McDonald Rivet, Kristen

Kristen McDonald Rivet voted against the 2025 Republican reconciliation package, citing its health-care and food-assistance reductions.

July 3, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: mcdonaldrivet.house.gov · researched July 30, 2026

Kristen McDonald Rivet led her Great Lakes Restoration Initiative funding bill through the U.S. House.

March 24, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: mcdonaldrivet.house.gov · researched July 30, 2026

President Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act containing McDonald Rivet's first two enacted bills, which protect the Great Lakes and accelerate PFAS cleanup at and around military sites, plus her provision directing a Coast Guard study of reduced search-and-rescue operations at Station Saginaw River.

December 18, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: mcdonaldrivet.house.gov · researched July 30, 2026

Kristen McDonald Rivet voted for the Congressional Review Act resolutions repealing California's electric-vehicle mandate waivers.

May 1, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: mcdonaldrivet.house.gov · researched July 30, 2026

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed McDonald Rivet's 2023 Senate Bill 482 into law as 2024 Public Act 105, modifying Michigan's requirements for the containment of medical waste.

July 23, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: michiganvotes.org · researched July 30, 2026

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed McDonald Rivet's 2023 Senate Bill 277 into law as Public Act 230, letting farmland stay enrolled in the PA 116 farmland preservation program during a deferment period of use for commercial solar facilities.

November 29, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: michiganvotes.org · researched July 30, 2026

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed McDonald Rivet's 2023 Senate Bill 303 into law as Public Act 107, expanding Michigan's property assessed clean energy program to environmental-hazard and new-construction projects and to agricultural and multifamily property.

July 27, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: michiganvotes.org · researched July 30, 2026

Kristen McDonald Rivet introduced the bipartisan No Profiting from Public Service Act to ban public officials from stock trading and political prediction-market betting.

June 30, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: mcdonaldrivet.house.gov · researched July 6, 2026

Kristen McDonald Rivet barred herself and her congressional staff from betting on political prediction markets.

May 20, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: mcdonaldrivet.house.gov · researched July 30, 2026

Kristen McDonald Rivet and John Moolenaar moved their bipartisan FEMA reform legislation through the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

September 3, 2025Supports Government Efficiency

Source: mcdonaldrivet.house.gov · researched July 30, 2026

McDonald Rivet and Pennsylvania Republican Glenn Thompson introduced the Local Foods for Healthy Schools Act on June 26, 2026. The bill proposes steady federal money for schools to buy fresh food from nearby farms, restoring a USDA local-food purchasing program the department cancelled in 2025.

June 26, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: mcdonaldrivet.house.gov · researched July 6, 2026

Introduced the bipartisan Child Care Modernization Act with three colleagues, proposing to renew the main federal child care aid program for the first time since 2014 (Child Care and Development Block Grant). The bill proposes cutting paperwork for providers and adding grants to build and fix child care facilities.

June 10, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: mcdonaldrivet.house.gov · researched July 6, 2026

Kristen McDonald Rivet voted to pass the Farm Bill through the U.S. House of Representatives.

April 30, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: mcdonaldrivet.house.gov · researched July 30, 2026

After sending two letters to the Trump administration, Kristen McDonald Rivet secured the reversal of the planned closure of the Saginaw Social Security Administration office.

April 23, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: mcdonaldrivet.house.gov · researched July 30, 2026

Sponsored a law adding Michigan's new firearm safe-storage crimes to the state sentencing guidelines. The Senate passed it 20-17 and the governor signed it (Senate Bill 80, Public Act 16 of 2023).

April 13, 2023Supports Gun Control

Source: michiganvotes.org · researched July 30, 2026

Wrote the Great Lakes Icebreaker Act, which became law in December 2025 as part of the annual defense bill. It orders the Coast Guard to submit a plan to design and build a new Great Lakes icebreaker and to review its current icebreaking fleet.

July 23, 2025Supports National Defense

Source: mcdonaldrivet.house.gov · researched July 30, 2026

Kristen McDonald Rivet introduced the bipartisan Protect Your PIN Act, letting local law enforcement agencies use federal resources to combat identity theft against workers and seniors.

September 25, 2025Supports Data Privacy

Source: mcdonaldrivet.house.gov · researched July 30, 2026

Helped move the 2026 water infrastructure bill through the House Transportation Committee, winning $50 million for water and sewer work in four mid-Michigan counties (Water Resources Development Act of 2026).

July 14, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure

Source: mcdonaldrivet.house.gov · researched July 30, 2026

Sponsored a law making income-based help for buying and fixing up homes eligible for brownfield redevelopment funding. The governor signed it on July 19, 2023 (Senate Bill 130, Public Act 91). The Senate passed it 25-13 and the House 72-37.

July 19, 2023Supports Public Infrastructure

Source: michiganvotes.org · researched July 30, 2026

Kristen McDonald Rivet voted to pass a War Powers Resolution through the U.S. House curbing the administration's military activity in Iran.

July 23, 2026Supports Peaceful Foreign Policy

Source: mcdonaldrivet.house.gov · researched July 30, 2026

Kristen McDonald Rivet announced her office had returned over $10 million to Mid-Michigan families and seniors through resolved constituent service cases.

May 28, 2026

Source: mcdonaldrivet.house.gov · researched July 6, 2026

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed McDonald Rivet's 2023 Senate Bill 504 into law as 2024 Public Act 167, barring long-term industrial electric load rates from being subject to utility securitization charges.

December 17, 2024

Source: michiganvotes.org · researched July 30, 2026

McDonald Rivet cast the only Democratic no vote on 2024 Senate Bill 861, the prison productivity-time-credit system that passed the Michigan Senate 22-13.

December 12, 2024

Source: michiganvotes.org · researched July 30, 2026

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed McDonald Rivet's 2024 Senate Bill 744 into law as Public Act 134, changing the ratings a Michigan teacher must earn to complete a probationary period so the required ratings no longer have to fall in consecutive years.

October 8, 2024

Source: michiganvotes.org · researched July 30, 2026

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed McDonald Rivet's 2023 Senate Bill 466 into law as Public Act 318, modifying the cigar bar exemption in Michigan's smoke-free air law.

December 14, 2023

Source: michiganvotes.org · researched July 30, 2026

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed McDonald Rivet's 2023 Senate Bill 396 into law as Public Act 225, revising the statutory references governing Michigan teacher performance evaluations.

November 22, 2023

Source: michiganvotes.org · researched July 30, 2026

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed McDonald Rivet's 2023 Senate Bill 72 into law as Public Act 63, enacting sentencing guidelines for performing certain medical treatments on a minor without consent and for intentionally omitting services from a medical record.

July 12, 2023

Source: michiganvotes.org · researched July 30, 2026

McDonald Rivet voted no on 2023 House Bill 4219, the change to Michigan Strategic Fund board membership that passed the Senate 29-9; she was one of seven Democrats voting against it.

April 19, 2023

Source: michiganvotes.org · researched July 30, 2026