Thomas Cormen

Democratic · NH · New Hampshire House of Representatives, Grafton District 15

Thomas Cormen is a state representative and Dartmouth emeritus professor of computer science. He has worked on legislation limiting state agency use of AI and addressing deceptive deepfakes.

Supports

Healthcare Affordability (31 records), Reduce Wealth Gap (5 records), Immigration (11 records),

Opposes

Limit Foreign Influence (1 record)

Mixed record

AI Regulation (6 support · 1 oppose), Environment and Public Health (69 support · 3 oppose), Labor Rights (15 support · 1 oppose),

Track record

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AI Regulation · 6 support · 1 oppose

Sponsored HB1506 to let state agencies request exceptions from AI restrictions with technology department and Executive Council approval. The House sent it to further study.
January 7, 2026Opposes AI Regulation
Source: gc.nh.gov
Offered SB 263’s amendment removing the video-game chatbot exemption; it failed 171–198. Voted against the chatbot-penalty and eviction bill, passed 202–168.
June 5, 2025Supports AI Regulation
Source: gc.nh.gov
Spoke and voted against rejecting HB 630 expanding disclosure rules for digitally altered election ads. The House rejected it 201–169.
March 20, 2025Supports AI Regulation
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored HB1596, which became law requiring disclosures on certain AI deepfakes distributed within 90 days of elections. It also allowed affected candidates and election officials to seek court relief.
August 2, 2024Supports AI Regulation
Source: gc.nh.gov
Sponsored HB1688, which became law restricting state agencies’ discriminatory AI use, malicious deepfakes, and public biometric surveillance. It required human review of irreversible AI decisions.
July 12, 2024Supports AI Regulation
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored HB1500 to impose criminal penalties for deceptive AI media distributed without consent and disclosure. The House sent it to further study.
January 3, 2024Supports AI Regulation
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored HB1710 to allow lawsuits over deceptive AI media and require AI disclosures in political communications. The House rejected it.
January 3, 2024Supports AI Regulation
Source: gc.nh.gov

Healthcare Affordability · 31 support

Cormen backed overriding SB468's veto, allowing medical-cannabis providers to seek approval for greenhouse growing sites. House tally: 257–44.
August 19, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed setting SB520 aside. The bill concerned allowing minors' breast-reduction surgery for pain or physical discomfort after consultation with their doctor. House tally: 193–150.
May 7, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed rejecting SB543. The bill concerned provisional Medicaid payments for nursing-home care while applications awaited approval. House tally: 182–154.
April 23, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB1356, extending the deadline to sue for violations of the law banning medical procedures intended to alter a minor’s gender from two to ten years after the minor reaches adulthood. The House passed it 180–146.
March 12, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HCR12, urging New Hampshire congressional members to support Medicare for All with comprehensive coverage including dental, vision, prescriptions, and long-term care without deductibles. The House rejected it 180–151.
March 12, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB1760, repealing state Medicaid pharmacy copayment directives and Granite Advantage and CHIP premiums, with funding to offset the resulting shortfall. The House rejected it 184–153.
March 12, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB1449, prohibiting vaccination clinics during public-school hours and requiring a parent or guardian to accompany children vaccinated at school clinics. The House passed it 172–154.
March 11, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for HB1705, providing state employee-assistance and mental-health support to volunteer first responders and full-time responders in towns with five or fewer paid full-time responders, with a $114,000 appropriation. The House passed it 194–154.
February 19, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB1596, raising cigarette taxes from $1.78 to $2.80 per pack, adding $18 million in annual university system funding, and ending CHIP and Granite Advantage health program premiums. The House rejected it 200–157.
February 12, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against SB 134's Medicaid work-rule enforcement, requiring quarterly checks and ending self-attestation. The House passed it 204–150.
January 8, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB392’s dissolution of the health access office and ban on environmental justice spending. It passed 192–159.
January 8, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 360, which barred school physicians, nurses and other school-contracted health providers from performing surgical procedures or prescribing drugs on school grounds. The bill passed 183–155.
January 7, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against SB 34, requiring written parental consent for each new medical or dental service in school, defined by its diagnostic billing code, and terminating school Medicaid programs under policies contrary to parental control. The bill passed 186–155.
January 7, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 712’s conference agreement restricting gender-related surgery for minors, expanding health-facility inspection disclosures, and requiring anonymized abortion-statistics reports. The agreement passed 191–163.
June 26, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Opposed HB2’s 2025 budget package in April and its June agreement, which passed 184–183. Final terms included Medicaid premiums and limits on public diversity, equity and inclusion programs. April amendment votes backed removing a school-budget cap and a new defined-contribution retirement plan. Backed family-planning, child-advocate, arts, human-rights and tourism funding. Supported school and university aid in place of private-school account expansion, and Medicaid-based school-meal enrollment. Backed lease protections, local keno votes, opioid-abatement contracts, lower fees and a higher video-lottery tax. Opposed limiting health officers and vaccine authority, biological-sex distinctions and direct-pay health-facility exemptions. Opposed firearms deregulation and new child-abuse-report liability rules. Also opposed lifting the Office of Health Equity hiring freeze.
June 26, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 377's final agreement banning new hormone and puberty-blocker treatments for transgender minors. The House approved it 202–161.
June 26, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 548 easing rules for direct-pay health facilities, including exemptions from serving all patients regardless of payment. Passed 200–157.
March 27, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 524, repealing the New Hampshire Vaccine Association and its vaccine-purchasing program. The House passed it 189–181.
March 6, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 94 limiting Medicaid coverage of child circumcision to medically necessary procedures. The House passed it 184–183.
March 6, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for HB 53 allowing medical-cannabis patients and caregivers to grow cannabis at home under plant and security limits. Passed 328–42.
February 20, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of SB403. The bill concerned seeking Medicaid reimbursement for certified community health workers' services. House tally: 241–122.
May 23, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to reject HB1190. The bill concerned joining an interstate licensing agreement for social workers. House tally: 175–200.
March 28, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to indefinitely postpone HR23. The resolution concerned urging Congress to support a national universal health-insurance program. House tally: 192–179.
March 14, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted against passage of HB1660. The bill concerned banning Medicaid coverage for gender-reassignment surgery for minors. House tally: 193–169.
March 7, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted against passage of HB619, as amended. The bill concerned banning genital gender-reassignment surgery for minors, with medical exceptions. House tally: 199–175.
January 4, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted to accept the Senate version of HB2. The bill concerned the 2023 budget policy bill, including Medicaid expansion, increased school aid, and earlier repeal of interest-and-dividends taxes. House tally: 326–53.
June 8, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of SB263. The bill concerned permanently extending the Granite Advantage Medicaid expansion program. House tally: 193–166.
May 18, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted against passage of HB10. The bill concerned requiring parental consent for minors' health care and imposing penalties for violations. House tally: 189–195.
March 22, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HR7. The resolution concerned urging the federal government to protect Medicare and Social Security benefits without cuts. House tally: 333–12.
February 23, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB565, as amended. The bill concerned extending Medicaid coverage after childbirth from 60 days to 12 months. House tally: 184–179.
February 22, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored HB338 to cap insulin costs at $30 for a 30-day supply through a state assistance program. The House rejected it.
January 5, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov

Environment and Public Health · 69 support · 3 oppose

Voted against overriding the veto of HB 396 allowing limited farm-meat sales without normal inspection. Final override failed 202–107.
August 19, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored HB1718, which became law allowing energy storage with net metering. It assigned installation rules and utility payment oversight to state agencies.
July 10, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted to override the veto of HB451, creating a manufacturer-run paint collection and recycling program funded by a per-container assessment included in paint prices. The override failed 186–169.
April 9, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for HB1602, requiring covered-battery producers to fund an approved statewide collection and recycling program, with free consumer collection and reimbursement of participating collection sites’ costs. The House passed it 244–112.
March 26, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against killing HB1477, requiring $50 permits for anchored seasonal platforms on public waters, splitting revenue between navigation safety and cyanobacteria mitigation. The kill motion failed 172–180.
March 26, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB1449, prohibiting vaccination clinics during public-school hours and requiring a parent or guardian to accompany children vaccinated at school clinics. The House passed it 172–154.
March 11, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB1022, prescribing a signed statement of sincere religious beliefs or practices for childhood immunization exemptions, including the child's name and birth date. The House passed it 179–150.
March 11, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB1219, limiting vaccination requirements for children and adults in foster homes to those in the general childhood-immunization statute, including its exemptions. The House passed it 180–145.
March 11, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB1635, removing the two-hour minimum for school staff suicide-prevention training and changing the requirement from annual training to training within 30 days of hiring and every two years thereafter. The House passed it 183–167.
March 5, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB1811, repealing childhood immunization requirements and prohibiting state and local vaccination mandates. A proposed amendment retaining a polio mandate failed before this vote; the unamended bill failed 155–192 and was rejected.
February 19, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB1584, requiring prominent notices of medical and religious exemptions on state health-department vaccination promotions and allowing any signed religious-objection statement instead of a prescribed form. The House passed it 197–163.
February 12, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB1719, removing hepatitis B from New Hampshire's required childhood immunizations. The House passed it 186–168.
February 12, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 1542 redirecting renewable-energy fund money to ratepayer rebates after administrative costs. The House passed it 189–157.
February 12, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against killing HB1810, imposing a $4 bulk-road-salt fee to fund pollution-mitigation grants for certified winter maintenance and requiring bulk sellers to register. The House killed it 177–156.
February 12, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB392’s dissolution of the health access office and ban on environmental justice spending. It passed 192–159.
January 8, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against killing HB 624’s river-management grants, funded at $40,000 annually for fiscal 2026 and 2027, with up to $10,000 per local advisory committee. The motion passed 187–164.
January 8, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against indefinitely postponing SB106, expanding net metering to commercial and industrial generating groups above one and below five megawatts and providing long-term tariff eligibility. The House postponed it 172–152.
January 8, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored SB628 to let highway authorities license curbside electric vehicle chargers, with safety, accessibility, and pricing rules. The Senate sent it to further study.
January 7, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored HB1741 to require utility programs combining customers’ solar, batteries, and flexible electricity use into distributed power plants. It died on the House table.
January 7, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against killing HB 97’s $30 million for approved wastewater infrastructure projects, split across fiscal 2026 and 2027 and available without lapsing. The motion passed 175–156.
January 7, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against overriding the veto of HB 446, requiring written parental consent for the youth risk-behavior survey and other nonacademic surveys, with the surveys emailed to parents at least 10 days beforehand. The override failed 181–170.
December 17, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Hosted 17 visitors to show solar power, battery storage and electric yard tools during an Earth Week open house.
July 16, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: thelebanontimes.com
Opposed HB2’s 2025 budget package in April and its June agreement, which passed 184–183. Final terms included Medicaid premiums and limits on public diversity, equity and inclusion programs. April amendment votes backed removing a school-budget cap and a new defined-contribution retirement plan. Backed family-planning, child-advocate, arts, human-rights and tourism funding. Supported school and university aid in place of private-school account expansion, and Medicaid-based school-meal enrollment. Backed lease protections, local keno votes, opioid-abatement contracts, lower fees and a higher video-lottery tax. Opposed limiting health officers and vaccine authority, biological-sex distinctions and direct-pay health-facility exemptions. Opposed firearms deregulation and new child-abuse-report liability rules. Also opposed lifting the Office of Health Equity hiring freeze.
June 26, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting SB 272 allowing town funds for electric-vehicle chargers and protecting charging spaces. Rejected 195–163.
May 22, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored SB228 to expand shared solar credits and community-solar capacity limits. Spoke and voted against its rejection in the House. The House rejected it 190–151.
May 1, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against an amendment to SB 60 ending DHHS authority to add childhood immunization requirements and allowing varicella, hepatitis B and Hib requirements to expire in June 2026. The amendment passed 176–165.
May 1, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 361, prohibiting public schools from requiring students or visitors to wear facial coverings, with instructional, sports, legal, IEP and Section 504 exceptions. The House passed it 203–164.
March 27, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 679, which barred requiring childhood vaccines unless clinical trials showed that they prevented disease transmission. The bill passed 204–165.
March 27, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 358, which limited a religious exemption from childhood immunizations to a parent’s or guardian’s signed statement, without additional information. The bill passed 206–169.
March 27, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB 226, authorizing drug-checking equipment and nominal drug samples for analysis, with protections for authorized harm-reduction activities. The rejection motion failed 140–196.
March 26, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HCR 4, a resolution rejecting offshore wind projects until environmental and economic questions were vetted, financial risks were avoided and the General Court approved. The resolution passed 195–149.
March 20, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB219’s cuts to renewable energy requirements and compliance payments. It passed 189–173.
March 13, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for HB751, which required licenses for outpatient addiction treatment and funded a $211,000 compliance position. It passed 216–152.
March 6, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against killing HB 691, which banned fluoridation of public water systems and repealed local fluoridation referendum provisions. The House killed it 212–143.
March 6, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB208, which removed education department certification for school nurses while keeping state nursing licenses. It passed 211–163.
March 6, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB 756, requiring school and daycare health forms to include childhood lead-test results and notices to families when results were missing, with exemptions preserved. The House rejected it 202–169.
March 6, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 524, repealing the New Hampshire Vaccine Association and its vaccine-purchasing program. The House passed it 189–181.
March 6, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against indefinitely postponing HB 724, lowering the childhood blood-lead investigation threshold from 5 to 3.5 micrograms per deciliter, expanding inspections and requiring lead-safe renovation credentials on building permits. The postponement passed 202–167.
March 6, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 649, repealing vehicle safety inspections, on-board diagnostic testing and the motor-vehicle air-pollution abatement fund. The House passed it 212–143.
March 6, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB 368 banning smoking and vaping in vehicles carrying children under 16. The House rejected it 213–157.
February 20, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Spoke and voted against HB 682, removing state offshore-wind development responsibilities, repealing the offshore-wind workforce and port commissions, and removing offshore-wind initiatives from renewable-energy fund uses. The House passed it 206–163.
February 20, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HCR 9, a nonbinding resolution urging the United States to reject compliance with the European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive. The House approved it 204–163.
February 13, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB 332, allowing village districts to protect and remediate surface-water quality. The House rejected the bill 196–171.
February 13, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB 334, adding natural-resource protections and an environmental-threats section to the comprehensive state development plan. The House rejected it 199–171.
February 13, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB 422, increasing shoreland-protection civil penalties and administrative fines from $5,000 to $15,000, with repeat-offense multipliers. The House rejected it 196–175.
February 13, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored HB106 to study New Hampshire’s climate damage costs and ways to recover them, including legal claims against fossil fuel companies. The House rejected it.
January 8, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted to override the veto of HB1293. The bill concerned restricting lawn fertilizer use near storm drains and before heavy rain. House tally: 232–99.
October 10, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted to override HB1415’s veto and require contaminated PFAS facilities to follow federal closure and cleanup standards. The bill used a combined 100-parts-per-trillion threshold for regulated PFAS compounds. House override passed 289–38.
October 10, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of SB431, as amended. The bill concerned restricting wake surfing near shores and on lakes smaller than 50 acres. House tally: 214–148.
May 23, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of SB505. The bill concerned making the ban on certain high-THC hemp products permanent. House tally: 242–124.
May 23, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to reject SB496. The bill concerned creating a state program addressing health threats from climate change. House tally: 186–182.
May 2, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB1649, as amended. The bill concerned banning certain consumer products with intentionally added PFAS chemicals. House tally: 233–140.
April 11, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Opposed indefinitely postponing HR30, a resolution urging officials to consider distributing climate-change curricula to schools. It covered climate impacts, energy solutions and related jobs. Postponement passed 191–183.
March 21, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Opposed barring state and local governments from enforcing or relying on CDC or WHO public-health guidance (HB1156). The bill failed 181–190.
March 14, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to reject CACR14. The bill concerned adding a constitutional duty to protect a clean environment and natural resources. House tally: 197–168.
March 7, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted against passage of HB1213, as amended. The bill concerned removing daycare centers' requirement to keep children's vaccination records. House tally: 189–173.
March 7, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted to indefinitely postpone HB1423. The bill concerned requiring the state to identify old-growth and mature forests on public land. House tally: 228–141.
February 22, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Supported using $3 million in carbon-auction proceeds for a two-year electric-car rebate pilot instead of electricity-bill rebates (HB1472). The bill failed 187–192.
February 22, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against SB61’s landfill-setback amendment requiring permit applications to remain on hold until new rules were adopted, even beyond 24 months. It also strengthened safety and public-comment criteria. The amendment failed 152–226.
June 8, 2023Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of SB69. The bill concerned letting eligible nonprofit organizations host net-metering groups up to five megawatts. House tally: 186–186.
May 4, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of SB79. The bill concerned expanding net metering for business power systems sized to meet their yearly energy needs. House tally: 194–179.
May 4, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to reject HB534. The bill concerned creating a $5 million fund to repair drinking-water sources after natural disasters. House tally: 191–196.
April 6, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB139. The bill concerned allowing towns to share renewable net-metering projects across municipal boundaries. House tally: 188–186.
March 23, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB523. The bill concerned raising the net-metering limit for renewable power projects from one to five megawatts. House tally: 182–189.
March 16, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB208. The bill concerned setting state greenhouse-gas reduction goals and requiring climate action plans. House tally: 183–187.
March 16, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB524. The bill concerned tripling the carbon-auction revenue reserved for energy efficiency from $1 to $3 per ton. House tally: 181–186.
March 16, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to reject HCR5. The resolution concerned urging state legal action over fossil-fuel companies' climate disinformation. House tally: 189–158.
March 9, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to reject HB226. The bill concerned allowing towns to restrict single-use plastic packaging and its disposal. House tally: 257–90.
February 23, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to reject HB630. The bill concerned creating a revolving fund to finance clean energy projects. House tally: 187–182.
February 14, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB234. The bill concerned ending utilities' use of unclaimed renewable energy credits. House tally: 182–182.
February 14, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted against passage of HB246, as amended. The bill concerned using renewable energy funds for electricity rebates through June 2025. House tally: 179–186.
February 14, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB418. The bill concerned using all carbon-auction proceeds for energy efficiency instead of electricity rebates. House tally: 183–185.
February 14, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: gc.nh.gov

Reduce Wealth Gap · 5 support

Voted against killing HB1661, funding the Housing Finance Authority's Community Heroes homeownership assistance for health-care workers, educators, first responders and military members with $750,000 for FY2027 and $1.5 million annually beginning July 2028. The House killed it 179–166.
February 5, 2026Supports Reduce Wealth Gap
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB 651 increasing state school funding to $7,356.01 per student, plus added aid for disadvantaged students. Rejected 190–155.
January 7, 2026Supports Reduce Wealth Gap
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against SB 295 removing household-income limits for education freedom accounts, with an initial 10,000-student enrollment cap. Passed 190–178.
June 5, 2025Supports Reduce Wealth Gap
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for HB 739 requiring towns to send excess statewide education-property taxes to the state education fund. Passed 246–128.
March 13, 2025Supports Reduce Wealth Gap
Source: gc.nh.gov
Supported requiring landlords to give tenants 60 days’ sale notice and consider their offers in good faith (HB112). Tenants also received extra time to arrange financing. The bill failed 175–199.
March 9, 2023Supports Reduce Wealth Gap
Source: gc.nh.gov

Labor Rights · 15 support · 1 oppose

Cormen opposed overriding HB1072's veto. It generally required 30 days' notice before labor inspections and time for employers to answer demands. House tally: 160–159.
August 19, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed SB88's ban on state construction-contract terms favoring or barring union labor agreements. It removed a public-safety exception. The motion failed 162–167.
May 14, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against amended HB1043, allowing employers to replace the statutory two-hour minimum pay for employees called to work with a different written policy. The House passed it 189–155.
March 12, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted to indefinitely postpone HB1704, allowing most public employees to negotiate employment terms individually outside union representation, with exemptions for public safety personnel. He also opposed an amendment removing criminal penalties. Postponement passed 177–159.
March 11, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against killing HB 197 restoring state payment of 7.5% of local teacher, police, and firefighter pension contributions. Rejected 172–159.
January 7, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Opposed HB2’s 2025 budget package in April and its June agreement, which passed 184–183. Final terms included Medicaid premiums and limits on public diversity, equity and inclusion programs. April amendment votes backed removing a school-budget cap and a new defined-contribution retirement plan. Backed family-planning, child-advocate, arts, human-rights and tourism funding. Supported school and university aid in place of private-school account expansion, and Medicaid-based school-meal enrollment. Backed lease protections, local keno votes, opioid-abatement contracts, lower fees and a higher video-lottery tax. Opposed limiting health officers and vaccine authority, biological-sex distinctions and direct-pay health-facility exemptions. Opposed firearms deregulation and new child-abuse-report liability rules. Also opposed lifting the Office of Health Equity hiring freeze.
June 26, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for HB 517 ending state outreach and marketing requirements for the paid family leave plan. Passed 316–32.
March 27, 2025Opposes Labor Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB 487 requiring larger employers to provide work schedules seven days ahead. The bill was rejected 196–155.
March 26, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 280 removing wage-payment safeguards, including employees’ payroll-card consent. The amended bill passed 191–176.
March 20, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB 378 requiring larger employers to pay unused vacation and personal time when employment ended. Rejected 193–169.
March 6, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB 282, doubling the aggregate biennial cap on critical-injury benefits for first responders from $500,000 to $1 million while retaining the $125,000 individual limit. The rejection motion failed 175–195.
February 20, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB 299 allowing successful workers’ compensation claimants to recover reasonable lawyer fees and costs. Rejected 193–177.
February 20, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted to indefinitely postpone HB238, which banned required union membership and union payments as job conditions. The motion passed 200–180.
February 13, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Opposed HB1616’s conference agreement requiring written parental consent for each new school medical service’s diagnostic code. It also exempted a health-agency staffing pilot from collective bargaining. The agreement failed 173–179.
June 13, 2024Supports Labor Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted to indefinitely postpone HB559. The bill concerned switching newly hired state workers from defined pensions to contribution-based retirement accounts. House tally: 201–174.
January 3, 2024Supports Labor Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB125. The bill concerned limiting students aged 16 and 17 to 35 work hours during school weeks and restricting late-night work. House tally: 175–195.
March 16, 2023Supports Labor Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov

Anti-Corruption · 15 support · 2 oppose

Cormen opposed SB643's state enforcement of local tax and spending caps. It added public-hearing and recorded-vote rules for some overrides. House tally: 164–150.
May 14, 2026Opposes Anti-Corruption
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen supported limiting withheld school grants for audit failures and requiring public explanations for withholding (SB586 amendment 1625h). The amendment failed 162–193.
April 23, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB1130, expanding judicial performance evaluations and publishing each judicial officer's evaluation report while withholding individual questionnaire comments. The House passed it 192–151.
February 19, 2026Opposes Anti-Corruption
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against killing HB1083, requiring disclosure of original funding sources for independent election expenditures over $500,000 in governor races or $50,000 across Executive Council, Senate or House races. The House killed it 188–161.
February 19, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB1570, requiring budget authority approval and public notice before law enforcement agencies joined federal 287(g) immigration agreements, with quarterly cost and activity reporting. The House rejected it 198–161.
February 12, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB1487, establishing an independent, bipartisan and unaffiliated citizen commission to propose redistricting maps under public participation and anti-gerrymandering standards. The House rejected it 189–164.
February 5, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 66's public-records changes, including ending fee-free appeals of the records ombudsman’s rulings. Passed 207–164.
April 10, 2025Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB 363 setting redistricting rules against favoring parties or incumbents and requiring compact districts. Rejected 203–167.
March 27, 2025Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted to override the veto of HB274. The bill concerned requiring extra public notices and allowing legal-cost awards in state rulemaking cases. House tally: 324–5.
October 10, 2024Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted to override the veto of HB1622. The bill concerned requiring agencies to pay legal costs or fines for enforcing expired rules. House tally: 318–11.
October 10, 2024Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to indefinitely postpone HB1074. The bill concerned counting limited liability company donations toward members' campaign contribution limits. House tally: 191–185.
March 21, 2024Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted against passage of HB1002, as amended. The bill concerned charging public-records requesters when producing records takes more than ten hours. House tally: 268–106.
March 21, 2024Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to indefinitely postpone HR26. The resolution concerned urging a U.S. constitutional amendment to distinguish corporate rights and regulate political spending. House tally: 194–179.
March 14, 2024Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored SB444 to require state education-board agendas and materials online at least 48 hours before meetings. The Senate sent it to further study.
January 18, 2024Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored HB1461 to require livestreams or recordings of municipal meetings, five-year archives, and state reimbursement. The House sent it to further study.
January 3, 2024Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted to override the veto of HB337. The bill concerned requiring earlier meeting notices and public materials from the professional licensing office. House tally: 251–104.
October 26, 2023Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB324. The bill concerned creating public campaign financing for governor and Executive Council races. House tally: 163–200.
February 14, 2023Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: gc.nh.gov

Government Efficiency · 15 support · 1 oppose

Cormen opposed SB508's ten-day deadline for accepting revised development plans and limits on repeated revisions. The motion failed 151–161.
May 14, 2026Opposes Government Efficiency
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB1803, prohibiting students from receiving both Education Freedom Accounts and education tax credit scholarships in the same program year. The House rejected it 191–157.
February 19, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against killing HB 572’s Partners in Housing program, which supported workforce housing on municipal or county land, expedited review and a $150,000 appropriation for a property inventory. The motion passed 191–156.
January 8, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored HB1666 to add electricity capacity planning and review of demand-reduction options to the state energy strategy. The House rejected it.
January 7, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
Source: gc.nh.gov
Sponsored HB1506 to let state agencies request exceptions from AI restrictions with technology department and Executive Council approval. The House sent it to further study.
January 7, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for SB 153 speeding driveway permits for housing projects with at least 20 homes. Passed 293–61.
May 8, 2025Supports Government Efficiency
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB 521 establishing online voter registration with identity checks. The House rejected the bill 202–169.
March 13, 2025Supports Government Efficiency
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB 646 funding online applications for free and reduced-price school meals, with $1 million for software. Rejected 209–165.
March 13, 2025Supports Government Efficiency
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 723 repealing the statewide utility energy-data platform. The House passed it 201–160.
March 6, 2025Supports Government Efficiency
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted to reject HB 80, which required unavoidable circumstances for remote attendance at public-body meetings and barred remotely attending members from voting. The rejection motion failed 179–190.
February 20, 2025Supports Government Efficiency
Source: gc.nh.gov
Sponsored HB535 to make utility regulators neutral decision makers and shift utility investigations and oversight to the Energy Department. It died on the House table.
January 9, 2025Supports Government Efficiency
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored HB681 to update rules for the statewide energy-data platform’s access, oversight, and investment. The House rejected it.
January 9, 2025Supports Government Efficiency
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored SB451, which became law setting a faster review process for repurposing existing energy facilities. Qualifying projects received a 180-day decision deadline.
July 26, 2024Supports Government Efficiency
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for an amendment to SB499. The amendment concerned funding summer food benefits for children and a simpler SNAP application for seniors. House tally: 192–178.
May 23, 2024Supports Government Efficiency
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to reject HB1190. The bill concerned joining an interstate licensing agreement for social workers. House tally: 175–200.
March 28, 2024Supports Government Efficiency
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored SB165 to require utility cost plans before building the statewide energy-data platform. It allowed delay after public-interest review. The Senate rejected it.
January 19, 2023Supports Government Efficiency
Source: gc.nh.gov

Immigration · 11 support

Voted against rejecting HB1609, limiting public funding and property transfers for immigrant detention facilities, while preserving 287(g) cooperation and health and safety aid to detainees. The House rejected it 185–154.
March 12, 2026Supports Immigration
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 1561 restricting certain Chinese nationals’ public-university graduate research and full-time research jobs. The bill failed 157–173.
March 11, 2026Supports Immigration
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 1709 criminalizing rental occupancy by unlawfully present, previously removed immigrants with prior felony convictions. Passed 181–154.
March 11, 2026Supports Immigration
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted to indefinitely postpone and table HB1706, then voted against passage after both motions failed. The bill ended the state refugee resettlement program and prohibited state agencies from accepting or spending funds for resettlement; it passed 170–164.
March 11, 2026Supports Immigration
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against SB 13 invalidating certain immigrant driver’s licenses and denying licenses to people with pending asylum claims. Passed 192–164.
May 22, 2025Supports Immigration
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against SB 62 protecting ICE cooperation agreements, banning sanctuary policies, and authorizing temporary immigration holds. Passed 200–162.
May 8, 2025Supports Immigration
Source: gc.nh.gov
Criticized immigration officials’ detention and attempted deportation of Mohsen Mahdawi in remarks to the House.
May 1, 2025Supports Immigration
Source: gc.nh.gov
Opposed HB71’s bar on government-ordered immigrant shelters at state-aided schools and colleges. It applied to shelters solely for people not admitted to the United States, with a 72-hour disaster exception. It also required patients’ rights protections in health-department contracts. The amended bill passed 209–162.
April 10, 2025Supports Immigration
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 461, requiring driver’s-license exams and related materials in English or American Sign Language and prohibiting in-person or electronic translation assistance. The bill passed 187–159.
March 26, 2025Supports Immigration
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of SB501. The bill concerned allowing qualifying noncitizens to receive driver's licenses tied to federal immigration documents. House tally: 181–169.
May 23, 2024Supports Immigration
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB624, as amended. The bill concerned requiring public warnings after police receive notice of planned immigration checkpoints. House tally: 220–152.
March 9, 2023Supports Immigration
Source: gc.nh.gov

Government Spending Reduction · 12 support · 89 oppose

Voted to override the veto of HB2026, adopting the 2027–2036 transportation plan and raising certain turnpike tolls to support it, with discounted rates for funded New Hampshire E-ZPass accounts and temporary free transponders. The override passed 292–25.
August 19, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against overriding the veto of HB1565, criminalizing intentional false child-abuse reports and allowing civil damages. The bill also required project managers before certain school-building-aid applications and provided provisional Medicaid nursing-home eligibility; the override failed 168–140.
August 19, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against closing Grafton County’s farm by removing $674,175 in expenses and $500,300 in revenue. That amendment failed 7–17. Voted for the county’s $60,545,124 budget, including $33,320,032 raised through taxes. The budget passed 16–8.
June 22, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: grafton-county.com
Voted against HB 1300’s agreement requiring school tax-cap ballots and limiting central-office spending to 6%. Passed 183–170.
June 4, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 155’s agreement raising business-tax filing thresholds, adding conditional tax cuts, and funding nursing facilities. Passed 195–157.
June 4, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed HB1588's conference agreement limiting local zoning rules for apartments on commercial land. It also created local infrastructure-financing districts. House tally: 185–171.
June 4, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed SB643's state enforcement of local tax and spending caps. It added public-hearing and recorded-vote rules for some overrides. House tally: 164–150.
May 14, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for 3.3% annual salary increases for Grafton County’s elected offices in 2027 and 2028. The proposal passed 17–2, with two abstentions. Opposed 4.5% annual increases for the sheriff and register of deeds, paired with frozen commissioners’ salaries. That amendment failed 7–13, with one abstention.
May 11, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: grafton-county.com
Cormen opposed rejecting SB603. The bill concerned shifting state funds to cover federal cuts to food-aid administration. House tally: 186–158.
May 7, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed rejecting SB543. The bill concerned provisional Medicaid payments for nursing-home care while applications awaited approval. House tally: 182–154.
April 23, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against killing HB1477, requiring $50 permits for anchored seasonal platforms on public waters, splitting revenue between navigation safety and cyanobacteria mitigation. The kill motion failed 172–180.
March 26, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HCR12, urging New Hampshire congressional members to support Medicare for All with comprehensive coverage including dental, vision, prescriptions, and long-term care without deductibles. The House rejected it 180–151.
March 12, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB1224, reducing municipal default budgets for eliminated or long-vacant positions and certain salary increases, while preserving restricted funding for public-safety vacancies under recruitment. The House passed it 186–160.
March 12, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB1760, repealing state Medicaid pharmacy copayment directives and Granite Advantage and CHIP premiums, with funding to offset the resulting shortfall. The House rejected it 184–153.
March 12, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB1609, limiting public funding and property transfers for immigrant detention facilities, while preserving 287(g) cooperation and health and safety aid to detainees. The House rejected it 185–154.
March 12, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 1515 removing the requirement for DHHS to request full funding for its childcare workforce program. Passed 170–153.
March 11, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted to indefinitely postpone and table HB1706, then voted against passage after both motions failed. The bill ended the state refugee resettlement program and prohibited state agencies from accepting or spending funds for resettlement; it passed 170–164.
March 11, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against killing HB1227, adding newly voter-approved annual bond debt service to local tax-cap calculations when repayment begins and applying the change to existing caps without readoption. The House killed it 176–151.
March 5, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for HB1705, providing state employee-assistance and mental-health support to volunteer first responders and full-time responders in towns with five or fewer paid full-time responders, with a $114,000 appropriation. The House passed it 194–154.
February 19, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted to kill HB1427, sharply limiting municipal, county and school-district bonds after a transition period, with exceptions for emergencies, threatened infrastructure, matching funds and specially approved voter authorizations. The House killed it 234–112.
February 19, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against killing HB1826, setting base school aid at $4,438 per pupil and differentiated special-education aid at $3,203 beginning July 2027. The House killed it 192–157.
February 19, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB1803, prohibiting students from receiving both Education Freedom Accounts and education tax credit scholarships in the same program year. The House rejected it 191–157.
February 19, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB1557, lowering the threshold for state special education cost aid from 3.5 to 1.5 times the statewide average cost per pupil. The House rejected it 184–157.
February 19, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB1799, raising base adequate education funding to $7,379.56 per pupil and differentiated aid, requiring statewide education property taxes to be paid into the Education Trust Fund, and studying alternative funding sources. The House rejected it 185–159.
February 19, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB1791, creating a $100,000 grant program to help public colleges support students with developmental disabilities. The House rejected it 187–157.
February 19, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for HB1655, funding state-owned dam maintenance through annual fees of $100 for waterfront properties and $50 for deeded-water-access properties, with current-use and working-farm exemptions. The amended bill passed 208–146.
February 12, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB1596, raising cigarette taxes from $1.78 to $2.80 per pack, adding $18 million in annual university system funding, and ending CHIP and Granite Advantage health program premiums. The House rejected it 200–157.
February 12, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against killing HB1810, imposing a $4 bulk-road-salt fee to fund pollution-mitigation grants for certified winter maintenance and requiring bulk sellers to register. The House killed it 177–156.
February 12, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against killing HB1661, funding the Housing Finance Authority's Community Heroes homeownership assistance for health-care workers, educators, first responders and military members with $750,000 for FY2027 and $1.5 million annually beginning July 2028. The House killed it 179–166.
February 5, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB1405, creating state-backed loan guarantees for affordable housing that covered 80 percent of principal, with a $300 million overall limit. The House rejected it 186–162.
February 5, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 1196 repealing the housing-champion grant and designation program. Passed 185–166.
February 5, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Opposed HB348’s new local welfare eligibility limits. It allowed residency-proof requirements and monthly aid caps of at least half the federal poverty level. Towns retained discretion for people fleeing violence and short emergency aid for nonresidents. The bill passed 190–157.
January 8, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against limiting school districts’ central-office administrative expenses to 6% of operating spending and withholding additional state-aid increases until districts complied. The amendment passed 177–176.
January 8, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB392’s dissolution of the health access office and ban on environmental justice spending. It passed 192–159.
January 8, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against killing HB 624’s river-management grants, funded at $40,000 annually for fiscal 2026 and 2027, with up to $10,000 per local advisory committee. The motion passed 187–164.
January 8, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against killing HB 572’s Partners in Housing program, which supported workforce housing on municipal or county land, expedited review and a $150,000 appropriation for a property inventory. The motion passed 191–156.
January 8, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for a school-budget cap tied initially to inflation and, from July 2028, to inflation and enrollment, excluding facilities acquisition and construction and requiring a two-thirds vote to exceed the cap. The amendment passed 184–168.
January 8, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 314 restricting public money for lobbying without local voter approval. The amended bill failed 152–198.
January 8, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB 651 increasing state school funding to $7,356.01 per student, plus added aid for disadvantaged students. Rejected 190–155.
January 7, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against killing HB 295, which made state school-building aid funds nonlapsing so unused appropriations remained available for school construction. The motion passed 191–150.
January 7, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against SB 34, requiring written parental consent for each new medical or dental service in school, defined by its diagnostic billing code, and terminating school Medicaid programs under policies contrary to parental control. The bill passed 186–155.
January 7, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against killing HB 197 restoring state payment of 7.5% of local teacher, police, and firefighter pension contributions. Rejected 172–159.
January 7, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB 665 expanding free school meals to families at or below 300% of federal poverty guidelines. Rejected 189–158.
January 7, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against killing SB 204, allowing school districts to expand free-meal eligibility to 200% of the federal poverty level with the state paying half the additional meal costs. The motion passed 183–161.
January 7, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 564, requiring separate voter approval of school administrative-unit budgets and an adjusted prior-year budget if voters rejected the proposal, excluding new pay increases, positions and services. The bill passed 191–148.
January 7, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against killing HB 97’s $30 million for approved wastewater infrastructure projects, split across fiscal 2026 and 2027 and available without lapsing. The motion passed 175–156.
January 7, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Opposed HB613’s March version allowing reduced local default budgets; it passed 197–158. Later opposed overriding the rewritten bill’s veto. It allowed towns to withhold accessible voting machines when officials expected no users, unless a voter requested one 60 days before an election. The override failed 150–201.
December 17, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against withholding three commissioner accounts’ spending until remote attendance and public comment returned. That amendment failed 10–15. Voted against reducing the county budget to $56,935,055. Said he had not seen the 130 proposed line-item cuts; that reduction failed 9–16. Opposed requiring Executive Committee review of grant applications; that amendment failed 8–16. Voted to table a resolution supporting local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement under the 287(g) program. The tabling motion passed 17–8, sending the resolution for further Executive Committee review.
June 23, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: grafton-county.com
Voted against SB 295 removing household-income limits for education freedom accounts, with an initial 10,000-student enrollment cap. Passed 190–178.
June 5, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Signed a letter asking Congress to restore staff for low-income households’ heating and cooling aid program (LIHEAP).
May 29, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: ncelenviro.org
Voted for SB 267 adding a mandatory $500 prostitution-patron fine and funding the state anti-trafficking task force. Passed 292–72.
May 22, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting SB 272 allowing town funds for electric-vehicle chargers and protecting charging spaces. Rejected 195–163.
May 22, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against SB 105 allowing towns to cap budgets using per-resident spending and inflation. Passed 193–168.
May 8, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against removing $450,000 in matching funds for freight-rail improvements and prohibiting use of a separate rail-and-tie appropriation on active freight railroads. The capital-budget amendment failed 136–232.
April 10, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against a budget amendment abolishing positions across state agencies and directing additional funding cuts, including $23 million annually from Health and Human Services and $7.9 million over the biennium from the judicial branch. The amendment passed 197–178.
April 10, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 475, excluding long-vacant positions, later salary increases, and transfers for one-time expenses from municipal and school default budgets. The House passed it 195–159.
March 27, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB 646 funding online applications for free and reduced-price school meals, with $1 million for software. Rejected 209–165.
March 13, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB675’s cap on local school operating budgets, with a two-thirds vote required to exceed it. It passed 190–185.
March 13, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB 703 protecting students with unpaid meal debts and requiring state repayment of those debts. Rejected 202–173.
March 13, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for HB751, which required licenses for outpatient addiction treatment and funded a $211,000 compliance position. It passed 216–152.
March 6, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB503, which raised business and meals taxes and restored a 5% interest and dividends tax. Extra revenue funded education. Rejection passed 345–27.
March 6, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB 245, funding municipal speed-enforcement and awareness equipment through 8.33% of court penalty assessments. The House rejected it 225–147.
March 6, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 224 rebating renewable-energy funds left after administration, offshore-wind office funding, and incentives to electric customers. Passed 200–162.
March 6, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 94 limiting Medicaid coverage of child circumcision to medically necessary procedures. The House passed it 184–183.
March 6, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 649, repealing vehicle safety inspections, on-board diagnostic testing and the motor-vehicle air-pollution abatement fund. The House passed it 212–143.
March 6, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB502, which changed corporate profit reporting and directed more tax revenue toward public schools. Rejection passed 209–163.
February 20, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Spoke and voted against HB 682, removing state offshore-wind development responsibilities, repealing the offshore-wind workforce and port commissions, and removing offshore-wind initiatives from renewable-energy fund uses. The House passed it 206–163.
February 20, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB 282, doubling the aggregate biennial cap on critical-injury benefits for first responders from $500,000 to $1 million while retaining the $125,000 individual limit. The rejection motion failed 175–195.
February 20, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Opposed HB1665’s conference agreement expanding education-account eligibility to 425% of federal poverty guidelines, reducing administrative allowances and extending district phase-out grants. The agreement failed 168–185.
June 13, 2024Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Opposed HB1265’s conference agreement capping aid for tuition-only school districts and requiring public school-spending reports with taxpayer enforcement. The agreement passed 183–172.
June 13, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of SB403. The bill concerned seeking Medicaid reimbursement for certified community health workers' services. House tally: 241–122.
May 23, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted to expand free school meals to households earning up to 350% of federal poverty guidelines, funded through the education trust fund (SB396 amendment 2135h). The amendment failed 177–185.
May 23, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for an amendment to SB499. The amendment concerned funding summer food benefits for children and a simpler SNAP application for seniors. House tally: 192–178.
May 23, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to reject SB217. The bill concerned creating grants to recruit teachers in rural and underserved areas. House tally: 184–174.
May 23, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for SB476’s $40 million bond appropriation for planning and design documents for a replacement state prison for men. The amended bill passed 212–155.
May 23, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted against passage of SB383, as amended. The bill concerned allowing new local tax-cap formulas and optional school-district spending caps. House tally: 184–177.
May 9, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Wrote a report opposing spending to delay a second area code (SB603). Questioned a proposed communications-tax cut.
May 2, 2024Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB1656, as amended. The bill concerned creating three levels of state school aid based on students' special-education needs. House tally: 349–26.
April 11, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to reject HB1678. The bill concerned creating a two-year pilot to help schools buy food grown in New Hampshire. House tally: 179–193.
April 11, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to reject HB1611. The bill concerned creating a childcare workforce fund for recruitment and retention grants. House tally: 163–162.
March 21, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Opposed indefinitely postponing HB1254, which allowed towns and cities to fund tourism-related services through hotel-stay fees of up to $2 daily. Low-cost rooms were exempt; fees stopped after 30 days. Postponement passed 195–171.
March 14, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB1512. The bill concerned limiting private-school account spending to the amount approved in the state budget. House tally: 186–187.
March 14, 2024Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted against passage of CACR15. The bill concerned requiring two-thirds legislative approval for new taxes, higher fees, and state borrowing. House tally: 183–185.
March 14, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted against passage of HB1660. The bill concerned banning Medicaid coverage for gender-reassignment surgery for minors. House tally: 193–169.
March 7, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Supported using $3 million in carbon-auction proceeds for a two-year electric-car rebate pilot instead of electricity-bill rebates (HB1472). The bill failed 187–192.
February 22, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored HB1461 to require livestreams or recordings of municipal meetings, five-year archives, and state reimbursement. The House sent it to further study.
January 3, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to reject HB546. The bill concerned excluding existing school-building debt payments from the limit on new building aid. House tally: 186–189.
January 3, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted against passage of HB354, as amended. The bill concerned letting charter schools apply for state school-building aid. House tally: 190–177.
January 3, 2024Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted to accept a federal broadband grant and authorize up to $5,129,572 in matching county funds. The Grafton County motion passed 20–0.
October 12, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Cormen voted to accept the Senate version of HB2. The bill concerned the 2023 budget policy bill, including Medicaid expansion, increased school aid, and earlier repeal of interest-and-dividends taxes. House tally: 326–53.
June 8, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of SB263. The bill concerned permanently extending the Granite Advantage Medicaid expansion program. House tally: 193–166.
May 18, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to reject HB534. The bill concerned creating a $5 million fund to repair drinking-water sources after natural disasters. House tally: 191–196.
April 6, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for $21.6 million to replace the state youth detention center (HB49 amendment 1104h). It planned 12 operating beds, with room for 18, and treatment-focused care. The amendment passed 276–104.
March 23, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted against passage of HB440. The bill concerned allowing the Education Trust Fund to pay for private-school and homeschool accounts. House tally: 191–185.
March 9, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HR7. The resolution concerned urging the federal government to protect Medicare and Social Security benefits without cuts. House tally: 333–12.
February 23, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB565, as amended. The bill concerned extending Medicaid coverage after childbirth from 60 days to 12 months. House tally: 184–179.
February 22, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB574, as amended. The bill concerned restoring farmers-market food benefits for families enrolled in WIC. House tally: 180–184.
February 22, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB324. The bill concerned creating public campaign financing for governor and Executive Council races. House tally: 163–200.
February 14, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB620, as amended. The bill concerned creating an early-learning division and a three-year public preschool pilot. House tally: 183–174.
February 14, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to reject HB630. The bill concerned creating a revolving fund to finance clean energy projects. House tally: 187–182.
February 14, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored HB338 to cap insulin costs at $30 for a 30-day supply through a state assistance program. The House rejected it.
January 5, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov

Public Safety and Crime Control · 23 support · 4 oppose

Voted against HB 1279’s agreement changing the standard for deadly force against likely unlawful force during a felony at home. Passed 208–140.
June 4, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for SB482, requiring cryptocurrency kiosks to hold first transactions for 48 hours, cap transactions at $2,000 per customer per day, screen for fraud, and refund fraud-induced transactions reported within 14 days. The House passed it 214–140.
April 23, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted to reject SB559, allowing municipalities to lower speed limits on some urban roads from 25 to 20 miles per hour. House tally: 218–110.
April 23, 2026Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against the SB460 amendment barring certain Tier III registered offenders from being within 500 feet of designated child safety zones, with legitimate-purpose defenses, and supported tabling the amended bill. The amendment passed 225–128; tabling failed 146–207.
April 23, 2026Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for SB620, increasing license suspensions for refusing alcohol testing from 180 days to nine months for a first refusal and from two to three years after a prior refusal or qualifying conviction. It also revised aggravated-DWI sentencing and allowed limited suspension reductions with qualifying pleas; the House passed it 259–94.
April 9, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for HB1633, requiring expanded written information about sexual-assault survivors' rights and evidence collection, including attorney-general publication and notices from providers and police. The House passed it 340–1.
March 26, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB1555, allowing the state fire marshal to review local fire-chief decisions afresh and authorize alternative construction methods and code modifications statewide. The House passed it 192–162.
March 26, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against killing HB1477, requiring $50 permits for anchored seasonal platforms on public waters, splitting revenue between navigation safety and cyanobacteria mitigation. The kill motion failed 172–180.
March 26, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Opposed amended HB1108, exempting qualifying defensive displays of firearms or other lawful self-defense means from criminal-threatening charges. Qualifying cases included conduct reasonably suggesting serious injury, death, theft or unlawful intrusion. It also covered trespassers refusing to leave after notice. The bill passed 193–144.
March 11, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB1048, repealing the ban on adults possessing or selling blackjacks, slung shots, and metallic knuckles while retaining restrictions for minors. The House passed it 192–154.
March 5, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB1642, allowing family members and law enforcement to seek court orders temporarily restricting firearms access when a person poses a significant danger to themselves or others. The House rejected it 206–153.
February 12, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB1710, adopting the Uniform Child Abduction Prevention Act, with court-ordered travel restrictions, passport controls, and custody warrants when a credible abduction risk is found. The House passed it 198–161.
February 12, 2026Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Wrote a report opposing shorter waits for underground utility markings and longer excavation windows (HB1169). The committee recommended rejection, 14–0.
February 5, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB1793, prohibiting public colleges and universities from restricting lawful firearms and non-lethal weapons on campus and allowing lawsuits for violations with at least $10,000 in damages. The House passed it 188–165.
February 5, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted to reject HB1452, allowing a waiver of traditional teenage driver education when a licensed parent or other responsible adult supplied equivalent instruction. The House rejected it 178–155.
February 5, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for HB 468, creating criminal penalties for dangerous or unlawful drone use and increasing minimum fines and license-revocation periods for driving at least 100 miles per hour. The Senate amendments were accepted 265–83.
June 12, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for SB 267 adding a mandatory $500 prostitution-patron fine and funding the state anti-trafficking task force. Passed 292–72.
May 22, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for SB 262, increasing the prison sentence for specified sex-trafficking crimes involving victims under 18 from 7–30 years to a minimum of 18 years and a maximum of life. The bill passed 290–71.
May 8, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for SB 23 expanding child-endangerment crimes and felony penalties for serious injury or death. The passage motion failed 154–188.
May 1, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB 245, funding municipal speed-enforcement and awareness equipment through 8.33% of court penalty assessments. The House rejected it 225–147.
March 6, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 649, repealing vehicle safety inspections, on-board diagnostic testing and the motor-vehicle air-pollution abatement fund. The House passed it 212–143.
March 6, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against killing HB 203, which required canoe, kayak and rowing-scull occupants to wear life jackets on state waters from November 15 through May 15, except during official competition. The motion passed 215–162.
February 13, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Supported safe-haven surrender of infants up to 61 days old, including alarm-equipped boxes at facilities staffed around the clock (HB1607). Those sections passed 372–1. Opposed a separate rule excluding evidence of parental wrongdoing obtained through surrender; it failed 185–188.
March 28, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Opposed indefinitely postponing HB1364, which strengthened election-worker protections and prohibited tampering with voter lists and electronic voting systems. It also penalized releasing personal information that posed a known serious, imminent threat. Postponement passed 189–184.
March 14, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Opposed HB1111 as amended. It exposed malicious false child-abuse reports and professional mandatory reporters’ knowing failures to report to civil liability. Good-faith reports kept immunity. The House passed it 199–179.
February 22, 2024Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Sponsored HB1379 to prohibit dumping yard debris more than two feet into paved public roads. The House rejected it.
January 3, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB628, which required criminal background checks for employees and volunteers at nonpublic schools and education providers receiving public-program funds. A proposed home-school exemption had failed; the original bill was rejected 195–178.
January 3, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: gc.nh.gov

Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties · 33 support · 14 oppose

Cormen opposed overriding SB434's veto. It added school complaint procedures for materials deemed obscene, harmful or age-inappropriate. House tally: 165–140.
August 19, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen backed overriding HB1422's veto. It lifted the three-year new-trial deadline for felony and serious-misdemeanor convictions involving new evidence and claimed innocence. House tally: 314–7.
August 19, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted to override the veto of HB 1184 setting hearing and appeal rights for public-property no-trespass orders. Override passed 290–29.
August 19, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted to override HB 1267’s veto, requiring parental permission for school questioning by lawyers or police, with child-welfare exceptions. Override passed 311–6.
August 19, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against the SB460 amendment barring certain Tier III registered offenders from being within 500 feet of designated child safety zones, with legitimate-purpose defenses, and supported tabling the amended bill. The amendment passed 225–128; tabling failed 146–207.
April 23, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for HB1633, requiring expanded written information about sexual-assault survivors' rights and evidence collection, including attorney-general publication and notices from providers and police. The House passed it 340–1.
March 26, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against indefinitely postponing HB1061, establishing a commission to study community-based sentencing alternatives for nonviolent offenders who are primary caregivers. The House indefinitely postponed it 188–149.
March 11, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Opposed amended HB1108, exempting qualifying defensive displays of firearms or other lawful self-defense means from criminal-threatening charges. Qualifying cases included conduct reasonably suggesting serious injury, death, theft or unlawful intrusion. It also covered trespassers refusing to leave after notice. The bill passed 193–144.
March 11, 2026Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB1132, limiting flags and banners at public and charter schools to specified official, instructional and school-related displays, with warnings, disciplinary action and fines up to $1,000 for repeated violations. The House passed it 182–156.
March 11, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 1709 criminalizing rental occupancy by unlawfully present, previously removed immigrants with prior felony convictions. Passed 181–154.
March 11, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against SB15’s hard-labor sentencing option for capital murder and sexual assault of children under 13. It passed 179–159.
January 7, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 510, establishing statutory disciplinary-hearing rights for students, student organizations and faculty at public colleges, including advance evidence disclosure, cross-examination, an advisor or lawyer and an appeal. The bill passed 197–149.
January 7, 2026Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for HB 468, creating criminal penalties for dangerous or unlawful drone use and increasing minimum fines and license-revocation periods for driving at least 100 miles per hour. The Senate amendments were accepted 265–83.
June 12, 2025Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against SB 100’s revised restrictions on discrimination-related school instruction, applying them to racial groups and authorizing civil lawsuits and educator discipline for intentional or knowing violations. The bill passed 194–165.
June 5, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for SB 262, increasing the prison sentence for specified sex-trafficking crimes involving victims under 18 from 7–30 years to a minimum of 18 years and a maximum of life. The bill passed 290–71.
May 8, 2025Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against SB 62 protecting ICE cooperation agreements, banning sanctuary policies, and authorizing temporary immigration holds. Passed 200–162.
May 8, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for SB 23 expanding child-endangerment crimes and felony penalties for serious injury or death. The passage motion failed 154–188.
May 1, 2025Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Criticized immigration officials’ detention and attempted deportation of Mohsen Mahdawi in remarks to the House.
May 1, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB 638 allowing parole for some older prisoners serving life sentences. The bill was rejected 214–127.
March 26, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB 226, authorizing drug-checking equipment and nominal drug samples for analysis, with protections for authorized harm-reduction activities. The rejection motion failed 140–196.
March 26, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 50's amended rules restricting discrimination-related teaching and workplace training, with educator penalties and lawsuits. Passed 183–157.
March 26, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against killing HB 380, which removed an additional criminal penalty for therapeutic-cannabis patients or caregivers who sold cannabis to unauthorized recipients while retaining ordinary controlled-substance penalties and card revocation. The motion failed 143–200.
March 26, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for HB 198 legalizing limited cannabis possession for adults 21 and older, with penalties for public consumption. Passed 208–125.
March 26, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 59, creating distinct felony assaults on emergency workers and law enforcement officers, with warrantless arrest and a presumption of dangerousness for bail when probable cause existed. The bill passed 196–179.
March 13, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB75, which legalized cannabis use and possession for adults age 21 and older. Rejection failed 167–190.
February 20, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for HB 53 allowing medical-cannabis patients and caregivers to grow cannabis at home under plant and security limits. Passed 328–42.
February 20, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted to override the veto of HB1622. The bill concerned requiring agencies to pay legal costs or fines for enforcing expired rules. House tally: 318–11.
October 10, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Sponsored HB1688, which became law restricting state agencies’ discriminatory AI use, malicious deepfakes, and public biometric surveillance. It required human review of irreversible AI decisions.
July 12, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted not to accept HB1018’s Senate changes, which expanded liquor licensing and criminal trespass rules for land open to recreation. The motion failed 180–190.
May 30, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Opposed Senate changes to HB1305, which protected campus speech and student groups’ belief-based membership rules at public colleges. It allowed lawsuits with indexed damages caps and preserved restrictions on unlawful conduct and harassment. Concurrence passed 201–160.
May 30, 2024Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for an amendment to SB508. The amendment concerned adding antisemitism guidance to civil-rights enforcement and arranging services before inmates' release. House tally: 189–160.
May 9, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB1633, as amended. The bill concerned legalizing adult cannabis sales through licensed stores with a 10% sales fee. House tally: 239–136.
April 11, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Opposed HB1280’s statutory rules for informed medical consent and patient rights. They covered treatment choices, confidentiality, records access and second opinions, with emergency exceptions. The House passed it 189–181.
March 28, 2024Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Supported safe-haven surrender of infants up to 61 days old, including alarm-equipped boxes at facilities staffed around the clock (HB1607). Those sections passed 372–1. Opposed a separate rule excluding evidence of parental wrongdoing obtained through surrender; it failed 185–188.
March 28, 2024Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB1539. The bill concerned automatically clearing eligible cannabis-possession records and allowing resentencing requests. House tally: 283–80.
March 28, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Opposed HB1204’s restrictions on government entry into secured private property and use of improperly obtained evidence. It allowed consent, emergencies and specified wildlife-enforcement exceptions. The House passed it 228–139.
March 14, 2024Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to indefinitely postpone HB1162. The bill concerned repealing restrictions on teaching about discrimination in public schools and workplaces. House tally: 192–183.
March 14, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted against passage of HB1266. The bill concerned allowing parties to record their open family-court proceedings. House tally: 191–173.
March 7, 2024Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of CACR13. The bill concerned amending the state constitution to ban slavery and involuntary servitude. House tally: 366–5.
February 1, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB368. The bill concerned protecting lawful gender-care patients and providers from other states' legal actions. House tally: 186–188.
January 4, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted against passage of HB639, as amended. The bill concerned legalizing adult cannabis sales through private businesses with a wholesale tax. House tally: 272–109.
April 6, 2023Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for $21.6 million to replace the state youth detention center (HB49 amendment 1104h). It planned 12 operating beds, with room for 18, and treatment-focused care. The amendment passed 276–104.
March 23, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB135, as amended. The bill concerned limiting no-knock search warrants to cases involving threats to human life. House tally: 374–9.
March 22, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB596. The bill concerned banning racial profiling in law enforcement and sentencing. House tally: 186–185.
March 16, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted to reject HB328. The bill concerned legalizing psychedelic drugs for adults 21 and older. House tally: 290–76.
March 16, 2023Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted to reject HB498. The bill concerned requiring Fish and Game officers to obtain warrants for official searches. House tally: 233–113.
February 23, 2023Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted to reject HB581. The bill concerned repealing the state's Controlled Drug Act. House tally: 286–70.
February 22, 2023Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: gc.nh.gov

Housing Affordability · 25 support · 3 oppose

Voted against overriding the veto of HB1336, allowing landlords to take up to an additional month’s rent as a conditional deposit from applicants failing specified screening criteria, with notice and re-screening protections. It also exempted advance rent from escrow requirements; the override failed 159–155.
August 19, 2026Supports Housing Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed HB1588's conference agreement limiting local zoning rules for apartments on commercial land. It also created local infrastructure-financing districts. House tally: 185–171.
June 4, 2026Opposes Housing Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen backed HB1681's Senate changes setting construction and inspection rules for tiny houses and yurts, with local land-use requirements preserved. House tally: 242–102.
May 21, 2026Supports Housing Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against killing HB1171, providing a 90-day grace period for residential tenants who miss rent because monthly Social Security payments unexpectedly stop. The House killed it 186–155.
March 12, 2026Supports Housing Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 1499 allowing evictions over false identities and certain undisclosed criminal convictions. The amended bill passed 193–154.
February 19, 2026Supports Housing Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against killing HB1661, funding the Housing Finance Authority's Community Heroes homeownership assistance for health-care workers, educators, first responders and military members with $750,000 for FY2027 and $1.5 million annually beginning July 2028. The House killed it 179–166.
February 5, 2026Supports Housing Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB1405, creating state-backed loan guarantees for affordable housing that covered 80 percent of principal, with a $300 million overall limit. The House rejected it 186–162.
February 5, 2026Supports Housing Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 1196 repealing the housing-champion grant and designation program. Passed 185–166.
February 5, 2026Supports Housing Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against killing HB 572’s Partners in Housing program, which supported workforce housing on municipal or county land, expedited review and a $150,000 appropriation for a property inventory. The motion passed 191–156.
January 8, 2026Supports Housing Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Opposed HB2’s 2025 budget package in April and its June agreement, which passed 184–183. Final terms included Medicaid premiums and limits on public diversity, equity and inclusion programs. April amendment votes backed removing a school-budget cap and a new defined-contribution retirement plan. Backed family-planning, child-advocate, arts, human-rights and tourism funding. Supported school and university aid in place of private-school account expansion, and Medicaid-based school-meal enrollment. Backed lease protections, local keno votes, opioid-abatement contracts, lower fees and a higher video-lottery tax. Opposed limiting health officers and vaccine authority, biological-sex distinctions and direct-pay health-facility exemptions. Opposed firearms deregulation and new child-abuse-report liability rules. Also opposed lifting the Office of Health Equity hiring freeze.
June 26, 2025Supports Housing Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 342 easing building-density variance rules and local approval of clean-energy financing districts. The concurrence motion failed 154–195.
June 12, 2025Opposes Housing Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Offered SB 263’s amendment removing the video-game chatbot exemption; it failed 171–198. Voted against the chatbot-penalty and eviction bill, passed 202–168.
June 5, 2025Supports Housing Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for SB 174 barring housing rejections based on bedroom counts when water and sewage capacity are adequate. Passage failed 176–183.
May 22, 2025Supports Housing Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for SB 153 speeding driveway permits for housing projects with at least 20 homes. Passed 293–61.
May 8, 2025Supports Housing Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for SB 284 limiting required residential parking to one space per home. Passed 197–144.
May 1, 2025Supports Housing Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against indefinitely postponing HB 631 permitting multifamily housing on commercial land with adequate infrastructure. The motion failed 128–211.
March 20, 2025Supports Housing Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Backed HB1400’s conference agreement limiting parking demands for qualifying housing and creating office-conversion tax relief. It also changed unauthorized-occupant eviction rules. The agreement passed 205–149.
June 13, 2024Supports Housing Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted against an amendment to SB413. The amendment concerned allowing eviction at the end of qualifying leases in a PFAS cleanup bill. House tally: 184–183.
May 9, 2024Supports Housing Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting SB538, allowing local tax relief for commercial-to-residential conversions, an optional process for governing bodies to amend zoning after a hearing, and qualifying alternatives to on-site residential parking. The House rejected it 188–173.
May 2, 2024Supports Housing Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB1291, as amended. The bill concerned expanding homeowners' rights to build accessory dwelling units. House tally: 220–143.
March 28, 2024Supports Housing Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB1399, as amended. The bill concerned allowing up to two homes on qualifying lots in single-family residential zones. House tally: 220–140.
March 28, 2024Supports Housing Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Supported requiring landlords to give tenants 60 days’ sale notice and consider their offers in good faith (HB112). Tenants also received extra time to arrange financing. The bill failed 175–199.
March 9, 2023Supports Housing Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB401. The bill concerned requiring 60 days' notice before eviction for renovations or removal from the rental market. House tally: 154–213.
March 9, 2023Supports Housing Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB567. The bill concerned requiring six months of notice for rent increases above 15% in protected rental properties. House tally: 166–207.
March 9, 2023Supports Housing Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB469. The bill concerned banning rental discrimination against people using Section 8 housing vouchers. House tally: 165–206.
March 9, 2023Supports Housing Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted against passage of HB117. The bill concerned allowing eviction when a lease of at least six months ends. House tally: 211–157.
March 9, 2023Supports Housing Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted against passage of HB44, as amended. The bill concerned allowing up to four homes on residential lots with public water and sewer. House tally: 117–232.
February 23, 2023Opposes Housing Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to reject HB95. The bill concerned allowing towns to regulate rents and rental notices. House tally: 301–63.
February 2, 2023Supports Housing Affordability
Source: gc.nh.gov

Social Programs and Welfare · 36 support

Voted against overriding the veto of HB1337, repealing the New Hampshire council on autism spectrum disorders effective December 31, 2027. The override failed 148–172.
August 19, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed rejecting SB603. The bill concerned shifting state funds to cover federal cuts to food-aid administration. House tally: 186–158.
May 7, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed rejecting SB543. The bill concerned provisional Medicaid payments for nursing-home care while applications awaited approval. House tally: 182–154.
April 23, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against killing HB1171, providing a 90-day grace period for residential tenants who miss rent because monthly Social Security payments unexpectedly stop. The House killed it 186–155.
March 12, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB1760, repealing state Medicaid pharmacy copayment directives and Granite Advantage and CHIP premiums, with funding to offset the resulting shortfall. The House rejected it 184–153.
March 12, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB1797, restricting SNAP eligibility flexibility and work-requirement waivers, requiring repeated data checks, and mandating immigration and criminal referrals in specified cases. The amended bill passed 172–161.
March 11, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 1515 removing the requirement for DHHS to request full funding for its childcare workforce program. Passed 170–153.
March 11, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB1773, seeking federal permission to prohibit SNAP purchases of sweetened drinks and candy, with retailer implementation and recipient education requirements. Passage failed 161–173; the House then killed it.
March 11, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted to indefinitely postpone and table HB1706, then voted against passage after both motions failed. The bill ended the state refugee resettlement program and prohibited state agencies from accepting or spending funds for resettlement; it passed 170–164.
March 11, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB1596, raising cigarette taxes from $1.78 to $2.80 per pack, adding $18 million in annual university system funding, and ending CHIP and Granite Advantage health program premiums. The House rejected it 200–157.
February 12, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: gc.nh.gov
Opposed HB348’s new local welfare eligibility limits. It allowed residency-proof requirements and monthly aid caps of at least half the federal poverty level. Towns retained discretion for people fleeing violence and short emergency aid for nonresidents. The bill passed 190–157.
January 8, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against SB 134's Medicaid work-rule enforcement, requiring quarterly checks and ending self-attestation. The House passed it 204–150.
January 8, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against SB 34, requiring written parental consent for each new medical or dental service in school, defined by its diagnostic billing code, and terminating school Medicaid programs under policies contrary to parental control. The bill passed 186–155.
January 7, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB 665 expanding free school meals to families at or below 300% of federal poverty guidelines. Rejected 189–158.
January 7, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against killing SB 204, allowing school districts to expand free-meal eligibility to 200% of the federal poverty level with the state paying half the additional meal costs. The motion passed 183–161.
January 7, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored HB627, which became law allowing additional telephone providers to receive state approval for the federal Lifeline assistance program.
July 7, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: gc.nh.gov
Opposed HB2’s 2025 budget package in April and its June agreement, which passed 184–183. Final terms included Medicaid premiums and limits on public diversity, equity and inclusion programs. April amendment votes backed removing a school-budget cap and a new defined-contribution retirement plan. Backed family-planning, child-advocate, arts, human-rights and tourism funding. Supported school and university aid in place of private-school account expansion, and Medicaid-based school-meal enrollment. Backed lease protections, local keno votes, opioid-abatement contracts, lower fees and a higher video-lottery tax. Opposed limiting health officers and vaccine authority, biological-sex distinctions and direct-pay health-facility exemptions. Opposed firearms deregulation and new child-abuse-report liability rules. Also opposed lifting the Office of Health Equity hiring freeze.
June 26, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: gc.nh.gov
Signed a letter asking Congress to restore staff for low-income households’ heating and cooling aid program (LIHEAP).
May 29, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: ncelenviro.org
Voted against rejecting HB 646 funding online applications for free and reduced-price school meals, with $1 million for software. Rejected 209–165.
March 13, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB 703 protecting students with unpaid meal debts and requiring state repayment of those debts. Rejected 202–173.
March 13, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 94 limiting Medicaid coverage of child circumcision to medically necessary procedures. The House passed it 184–183.
March 6, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB 282, doubling the aggregate biennial cap on critical-injury benefits for first responders from $500,000 to $1 million while retaining the $125,000 individual limit. The rejection motion failed 175–195.
February 20, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted to expand free school meals to households earning up to 350% of federal poverty guidelines, funded through the education trust fund (SB396 amendment 2135h). The amendment failed 177–185.
May 23, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for an amendment to SB499. The amendment concerned funding summer food benefits for children and a simpler SNAP application for seniors. House tally: 192–178.
May 23, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of SB417, as amended. The bill concerned changing child-placement rules to reduce out-of-state placements and improve oversight. House tally: 360–3.
May 23, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for an amendment to SB508. The amendment concerned adding antisemitism guidance to civil-rights enforcement and arranging services before inmates' release. House tally: 189–160.
May 9, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to indefinitely postpone HB1199. The bill concerned expanding child-advocate services to young people experiencing homelessness. House tally: 192–190.
April 11, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: gc.nh.gov
Supported safe-haven surrender of infants up to 61 days old, including alarm-equipped boxes at facilities staffed around the clock (HB1607). Those sections passed 372–1. Opposed a separate rule excluding evidence of parental wrongdoing obtained through surrender; it failed 185–188.
March 28, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to reject HB1611. The bill concerned creating a childcare workforce fund for recruitment and retention grants. House tally: 163–162.
March 21, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted to accept the Senate version of HB2. The bill concerned the 2023 budget policy bill, including Medicaid expansion, increased school aid, and earlier repeal of interest-and-dividends taxes. House tally: 326–53.
June 8, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of SB42. The bill concerned ending interest on nonfraudulent unemployment-benefit overpayments. House tally: 196–178.
June 8, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of SB263. The bill concerned permanently extending the Granite Advantage Medicaid expansion program. House tally: 193–166.
May 18, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB469. The bill concerned banning rental discrimination against people using Section 8 housing vouchers. House tally: 165–206.
March 9, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HR7. The resolution concerned urging the federal government to protect Medicare and Social Security benefits without cuts. House tally: 333–12.
February 23, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB565, as amended. The bill concerned extending Medicaid coverage after childbirth from 60 days to 12 months. House tally: 184–179.
February 22, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB574, as amended. The bill concerned restoring farmers-market food benefits for families enrolled in WIC. House tally: 180–184.
February 22, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: gc.nh.gov

Public Education Quality · 39 support · 4 oppose

Voted against HB 1300’s agreement requiring school tax-cap ballots and limiting central-office spending to 6%. Passed 183–170.
June 4, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen supported limiting withheld school grants for audit failures and requiring public explanations for withholding (SB586 amendment 1625h). The amendment failed 162–193.
April 23, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for adding school nurses, superintendent services and biennial actual-cost updates to HB1121's adequate-education definition; the amendment failed 149–187. He then opposed the narrower bill, which passed 187–152.
March 11, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB1817, giving Education Freedom Account students access to courses, extracurricular programs, statewide assessments, and the PSAT in their resident public-school district under policies no more restrictive than those for district students. The House passed it 179–156.
March 11, 2026Opposes Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB1155’s amendment repealing the Home Education Advisory Council and removing its role in reviewing education rules, then opposed the amended bill. The House passed it 180–156.
March 11, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB1268, repealing mandatory homeschool portfolios and annual evaluations, limiting government oversight and record collection, and imposing damages for specified bad-faith child-protection reports. It also expanded access to public-school programs and barred neglect findings based solely on homeschooling or Education Freedom Account participation; the House passed it 174–166.
March 11, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB1792, banning specified critical-race, identity-based and LGBTQ+ teaching practices in public schools and allowing civil claims and educator discipline for violations. The House passed it 184–164.
February 19, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against killing HB1826, setting base school aid at $4,438 per pupil and differentiated special-education aid at $3,203 beginning July 2027. The House killed it 192–157.
February 19, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB1557, lowering the threshold for state special education cost aid from 3.5 to 1.5 times the statewide average cost per pupil. The House rejected it 184–157.
February 19, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB1799, raising base adequate education funding to $7,379.56 per pupil and differentiated aid, requiring statewide education property taxes to be paid into the Education Trust Fund, and studying alternative funding sources. The House rejected it 185–159.
February 19, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB1791, creating a $100,000 grant program to help public colleges support students with developmental disabilities. The House rejected it 187–157.
February 19, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB1716, requiring Education Freedom Account student test results or certified-teacher portfolio evaluations to be reported to the Education Department for academic accountability. The House rejected it 194–166.
February 12, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB1596, raising cigarette taxes from $1.78 to $2.80 per pack, adding $18 million in annual university system funding, and ending CHIP and Granite Advantage health program premiums. The House rejected it 200–157.
February 12, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against killing HB1636, requiring a Revenue Administration study of at least five revenue options capable of raising $500 million annually for adequate school funding, with household and business impact analyses. The House killed the study bill 284–76.
February 12, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against limiting school districts’ central-office administrative expenses to 6% of operating spending and withholding additional state-aid increases until districts complied. The amendment passed 177–176.
January 8, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for a school-budget cap tied initially to inflation and, from July 2028, to inflation and enrollment, excluding facilities acquisition and construction and requiring a two-thirds vote to exceed the cap. The amendment passed 184–168.
January 8, 2026Opposes Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 366 removing priority for previously unfunded and critically needed school-construction grants. Passed 195–155.
January 7, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB 651 increasing state school funding to $7,356.01 per student, plus added aid for disadvantaged students. Rejected 190–155.
January 7, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against killing HB 295, which made state school-building aid funds nonlapsing so unused appropriations remained available for school construction. The motion passed 191–150.
January 7, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB121’s school audits and state takeover powers for districts on probation. It passed 187–154.
January 7, 2026Opposes Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Opposed HB2’s 2025 budget package in April and its June agreement, which passed 184–183. Final terms included Medicaid premiums and limits on public diversity, equity and inclusion programs. April amendment votes backed removing a school-budget cap and a new defined-contribution retirement plan. Backed family-planning, child-advocate, arts, human-rights and tourism funding. Supported school and university aid in place of private-school account expansion, and Medicaid-based school-meal enrollment. Backed lease protections, local keno votes, opioid-abatement contracts, lower fees and a higher video-lottery tax. Opposed limiting health officers and vaccine authority, biological-sex distinctions and direct-pay health-facility exemptions. Opposed firearms deregulation and new child-abuse-report liability rules. Also opposed lifting the Office of Health Equity hiring freeze.
June 26, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for an SB 206 amendment allowing teacher-directed educational exceptions to the school-day cellphone ban. Amendment failed 164–192.
June 5, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against SB 100’s revised restrictions on discrimination-related school instruction, applying them to racial groups and authorizing civil lawsuits and educator discipline for intentional or knowing violations. The bill passed 194–165.
June 5, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 50's amended rules restricting discrimination-related teaching and workplace training, with educator penalties and lawsuits. Passed 183–157.
March 26, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for HB 739 requiring towns to send excess statewide education-property taxes to the state education fund. Passed 246–128.
March 13, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 319, making school transportation for half-day kindergarten students discretionary rather than generally required. The bill passed 204–171.
March 13, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB675’s cap on local school operating budgets, with a two-thirds vote required to exceed it. It passed 190–185.
March 13, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB503, which raised business and meals taxes and restored a 5% interest and dividends tax. Extra revenue funded education. Rejection passed 345–27.
March 6, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB208, which removed education department certification for school nurses while keeping state nursing licenses. It passed 211–163.
March 6, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB502, which changed corporate profit reporting and directed more tax revenue toward public schools. Rejection passed 209–163.
February 20, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to reject SB217. The bill concerned creating grants to recruit teachers in rural and underserved areas. House tally: 184–174.
May 23, 2024Supports Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB1656, as amended. The bill concerned creating three levels of state school aid based on students' special-education needs. House tally: 349–26.
April 11, 2024Supports Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to indefinitely postpone HB1650. The bill concerned requiring educator review of applications for alternative high-school credit programs. House tally: 192–182.
March 21, 2024Supports Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Opposed indefinitely postponing HR30, a resolution urging officials to consider distributing climate-change curricula to schools. It covered climate impacts, energy solutions and related jobs. Postponement passed 191–183.
March 21, 2024Supports Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to indefinitely postpone HB1654. The bill concerned requiring private-school account providers to follow anti-discrimination laws and undergo yearly review. House tally: 191–183.
March 21, 2024Supports Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB1311. The bill concerned requiring school boards to adopt library-material policies that follow anti-discrimination laws. House tally: 194–180.
March 14, 2024Supports Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to reject HB546. The bill concerned excluding existing school-building debt payments from the limit on new building aid. House tally: 186–189.
January 3, 2024Supports Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of SB151. The bill concerned adding mental-health education to public-school education standards. House tally: 183–186.
January 3, 2024Supports Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted against passage of HB354, as amended. The bill concerned letting charter schools apply for state school-building aid. House tally: 190–177.
January 3, 2024Opposes Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted to accept the Senate version of HB2. The bill concerned the 2023 budget policy bill, including Medicaid expansion, increased school aid, and earlier repeal of interest-and-dividends taxes. House tally: 326–53.
June 8, 2023Supports Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of SB213, as amended. The bill concerned allowing career-training students to use online tools under school data-privacy safeguards. House tally: 201–175.
June 8, 2023Supports Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of SB152. The bill concerned creating technical-school training for marine trades and emerging energy careers. House tally: 250–123.
May 4, 2023Supports Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB620, as amended. The bill concerned creating an early-learning division and a three-year public preschool pilot. House tally: 183–174.
February 14, 2023Supports Public Education Quality
Source: gc.nh.gov

Gun Control · 17 support

Voted against rejecting HB1642, allowing family members and law enforcement to seek court orders temporarily restricting firearms access when a person poses a significant danger to themselves or others. The House rejected it 206–153.
February 12, 2026Supports Gun Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB1697, which sought to exempt firearms and accessories manufactured and kept in New Hampshire from federal regulation, with state penalties for exporting marked items. The House passed it 188–164.
February 5, 2026Supports Gun Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB1793, prohibiting public colleges and universities from restricting lawful firearms and non-lethal weapons on campus and allowing lawsuits for violations with at least $10,000 in damages. The House passed it 188–165.
February 5, 2026Supports Gun Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Opposed HB2’s 2025 budget package in April and its June agreement, which passed 184–183. Final terms included Medicaid premiums and limits on public diversity, equity and inclusion programs. April amendment votes backed removing a school-budget cap and a new defined-contribution retirement plan. Backed family-planning, child-advocate, arts, human-rights and tourism funding. Supported school and university aid in place of private-school account expansion, and Medicaid-based school-meal enrollment. Backed lease protections, local keno votes, opioid-abatement contracts, lower fees and a higher video-lottery tax. Opposed limiting health officers and vaccine authority, biological-sex distinctions and direct-pay health-facility exemptions. Opposed firearms deregulation and new child-abuse-report liability rules. Also opposed lifting the Office of Health Equity hiring freeze.
June 26, 2025Supports Gun Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 551 repealing local handgun sales licenses and shielding gun makers and dealers from certain design lawsuits. Passed 200–161.
May 22, 2025Supports Gun Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB 352, banning deadly weapons within 100 feet of polling places during elections, with law-enforcement and secured-vehicle exceptions and absentee voting for people unwilling to comply. The House rejected it 211–161.
February 20, 2025Supports Gun Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB56, which required background checks and a 72-hour waiting period for most firearm transfers. Rejection passed 216–154.
February 20, 2025Supports Gun Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted to bar carrying or possessing deadly weapons in the House chamber, adjoining rooms and gallery, except for officers on duty. The House Rule 64 amendment failed 154–227.
January 8, 2025Supports Gun Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB1711, as amended. The bill concerned reporting certain court mental-health findings for gun background checks and allowing gun-removal orders. House tally: 204–149.
March 28, 2024Supports Gun Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB1050. The bill concerned letting people voluntarily join a list that blocks their own firearm purchases. House tally: 179–200.
February 22, 2024Supports Gun Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted to reject HB144. The bill concerned restoring gun-ownership rights to people with felony convictions. House tally: 297–63.
January 4, 2024Supports Gun Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB351. The bill concerned requiring safety devices with gun transfers and stronger penalties for unsafe storage. House tally: 182–203.
March 22, 2023Supports Gun Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to reject HB106. The bill concerned allowing temporary court orders restricting gun access for people found dangerous. House tally: 198–172.
March 9, 2023Supports Gun Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to reject HB78. The bill concerned allowing state and local cooperation with federal gun enforcement. House tally: 200–173.
March 9, 2023Supports Gun Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to reject HB32. The bill concerned restricting firearms in school zones. House tally: 199–174.
March 9, 2023Supports Gun Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to reject HR8. The resolution concerned urging Congress to ban certain assault weapons and large ammunition magazines. House tally: 181–162.
February 23, 2023Supports Gun Control
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to reject HB191. The bill concerned allowing State Police to run a voluntary gun-destruction program. House tally: 237–121.
February 22, 2023Supports Gun Control
Source: gc.nh.gov

Women's Reproductive Rights · 12 support

Voted against HB1416, barring specified government requirements that pregnancy resource centers provide or promote abortion or contraception, protecting certain staffing decisions, and allowing suits for violations. The amended bill protected qualified providers of purported abortion-reversal treatment; the House passed it 176–163.
March 12, 2026Supports Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted to reject HB 1313 repealing buffer zones around reproductive-health facilities. Rejected 171–163.
March 11, 2026Supports Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 232 protecting health workers’ refusal to participate in abortions and allowing lawsuits over violations. Passed 184–164.
January 8, 2026Supports Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Opposed HB2’s 2025 budget package in April and its June agreement, which passed 184–183. Final terms included Medicaid premiums and limits on public diversity, equity and inclusion programs. April amendment votes backed removing a school-budget cap and a new defined-contribution retirement plan. Backed family-planning, child-advocate, arts, human-rights and tourism funding. Supported school and university aid in place of private-school account expansion, and Medicaid-based school-meal enrollment. Backed lease protections, local keno votes, opioid-abatement contracts, lower fees and a higher video-lottery tax. Opposed limiting health officers and vaccine authority, biological-sex distinctions and direct-pay health-facility exemptions. Opposed firearms deregulation and new child-abuse-report liability rules. Also opposed lifting the Office of Health Equity hiring freeze.
June 26, 2025Supports Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of SB567. The bill concerned requiring a state report on access to the abortion medicines mifepristone and misoprostol. House tally: 184–182.
May 2, 2024Supports Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HCR11. The resolution concerned condemning medically unnecessary restrictions on medication abortion. House tally: 196–151.
February 15, 2024Supports Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted to indefinitely postpone HB1248. The bill concerned banning abortion at 15 days of gestation, with medical exceptions. House tally: 363–11.
February 1, 2024Supports Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of CACR23. The bill concerned adding a constitutional right to abortion before 24 weeks. House tally: 193–184.
February 1, 2024Supports Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB224. The bill concerned removing criminal and civil penalties from the state's abortion law. House tally: 205–178.
March 23, 2023Supports Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB271. The bill concerned repealing the state's Fetal Life Protection Act abortion restrictions. House tally: 192–192.
March 23, 2023Supports Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of CACR2. The bill concerned adding a constitutional right to make personal reproductive decisions. House tally: 193–191.
March 23, 2023Supports Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted to reject HB591. The bill concerned banning abortion after detection of fetal cardiac activity. House tally: 271–110.
March 23, 2023Supports Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov

Election Integrity · 11 support · 5 oppose

Cormen opposed HB1062's conference report authorizing random citizenship audits of voters who had registered using affidavits. House tally: 196–156.
June 4, 2026Opposes Election Integrity
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against amended CACR21, adding U.S. citizenship as a constitutional qualification for voting. The 184–146 vote failed the required three-fifths threshold.
March 11, 2026Opposes Election Integrity
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB1487, establishing an independent, bipartisan and unaffiliated citizen commission to propose redistricting maps under public participation and anti-gerrymandering standards. The House rejected it 189–164.
February 5, 2026Supports Election Integrity
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 365 creating citizenship checks and birth-certificate vouchers for indigent voters. Passed 195–142.
January 8, 2026Opposes Election Integrity
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB 363 setting redistricting rules against favoring parties or incumbents and requiring compact districts. Rejected 203–167.
March 27, 2025Supports Election Integrity
Source: gc.nh.gov
Spoke and voted against rejecting HB 630 expanding disclosure rules for digitally altered election ads. The House rejected it 201–169.
March 20, 2025Supports Election Integrity
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB 521 establishing online voter registration with identity checks. The House rejected the bill 202–169.
March 13, 2025Supports Election Integrity
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored HB1596, which became law requiring disclosures on certain AI deepfakes distributed within 90 days of elections. It also allowed affected candidates and election officials to seek court relief.
August 2, 2024Supports Election Integrity
Source: gc.nh.gov
Opposed indefinitely postponing HB1149, which restored voter-domicile affidavits and simplified registration and verification rules. It also allowed interstate voter-data matching with confidentiality safeguards. Postponement passed 190–184.
March 21, 2024Supports Election Integrity
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted against passage of HB1369. The bill concerned checking voter rolls every four years instead of every ten years. House tally: 191–181.
March 14, 2024Opposes Election Integrity
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to indefinitely postpone HB1557. The bill concerned requiring New Hampshire to join the Electronic Registration Information Center. House tally: 189–185.
March 14, 2024Supports Election Integrity
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of CACR19, as amended. The bill concerned creating a constitutional redistricting commission with Democrats, Republicans, and independent members. House tally: 186–189.
March 14, 2024Supports Election Integrity
Source: gc.nh.gov
Opposed indefinitely postponing HB1364, which strengthened election-worker protections and prohibited tampering with voter lists and electronic voting systems. It also penalized releasing personal information that posed a known serious, imminent threat. Postponement passed 189–184.
March 14, 2024Supports Election Integrity
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to indefinitely postpone HB1426. The bill concerned creating an advisory redistricting commission. House tally: 192–186.
February 22, 2024Supports Election Integrity
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted against passage of HB1577, as amended. The bill concerned making digital ballot images available for public review. House tally: 193–182.
February 22, 2024Opposes Election Integrity
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored HB1710 to allow lawsuits over deceptive AI media and require AI disclosures in political communications. The House rejected it.
January 3, 2024Supports Election Integrity
Source: gc.nh.gov

Limit Foreign Influence · 1 oppose

Voted against HB 1561 restricting certain Chinese nationals’ public-university graduate research and full-time research jobs. The bill failed 157–173.
March 11, 2026Opposes Limit Foreign Influence
Source: gc.nh.gov

Personal Income Tax Reduction · 1 support · 2 oppose

Voted against replacing CACR10 with a constitutional ban on taxes measured by personal income, then against the amended proposal. The amendment passed 193–158, but final approval failed the three-fifths threshold at 194–158.
March 5, 2026Opposes Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB503, which raised business and meals taxes and restored a 5% interest and dividends tax. Extra revenue funded education. Rejection passed 345–27.
March 6, 2025Opposes Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted to accept the Senate version of HB2. The bill concerned the 2023 budget policy bill, including Medicaid expansion, increased school aid, and earlier repeal of interest-and-dividends taxes. House tally: 326–53.
June 8, 2023Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: gc.nh.gov

Data Privacy · 8 support · 4 oppose

Voted against HB1378, entitling parents to physical and electronic medical records of their minor children, with exceptions for legally confidential care, protective orders, or risk of abuse or neglect. The House passed it 175–149.
March 11, 2026Supports Data Privacy
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB1268, repealing mandatory homeschool portfolios and annual evaluations, limiting government oversight and record collection, and imposing damages for specified bad-faith child-protection reports. It also expanded access to public-school programs and barred neglect findings based solely on homeschooling or Education Freedom Account participation; the House passed it 174–166.
March 11, 2026Opposes Data Privacy
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB1460, prohibiting the sale of children's location and other sensitive data. The House passed it 214–145.
February 12, 2026Opposes Data Privacy
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 273's final agreement giving parents access to minors’ current library borrowing records. The House approved it 201–165.
June 26, 2025Supports Data Privacy
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against SB 96 requiring teachers to disclose student information to parents, with lawsuits and license penalties. Passed 198–172.
June 5, 2025Supports Data Privacy
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against SB 72’s parental-rights requirements for schools, including complete responses to parental inquiries and lawsuits for violations, with an exception requiring clear and convincing evidence of potential child abuse. The House passed it 214–167.
June 5, 2025Supports Data Privacy
Source: gc.nh.gov
Sponsored HB1688, which became law restricting state agencies’ discriminatory AI use, malicious deepfakes, and public biometric surveillance. It required human review of irreversible AI decisions.
July 12, 2024Supports Data Privacy
Source: gc.nh.gov
Opposed HB1280’s statutory rules for informed medical consent and patient rights. They covered treatment choices, confidentiality, records access and second opinions, with emergency exceptions. The House passed it 189–181.
March 28, 2024Opposes Data Privacy
Source: gc.nh.gov
Opposed indefinitely postponing HB1364, which strengthened election-worker protections and prohibited tampering with voter lists and electronic voting systems. It also penalized releasing personal information that posed a known serious, imminent threat. Postponement passed 189–184.
March 14, 2024Supports Data Privacy
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted to reject HB1308. The bill concerned requiring public libraries to provide parents access to children's library records. House tally: 194–170.
March 7, 2024Supports Data Privacy
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted against passage of HB1695, as amended. The bill concerned requiring schools to notify parents when student data is shared with outside contractors. House tally: 192–173.
March 7, 2024Opposes Data Privacy
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored HB1500 to impose criminal penalties for deceptive AI media distributed without consent and disclosure. The House sent it to further study.
January 3, 2024Supports Data Privacy
Source: gc.nh.gov

Civil Rights · 40 support

Opposed overriding HB1442’s veto. It permitted biological-sex classifications without violating sex or gender-identity discrimination laws. Covered shared bathrooms and locker rooms, certain sports and involuntary confinement facilities. It covered public and private entities. The override failed 165–149.
August 19, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB1376’s final agreement protecting biological-sex parenting decisions in abuse, custody, adoption and foster-care proceedings. Other abuse and child-welfare protections remained. The House adopted it 183–158.
June 4, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB1356, extending the deadline to sue for violations of the law banning medical procedures intended to alter a minor’s gender from two to ten years after the minor reaches adulthood. The House passed it 180–146.
March 12, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB1447, requiring state and local government facilities to classify restrooms, changing rooms, and sleeping quarters by biological sex and allowing private entities to do likewise without violating discrimination law. The House passed it 184–154.
March 12, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting CACR25, proposing constitutional protection for marriage equality regardless of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or race. The House rejected it 176–162.
March 12, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 1299 allowing biological-sex separation in bathrooms, sports, and detention, with an alternative-bathroom requirement for public buildings. Passed 176–155.
March 11, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 1561 restricting certain Chinese nationals’ public-university graduate research and full-time research jobs. The bill failed 157–173.
March 11, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against amended CACR21, adding U.S. citizenship as a constitutional qualification for voting. The 184–146 vote failed the required three-fifths threshold.
March 11, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against CACR14, adding U.S. citizenship as a constitutional qualification for governor, state senator, and state representative. The 182–157 vote failed the required three-fifths threshold.
March 5, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB1217, allowing public and private entities to separate people by biological sex in shared bathrooms, locker rooms and certain athletic competitions without violating discrimination law. The House passed it 187–163.
March 5, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB1792, banning specified critical-race, identity-based and LGBTQ+ teaching practices in public schools and allowing civil claims and educator discipline for violations. The House passed it 184–164.
February 19, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB1791, creating a $100,000 grant program to help public colleges support students with developmental disabilities. The House rejected it 187–157.
February 19, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB392’s dissolution of the health access office and ban on environmental justice spending. It passed 192–159.
January 8, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB323, which removed student photo IDs from accepted voter identification. It passed 190–148.
January 7, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Opposed HB613’s March version allowing reduced local default budgets; it passed 197–158. Later opposed overriding the rewritten bill’s veto. It allowed towns to withhold accessible voting machines when officials expected no users, unless a voter requested one 60 days before an election. The override failed 150–201.
December 17, 2025Supports Civil Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 712’s conference agreement restricting gender-related surgery for minors, expanding health-facility inspection disclosures, and requiring anonymized abortion-statistics reports. The agreement passed 191–163.
June 26, 2025Supports Civil Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Opposed HB2’s 2025 budget package in April and its June agreement, which passed 184–183. Final terms included Medicaid premiums and limits on public diversity, equity and inclusion programs. April amendment votes backed removing a school-budget cap and a new defined-contribution retirement plan. Backed family-planning, child-advocate, arts, human-rights and tourism funding. Supported school and university aid in place of private-school account expansion, and Medicaid-based school-meal enrollment. Backed lease protections, local keno votes, opioid-abatement contracts, lower fees and a higher video-lottery tax. Opposed limiting health officers and vaccine authority, biological-sex distinctions and direct-pay health-facility exemptions. Opposed firearms deregulation and new child-abuse-report liability rules. Also opposed lifting the Office of Health Equity hiring freeze.
June 26, 2025Supports Civil Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 377's final agreement banning new hormone and puberty-blocker treatments for transgender minors. The House approved it 202–161.
June 26, 2025Supports Civil Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against SB 218 requiring absentee registrants to document citizenship, age, residence, and identity. Passed 192–149.
June 5, 2025Supports Civil Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against SB 100’s revised restrictions on discrimination-related school instruction, applying them to racial groups and authorizing civil lawsuits and educator discipline for intentional or knowing violations. The bill passed 194–165.
June 5, 2025Supports Civil Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against SB 287, requiring absentee-ballot applicants to provide a photo-ID copy, notarized application, or show qualifying ID to a clerk before receiving a ballot. The House passed it 187–149.
June 5, 2025Supports Civil Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against SB 13 invalidating certain immigrant driver’s licenses and denying licenses to people with pending asylum claims. Passed 192–164.
May 22, 2025Supports Civil Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 50's amended rules restricting discrimination-related teaching and workplace training, with educator penalties and lawsuits. Passed 183–157.
March 26, 2025Supports Civil Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 461, requiring driver’s-license exams and related materials in English or American Sign Language and prohibiting in-person or electronic translation assistance. The bill passed 187–159.
March 26, 2025Supports Civil Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB 521 establishing online voter registration with identity checks. The House rejected the bill 202–169.
March 13, 2025Supports Civil Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Sponsored HB1688, which became law restricting state agencies’ discriminatory AI use, malicious deepfakes, and public biometric surveillance. It required human review of irreversible AI decisions.
July 12, 2024Supports Civil Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for an amendment to SB508. The amendment concerned adding antisemitism guidance to civil-rights enforcement and arranging services before inmates' release. House tally: 189–160.
May 9, 2024Supports Civil Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted against passage of HB1205, as amended. The bill concerned excluding transgender girls from girls' sports teams in grades 5 through 12. House tally: 189–182.
March 21, 2024Supports Civil Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Opposed indefinitely postponing HB1149, which restored voter-domicile affidavits and simplified registration and verification rules. It also allowed interstate voter-data matching with confidentiality safeguards. Postponement passed 190–184.
March 21, 2024Supports Civil Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted to indefinitely postpone HB1664. The bill concerned expanding lawsuits over gender-transition treatment when patients later detransition. House tally: 181–164.
March 21, 2024Supports Civil Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to indefinitely postpone HB1654. The bill concerned requiring private-school account providers to follow anti-discrimination laws and undergo yearly review. House tally: 191–183.
March 21, 2024Supports Civil Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB1311. The bill concerned requiring school boards to adopt library-material policies that follow anti-discrimination laws. House tally: 194–180.
March 14, 2024Supports Civil Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to indefinitely postpone HB1162. The bill concerned repealing restrictions on teaching about discrimination in public schools and workplaces. House tally: 192–183.
March 14, 2024Supports Civil Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted against passage of HB1660. The bill concerned banning Medicaid coverage for gender-reassignment surgery for minors. House tally: 193–169.
March 7, 2024Supports Civil Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of CACR13. The bill concerned amending the state constitution to ban slavery and involuntary servitude. House tally: 366–5.
February 1, 2024Supports Civil Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB368. The bill concerned protecting lawful gender-care patients and providers from other states' legal actions. House tally: 186–188.
January 4, 2024Supports Civil Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted against passage of HB619, as amended. The bill concerned banning genital gender-reassignment surgery for minors, with medical exceptions. House tally: 199–175.
January 4, 2024Supports Civil Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored HB1605 to require annual discrimination-law checks of alternative programs offering high school graduation credit. The House rejected it.
January 3, 2024Supports Civil Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB596. The bill concerned banning racial profiling in law enforcement and sentencing. House tally: 186–185.
March 16, 2023Supports Civil Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB467. The bill concerned requiring solid accessible paths at public playgrounds. House tally: 193–180.
March 9, 2023Supports Civil Rights
Source: gc.nh.gov

Corporate Accountability · 45 support · 2 oppose

Called for a two-year pause on large data centers and requiring them to cover added electric-grid costs.
September 2, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: indepthnh.org
Cormen opposed overriding HB1072's veto. It generally required 30 days' notice before labor inspections and time for employers to answer demands. House tally: 160–159.
August 19, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against overriding the veto of HB 396 allowing limited farm-meat sales without normal inspection. Final override failed 202–107.
August 19, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored HB1742, which became law restoring default utility service for customer-generators mistakenly enrolled in community electricity programs. It required up to four months of retroactive bill credits.
June 19, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for SB482, requiring cryptocurrency kiosks to hold first transactions for 48 hours, cap transactions at $2,000 per customer per day, screen for fraud, and refund fraud-induced transactions reported within 14 days. The House passed it 214–140.
April 23, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted to override the veto of HB451, creating a manufacturer-run paint collection and recycling program funded by a per-container assessment included in paint prices. The override failed 186–169.
April 9, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for HB1469, licensing and regulating multi-practitioner massage and bodywork establishments through the professional licensing office, with exemptions for certain medical settings and appointment-only sole practitioners. The House passed it 323–28.
March 26, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for HB1602, requiring covered-battery producers to fund an approved statewide collection and recycling program, with free consumer collection and reimbursement of participating collection sites’ costs. The House passed it 244–112.
March 26, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Spoke and voted against HB1775, allowing utilities to own or invest in natural-gas and nuclear generation units up to five megawatts, capped at 10 percent of distribution peak load, and seek recovery through electricity rates. It passed 198–153.
March 26, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against killing HB1722, creating separate electricity tariffs and long-term contracts for data-center facilities using at least 20 megawatts to prevent costs and risks shifting to other ratepayers. The House killed it 185–156.
March 12, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB1460, prohibiting the sale of children's location and other sensitive data. The House passed it 214–145.
February 12, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored HB1432 to give residential electric rates to shared condominium well and septic pumps and split charges among connected units. It died when the House session ended.
January 7, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored HB1741 to require utility programs combining customers’ solar, batteries, and flexible electricity use into distributed power plants. It died on the House table.
January 7, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Sponsored HB1534 to reduce swings in default electricity prices without pushing new costs into later bills. It assigned billing surpluses and shortfalls to each customer group's own future rates. The House rejected it.
January 7, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored HB1146 to ban subscription fees for certain preinstalled vehicle safety features, with exceptions for ongoing services. It died when the House session ended.
January 7, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored SB597 to cap yearly electric-rate increases at 4% above inflation and study performance-based utility rates. The Senate sent it to further study.
January 7, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against an amendment to SB 25 protecting cryptocurrency payments and mining from targeted state and local restrictions, exempting mining and staking from specified financial regulations, and creating a superior-court blockchain docket. The amendment passed 175–150.
June 5, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Offered SB 263’s amendment removing the video-game chatbot exemption; it failed 171–198. Voted against the chatbot-penalty and eviction bill, passed 202–168.
June 5, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 551 repealing local handgun sales licenses and shielding gun makers and dealers from certain design lawsuits. Passed 200–161.
May 22, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 548 easing rules for direct-pay health facilities, including exemptions from serving all patients regardless of payment. Passed 200–157.
March 27, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB 487 requiring larger employers to provide work schedules seven days ahead. The bill was rejected 196–155.
March 26, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 280 removing wage-payment safeguards, including employees’ payroll-card consent. The amended bill passed 191–176.
March 20, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB219’s cuts to renewable energy requirements and compliance payments. It passed 189–173.
March 13, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for HB751, which required licenses for outpatient addiction treatment and funded a $211,000 compliance position. It passed 216–152.
March 6, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 223 removing critical-access hospitals’ notice requirements for nearby outpatient health facilities. The House passed it 213–158.
March 6, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB 378 requiring larger employers to pay unused vacation and personal time when employment ended. Rejected 193–169.
March 6, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB502, which changed corporate profit reporting and directed more tax revenue toward public schools. Rejection passed 209–163.
February 20, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HCR 9, a nonbinding resolution urging the United States to reject compliance with the European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive. The House approved it 204–163.
February 13, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored HB674 to require cost-effective alternatives to new power lines and time-based rates. It also required smart meters on request and five-year rate reviews. It died on the House table.
January 9, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Sponsored HB535 to make utility regulators neutral decision makers and shift utility investigations and oversight to the Energy Department. It died on the House table.
January 9, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored HB460 to require review of utility investments in local energy resources and their effects on competition and customer costs. It died on the House table.
January 9, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored SB237 to let the consumer advocate represent residential utility customers in energy facility approval proceedings. The Senate rejected it.
January 9, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored SB111 to authorize utility contracts supporting up to 200 megawatts of energy storage. It required public-interest review before customer-funded cost recovery. The Senate rejected it.
January 9, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored HB755 to let local energy providers combine customer resources and require utilities to provide data and billing support. It died on the House table.
January 9, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored HB106 to study New Hampshire’s climate damage costs and ways to recover them, including legal claims against fossil fuel companies. The House rejected it.
January 8, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted to override HB1415’s veto and require contaminated PFAS facilities to follow federal closure and cleanup standards. The bill used a combined 100-parts-per-trillion threshold for regulated PFAS compounds. House override passed 289–38.
October 10, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored HB1457, which became law increasing fines for vehicles that exceeded covered bridge limits. Vehicle owners also became responsible for damage repairs.
July 3, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB1649, as amended. The bill concerned banning certain consumer products with intentionally added PFAS chemicals. House tally: 233–140.
April 11, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to indefinitely postpone HB1037. The bill concerned repealing civil-liability protections for firearm manufacturers and sellers. House tally: 196–163.
March 7, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to reject HB121. The bill concerned requiring multinational businesses to report worldwide profits for New Hampshire business taxes. House tally: 192–176.
January 4, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored SB320 to link electric and gas utility revenues to performance measures, including affordability, reliability, and customer satisfaction. The Senate sent it to further study.
January 3, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored HB1617 to require electric supply contracts of different lengths and quarterly review to stabilize default rates. The House sent it to further study.
January 3, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted to override the veto of HB142. The bill concerned forgiving Burgess Biopower's repayment obligations for above-market electricity costs. House tally: 194–159.
October 26, 2023Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for SB149, requiring temporary nurse-staffing agencies to register with the state and restricting double-booked shifts, on-site recruitment and certain virus-related surcharges. The bill passed 191–187.
June 8, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted against passage of HB69. The bill concerned exempting direct-pay and membership-based health facilities from special licensing rules. House tally: 190–189.
March 22, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted against passage of HB281. The bill concerned repealing utilities' requirement to file plans for delivering energy at the lowest cost. House tally: 184–168.
March 9, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to reject HCR5. The resolution concerned urging state legal action over fossil-fuel companies' climate disinformation. House tally: 189–158.
March 9, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: gc.nh.gov

Public Infrastructure · 35 support · 1 oppose

Voted to override the veto of HB2026, adopting the 2027–2036 transportation plan and raising certain turnpike tolls to support it, with discounted rates for funded New Hampshire E-ZPass accounts and temporary free transponders. The override passed 292–25.
August 19, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored HB1718, which became law allowing energy storage with net metering. It assigned installation rules and utility payment oversight to state agencies.
July 10, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed HB1588's conference agreement limiting local zoning rules for apartments on commercial land. It also created local infrastructure-financing districts. House tally: 185–171.
June 4, 2026Opposes Public Infrastructure
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for HB1655, funding state-owned dam maintenance through annual fees of $100 for waterfront properties and $50 for deeded-water-access properties, with current-use and working-farm exemptions. The amended bill passed 208–146.
February 12, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: gc.nh.gov
Wrote a report opposing shorter waits for underground utility markings and longer excavation windows (HB1169). The committee recommended rejection, 14–0.
February 5, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against indefinitely postponing SB106, expanding net metering to commercial and industrial generating groups above one and below five megawatts and providing long-term tariff eligibility. The House postponed it 172–152.
January 8, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 366 removing priority for previously unfunded and critically needed school-construction grants. Passed 195–155.
January 7, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against killing HB 295, which made state school-building aid funds nonlapsing so unused appropriations remained available for school construction. The motion passed 191–150.
January 7, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored SB628 to let highway authorities license curbside electric vehicle chargers, with safety, accessibility, and pricing rules. The Senate sent it to further study.
January 7, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored HB1741 to require utility programs combining customers’ solar, batteries, and flexible electricity use into distributed power plants. It died on the House table.
January 7, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored HB1666 to add electricity capacity planning and review of demand-reduction options to the state energy strategy. The House rejected it.
January 7, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against killing HB 97’s $30 million for approved wastewater infrastructure projects, split across fiscal 2026 and 2027 and available without lapsing. The motion passed 175–156.
January 7, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting SB 272 allowing town funds for electric-vehicle chargers and protecting charging spaces. Rejected 195–163.
May 22, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored SB228 to expand shared solar credits and community-solar capacity limits. Spoke and voted against its rejection in the House. The House rejected it 190–151.
May 1, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against removing $450,000 in matching funds for freight-rail improvements and prohibiting use of a separate rail-and-tie appropriation on active freight railroads. The capital-budget amendment failed 136–232.
April 10, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: gc.nh.gov
Wrote a report backing power generators serving local government buying groups or competing electricity suppliers (HB759). The House set the bill aside.
March 26, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HCR 4, a resolution rejecting offshore wind projects until environmental and economic questions were vetted, financial risks were avoided and the General Court approved. The resolution passed 195–149.
March 20, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 723 repealing the statewide utility energy-data platform. The House passed it 201–160.
March 6, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: gc.nh.gov
Wrote a report supporting shared electricity credits for customers who also generate power (HB654). It covered generators up to 100 kilowatts. The House set the bill aside.
March 6, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: gc.nh.gov
Spoke and voted against HB 682, removing state offshore-wind development responsibilities, repealing the offshore-wind workforce and port commissions, and removing offshore-wind initiatives from renewable-energy fund uses. The House passed it 206–163.
February 20, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored HB674 to require cost-effective alternatives to new power lines and time-based rates. It also required smart meters on request and five-year rate reviews. It died on the House table.
January 9, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored HB681 to update rules for the statewide energy-data platform’s access, oversight, and investment. The House rejected it.
January 9, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored SB111 to authorize utility contracts supporting up to 200 megawatts of energy storage. It required public-interest review before customer-funded cost recovery. The Senate rejected it.
January 9, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored HB755 to let local energy providers combine customer resources and require utilities to provide data and billing support. It died on the House table.
January 9, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored HB1457, which became law increasing fines for vehicles that exceeded covered bridge limits. Vehicle owners also became responsible for damage repairs.
July 3, 2024Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for SB476’s $40 million bond appropriation for planning and design documents for a replacement state prison for men. The amended bill passed 212–155.
May 23, 2024Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: gc.nh.gov
Sponsored HB1379 to prohibit dumping yard debris more than two feet into paved public roads. The House rejected it.
January 3, 2024Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored SB550 to require electric utilities to submit grid plans every five years with ten-year forecasts. The Senate sent it to further study.
January 3, 2024Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted to accept a federal broadband grant and authorize up to $5,129,572 in matching county funds. The Grafton County motion passed 20–0.
October 12, 2023Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: grafton-county.com
Cormen voted for passage of SB69. The bill concerned letting eligible nonprofit organizations host net-metering groups up to five megawatts. House tally: 186–186.
May 4, 2023Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of SB79. The bill concerned expanding net metering for business power systems sized to meet their yearly energy needs. House tally: 194–179.
May 4, 2023Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to reject HB534. The bill concerned creating a $5 million fund to repair drinking-water sources after natural disasters. House tally: 191–196.
April 6, 2023Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for $21.6 million to replace the state youth detention center (HB49 amendment 1104h). It planned 12 operating beds, with room for 18, and treatment-focused care. The amendment passed 276–104.
March 23, 2023Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB139. The bill concerned allowing towns to share renewable net-metering projects across municipal boundaries. House tally: 188–186.
March 23, 2023Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB523. The bill concerned raising the net-metering limit for renewable power projects from one to five megawatts. House tally: 182–189.
March 16, 2023Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB467. The bill concerned requiring solid accessible paths at public playgrounds. House tally: 193–180.
March 9, 2023Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: gc.nh.gov

General · 166 records

Served on COVER Home Repair’s board, wrote grants, and worked on roofs and ramps.
September 23, 2026
Source: coverhomerepair.org
Cormen opposed overriding HB1643's veto. It barred court-appointed child advocates from recommending parenting plans or schedules, even when judges requested them. House tally: 157–152.
August 19, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed overriding HB1097's veto, requiring legislative committee approval before changing or permanently removing state historical markers. House tally: 193–125.
August 19, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed overriding SB661's veto. It set reserve limits for local-government insurance pools and required members to cover financial shortfalls. House tally: 84–216.
August 19, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Opposed HB221’s energy-efficiency review changes in March 2025, when it passed 195–151. Later opposed overriding its veto after it expanded long-term utility power contracts and some net-metering credit thresholds to 250 kilowatts. The override failed 152–167.
August 19, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed overriding HB1766's veto. It restricted who could investigate livestock abuse and required euthanasia in some costly-treatment cases. House tally: 249–56.
August 19, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed overriding HB1726's veto. It sent state-property sale proceeds to the original funding source and studied land use for housing. House tally: 101–206.
August 19, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen backed overriding HB1102's veto. It raised research tax-credit limits and capped resident park-entry fees at half the nonresident rate. House tally: 231–88.
August 19, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed overriding HB1491's veto. It let local-government insurance pools enter a new framework regulated by the insurance commissioner. House tally: 160–148.
August 19, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted to censure Representative James Spillane for social-media harassment of another House member, affirming the Legislative Ethics Committee report. The motion passed 185–93.
August 19, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed SB481's conference agreement sending proceeds from the Sununu youth-center property sale to the general fund. House tally: 189–158.
June 4, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 317’s agreement changing how election officials verify voters without photo identification. Passed 197–159.
June 4, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted to table HB 609, which reserved authority over weapons rules on state property or for state employees to the legislature and required executive-branch rules to be renewed by July 2029. The motion passed 182–160.
June 4, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed HB1374's conference agreement on school withdrawals and closures. It allowed withdrawal through a three-fifths vote in the departing district alone. House tally: 179–161.
June 4, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against accepting Senate changes to HB1610, requiring annual voter authorization to retain school-district surplus funds, limiting balances to 3% of budget appropriations and restricting use to unusual circumstances. The House concurred 186–163.
May 21, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted to censure Representative Travis Corcoran over social-media posts targeting fellow House members, affirming the Legislative Administration Committee report. The motion passed 288–54.
May 21, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed SB653's changes to local budget-committee elections and county two-year budget calendars. House tally: 167–146.
May 14, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed reconsidering SB498's referral for further study. The bill concerned insurance assessments funding children's mental-health services. The reconsideration motion failed 162–183.
May 14, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against CACR12’s constitutional ban on personal income taxes and against an alternative permitting progressive income taxes dedicated to public schools and property tax relief. The alternative failed 17–322; the ban failed the three-fifths threshold at 193–148.
May 14, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed moving votes on adopting the official-ballot town-meeting system onto regular election ballots (SB557 amendment 1971h). House tally: 171–162.
May 14, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed creating centers offering experimental treatments not approved for general use (SB504 amendment 1951h). It also expanded treatment access and legal protections for severe illnesses. House tally: 188–153.
May 14, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed allowing dentists to treat patients who refused x-rays after signing liability waivers (SB567 amendment 1965h). House tally: 158–143.
May 14, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed SB574's study of school-administration consolidation, school closures and property-tax relief. House tally: 197–151.
May 14, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed SB430's requirement for educators to answer parents' written inquiries within ten business days. It included an exception for imminent abuse or neglect. House tally: 193–163.
May 14, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against tabling SB501, allowing physician associates and advanced practice registered nurses, in addition to physicians, to order seclusion or restraint for mental health patients under the statutory emergency treatment and consent rules. The House tabled it 188–154.
May 7, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed CACR11, a proposed constitutional amendment removing the retirement age of 70 for county sheriffs. House tally: 199–157.
April 23, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed SB101's statewide public-school transfer system funded through state education aid. The motion failed 168–184. He backed replacing it with a study commission; that amendment failed 169–184.
April 23, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Sponsored HB1485, which became law allowing late road fuel tax refund requests for just cause. Approved requests generally incurred a 5% fee or $50, whichever was greater.
April 22, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against concurring with Senate changes to HB1689, extending certain county-officer terms to four years in Belknap starting in 2026 and Merrimack starting in 2028. Concurrence failed 65–287; the House then nonconcurred.
April 9, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against overriding the veto of HB 349 allowing certified optometrists to perform certain eye-laser procedures. Override failed 145–206.
April 9, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against bringing HB1446 back for consideration, protecting firearm possession by therapeutic cannabis patients and barring state and local assistance with federal enforcement against them. The motion failed 81–270.
March 26, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted to table HB1458, requiring massage and bodywork establishment proprietors to hold practitioner and proprietor licenses and undergo state background checks for specified serious crimes. The motion failed 158–193.
March 26, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB1252, requiring commercial-driver knowledge and skills tests in English without interpreters except federal exemptions. It also required certain drivers licensed in the past five years to retest within 90 days or lose their license; the House passed it 194–156.
March 12, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted to table HCR13, applying to Congress for an Article V convention limited to congressional term limits. The House tabled it 189–159.
March 12, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against reviving HB1675, establishing a commission with subpoena authority to investigate the New Hampshire Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence and limiting its public funding to direct survivor services. The motion failed 148–186.
March 12, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted to table HB1066, treating general municipal leases as debt and requiring public hearings and supermajority approval for leases above $100,000. The motion failed 167–175; the House later passed an amended version.
March 12, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 1245 authorizing portable-benefit accounts for contractors and excluding contributions from employee-status decisions. Passed 188–151.
March 12, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted to bring HB1786 back for consideration, funding affordable housing, housing infrastructure, and building-trades workforce programs through a state assessment on second homes valued above $1 million. The motion failed 100–235.
March 11, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB1735, expanding the right-to-try law to chronic, debilitating illnesses and broadening access and conditional liability protections for treatments not approved by the FDA. The House passed it 181–151.
March 11, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against CACR15, proposing a constitutional right to hunt and fish and making public hunting and fishing the preferred means of wildlife management. The 199–128 vote failed the required three-fifths threshold.
March 11, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against amended CACR24, proposing a constitutional right for parents and guardians to direct their children’s education without infringement. The 181–156 vote failed the required three-fifths threshold.
March 11, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for an HB1807 amendment requiring school-budget reports to show state funding, local property-tax funding, and statewide Education Freedom Account spending over ten years; it failed 153–181. He then opposed the bill’s report and warrant-disclosure changes, which passed 185–150.
March 11, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB1464, adding political affiliation or opinion to employment-discrimination protections and creating criminal penalties for politically motivated harassment and economic interference. Passage failed 136–199; the House then killed it.
March 11, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 1358 creating a commission to study converting all public schools into charter schools. Passed 169–163.
March 11, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Argued that HR35 could not direct an executive department through a House resolution and questioned its necessity. He moved to table it and opposed the amended resolution urging a prohibition on geoengineering and weather modification emissions; the House adopted it 169–152.
March 5, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against tabling HB1822, requiring state and local police and correctional facilities to report civil immigration detention counts and durations to the attorney general twice yearly. The House tabled it 193–155.
March 5, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against tabling HB1578, requiring public quarterly reports on Education Freedom Account applications, spending, student demographics, and administrative costs, and access to data for legislative audits. The House tabled it 182–162.
March 5, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against tabling HB1264, requiring monthly Education Freedom Account oversight meetings, live broadcasts and recordings, and review of eligibility, spending and effects on public-school funding. The House tabled it 186–165.
March 5, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 1225 expanding income deductions used to calculate child support. Passed 185–152.
March 5, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against tabling HB1387, repealing statutory limits on liability for certain firearm design features. The House tabled it 189–159.
March 5, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against shelving HB 1317 restricting government disclosure of identifiable health data, with consent, care, and legal exceptions. Shelved 183–154.
March 5, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB1815, declaring adequate-education funding a shared state and local responsibility and reserving financing decisions to legislative and executive judgment. It counted base and differentiated aid together toward adequacy; the House passed it 188–162.
March 5, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HR19, encouraging colleges and universities to host more conservative speakers alongside other viewpoints while condemning political violence and intimidation. The House adopted the nonbinding resolution 191–155.
March 5, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against tabling HB1484, raising the state minimum wage to $12 in 2026, $14 in 2027, $15.50 in 2028, and $17 in 2029. The House tabled it 180–153.
March 5, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against tabling HB1820, transferring Education Freedom Account administration to the Education Department and requiring annual random account audits. The House tabled it 179–157.
March 5, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB1331, allowing Derry’s town council to absorb the cooperative school district through a charter amendment and control its school budget preparation and adoption. The House passed it 193–157.
March 5, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against tabling CACR22, removing constitutionally fixed $200 legislative and $250 presiding-officer compensation per elected term while preserving mileage reimbursement. The House tabled it 175–153.
March 5, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against tabling HB1834, retaining the Education Freedom Account enrollment cap at 10,000 through the 2026–2027 school year. The House tabled it 180–157.
March 5, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB1495, requiring school districts’ borrowing in anticipation of state education grants or special education aid to be spent only for the purpose of the anticipated funds. The House passed it 185–162.
March 5, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against tabling HB1831, repealing the $3,750-per-pupil cap on targeted state education aid for municipalities with at least 5,000 students. The House tabled it 187–158.
February 19, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted to table HB1002, repealing the municipal property-tax exemption for solar energy systems. The House tabled it 187–157.
February 12, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted to table HB1607, restricting storage of road salt and other snow-control chemicals that risks contaminating groundwater or surface water and directing environmental regulators to set storage rules. The House tabled it 188–166.
February 12, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB1323, defining parental alienation and making it a factor in custody, guardianship and child-protection decisions, while excluding good-faith protective actions based on reasonable belief of abuse or neglect. The House passed it 197–157.
February 12, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted to reject HB1580, imposing an annual 0.75 percent property surcharge on non-primary residences valued at least $500,000, with exemptions including long-term rentals. The House rejected it 284–55.
February 12, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against tabling HB1798, seeking federal approval for Medicaid coverage of 100 diapers monthly during a child's first year and appropriating $100,000 for implementation. The House tabled it 197–158.
February 12, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB1664, introduced to remove the Hannah Duston memorial and historic marker in Boscawen. An unadopted minority proposal instead called for a site advisory council. The House rejected the bill 194–156.
February 12, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB1832, giving children residing in New Hampshire with a parent or guardian on active military duty priority in the Education Freedom Account program. The amended bill passed 189–164.
February 5, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HR45, asking federal officials to establish New Hampshire's claimed Piscataqua River boundary and designate Portsmouth Naval Shipyard duty stations as Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The House adopted the resolution 205–129.
February 5, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB1448, banning World Economic Forum lectures, lesson plans, and other materials from public-school curricula. The House passed it 184–167.
February 5, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against reconsidering the House rejection of HR30, a resolution reaffirming municipal responsibility for planning and zoning. Reconsideration failed 72–274.
February 5, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against SB 36 changing abortion-reporting rules to require gestational age and delaying implementation until July 2027. Passed 188–162.
January 8, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted to kill HB 104, which restricted National Guard deployment into overseas active-duty combat without a congressional war declaration or specified congressional activation, with exceptions for training and humanitarian assistance. The motion failed 159–182.
January 8, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted to replace the overall school-budget cap with a 6% cap on central-office administrative expenses, allowing a two-thirds local vote to exceed it. The amendment passed 182–173; he then voted against the resulting bill, which failed 9–346.
January 8, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB709, which allowed school enrollment where parents paid property taxes, including outside their home district. It passed 182–159.
January 7, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 112, requiring students entering New Hampshire public colleges after July 2027 to pass a naturalization test or complete a civics course or competency test, with specified exemptions. The House passed it 192–158.
January 7, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against CACR 4, a constitutional amendment requiring voters to be legal residents who actually resided where they claimed domicile. The proposal received 184–157 but failed to meet the three-fifths threshold.
January 7, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB131’s statewide changes to school bullying reports, discipline, and lawsuits. It passed 190–149.
January 7, 2026
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against overriding the veto of HB 781, which required school policies restricting cell phones during class with exceptions for medical, disability and language needs. The override failed 28–322.
December 17, 2025
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against overriding the veto of HB 667, requiring age-appropriate, medically accurate sexuality education to include animation or ultrasound video of early fetal organ development. The override failed 159–190.
December 17, 2025
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against overriding HB324’s veto on harmful sexual materials in schools. The bill allowed parent complaints and appeals. It allowed civil damages for schools’ process violations or ignoring final decisions, and educator discipline after final findings. The override failed 183–167.
December 17, 2025
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against overriding the veto of HB 356 allowing school districts to adopt partisan elections. The override failed 177–174.
December 17, 2025
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against concurring with HB 768, allowing school districts without a public school at a pupil’s grade level to contract with approved nonpublic schools, including religious schools. Concurrence passed 192–158.
June 12, 2025
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored HB672’s original exemption for new off-grid power providers from public-utility regulation. Voted against the Senate version’s additional utility-law exemptions and roadway limits. The Senate amendments were accepted 185–151.
June 12, 2025
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against SB 221 requiring yearly voter-roll checks with a five-year nonvoting lookback. Passed 184–153.
June 5, 2025
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against SB 14, imposing mandatory minimum fentanyl sentences with limited judicial exceptions and reducing first-offense penalties for adult possession of up to three-quarters of an ounce of psilocybin to a misdemeanor. The House passed it 214–167.
June 5, 2025
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against SB 210 combining bullying-policy changes with statewide school transfers and required tuition payments. Passed 193–159.
June 5, 2025
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against SB 99 expanding career-education students’ access to other high-school classes and requiring district tuition payments. Passed 206–167.
June 5, 2025
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against an SB 119 amendment allowing pharmacists to dispense ivermectin through medical standing orders. Adopted 196–164.
May 22, 2025
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against SB 97 requiring approval of within-district school transfers when capacity permits. Passed 199–165.
May 22, 2025
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against an amendment to SB 141 making library-card and membership status confidential while permitting schools to notify parents about materials children borrowed. The amendment passed 192–170.
May 8, 2025
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 687, sending undistributable class-action settlement money to the state general fund, barring charitable cy pres distributions, and making the Laffey Matrix the default for certain attorney-fee awards. The House passed it 198–165.
March 27, 2025
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 584 barring state and local enforcement of WHO, UN and World Economic Forum policies. Passed 198–162.
March 27, 2025
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 749, requiring one hour of instruction on communism in public high schools. He also supported an unsuccessful amendment adding instruction on fascism. The House passed the bill 200–173; the amendment failed 162–209.
March 27, 2025
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 741 requiring public-school open enrollment across districts, with sending districts paying at least 80% of per-pupil costs. Passed 198–174.
March 27, 2025
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 666, adding library-card and membership status to confidential records and imposing a $1,000 civil penalty and written apology for knowing or reckless disclosure, with a school-parent notification exception. The bill passed 189–172.
March 27, 2025
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 690’s investigation of withdrawing from ISO New England and other strategies affecting electric ratepayers. The bill passed 200–155.
March 27, 2025
Source: gc.nh.gov
Wrote a report backing charges to default-service customers for gaps between their electricity payments and the utility’s power costs (HB760). The House set the bill aside.
March 26, 2025
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against rejecting HB 600 allowing municipalities to adopt ranked-choice voting. The House rejected the bill 194–145.
March 26, 2025
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against shelving HB 96 updating the state’s energy building code to 2021 standards or stronger energy savings. Shelved 199–135.
March 26, 2025
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against tabling HB 145, which established interstate dietitian licensing privileges and required criminal-history checks for initial licensure. The tabling motion passed 187–152.
March 26, 2025
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against indefinitely postponing HB 549 banning education-account funds at religious schools and for religious instruction. Postponed 186–156.
March 26, 2025
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against giving Education Department hearing officers subpoena powers for teacher misconduct investigations under HB 520. Passed 193–155.
March 26, 2025
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against shelving HCR 7 affirming the right to abortion before 24 weeks. The resolution was shelved 199–171.
March 20, 2025
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 10 establishing parental rights over school records, curriculum and health-care consent. The House passed it 212–161.
March 20, 2025
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against tabling HB 254, allowing mentally capable adults with a terminal diagnosis and six months or less to live to obtain and self-administer medication to end their lives after two medical evaluations. The tabling motion passed 183–182.
March 20, 2025
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against tabling HB 442, which required tipped workers’ base wages to meet the standard minimum wage instead of allowing a lower tipped wage. The motion to table passed 199–153.
March 20, 2025
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 433 allowing marriage at age 17 when either partner served in the military. Passed 193–178.
March 20, 2025
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 88, which allowed married couples to create community-property trusts with rules for debts, death and equal distribution on divorce unless they agreed otherwise. The bill passed 211–155.
March 20, 2025
Source: gc.nh.gov
Wrote a report opposing a ban on cloud seeding, weather changes and certain radiation emissions (HB764). The committee recommended rejection, 17–1.
March 13, 2025
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted to table HB570’s repeal of the prescription drug affordability board. The motion failed 167–207.
March 13, 2025
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 123 imposing a 10% tax on net carbon-offset credit sales from forests. Passed 197–158.
March 13, 2025
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against shelving HB 583 seeking Medicaid-based eligibility checks for free and reduced-price school meals. The bill was shelved 196–174.
March 6, 2025
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted for HB 54 allowing medical-cannabis treatment centers to operate as for-profit businesses. The House passed it 358–14.
March 6, 2025
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 617 raising home equity protected from creditors from $120,000 to $1 million. The bill passed 216–146.
March 6, 2025
Source: gc.nh.gov
Wrote a report backing a requirement that at least two utility commissioners approve agency rules (HB169). The House rejected the bill 203–160.
February 20, 2025
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against HB 504’s revised state energy policy, emphasizing on-demand resources, market-based conservation, and limited government support for particular technologies. The House passed it 204–165.
February 20, 2025
Source: gc.nh.gov
Served on the Granite Bridge Legislative Alliance’s steering committee. The House caucus promoted cooperation between Democratic and Republican legislators.
February 14, 2025
Source: read.nhbr.com
Was named deputy ranking Democrat on the House Science, Technology and Energy Committee for the 2025–2026 term.
December 26, 2024
Source: indepthnh.org
Was opposed by the New Hampshire Right to Life PAC in its 2024 voter guide.
October 26, 2024
Source: nhrtlpac.org
Received AFT-New Hampshire’s endorsement for his 2024 House race in Lebanon Ward 3.
October 24, 2024
Source: nh.aft.org
Cormen voted against overriding the veto of HB1187. The bill concerned banning municipal leases to acquire building fixtures. House tally: 161–170.
October 10, 2024
Source: gc.nh.gov
Received a 0% overall score on Cornerstone’s 2023–2024 House voting scorecard.
August 22, 2024
Source: nhcornerstone.org
Opposed HB1215’s conference agreement extending development approvals’ protection from new rules from five to ten years. It failed 102–261. Earlier, he voted to accept the same Senate text on May 30.
June 13, 2024
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted against passage of CACR22. The bill concerned putting New Hampshire's first presidential primary status in the state constitution. House tally: 195–165.
May 23, 2024
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted against an amendment to SB426. The amendment concerned restricting National Guard combat deployments to declared wars and specified congressional call-ups. House tally: 126–231.
May 9, 2024
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for a motion to set aside SB537. The bill concerned allowing clerks to process absentee ballots before Election Day. House tally: 180–186.
May 9, 2024
Source: gc.nh.gov
Wrote a report supporting a state study of home and utility-scale energy storage (SB540).
May 2, 2024
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted to reject SB380. The bill concerned moving the state primary election from September to June. House tally: 190–176.
May 2, 2024
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB1394, as amended. The bill concerned creating state licensing for music therapists. House tally: 195–187.
April 11, 2024
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to set aside HB1583. The bill concerned increasing public-school aid for districts with low property values. House tally: 180–201.
April 11, 2024
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted against passage of HB1287. The bill concerned restricting schools' definition of evidence-based teaching methods to objective scientific studies. House tally: 179–193.
March 28, 2024
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB1145, as amended. The bill concerned requiring future landfills to be publicly owned while allowing private operators. House tally: 208–162.
March 28, 2024
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to set aside HB1592. The bill concerned banning private-school account tuition payments to religious schools. House tally: 191–186.
March 28, 2024
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted to indefinitely postpone HB1479’s ban on using public funds for lobbying and political activity. It added taxpayer lawsuits and criminal and triple-repayment penalties for knowing violations. Postponement passed 211–129.
March 21, 2024
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted against passage of HB1659, as amended. The bill concerned requiring courts to award extra parenting time after violations of parenting plans. House tally: 198–174.
March 21, 2024
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted against passage of HB1312, as amended. The bill concerned requiring parent notice and opt-outs for lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity. House tally: 186–185.
March 14, 2024
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to indefinitely postpone HB1594. The bill concerned requiring families to requalify for private-school accounts each year. House tally: 189–184.
March 14, 2024
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted against passage of HB1332. The bill concerned banning electric vehicles from parking garages. House tally: 145–221.
March 14, 2024
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen opposed the motion to reject HCR9. The resolution concerned withdrawing the state's request for a constitutional convention on a balanced federal budget. House tally: 128–238.
March 14, 2024
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted to reject CACR17. The bill concerned adding a constitutional parental right to direct children's upbringing, education, and care. House tally: 174–186.
March 7, 2024
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of HB1437, as amended. The bill concerned expanding the state education board to include parents, educators, and a student member. House tally: 176–190.
March 7, 2024
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted against passage of HB1623, as amended. The bill concerned setting energy policy without preference for technology and allowing challenges to power-plant closure mandates. House tally: 184–168.
March 7, 2024
Source: gc.nh.gov
Supported limiting zoning appeals to applicants, defined neighboring owners and municipal officials (HB1359). The bill also clarified which properties counted as across the street or stream. The House passed it 265–88.
March 7, 2024
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted against passage of HB1186, as amended. The bill concerned banning payment codes that identify firearm and accessory retailers. House tally: 203–174.
February 22, 2024
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted against passage of HB1517. The bill concerned using growing gambling revenue to reduce the statewide education property tax. House tally: 196–184.
February 22, 2024
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted against tabling HB232 while an amendment requiring public-sector safety standards at least as effective as applicable OSHA standards within three years was pending. The table motion passed 190–182.
January 4, 2024
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted against passage of HB185, as amended. The bill concerned changing the shared-parenting standard to approximately equal parenting time. House tally: 202–172.
January 3, 2024
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored HB1644 to study the costs, risks, and benefits of clean power, including nuclear energy, geothermal energy, and storage. It died on the House table.
January 3, 2024
Source: gc.nh.gov
Served as clerk of a House study committee reviewing rail, utility and transportation laws. Moved to adopt its report, approved 3–0.
October 30, 2023
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cosponsored SB240, which became law allowing genetic test results to be shared with a patient’s clinical care team. Research disclosures still required specific informed consent.
August 4, 2023
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of SB110. The bill concerned keeping local-welfare responsibility with a person's home town during stays in shelters or care facilities. House tally: 190–180.
June 8, 2023
Source: gc.nh.gov
Voted to indefinitely postpone SB272’s school parental-rights bill after amendments preserved children’s fundamental rights and confidentiality for disclosures to counselors, nurses and other health professionals. The bill also created parental information rights and lawsuits for violations. Postponement passed 195–190.
May 18, 2023
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for passage of SB128. The bill concerned moving payment for lawyers in involuntary mental-health admission cases to the Judicial Council. House tally: 207–177.
May 18, 2023
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted to reject HB575. The bill concerned barring state purchase or promotion of medicines lacking voluntary human clinical trials. House tally: 192–186.
March 23, 2023
Source: gc.nh.gov
Wrote a report opposing a state preference for software with publicly available code (HB556). Also opposed assigning AI ethics advice to the state’s IT council. The committee recommended rejection, 20–0.
March 22, 2023
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted for a motion to set aside HB538. The bill concerned allowing districts to create locally funded private-school and homeschool accounts. House tally: 296–83.
March 22, 2023
Source: gc.nh.gov
Opposed HB442 as amended to create recreational lobster-diving licenses and require logging and retrieval efforts for lost lobster traps. The House passed it 276–100.
March 22, 2023
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted against passage of HB127. The bill concerned requiring legislative approval to extend a governor's emergency declaration beyond 84 days. House tally: 193–185.
March 22, 2023
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted against passage of CACR7. The bill concerned amending the state constitution to allow education tax funds to support religious schools. House tally: 192–191.
March 22, 2023
Source: gc.nh.gov
Supported studying cleaner vehicle standards, electric-car incentives and charging infrastructure (HB92 amendment 0747h). The amendment failed 171–194. Opposed adopting California vehicle sales standards and raising inspection fees in the original bill, which failed 40–331.
March 9, 2023
Source: gc.nh.gov
Cormen voted against passage of HCR1. The resolution concerned requesting a convention to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution. House tally: 156–192.
February 23, 2023
Source: gc.nh.gov
Wrote a report opposing caps on electric-rate increases and utility market share (HB633). The committee recommended rejection, 20–0.
February 14, 2023
Source: gc.nh.gov
Was elected to Grafton County’s Executive Committee on December 12, 2022. Resigned before the committee’s January 23, 2023 meeting.
December 12, 2022
Source: grafton-county.com
Co-wrote the fourth edition of Introduction to Algorithms, a college textbook on solving computer problems.
April 5, 2022
Source: mitpress.mit.edu
Joined 53 other computer experts in a court brief supporting software compatible with SAS’s programming language.
August 31, 2021
Source: eff.org
Led Dartmouth’s computer science department from 2009 to 2015. Led its writing program from 2004 to 2008.
February 11, 2019
Source: web.cs.dartmouth.edu

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State Representative · November 3, 2026 · State House District Grafton 17; New Hampshire

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