Bill O'Brien

Signed a coalition letter urging withdrawal of the Most Favored Nation rule for Medicare Part B drug prices.

January 25, 2021Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: iwvoice.com

Signed a coalition letter urging Congress to reject Pelosi’s prescription-drug price controls and proposed drug-manufacturer tax.

October 15, 2019Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: committeeforjustice.org

Signed a coalition letter urging Congress to delay the Affordable Care Act’s health-insurance and medical-device taxes.

August 10, 2017Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: iwvoice.com

Voted against requiring new school nurses to hold a bachelor’s-level nursing qualification, related experience, and state certification (HB1193).

June 1, 2016Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against new licensing for high-risk medical services, emergency-care and payment requirements for new hospitals, and protections for nearby critical-access hospitals (SB481).

May 11, 2016Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against requiring insurance coverage for substance-use treatment while insurers reviewed authorization requests for up to six hours (SB532 amendment).

May 11, 2016Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against state solvency oversight and consumer protections for self-funded Dartmouth and UNH student health plans (SB500).

April 20, 2016Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against supplemental funding for addiction services, supportive housing for people with substance-use disorders, and a drug prosecutor (SB533).

April 20, 2016Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against licensing medical-imaging professionals and radiation therapists, including training and disciplinary standards (SB330).

April 6, 2016Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject permanent renewal of expanded Medicaid coverage without a sunset date (HB1690).

March 9, 2016Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting medical-cannabis eligibility for people with ulcerative colitis (HB1453).

March 9, 2016Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting a ban on voluntary fetal-tissue donation and research following abortion (HB1663).

March 9, 2016Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Initially opposed expanded Medicaid renewal, then voted to extend coverage through 2018 with work requirements and no state general funds (HB1696). Supported stricter identity checks and limits on gun-background-check referrals; opposed keeping renewal if federal officials rejected its conditions.

March 9, 2016Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to continue premium contributions by retired state employees and spouses newly eligible for Medicare and fund retiree-health planning (HB1591).

March 9, 2016Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting purchases of health insurance from out-of-state companies (HB128).

January 6, 2016Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against giving the insurance commissioner a confidential administrative-supervision process for financially distressed insurers (SB110).

January 6, 2016Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against added health-center, hospital, and county nursing-home funding in the FY2016–2017 budget (HB1). The amendment failed.

April 1, 2015Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against added substance-use treatment and forensic-laboratory funding in the FY2016–2017 budget (HB1). The amendment failed.

April 1, 2015Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against adding developmental, elderly, and shelter-services funding to the FY2016–2017 budget (HB1). The amendment failed.

April 1, 2015Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Requested a roll call and voted to reject designating the federal marketplace as New Hampshire's health exchange (HB548; rejection passed 237–131).

March 11, 2015Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting conscience-based protections for medical providers, institutions, and payers refusing health services or payment (HB670; rejection passed 237–88).

February 18, 2015Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against adding a surcharge to alcohol-law fines (HB585; passed 223–133). It funded victim assistance, domestic-violence programs and alcohol treatment and prevention.

February 18, 2015Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting restrictions on public abortion funding and family-planning contracts with abortion providers or their affiliates (HB677; rejection passed 216–142).

February 18, 2015Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject a Department of Education school-nurse consultant and $87,000 in annual funding for two years (HB575; rejection passed 236–122).

February 18, 2015Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting an exemption for topical androgens from the 34-day controlled-drug prescription limit (HB101; rejection passed 191–151).

February 11, 2015Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Cosponsored setting workers’ compensation medical-payment rates using Medicare and later group-health payments (SB3). The Senate sent it to interim study.

January 29, 2015Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Supported adding limited home cultivation of therapeutic cannabis to a bill on Fish and Game officers’ traffic powers (SB389; failed 110–177). Opposed allowing conservation officers to enforce motor-vehicle laws with the authority of other certified officers (passed 219–72; conference report passed 260–91).

June 4, 2014Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against allowing the state to administer health benefits for certain State Employees’ Association retirees already in the plan on July 1, 2013, with the association paying their premiums (SB261; conference report passed 213–130).

June 4, 2014Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against killing a resolution urging Anthem to include at least one hospital in every New Hampshire county in its health-exchange network (HJR12; killing the resolution passed 197–122).

March 19, 2014Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against requiring medical technicians with access to patients and drugs to register with a new state board, undergo criminal-record checks and comply with its disciplinary oversight (HB658; passed with amendment 228–92).

January 29, 2014Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Moved to recess to distribute SSHB1 copies (failed 136–187) and opposed introducing the Medicaid expansion bill (introduction passed 183–141). He appealed four Chair rulings but voted to uphold them; moved and spoke to divide the marketplace and oversight sections (failed 156–197 and 154–200); requested roll calls on the majority amendment, division of repeal provisions, and a 12 percent state-cost growth termination safeguard. He supported the majority amendment (204–151) and House passage (198–146), while opposing the cost safeguard (162–191), deleting marketplace provisions (154–197), removing later oversight provisions (146–195), and lowering the private-plan insurer threshold (142–200). The plan combined employer-insurance premium assistance, Medicaid managed care, and private marketplace coverage from 2017. The Senate rejected it.

November 21, 2013Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Opposed licensing genetic counselors and protecting genetic-test confidentiality (SB135). Voted against passage and supported a failed reconsideration of the conference bill.

June 26, 2013Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted for medical cannabis in March, including home cultivation, then supported the June compromise barring patient cultivation and licensing nonprofit treatment centers (HB573; conference report passed 284–66).

June 26, 2013Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Opposed the April FY2014–2015 implementing budget bill, then spoke and voted for its revised June version (HB2). The final bill replaced immediate Medicaid expansion with a study, omitted proposed gas and cigarette tax increases and the charter moratorium, preserved education tax credits, and funded state employee pay agreements. It became law June 28.

June 26, 2013Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against juvenile-placement reforms bundled with a $5.37 million federal health-insurance assistance grant, and supported a failed amendment requiring prior legislative approval of grant spending (SB129; House passed 179–132).

June 5, 2013Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against directing implementation of expanded Medicaid family-planning coverage with 90% federal matching funds (SB194; House passed 212–120).

May 8, 2013Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Sponsored, testified for, and defended blocking Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (HB271). Voted against rejecting it; the House rejected the bill.

March 20, 2013Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject increasing beer taxes from30 to40 cents per gallon and directing the increase to alcohol-abuse prevention and treatment (HB168; rejection passed308–35).

February 6, 2013Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Cosponsored and published support for blocking a state Affordable Care Act insurance exchange (HB1297).

May 30, 2012Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: nhhousegop.com

Voted to reject requiring medical providers to disclose charges in advance and in writing at a patient’s request (HB1590; rejection passed236–79).

March 8, 2012Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted for religious exemptions allowing employers to omit contraceptive coverage from employee health insurance (HB1546 sections9–12; passed196–150).

March 7, 2012Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted for a resolution seeking to void a federal grant to Planned Parenthood of Northern New England (HCR41; passed179–134).

March 7, 2012Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Cosponsored and voted for a resolution urging repeal of federal health-plan requirements for sterilization and contraceptive coverage (HR29; passed227–121).

February 22, 2012Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Cosponsored and testified for exempting destination cancer hospitals from state facility approval and requesting a hospital-tax waiver (HB1642). The Senate tabled the amended bill.

February 7, 2012Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Cosponsored urging equal Agent Orange treatment benefits for Vietnam-era veterans who served in surrounding countries (HCR38). Both chambers adopted the resolution.

January 4, 2012Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Supported failed tax and spending amendments, then voted against the special-session budget combining health-service and agency cuts, tax and fee increases, and LLC tax repeal (SSHB1; passed177–167).

June 9, 2010Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against a health-care cost-containment commission funded through a one-time $250,000 assessment on health carriers, hospitals, and surgical facilities (SB505; passed 214–130).

May 5, 2010Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject continued retirement survivor pensions and medical subsidies after remarriage (HB1428; rejected 173–169).

March 24, 2010Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting limits on court-ordered divorce and parenting counseling to providers accepting direct insurance payment (HB1556; rejected 233–83).

March 10, 2010Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting purchases of Canadian prescription drugs from licensed sources with Health Canada approval (HB1444; rejected 215–135).

March 10, 2010Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to protect physicians from discipline solely for documented long-term antibiotic treatment of Lyme disease (HB1326; passed 300–56).

February 17, 2010Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Defended and voted against rejecting parental consent for minors’ medical care, including abortion, with emergency and court exceptions (HB1454; rejected 218–140).

February 10, 2010Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against required autism-therapy coverage, including behavioral, speech, occupational, and physical therapies under medically necessary written treatment plans (HB569; passed 213–147).

January 6, 2010Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against required hearing-aid insurance coverage of at least $1,500 per aid every three years, plus related professional services (HB561; passed 209–157).

January 6, 2010Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Cosponsored excluding children eligible for employer health coverage from the Healthy Kids insurance program (HB1283). The House rejected it.

January 6, 2010Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted for medical marijuana access and to override the governor’s veto of the proposal (HB648).

October 28, 2009Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against allowing eligible young adults under 26 to buy coverage through the Healthy Kids insurance program (SB115).

June 24, 2009Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting health-insurance plans exempt from state-mandated benefits (HB109).

March 24, 2009Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against urging Congress to adopt a national single-payer health-care system (HCR2).

March 24, 2009Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting a ban on state health contracts with Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers (HB486).

March 4, 2009Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting parental notification when pharmacists provided emergency contraception to children under 16 (HB1682).

March 21, 2006Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting immunity for pharmacists refusing to dispense emergency contraception (HB1492).

March 9, 2006Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject mandatory health-benefit spending or payments into a Medicaid fund by employers with at least 1,500 employees (HB1704).

February 15, 2006Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted for regulated employer purchasing alliances to obtain health insurance, with guaranteed-issue and renewal protections (HB515).

January 4, 2006Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against small-group insurance reforms eliminating health and geographic premium factors and spreading reinsurance assessments across the insurance market (SB125).

June 8, 2005Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against allowing pharmacists to provide emergency contraception under agreements with authorized prescribers (SB30).

May 25, 2005Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against extending medical-benefit eligibility to police and firefighters joining the retirement system before July 2006 and later disabled on duty (HB222).

April 20, 2005Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted for Medicaid reforms expanding home-care options, tightening asset-transfer eligibility, and broadening estate recovery, with survivor protections (HB691).

April 20, 2005Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted for small-group health reinsurance and premium rules removing health and geography rating factors and limiting rate variation (HB611).

March 30, 2005Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against increasing medical subsidies for retired Manchester employees, subject to approval by city voters (HB521).

March 23, 2005Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject physician-supervised medical marijuana, including limited patient cultivation (HB238).

February 9, 2005Opposes Healthcare Affordability

Source: gc.nh.gov

Coauthored opposition to expanding solar net-metering subsidies, arguing that higher purchase rates shifted costs to other electricity customers.

June 18, 2018Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: nhbr.com

Voted to restrict future federal land acquisitions and conservation easements, including expansion of White Mountain National Forest holdings (SB324).

June 1, 2016Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against redirecting $260,000 in existing courthouse funding to water-quality monitoring in Great Bay and Hampton Harbor (SB368).

April 20, 2016Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against licensing and regulating septic-system evaluators to establish consumer-protection standards (SB210).

April 20, 2016Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to table redirecting residential RGGI rebates to energy-efficiency programs, including low-income and municipal projects (SB492; tabling passed 189–155).

April 20, 2016Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject adopting the 2015 state building code, including its stronger energy-efficiency requirements (HB1282).

March 9, 2016Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting reduced certification requirements for solid-waste operators, including less frequent training (HB1440).

March 9, 2016Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against banning natural-latex gloves and utensils in licensed food preparation to protect people with latex allergies (HB1605).

March 9, 2016Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject mandatory labeling of genetically engineered food (HB1674).

February 10, 2016Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Cosponsored rebating renewable-energy fund payments above administrative costs and specified incentives to electricity customers (HB1374). The House rejected it.

January 6, 2016Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against the lead-poisoning bill agreement (SB135; passed 249–103). It changed screening and notices, protected tenants from lead-related evictions and updated property-owner responsibilities.

June 24, 2015Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to override the veto of revised alcohol-advertising rules, repealing the blanket restriction on references to minors (HB122; House override passed 236–95).

June 11, 2015Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Supported tabling the mold-services bill (SB125; passed 206–147). Later opposed requiring professional certification for paid home mold assessments (passed 230–128).

June 3, 2015Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject child-resistant packaging for liquid nicotine and a study of including e-cigarettes in the indoor smoking law (SB105; rejection passed 210–143).

May 6, 2015Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject siting preferences for burying new elective transmission lines and using existing rights of way (HB431; rejection passed 213–131).

March 12, 2015Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject a ban on hydraulic fracturing and handling its waste in New Hampshire (HB609; rejection passed 254–81).

March 11, 2015Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Supported tabling a ban on tanning-facility use by people under 18 (HB136; failed 171–188), then voted against the ban, which exempted medically prescribed phototherapy (passed 199–162).

March 4, 2015Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Requested a roll call and voted against tabling repeal of the renewable portfolio standard (HB543; tabling passed 253–95).

March 4, 2015Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Requested a roll call and voted to reject changes to state energy-efficiency funding, including retaining project savings in the energy fund (HB615; rejection passed 210–145).

February 18, 2015Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Supported directing all RGGI allowance-sale proceeds after administrative costs to electricity-ratepayer rebates and repealing the related energy-efficiency allocations (HB208; amendment passed 197–158 and bill passed 201–154).

February 18, 2015Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against requiring airborne-radon mitigation installers to hold certification from a recognized national program, with supervised-worker exemptions and penalties for false certification claims (SB405; conference report passed 227–122).

June 4, 2014Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to kill allowing alcohol advertising on billboards, with restrictions near schools (SB329; killing the proposal passed 193–164).

May 7, 2014Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to table a mandatory paint-collection and recycling program funded through assessments on paint purchases (HB1570; tabling failed 136–169), then opposed the program’s replacement amendment (passed 167–135) and passage (passed 161–142).

March 20, 2014Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against killing repeal of the rule requiring sugar in individual packets or covered containers with small dispensing openings in food establishments (HB1378; killing the proposal passed 220–116).

March 19, 2014Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Opposed increasing the boat-registration contribution for aquatic-weed control from $7.50 to $9.50 (HB292; amendment passed 171–120). Voted to table the revised bill (failed 126–165), then against passage (passed 164–127).

January 29, 2014Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Requested a roll call and voted against expanding entities assessed for childhood-vaccine costs and revising the vaccine association’s funding and enforcement procedures (HB664; passed235–115).

June 26, 2013Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Requested a roll call and voted against revisions to New Hampshire's regional greenhouse gas initiative, including lower emissions allowances and expanded electric-ratepayer rebates (HB306; concurrence passed 207–131).

June 5, 2013Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against broadening restrictions on lead sinkers and jigs weighing one ounce or less, including covered tackle and daily retail-sale penalties (SB89; House passed 225–142).

May 22, 2013Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against a commission recommending preparations for projected sea-level rise and other coastal hazards (SB163; House passed 228–124).

May 8, 2013Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against allowing municipal master plans to address projected coastal property and habitat loss from storm surge, flooding, and inundation (SB164; House passed 210–143).

May 8, 2013Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against a failed HB2 amendment imposing a wind and transmission moratorium.

April 3, 2013Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against raising the fuel-oil cleanup fee from1 to1.25 cents per gallon (HB185; House passed194–156).

March 27, 2013Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against allocating at least20% of remaining RGGI auction proceeds to low-income energy-efficiency programs (HB630 amendment0712h; passed204–153).

March 20, 2013Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject mandatory removal and destruction of certain older wood stoves when homes in designated densely populated areas are sold (HB307; rejection passed 338–9).

February 13, 2013Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject increasing beer taxes from30 to40 cents per gallon and directing the increase to alcohol-abuse prevention and treatment (HB168; rejection passed308–35).

February 6, 2013Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Cosponsored and published support for requiring legislative approval of low-carbon fuel standards (HB1487).

June 21, 2012Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: nhhousegop.com

Published support for full repeal of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative in 2011, then for a conditional-withdrawal and allowance-rebate compromise in 2012 (SB154 and HB1490).

June 6, 2012Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: nhhousegop.com

Published support for a renewable-portfolio-standard compromise expanding eligible local energy resources (SB218).

June 6, 2012Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: nhhousegop.com

Voted to repeal New Hampshire’s Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and direct remaining funds to CORE energy-efficiency programs (HB519; House passed251–108).

March 30, 2011Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against expanded native-plant and natural-community conservation provisions, cost-based service fees, and a dedicated Natural Heritage Bureau fund (SB382; passed 169–143).

May 12, 2010Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject authorization of a Manchester solar project using $5 million retained from utility renewable-energy compliance payments (SB334; rejected 300–46).

May 5, 2010Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject school body-mass-index assessments in grades 1, 4, 7, and 10, with religious opt-outs (HB1479; rejected 256–58).

March 18, 2010Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against allowing municipal districts to finance voluntary energy-efficiency and clean-energy improvements through property assessments (HB1554; passed 180–155).

March 18, 2010Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject expanded indoor workplace and public-place smoking restrictions (HB1475; rejected 226–88).

March 18, 2010Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting conscientious-belief exemptions from school and child-care immunization requirements (HB1555; rejected 201–137).

March 11, 2010Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject taxes on bottled soft drinks, syrups, and powders earmarked for obesity prevention and treatment (HB1679; rejected 288–65).

March 3, 2010Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to raise the daily milk-sales licensing threshold from 20 to 80 quarts (HB1278; passed 343–8).

February 17, 2010Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting lower boat fees, reduced aquatic-weed funding charges, and repeal of the general saltwater-fishing license requirement (HB1669; rejected 194–155).

February 3, 2010Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against overriding the veto of underground petroleum-storage operator training and changes to prepaid heating-fuel contracts (HB443).

October 28, 2009Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted for licensed cigar bars serving alcohol, with bans on minors, cigarettes, and food, plus employee health warnings (HB392).

June 3, 2009Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject a smoking ban within 25 feet of children’s playgrounds (HB81).

March 11, 2009Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against requiring yearly architect training in health, safety, welfare, and sustainable design for license renewal (HB77).

February 4, 2009Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against Senate provisions authorizing public-health officials, with the governor’s approval, to close buildings and ration medicines during disease outbreaks (HB1204).

May 11, 2006Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted for statutory procedures and appeal rights governing large groundwater withdrawals (SB386).

April 26, 2006Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against adding the International Residential Code to the statewide building code (SB234).

April 19, 2006Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against additional funding for land conservation and community heritage preservation (HB1167).

March 22, 2006Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against banning smoking in restaurants, cocktail lounges, and certain other enclosed public places (HB1177).

March 21, 2006Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against allowing municipalities to adopt stricter smoking regulations than state standards (HB1558).

March 21, 2006Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted for reporting of hospital-acquired infections and a statewide public-reporting database, with validation and privacy protections (HB1741).

March 7, 2006Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against waste-reduction rules excluding imported waste from diversion calculations and removing incineration and landfilling from preferred disposal options (HB1333).

March 7, 2006Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject a tobacco-tax increase with dedicated tobacco-prevention funding (HB1515).

February 22, 2006Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against minimum river and tributary setbacks for applying or stockpiling sewage sludge and related wastes, with specified exceptions (HB722).

February 2, 2006Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against a solid-waste disposal fee funding recycling, waste reduction, and hazardous-waste programs (HB634).

January 18, 2006Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against fire-safety standards for cigarettes sold in New Hampshire in 2005 and 2006 (HB645).

January 18, 2006Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to revise vehicle-emissions inspections, including repair and hardship waivers, seller disclosure of failures, and inspection-data exemptions (HB513).

June 29, 2005Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against an amendment setting ATV-trail setbacks from public-water wells and requiring environmental review within wellhead-protection areas (SB121).

June 8, 2005Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject a seat-belt requirement for adult drivers and passengers (HB705).

April 6, 2005Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against allowing up to 10% of land and community heritage funds to be used for loans (HB539).

March 31, 2005Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against requiring school districts to develop nutrition and physical-activity policies through an advisory committee (HB151).

March 23, 2005Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against requiring bicycle helmets for riders aged 16 or younger on public roads (HB118).

March 23, 2005Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject mandatory continuous monitoring of emissions from stationary air-pollution sources (HB190).

March 9, 2005Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject a ban on burning construction and demolition debris (HB57).

March 9, 2005Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against $10 million in added land and community heritage funding and authority to provide loans (HB670).

March 9, 2005Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject tighter municipal incinerator emission standards, including daily sulfur monitoring and lowering limits after better performance (HB438).

March 9, 2005Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to table redirecting residential RGGI rebates to energy-efficiency programs, including low-income and municipal projects (SB492; tabling passed 189–155).

April 20, 2016Opposes Reduce Wealth Gap

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against creating children’s college savings accounts and expanding Dover’s bond powers (HB577; agreement passed 201–145). The savings pilot used donations for kindergarten children in Manchester and Coos County.

June 24, 2015Opposes Reduce Wealth Gap

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject raising the minimum wage to $9.10 in 2016, $11.40 in 2017, and $14.25 in 2018 (HB684; rejection passed 198–145).

March 12, 2015Opposes Reduce Wealth Gap

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against paycheck-equity protections covering sex-based pay differences and wage-disclosure retaliation (SB207). Supported a failed amendment shortening unpaid-wage claims from three years to one year after discovery. Also supported a failed motion to table the bill.

May 14, 2014Opposes Reduce Wealth Gap

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against lowering the title-loan interest cap after the first month from 25% to 3% per month (HB562; amendment passed 200–140), then against the bill with repayment disclosures, lender reporting and the lower renewal-rate cap (passed 212–129).

January 15, 2014Opposes Reduce Wealth Gap

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against unemployment benefits for eligible workers developing a business through an approved self-employment assistance program (SB143; House passed 183–149).

May 29, 2013Opposes Reduce Wealth Gap

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against establishing a $7.25 state minimum wage and against a proposed $7.75 rate (HB501; $7.75 amendment failed 152–182 and the $7.25 bill passed 200–133).

March 13, 2013Opposes Reduce Wealth Gap

Source: gc.nh.gov

Cosponsored immediate in-state university tuition for veterans settling in New Hampshire within one year of leaving service (HB624). The amended law broadened eligibility, included community colleges, and reallocated funding for psychiatric crisis beds.

January 3, 2013Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

Source: gc.nh.gov

Cosponsored public-college policies evaluating military training and experience for academic credit, with designated veteran contacts (HB519). The bill became law.

January 3, 2013Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to override the veto of higher title-loan interest ceilings with stricter renewal rules (SB57). Later published support for easing lender restrictions.

January 4, 2012Opposes Reduce Wealth Gap

Source: nhhousegop.com

Published support for removing New Hampshire’s higher state minimum wage (HB133).

June 9, 2011Opposes Reduce Wealth Gap

Source: nhhousegop.com

Voted to reject a 36-percent annual cap on aggregate charges for loans up to $10,000, including credit-service organizations (SB193; rejection failed 174–177).

January 6, 2010Opposes Reduce Wealth Gap

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting changes tying property-tax delinquency interest to the prime rate, with financial-hardship relief (HB351).

March 24, 2009Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting limits on extra school funding based on low-income enrollment to students eligible for subsidized meals (HB521).

February 18, 2009Opposes Reduce Wealth Gap

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject senior homestead exemptions and property-tax-cap credits (HB1734).

February 16, 2006Opposes Reduce Wealth Gap

Source: gc.nh.gov

After opposing two House funding versions, supported Senate school-aid provisions targeting property-poor communities and fixing statewide education-property-tax revenue at $363 million (HB616).

June 15, 2005Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against raising the hourly minimum wage from $5.15 to $6.15 in two annual steps (HB665).

April 6, 2005Opposes Reduce Wealth Gap

Source: gc.nh.gov

Published opposition to proposed increases in Group II public-employee pension benefits and defended the 2011 reforms.

June 23, 2025Opposes Labor Rights

Source: nhjournal.com

Signed a coalition letter urging Congress to reject the PRO Act, including its repeal of state right-to-work protections.

May 5, 2021Opposes Labor Rights

Source: atr.org

Voted against adding relocation, retraining, and job-placement support to plans for workers affected by youth-detention-center restructuring (SB466 amendment).

May 11, 2016Opposes Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject a $100,000 state death benefit for school employees killed violently at work (HB1475).

March 9, 2016Opposes Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to table breastfeeding accommodations, including breaks to express milk (SB219; tabling passed 188–158).

January 6, 2016Opposes Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against a proposed state-employee pay increase and retiree-benefit changes in the FY2016–2017 budget (HB2). The amendment failed.

April 1, 2015Opposes Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject restrictions on using job applicants' and employees' credit histories in employment decisions (HB365; rejection passed 200–142).

March 12, 2015Opposes Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject up to 40 hours of annual paid sick leave, contingent on similar federal legislation (HB600; rejection passed 219–122).

March 12, 2015Opposes Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject raising the minimum wage to $9.10 in 2016, $11.40 in 2017, and $14.25 in 2018 (HB684; rejection passed 198–145).

March 12, 2015Opposes Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Sponsored and testified for barring mandatory union membership and fees as employment conditions in 2013 and 2015 (HB323; HB402). Defended the 2015 bill and voted against rejecting it. The House rejected both proposals.

March 12, 2015Opposes Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Co-sponsored and supported barring required union membership or payments as a condition of employment (HB658; passed 149–146). The bill exempted police officers and firefighters.

March 11, 2015Opposes Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Requested the roll call and voted to reject shortening teachers' eligibility period for nonrenewal hearings from five years to three (HB116; rejection passed 218–145).

March 4, 2015Opposes Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against overriding the veto of state-employee protections against abusive workplaces, including complaint investigations and anti-retaliation policies (HB591; override failed 141–154).

September 17, 2014Opposes Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Opposed hiring-discrimination and retaliation protections for employees victimized by domestic violence (SB390). Supported a failed amendment keeping only a study, then a failed motion to table the bill.

May 14, 2014Opposes Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against paycheck-equity protections covering sex-based pay differences and wage-disclosure retaliation (SB207). Supported a failed amendment shortening unpaid-wage claims from three years to one year after discovery. Also supported a failed motion to table the bill.

May 14, 2014Opposes Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Supported removing first-responder injury-award eligibility for injuries from March 12, 2012 onward (SB204). The amendment failed.

April 23, 2014Opposes Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against additional protections for employees paid through payroll cards, including free withdrawals and disclosure of fees and payment options (HB1404; passed with amendment 201–104).

February 19, 2014Opposes Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against banning employers and employment agencies from discriminating against job applicants because they were unemployed (HB350; passed with amendment 179–170).

January 15, 2014Opposes Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Requested a roll call and voted against a retirement bill exempting qualifying disabled police/fire retirees from outside-earnings reductions and revising emergency-management officials’ retirement eligibility and terms (HB124; passed192–156).

June 26, 2013Opposes Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Opposed the April FY2014–2015 implementing budget bill, then spoke and voted for its revised June version (HB2). The final bill replaced immediate Medicaid expansion with a study, omitted proposed gas and cigarette tax increases and the charter moratorium, preserved education tax credits, and funded state employee pay agreements. It became law June 28.

June 26, 2013Supports Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against unemployment benefits for eligible workers developing a business through an approved self-employment assistance program (SB143; House passed 183–149).

May 29, 2013Opposes Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against restricting employers' use of credit histories in hiring and other employment decisions, with job-related and legally required exceptions (HB357; House passed 213–144).

March 20, 2013Opposes Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against establishing a $7.25 state minimum wage and against a proposed $7.75 rate (HB501; $7.75 amendment failed 152–182 and the $7.25 bill passed 200–133).

March 13, 2013Opposes Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Cosponsored crediting military training toward professional licenses, maintaining licenses during service, and expedited licensing for transferred military spouses (HB234). The amended law used inactive license status and facilitated spouses’ licensing.

January 3, 2013Supports Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Published support for ending compulsory agency fees for nonunion state employees (HB383).

January 5, 2012Opposes Labor Rights

Source: nhhousegop.com

Cosponsored repealing permission to deduct union dues from wages (HB1163). The House rejected it.

January 4, 2012Opposes Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to override the governor’s veto of a bill prohibiting mandatory union dues or membership as a condition of employment (HB474; override failed240–139).

November 30, 2011Opposes Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Published support for removing New Hampshire’s higher state minimum wage (HB133).

June 9, 2011Opposes Labor Rights

Source: nhhousegop.com

Cosponsored ending automatic continuation of expired public-worker union contracts (HB326). The House rejected it.

January 6, 2011Opposes Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against requiring year-end employment notices for school support staff and other non-certified employees (HB1411; passed 198–153).

March 10, 2010Opposes Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting a right-to-work bill prohibiting mandatory union membership or financial support as an employment condition (HB1645; rejected 232–122).

February 17, 2010Opposes Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Testified for reviewing occupational licenses to limit barriers to entering trades and professions (HB1381). The House rejected the bill.

January 19, 2010Supports Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against the final requirement for 60 days’ notice of major layoffs and plant closures by employers with at least 75 workers (SB40).

June 24, 2009Opposes Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Supported a smaller unemployment-tax alternative and delayed waiting period, then voted against the broader employer-tax and benefit-waiting-period package (SB129).

June 3, 2009Supports Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against expanding unemployment eligibility for domestic abuse, pregnancy or illness, a spouse’s relocation, and family-care needs (SB144).

June 3, 2009Opposes Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject required employer leave for workers serving on the public retirement-system board (SB145).

April 29, 2009Opposes Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to require 25 years of service for newly hired police officers and firefighters to receive retirement benefits (HB590).

April 9, 2009Opposes Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting a pension cap equal to the highest annual base pay for new public workers (HB591).

March 25, 2009Opposes Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to remove extra and special duty pay from earnings used to calculate public-worker pensions (HB532).

March 25, 2009Opposes Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting repeal of written majority authorization for public-worker union representation (HB500).

March 24, 2009Opposes Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against requiring wages to be paid immediately at layoff, while retaining separate deadlines for discharge and resignation (HB103).

February 18, 2009Opposes Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting a right-to-work bill prohibiting compulsory union membership or payments (HB1496).

March 22, 2006Opposes Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against a four-hour minimum payment for employees called into work (HB1138).

March 22, 2006Opposes Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Cosponsored limits on pay raises in backup municipal budgets, allowing increases required by existing union contracts (HB1195). The House rejected it.

January 4, 2006Opposes Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against raising the hourly minimum wage from $5.15 to $6.15 in two annual steps (HB665).

April 6, 2005Opposes Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting teacher-dismissal standards based on district performance requirements instead of incompetence (HB132).

March 31, 2005Opposes Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against expanding unemployment-benefit eligibility to workers seeking part-time employment (HB137).

March 30, 2005Opposes Labor Rights

Source: gc.nh.gov

Moved and revised a teacher-salary spending cut, then seconded another cut at the Mont Vernon school meeting. Both proposals failed.

March 11, 2003Opposes Labor Rights

Source: scholars.unh.edu

Publicly demanded accountability from Councilor Karen Liot Hill over alleged misuse of public office.

January 8, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: nh.gop

Published an article urging the Supreme Court to strike limits on coordinated spending by political parties.

December 15, 2025Opposes Anti-Corruption

Source: nhjournal.com

Voted against requiring short-term rental advertisements to display the operator’s meals-and-rooms tax license number (HB1590).

June 1, 2016Opposes Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to require parental consent for non-academic student surveys, with an opt-out exception for the CDC youth-risk survey (SB320). Opposed an amendment replacing this consent rule with opt-out rules covering public charter schools.

June 1, 2016Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting public records of government bodies’ closed negotiations and legal consultations (HB1417).

March 9, 2016Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting citizens’ direct claims against public employees’ bonds for injuries caused by those employees (HB1639).

March 9, 2016Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject an independent commission for drawing legislative districts (HB1564).

February 10, 2016Opposes Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting a proposal to return hunting and fishing fee-setting authority to the Legislature (HB1524).

February 10, 2016Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting expanded legislative review and objection powers over proposed agency rules (HB434; rejection passed 235–105).

March 12, 2015Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting a ban on secret ballots in House speaker elections (HB299; rejection passed 271–69).

March 12, 2015Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting mandatory police decertification for perjury, false statements, or fabricated evidence proven at a hearing (HB214; rejection passed 233–122).

March 11, 2015Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting public reporting of federally supplied police equipment and tactical-team deployments (HB669; rejection passed 245–110).

March 11, 2015Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against asking Congress for a constitutional convention on political spending (HCR2; passed 181–134). The resolution addressed Citizens United and related decisions.

March 4, 2015Opposes Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting required public hearings before the Education Department applies for grants (HB302; rejection passed 260–77).

March 4, 2015Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting pension and state-funded health-insurance forfeiture after conviction in a state impeachment trial (CACR9; rejection passed 235–121).

March 4, 2015Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against requiring school districts to notify parents about non-academic surveys, provide the surveys for review at least ten days in advance and allow written or electronic opt-outs (HB206; amendment passed 246–114).

March 4, 2015Opposes Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject public hearings and congressional advocacy for a constitutional amendment responding to Citizens United (HB371; rejection passed 194–157).

February 11, 2015Opposes Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Cosponsored classifying unauthorized judicial-referee assignments and recommendations as maladministration (HB247). The House rejected it.

January 8, 2015Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to override the veto of expanded legislative-auditor access to confidential and privileged state-agency records (HB685; override failed 190–113).

September 17, 2014Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Supported exemptions for married couples and parent–child groups from political-committee rules (SB120). Opposed revised spending-registration and reporting requirements, then moved and voted to postpone the bill. His amendment and postponement failed. The package exempted certain nonprofits from identifying donors.

May 14, 2014Opposes Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against killing requirements for cost reports, fiscal analysis and public hearings before implementing Common Core or other new school standards (HB1239; killing the proposal passed 182–124).

March 26, 2014Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against killing mandatory recovery of pension overpayments and a committee review of the retirement system’s recovery practices (HB1101; killing the proposal passed 183–138).

March 19, 2014Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against sending proposed police-service bans for officers convicted of perjury or false swearing to interim study (HB1204; referral passed 174–148).

February 19, 2014Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting Fiscal Committee approval of cost items in state collective-bargaining agreements (SB153; rejection passed 191–135).

May 29, 2013Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against removing the prescription-monitoring program's planned expiration and postponing its performance audit from 2014 to 2017 (SB83; House passed 238–105).

April 24, 2013Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Spoke and voted against urging a federal constitutional amendment restricting corporate constitutional rights and protection of political spending (HCR2; House passed 189–139).

March 20, 2013Opposes Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting mandatory referral of guardian ad litem complaints to courts and removal of dismissal based on a pending case (HB402; rejection passed 244–99).

February 13, 2013Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting exceptions to guardians ad litem's immunity for gross negligence or malicious or corrupt acts (HB387; rejection passed 245–101).

February 13, 2013Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Cosponsored barring public office during incarceration, conditional release, or restitution obligations, and permanently after intentional-murder convictions (CACR5). The House rejected it.

January 3, 2013Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Met with a store owner and cashier about identity checks, suspected misuse, and fraud reporting for electronic-benefit-transfer cards.

July 20, 2012Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: nhhousegop.com

Requested agency disclosures of relatives employed together following a nepotism investigation.

July 18, 2012Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: wmur.com

Excluded two Concord Monitor reporters from a press briefing in his office and declined to explain the exclusion when asked.

July 6, 2012Opposes Anti-Corruption

Source: patch.com

Voted to reject a public campaign-financing pilot for qualifying candidates in five randomly selected Senate districts (HB1676; rejection passed230–82).

March 8, 2012Opposes Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Cosponsored restrictions on medical-device referrals when practitioners or close relatives had financial interests in suppliers (HB1725). The Senate sent it to interim study.

February 15, 2012Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Published support for posting awarded state contracts online (HB1686).

February 15, 2012Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: nhhousegop.com

Published support for legislative oversight of the Department of Environmental Services (HB1435).

February 15, 2012Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: nhhousegop.com

Published support for legislative review of state collective-bargaining agreements (HB1666).

February 15, 2012Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: nhhousegop.com

Directed House counsel to investigate D.J. Bettencourt’s mileage claims and forwarded the report to the attorney general; counsel found the allegations unfounded.

October 31, 2011Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: patch.com

Cosponsored and publicly backed an investigation of Local Government Center risk pools (HB655). Voted for the investigative committee and a failed amendment adding subpoena fines and imprisonment.

October 12, 2011Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Cosponsored legislative approval or rejection of negotiated state-worker contract costs, without legislative rewriting (SB4). The Senate sent it to interim study.

March 9, 2011Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Testified for restricting state officials’ campaign contributions and work for candidates who supervised them (HB212). The bill entered committee study.

February 1, 2011Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Cosponsored requiring legislative approval for agency rules increasing fees or costs (HB624). The amended law established a study committee.

January 6, 2011Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Spoke and voted against corporate political-advertising approvals and disclosures packaged with banking-authority changes and a trust-income tax repeal (HB1459 conference report; failed 135–184).

June 2, 2010Opposes Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting an address seeking marital master Philip Cross’s removal; the House adopted the rejection 187–155 (HA3).

June 2, 2010Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against investment-trust law changes and pooled-risk oversight, including state investigations, penalties, public rate hearings, and reserve reviews (HB1393; passed 177–150).

June 2, 2010Opposes Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to extend public-records requirements to large nonprofits mostly funded by government, with private-record exemptions (HB1356; failed 80–214).

March 18, 2010Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting a resolution calling for congressional audits of grants identifying ACORN funding (HCR23; rejected 181–133).

March 11, 2010Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting annual reports of state payments to ACORN and its affiliates (HB1218; rejected 176–139).

March 11, 2010Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against allowing lobbyists and their law-firm colleagues on judicial committees beyond court-rule matters (SB33). Later published support for studying a lobbyist ban on judicial public bodies (HB1410).

February 12, 2010Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Published a minority committee report supporting a $5-per-name court-record research fee (HB1577), arguing that higher fees exceeded service costs and burdened small research businesses.

February 5, 2010Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Cosponsored public hearings and performance reviews for marital-master appointments and reappointments (HB1307). Voted against rejecting it in committee. The House rejected it.

February 4, 2010Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Cosponsored legislation on judicial review of marital-master and judicial-referee recommendations (HB1306). Voted in committee for certification that judges read recommendations and verified legal standards. The Senate rejected the bill.

February 4, 2010Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting a free searchable state-spending website with salaries, contracts, grants, tax credits, and performance results (HB1670; rejected 201–162).

February 3, 2010Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Co-sponsored and voted against rejecting restrictions on lobbyists serving on public bodies benefiting themselves, their employers, or clients (HB1621; rejected 215–147).

February 3, 2010Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Spoke and voted against allowing county conventions to fill certain county-office vacancies by secret ballot (HB1687; passed 242–101).

January 27, 2010Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Authored the minority report, spoke, and voted against nonpublic legislative-body meetings on collective-bargaining strategy before submission of contract costs (HB379; passed 199–141).

January 13, 2010Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to permit recording on-duty law-enforcement officers after notifying them, while preserving other recording and trespass restrictions (HB312).

March 26, 2009Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject a request for voluntary public funding of federal elections (HCR5).

March 11, 2009Opposes Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Proposed, defended, and voted for limiting committee members whose paid work overlapped the committee’s duties to 30% per party (House Rule28).

February 4, 2009Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Cosponsored disclosure of proposed spending and estimated tax increases on local ballot questions (HB257). The House rejected the bill.

January 8, 2009Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Sponsored mandatory cancellation of government actions taken in violation of public-meeting laws (HB135). The House rejected the bill in 2010.

January 7, 2009Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Sponsored and defended public notice of government spending on lobbying and election campaigns (HB1236). Testified and voted for it. The House rejected the bill.

March 22, 2006Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting real-estate licensing requirements for public officials (HB1233).

March 8, 2006Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted for reporting of hospital-acquired infections and a statewide public-reporting database, with validation and privacy protections (HB1741).

March 7, 2006Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Proposed, defended, and voted for separate informational special-education budgets, including salaries, benefit costs, and overhead allocations (HB1384).

February 22, 2006Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against creating a state ethics officer to administer ethics disclosures and advise public officials and employees (HB1240).

February 15, 2006Opposes Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to apply public-records and open-meeting requirements to electronic government communications, including disclosure of outside-meeting quorum communications (HB626).

February 1, 2006Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against requiring candidates and political committees to separately itemize donations from registered lobbyists (HB621).

February 1, 2006Opposes Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to establish an executive-branch ethics committee and strengthen gift, financial-disclosure, and lobbyist-reporting rules (SB206).

January 4, 2006Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Cosponsored separate public votes on public-worker contract costs at town meetings (HB1196). The House rejected the bill.

January 4, 2006Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against exempting workers’ compensation claims and labor-board deliberations from public disclosure, with claimant-access and written-decision protections (SB28).

June 29, 2005Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Opposed expelling Representative Gene Chandler, then voted to accept the ethics report and censure him (Complaint 2004-2).

June 1, 2005Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject separate public registration of lobbyists’ employers and revised nonprofit lobbying fees (HB289).

March 31, 2005Opposes Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted for giving citizens authority to investigate judicial conduct and impose sanctions under procedures established by law (CACR12).

March 31, 2005Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Moved and defended a separate public vote on the SAU39 administrative budget. Mont Vernon rejected the warrant article 15–66.

March 11, 2005Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: scholars.unh.edu

Proposed separating special-education costs in school budgets, then removed his separate-vote requirement (HB451). The House rejected the bill.

February 24, 2005Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting a 15% cap on state employees classified as direct supervisors (HB1122).

March 9, 2016Supports Government Efficiency

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against accepting Senate revisions to municipal-charter adoption, amendment and revision procedures, including removing the secretary of state from the state approval process (HB422; concurrence failed 164–171).

May 14, 2014Opposes Government Efficiency

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against killing repeal of the rule requiring sugar in individual packets or covered containers with small dispensing openings in food establishments (HB1378; killing the proposal passed 220–116).

March 19, 2014Supports Government Efficiency

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against requiring model-year 2000 and newer vehicles to keep certificates of title rather than receiving an exemption once they were more than 15 years old (HB495; passed with amendment 218–61).

January 29, 2014Supports Government Efficiency

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to overhaul New Hampshire’s business corporation law, including electronic filings, remote shareholder meetings, and procedures to obtain shareholder lists (SB41; passed 336–0).

June 5, 2013Supports Government Efficiency

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against an optional integrated permit combining environmental land-development approvals and temporarily adding two state positions (SB124; House passed 218–137).

May 8, 2013Opposes Government Efficiency

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting abolition of the Department of Cultural Resources, with library and historic-preservation functions transferred to the secretary of state and film functions to economic development (HB561; rejection passed 253–86).

March 6, 2013Supports Government Efficiency

Source: gc.nh.gov

Cosponsored eliminating the University System chancellor and transferring its duties to a smaller trustee board (HB1692). The chambers failed to agree on the amended bill.

January 4, 2012Supports Government Efficiency

Source: gc.nh.gov

Cosponsored reviews and expiration schedules for state-agency and judicial programs, with specified exceptions (HB458). The Senate rejected the amended bill.

January 6, 2011Supports Government Efficiency

Source: gc.nh.gov

Proposed and supported environmental-appeal hearing officers appointed by the department commissioner, screened from department counsel, with superior-court appeals (SB480 amendment2052h; failed 144–179).

May 13, 2010Supports Government Efficiency

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject fees requiring live-racing operators to cover the state’s direct regulatory costs (HB1297; rejected 201–114).

March 18, 2010Opposes Government Efficiency

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting a parental-instruction alternative to compulsory school attendance outside the existing home-education framework (HB1580; rejected 175–144).

March 17, 2010Supports Government Efficiency

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to raise the daily milk-sales licensing threshold from 20 to 80 quarts (HB1278; passed 343–8).

February 17, 2010Supports Government Efficiency

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting a free searchable state-spending website with salaries, contracts, grants, tax credits, and performance results (HB1670; rejected 201–162).

February 3, 2010Supports Government Efficiency

Source: gc.nh.gov

Requested a roll call and voted against rejecting reduction of the retirement-system board from fourteen to eight trustees (HB401; rejected 200–147).

January 13, 2010Supports Government Efficiency

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject a requirement for homeschooling parents to affirm in writing that instruction complied with required subjects (HB368; rejected 324–34).

January 13, 2010Supports Government Efficiency

Source: gc.nh.gov

Defended and voted to admit sworn medical records and bills as evidence without mandatory witness appearances, subject to notice and cross-examination rights (HB438).

March 25, 2009Supports Government Efficiency

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting a switch from annual to biennial motor-vehicle inspections (HB259).

February 18, 2009Supports Government Efficiency

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against reducing the number of tax-appeals board members required for hearings and related filing changes (HB476).

February 12, 2009Opposes Government Efficiency

Source: gc.nh.gov

Proposed, defended, and voted for separate informational special-education budgets, including salaries, benefit costs, and overhead allocations (HB1384).

February 22, 2006Supports Government Efficiency

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting a change from annual to biennial motor-vehicle inspections (HB1328).

February 22, 2006Supports Government Efficiency

Source: gc.nh.gov

Signed, defended, and voted for election legislation restricting public-employee electioneering and permitting special elections to coincide with regular elections (HB381).

June 29, 2005Supports Government Efficiency

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to revise vehicle-emissions inspections, including repair and hardship waivers, seller disclosure of failures, and inspection-data exemptions (HB513).

June 29, 2005Supports Government Efficiency

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted for pretrial panels to screen medical malpractice claims (SB214).

June 8, 2005Supports Government Efficiency

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against a $5 increase in small-claims filing fees to fund voluntary court mediation (SB63).

June 8, 2005Opposes Government Efficiency

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against allowing judges to issue search and arrest warrants electronically (SB182).

May 4, 2005Opposes Government Efficiency

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted for judicial screening of medical malpractice claims and mandatory mediation for claims continuing afterward (HB702).

March 31, 2005Supports Government Efficiency

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to remove the requirement that home-school parents submit a curriculum plan, while preserving required subjects and annual evaluations (HB406).

March 31, 2005Supports Government Efficiency

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to end turnpike tokens as electronic tolling replaced them, reducing token purchasing and handling costs (HB604).

March 9, 2005Supports Government Efficiency

Source: gc.nh.gov

Co-sponsored an immigration resolution, then voted against its amended call for comprehensive reform and a path to permanent residence for qualifying people (HCR22; passed 170–125).

February 3, 2010Opposes Immigration

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting criminal-trespass penalties for noncitizens without documents authorizing their presence in New Hampshire (HB1137).

March 8, 2006Opposes Immigration

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject mandatory government acceptance of foreign consular identification cards (HB1266).

March 7, 2006Opposes Immigration

Source: gc.nh.gov

Published an article opposing court-directed school-funding appropriations and defending legislative control over education spending.

July 1, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: nhjournal.com

Published opposition to proposed increases in Group II public-employee pension benefits and defended the 2011 reforms.

June 23, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: nhjournal.com

Published support for nuclear power and the Keystone XL pipeline, while criticizing higher state taxes and spending.

March 27, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: nh.gop

Led meetings of conservatives and urged limits on state spending growth.

April 8, 2017Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: wmur.com

Voted against expedited consideration of $1.5 million for opioid-enforcement grants (HB1000; rules suspension passed 241–97).

June 16, 2016Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted for a constitutional limit on deficit spending and borrowing for operating expenses, with a two-thirds override (CACR27).

May 11, 2016Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against supplemental funding for addiction services, supportive housing for people with substance-use disorders, and a drug prosecutor (SB533).

April 20, 2016Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting a 15% cap on state employees classified as direct supervisors (HB1122).

March 9, 2016Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject a $100,000 state death benefit for school employees killed violently at work (HB1475).

March 9, 2016Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to continue premium contributions by retired state employees and spouses newly eligible for Medicare and fund retiree-health planning (HB1591).

March 9, 2016Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against full-day kindergarten funding and then voted to reject the proposal (HB1563).

February 10, 2016Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against dyslexia screening, school support services, and a state education department reading specialist (HB1644).

February 10, 2016Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted for state appropriations and implementing legislation for fiscal years 2006–2007 (HB1 and HB2). In 2015, supported House and conference appropriations for fiscal years 2016–2017 (HB1).

June 24, 2015Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Supported $45,545 each year for domestic-violence grants instead of higher marriage fees (HB681 amendment; failed 170–199). Opposed raising marriage fees from $45 to $50 (passed 223–146). Opposed the later agreement adding a $50 domestic-violence fine (passed 203–144).

June 24, 2015Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Spoke against and requested a roll call on expedited consideration of a temporary state budget (HJR2). Voted against suspending rules and against an amendment using the proposed budget’s spending levels. The rules suspension passed; the amendment failed.

June 24, 2015Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Supported the House and June conference versions of the FY2016–2017 budget implementation bill (HB2). Supported local-option keno and removing direct superior-court felony filing. Supported removing agency authority to set hunting and fishing fees and keeping vanity-plate fees at $40; those amendments failed. Opposed a tobacco-tax and offshore-business tax amendment and reopening the House bill; those motions failed.

June 24, 2015Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against redevelopment districts in unincorporated areas and expanded state bond guarantees (SB30; passed 293–57).

May 6, 2015Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against a proposed state-employee pay increase and retiree-benefit changes in the FY2016–2017 budget (HB2). The amendment failed.

April 1, 2015Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against added health-center, hospital, and county nursing-home funding in the FY2016–2017 budget (HB1). The amendment failed.

April 1, 2015Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Supported an April HB2 amendment combining spending cuts, fund transfers, and school-grant changes in the FY2016–2017 budget. The amendment passed.

April 1, 2015Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against added substance-use treatment and forensic-laboratory funding in the FY2016–2017 budget (HB1). The amendment failed.

April 1, 2015Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against an HB2 amendment adding local aid and county nursing-home credits, protecting the heritage fund, and delaying voter photographs until July 2017. The amendment failed.

April 1, 2015Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against adding developmental, elderly, and shelter-services funding to the FY2016–2017 budget (HB1). The amendment failed.

April 1, 2015Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against extra college, university, and tourism funding in the FY2016–2017 budget (HB1). The amendment failed.

April 1, 2015Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against the proposed transportation budget for 2016–2017 (HB357 amendment; failed 3–365). It required $34 million in highway spending cuts each year.

March 25, 2015Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject county-convention compensation of up to $50 per meeting day for Coos County members (HB416; rejection failed 163–191).

March 4, 2015Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting pension and state-funded health-insurance forfeiture after conviction in a state impeachment trial (CACR9; rejection passed 235–121).

March 4, 2015Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Spoke and voted against rejecting a constitutional requirement for three-fifths legislative approval of new or increased taxes, license fees, and state bonds (CACR1; rejection passed 226–128).

March 4, 2015Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting restrictions on public abortion funding and family-planning contracts with abortion providers or their affiliates (HB677; rejection passed 216–142).

February 18, 2015Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject a Department of Education school-nurse consultant and $87,000 in annual funding for two years (HB575; rejection passed 236–122).

February 18, 2015Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject $542,672 for towns owed fiscal-year 2013 flood-control compact reimbursements (HB176; rejection passed 221–127).

February 11, 2015Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against studying cooperative health-care arrangements and imposing a one-time $300,000 hospital assessment to develop the state health plan (SB308; passed with amendment 164–122).

May 14, 2014Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against sending a proposed $15.3 million transfer to the state rainy-day fund to interim study (SB415; referral passed 151–127).

May 14, 2014Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against an amendment capping additional first-responder injury awards at $125,000 per claimant and $500,000 overall, while expanding the study commission (SB204). The amendment passed.

April 23, 2014Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Supported removing first-responder injury-award eligibility for injuries from March 12, 2012 onward (SB204). The amendment failed.

April 23, 2014Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to replace restoring $7 million to health and human services with a $15.3 million transfer to the rainy-day fund (HB1411; replacement failed 157–172). Then voted against the bill restoring the health spending and transferring the remaining surplus to that fund (passed 185–153).

March 19, 2014Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against sending increased charter-school per-pupil funding to interim study (HB435; referral passed 167–151).

March 19, 2014Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to kill prohibiting the retirement system from using its assets or administrative expenses to pay for actuarial assessments of proposed legislation (HB341; killing the proposal passed 221–103).

January 29, 2014Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against allowing municipalities to issue bonds for open-access broadband infrastructure serving unserved or inadequately served areas, with private providers delivering service (HB286; passed with amendment 204–78).

January 29, 2014Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against a proposal supporting bus service between Claremont and Lebanon through a $1 appropriation and possible additional state funding up to $250,000 after matching funds were secured (HB650; passed with amendment 192–89).

January 29, 2014Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Moved to recess to distribute SSHB1 copies (failed 136–187) and opposed introducing the Medicaid expansion bill (introduction passed 183–141). He appealed four Chair rulings but voted to uphold them; moved and spoke to divide the marketplace and oversight sections (failed 156–197 and 154–200); requested roll calls on the majority amendment, division of repeal provisions, and a 12 percent state-cost growth termination safeguard. He supported the majority amendment (204–151) and House passage (198–146), while opposing the cost safeguard (162–191), deleting marketplace provisions (154–197), removing later oversight provisions (146–195), and lowering the private-plan insurer threshold (142–200). The plan combined employer-insurance premium assistance, Medicaid managed care, and private marketplace coverage from 2017. The Senate rejected it.

November 21, 2013Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Requested a roll call and voted against expanding entities assessed for childhood-vaccine costs and revising the vaccine association’s funding and enforcement procedures (HB664; passed235–115).

June 26, 2013Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Requested a roll call and voted against a retirement bill exempting qualifying disabled police/fire retirees from outside-earnings reductions and revising emergency-management officials’ retirement eligibility and terms (HB124; passed192–156).

June 26, 2013Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Opposed the April FY2014–2015 implementing budget bill, then spoke and voted for its revised June version (HB2). The final bill replaced immediate Medicaid expansion with a study, omitted proposed gas and cigarette tax increases and the charter moratorium, preserved education tax credits, and funded state employee pay agreements. It became law June 28.

June 26, 2013Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Spoke and voted against FY2014–2015 state operating appropriations in April and June (HB1). Supported an unsuccessful motion to table the April bill. The final budget became law.

June 26, 2013Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject, then opposed passage of, allowing municipalities to supplement state old-age or disability assistance without ending state eligibility (SB146; House passed 190–100).

June 5, 2013Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Requested a roll call and voted against revisions to New Hampshire's regional greenhouse gas initiative, including lower emissions allowances and expanded electric-ratepayer rebates (HB306; concurrence passed 207–131).

June 5, 2013Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against juvenile-placement reforms bundled with a $5.37 million federal health-insurance assistance grant, and supported a failed amendment requiring prior legislative approval of grant spending (SB129; House passed 179–132).

June 5, 2013Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against allowing municipalities to create water and sewer utility districts with commissions, benefit assessments, rates, borrowing, and separate funds (SB11; House passed 254–74).

May 29, 2013Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against unemployment benefits for eligible workers developing a business through an approved self-employment assistance program (SB143; House passed 183–149).

May 29, 2013Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against an optional integrated permit combining environmental land-development approvals and temporarily adding two state positions (SB124; House passed 218–137).

May 8, 2013Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against directing implementation of expanded Medicaid family-planning coverage with 90% federal matching funds (SB194; House passed 212–120).

May 8, 2013Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Supported replacing a $38 million women’s prison with a study of county-jail and existing-prison alternatives (failed 98–253), then requested a roll call and voted against the FY2014–2015 capital budget with $176.43 million in bond authority (HB25; passed 285–68).

April 3, 2013Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Supported a failed HB2 amendment capping postsecondary scholarship spending in the FY2014–2015 budget.

April 3, 2013Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Supported two failed HB2 amendments prioritizing school-building aid from surplus funds in the FY2014–2015 budget.

April 3, 2013Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Supported a failed HB2 amendment lowering county charges for nursing-home care in the FY2014–2015 budget.

April 3, 2013Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Supported a failed HB2 amendment funding manufacturing marketing in the FY2014–2015 budget.

April 3, 2013Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against restoring a duty to retreat outside one’s dwelling or curtilage (HB135; passed189–184); supported failed amendments for state payment of retreat-related lost income and legal costs.

March 27, 2013Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against retirement-system opt-outs and continued police/fire pension eligibility for homeland-security directors (HB683; House passage failed 165–191).

March 27, 2013Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Offered and voted for replacing gas-tax increases with directing highway funds to transportation (amendment failed 146–217), then voted against phased 12-cent gas and diesel tax increases for roads and bridges (HB617; House passed 206–158).

March 27, 2013Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Sponsored, testified for, and defended blocking Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (HB271). Voted against rejecting it; the House rejected the bill.

March 20, 2013Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against allocating at least20% of remaining RGGI auction proceeds to low-income energy-efficiency programs (HB630 amendment0712h; passed204–153).

March 20, 2013Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to restore fiscal-year 2013 education grants to municipalities below their 2011 funding level (SB40; House passed 302–34).

March 6, 2013Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against increasing the maximum county-convention attendance payment from$25 to$50 per day (HB136; failed116–228).

February 6, 2013Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting a constitutional amendment requiring a three-fifths vote for new or increased taxes, license fees, and state bonds, with guaranteed debt-service appropriations (CACR1; rejection passed206–149).

February 6, 2013Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject increasing beer taxes from30 to40 cents per gallon and directing the increase to alcohol-abuse prevention and treatment (HB168; rejection passed308–35).

February 6, 2013Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Cosponsored $25,000 for National Guard recruitment and retention scholarships (HB615). The bill died after the House tabled it.

January 3, 2013Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject a public campaign-financing pilot for qualifying candidates in five randomly selected Senate districts (HB1676; rejection passed230–82).

March 8, 2012Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted for a resolution seeking to void a federal grant to Planned Parenthood of Northern New England (HCR41; passed179–134).

March 7, 2012Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Cosponsored crediting public employers for pension-contribution overpayments after rates were recalculated (HB654). The Senate rejected it.

September 14, 2011Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against adding $1 million annually for school tuition and transportation aid to the FY2012–2013 budget (HB1 amendment1248h; failed111–243).

March 31, 2011Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to repeal New Hampshire’s Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and direct remaining funds to CORE energy-efficiency programs (HB519; House passed251–108).

March 30, 2011Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Cosponsored reviews and expiration schedules for state-agency and judicial programs, with specified exceptions (HB458). The Senate rejected the amended bill.

January 6, 2011Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Supported failed tax and spending amendments, then voted against the special-session budget combining health-service and agency cuts, tax and fee increases, and LLC tax repeal (SSHB1; passed177–167).

June 9, 2010Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against expanded native-plant and natural-community conservation provisions, cost-based service fees, and a dedicated Natural Heritage Bureau fund (SB382; passed 169–143).

May 12, 2010Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Supported deleting new taxes and a spending-cut alternative (failed 160–198), then opposed the package combining service cuts, tax increases, and LLC and campground tax repeals (SB450; House passed 182–173).

May 12, 2010Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against a health-care cost-containment commission funded through a one-time $250,000 assessment on health carriers, hospitals, and surgical facilities (SB505; passed 214–130).

May 5, 2010Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject authorization of a Manchester solar project using $5 million retained from utility renewable-energy compliance payments (SB334; rejected 300–46).

May 5, 2010Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Supported phasing education-aid changes over three years and limiting meal-program aid calculations to eligible pupils (SB465 amendment1838h; failed 131–208).

May 5, 2010Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject continued retirement survivor pensions and medical subsidies after remarriage (HB1428; rejected 173–169).

March 24, 2010Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting restored municipal revenue-sharing and meals-and-rooms aid alongside vehicle and health-fee reductions, partnership-tax changes, and a campsite exemption (HB1672; rejected 198–163).

March 24, 2010Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against allowing municipal districts to finance voluntary energy-efficiency and clean-energy improvements through property assessments (HB1554; passed 180–155).

March 18, 2010Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting local charter limits on budget and tax growth with two-thirds override requirements (HB1522; rejected 202–148).

March 3, 2010Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject taxes on bottled soft drinks, syrups, and powders earmarked for obesity prevention and treatment (HB1679; rejected 288–65).

March 3, 2010Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting two more years of education-grant protection against reductions while retaining a 15-percent growth cap (HB1677; rejected 203–131).

March 3, 2010Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting earlier expiration of vehicle-registration surcharges and increases, with reduced highway funding (HB1588; rejected 200–154).

February 10, 2010Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting lower boat fees, reduced aquatic-weed funding charges, and repeal of the general saltwater-fishing license requirement (HB1669; rejected 194–155).

February 3, 2010Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting a requirement that agencies submit alternative budgets with spending five percent below the preceding biennium’s second year (HB1643; rejected 188–174).

February 3, 2010Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to restore growth in meals-and-rooms tax payments to towns for fiscal year 2011 (HB1128; passed 189–169).

February 3, 2010Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting repeal of the gambling-winnings tax and its administrative appropriations (HB1594; rejected 184–181).

February 3, 2010Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Testified for cutting legislative travel payments and freezing reimbursement of executive-branch travel (HB1675). Legislative mileage remained exempt. He later forced separate consideration; the House rejected the bill.

February 3, 2010Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Co-sponsored and voted against rejecting constitutional language making towns responsible for schools and state aid discretionary (CACR27; rejected 233–125).

February 3, 2010Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting restoration of $25 million in annual state revenue sharing to towns for fiscal years 2010–2011 (HB1274; rejected 191–172).

February 3, 2010Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against temporarily raising aquatic-resource mitigation administrative assessments from 5% to 20% to fund up to two program positions (HB681 amendment0005h; passed 173–146).

January 13, 2010Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted for a statewide emergency-alert system using E911 data, voluntary additions and opt-outs, confidentiality protections, and existing emergency-services funding (HB213; passed 318–3).

January 13, 2010Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to redirect existing utility-system charges toward low-income electricity assistance through June 2011 without increasing the total charge (SB300; passed 298–2).

January 13, 2010Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Cosponsored excluding children eligible for employer health coverage from the Healthy Kids insurance program (HB1283). The House rejected it.

January 6, 2010Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Supported removing proposed tax increases and reducing transportation spending, then voted against the final budget tax, fee, and spending package (HB2).

June 24, 2009Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Supported narrowing newly eligible claimants, then voted against expanding victim compensation to $25,000 and extending applications to two years (HB601).

June 24, 2009Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Supported school-building and municipal aid amendments, then voted against the final state operating budget for fiscal years 2010–2011 (HB1).

June 24, 2009Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against expanding unemployment eligibility for domestic abuse, pregnancy or illness, a spouse’s relocation, and family-care needs (SB144).

June 3, 2009Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against death benefits for public workers serving in the military and continued survivor pensions after remarriage (SB200).

May 6, 2009Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against Senate amendments combining judicial commuting-mileage reductions with religious protections connected to the same-sex marriage law (HB310).

May 6, 2009Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against continuing survivor pensions after remarriage for spouses of public workers who died in the line of duty (SB160).

April 29, 2009Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against highway-to-turnpike transfers, increased transportation bond authority, open-road tolling, and related road and bridge projects (HB391).

April 9, 2009Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to require 25 years of service for newly hired police officers and firefighters to receive retirement benefits (HB590).

April 9, 2009Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting a pension cap equal to the highest annual base pay for new public workers (HB591).

March 25, 2009Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to remove extra and special duty pay from earnings used to calculate public-worker pensions (HB532).

March 25, 2009Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject a request for voluntary public funding of federal elections (HCR5).

March 11, 2009Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Opposed creating mental-health courts and voted against a commission to evaluate their effectiveness and establish operating standards (HB171).

March 11, 2009Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting a ban on state health contracts with Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers (HB486).

March 4, 2009Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Published a minority committee report opposing added court-security spending (HB682), citing a projected cost of at least $10 million over two years and scarce court funds.

February 27, 2009Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting an inflation-linked limit on state department budget-increase requests, with specified exceptions (HB369).

February 18, 2009Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting repeal of state authority to borrow money for school-building aid when the general fund had a deficit (HB440).

February 18, 2009Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting limits on extra school funding based on low-income enrollment to students eligible for subsidized meals (HB521).

February 18, 2009Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Supported reducing legislative staff salaries, then voted against the broader midyear state-budget package (HB30).

February 4, 2009Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting a prohibition on state funding for the Commission on the Status of Women (HB122).

February 4, 2009Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Cosponsored a 24-month limit on cash welfare benefits within five years, with rules for exceptions (HB479). The House rejected it.

January 8, 2009Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Sponsored matching public funds for opposing election campaigns, then moved to reject that proposal (HB1237). His committee agreed 13–0.

October 17, 2006Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted for TANF reforms combining employment-program sanctions and case closure for continued noncompliance with funding for two-parent families (HB1331).

May 24, 2006Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against state guarantees for qualifying business loans through the Business Finance Authority (SB322).

May 4, 2006Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against an early-learning initiative expanding licensed-childcare support for lower-income families, including its later nominally funded version (SB306).

May 4, 2006Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against authorizing seven additional state troopers with a nominal appropriation (SB294).

April 19, 2006Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against requiring school attendance through age 18, alternative graduation pathways, and vocational-education pilot funding (SB268).

April 12, 2006Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against additional funding for land conservation and community heritage preservation (HB1167).

March 22, 2006Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to remove a required payment to the National Alliance on Mental Illness for family support services (HB1710 amendment).

March 22, 2006Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against $1.2 million for community-technical colleges to hold tuition at its existing level for 2006–07 (HB1459).

March 22, 2006Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting removal of lottery-funded subsidies for horse and dog racing purses (HB1612).

March 9, 2006Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject adjusting legislative compensation to present monetary value (CACR37).

March 8, 2006Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject a tobacco-tax increase with dedicated tobacco-prevention funding (HB1515).

February 22, 2006Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to extend kindergarten construction aid through June 2008 and add approximately $1.7 million in funding (HB1241).

February 15, 2006Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject mandatory health-benefit spending or payments into a Medicaid fund by employers with at least 1,500 employees (HB1704).

February 15, 2006Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject revising education funding and adding needs-based matching grants (HB650).

February 1, 2006Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against municipal and county bonding for broadband infrastructure in unserved areas, following opportunities for private providers (HB653).

January 18, 2006Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against a solid-waste disposal fee funding recycling, waste reduction, and hazardous-waste programs (HB634).

January 18, 2006Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Cosponsored limits on pay raises in backup municipal budgets, allowing increases required by existing union contracts (HB1195). The House rejected it.

January 4, 2006Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted for $10 million in emergency heating assistance and temporary redirection of electricity-program funds to low-income assistance (SB228).

November 16, 2005Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

After opposing two House funding versions, supported Senate school-aid provisions targeting property-poor communities and fixing statewide education-property-tax revenue at $363 million (HB616).

June 15, 2005Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against a $5 increase in small-claims filing fees to fund voluntary court mediation (SB63).

June 8, 2005Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against a $20 court-filing surcharge funding a Nashua legal-assistance office and additional legal-assistance staff elsewhere (SB146).

June 8, 2005Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against extending medical-benefit eligibility to police and firefighters joining the retirement system before July 2006 and later disabled on duty (HB222).

April 20, 2005Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against allowing up to 10% of land and community heritage funds to be used for loans (HB539).

March 31, 2005Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against expanding unemployment-benefit eligibility to workers seeking part-time employment (HB137).

March 30, 2005Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against increasing medical subsidies for retired Manchester employees, subject to approval by city voters (HB521).

March 23, 2005Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting constitutional limits tying state and local budget growth to inflation and population growth, with a two-thirds override (CACR1).

March 23, 2005Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against $10 million in added land and community heritage funding and authority to provide loans (HB670).

March 9, 2005Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject a two-thirds legislative threshold for new or increased taxes combined with an inflation-and-population limit on budget growth (CACR9).

February 9, 2005Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: gc.nh.gov

Moved and revised a teacher-salary spending cut, then seconded another cut at the Mont Vernon school meeting. Both proposals failed.

March 11, 2003Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: scholars.unh.edu

Jointly published support for apprehending Nicolás Maduro and enforcing laws against international drug trafficking.

January 3, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: nh.gop

Published an article supporting federal military assistance to address violent crime in cities, including Washington, D.C.

August 14, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: nhjournal.com

Voted against expedited consideration of $1.5 million for opioid-enforcement grants (HB1000; rules suspension passed 241–97).

June 16, 2016Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against adopting the 2015 Life Safety Code and studying an updated fire code (HB427).

June 1, 2016Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against extending retention of child-protection reports to seven years for uninvestigated cases, ten for unsubstantiated cases, and indefinitely for substantiated cases (SB537).

May 11, 2016Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to make a custodial parent’s opioid abuse or dependence a rebuttable presumption of child harm, with treatment as a rebuttal (SB515).

April 20, 2016Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against supplemental funding for addiction services, supportive housing for people with substance-use disorders, and a drug prosecutor (SB533).

April 20, 2016Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting criminal penalties for false information or withholding evidence in child-abuse investigations (HB1249).

March 9, 2016Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject requiring police to give crime victims prompt access to data from recovered stolen devices (HB1125).

March 9, 2016Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Supported $45,545 each year for domestic-violence grants instead of higher marriage fees (HB681 amendment; failed 170–199). Opposed raising marriage fees from $45 to $50 (passed 223–146). Opposed the later agreement adding a $50 domestic-violence fine (passed 203–144).

June 24, 2015Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against banning the sale and possession of listed synthetic drugs (SB106; passed 233–120). The bill also imposed fines and penalties on licensed sellers.

May 6, 2015Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Supported adding fetuses after eight weeks to homicide laws (SB40; passed 193–159). The bill exempted pregnant women, requested abortions and prescribed medication.

May 6, 2015Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against added substance-use treatment and forensic-laboratory funding in the FY2016–2017 budget (HB1). The amendment failed.

April 1, 2015Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting mandatory police decertification for perjury, false statements, or fabricated evidence proven at a hearing (HB214; rejection passed 233–122).

March 11, 2015Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Supported extending homicide laws to fetuses after eight weeks (HB560; passed 208–155). The bill exempted pregnant women, requested medical care and lawful prescribed medication. Opposed an alternative adding penalties for deaths causing miscarriage or stillbirth (failed 168–190).

March 11, 2015Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting replacement of the driving-phone restriction with a ban limited to drivers under 18 (HB426; rejection passed 214–136).

March 11, 2015Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against adding a surcharge to alcohol-law fines (HB585; passed 223–133). It funded victim assistance, domestic-violence programs and alcohol treatment and prevention.

February 18, 2015Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Requested the roll call and voted against rejecting expanded state-guard authority and a volunteer/reserve structure (HB433; rejection passed 215–137).

February 18, 2015Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Requested the roll call and voted to table a $100 fine for driving with an animal in the driver's lap (HB241; tabling passed 296–56).

February 18, 2015Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Cosponsored private criminal complaints and prosecutions for specified nonviolent offenses when public authorities declined prosecution (HB440). The House rejected it.

January 8, 2015Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Supported changing the House weapons rule to prohibit displaying deadly weapons in the chamber and nearby rooms (passed 228–149).

January 7, 2015Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against adding animal cruelty to the domestic-violence statute and allowing protective orders to grant custody of household animals and keep defendants away from them (HB1410; conference report passed 231–90).

June 4, 2014Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against exempting boilers in private homes and small residential buildings from state inspection requirements (HB1167; conference report passed 182–152).

June 4, 2014Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against revisions to electrician regulation that included fees for inspections requested by the public, an 8,000-hour apprenticeship requirement and an updated electrical code (SB220; passed with amendment 163–111).

May 14, 2014Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against replacing the death penalty with life imprisonment without parole for capital murder (SB202; amendment passed 218–117), then against the amended bill, which also expanded burglary to remaining unlawfully in a building (passed 226–110).

May 14, 2014Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted for revised human-trafficking penalties and victim protections, including civil remedies, relief from prostitution convictions resulting from trafficking and protection of minors from prostitution prosecution (SB317; passed with amendment 327–0).

April 30, 2014Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted for Joshua’s Law, establishing a distinct domestic-violence offense and recording qualifying violent offenses as domestic violence (SB318; passed 325–3).

April 30, 2014Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against replacing fetal-homicide provisions with enhanced sentences for crimes causing miscarriage or stillbirth (HB1503; replacement passed 176–116). Supported restoring a definition covering fetuses after the twelfth week after conception, with exceptions for the pregnant woman and medical care including abortion (failed 114–170), then opposed the sentencing bill (passed 243–42).

March 20, 2014Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to table a ban on local residency restrictions for registered sex offenders and offenders against children (HB1237; tabling failed 112–215), then voted against passing the ban (passed 231–97).

February 19, 2014Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against sending proposed police-service bans for officers convicted of perjury or false swearing to interim study (HB1204; referral passed 174–148).

February 19, 2014Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against requiring medical technicians with access to patients and drugs to register with a new state board, undergo criminal-record checks and comply with its disciplinary oversight (HB658; passed with amendment 228–92).

January 29, 2014Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against requiring youth skill-camp background-check policies, state certification, and fees (HB295), including the final conference version.

June 26, 2013Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Opposed extending child-restraint requirements to children under seven (HB242). Voted against House and conference versions, with 56-inch and 57-inch height exceptions respectively.

June 26, 2013Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against changes to DWI ignition-interlock rules, including longer restrictions for failed alcohol tests and out-of-state treatment options (SB20; House passed 252–76).

May 29, 2013Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Published support for treating the killing of a fetus as homicide (HB217).

May 30, 2012Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: nhhousegop.com

Voted for a resolution supporting Arizona’s SB1070 immigration enforcement law and border protection (HCR2; passed243–102).

February 1, 2012Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Cosponsored and voted for expanded impaired-driving laws covering chemicals and metabolites in 2010 (HB665). Cosponsored and submitted testimony for the 2012 refile (HB1699), which became law after amendment.

January 25, 2012Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Cosponsored a failed 2010 death-penalty expansion for purposeful killings in or around an unauthorized residence (SB472). In 2011, sponsored and testified for capital punishment for murders during burglaries of occupied buildings (HB147). The narrower amended bill became law.

February 1, 2011Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Cosponsored excluding violent offenders from mandatory early supervised release and expanding parole-board authority to recommit offenders (HB524). The House rejected the Senate’s amended version.

January 6, 2011Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against allowing municipalities to regulate the retail display and accessibility of martial-arts weapons (HB1461; passed 174–147).

June 2, 2010Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against child-restraint limits in schools and treatment facilities, including dangerous-technique bans, emergency-use restrictions, and parent notification (SB396; passed 218–141).

May 12, 2010Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against making Lake Winnipesaukee speed limits and vessel-violation reporting permanent while raising the nighttime limit from 25 to 30 mph (SB464; passed 268–79).

May 5, 2010Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against parole and probation reforms establishing risk-based supervision, intermediate sanctions, and earlier supervised release for specified prisoners (SB500; passed 256–57).

April 21, 2010Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting a 25-mile residency restriction near victims or their families for certain offenders and lifetime registration for child homicide (HB1647; rejected 243–105).

March 10, 2010Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against enhanced civil damages for victims of reckless aggravated drunk driving (HB1260; failed 143–158).

March 3, 2010Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting a 2,000-foot school and child-care residency restriction for offenders against children, with exceptions (HB1442; rejected 253–88).

March 3, 2010Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting fetal-homicide coverage from conception, exempting the mother’s acts, medical care including abortion, and lawful medication (HB1644; rejected 219–122).

February 17, 2010Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against updated commercial-vehicle definitions and raising the minimum age for newer home-heating-oil delivery drivers to 21 (HB1230; passed 192–87).

February 3, 2010Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against expanded state-park enforcement authority, including agreements for municipal officials to cite rule violations (HB1520; passed 218–121).

January 27, 2010Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against written-test learner permits, required road tests for first-time drivers, and tighter youth-passenger restrictions (HB579; failed 164–192).

January 27, 2010Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted for a statewide emergency-alert system using E911 data, voluntary additions and opt-outs, confidentiality protections, and existing emergency-services funding (HB213; passed 318–3).

January 13, 2010Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Moved to introduce a bill expanding capital murder to intentional killings during home invasions; the House denied introduction 161–201.

January 6, 2010Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Supported lower fines, then voted against requiring most adult motorists to wear seat belts (HB383).

April 9, 2009Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Supported narrower definitions and exemptions, then voted against adding gender-identity discrimination and hate-crime protections (HB415).

April 8, 2009Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against repealing the death penalty (HB556).

March 25, 2009Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against prohibiting written text messages and two-handed electronic-device operation while driving (HB34).

March 24, 2009Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting a switch from annual to biennial motor-vehicle inspections (HB259).

February 18, 2009Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against authorizing seven additional state troopers with a nominal appropriation (SB294).

April 19, 2006Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted for expanded sex-offender registration, civil commitment of sexually violent predators, and longer sentences for child sexual assault (HB1692).

March 22, 2006Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting inclusion of an unborn child within homicide offenses (HB1649).

March 21, 2006Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting state agreements with federal officials for immigration enforcement by state and local police (HB1666).

March 8, 2006Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting criminal-trespass penalties for noncitizens without documents authorizing their presence in New Hampshire (HB1137).

March 8, 2006Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting misdemeanor penalties for false documents used to obtain employment, government benefits, and licenses (HB1229).

March 7, 2006Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted for a prescription-drug monitoring database with practitioner and law-enforcement access (HB1714).

March 7, 2006Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting state employment-verification duties and penalties for employing unauthorized immigrants (HB1151).

February 22, 2006Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting a change from annual to biennial motor-vehicle inspections (HB1328).

February 22, 2006Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject replacing the death penalty with life imprisonment without parole (HB1422).

February 15, 2006Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against statewide boating speed limits of 45 mph by day and 25 mph at night, exempting ocean waters and authorized emergencies (HB162).

February 2, 2006Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against including 17-year-olds in the juvenile justice system, with adult certification available for serious crimes (HB627).

January 4, 2006Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting separate criminal offenses for injuring or causing the death of an unborn child (HB209).

March 30, 2005Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject removing criminal penalties for marijuana possession and use (HB197).

March 30, 2005Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to preserve enhanced penalties for crimes motivated by hostility to victims’ race, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, or sex (HB136).

February 15, 2005Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reject a ban on youth drivers’ cellphone use while driving on public roads (HB165).

February 9, 2005Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to remove mandatory minimum sentences for habitual offenders convicted of illegally operating motor vehicles (HB605).

June 1, 2016Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to shorten the waiting period to seek annulment of certain marijuana or hashish misdemeanors from three years to two (SB391).

June 1, 2016Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to reduce first-offense possession of small amounts of marijuana or hashish from a misdemeanor to a $300 violation (SB498).

May 11, 2016Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted for instructions permitting criminal juries to acquit when a guilty verdict produced an unjust result (HB1270).

March 9, 2016Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting warrant protections for government collection of personal materials, including discarded property (HB1496).

March 9, 2016Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Cosponsored and voted for repealing buffer-zone restrictions around reproductive health clinics (HB1570).

March 9, 2016Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against easing warrant requirements for police access to prescription-drug monitoring records (HB1420).

March 9, 2016Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against adding a constitutional right to privacy in personal matters free from government interference (CACR22).

March 9, 2016Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to expand emergency firearm-seizure protections to accessories and protect officers refusing unlawful confiscation orders (HB512).

January 6, 2016Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Supported the House and June conference versions of the FY2016–2017 budget implementation bill (HB2). Supported local-option keno and removing direct superior-court felony filing. Supported removing agency authority to set hunting and fishing fees and keeping vanity-plate fees at $40; those amendments failed. Opposed a tobacco-tax and offshore-business tax amendment and reopening the House bill; those motions failed.

June 24, 2015Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against banning the sale and possession of listed synthetic drugs (SB106; passed 233–120). The bill also imposed fines and penalties on licensed sellers.

May 6, 2015Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Supported reducing penalties for small amounts of marijuana and hashish (HB618; passed 297–67). The bill set fines and kept marijuana growing illegal.

March 11, 2015Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting public reporting of federally supplied police equipment and tactical-team deployments (HB669; rejection passed 245–110).

March 11, 2015Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Opposed requiring written parental consent, an accompanying adult and recorded child interviews in day-care investigations (HB380; passed 214–157). Earlier opposed rejecting the original version (failed 154–217).

March 11, 2015Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting removal of poker from the criminal statute's definition of gambling (HB445; rejection passed 217–150).

March 11, 2015Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting repeal of the prohibition on showing or specially marking one's ballot (HB228; rejection passed 253–89).

March 4, 2015Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting removal of the ban on sharing photographs of marked ballots and a $10 cap on remaining ballot-display fines (HB404; rejection passed 233–131).

March 4, 2015Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting a rule treating denial or restriction of jury-nullification instruction rights as judicial maladministration (HB246; rejection passed 225–115).

February 11, 2015Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Supported adding limited home cultivation of therapeutic cannabis to a bill on Fish and Game officers’ traffic powers (SB389; failed 110–177). Opposed allowing conservation officers to enforce motor-vehicle laws with the authority of other certified officers (passed 219–72; conference report passed 260–91).

June 4, 2014Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Supported sending enhanced American-eel harvesting penalties to interim study (SB400; failed 136–181), then voted against passage, including a felony for a repeat violation within five years and equipment confiscation (passed 227–93).

May 14, 2014Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against replacing the death penalty with life imprisonment without parole for capital murder (SB202; amendment passed 218–117), then against the amended bill, which also expanded burglary to remaining unlawfully in a building (passed 226–110).

May 14, 2014Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted for revised human-trafficking penalties and victim protections, including civil remedies, relief from prostitution convictions resulting from trafficking and protection of minors from prostitution prosecution (SB317; passed with amendment 327–0).

April 30, 2014Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against immunity for people reporting drivers as medically unfit (HB263; January version passed 178–104), and again after the bill limited immunity to licensed health providers making reports based on clinical evaluation (March version passed 150–128).

March 20, 2014Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against killing a ban on state and local agencies obtaining military vehicles or hardware unavailable on the open commercial market (HB1307; killing the proposal passed 195–138).

March 19, 2014Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against killing a proposal to place the burden of proving firearms-law exceptions or exemptions on the state rather than the defendant (HB1438; killing the proposal passed 207–126).

March 19, 2014Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to exempt medical or religious possession of alcohol by minors, and possession by 18-to-20-year-olds accompanied by a parent, guardian or spouse aged 21 or older where alcohol is not sold (HB1436; failed 143–185).

February 19, 2014Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to table a ban on local residency restrictions for registered sex offenders and offenders against children (HB1237; tabling failed 112–215), then voted against passing the ban (passed 231–97).

February 19, 2014Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted for medical cannabis in March, including home cultivation, then supported the June compromise barring patient cultivation and licensing nonprofit treatment centers (HB573; conference report passed 284–66).

June 26, 2013Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Supported a failed amendment barring state aid to federal military detention, then voted against surviving spouses retaining Purple Heart plates (SB47; House passed 188–158).

June 5, 2013Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against restoring a duty to retreat outside one’s dwelling or curtilage (HB135; passed189–184); supported failed amendments for state payment of retreat-related lost income and legal costs.

March 27, 2013Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against expanding Children in Need of Services eligibility, voluntary family services, and court service or placement procedures, with additional school truancy requirements (HB260 amendment0968h; passed215–138).

March 27, 2013Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Spoke and voted against urging a federal constitutional amendment restricting corporate constitutional rights and protection of political spending (HCR2; House passed 189–139).

March 20, 2013Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting written property-owner consent and opt-out protections for wireless smart-meter installation (HB454; rejection passed 232–124).

March 20, 2013Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting a restriction of resisting-arrest offenses to lawful arrests or detentions (HB458; rejection passed 252–96).

March 13, 2013Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted to prohibit state assistance with federal terrorism-detention provisions and urge the attorney general to challenge them in court (HB399; House passed 337–15).

March 13, 2013Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting marijuana legalization and repeal of related possession and paraphernalia prohibitions (HB337; rejection passed 239–112).

March 13, 2013Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting a constitutional amendment establishing parents’ rights to control their children’s health, education, and welfare (CACR3; rejection passed228–133).

February 20, 2013Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting mandatory referral of guardian ad litem complaints to courts and removal of dismissal based on a pending case (HB402; rejection passed 244–99).

February 13, 2013Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting exceptions to guardians ad litem's immunity for gross negligence or malicious or corrupt acts (HB387; rejection passed 245–101).

February 13, 2013Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting a reduction of local vendor-ordinance offenses from misdemeanors to violations (HB103; rejection passed270–77).

January 30, 2013Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Excluded two Concord Monitor reporters from a press briefing in his office and declined to explain the exclusion when asked.

July 6, 2012Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: patch.com

Voted to require physically capable pupils to stand during the Pledge of Allegiance even if they did not recite it (HB1146; failed155–170).

March 7, 2012Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted for religious exemptions allowing employers to omit contraceptive coverage from employee health insurance (HB1546 sections9–12; passed196–150).

March 7, 2012Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Cosponsored returning legally owned property, including firearms, after acquittal or dismissal, with penalties for delays (HB1523). The House sent it to interim study.

January 4, 2012Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Cosponsored a failed 2010 death-penalty expansion for purposeful killings in or around an unauthorized residence (SB472). In 2011, sponsored and testified for capital punishment for murders during burglaries of occupied buildings (HB147). The narrower amended bill became law.

February 1, 2011Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Cosponsored excluding violent offenders from mandatory early supervised release and expanding parole-board authority to recommit offenders (HB524). The House rejected the Senate’s amended version.

January 6, 2011Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Supported shifting the burden to revenue officials to prove excessive business-owner compensation deductions (failed 150–175), then opposed the $50,000 safe-harbor plan retaining taxpayer proof requirements (SB497; passed 177–150).

May 13, 2010Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Proposed and supported environmental-appeal hearing officers appointed by the department commissioner, screened from department counsel, with superior-court appeals (SB480 amendment2052h; failed 144–179).

May 13, 2010Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against child-restraint limits in schools and treatment facilities, including dangerous-technique bans, emergency-use restrictions, and parent notification (SB396; passed 218–141).

May 12, 2010Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against fingerprint-submission requirements and arrest or conviction notifications for driver-education school applicants (SB477; passed 225–115).

April 28, 2010Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against parole and probation reforms establishing risk-based supervision, intermediate sanctions, and earlier supervised release for specified prisoners (SB500; passed 256–57).

April 21, 2010Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Voted against rejecting five-day parental notices and religious opt-outs for school health, sex, gender-identity, and political-activism activities (HB1453; rejected 195–118).

March 18, 2010Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: gc.nh.gov

Co-sponsored, spoke, and voted against rejecting a restriction of no-fault divorce to couples without minor children (HB1510; rejected 248–81).

March 18, 2010Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Supported shifting tax-deduction disputes toward the revenue commissioner’s burden of proof, then opposed the broader reasonable-compensation package (HB1607; passed 183–144).

March 11, 2010Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against rejecting revised court regulation of attorneys and removal of mandatory Bar Association roles and county-attorney membership requirements (HB1564; rejected 170–122).

March 11, 2010Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against rejecting conscientious-belief exemptions from school and child-care immunization requirements (HB1555; rejected 201–137).

March 11, 2010Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Authored the minority report, spoke, and voted against shorter competency-evaluation and detention deadlines for criminal defendants with mental illness (HB1655; passed 180–100).

March 11, 2010Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against rejecting limits on court-ordered divorce and parenting counseling to providers accepting direct insurance payment (HB1556; rejected 233–83).

March 10, 2010Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against rejecting a 25-mile residency restriction near victims or their families for certain offenders and lifetime registration for child homicide (HB1647; rejected 243–105).

March 10, 2010Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for treating personal possession of up to one-quarter ounce of marijuana as a violation with a fine up to $200 (HB1653; passed 214–137).

March 10, 2010Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against rejecting constitutional language barring the state from abridging parents’ control over children’s health, education, and welfare (CACR29; rejected 249–96).

March 10, 2010Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against rejecting a resolution reaffirming religious practice and speech rights and describing New Hampshire’s Christian religious heritage (HCR26; rejected 215–122).

March 3, 2010Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against rejecting a 2,000-foot school and child-care residency restriction for offenders against children, with exceptions (HB1442; rejected 253–88).

March 3, 2010Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against expanding school background checks and prohibiting hires based on arrests or pending charges for specified serious crimes (HB1224 amendment0419h; failed 129–205).

March 3, 2010Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Published a committee report supporting a longer period before psychiatric admission hearings (HB1133), excluding weekends and holidays from the ten-day calculation.

February 26, 2010Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against Medicaid spousal-income notices and court oversight of guardians’ income and estate planning (HB1213; passed 192–158).

February 17, 2010Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Spoke and voted against rejecting mandatory jury-nullification instructions and allowing defendants to explain that power (HB1347; rejected 234–113).

February 17, 2010Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against rejecting restrictions on government burdens on religious exercise, with a compelling-interest and least-restrictive-means exception (HB1330; rejected 203–119).

February 17, 2010Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Cosponsored legislation on judicial review of marital-master and judicial-referee recommendations (HB1306). Voted in committee for certification that judges read recommendations and verified legal standards. The Senate rejected the bill.

February 4, 2010Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Co-sponsored and voted against rejecting July 2012 reductions in gun-license and court charges and repeal of certain legal fees (HB1633; rejected 196–167).

February 3, 2010Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted to reject physician-prescribed, self-administered lethal medication for capable adults with severe suffering from terminal disease, subject to two-physician review and waiting periods (HB304; rejected 242–113).

January 13, 2010Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Supported broader no-retreat self-defense rights, then opposed narrower weapon-display immunity against serious threats (HB160; amendment failed 148–206, bill passed 189–166).

January 13, 2010Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Moved to introduce a bill expanding capital murder to intentional killings during home invasions; the House denied introduction 161–201.

January 6, 2010Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for medical marijuana access and to override the governor’s veto of the proposal (HB648).

October 28, 2009Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted to permit recording on-duty law-enforcement officers after notifying them, while preserving other recording and trespass restrictions (HB312).

March 26, 2009Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Defended and voted to admit sworn medical records and bills as evidence without mandatory witness appearances, subject to notice and cross-examination rights (HB438).

March 25, 2009Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Defended and voted to retain defendants’ right to move discrimination complaints from the Human Rights Commission to court (HB686).

March 25, 2009Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against rejecting limits on government land seizures, including returning unused land after five years upon repayment (HB480).

March 25, 2009Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against repealing the death penalty (HB556).

March 25, 2009Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for statutory procedures and appeal rights governing large groundwater withdrawals (SB386).

April 26, 2006Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for eliminating the duty to retreat before justified defensive force in places a person had a right to be (SB318).

April 26, 2006Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for a constitutional prohibition on taking private property by eminent domain for private development or private use (CACR30).

March 22, 2006Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for expanded sex-offender registration, civil commitment of sexually violent predators, and longer sentences for child sexual assault (HB1692).

March 22, 2006Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against rejecting criminal and civil immunity for justified self-defense and limits on arrests without probable cause (HB1354).

March 21, 2006Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted to urge a federal constitutional amendment limiting eminent-domain seizures to public use (HJR25).

March 9, 2006Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted to reject requiring warrants for telephone subscriber information and billing records (HB1770).

March 9, 2006Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against rejecting criminal-trespass penalties for noncitizens without documents authorizing their presence in New Hampshire (HB1137).

March 8, 2006Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against extending police powers and immunities to outside officers assisting during a declared emergency under New Hampshire supervision (HB1335).

March 7, 2006Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted to reject replacing the death penalty with life imprisonment without parole (HB1422).

February 15, 2006Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against including 17-year-olds in the juvenile justice system, with adult certification available for serious crimes (HB627).

January 4, 2006Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for pretrial panels to screen medical malpractice claims (SB214).

June 8, 2005Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against a $20 court-filing surcharge funding a Nashua legal-assistance office and additional legal-assistance staff elsewhere (SB146).

June 8, 2005Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against extending deadlines for civil suits over childhood sexual assault to age 28 or three years after discovery (SB75).

May 11, 2005Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against authorizing traffic-signal cameras and civil citations to vehicle owners in larger municipalities (HB679).

April 6, 2005Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for judicial screening of medical malpractice claims and mandatory mediation for claims continuing afterward (HB702).

March 31, 2005Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for criminal defendants’ right to have juries informed of their power to refuse convictions contrary to conscience (HB530).

March 31, 2005Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for giving citizens authority to investigate judicial conduct and impose sanctions under procedures established by law (CACR12).

March 31, 2005Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted to reject removing criminal penalties for marijuana possession and use (HB197).

March 30, 2005Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted to prohibit the death penalty for offenses committed before age 18 (HB147).

March 23, 2005Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted to reject physician-supervised medical marijuana, including limited patient cultivation (HB238).

February 9, 2005Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against supplemental funding for addiction services, supportive housing for people with substance-use disorders, and a drug prosecutor (SB533).

April 20, 2016Opposes Housing Affordability

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Voted against the lead-poisoning bill agreement (SB135; passed 249–103). It changed screening and notices, protected tenants from lead-related evictions and updated property-owner responsibilities.

June 24, 2015Opposes Housing Affordability

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Supported allowing seven-day eviction notices for failure to maintain tenant-paid utilities, unauthorized long-term occupants or prohibited pets, subject to chances to remedy the violations (HB315; passed with amendment 263–95).

March 4, 2015Opposes Housing Affordability

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Requested the roll call and supported reopening a rejected bill allowing first and last month's rent plus a security deposit (HB269; reconsideration failed 145–204).

February 11, 2015Opposes Housing Affordability

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Voted against preserving rooming-house tenants’90-day occupancy count after landlord-directed moves, with a written-request exception for voluntary moves (HB472; passed235–119).

June 26, 2013Opposes Housing Affordability

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Voted against rejecting a landlord bill expanding eviction-payment demands, increasing liquidated damages from$15 to$160, and repealing landlord-agent requirements (HB106; rejection passed214–140).

January 30, 2013Opposes Housing Affordability

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Sponsored a housing-law exemption for towns without specified land-use restrictions (HB1382). The House rejected the bill.

January 6, 2010Opposes Housing Affordability

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Sponsored and testified for allowing landlords to end protected tenancies when leases expired (HB1548). Voted against rejecting it. The House rejected the bill.

March 22, 2006Opposes Housing Affordability

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Cosponsored approval of land-use applications when local boards tied votes on approving them (HB1339). The House rejected the bill.

January 4, 2006Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted against adding relocation, retraining, and job-placement support to plans for workers affected by youth-detention-center restructuring (SB466 amendment).

May 11, 2016Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted against supplemental funding for addiction services, supportive housing for people with substance-use disorders, and a drug prosecutor (SB533).

April 20, 2016Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted to reject permanent renewal of expanded Medicaid coverage without a sunset date (HB1690).

March 9, 2016Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted to reject a $100,000 state death benefit for school employees killed violently at work (HB1475).

March 9, 2016Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted to override a veto of ending child support after age 18 for high-school-equivalency students or children incarcerated after conviction (HB449; override failed 229–151).

September 16, 2015Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Supported $45,545 each year for domestic-violence grants instead of higher marriage fees (HB681 amendment; failed 170–199). Opposed raising marriage fees from $45 to $50 (passed 223–146). Opposed the later agreement adding a $50 domestic-violence fine (passed 203–144).

June 24, 2015Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Supported expanded restrictions on EBT cards and cash withdrawn with them (SB169; agreement passed 213–143). The bill also required a report and recipient education.

June 24, 2015Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted against added health-center, hospital, and county nursing-home funding in the FY2016–2017 budget (HB1). The amendment failed.

April 1, 2015Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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