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