2022Opposes Gun Control
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 7910, the Protecting Our Kids Act, raising the buying age for many semiautomatic rifles to 21 and banning new large-capacity magazines. The House passed it 223-204.
June 8, 2022Opposes Gun Control
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter asking ATF to reverse denials of homemade-silencer Form 1 applications and clarify when raw materials constituted regulated silencer parts, raising registration and self-incrimination concerns.
March 18, 2022Opposes Gun Control
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Joined a Supreme Court brief challenging New York’s discretionary requirement that applicants show a special need to carry a handgun in public. It supported the applicants challenging that licensing rule.
July 19, 2021Opposes Gun Control
Source: supremecourt.gov
Voted against H.R. 1446, the Enhanced Background Checks Act, a bill giving dealers at least ten business days, up from three, for a background check. The House passed it 219-210.
March 11, 2021Opposes Gun Control
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 8, the Bipartisan Background Checks Act, a bill requiring a background check on nearly every private gun sale, including at gun shows. The House passed it 227-203.
March 11, 2021Opposes Gun Control
Source: clerk.house.gov
Joined a Supreme Court brief challenging New York City restrictions on transporting licensed handguns outside the city. The brief supported the gun owners and urged stricter review of firearm restrictions.
May 14, 2019Opposes Gun Control
Source: supremecourt.gov
Voted for amended H.589, asserting a federal-regulation exemption for qualifying firearms and ammunition made and retained in Idaho, with specified weapon exclusions. The Senate passed it 27–7; this vote did not establish federal acceptance of the exemption.
March 29, 2010Opposes Gun Control
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H229, extending protections for lawful firearms and ammunition to extreme emergencies, insurrection and martial law. The Senate passed it 32–1. His earlier vote supported the corresponding protection during declared disasters.
April 13, 2009Opposes Gun Control
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H632, exempting qualifying retired detention deputies from concealed-weapon licensing requirements. The exemption required at least ten years of service and professional certification. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 14, 2006Opposes Gun Control
Source: legislature.idaho.gov

Women's Reproductive Rights · 4 support · 25 oppose

Voted to pass H.R. 6945, a bill letting states spend federal welfare block grant money on pregnancy centers that promote carrying to term. It passed the House 215-209.
January 21, 2026Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 21, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, requiring newborn care for a baby born alive after an attempted abortion. The House passed it 217-204, but the Senate has not passed it.
January 23, 2025Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: clerk.house.gov
Joined a Supreme Court brief supporting restrictions on mifepristone, including restoring in-person dispensing and opposing shipment by mail. The Court reversed the lower ruling on June 13, 2024 because the doctors and associations challenging FDA lacked standing.
February 29, 2024Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: supremecourt.gov
Led a congressional Supreme Court brief defending Idaho’s abortion restrictions against federal emergency-care requirements. It argued that the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act did not require abortions that conflicted with state law.
February 27, 2024Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: supremecourt.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 26, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, requiring medical care for a child born alive after an attempted abortion. The House passed it 220-210, but the Senate never took it up.
January 11, 2023Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H. R. 6878, a proposal to require pregnancy-related health care, contraception access and clinical evaluation for federally incarcerated women, limit restrictive housing with individualized emergency exceptions, and allow agreed transfers for high-risk pregnancies. The House passed it 324–90.
December 1, 2022Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 8373, the Right to Contraception Act, writing into federal law the right to obtain contraception and providers' right to supply it. The House passed it 228-195.
July 21, 2022Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter asking major banks to reconsider employer-funded travel benefits for employees seeking abortions, arguing against use of company funds for that purpose.
July 20, 2022Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 8297, which barred states from interfering with travel across state lines for abortion care or with anyone who helps. The House passed it 223-205.
July 15, 2022Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 8296, the Women's Health Protection Act of 2022, creating a federal right to abortion care after Roe v. Wade was overturned. The House passed it 219-210.
July 15, 2022Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter requesting a DOJ and FBI investigation under the federal partial-birth abortion ban and preservation of fetal remains as evidence, citing allegations about a Washington, D.C. clinic.
April 8, 2022Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 3755, the Women's Health Protection Act, creating a federal right to abortion care and barring state restrictions such as waiting periods. The House passed it 218-211.
September 24, 2021Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: clerk.house.gov
Joined a Supreme Court brief supporting Mississippi’s ban on most abortions after 15 weeks. It urged the Court to overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
July 29, 2021Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: supremecourt.gov
Signed a letter supporting separate billing and disclosure for the abortion portion of certain Affordable Care Act insurance premiums, rather than combining that charge with other coverage.
July 28, 2021Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: fulcher.house.gov
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- March 17, 2014 · Voted for Idaho HJM6, urging suspension and review of Affordable Care Act taxes on the healthcare industry. The Senate adopted it 28–7 after reconsideration. The memorial did not itself suspend taxes or repeal the healthcare law. (General)
Signed a letter opposing any change to the VA’s prohibition on abortion services, while arguing that VA care should continue to focus on veterans’ existing benefits.
June 15, 2021Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter urging enforcement of restrictions on U.S. funding for international abortion lobbying, proportional reductions for noncompliant United Nations entities and removal of a multilateral exemption from global-health assistance restrictions.
August 13, 2020Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter requesting restrictions on tax deductions and tax-preferred health accounts used for abortion expenses or abortion-inclusive coverage, with a physical-life-endangerment exception and separate-accounting conditions.
August 12, 2020Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Joined a Supreme Court brief supporting religious exemptions from insurance requirements to cover contraception. It argued that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act protected objecting religious employers.
March 9, 2020Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Joined a Supreme Court brief supporting Louisiana’s requirement that abortion doctors hold admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. It also urged reconsideration of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
January 2, 2020Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Joined a court brief supporting the 2019 Title X rule requiring physical and financial separation between federally funded family-planning programs and abortion services. It also opposed compulsory abortion counseling and referrals for providers with religious or conscience objections.
April 15, 2019Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted for Idaho H163, restricting restraints on prisoners during labor and delivery and banning leg and waist restraints then. Exceptional restraints required individual findings, public reporting without identifying the prisoner, and removal at a clinician’s request. The Senate passed it 34–0, and it became law.
March 31, 2011Supports Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H187’s patient-directive safeguard within the provider-conscience law he supported in 2010. That law protected refusals involving abortion, specified contraception and end-of-life care, with emergency and nondiscrimination limits. H187 required objecting physicians to make good-faith efforts to help directive-bearing patients find willing providers before withdrawing care. It passed 21–13 and became law.
March 29, 2011Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1165, banning abortions from 20 weeks after fertilization, with exceptions for a woman’s life or irreversible physical impairment and an unborn child’s life. It imposed felony liability on providers while exempting patients from penalties. The Senate passed it 24–10, and the governor signed it.
March 23, 2011Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1115, prohibiting abortion coverage in health-exchange plans except for life-saving treatment, rape, or court-determined incest. It reduced required physician recommendations for qualifying publicly funded abortions from two to one. The Senate passed it 27–7, and it became law.
March 1, 2011Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for amended H.145, extending the sterilization-protection chapter to all minors while retaining the exception for adults able to consent to their own treatment. The Senate passed it 35–0.
March 31, 2009Supports Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for amended H.654, prohibiting threats, conspiracies or physical injury intended to coerce a pregnant woman into an abortion and providing civil remedies, including for minors. The Senate passed it 29–6.
March 27, 2008Supports Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H. 248, requiring abortion providers already using ultrasound to inform patients of the option to view the image and provide a picture on request; neither a new scan nor compulsory viewing was required. The Senate passed it 25–9.
March 20, 2007Supports Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for S. 1082, requiring written parental consent for unemancipated minors’ abortions, with a confidential 48-hour judicial bypass, appointed counsel and specified rape, incest and medical-emergency exceptions. The Senate passed it 23–12.
February 26, 2007Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1482, requiring abortion patients to receive state informational materials at least 24 hours before the procedure, except in medical emergencies. The bill also changed consent definitions and reporting rules. The Senate passed it 30–5, and it became law.
April 4, 2006Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov

Election Integrity · 6 support

Voted to pass H.R. 884, which would bar noncitizens from voting in District of Columbia elections. It would also repeal the 2022 DC law that let noncitizen residents vote locally. The House passed it 266-148, but the Senate has not acted, so the DC law still stands.
June 10, 2025Supports Election Integrity
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 22, the SAVE Act, requiring paper proof of U.S. citizenship, such as a passport, to register to vote. The House passed it 220-208, but the Senate has not taken it up.
April 10, 2025Supports Election Integrity
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 8314, which would bar larger tax-exempt groups that accept money from foreign nationals from giving to political committees for eight years. Brought up under a fast-track process needing two-thirds, it failed 218-181 and never became law.
September 17, 2024Supports Election Integrity
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted yes on H.R. 8281, the SAVE Act. It would require people to show documents proving United States citizenship, such as a passport or birth certificate, when registering to vote in federal elections. The House passed it 221-198, but the Senate never voted and the bill died at the end of the 118th Congress.
July 10, 2024Supports Election Integrity
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 192, a bill to bar noncitizens from voting in District of Columbia elections by repealing the 2022 DC law allowing it. The House passed it 262-143, but the Senate never acted and the bill died.
May 23, 2024Supports Election Integrity
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.J.Res. 24, which would overturn the District of Columbia law letting noncitizen residents vote in local DC elections. The House passed it 260-162. The Senate never voted, so it died with the 118th Congress and the DC law stayed in force.
February 9, 2023Supports Election Integrity
Source: clerk.house.gov

Limit Foreign Influence · 2 support

Voted to pass H.R. 8314, which would bar larger tax-exempt groups that accept money from foreign nationals from giving to political committees for eight years. Brought up under a fast-track process needing two-thirds, it failed 218-181 and never became law.
September 17, 2024Supports Limit Foreign Influence
Source: clerk.house.gov
Delivered hearing remarks criticizing TikTok’s collection of personal data and the potential sale or selective use of that data through AI algorithms. He opposed access to that capability in China, called for that conduct to stop and criticized its lack of accountability.
March 23, 2023Supports Limit Foreign Influence
Source: govinfo.gov

National Defense · 6 support · 3 oppose

Voted to pass H.R. 8800, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027, setting Defense Department policy, troop levels and equipment purchases. It passed the House 216-212.
July 22, 2026Supports National Defense
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026, placed into S. 1071, setting defense policy and Defense Department spending. The House passed it 312-112, the Senate agreed, and it became Public Law 119-60 on December 18, 2025.
December 10, 2025Supports National Defense
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 3838, the House defense policy bill for fiscal year 2026, authorizing Defense Department and nuclear security funding. The House passed it 231-196; this bill never became law, and S. 1071 became the final 2026 defense law.
September 10, 2025Supports National Defense
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for final House passage of the fiscal year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act, which sets military policy and spending and raises junior enlisted pay. The House agreed 281-140 and it became Public Law 118-159.
December 11, 2024Supports National Defense
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 8070, the House's fiscal year 2025 defense authorization bill, setting Defense Department policy and raising junior enlisted pay. The House passed it 217-199; its provisions became law through H.R. 5009 in December 2024.
June 14, 2024Supports National Defense
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 8035, providing additional Ukraine-related defense procurement, equipment replacement and security assistance. It extended refugee-equivalent benefits for screened Ukrainian parolees, funded refugee services, and required repayment arrangements for economic assistance with conditional debt forgiveness. The House passed it 311–112.
April 20, 2024Opposes National Defense
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 8036, providing funds for the submarine industrial base, replacement of defense articles supplied to Taiwan, Indo-Pacific military financing and regional military priorities. The House passed it 385–34, with one member voting present.
April 20, 2024Opposes National Defense
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter asking the Air Force to assess temporary fleet leveling across active-duty, Air National Guard and reserve squadrons, to preserve fighter capacity and experienced personnel while replacements were produced.
November 30, 2023Supports National Defense
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 676 in the 116th Congress, a proposal to prohibit using federal funds to withdraw from NATO and reaffirm U.S. membership and collective-defense commitments. The House passed the bill 357–22.
January 22, 2019Opposes National Defense
Source: clerk.house.gov

Personal Income Tax Reduction · 8 support · 6 oppose

Voted to pass H.R. 9500, the Tax Relief for Fraud Victims Act. It would let scam victims deduct the stolen money on their federal taxes again and waive the 10% penalty on related early retirement withdrawals. It passed the House 408-17.
September 15, 2026Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to accept the Senate's version of H.R. 1, which extended the 2017 tax cuts, cut Medicaid and food aid, and raised the debt limit. The House agreed 218-214, and it was signed into law on July 4, 2025 as Public Law 119-21.
July 3, 2025Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Also on this bill
- May 22, 2025 · Voted to pass H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, at first House passage, 215-214. It extended the 2017 income tax cuts, cut Medicaid and food aid spending, and raised the federal debt limit. The House later accepted the Senate's version 218-214, and it became law on July 4, 2025 (Public Law 119-21). (Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction, Opposes Social Programs and Welfare)
Voted to pass H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, at first House passage, 215-214. It extended the 2017 income tax cuts, cut Medicaid and food aid spending, and raised the federal debt limit. The House later accepted the Senate's version 218-214, and it became law on July 4, 2025 (Public Law 119-21).
May 22, 2025Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Also on this bill
- July 3, 2025 · Voted to accept the Senate's version of H.R. 1, which extended the 2017 tax cuts, cut Medicaid and food aid, and raised the debt limit. The House agreed 218-214, and it was signed into law on July 4, 2025 as Public Law 119-21. (Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction, Opposes Social Programs and Welfare)
Voted against H.R. 7024, a proposal to increase child-tax-credit refunds and add a prior-year earnings option, restore temporary business research and depreciation deductions, provide disaster-related income-tax exclusions and low-income housing credits, authorize a Taiwan tax agreement, and curtail late employee-retention-credit claims while increasing promoter penalties. The House passed it 357–70.
January 31, 2024Opposes Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter opposing a proposed cap on like-kind property exchanges and urging the administration to preserve their capital-gains tax deferral. The letter defended using exchanges to reinvest in farm and small-property operations or transfer them between generations.
August 3, 2021Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H.R.9051 (CASH Act), which proposed raising second-round COVID-19 relief from $600 to $2,000 per person through refundable income-tax credits and payments. It also included adult dependents in both 2020 rebate rounds. The House passed it 275–134.
December 28, 2020Opposes Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for both final House motions on H.R. 133, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 proposal. The package included $600 second-round recovery rebates, $10 billion in additional coronavirus childcare funding, southwest-border barrier funding, and Tibetan religious-freedom, dialogue and environmental provisions. The House agreed to Divisions B, C, E and F 327–85 and to the remaining divisions 359–53.
December 21, 2020Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter requesting restrictions on tax deductions and tax-preferred health accounts used for abortion expenses or abortion-inclusive coverage, with a physical-life-endangerment exception and separate-accounting conditions.
August 12, 2020Opposes Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H. R. 7327, a proposal to expand childcare support through federal essential-worker care and facility-safety funding, larger refundable dependent-care income-tax credits, provider and employer credits, and increased mandatory childcare funding. The House passed it 250–161.
July 29, 2020Opposes Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: clerk.house.gov
Moved and voted for Idaho HCR25, urging the governor to freeze the grocery income-tax credit for 2011 instead of allowing its scheduled increase. The Senate adopted it 29–5. He had previously supported the 2008 credit increases.
March 25, 2011Opposes Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H.563, revising qualified-property capital-gains deductions for assets held through estates, trusts and pass-through entities, using federal holding-period rules while excluding ordinary-corporation holding periods. The Senate passed it 34–0.
March 20, 2008Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H745, creating a nonrefundable income-tax credit of up to $5,000 for unreimbursed live-organ donation expenses. Eligible costs included travel, lodging and lost wages, with unused credits carried forward for five years. The Senate passed it 32–2, and it became law.
March 28, 2006Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H726, adding donations to Project P.A.T.C.H. to eligible state income-tax credits. Individual credits covered half the donation, capped at the lesser of $100 or 20% of income-tax liability. The Senate passed it 26–9, and it became law.
March 28, 2006Opposes Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H444, letting resident military personnel retain full tax deductions and exemptions when eligible military pay was excluded from Idaho taxable income. The Senate passed it 33–0, and it became law.
March 7, 2006Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: legislature.idaho.gov

Foreign Trade · 10 support · 9 oppose

Voted for H.R. 4795, which would cut off federal student aid to colleges that boycott Israel. The House passed it 237-169.
September 3, 2026Supports Foreign Trade
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 2071, the Save Our Shrimpers Act, which blocks U.S. money to international financial institutions for financing foreign shrimp farms. It passed the House 391-18.
May 12, 2026Opposes Foreign Trade
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 7084, a bill letting the President bar ships that called at a port seized by a Western Hemisphere country. It passed the House 247-164.
March 27, 2026Opposes Foreign Trade
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter urging the President to prioritize opening Japan’s market to U.S. fresh potatoes during a visit by Japan’s prime minister. The letter advocated fresh-potato market access beyond existing trade in processed potato products.
March 11, 2026Supports Foreign Trade
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against terminating the national emergency the President declared on February 1, 2025 in Executive Order 14193, the order used to impose tariffs. It passed the House 219-211.
February 11, 2026Opposes Foreign Trade
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 2683, the Remote Access Security Act, which extends U.S. export controls to cover foreign access to controlled technology over a network. It passed the House 369-22.
January 12, 2026Opposes Foreign Trade
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter asking Commerce to restrict imports of Chinese-made inverters and other critical grid components, citing the risk of covert communication devices and remote interference with U.S. energy infrastructure.
November 14, 2025Opposes Foreign Trade
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter to the U.S. Trade Representative, Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department criticizing withdrawal of U.S. support for WTO digital-trade principles and requesting explanations and congressional consultation. It supported cross-border data flows and opposed compelled technology transfers, data localization and source-code disclosure.
January 29, 2024Supports Foreign Trade
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter asking Commerce and BIS to resume issuing firearm, component and ammunition export licenses and explain the pause, its consultation process and possible future restrictions.
November 7, 2023Supports Foreign Trade
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter asking USDA to restore U.S. fresh-potato access to Mexico under the bilateral workplan, reconsider additional site-visit and company limits, and withhold expanded Mexican agricultural access until reciprocal potato access was restored.
March 14, 2022Supports Foreign Trade
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter asking USDA to apply onion grade and inspection requirements consistently to domestic and imported onions, including changes to the seasonal requirements under Marketing Orders 958 and 959.
September 21, 2021Supports Foreign Trade
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter urging White House-led negotiations with Canada to modernize the Columbia River Treaty, regular congressional updates and early justification of federal flood-control funding. It called for rebalancing cross-border power benefits and opposed shifting federal flood-control obligations onto utility ratepayers.
June 29, 2021Supports Foreign Trade
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter urging the U.S. Trade Representative and USDA to enforce China’s Phase One agricultural-purchase and structural commitments through consultations and negotiations.
March 16, 2021Supports Foreign Trade
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted for S. 1678, a proposal to support Taiwan’s diplomatic partnerships and participation in international organizations, require reports on those efforts, and encourage stronger bilateral trade relations. The House passed it 415–0.
March 4, 2020Supports Foreign Trade
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for H. R. 5430, a proposal to implement the United States–Mexico–Canada trade agreement, including labor and environmental monitoring and enforcement, customs rules, and funding for border facilities and inspection technology. The House passed it 385–41.
December 19, 2019Supports Foreign Trade
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H. R. 4863, a proposal to renew the Export-Import Bank through 2029, increase its loan and guarantee authority, expand outreach to disadvantaged export businesses, and strengthen environmental reviews and support for renewable-energy exports. The House passed it 235–184.
November 15, 2019Opposes Foreign Trade
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter urging tariffs or duties on Russian ammunition imports to support U.S. ammunition manufacturers. It included an import-data appendix and did not announce an imposed tariff.
September 10, 2019Opposes Foreign Trade
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against Idaho HJM13, supporting the U.S.–Canada Beyond the Border and regulatory-cooperation plans. The memorial advocated coordinated security and reduced trade barriers while retaining health, safety and environmental standards. The Senate adopted it 29–6.
March 23, 2012Opposes Foreign Trade
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1150, barring most state-service contracts fulfilled outside the United States. Exceptions covered university programmes, unique services and state financial hardship. The Senate passed it 34–0; the House did not pass it.
March 29, 2005Opposes Foreign Trade
Source: legislature.idaho.gov

Data Privacy · 29 support · 10 oppose

Voted for H.R. 8278 in the 119th Congress, a proposal to require financial regulators to assess supervisory technology, data-security and procurement obstacles and report jointly on modernization and information-sharing needs. The House passed the bill 417–7.
September 15, 2026Supports Data Privacy
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 1181, the Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act, barring payment card networks from using a merchant code that singles out gun retailers. It passed the House 221-201.
July 14, 2026Supports Data Privacy
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Voted against extending until July 2, 2026 the foreign intelligence surveillance authorities in Title VII of FISA, covering surveillance of targets outside the United States. It failed the House 198-218, short of the two-thirds majority needed.
June 11, 2026Supports Data Privacy
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Voted against passing S. 4465, which extends the FISA Title VII foreign surveillance authorities until June 12, 2026. It passed the House 261-111.
April 30, 2026Supports Data Privacy
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Voted to pass H.R. 1919, which would bar the Federal Reserve from issuing a digital dollar or holding accounts for individuals. It would also block the Fed from testing or studying one without Congress's approval. The House passed it 219-210; the Senate has not acted, so it is not law.
July 17, 2025Supports Data Privacy
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Voted to pass S. 146, the TAKE IT DOWN Act, which makes posting nonconsensual intimate images, including deepfakes, a crime and orders 48-hour takedowns. The House passed it 409-2, and it became law on May 19, 2025.
April 28, 2025Supports Data Privacy
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Voted to pass H.J.Res. 25, canceling the IRS rule that made crypto trading services without a central operator report users' sale proceeds. The House passed it 292-132, and it became law.
March 11, 2025Supports Data Privacy
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 5403, the CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act, a bill to bar the Federal Reserve from issuing a digital dollar or individual accounts. The House passed it 216-192, but the Senate never took it up, so the bill died.
May 23, 2024Supports Data Privacy
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H. R. 4755, a proposal to support federal research on technologies that limit collection, sharing and misuse of personal data, including unwanted location tracking, and coordinate voluntary privacy standards. The House passed it 354–36.
April 29, 2024Opposes Data Privacy
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 4639, the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, 219-199 in the House. It would bar police and intelligence agencies from buying Americans' personal records from data brokers instead of getting a warrant. The Senate never voted on it, and it died when that Congress ended.
April 17, 2024Supports Data Privacy
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter asking Transportation to explain privacy, constitutional, disability and safety safeguards for the Infrastructure Act’s impaired-driving monitoring mandate, including access to vehicle data and possible false determinations.
November 17, 2023Supports Data Privacy
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Delivered hearing remarks criticizing TikTok’s collection of personal data and the potential sale or selective use of that data through AI algorithms. He opposed access to that capability in China, called for that conduct to stop and criticized its lack of accountability.
March 23, 2023Supports Data Privacy
Source: govinfo.gov
Signed a delegation letter to the VA Secretary seeking answers about electronic health-record failures before the Boise rollout. It raised delays in care, missing lab orders and suicide alerts, asked about staff training and permanent software fixes, and sought measures to prevent unauthorized access to veterans’ medical records.
April 27, 2022Supports Data Privacy
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 550 in the 117th Congress, a proposal to modernize confidential immunization-information databases through data standards, secure exchange and governmental grants, with a proposed $400 million authorization. The House passed the bill 294–130.
November 30, 2021Opposes Data Privacy
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter opposing proposed IRS reporting of aggregate bank-account inflows and outflows, including revised reporting thresholds, on financial-privacy grounds.
October 21, 2021Supports Data Privacy
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Published a signed letter questioning a proposed federal COVID-19 vaccine-passport system, including access to health records, data storage, privacy safeguards and possible travel restrictions.
April 7, 2021Supports Data Privacy
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H. R. 485, a proposal to expand child-abuse prevention and family-strengthening grants with proposed federal funding, prioritize low-income communities, and establish interstate registry exchange with child-safety-only use, privacy-law compliance and procedural due-process assurances. The House passed it 345–73.
March 16, 2021Opposes Data Privacy
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter asking the Forest Service to protect privacy in trail-camera enforcement, post clear notice of route restrictions and favor warnings for unintentional violations before penalties.
August 3, 2020Supports Data Privacy
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter questioning Twitter about its July 2020 security breach, employee access to accounts and reported internal blacklists, requesting information about privacy and platform controls.
July 20, 2020Supports Data Privacy
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted for the final Idaho S1134, restricting targeted drone surveillance without a warrant or consent, with emergency, rescue, and drug-investigation exceptions. It protected recording privacy through civil damages and excluded mapping and resource-management aircraft. The Senate passed it 30–4, and it became law.
April 3, 2013Supports Data Privacy
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H248, creating a voluntary state health-insurance marketplace to help individuals and small employers compare and purchase coverage. It required public meetings, independent audits and personal-data security, and barred state financial support. The Senate passed it 23–12, and it became law.
March 21, 2013Opposes Data Privacy
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H211, authorizing the medical licensing board to share clinicians’ identifying information with the Labor Department to identify workforce shortages. The information remained confidential. The Senate passed it 25–10, and it became law.
March 12, 2013Supports Data Privacy
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H230, criminalizing knowingly using another person’s Social Security number to obtain public benefits. It made the first two offenses misdemeanors and subsequent offenses felonies. The Senate passed it 30–4, and it became law.
April 7, 2011Supports Data Privacy
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1067, extending mandatory DNA and thumbprint collection from specified crimes to all felony convictions and felony attempts. The law included qualifying people already incarcerated or under supervision and allowed existing cost-recovery restitution. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 14, 2011Opposes Data Privacy
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1057, requiring HIV testing of certain sexual-offense defendants within 48 hours of an information or indictment when victims requested it. It preserved victim access to results and existing counseling provisions. The Senate passed it 34–0, and it became law.
February 18, 2011Opposes Data Privacy
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for S. 1335, changing the childhood immunization registry to default inclusion with written opt-out and removal rights, parental notification, confidentiality limits and protection against using refusal decisions in legal or administrative actions. The Senate passed it 34–0.
March 29, 2010Opposes Data Privacy
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H.566, extending personal-data breach investigation and resident notification duties to city, county and state agencies, with 24-hour attorney-general notification and existing law-enforcement delay safeguards. The Senate passed it 34–0.
March 25, 2010Supports Data Privacy
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H. 531, protecting hunter-license personal information from public disclosure while revising trapping rules with constitutional and access safeguards. The Senate passed it 30–3.
March 24, 2010Supports Data Privacy
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H.554, removing birth details and relatives’ identifying information from published name-change hearing notices while retaining notice of the name-change proceeding. The Senate passed it 34–0.
March 24, 2010Supports Data Privacy
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H.60, allowing prosecutor-issued administrative subpoenas for subscriber, connection and payment records in specified child-related criminal investigations, excluding communication contents and browsed locations and retaining provider court challenges. The Senate passed it 33–0.
March 18, 2009Opposes Data Privacy
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H.501, creating substitute mailing addresses and confidential files for qualifying victims of violence, with agency necessity, law-enforcement and court-order exceptions. The Senate passed it 33–0.
March 14, 2008Supports Data Privacy
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for S. 1380, creating consumer credit-security freeze rights and restrictions on public communication of Social Security numbers, with identity-theft fee waivers and specified creditor, government and court exceptions. The Senate passed it 33–0.
February 25, 2008Supports Data Privacy
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H. 158, authorizing patient prescription disclosures to law enforcement under a search warrant, subpoena or court order while retaining confidentiality restrictions on other disclosures. The Senate passed it 34–0.
March 13, 2007Opposes Data Privacy
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H570, protecting classified or merit-system job applicants’ names from public disclosure without written consent. The bill kept names of five finalists for other positions public and excluded appointments to elected positions from its applicant definition. It passed the Senate 30–0 and became law.
March 31, 2006Supports Data Privacy
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H738, creating a health-quality planning commission and provider grants for health-information technology, subject to appropriations. It required public planning, patient-safety recommendations and privacy safeguards. The Senate passed it 34–0, and it became law.
March 21, 2006Supports Data Privacy
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1423, restricting employers’ use of private genetic information and genetic testing in employment decisions. The bill also barred genetic discrimination in disability insurance and health plans, with limited court-ordered disclosure exceptions. The Senate passed it 34–0, and it became law.
March 20, 2006Supports Data Privacy
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H430, requiring mental-health records to be shared between providers caring for detainees, prisoners and other covered offenders. The bill removed the need for their consent or a court order, with an exception for substance-abuse treatment records. It passed the Senate 34–0 and became law.
March 9, 2006Opposes Data Privacy
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H708, creating a voluntary online registry for living wills, health-care powers of attorney and revocations. File-number and password controls limited access, and registry information was excluded from public-record disclosure. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 8, 2006Supports Data Privacy
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H577, requiring repayment of unemployment benefits obtained through deliberate false statements and protecting confidential informants’ identities. It also expanded final-debt refund offsets between tax and labor agencies. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 2, 2006Supports Data Privacy
Source: legislature.idaho.gov

Civil Rights · 18 support · 26 oppose

Voted to pass H.R. 2616, the PROTECT Kids Act, requiring parental consent before federally funded elementary and middle schools change a student's gender on forms. It passed the House 217-198.
May 20, 2026Opposes Civil Rights
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Voted to pass S. 1383 as rewritten by the House into the SAVE America Act, requiring citizenship proof to register and photo ID to vote. It passed the House 218-213.
February 11, 2026Opposes Civil Rights
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Voted yes on H.R. 498, the Do No Harm in Medicaid Act. It would bar federal Medicaid money from paying for gender transition procedures for anyone under 18. The House passed it 215-201, and the bill went to a Senate committee and has not become law.
December 18, 2025Opposes Civil Rights
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Voted yes on H.R. 3492, the Protect Children's Innocence Act. It would make it a federal crime to give gender-transition surgery or hormones to anyone under 18. The House passed it 216-211, and the bill went to a Senate committee and has not become law.
December 17, 2025Opposes Civil Rights
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Joined a Supreme Court brief supporting Idaho and West Virginia laws restricting girls’ school sports teams by sex at birth. It argued that Title IX’s protections did not extend to gender identity.
September 19, 2025Opposes Civil Rights
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Signed a letter urging diplomatic coordination for humanitarian corridors between Hader and Suwayda in Syria, delivery of emergency supplies and protection of Druze and Christian minorities facing violence.
September 12, 2025Supports Civil Rights
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 22, the SAVE Act, requiring paper proof of U.S. citizenship, such as a passport, to register to vote. The House passed it 220-208, but the Senate has not taken it up.
April 10, 2025Opposes Civil Rights
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 28, a bill to bar federally funded schools from letting anyone male at birth play on girls' or women's teams. The House passed it 218-206, but the Senate has not passed it.
January 14, 2025Opposes Civil Rights
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H. R. 3012, a proposal to renew North-Korean human-rights, information-access and refugee-assistance programs through 2028 and support protection of refugees from forced repatriation and religious persecution. The House passed it 335–37.
November 20, 2024Opposes Civil Rights
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted yes on H.J. Res. 165, a resolution to wipe out the 2024 Title IX rule that extended sex discrimination protections to gender identity and sexual orientation. The House passed it 210-205, but the Senate never voted, so Congress did not repeal the rule.
July 11, 2024Opposes Civil Rights
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Voted to pass H.R. 734, which would bar schools getting federal money from letting anyone male at birth join a women's or girls' team. It counted that as a violation of Title IX, the federal school sex-discrimination law. The House passed it 219-203, but the Senate never acted and the bill died.
April 20, 2023Opposes Civil Rights
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Voted against sending H.R. 8404, the Respect for Marriage Act, to the President: it made states recognize valid same-sex and interracial marriages. The House passed it 258-169, and it became law.
December 8, 2022Opposes Civil Rights
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Signed a letter requesting DOJ investigation of attacks on religious organizations and crisis pregnancy centers, asking how it would prevent violence that chilled religious exercise and speech.
June 15, 2022Supports Civil Rights
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 2116, the CROWN Act, barring discrimination based on hair texture or hairstyles associated with race in jobs, housing and education. The House passed it 235-189.
March 18, 2022Opposes Civil Rights
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act, a bill to expand early and mail voting and restore the Voting Rights Act. The House sent it to the Senate 220-203. The Senate never passed it.
January 13, 2022Opposes Civil Rights
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H. R. 5665, a proposal to establish a State Department office to monitor and combat anti-Muslim violence and religious discrimination abroad and report on those abuses. The House passed it 219–212.
December 14, 2021Opposes Civil Rights
Source: clerk.house.gov
As ranking member of the Civil Rights and Human Services subcommittee, signed a letter asking the Education Department to retain Civil Rights Data Collection reporting on school-staff sexual-assault allegations and outcomes.
December 3, 2021Supports Civil Rights
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 3992 in the 117th Congress, a proposal to extend the Age Discrimination in Employment Act’s ban on limiting, segregating or classifying employees by age to job applicants. The House passed the bill 224–200.
November 4, 2021Opposes Civil Rights
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 4, the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, restoring federal approval of voting changes in places with a record of discrimination. The House passed it 219-212.
August 24, 2021Opposes Civil Rights
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter urging democratic governments to end diplomatic and financial support for Cuba’s government, release political prisoners, support democratic opposition and independent media, and restore uncensored communications.
July 21, 2021Supports Civil Rights
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H. R. 51, a proposal to admit most of the District of Columbia as the State of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth, with two Senators and a voting Representative, while retaining a smaller federal capital and absentee voting rights for its eligible residents. The House passed it 216–208.
April 22, 2021Opposes Civil Rights
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Voted against H.R. 7, the Paycheck Fairness Act, narrowing employers' defenses for paying men and women differently and protecting workers who discuss pay. The House passed it 217-210.
April 15, 2021Opposes Civil Rights
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 5, which added sexual orientation and gender identity to the categories protected from discrimination in jobs, housing, credit, education and public accommodations. The House passed it 224-206.
February 25, 2021Opposes Civil Rights
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to sustain objections to counting Arizona’s and Pennsylvania’s electoral votes in the 2020 presidential election. The House rejected the Arizona objection 121–303 on January 6 and the Pennsylvania objection 138–282 after midnight on January 7.
January 7, 2021Opposes Civil Rights
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Voted for both final House motions on H.R. 133, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 proposal. The package included $600 second-round recovery rebates, $10 billion in additional coronavirus childcare funding, southwest-border barrier funding, and Tibetan religious-freedom, dialogue and environmental provisions. The House agreed to Divisions B, C, E and F 327–85 and to the remaining divisions 359–53.
December 21, 2020Supports Civil Rights
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 4447, the Clean Economy Jobs and Innovation Act proposal. Its environmental-justice provisions added cumulative-impact review and federal civil-rights enforcement, including private lawsuits over racial discrimination. Its specified federally assisted projects also faced prevailing-wage, union-neutrality and worker-compliance requirements with stated exceptions. The House passed it 220–185.
September 24, 2020Opposes Civil Rights
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter urging HHS to prevent disability discrimination in COVID-19 treatment decisions and care rationing, including decisions based on perceived quality of life or resource needs.
March 25, 2020Supports Civil Rights
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Joined a Supreme Court brief supporting religious exemptions from insurance requirements to cover contraception. It argued that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act protected objecting religious employers.
March 9, 2020Supports Civil Rights
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted for H.R. 1044 in the 116th Congress, a proposal to eliminate employment-based immigrant per-country caps and raise the family-sponsored per-country limit from 7% to 15%, with transition protections for employment-based visas. The House passed the bill 365–65.
July 10, 2019Supports Civil Rights
Source: clerk.house.gov
Joined a court brief supporting the 2019 Title X rule requiring physical and financial separation between federally funded family-planning programs and abortion services. It also opposed compulsory abortion counseling and referrals for providers with religious or conscience objections.
April 15, 2019Supports Civil Rights
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H.Res. 124 in the 116th Congress, a resolution to oppose the ban on openly transgender military service and endorse continued service by qualified transgender Americans. The House agreed to the resolution 238–185.
March 28, 2019Opposes Civil Rights
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for H.R. 135 in the 116th Congress, a proposal to require independent federal-agency equal-employment programmes, public notices and disciplinary referrals following discrimination findings, and protection of employee disclosures about official abuse and waste. The House passed the bill 424–0.
January 15, 2019Supports Civil Rights
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for Idaho SJR103’s amended constitutional proposal removing male-only and upper-age limits for the unorganized militia. The Senate adopted it 34–1 after reconsideration. The House rejected the proposal 33–37.
March 11, 2014Supports Civil Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1078, preserving religious student groups’ access to public-college recognition, facilities, communications, and available funding when their leaders followed religious standards. The Senate passed it 30–5, and it became law.
March 7, 2013Supports Civil Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho S1041, allowing noncompetitive state appointments for qualified veterans with service-connected disabilities of at least 30%. The proposal also removed the requirement to interview other applicants for those appointments. It failed in the Senate, 10–24.
March 5, 2013Opposes Civil Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H187’s patient-directive safeguard within the provider-conscience law he supported in 2010. That law protected refusals involving abortion, specified contraception and end-of-life care, with emergency and nondiscrimination limits. H187 required objecting physicians to make good-faith efforts to help directive-bearing patients find willing providers before withdrawing care. It passed 21–13 and became law.
March 29, 2011Supports Civil Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H. 624, allowing students to request release for religious instruction up to five hours weekly or 165 hours annually, with parental or adult-student consent and restrictions on public resources. The Senate passed it 34–0.
March 25, 2010Supports Civil Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for S.1074, replacing the deaf-and-blind school framework with a statewide education bureau, regional services and a new continuously appropriated state-treasury trust receiving appropriations and other funds. The Senate passed it 33–0; no increased General Fund amount was specified.
March 18, 2009Supports Civil Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for S. 1172, making English Idaho’s official government language and returning funds for non-exempt translation services to the General Fund, with constitutional, federal-law, public-health, safety, education and other exceptions. The Senate passed it 20–15.
March 7, 2007Opposes Civil Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1423, restricting employers’ use of private genetic information and genetic testing in employment decisions. The bill also barred genetic discrimination in disability insurance and health plans, with limited court-ordered disclosure exceptions. The Senate passed it 34–0, and it became law.
March 20, 2006Supports Civil Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H671, removing absence or disability requirements for absentee voting in school elections. It also expanded designated election watchers and allowed shifts. The Senate passed the amended bill 35–0, and it became law.
March 14, 2006Supports Civil Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H615, requiring state employee and family insurance to cover serious mental illnesses equitably with major physical illnesses. The bill included clinical care and specified conditions. It passed the Senate 26–9 and became law.
March 10, 2006Opposes Civil Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1316, setting qualifications and continuing-training standards for public-school interpreters serving deaf, hard-of-hearing and deaf-blind students. The bill included transition and emergency-authorisation provisions. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
February 21, 2006Supports Civil Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho HJR2, proposing a constitutional amendment recognizing only marriage between a man and a woman as a valid domestic legal union. The Senate adopted the proposal 26–9 for submission to voters.
February 15, 2006Opposes Civil Rights
Source: legislature.idaho.gov

Corporate Accountability · 38 support · 38 oppose

Voted to pass H.R. 9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act. It would require state regulators to consider making big data centers pay the full cost of grid upgrades built for them. It passed the House 417-3.
September 16, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 6955, the Main Street Act, which loosens banking rules on new bank formation, federal supervision, mergers, and capital and leverage requirements. It passed the House 270-155.
July 21, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability
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Voted to pass H.R. 2478, the Financial Exploitation Prevention Act, letting investment companies delay cashing out an account of a possibly exploited older investor. It passed the House 414-2.
June 25, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
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Voted to pass H.R. 2988, which requires managers of workplace retirement plans to make investment choices on financial factors alone. It passed the House 213-205.
January 15, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to send S.J.Res. 13 to the President, 220-207 in the House. It cancelled the bank regulator's 2024 rule that had ended fast automatic approvals and short application forms in bank merger reviews, restoring those quicker reviews. It became Public Law 119-19 on June 20, 2025.
May 20, 2025Opposes Corporate Accountability
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Voted against H.R. 1442 in the 119th Congress, a proposal to ban consumer products containing at least 10% sodium nitrite by weight, with exceptions for industrial uses, foods, drugs, devices and cosmetics. The House passed the bill 378–42.
April 29, 2025Opposes Corporate Accountability
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Voted against H.R. 973 in the 119th Congress, a proposal to make specified lithium-ion battery and e-bike electrical-system safety standards mandatory for covered consumer products, including a controlled process for later safety revisions. The House passed the bill 365–42.
April 28, 2025Opposes Corporate Accountability
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Voted to pass S.J.Res. 18, sending it to the President to repeal the consumer bureau rule limiting overdraft fees at very large banks to $5. The House passed it 217-211, and it became Public Law 119-10 on May 9, 2025.
April 9, 2025Opposes Corporate Accountability
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Voted to pass S.J.Res. 28, 219-211, sending it to the President to repeal the rule that put the largest digital payment apps under federal supervision. It was signed on May 9, 2025 as Public Law 119-11.
April 9, 2025Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 4143 in the 118th Congress, a proposal to expand NIST’s construction-failure investigation authority beyond buildings to other structures, deferring to other federal agencies with proper investigative authority. The House passed the bill 358–41.
May 8, 2024Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.J.Res. 109, which would cancel SEC guidance requiring firms holding customers' crypto to record those assets on their own books. The House passed it 228-182 and the Senate agreed, but the President vetoed it. The House override attempt failed on July 11, 2024, so the guidance stayed in force.
May 8, 2024Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for H.R. 2799, the Expanding Access to Capital Act, a bill to loosen securities rules for smaller companies and widen access to private offerings. The House passed it 212-205, but the Senate never took it up, so it did not become law.
March 8, 2024Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.J.Res. 98 by 206-177, a resolution cancelling a labor board rule that eased treating franchise chains and owners as joint employers. The Senate agreed, but the president vetoed it on May 3, 2024, and the House override failed.
January 12, 2024Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to send S.J.Res. 32 to the President to cancel the consumer bureau rule making lenders report small-business loan data, including loans to minority-owned firms. The House passed it 221-202, but the President vetoed it and the Senate override failed, so the rule stayed.
December 1, 2023Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: clerk.house.gov
Delivered hearing remarks criticizing TikTok’s collection of personal data and the potential sale or selective use of that data through AI algorithms. He opposed access to that capability in China, called for that conduct to stop and criticized its lack of accountability.
March 23, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: govinfo.gov
Voted against H. R. 7780, a proposal to fund expanded school-based mental-health providers in high-need and low-income schools through proposed federal grant appropriations, enforce insurance mental-health parity, restrict mandatory arbitration and benefit-review clauses in employer-sponsored plans, and research workplace mental-health hazards. The House passed it 220–205.
September 29, 2022Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for H.R. 3843, a bill to raise merger filing fees on the largest deals to fund anti-monopoly enforcement and require disclosure of foreign subsidies. The House passed it 242-184.
September 29, 2022Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter asking SEC to rescind its proposed climate-related public-company disclosure rule and retain a materiality-based approach. An earlier letter raised related small-farm privacy and Scope 3 reporting concerns.
June 15, 2022Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 7688, a bill to ban selling fuel at grossly unfair prices during a declared energy emergency. The House passed it 217-207.
May 19, 2022Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a joint Idaho letter asking S&P to withdraw its public-finance ESG indicators and use transparent, objective financial criteria with state participation in methodology changes.
May 18, 2022Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 7790 in the 117th Congress, a proposal to add $28 million in emergency FDA appropriations to address infant-formula shortages and prevent fraudulent formula products. The House passed the bill 231–192.
May 18, 2022Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 963, the FAIR Act, which let people reject forced private arbitration in employment, consumer, competition law, and civil rights disputes. The House passed it 222-209.
March 17, 2022Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter asking USDA to apply onion grade and inspection requirements consistently to domestic and imported onions, including changes to the seasonal requirements under Marketing Orders 958 and 959.
September 21, 2021Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter opposing mandatory reciprocal switching for freight railroads under the competition executive order, raising concerns about forced network access and private railroad investment.
July 30, 2021Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 2668, a bill restoring the Federal Trade Commission's power to seek court-ordered refunds from companies engaged in fraud or false advertising. The House passed it 221-205.
July 20, 2021Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 1187, a bill to make public companies disclose climate risk, political spending, executive pay, and other environmental, social, and governance measures. The House passed it 215-214.
June 16, 2021Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 2547, the Comprehensive Debt Collection Improvement Act, which restricted debt collection practices and extended student loan protections to private loans. The House passed it 215-207.
May 13, 2021Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against the House amendment to H.R.925, the updated HEROES emergency-relief proposal, including broad emergency federal funding. Its provisions included workplace infectious-disease standards with protective-equipment and anti-retaliation duties, and temporary limits on consumer-debt repossession, garnishment, eviction and utility shutoffs, with repayment and arbitration protections. The House approved the amendment 214–207.
October 1, 2020Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 4447, the Clean Economy Jobs and Innovation Act proposal. Its environmental-justice provisions added cumulative-impact review and federal civil-rights enforcement, including private lawsuits over racial discrimination. Its specified federally assisted projects also faced prevailing-wage, union-neutrality and worker-compliance requirements with stated exceptions. The House passed it 220–185.
September 24, 2020Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter questioning Twitter about its July 2020 security breach, employee access to accounts and reported internal blacklists, requesting information about privacy and platform controls.
July 20, 2020Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter asking SBA to address private lenders’ rejection of otherwise eligible Paycheck Protection Program applicants solely because of their industry, and to clarify lender obligations.
May 26, 2020Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 2339, restricting flavored tobacco and remote retail sales, expanding FDA regulation and tobacco fees, and strengthening enforcement of youth-advertising rules. It protected individual consumers from flavor-ban criminal penalties and police searches, while temporarily exempting qualifying premium cigars from premarket review. The bill funded tobacco prevention and cessation, taxed vaping nicotine with medical-product exceptions, waived certain Medicare colorectal-screening copays and allowed inhalers before high-deductible plan deductibles. The House passed it 213–195.
February 28, 2020Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R.3, a package of federal drug-price negotiation, a $2,000 annual cap on Medicare prescription-drug costs, new Medicare dental, hearing and vision benefits, and broader drug subsidies for low-income beneficiaries. Its pricing rules also covered participating private insurance plans. The House passed it 230–192.
December 12, 2019Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for H.R. 2534 in the 116th Congress, a proposal to prohibit securities trading and tips based on wrongfully obtained material nonpublic information, with a knowledge or reckless-disregard standard and specified defenses. The House passed the bill 410–13.
December 5, 2019Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for S. 151, a proposal to strengthen civil enforcement against illegal robocalls and require telephone providers to authenticate calls without extra line-item charges; the proposal included hardship delays and a safe harbor for inadvertent call blocking. The House passed it 417–3.
December 4, 2019Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H. R. 1500, a proposal to strengthen CFPB consumer and fair-lending enforcement, restore restrictions on forced arbitration, require public anonymized complaint information and free annual credit scores, and prohibit rules allowing unlimited debt-collection emails or texts. The House passed it 231–191.
May 22, 2019Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H. R. 987, a proposal to limit drug-company pay-for-delay agreements with specified exceptions, fund state health-insurance exchange establishment and enrollment outreach, and block the 2018 expansion of short-term insurance lacking ACA coverage safeguards. The House passed it 234–183.
May 16, 2019Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 1644 in the 116th Congress, a proposal to restore the FCC’s 2015 open-internet order and regulations, with a one-year exemption from enhanced transparency duties for broadband providers with no more than 100,000 subscribers. The House passed the bill 232–190.
April 10, 2019Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter urging FDA to enforce dairy-product labeling standards and reject standardized dairy terms on plant-based substitutes, including names prefixed with plant descriptors. The letter supported clearer product labeling for consumers.
January 30, 2019Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Submitted written testimony to Kuna’s Planning and Zoning Commission on a proposed solar facility, asking that the developer provide demolition and removal funds upfront.
August 11, 2015Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: kunacity.id.gov
Voted for Idaho H518, revising scrap-metal recordkeeping, reducing stolen-property holding periods and limiting repeat-offence felonies for dealers. It permitted transaction images instead of separately photographed components and retained law-enforcement reporting. He opposed the 2013 law it amended. H518 passed the Senate 35–0 and became law.
March 18, 2014Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H358, extending risk-based-capital reporting and regulatory-control requirements to fraternal insurers and health-service corporations. The bill broadened early-warning triggers while protecting confidential solvency documents. The Senate passed it 25–10, and it became law.
March 17, 2014Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho S1314, limiting payday loans to 25% of monthly income and repeated electronic check-presentment attempts. It gave borrowers one extended payment plan per 12 months upon timely request, without additional fees, and required disclosures. The Senate passed it 21–13, and it became law.
March 10, 2014Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho S1225, proposing that dental licensees report any felony or misdemeanor conviction to their licensing board within 30 days. The Senate rejected it 1–33, with one absent.
February 11, 2014Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho’s H206/H221 charter-school reform package, adding school-facility payments and authorizer fees alongside performance contracts and periodic renewals. Qualified public and private colleges received authorizing powers. The bills also established fiscal monitoring, closure procedures and public reports. Both passed the Senate with his recorded support and became law.
March 28, 2013Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H197’s insurance-group oversight overhaul, including annual enterprise-risk reports, internal-control certifications and examination of affiliated-company risks. It authorized cooperation among regulators while protecting confidential records. The Senate passed it 28–7, and it became law.
March 26, 2013Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H10, expanding mortgage-license background checks, reporting and enforcement against unlicensed activity. The bill also added application and reinstatement procedures, government-housing exemptions and protections against denial based solely on credit scores. The Senate passed it 26–8, and it became law.
March 5, 2013Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H8, requiring licenses for consumer-loan solicitation and extending payday and title-loan protections to unlicensed lenders. It also revised license expiration and reinstatement procedures and exempted government agencies. The Senate passed it 27–6, and it became law.
March 1, 2013Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H649, establishing vendor licensing and consumer disclosures for portable-electronics insurance. It required cancellation notices, unearned-premium refunds and responsibility for employees’ violations, while exempting supervised employees from individual licenses. The Senate passed it 26–8, and it became law.
March 27, 2012Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H624, barring foreclosure trustees from owning an interest in the newspaper publishing required sale notices or profiting from those notices. Violations became misdemeanors. The Senate passed it 28–6, and it became law.
March 27, 2012Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H536, barring licensed racing-signal providers from excessive fees, bundled-signal pressure and other anticompetitive practices. It added license revocation and civil penalties of up to $10,000 per occurrence. The Senate passed it 33–0, and it became law.
March 22, 2012Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho S1295, creating state licensing, training and examination requirements for massage therapists, with grandfathering and other exemptions. A new board received disciplinary authority; licensing costs came from fees rather than the General Fund. The Senate passed it 28–6, and it became law.
March 14, 2012Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H331, requiring foreclosure warnings and an opportunity to request loan modifications for qualifying primary residences. Lenders received a 45-day response deadline before sale, and unlicensed modification fees were prohibited. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
April 6, 2011Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H299, completing an expansion of independent review of health-insurance claim denials. His earlier H131 vote supported broader review grounds, urgent appeals and removal of patients’ filing fees. H299 added voluntary participation by single-employer self-funded plans, with administrator fees permitted. Both bills became law.
April 4, 2011Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H162’s proposal to extend civil-liability immunity to health organizations’ receipt and use of peer-review information and credentialing decisions. Challenges to an individual’s own credentials remained permitted, with peer-review confidentiality retained. The Senate rejected it 14–21.
March 30, 2011Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H.581, protecting existing compliant mobile homes from later park rules restricting their type or size. The Senate passed it 22–12.
March 25, 2010Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for final amended H.534, requiring prescriber and patient notification when epilepsy or seizure drug products were substituted, without delaying a valid prescription. The Senate passed it 28–6.
March 24, 2010Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H.508, restricting medical providers’ balance billing for services covered by crime-victim compensation payments, with a limited unpaid-balance exception when the commission underpaid. The Senate passed it 34–0.
March 18, 2010Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H. 306, requiring registration and Idaho regulatory oversight for out-of-state telepharmacy services, with good-standing, inspection and disciplinary safeguards. The Senate passed it 35–0.
April 17, 2009Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for amended H.146, requiring transparent private assisted-living billing and 30-day notice of billing-policy changes while allowing charges agreed in service or admission contracts. The Senate passed it 32–2.
April 13, 2009Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for S.1151, making unlicensed payday loans unenforceable, providing borrower recovery of principal and fees and authorizing cease-and-desist enforcement, with regulated-institution exceptions. The Senate passed it 35–0.
March 26, 2009Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H.680, creating public community-infrastructure districts with infrastructure borrowing powers, public records and budgets, purchaser debt disclosures, resident and owner voting, debt caps and specified election safeguards. The Senate passed it 29–4.
April 1, 2008Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H. 451, requiring credit-repair licensing, banning advance fees and deceptive practices, and regulating debt-settlement fees, refunds and client funds. The Senate passed it 35–0.
March 26, 2008Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H.411, extending annuity suitability and information duties to consumers beyond the earlier senior-only scope, with specified transaction exceptions. The Senate passed it 33–0.
March 14, 2008Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for final amended H.517, enhancing consumer remedies for knowing deceptive conduct against elderly or disabled consumers causing specified serious losses, with restitution paid before enhanced penalties. The Senate passed it 35–0.
March 13, 2008Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for S. 1398, requiring reduced-ignition-propensity cigarette testing and certification, with compliance enforcement, existing-inventory exceptions and equivalent-test provisions. The Senate passed it 34–1.
March 4, 2008Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for S. 1431, creating a five-day cancellation right for qualifying residential-property transactions during foreclosure and barring payment or transfer during that period, with lender and family exceptions. The Senate passed it 34–0.
February 26, 2008Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for S. 1380, creating consumer credit-security freeze rights and restrictions on public communication of Social Security numbers, with identity-theft fee waivers and specified creditor, government and court exceptions. The Senate passed it 33–0.
February 25, 2008Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H. 223, requiring automated telephone messages to identify the beneficiary, purpose and contact information at the outset. The Senate passed it 26–7.
March 20, 2007Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H. 166, creating an attorney-general Medicaid fraud-control unit and criminalizing knowing obstruction of its records inquiries, with consent or court-order safeguards for non-Medicaid patient records. The Senate passed it 32–0.
March 19, 2007Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H.33, establishing federal-consistent underground-storage-tank inspections, containment and delivery restrictions near drinking-water sources, with public compliance information and free operator training. The Senate passed it 29–6.
February 16, 2007Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H825, creating separate oversight of joint public-agency health plans, including previously exempt county-only pools. It required actuarial reserves, stop-loss coverage and public financial reports, barred trust-fund political contributions and conflicts of interest, and required specified newborn, pregnancy-complication and mammography coverage. It assigned examination costs to the state Insurance Department and set maximum fraud penalties of $15,000 and 15 years in prison. The Senate passed it 34–0, with one absent.
April 3, 2006Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H822, strengthening oversight of self-funded employer health plans subject to Idaho regulation. It required additional actuarial, stop-loss, surplus and financial-reporting safeguards, licensed administrators and warnings that participating plans lacked insurance-guaranty protection. It replaced ordinary willful violations with administrative penalties while increasing the maximum penalties for knowing false statements and fraud to $15,000 and 15 years in prison. The Senate passed it 33–0, with two absent.
March 31, 2006Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1423, restricting employers’ use of private genetic information and genetic testing in employment decisions. The bill also barred genetic discrimination in disability insurance and health plans, with limited court-ordered disclosure exceptions. The Senate passed it 34–0, and it became law.
March 20, 2006Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H649, prohibiting providers from billing injured workers above allowable workers’ compensation medical charges. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 16, 2006Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H272’s Senate rewrite, requiring drug wholesalers to report pseudoephedrine sales monthly. It imposed escalating administrative fines. The Senate passed it 26–7, but the House rejected the amendments.
March 29, 2005Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legislature.idaho.gov

Public Infrastructure · 40 support · 6 oppose

Voted to pass H.R. 9497, the Water Resources Development Act of 2026. It would authorize Army Corps of Engineers projects for ports, waterways, flood protection and ecosystem restoration nationwide. It passed the House 415-9.
September 16, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass S. 1020, which lets federal energy regulators extend construction deadlines for hydropower projects licensed before March 2020. It passed the House 394-14.
April 21, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 5201, the Kari's Law Reporting Act, making the FCC report on enforcing the rule that office phones allow direct 911 calls. It passed the House 405-5.
April 21, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 5200, the Emergency Reporting Act, which makes the FCC investigate and report on 911 and other emergency communications outages. It passed the House 386-7.
April 20, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 1681, which sets up an interagency team to speed federal review of requests to run communications lines across federal land. It passed the House 384-9.
April 20, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter requesting transfer of full management of withdrawn Idaho National Laboratory lands from Interior and the Bureau of Land Management to Energy, removal of outdated land-order limits and department contacts to coordinate the transfer. It supported simpler administration for research facilities, transmission lines and power rights-of-way while preserving grazing arrangements, county PILT funds and tribal engagement.
April 10, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Questioned FCC commissioners about rural carriers’ access to spectrum auctions and backup systems for GPS. He advocated an environmental-review exemption for broadband deployment on previously disturbed federal land, criticizing redundant reviews.
January 14, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: congress.gov
Voted against the veto override for H.R. 504, which proposed to expand the Miccosukee Reserved Area to Osceola Camp and require federal action to protect its structures from flooding. The House vote was 236–188; the veto override failed.
January 8, 2026Opposes Public Infrastructure
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against the veto override for H.R. 131, which proposed to extend hardship-based repayment of the Arkansas Valley Conduit’s 35% local cost share to up to 75 years at half the Treasury interest rate. The House vote was 248–177; the veto override failed.
January 8, 2026Opposes Public Infrastructure
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter supporting Idaho’s application to the Rural Health Transformation Program, emphasizing rural access to timely care, technology, workforce needs, population-specific projects and investment in rural health infrastructure and partnerships.
December 19, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter asking the Corps of Engineers to prioritize repair of defective Albeni Falls Dam spillway gates, coordinate with local communities and Bonneville Power, and provide a timeline for restoring regular operations.
June 7, 2024Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter asking Washington’s transportation secretary to explain the freight, road, rail and power consequences of breaching the Lower Snake River dams, while opposing dam removal and questioning the related restoration commitments.
February 29, 2024Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter urging approval of the GTN XPress natural gas project. It backed upgrades to three existing compressor stations and 150,000 dekatherms of added daily capacity. FERC issued its conditional approval on October 23, 2023. An earlier October 21, 2022 letter supported the same project.
October 6, 2023Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter asking the Forest Service to exempt amateur-radio operators and state, tribal and county emergency-communications equipment from its proposed administrative-fee increase for communications sites.
April 6, 2022Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter urging White House-led negotiations with Canada to modernize the Columbia River Treaty, regular congressional updates and early justification of federal flood-control funding. It called for rebalancing cross-border power benefits and opposed shifting federal flood-control obligations onto utility ratepayers.
June 29, 2021Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter urging faster pipeline and refinery permitting and stronger cybersecurity after the Colonial Pipeline attack, alongside requests for greater domestic energy production.
May 14, 2021Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H. R. 7327, a proposal to expand childcare support through federal essential-worker care and facility-safety funding, larger refundable dependent-care income-tax credits, provider and employer credits, and increased mandatory childcare funding. The House passed it 250–161.
July 29, 2020Opposes Public Infrastructure
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 1957 in the 116th Congress, a proposal to create a public-land deferred-maintenance fund with up to $1.9 billion annually in FY2021–2025 and make Land and Water Conservation Fund deposits available without further appropriation. The House passed the bill 310–107.
July 22, 2020Opposes Public Infrastructure
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter supporting Canyon County’s grant application for intelligent transportation systems planning, including a traffic-management center and police emergency-operations coordination.
May 11, 2020Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted for H. R. 5430, a proposal to implement the United States–Mexico–Canada trade agreement, including labor and environmental monitoring and enforcement, customs rules, and funding for border facilities and inspection technology. The House passed it 385–41.
December 19, 2019Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter urging planning, environmental review and funding coordination for one or two additional wells in the Lewiston Orchards water-exchange project, after the second well had been completed.
November 1, 2019Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter supporting Ponderay’s BUILD grant application for engineering and construction of a railroad underpass connecting Ponderay and Kootenai with Lake Pend Oreille, to replace unsafe crossings of active tracks.
July 22, 2019Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter supporting the US 20/26, I-84-to-Middleton Road BUILD grant application to relieve congestion and improve transportation access in the Treasure Valley.
June 25, 2019Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter supporting Idaho’s request for a federal disaster declaration after April flooding and seeking assistance to restore damaged public infrastructure. FEMA recorded approval on June 12, 2019, providing cost-shared public assistance and statewide hazard-mitigation eligibility.
May 28, 2019Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: crapo.senate.gov
Signed a letter supporting Shoshone County’s proposed purchase of an abandoned Union Pacific rail parcel in Wallace for a replacement county jail, citing deteriorated plumbing, wiring and unsafe conditions.
May 17, 2019Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter supporting the Sandpoint Junction Connector rail project and asking the Coast Guard to approve its permits following an environmental assessment, to relieve freight and passenger-rail congestion.
May 12, 2019Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter opposing privatization of federal power-marketing and TVA transmission assets and replacement of cost-based power rates with market-based rates, arguing that public ownership and existing repayment arrangements benefited rural customers.
May 8, 2019Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter requesting a new Corps of Engineers investigation study and funding consideration for Boise River flood-risk reduction through Garden City, after the project exceeded the smaller Section 205 program’s scope.
April 19, 2019Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter supporting the I-84 Caldwell-to-Nampa grant application to widen the Franklin Road–Karcher Interchange segment, replace canal crossings and reconstruct bridges over Linden Road.
March 1, 2019Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter supporting a grant application to rehabilitate damaged roads and trails in the Nezperce–Clearwater National Forest, including sections of the Lolo Motorway.
January 24, 2019Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against Idaho H619, authorizing state intervention when neglected local roads endangered safe access to developed areas. It required notice, hearings and findings before maintenance costs were deducted from the responsible jurisdiction’s existing highway allocation. The Senate passed it 23–11, and it became law.
March 19, 2014Opposes Public Infrastructure
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho HCR47, approving state-building-authority financing agreements for a new multilevel parking facility at the Capitol Mall. It also supported reviewing parking fees. The Senate adopted it 28–7; the resolution did not itself appropriate a construction amount.
March 26, 2012Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against S. 1427, authorizing another $12 million of GARVEE transportation borrowing with a State Highway 16 right-of-way priority and up to $4 million in debt-service transfers from existing funds. The Senate passed it 25–9.
March 24, 2010Opposes Public Infrastructure
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted to adopt HJR. 5, proposing a constitutional exception for airport revenue borrowing without a General Fund or tax pledge, subject to voter ratification rather than documenting actual borrowing. The Senate adopted it 34–1.
March 16, 2010Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted to adopt HJR. 4, proposing a constitutional exception permitting public-hospital revenue borrowing without a tax pledge, subject to voter ratification rather than authorizing an actual bond issue. The Senate adopted it 34–0.
March 16, 2010Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted to adopt HJR. 7, proposing municipal-electric revenue borrowing under majority-vote and revenue-security conditions, subject to voter ratification rather than documenting actual borrowing. The Senate adopted it 35–0.
March 16, 2010Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H.680, creating public community-infrastructure districts with infrastructure borrowing powers, public records and budgets, purchaser debt disclosures, resident and owner voting, debt caps and specified election safeguards. The Senate passed it 29–4.
April 1, 2008Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted to adopt HCR.32, authorizing the Lewis-Clark State College Health Sciences Building and referencing $16 million approved from the Permanent Building Fund by the budget committee. The Senate adopted it 35–0; the resolution granted construction approval rather than itself making that appropriation.
March 26, 2007Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted to adopt HCR.30, authorizing Idaho State University to purchase 102,000 square feet in the former Jabil building in Meridian for health-sciences education, with a private foundation’s $5 million grant pledge. The Senate adopted it 34–1; the resolution did not specify a new appropriation or borrowing amount.
March 23, 2007Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted to adopt HCR. 31, authorizing Boise State University nursing and student-health facilities financing backed by university revenues and private gifts, without a pledge of state appropriations. The Senate adopted it 32–0.
March 23, 2007Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H. 250, authorizing qualifying developers to recover public-interchange construction costs through refunds of 60% of related sales taxes, capped at $35 million and actual qualifying costs. The Senate passed it 24–10.
March 20, 2007Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H. 32, extending the Idaho Energy Resources Authority framework to electric distribution facilities, with utility contracts covering all authority-operated management, operating and maintenance costs. The Senate passed it 34–0.
March 1, 2007Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H820, widening an existing rail-financing framework to rural rail and truck intermodal projects. The bill provided conditional loans, infrastructure and loading-facility uses, and an interagency review system. The Senate passed it 34–0, and it became law.
April 3, 2006Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H705, authorizing additional local levies to construct and maintain cooperative school-service facilities. Each levy required two-thirds voter approval and could continue through approved ten-year renewals. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 28, 2006Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H743, appropriating $25 million for unsafe public-school facilities and expanding maintenance and bond-equalization support. Poorer districts received greater state assistance; qualifying projects involved local repayment levies and state supervision. The Senate passed it 22–12, and it became law.
March 23, 2006Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho HCR47, approving financing agreements for Capitol restoration, atrium hearing-room additions and new elevators. The Senate adopted it 33–2. His earlier cigarette-tax vote supported restoration funding; these votes did not prove completed construction.
March 15, 2006Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: legislature.idaho.gov

Peaceful Foreign Policy · 1 support · 11 oppose

Voted against H.Con.Res. 93, directing the President to pull U.S. forces out of hostilities against Iran unless Congress declares war or authorizes force. Forces needed to stop an imminent attack were exempt. It passed the House 220-204.
September 15, 2026Opposes Peaceful Foreign Policy
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.Con.Res. 108 in the 119th Congress, a proposal to remove U.S. forces from Lebanon hostilities within seven days, preserving Lebanese-force security cooperation and protection of diplomatic facilities. The House vote was 189–235; the motion failed.
June 30, 2026Opposes Peaceful Foreign Policy
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.Con.Res. 68 in the 119th Congress, a proposal to remove U.S. forces from Venezuela absent a declaration of war or specific congressional authorization. The House vote was 215–215; the motion failed.
January 22, 2026Opposes Peaceful Foreign Policy
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter urging diplomatic coordination for humanitarian corridors between Hader and Suwayda in Syria, delivery of emergency supplies and protection of Druze and Christian minorities facing violence.
September 12, 2025Supports Peaceful Foreign Policy
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 23, the Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act, sanctioning foreigners who help the International Criminal Court pursue Americans or allied citizens. The House passed it 243-140, but the Senate blocked it on January 28, 2025.
January 9, 2025Opposes Peaceful Foreign Policy
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 8282, the Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act, sanctioning foreigners who help the International Criminal Court prosecute Americans or allied citizens. The House passed it 247-155, but the Senate never voted, so the bill died.
June 4, 2024Opposes Peaceful Foreign Policy
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.Con.Res. 30 in the 118th Congress, a proposal to remove U.S. armed forces from Somalia within 365 days while leaving embassy-protection forces in place. The House vote was 102–321; the motion failed.
April 27, 2023Opposes Peaceful Foreign Policy
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.Con.Res. 21 in the 118th Congress, a proposal to remove U.S. armed forces from Syria within 180 days. The House vote was 103–321; the motion failed.
March 8, 2023Opposes Peaceful Foreign Policy
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 256, which repealed the 2002 law allowing military force against Iraq, withdrawing the standing legal basis for military action there. The House passed it 268-161.
June 17, 2021Opposes Peaceful Foreign Policy
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against S.J.Res. 68 in the 116th Congress, a proposal to terminate unauthorized U.S. hostilities against Iran following the January 2020 Soleimani strike, while preserving defense against imminent attack. The House passed the bill 227–186.
March 11, 2020Opposes Peaceful Foreign Policy
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.Res. 326 in the 116th Congress, a resolution to endorse a negotiated Israeli-Palestinian two-state solution, continuing the U.S.-Israel security commitment and resuming lawful assistance to Palestinians. The House agreed to the resolution 226–188.
December 6, 2019Opposes Peaceful Foreign Policy
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against S.J.Res. 7 in the 116th Congress, a proposal to remove U.S. forces from unauthorized Yemen hostilities within 30 days, including in-flight refueling of foreign aircraft, while excluding operations against al-Qaeda and preserving intelligence sharing. The House passed the bill 247–175.
April 4, 2019Opposes Peaceful Foreign Policy
Source: clerk.house.gov

U.S.-Israel Ties · 7 support

Voted for H.R. 4795, which would cut off federal student aid to colleges that boycott Israel. The House passed it 237-169.
September 3, 2026Supports U.S.-Israel Ties
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for H.R. 8369, which would have ordered delivery of weapons shipments to Israel that the president had paused. It would have frozen some Pentagon, State Department and White House funds until delivery. The House passed it 224-187.
May 16, 2024Supports U.S.-Israel Ties
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for H.R. 8034, which approved $26 billion in U.S. taxpayer money: military aid for Israel and funds for U.S. forces nearby. About $9 billion of it was humanitarian aid, and none could go to the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees. It passed 366-58 and became law in April 2024.
April 20, 2024Supports U.S.-Israel Ties
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for H.R. 6126, which would have sent Israel $14.3 billion in U.S. taxpayer money as military aid. To pay for it, the bill would have taken the same amount from extra funding Congress gave the IRS. The House passed it 226-196.
November 2, 2023Supports U.S.-Israel Ties
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter opposing a separate U.S. consulate serving Palestinians in Jerusalem and supporting use of the existing embassy’s Palestinian Affairs Unit instead.
November 1, 2021Supports U.S.-Israel Ties
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted for H.R. 5323, which gave Israel $1 billion in U.S. taxpayer money to restock its Iron Dome rocket-defense system. The House passed it 420-9. The money later became law inside a 2022 spending bill.
September 23, 2021Supports U.S.-Israel Ties
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter proposing a regional strategy for Syria that supported Israel’s qualitative military edge and defense resources, increased economic and diplomatic pressure on Iran and Russia, and urged enforcement of Hezbollah sanctions and UNIFIL’s arms-and-tunnel reporting mandate.
May 20, 2019Supports U.S.-Israel Ties
Source: fulcher.house.gov

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Received SCI-PAC’s endorsement for Idaho’s 1st Congressional District, as announced in its October 2, 2026 release.
October 2, 2026
Source: safariclub.org
Reported that his office’s cumulative casework had returned $26,414,108 owed to constituents by federal agencies and closed more than 7,592 cases since he entered Congress.
September 24, 2026
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against S. 2403 in the 119th Congress, a proposal to allow ESOP fiduciaries to rely in good faith on qualified independent stock valuations while preserving their existing fiduciary duties. The House passed the bill 401–14.
September 16, 2026
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to send H.R. 5334, the Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act, to the President. It imposed sanctions on Russia, extended Iran sanctions to 2031, and let the President put tariffs up to 100% on buyers of Russian energy. The House agreed 262-159, and it became law on September 18, 2026.
September 16, 2026
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to set aside H.Res. 1486, a resolution to impeach President Trump over ICE and Border Patrol actions, which killed it. The House set it aside 232-147.
September 15, 2026
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for H.J.Res. 1, a proposed constitutional amendment requiring the Supreme Court to have nine justices, one chief justice and eight associate justices. It failed the House 212-206, short of the two-thirds majority needed.
September 2, 2026
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for a resolution condemning socialism in all its forms. The House passed it 220-192 (House Resolution 1490).
September 1, 2026
Source: clerk.house.gov
Received the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s endorsement for Idaho’s 1st Congressional District, as announced in its August 10, 2026 release.
August 10, 2026
Source: uschamber.com
Signed a letter asking Interior to address a federal injunction limiting Idaho wolf trapping and use a proposed 4(d) rule to restore trapping opportunities. The letter advocated Idaho wolf-management objectives while disputing the injunction’s rationale concerning incidental grizzly-bear take.
August 10, 2026
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 139, the Sunshine Protection Act of 2025, a bill to make daylight saving time permanent. It passed the House 308-117.
July 14, 2026
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 7128, which renews through 2034 the federal Terrorism Risk Insurance Program covering part of insurers' losses from a terrorist attack. It passed the House 373-15.
June 29, 2026
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against passing H.R. 7757, the KIDS Act, which makes online platforms limit minors' access to sexual material and give parents controls. It passed the House 267-117.
June 29, 2026
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for the final House action on the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, agreeing to the Senate's last set of changes. The act reshapes federal housing programs, including oversight of housing counseling grants and help for state and local governments. The House agreed 358-32 and it became Public Law 119-101.
June 23, 2026
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against passing H.R. 5408, the Faster Labor Contracts Act, setting deadlines for bargaining a first union contract and sending stalled talks to arbitration. It passed the House 230-193.
June 9, 2026
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against passing H.R. 2913, the Ukraine Support Act, sending aid to Ukraine and certain European countries, setting up a reconstruction fund and penalizing Russia. It passed the House 226-195.
June 4, 2026
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for H.R. 1329, the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum Act, which sets the South Monument site on the National Mall as the museum's location. It failed the House 204-216.
May 21, 2026
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter asking the U.S. Trade Representative to investigate foreign sugar trade practices under Section 301 and take appropriate action if the investigation found actionable conduct. It supported existing domestic sugar tariffs, quotas, loans and suspension agreements while criticizing the effectiveness of tier-two tariffs.
May 20, 2026
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 5625, the Cashless Bail Reporting Act, making the Justice Department list yearly the governments releasing certain defendants without cash bail. It passed the House 308-116.
May 14, 2026
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 6260, which treats posting criminal and immigration bail bonds as insurance business under federal insurance-fraud law. It passed the House 243-179.
May 14, 2026
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 2853, the Combating Organized Retail Crime Act, which widens federal enforcement against organized retail and supply chain theft. It passed the House 348-60.
May 12, 2026
Source: clerk.house.gov
Was endorsed for the 2026 primary by Idaho REALTORS’ Public Policy and Trustee Committee, as identified in its May 7, 2026 published endorsement announcement.
May 7, 2026
Source: idahorealtors.com
Voted against passing S. 1318 as rewritten by the House, which renews foreign surveillance powers under FISA until April 2029 with added Section 702 protections. It passed the House 235-191.
April 29, 2026
Source: clerk.house.gov
Led a signed letter urging a permanent Renewable Fuel Standard change for woody biomass from forest-management activities and year-round E15 fuel sales. An earlier April 25, 2023 letter questioned EPA’s proposed electric-vehicle RIN credit generators, statutory authority, feasibility and fraud safeguards under the same programme.
April 27, 2026
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 7613, the ALERT Act, which tightens aircraft tracking and communication requirements and expands aviation safety oversight. It passed the House 396-10.
April 14, 2026
Source: clerk.house.gov
Received Freedom Caucus Fund’s endorsement for Idaho’s 1st Congressional District, as announced in its April 1, 2026 release.
April 1, 2026
Source: freedomcaucusfund.com
Voted to pass H.R. 5103, a bill setting up a federal commission on crime and immigration in Washington, DC and a federal cleanup program there. It passed the House 218-206.
March 25, 2026
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against passing S. 3971, which renews the federal small business research and technology transfer grant programs through 2031. It passed the House 345-41.
March 17, 2026
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against passing H.R. 4294, the MAWS Act, which has NOAA run a pilot program buying invasive blue catfish caught in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. It passed the House 320-66.
March 17, 2026
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against passing H.R. 6472, which makes public colleges taking federal student aid charge in-state tuition to students from U.S. territories. It passed the House 351-72.
March 4, 2026
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against S. 2503, the ROTOR Act, which tightens aircraft tracking and communication requirements and expands aviation safety oversight. It failed the House 264-133, short of the two-thirds majority needed.
February 24, 2026
Source: clerk.house.gov
Published a video of his remarks at the Sharia-Free America Caucus’s first press conference. He argued that Sharia conflicted with American law and founding principles, recalled his earlier Idaho advocacy and supported the caucus’s effort to draw attention to the issue.
February 12, 2026
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 3617, a bill to direct the Energy Department to secure the supply of minerals it considers essential to U.S. energy security. It passed the House 223-206.
February 11, 2026
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 1531, the PROTECT Taiwan Act, seeking China's exclusion from six international financial bodies if the President reports China threatening Taiwan. It passed the House 395-2.
February 9, 2026
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for H.J.Res. 142, which overturns a District of Columbia Council tax act and restores the District's practice of following federal tax law. It passed the House 215-210 and became law.
February 4, 2026
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 980, which drops the rule that Veterans Affairs education and career counselling on college campuses be delivered only by VA staff. It passed the House 402-2.
February 2, 2026
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 7147, a stopgap funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security. The House passed it 220-207; after Senate changes it became law as Public Law 119-86 on April 30, 2026.
January 22, 2026
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 6359, the Pregnant Students' Rights Act, making colleges that take federal student aid tell students about pregnant students' rights and resources. It passed the House 217-211.
January 22, 2026
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 5764, the AI for Main Street Act, which has Small Business Development Centers help small businesses evaluate and use artificial intelligence. It passed the House 395-14.
January 20, 2026
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to pass H.R. 5763, the Main Street Parity Act, lowering the down payment a small business must put up for SBA property loans. It passed the House 383-8.
January 20, 2026
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against passing H.R. 6504, the Haiti Economic Lift Program Extension Act, which keeps duty-free treatment for clothing imported from Haiti through 2028. It passed the House 345-45.
January 12, 2026
Source: clerk.house.gov
Questioned biosecurity witnesses about misuse of autonomous AI agents to develop biological weapons and protections under the May 2025 executive order.
December 17, 2025
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 2550, the Protect America's Workforce Act, cancelling the March 2025 executive order that stripped union bargaining rights from most federal workers. The House passed it 231-195, and the Senate has not voted on it.
December 11, 2025
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted to accept the Senate's version of H.R. 5371, the funding bill ending the 43-day shutdown and funding most agencies into January 2026. The House agreed 222-209, and it became Public Law 119-37 on November 12, 2025.
November 12, 2025
Source: clerk.house.gov
Issued a signed response to Idaho lawmakers about the proposed Qatari training facility at Mountain Home Air Force Base. He reported contacting the Defense Secretary to express concern over limited communication and request a briefing, and provided his office’s understanding of the proposal’s security and funding arrangements.
October 17, 2025
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against passing S. 1582, the GENIUS Act, setting federal rules for payment stablecoins, digital tokens meant to hold a steady value. Only approved banks and licensed issuers may issue them, backed one-for-one by reserves. The House passed it 308-122 and it became Public Law 119-27 on July 18, 2025.
July 17, 2025
Source: clerk.house.gov
Reported prior support for a congressional court brief backing South Carolina in Medina v. Planned Parenthood. The dispute concerned private lawsuits to enforce Medicaid patients’ choice of provider.
June 26, 2025
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Held a Cascade roundtable with federal and Idaho land-management agencies, county commissioners and stakeholders about wildfire prevention, public-land restoration and deferred maintenance. He discussed budget constraints and called for joint problem-solving.
January 31, 2025
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Was announced as vice chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade for the 119th Congress.
January 14, 2025
Source: energycommerce.house.gov
Voted for S. 3448, a proposal to extend the authorization for the Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Never Again education programme through fiscal year 2030. The House passed it 402–12.
December 17, 2024
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter requesting the Forest Service’s Elkhorn Fire investigation report and status updates, citing delays affecting property owners’ insurance claims.
September 23, 2024
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted for H.R.4790, a House proposal limiting issuer disclosures and excluding environmental, social or political shareholder proposals, while adding proxy-adviser registration, conflict disclosures, liability and investor duties. The proposal also included a compensated SEC advisory committee, congressional reporting on specified international banking-regulatory actions, removal of the Federal Reserve supervision vice-chair designation, and a bar on SEC reserve-fund fee deposits in fiscal 2026–27. The House passed it 215–203, with one present.
September 19, 2024
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a delegation letter asking the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation to end its Section 106 consultation on the Lava Ridge Wind Project and prevent a BLM decision until concerns about the Minidoka National Historic Site and affected communities had been evaluated. The letter opposed the project’s effects on the site.
September 4, 2024
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Joined Natural Resources Committee members and Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy for a visit and meetings with local, Native and state leaders about resource development.
August 13, 2024
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H.R.1631 (Pro Codes Act), retaining copyright on technical standards incorporated by reference into law if their owners provided free online access, searchable navigation and disability access. Accounts or terms of service were allowed with no access fee and affirmative consent for use of personal information. Challengers would bear the burden of proving access requirements were unmet. The bill also required access, privacy and cost studies. The motion failed 248–127, short of the required two-thirds majority.
July 22, 2024
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for H.R. 6090, which would have told the Education Department to use a set definition of antisemitism in campus discrimination cases. The definition's examples include some statements about Israel. The House passed it 320-91.
May 1, 2024
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a Natural Resources Committee letter requesting a New York Stock Exchange briefing on Natural Asset Companies, their ecological accounting framework and potential control of public lands. This followed an earlier January 11 request for SEC records; NYSE had withdrawn its listing proposal on January 17.
February 14, 2024
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 7024, a proposal to increase child-tax-credit refunds and add a prior-year earnings option, restore temporary business research and depreciation deductions, provide disaster-related income-tax exclusions and low-income housing credits, authorize a Taiwan tax agreement, and curtail late employee-retention-credit claims while increasing promoter penalties. The House passed it 357–70.
January 31, 2024
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter opposing placement of the Cinnabar Mine site on the Superfund National Priorities List and requesting broader community outreach, consideration of alternative cleanup actions and a funding plan.
January 22, 2024
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Published signed comments on CEQ’s Environmental Justice Scorecard, requesting energy-poverty, infrastructure-review and rate-impact studies and criticizing policies that blocked energy projects.
January 19, 2024
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against the final House-Senate deal on H.R. 2670, the 2024 defense policy law, setting Defense Department policy and approving its programs and military construction. The House agreed 310-118 and it became law December 22, 2023 (Public Law 118-31).
December 14, 2023
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for H.Res. 894, a House resolution that condemned antisemitism and stated that anti-Zionism is antisemitism. The House adopted it 311-14, with 92 members voting present.
December 5, 2023
Source: clerk.house.gov
Joined a congressional delegation and Hawaii Governor Josh Green to inspect wildfire destruction in Lahaina and participated in a subsequent press conference.
September 2, 2023
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 3746, a proposal to suspend the debt limit through January 1, 2025, cap specified federal spending, appropriate additional veterans’ toxic-exposure and Commerce funds, change SNAP work-exemption limits and add homeless, veteran and former-foster-youth exemptions, and ratify Mountain Valley Pipeline permits with restricted judicial review. The House passed it 314–117.
May 31, 2023
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 9640, which required audits of every sitting president's tax return and public release of the returns and findings. The House passed it 222-201.
December 22, 2022
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H. R. 8393, a proposal to hold federally overseen, bilingual Puerto Rico status votes offering independence, free association or statehood, with a majority requirement and a runoff if necessary, and authorize funding for voter education and the votes. The House passed it 233–191.
December 15, 2022
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 1948, the VA Employee Fairness Act, letting doctors and nurses at veterans' hospitals bargain and file grievances over patient care and pay. The House passed it 219-201, but the Senate never voted on it, so it did not become law.
December 15, 2022
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against S. 4003, the Law Enforcement De-Escalation Training Act, funding police training to calm tense situations and respond to mental health crises. The House passed it 264-162, and it became law.
December 14, 2022
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against S. 3905, which required federal purchasing rules to be rewritten to identify and limit conflicts between contractors' private interests and government work. The House passed it 219-205, and it became law.
December 14, 2022
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for final House passage of the Patents for Humanity Act of 2022, which speeds patent proceedings for inventors solving humanitarian problems. The House agreed 396-24 and it became Public Law 117-245.
December 6, 2022
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted for final House passage of the SBA Cyber Awareness Act, which makes the Small Business Administration report yearly on its cybersecurity and any breach. The House agreed 417-0 and it became Public Law 117-259.
December 6, 2022
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 3372, the One Stop Shop Community Reentry Program Act, funding community organizations that help people leaving prison find housing and jobs. The House passed it 259-167.
December 1, 2022
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against S. 4524, which made contract terms barring sharing facts or criticism unenforceable in sexual assault and sexual harassment cases. The House passed it 315-109, and it became law.
November 16, 2022
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter requesting State Department records and answers about Palestinian Authority assistance, compliance with the Taylor Force Act and payments to prisoners or their families.
November 2, 2022
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter asking the Fish and Wildlife Service to avoid added timber-harvest restrictions and no-harvest buffers in the Lake States bat habitat-conservation plans, contesting their ecological justification.
October 6, 2022
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter urging DHS to end COVID-19 vaccination requirements for travelers entering the United States from Canada, following earlier requests for phased reopening and access for cross-border families and businesses.
September 28, 2022
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 5768, which funded state, local and tribal investigators and prosecutors to solve more murders and other violent crimes. The House passed it 250-178.
September 22, 2022
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 4118, the Break the Cycle of Violence Act, funding community violence intervention and job training in neighborhoods with high gun violence. The House passed it 220-207.
September 22, 2022
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter asking FTC to reopen comments on its proposed motor-vehicle dealers rule for 60–90 days, while supporting consumer anti-fraud protections and questioning the rule’s cost analysis and notice process.
September 21, 2022
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against S. 1098, a proposal to allow married or formerly married borrowers to separate joint federal student loans into individual obligations, including separate applications after domestic violence or economic abuse; the proposal retained the original interest rate and allocated the remaining debt. The House passed it 232–193.
September 21, 2022
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 8873, the Presidential Election Reform Act, requiring electors be chosen under state law set before election day and narrowing grounds for objections. The House passed it 229-203.
September 21, 2022
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 302, a bill to bar moving federal civil service jobs into new categories outside the merit system. The House passed it 225-204, but the Senate never voted on it, so it did not become law.
September 15, 2022
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against sending H.R. 5376, the Inflation Reduction Act, to the President: Medicare drug price negotiation, a $35 insulin cap and clean energy credits. The House passed it 220-207.
August 12, 2022
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 5118, the Wildfire Response and Drought Resiliency Act, funding wildfire mitigation and drought planning and raising pay for federal wildland firefighters. The House passed it 218-199.
July 29, 2022
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 7900, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023, which set defense policy and approved Defense Department programs and military construction. The House passed it 329-101.
July 14, 2022
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against S. 3373, the final Honoring our PACT Act, expanding health care and disability benefits for veterans exposed to burn pits and other toxins. The House passed it 342-88, and it became law.
July 13, 2022
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 6538, the Active Shooter Alert Act, creating a national alert network to warn the public during an active shooter emergency. The House passed it 260-169.
July 13, 2022
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 4176, the LGBTQI+ Data Inclusion Act, which required federal government surveys to offer voluntary questions on sexual orientation and gender identity. The House passed it 220-201.
June 23, 2022
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter requesting State Department records and answers about its Special Representative for Racial Equity and Justice, questioning the position’s mandate and associated policy agenda.
June 17, 2022
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 7606, the Lower Food and Fuel Costs Act, which funded technology-guided farming, expanded biofuel infrastructure and strengthened oversight of meat markets. The House passed it 221-204.
June 16, 2022
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 2543, a bill to widen access to credit and banking, strengthen lending discrimination rules, and make racial equity a Federal Reserve duty. The House passed it 215-207.
June 15, 2022
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 2773, the Recovering America's Wildlife Act, sending dedicated federal funding to states and tribes to conserve wildlife and plants most in need. The House passed it 231-190.
June 14, 2022
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter urging U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization or major reform of its operations, and requesting documents about proposed health regulations, treaty discussions, membership and leadership.
May 26, 2022
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 350, the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act, creating domestic terrorism teams at the FBI, Justice Department and Homeland Security with regular threat reporting. The House passed it 222-203.
May 18, 2022
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 5129, which renewed through 2032 federal grants for local antipoverty services and raised the income eligibility threshold. The House passed it 246-169.
May 13, 2022
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter requesting CEQ’s legal and funding authorities, allocation criteria, transparency safeguards and conservation metrics for the America the Beautiful Challenge and 30×30 initiative.
May 12, 2022
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 903, the Rights for the TSA Workforce Act, giving airport security screeners the same union and appeal rights as most federal workers. The House passed it 220-201, but the Senate never voted on it, so it did not become law.
May 12, 2022
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 2499, the Federal Firefighters Fairness Act, presuming certain cancers and heart and lung conditions in federal firefighters came from the job. The House passed it 288-131; Congress enacted the same provisions in December 2022 in the annual defense bill.
May 11, 2022
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter asking the Education Department to withdraw proposed Charter Schools Program grant requirements and priorities, arguing that they would limit school expansion and local choices.
May 6, 2022
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter urging action on fertilizer costs through agricultural supply-chain support, mineral priorities, removal of cross-border vaccination barriers and increased energy production and export approvals. It requested policy changes without reporting resulting grants or price reductions.
April 5, 2022
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 1916, which required private health plans to cover diagnosis and treatment of birth defects and other conditions present at birth. The House passed it 310-110.
April 4, 2022
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter opposing removal of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from the Foreign Terrorist Organization list as part of an Iran nuclear agreement, following earlier letters opposing unconditional re-entry and urging sanctions enforcement.
March 22, 2022
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 3967, the Honoring our PACT Act, expanding health care and disability benefits for veterans exposed to burn pits and other toxins. The House passed it 256-174.
March 3, 2022
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 3485, which imposed entry bans on foreigners responsible for human rights abuses against people for their sexual orientation or gender identity. The House passed it 227-206.
February 9, 2022
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 3076, the Postal Service Reform Act, which ended prefunding of retiree health benefits, tied postal retirees to Medicare and required six-day delivery. The House passed it 342-92, and it became law.
February 8, 2022
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 4445, which let people alleging sexual assault or harassment take their claim to court despite a contract requiring private arbitration. The House passed it 335-97, and it became law.
February 7, 2022
Source: clerk.house.gov
Co-hosted an Idaho mining forum with Representatives Mike Simpson and Dan Newhouse and delivered remarks supporting domestic critical-mineral exploration. The forum included Idaho Cobalt Operations representatives and state and local officials.
January 19, 2022
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Joined a corrected Supreme Court brief seeking a stay of OSHA’s COVID-19 vaccination-or-weekly-testing requirement for large employers. It argued that Congress had not delegated authority for that requirement to OSHA.
January 3, 2022
Source: supremecourt.gov
Signed a letter asking HHS to restore religious adoption and foster-care waivers and explain their revocation, including treatment of providers whose religious tenets prevented placements with same-sex households. A concurrent letter sought restoration of OCR’s religious-freedom enforcement authority.
December 16, 2021
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter asking Twitter to explain its content-moderation policies and treatment of differing political viewpoints, and requesting a briefing on those practices.
December 16, 2021
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 5314, the Protecting Our Democracy Act, a bill to tighten limits on presidential pardons and emergency powers and strengthen congressional subpoenas. The House passed it 220-208.
December 9, 2021
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter opposing rescission of the religious federal-contractor exemption, arguing for religious-tenet hiring protections while acknowledging existing statutory employment protections.
December 8, 2021
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against S. 610, which delayed automatic Medicare payment cuts through March 2022 and eased other scheduled reductions. The House passed it 222-212.
December 7, 2021
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against sending H.R. 3684, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, to the President: roughly $1 trillion for roads, bridges, transit, broadband and water. The House passed it 228-206.
November 5, 2021
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 2119, which renewed and expanded federal funding for emergency shelters and support services for domestic violence victims through 2026. The House passed it 228-200.
October 26, 2021
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 3110, the PUMP for Nursing Mothers Act, extending break time and a private space to pump breast milk to salaried workers. The House passed it 276-149.
October 22, 2021
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter asking the President to clarify the administration’s position on the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty and reject the treaty. It objected to international oversight of conventional-arms transfers and raised constitutional and treaty-amendment concerns.
October 19, 2021
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 4350, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022, which set defense policy and approved Defense Department programs and military construction. The House passed it 316-113.
September 23, 2021
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter requesting the legal basis and records for Education Department civil-rights investigations of state school-mask policies, while questioning their relation to disability accommodations and in-person services.
September 1, 2021
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Delivered an opening statement on WIC and the Child and Adult Care Food Program, advocating restoration of normal statutory and regulatory rules after pandemic waivers and greater involvement of local and private nutrition providers. He also questioned witnesses about WIC product-packaging restrictions and programme access.
July 28, 2021
Source: govinfo.gov
Voted against H.R. 2467, which directed the EPA to label long-lasting PFAS chemicals hazardous, set drinking water limits and fund cleanup of contaminated sites. The House passed it 241-183.
July 21, 2021
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter requesting CFAP 2 eligibility for Kentucky bluegrass seed produced for turf and sod, distinguishing it from ineligible forage crops. USDA’s September 20 reply reported that an August 27 rule had added grass seed as an eligible commodity.
June 30, 2021
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 1065, the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which required employers to make reasonable work changes for workers affected by pregnancy or childbirth. The House passed it 315-101.
May 14, 2021
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 1629, which limited seven years of sole-sales rights for rare-disease drugs to those not expected to make a profit. It failed 250-168 under a fast-track process needing two-thirds support, so it did not become law.
May 11, 2021
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 1195, a bill to require a federal workplace safety standard against violence in hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, and social service settings. The House passed it 254-166, but the Senate never voted on it, so it did not become law.
April 16, 2021
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 1868, which paused automatic Medicare budget cuts through the end of 2021. The House passed it 246-175.
March 19, 2021
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 1620, a bill to renew the Violence Against Women Act through 2026 and add housing protections and gun restrictions for convicted abusers. The House passed it 244-172.
March 17, 2021
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.J.Res. 17, which removed the deadline for states to approve the Equal Rights Amendment, which would bar discrimination based on sex. The House passed it 222-204.
March 17, 2021
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter opposing an increase in the metropolitan-statistical-area population threshold from 50,000 to 100,000 and requesting consideration of its effects on community data and grant eligibility.
March 16, 2021
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a bipartisan letter seeking reversal of the Seattle National Archives facility’s sale approval and protection of regional access to records, citing the absence of Tribal consultation. OMB later withdrew its prior approval of the sale.
March 11, 2021
Source: crapo.senate.gov
Voted against sending H.R. 1319, the American Rescue Plan Act, to the President: $1.9 trillion in COVID-19 relief with $1,400 payments. The House passed it 220-211.
March 10, 2021
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 842, the PRO Act, a bill to strengthen workers' right to unionize, bar permanently replacing strikers and override state right-to-work laws. The House passed it 225-206, but the Senate never voted on it, so it did not become law.
March 9, 2021
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter asking CDC to revise community-transmission benchmarks for in-person schooling and support reopening, citing concerns about students’ learning and mental health.
March 5, 2021
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 1280, which restricted chokeholds and no-knock warrants, made it easier to sue officers for misconduct, and set national police standards. The House passed it 220-212.
March 3, 2021
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 803, the Protecting America's Wilderness and Public Lands Act, designating new wilderness, conservation and recreation areas on federal land in eight states. The House passed it 227-200.
February 26, 2021
Source: clerk.house.gov
Was announced as ranking member of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands for the 117th Congress.
February 17, 2021
Source: naturalresources.house.gov
Joined a Supreme Court brief supporting Texas’s challenge to 2020 election procedures in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. It backed allowing Texas to file its complaint and obtain an injunction. The Court denied Texas’s filing request for lack of standing on December 11, 2020.
December 10, 2020
Source: supremecourt.gov
Signed a letter requesting investigation and prosecution of the organization and financing of violent riots and attacks on protected property.
September 10, 2020
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter supporting Israel’s potential application of sovereignty in parts of the West Bank and urging the State Department to reject outside pressure opposing that policy.
July 10, 2020
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter defending Idaho’s enhanced short-term health-insurance plans, citing guaranteed renewability, coverage features and federal exemptions for such plans, while acknowledging their distinct treatment of pre-existing conditions.
July 9, 2020
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against the veto override for H.J.Res. 76, which proposed to nullify the September 2019 Education Department borrower-defense rule. The House vote was 238–173; the veto override failed.
June 26, 2020
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter urging the Natural Resources Committee chairman to stop distributing partisan virtual forums through official committee channels. The letter objected to their presentation as official hearings without minority participation.
June 16, 2020
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted for H.R. 7010 in the 116th Congress, a proposal to extend PPP loan-forgiveness periods, allow up to 40% of forgivable loans for nonpayroll expenses, add employee-availability exceptions and set a five-year minimum maturity for new remaining loan balances. The House passed the bill 417–1.
May 28, 2020
Source: clerk.house.gov
Joined the lawsuit challenging the House rule allowing proxy voting during COVID-19. Lower courts dismissed the case under congressional immunity, and the Supreme Court denied review on January 24, 2022.
May 26, 2020
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter asking CDC to distinguish deaths directly caused by COVID-19 from deaths attributed to other causes, after questioning its counting practices.
May 21, 2020
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter requesting temporary deferral of federal alcoholic-beverage excise-tax deadlines, interest and penalties during the COVID-19 disruption, through the remainder of 2020.
May 18, 2020
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter asking Treasury and the Federal Reserve to give all industries, including oil and gas firms, equal eligibility for the Main Street Lending Program and its federally backed small- and medium-business loans.
May 11, 2020
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter urging extension and enforcement of the United Nations arms embargo and travel restrictions on Iran, rather than allowing the restrictions to expire, and seeking diplomatic support for that policy.
May 4, 2020
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter urging HHS to maintain restrictions and ethics review for federally funded fetal-tissue research and redirect COVID-19 research toward alternatives. The letter’s scientific claims were advocacy, rather than established research outcomes.
April 14, 2020
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Voted against H. R. 6172, a proposal to renew expiring FISA surveillance authorities through December 1, 2023 while ending ongoing call-detail-record collection, limiting access to location/private records, strengthening application accuracy and authorizing suspension or removal of officials for deliberate misconduct. The House passed it 278–136.
March 11, 2020
Source: clerk.house.gov
Voted against H.R. 5377 in the 116th Congress, a proposal to temporarily raise or remove the state-and-local-tax deduction cap, increase deductions for teachers and first responders, and raise the top individual income-tax rate from 37% to 39.6% with lower income thresholds. The House passed the bill 218–206.
December 19, 2019
Source: clerk.house.gov
Signed a letter asking CNN to restore paid Trump campaign advertising it had rejected. The letter alleged unfair treatment; it did not establish a legal violation or report that the advertisements were restored.
October 18, 2019
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter requesting revised Forest Service guidance that gave the Idaho Roadless Rule priority over inconsistent forest-plan provisions and involved Idaho’s Roadless Commission in implementation.
June 27, 2019
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Published a follow-up letter requesting Planned Parenthood’s abortion statistics by race after his earlier March 11 request.
June 17, 2019
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Signed a letter requesting restoration of historically allowed motorized and mechanized uses in recommended wilderness areas administered by Forest Service Region 1, while preserving potential future wilderness designation.
June 13, 2019
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Questioned Education Secretary Betsy DeVos at a House hearing about flexibility to use federal education funds for rural broadband and student transportation, and eligibility of faith-based schools and homeschool students.
April 10, 2019
Source: govinfo.gov
Joined a court brief supporting Texas authority to disqualify Planned Parenthood as a Medicaid provider. It argued that patients lacked a private right to sue under the Medicaid choice-of-provider provision.
March 14, 2019
Source: fulcher.house.gov
Questioned college-cost witnesses at a House Education and Labor hearing about using college credits earned in high school to reduce college costs, citing Idaho's dual-credit program.
March 13, 2019
Source: govinfo.gov
Voted against Idaho H546, creating refundable business tax credits of up to 30% of qualifying new state revenue for up to 15 years. Qualifying projects needed new jobs at county-average wages, local support and performance verification. The Senate passed the amended bill 28–6, and it became law.
March 19, 2014
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho HJR2, proposing constitutional authority for legislative approval or rejection of executive-agency rules without gubernatorial approval. The Senate adopted it 35–0 for submission to voters.
March 19, 2014
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H498, extending the film-and-television rebate programme’s sunset from July 2014 to July 2020. The Senate passed it 18–17, and it became law. He had supported an earlier film-rebate proposal in 2006.
March 17, 2014
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho HJM6, urging suspension and review of Affordable Care Act taxes on the healthcare industry. The Senate adopted it 28–7 after reconsideration. The memorial did not itself suspend taxes or repeal the healthcare law.
March 17, 2014
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
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- July 28, 2021 · Signed a letter supporting separate billing and disclosure for the abortion portion of certain Affordable Care Act insurance premiums, rather than combining that charge with other coverage. (Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights)
Voted against Idaho HCR49, directing investigation of hospital-discharge and broader healthcare databases and an advisory implementation plan. The Senate adopted it 29–6. It did not establish an operating database or authorize unrestricted patient-record disclosure.
March 13, 2014
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H347, requiring new real-estate-appraiser applicants to undergo state and FBI fingerprint-based criminal-history checks. Applicants paid the processing costs. The Senate passed it 28–6, and it became law.
March 12, 2014
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H446, allowing courts to award attorney fees and costs to the prevailing party challenging a parenting coordinator’s decision. The Senate passed it 18–17, and it became law.
March 12, 2014
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho HCR46, directing a stakeholder council to develop consistent telehealth and telemedicine standards, policies and procedures. The Senate adopted it 33–1. The resolution did not itself establish completed standards or deliver clinical services.
March 12, 2014
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H557, making permanent schools’ ability to retain funding while employing up to 9.5% fewer instructional staff. Starting in fiscal 2016, districts with above-average class sizes faced annual one-point reductions in that flexibility. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 11, 2014
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H457, permitting evidence that failure to wear a seatbelt contributed to injuries when apportioning civil damages. It required clear-and-convincing proof and excluded specified insurance and child claims. The Senate tied 17–17; the presiding president voted yes, and the bill became law.
March 11, 2014
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho SJR106, proposing mandatory legislative recall to reconsider a post-adjournment veto when both presiding officers requested it. The Senate adopted the constitutional proposal 28–6; it stalled in the House.
March 7, 2014
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho S1351, adding a prison penalty of up to three years for battery against healthcare workers performing their duties or targeted because of their work. The Senate passed it 27–8, and it became law.
February 27, 2014
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho S1262, proposing fines of up to $1,000 as an alternative to formal nursing discipline or practice remediation. The Senate rejected it 16–18, with one absent.
February 10, 2014
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Seconded and voted for Idaho HCR22, demanding transfer of federal public-land titles to Idaho, with proposed exceptions for parks, wilderness and federal reservations. The resolution contemplated possible sales after public review. The Senate adopted it 21–13; no land transfer was established by that vote.
April 2, 2013
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H120, restricting customer-operated lottery machines to currency or coins. The final bill omitted the original proposed ban on card purchases at staffed counters. The Senate passed it 22–11, and it became law.
March 28, 2013
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H261, allowing school boards to select layoffs but barring seniority or contract status as the sole criterion. Districts could adopt recall policies. The measure had a July 2014 sunset. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 26, 2013
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H192, creating an optional enhanced concealed-firearm permit with eight hours of training, live-fire practice and additional background checks. It sought recognition in other states. That day, he supported H223’s permit exemptions for specified knives, tasers and pepper spray. Both passed the Senate 35–0 and became law.
March 25, 2013
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1109, allowing creditors to reach specified recent premiums in deferred annuities that had cash-surrender value and paid no periodic benefits. The exception covered premiums paid within six months before bankruptcy or attachment. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 20, 2013
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Supported Idaho S1060’s new child-prostitution felony, sex-offender registration and forfeiture authority in a 35–0 Senate vote. That day, he opposed S1123’s forfeiture procedures, including seizure powers, presumptions, proportionality and innocent-owner protections. S1123 passed 26–9. Both bills became law.
March 19, 2013
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H220, authorizing pari-mutuel wagering on replayed historical horse races. It specified wagering-revenue distributions, including school and youth accounts, and continuously appropriated racing-purse money for distribution. The Senate passed it 27–8, and it became law.
March 18, 2013
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1028, opening the Mastery Advancement Program to any school district or public charter school with a completed application. It removed pilot participation limits and the sunset. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
February 15, 2013
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho SCR103, requesting a coordinated state proposal for an FAA unmanned-aircraft test site. The Senate adopted it 28–6. The resolution did not establish a test site or appropriate construction funding.
February 6, 2013
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho SR107’s ethics-complaint rules, including evidence requirements, confidential preliminary inquiries and a two-year complaint limit. The rules provided hearings after probable cause and made final Senate action unreviewable in court. The Senate adopted them 28–7.
March 29, 2012
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H697, allowing voter-approved property-tax levies above existing limits to pay unusually large court judgments against local taxing districts. It required available surplus and ordinary taxing capacity to be used first. The Senate passed it 28–7, and it became law.
March 29, 2012
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho S1303’s final version, adding felony penalties for specified repeat animal cruelty and aggravated cockfight promotion. He had supported its earlier repeat-cruelty version on February 23. The Senate passed the final bill 24–11, and it became law.
March 29, 2012
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho HJR2’s amended constitutional proposal protecting hunting, fishing and trapping and preferring those methods for wildlife management. It retained private-property, water-right and licensing safeguards. The Senate adopted it 31–3 for submission to voters.
March 27, 2012
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho S1362’s proposed limits on state delegates to a constitutional convention. Delegates faced binding instructions, invalidation of unauthorized votes and revocation of credentials. The proposal provided appointment and state-compensation rules. It failed in the Senate, 13–21.
March 14, 2012
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H403, requiring state and FBI fingerprint checks for towing-company owners, drivers and operators seeking Idaho State Police tow-list approval. Applicants paid the costs. The Senate passed it 19–15, and it became law.
March 13, 2012
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho HCR34, adopting the revised Idaho Energy Plan and requiring legislative updates at least every five years. The Senate adopted it 34–0. This was plan ratification, rather than authorization of a specific power project or spending amount.
March 6, 2012
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho SCR123, authorizing refinancing and title transfers for Billingsley Creek properties to enable a recreational land exchange. The proposal described restructuring without added state cost. The Senate adopted it 33–0.
March 1, 2012
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho SJR102, proposing explicit constitutional authority for the State Board of Correction over adult felony probation and parole. The Senate adopted it 34–0 for submission to voters.
January 23, 2012
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H347’s proposal to extend renewable-electricity equipment sales-tax refunds through December 2014. It added commercial-operation deadlines and power-purchase approval requirements for specified wind and solar projects. The Senate rejected it 17–18.
April 7, 2011
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H351, allowing political parties to restrict their primaries to registered members or admit specified other voters. The law also permitted unaffiliated voters to join a party before voting and established affiliation records and ballot procedures. The Senate passed it 28–7, and it became law.
April 6, 2011
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H343, declaring a wolf-related emergency and authorizing governor orders and emergency species-conservation proceedings. The law required findings, appeal opportunities and termination within a year. The Senate passed it 27–8, and it became law.
April 6, 2011
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H298’s proposal to bar optional Affordable Care Act implementation and require advance public verification of mandatory state actions. Medicaid was exempt from its discretionary-program definition. The Senate passed it 24–11; the governor vetoed it on April 20.
April 5, 2011
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H297, replacing fixed new-hire income-tax credits with refundable employer credits tied to new workers’ wages and unemployment-insurance ratings. Qualifying jobs required health benefits and minimum wages based on local unemployment. The Senate passed it 30–5, and it became law.
April 5, 2011
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H191, allowing licensed horse tracks to conduct simulcast betting at approved offsite facilities, including in other counties. It required county approval and dedicated wagering shares to live-race purses. The Senate passed it 26–9, and it became law.
April 5, 2011
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H129, replacing daycare group-size caps with age-weighted staffing limits and revising licensing fees. The final bill retained locked-weapons and pool-safety requirements and permitted local rules to count providers’ own children. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
April 4, 2011
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H234, requiring registered sex offenders to obtain annual written school-district permission for otherwise permitted child-related visits and deliveries. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law. This amended the school-access restrictions he supported in 2006.
April 1, 2011
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1070, making knowing, intentional physical assistance in suicide a felony punishable by up to five years. The final bill preserved pain relief and withdrawal of treatment under valid directives or authorized refusals of consent. The Senate passed it 31–2, and it became law.
March 11, 2011
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho HJM2, opposing wilderness designations made without a public process involving Idaho residents. The memorial criticized a federal wild-lands order and urged elected officials to defend that position. The Senate adopted it 28–7.
March 4, 2011
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H17, requiring specified commercial drivers to file current medical certifications and identify their operating category. It established medical-status records, downgrade notices and opportunities to correct certification failures. The Senate passed it 28–6, and it became law.
March 2, 2011
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho HCR7, directing the state controller to skip General Fund transfers to the Budget Stabilization Fund during fiscal 2012. The resolution prioritized existing programmes and services instead of reserve deposits. The Senate adopted it 34–0.
February 25, 2011
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1097, requiring defendants to contribute up to $100 toward court-ordered presentence investigations based on ability to pay. Collections reimbursed investigation costs and required legislative appropriation before expenditure. The Senate passed it 31–3, and it became law.
February 23, 2011
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H27, extending enhanced assault and battery penalties to emergency dispatchers and police-training employees handling officer decertification. The Senate passed it 23–12, and it became law.
February 15, 2011
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1014, expanding the rape definition to cover consent obtained by impersonation, threats against others, property damage, or blackmail. It also extended related registration and prosecution provisions to those offenses. The Senate passed it 32–0, and it became law.
February 3, 2011
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Was assigned as vice chairman of the Idaho Senate State Affairs Committee for the 61st Legislature.
December 2, 2010
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H. 675, recognizing qualifying registered raw-milk herd shares outside retail-sale rules, with testing, notice, ownership and no-resale conditions. The Senate passed it 28–4.
March 29, 2010
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H. 681, revising last-resort indigent medical assistance through catastrophic-care coordination, financial eligibility, provider-payment and recovery rules, while excluding specified weight-reduction services. The Senate passed it 34–0.
March 29, 2010
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H. 631, requiring specified mental-health firearm disqualifications to be reported for background checks and creating judicial restoration petitions with public-safety findings and appeal rights. The Senate passed it 34–0.
March 29, 2010
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H. 605, requiring written reasons for specified land-use decisions and permitting site-specific rezoning review after local remedies, with harm and filing-deadline requirements. The Senate passed it 33–1.
March 25, 2010
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H. 548, allowing certain nonprofit recognition awards of up to $500 to nonelected public servants, subject to prior public disclosure of donors, recipients and amounts. The Senate passed it 34–0.
March 25, 2010
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H.496, requiring accepted photo identification or a signed name-and-address affidavit before voting at polling places. The Senate passed it 27–6.
March 24, 2010
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against S. 1411, transferring specified poultry and swine facility permitting functions from environmental regulators to the agriculture department while retaining siting, plan and financial-assurance requirements. The Senate passed it 24–11.
March 23, 2010
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for S. 1408, expanding military and overseas absentee-ballot transmission options while moving the ordinary in-person absentee deadline to Friday and changing emergency absentee timing. The Senate passed it 29–5.
March 22, 2010
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H. 599, allowing EPA-approved research, development and demonstration landfill permits with equivalent-protection, leachate, reporting and time-limit safeguards. The Senate passed it 35–0.
March 18, 2010
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for S. 1385, revising age-based rape provisions and related limitation periods, including a three-year age gap for sixteen- and seventeen-year-old victims and separate rules for younger minors. The Senate passed it 35–0.
March 15, 2010
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for S. 1384, regulating private-prison guards’ use of deadly force, riot response, training and civil immunity under state correctional oversight. The Senate passed it 34–0.
March 11, 2010
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for S. 1340, allowing specified injury claims to survive an injured person’s unrelated death, while limiting recoverable damages to the listed medical, out-of-pocket and wage losses. The Senate passed it 32–0.
March 9, 2010
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for S. 1312, allowing courts to waive reunification efforts after specified serious injury to a child, while retaining the statute’s hearing and disability safeguards. The Senate passed it 33–0.
March 2, 2010
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for S. 1367, extending resident-tuition eligibility to qualifying honorably discharged veterans and dependent family members who established Idaho domicile within the specified period. The Senate passed it 34–0.
February 24, 2010
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H. 242, extending the Small Employer Incentive Act’s qualifying tax-credit and rebate period to 2020 and limiting each qualifying project period to ten years. The Senate passed it 34–0.
April 8, 2009
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H. 184, replacing Idaho’s bail framework with rules for cash, property and commercial bonds, bail-agent arrests, revocation hearings and forfeiture relief, without abolishing monetary bail. The Senate passed it 35–0.
March 23, 2009
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Became majority caucus chairman of the Idaho Senate when the Senate changed its leadership roster.
January 13, 2009
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Served as vice chairman of the Idaho Senate Education Committee, as identified in the December 4, 2008 organizational-session assignments.
December 4, 2008
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for amended H.606, restricting state participation in REAL ID while retaining reasonable identification security and a conditional route for revised federal requirements and later legislative approval. The Senate passed it 32–0.
March 31, 2008
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for S. 1426, expanding mental-health intervention grounds to specified likely deterioration and authorizing outpatient commitments, while retaining least-restrictive treatment, counsel, evidentiary and hearing safeguards. The Senate passed it 35–0.
March 25, 2008
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H.550, allowing counties to grant up-to-five-year property-tax exemptions for qualifying rural manufacturing investments of at least $3 million that demonstrated county economic benefits. The Senate passed it 28–7.
March 24, 2008
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for S. 1433, revising manufactured-home rent arbitration to remove the 5% rent-increase presumption and add conversion opportunity costs to reasonableness factors, while retaining price-stability considerations. The Senate passed it 33–1.
March 11, 2008
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H. 417, restricting residences housing more than two registered sex offenders, with grandfathering, constitutional court exceptions and exclusions for licensed healthcare facilities. The Senate passed it 32–0.
March 6, 2008
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H. 389, adding prosecutors to authorized prescription-monitoring database users and penalties for misuse, while exempting prosecutorial disclosure in criminal proceedings from the confidentiality restriction. The Senate passed it 34–0.
March 6, 2008
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H. 465, narrowing state residential-zoning protections for certain group homes involving correctional supervision, registered sex offenders or threats to others, while leaving federal fair-housing law unchanged. The Senate passed it 32–1.
March 5, 2008
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for S. 1252, capping administrative and professional employees’ compensatory time at 240 hours with accrual and forfeiture deadlines, while increasing vacation accrual for other fully exempt employees. The Senate passed it 33–1.
February 27, 2008
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for S. 1407, revising disability qualifications for military dependents’ education benefits, retaining the programme’s service and disability eligibility requirements. The Senate passed it 33–0.
February 25, 2008
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against S. 1331, removing a statutory presumption against certain interspousal annuity asset transfers in Medicaid eligibility rules, permitting rule negotiation without itself changing current Medicaid procedures. The Senate passed it 23–10.
February 8, 2008
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against S. 1343, defining reasonable private health-insurance costs in child-support orders as no more than 5% of the obligated parent’s gross income, excluding public assistance from that private-plan definition. The Senate passed it 20–15.
February 6, 2008
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H.154, creating optional state environmental advice on proposed electric-generating facilities over 50 megawatts, while barring local siting authorities from considering need, resource plans or alternative sites. The Senate passed it 24–9.
March 15, 2007
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H. 125, extending child-abuse civil claims to five years after discovery when later than the age-based deadline, with employment-related employer claims subject to statutory liability limits. The Senate passed it 35–0.
March 14, 2007
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H. 124, extending the prosecution limitation period for failing to report child abuse, abandonment or neglect from one to four years. The Senate passed it 35–0.
March 14, 2007
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H. 174, providing civil damages and legal-cost remedies for knowingly false or bad-faith child-abuse reports, including enhanced damages for malicious reporting. The Senate passed it 33–1.
March 14, 2007
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H. 198, allowing the Idaho Housing and Finance Association to arrange nonrecourse economic-development financing through private financial institutions, without pledging state funds or credit. The Senate passed it 35–0.
March 13, 2007
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H. 181, lowering the ordinary community-college property-tax levy ceiling from 0.16% to 0.125%, while retaining a voter-approved supplemental levy route. The Senate passed it 35–0.
March 13, 2007
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for H. 51, extending deployed military reservists’ protections against reduced child-custody rights and preserving educational status, credits, scholarships and tuition. The Senate passed it 35–0.
March 12, 2007
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for S. 1056, allowing affected persons to comment at confined-animal-feeding-operation siting hearings beyond the previous one-mile residency limit; the proposal stalled in House Local Government. The Senate passed it 30–4.
February 21, 2007
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H1, replacing the regular school maintenance-and-operation property levy with state funding and raising sales and use taxes from 5% to 6%. It provided $250.6 million for school operations and transferred $100 million into a stabilization reserve. He earlier opposed H876’s 6.25% version. H1 passed the Senate 24–11 and became law.
August 25, 2006
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1441, granting civil immunity for legally justified self-defense and attorney fees when a court found that immunity applied. The bill retained an exception for known law-enforcement officers performing their duties. The Senate passed the final version 34–0, and it became law.
April 5, 2006
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1492, revising the legislative-committee open-meetings law to allow extraordinary closed-session exceptions specified in chamber rules. The law retained the general requirement for open meetings. The Senate passed it 26–8, and it became law.
April 5, 2006
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho HJM25, urging reversal of federal offshore-energy withdrawals and test-well drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf. The memorial also called for environmentally responsible development. The Senate adopted it 26–7; it did not authorize drilling itself.
April 3, 2006
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H800, strengthening the priority of groundwater-recharge rights against later water appropriations. Prior perfected rights and protections against injury to existing water users remained. The proposal failed in the Senate 14–21.
March 30, 2006
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho SCR134, proposing rejection of the State Board of Education’s entire pending thoroughness rulemaking docket. The Senate adopted the resolution 24–11; it stalled in the House.
March 30, 2006
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1300, expanding violent-sexual-predator classification reviews to specified registration violations and offenders under federal or tribal supervision. Written risk assessments and findings remained required. The Senate passed the final amended bill 35–0, and it became law.
March 29, 2006
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H630, making serious threats on school grounds to use deadly weapons against people on school grounds a misdemeanor. Actual intent to carry out the threat was not required. The Senate passed it 31–4, and it became law.
March 28, 2006
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H663, authorizing Medicaid health accounts and enforceable copayments for specified services or missed appointments. The bill included emergency-use safeguards and permitted federally approved exemptions. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 28, 2006
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H421, raising the homeowner property-tax exemption ceiling from $50,000 to $75,000 and including the home site. The Senate version tied future adjustments to Idaho housing prices. It passed 28–7 and became law.
March 23, 2006
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H545, authorizing three northern Idaho water-rights adjudications, contingent on legislative funding. It increased filing fees and permitted review of specified historic water-use changes without enlargement or injury to existing rights. The Senate passed it 30–5, and it became law.
March 22, 2006
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho S1393, proposing at least 2% biodiesel in most diesel fuel after production-capacity and federal price-incentive conditions were met. The bill included content-disclosure rules and a locomotive exception. It failed in the Senate 11–23.
March 20, 2006
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H673, creating a separate liquor-license route for qualifying year-round resorts. It allowed up to three licenses within each resort, with nontransferability outside the resort and specified fees. The Senate passed it 22–12, and it became law.
March 20, 2006
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H637, exempting water-resource projects from specified central facilities-planning, administration and review requirements. Public advertising and contract-bidding requirements remained. The Senate passed it 34–0, and it became law.
March 20, 2006
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H694, allowing utility rates to include returns on construction or property held for future use after an explicit public-interest finding. The bill also addressed gains or losses when unused property was sold. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 16, 2006
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H546, removing legislative approval requirements for water-project revolving loans above $500,000. Water-board feasibility, repayment and available-fund requirements remained. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 16, 2006
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho SJM120, opposing proposals for significant sales of federal land in Idaho. The memorial cited public outdoor access and supported publicly reviewed transfers of surplus parcels to the state. The Senate adopted it 34–1.
March 16, 2006
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H497, creating sales- and use-tax rebates for qualifying media-production property purchases. Projects required at least $200,000 in Idaho expenditures within 36 months, with recapture for disqualification and a 2011 sunset. The Senate passed it 21–10, and it became law.
March 14, 2006
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1356, extending domestic-violence protection orders to one year and allowing longer or permanent orders on qualifying findings. The bill also expanded contact restrictions and the immediate-danger standard. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 13, 2006
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho SCR131, requesting a mercury-contamination assessment and an initial opt-out from the federal mercury cap-and-trade programme. The proposal linked later regulatory decisions to the report. The Senate adopted it 31–4; it stalled in the House.
March 13, 2006
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho S1357’s proposal to expand prevailing-party attorney-fee awards in civil claims up to $50,000. Personal-injury claims retained a separate $25,000 limit and settlement safeguards. The Senate passed it 19–16, but it did not become law.
March 13, 2006
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho H629, raising specified criminal fines, including election, firearm, property and traffic penalties. The bill also clarified distribution of additional misdemeanor fines to therapeutic court programmes. The Senate passed it 28–6, and it became law.
March 9, 2006
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H672, expanding designated watchers’ access to election activities and authorizing issue supporters and opponents as challengers. It also changed registration-cancellation notifications and school-election voter lists. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 8, 2006
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho SJM119, urging Congress to restrict federal-court jurisdiction over governmental acknowledgment of God and protect public religious displays. The Senate adopted the memorial 25–5. It did not itself change federal law.
March 8, 2006
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho S1404’s proposal to count homeowners’ tax-exempt property value toward school districts’ bond limits. Local voter approval requirements remained. The Senate passed the initial version 24–8, but the bill failed after later House changes.
March 6, 2006
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1416, directing 80% of future tobacco-settlement receipts into a protected permanent endowment, with annual distributions limited by its value. A $10 million transfer and implementation depended on voter approval of the constitutional amendment. The Senate passed it 34–0, and the governor signed it.
March 2, 2006
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H451, allowing court-ordered firefighter pension shares to continue for an alternate payee’s lifetime without reverting to the member’s family. It adjusted survivor benefits to reflect those transfers. The Senate passed it 34–0, and it became law.
February 27, 2006
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho S1396, expanding animal-cruelty enforcement and seizure procedures. The bill included pretrial forfeiture proceedings, security deposits for animal care and restrictions on enforcement involving production animals. The Senate passed it 31–3, and it became law.
February 27, 2006
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1340, permitting designated professionals with psychology master’s degrees to serve on developmental-disability evaluation teams. The bill required members to have relevant specialized training and experience. The Senate passed it 33–2, and it became law.
February 24, 2006
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1062, making strangling a household member or dating partner a felony, even without visible injury. The maximum sentence was 15 years. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 30, 2005
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted against Idaho S1226, requiring notice to preservation officials before renovating or removing state-owned buildings. Their recommendations remained advisory. The Senate rejected it 11–24.
March 30, 2005
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H315, replacing three years of district-based teacher support with support in teachers’ first two professional years. It removed state approval of district support programmes. The Senate passed it 27–8, and it became law.
March 30, 2005
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1164, changing involuntary mental-health treatment rules for children and requiring court-approved treatment plans. Necessary medication remained possible without parental consent when consent could not be obtained. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 30, 2005
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H333, allowing regulated electric and gas utilities to refinance costs through bonds repaid by customer charges. Approved charges became irrevocable, with periodic adjustments and a financing cap of 40% of utility capitalization. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 29, 2005
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho H331, setting a standardized medical-service value schedule for workers’ compensation physician payments. The Industrial Commission set conversion factors and annual fee adjustments. The Senate passed it 35–0, and it became law.
March 29, 2005
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Voted for Idaho S1147, restricting one-year teacher contracts to specified staffing shortages, temporary vacancies and approved exceptions. The Senate passed it 35–0. The House rejected it, so it did not become law.
March 29, 2005
Source: legislature.idaho.gov
Was appointed to the Idaho Senate for District 21, succeeding Jack Noble.
March 28, 2005
Source: legislature.idaho.gov

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