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Nay is the side that doesn't send U.S. money or arms abroad.", "contested": "", "countries": "Taiwan", "side_favoring_countries": "Yea", "review_status": "prototype", "reviewed_by": "", "review_date": "", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2024/roll146.xml", "page": "/v/rep-118-2-146/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-118-2-151", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 118, "roll": 151, "date": "2024-04-20", "bill": "H.R. 8035", "title": "Ukraine Security Supplemental ($61B)", "question": "On Passage", "result": "Passed", "yea": 311, "nay": 112, "category": "Foreign entanglements", "subcategory": "Aid and arms: Ukraine", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Nay", "weight": 2, "reason": "House passage of the $61B Ukraine security supplemental in the April 2024 foreign aid package. Nay is the side that doesn't send U.S. money or arms abroad.", "contested": "", "countries": "Ukraine", "side_favoring_countries": "Yea", "review_status": "prototype", "reviewed_by": "", "review_date": "", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2024/roll151.xml", "page": "/v/rep-118-2-151/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-118-2-152", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 118, "roll": 152, "date": "2024-04-20", "bill": "H.R. 8034", "title": "Israel Security Supplemental ($26B)", "question": "On Passage", "result": "Passed", "yea": 366, "nay": 58, "category": "Foreign entanglements", "subcategory": "Aid and arms: Israel", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Nay", "weight": 2, "reason": "House passage of the $26B Israel security supplemental, one of the three bills in the April 2024 foreign aid package. 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Yea is the side that keeps U.S. money from going abroad.", "contested": "", "countries": "Ukraine", "side_favoring_countries": "Nay", "review_status": "prototype", "reviewed_by": "", "review_date": "", "source": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1182/vote_118_2_00295.xml", "page": "/v/sen-118-2-295/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-1-17", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 17, "date": "2025-01-16", "bill": "H R 30", "title": "Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act", "question": "On Passage", "result": "Passed", "yea": 274, "nay": 145, "category": "Crime and drugs", "subcategory": "Crimes by illegal immigrants", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 2, "reason": "House passage of H.R. 30, the Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act (274 to 145). It makes sex offenses and domestic violence grounds for deportation and inadmissibility.", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll017.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-1-17/" }, { "vote_id": "sen-119-1-7", "chamber": "sen", "congress": 119, "roll": 7, "date": "2025-01-20", "bill": "S. 5", "title": "Laken Riley Act", "question": "On Passage of the Bill", "result": "Passed", "yea": 64, "nay": 35, "category": "Border and immigration", "subcategory": "Interior enforcement", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 2, "reason": "Senate passage of the Laken Riley Act, which requires ICE to detain people here illegally who are charged with theft, burglary or violent crimes. It became law.", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "prototype", "reviewed_by": "", "review_date": "", "source": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00007.xml", "page": "/v/sen-119-1-7/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-1-23", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 23, "date": "2025-01-22", "bill": "S. 5", "title": "Laken Riley Act", "question": "On Passage", "result": "Passed", "yea": 263, "nay": 156, "category": "Border and immigration", "subcategory": "Interior enforcement", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 2, "reason": "Final House passage of the Laken Riley Act, which requires ICE to detain people here illegally who are charged with theft, burglary or violent crimes. It became law.", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "prototype", "reviewed_by": "", "review_date": "", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll023.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-1-23/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-1-68", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 68, "date": "2025-03-11", "bill": "H R 1156", "title": "Pandemic Unemployment Fraud Enforcement Act", "question": "On Passage", "result": "Passed", "yea": 295, "nay": 127, "category": "Spending and debt", "subcategory": "Waste and fraud", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 1, "reason": "House passage of H.R. 1156, the Pandemic Unemployment Fraud Enforcement Act (295 to 127). It extends the time to prosecute and recover pandemic unemployment fraud.", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll068.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-1-68/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-1-70", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 70, "date": "2025-03-11", "bill": "H.R. 1968", "title": "Full-year continuing resolution (March 2025)", "question": "On Passage", "result": "Passed", "yea": 217, "nay": 213, "category": "Spending and debt", "subcategory": "Budgets, CRs, omnibus", "scored": false, "america_first_side": "", "weight": 1, "reason": "", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "", "reviewed_by": "", "review_date": "", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll070.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-1-70/" }, { "vote_id": "sen-119-1-127", "chamber": "sen", "congress": 119, "roll": 127, "date": "2025-03-14", "bill": "S. 331", "title": "HALT Fentanyl Act (Senate passage)", "question": "On Passage of the Bill", "result": "Bill Passed", "yea": 84, "nay": 16, "category": "Crime and drugs", "subcategory": "Fentanyl and cartels", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 2, "reason": "Senate passage of S. 331, the HALT Fentanyl Act, which permanently classifies fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I (84 to 16). This mirrors the scored House vote (roll 166) at the same weight.", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00127.xml", "page": "/v/sen-119-1-127/" }, { "vote_id": "sen-119-1-151", "chamber": "sen", "congress": 119, "roll": 151, "date": "2025-03-26", "bill": "H.J.Res. 25", "title": "Overturn the IRS crypto broker reporting rule", "question": "On the Joint Resolution", "result": "Joint Resolution Passed", "yea": 70, "nay": 28, "category": "Liberties and government power", "subcategory": "Courts and agency power", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 1, "reason": "H.J.Res. 25, which overturns the IRS rule making decentralized crypto platforms report users' transactions (70 to 28). It became law. Yea = against expanding financial surveillance.", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00151.xml", "page": "/v/sen-119-1-151/" }, { "vote_id": "sen-119-1-160", "chamber": "sen", "congress": 119, "roll": 160, "date": "2025-04-02", "bill": "S.J.Res. 37", "title": "End the tariff emergency on Canada (April)", "question": "On the Joint Resolution", "result": "Passed", "yea": 51, "nay": 48, "category": "Trade and jobs", "subcategory": "Tariffs and trade deals", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Nay", "weight": 1, "reason": "Resolution to end the national emergency behind the tariffs on Canada. Nay keeps the tariffs, the side that protects U.S. production.", "contested": "voting yes ends tariffs on that country; some America First voices oppose tariffs on allies", "countries": "Canada", "side_favoring_countries": "Yea", "review_status": "prototype", "reviewed_by": "", "review_date": "", "source": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00160.xml", "page": "/v/sen-119-1-160/" }, { "vote_id": "sen-119-1-165", "chamber": "sen", "congress": 119, "roll": 165, "date": "2025-04-03", "bill": "S.J.Res. 33", "title": "Block an arms sale to Israel (April)", "question": "On the Motion to Discharge", "result": "Rejected", "yea": 15, "nay": 82, "category": "Foreign entanglements", "subcategory": "Aid and arms: Israel", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 1, "reason": "Vote to discharge a resolution blocking an arms sale to Israel, the decisive Senate vote. Yea is the side that doesn't send U.S. arms abroad, the same rule used for every country.", "contested": "the default treats any US arms sale abroad as foreign support, for every country alike", "countries": "Israel", "side_favoring_countries": "Nay", "review_status": "prototype", "reviewed_by": "", "review_date": "", "source": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00165.xml", "page": "/v/sen-119-1-165/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-1-98", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 98, "date": "2025-04-09", "bill": "H.R. 1526", "title": "No Rogue Rulings Act (limits nationwide injunctions)", "question": "On Passage", "result": "Passed", "yea": 219, "nay": 213, "category": "Liberties and government power", "subcategory": "Courts and agency power", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 1, "reason": "House passage of the No Rogue Rulings Act, which limits single district judges from issuing nationwide injunctions against federal policy.", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "prototype", "reviewed_by": "", "review_date": "", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll098.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-1-98/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-1-102", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 102, "date": "2025-04-10", "bill": "H.R. 22", "title": "SAVE Act (proof of citizenship to register to vote)", "question": "On Passage", "result": "Passed", "yea": 220, "nay": 208, "category": "Elections and citizenship", "subcategory": "Proof of citizenship and voter ID", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 2, "reason": "House passage of the SAVE Act, which requires documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections.", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "prototype", "reviewed_by": "", "review_date": "", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll102.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-1-102/" }, { "vote_id": "sen-119-1-225", "chamber": "sen", "congress": 119, "roll": 225, "date": "2025-04-30", "bill": "S.J.Res. 49", "title": "End the global tariff emergency (April)", "question": "On the Joint Resolution", "result": "Failed (tie)", "yea": 49, "nay": 49, "category": "Trade and jobs", "subcategory": "Tariffs and trade deals", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Nay", "weight": 2, "reason": "Resolution to end the national emergency behind the global tariffs (April 2025). It failed in a tie. Nay keeps the tariffs, the side that protects U.S. production.", "contested": "tariff votes split America First voices: some back tariffs as leverage for American jobs, others oppose broad tariffs as a tax on Americans", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "prototype", "reviewed_by": "", "review_date": "", "source": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00225.xml", "page": "/v/sen-119-1-225/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-1-120", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 120, "date": "2025-05-07", "bill": "H R 881", "title": "DHS Restrictions on Confucius Institutes and Chinese Entities of Concern Act", "question": "On Passage", "result": "Passed", "yea": 266, "nay": 153, "category": "Trade and jobs", "subcategory": "China (investment, tech, farmland)", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 1, "reason": "House passage of H.R. 881, the DHS Restrictions on Confucius Institutes and Chinese Entities of Concern Act (266 to 153). It cuts off DHS funds to universities hosting Confucius Institutes.", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll120.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-1-120/" }, { "vote_id": "sen-119-1-238", "chamber": "sen", "congress": 119, "roll": 238, "date": "2025-05-08", "bill": "S.J.Res. 7", "title": "Overturn the FCC E-Rate hotspot rule", "question": "On the Joint Resolution", "result": "Joint Resolution Passed", "yea": 50, "nay": 38, "category": "Liberties and government power", "subcategory": "Courts and agency power", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 1, "reason": "S.J.Res. 7, which overturns the FCC rule letting E-Rate pay for take-home Wi-Fi hotspots (50 to 38). Yea = keeps the agency within its statute.", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00238.xml", "page": "/v/sen-119-1-238/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-1-163", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 163, "date": "2025-06-10", "bill": "H R 884", "title": "No non-citizen voting in D.C. elections", "question": "On Passage", "result": "Passed", "yea": 266, "nay": 148, "category": "Elections and citizenship", "subcategory": "Proof of citizenship and voter ID", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 2, "reason": "House passage of H.R. 884, which bars non-citizens from voting in District of Columbia elections (266 to 148).", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll163.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-1-163/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-1-166", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 166, "date": "2025-06-12", "bill": "S. 331", "title": "HALT Fentanyl Act", "question": "On Passage", "result": "Passed", "yea": 321, "nay": 104, "category": "Crime and drugs", "subcategory": "Fentanyl and cartels", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 2, "reason": "Final House passage of the HALT Fentanyl Act, which permanently places fentanyl-related substances in Schedule I. It became law.", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "prototype", "reviewed_by": "", "review_date": "", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll166.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-1-166/" }, { "vote_id": "sen-119-1-328", "chamber": "sen", "congress": 119, "roll": 328, "date": "2025-06-27", "bill": "S.J.Res. 59", "title": "Require Congress to authorize hostilities against Iran", "question": "On the Motion to Discharge", "result": "Rejected", "yea": 47, "nay": 53, "category": "Foreign entanglements", "subcategory": "Wars and troop deployments", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 1, "reason": "Vote to discharge a war powers resolution requiring Congress to authorize hostilities against Iran. Yea is the side that says Congress must authorize wars.", "contested": "restraint-minded conservatives want Congress to vote on war; others backed the strikes", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "prototype", "reviewed_by": "", "review_date": "", "source": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00328.xml", "page": "/v/sen-119-1-328/" }, { "vote_id": "sen-119-1-342", "chamber": "sen", "congress": 119, "roll": 342, "date": "2025-06-30", "bill": "H.R. 1", "title": "Cut Medicaid match in states covering people here illegally (Cornyn amendment, waive)", "question": "On the Motion", "result": "Motion Rejected", "yea": 56, "nay": 44, "category": "Border and immigration", "subcategory": "Sanctuary policy and non-citizen benefits", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 1, "reason": "Motion to waive on the Cornyn amendment, which lowers the federal Medicaid match to 80% in expansion states that cover people here illegally with state funds. Yea = for the amendment.", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00342.xml", "page": "/v/sen-119-1-342/" }, { "vote_id": "sen-119-1-345", "chamber": "sen", "congress": 119, "roll": 345, "date": "2025-06-30", "bill": "H.R. 1", "title": "No Medicaid or CHIP money without verified status (waive)", "question": "On the Motion", "result": "Motion Rejected", "yea": 53, "nay": 47, "category": "Border and immigration", "subcategory": "Sanctuary policy and non-citizen benefits", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 2, "reason": "Motion to waive the budget point of order on an amendment to the 2025 reconciliation bill that would bar federal Medicaid and CHIP money for people whose citizenship or lawful status isn't verified. Yea = for the ban. It got 53 votes but needed 60.", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00345.xml", "page": "/v/sen-119-1-345/" }, { "vote_id": "sen-119-1-372", "chamber": "sen", "congress": 119, "roll": 372, "date": "2025-07-01", "bill": "H.R. 1", "title": "One Big Beautiful Bill Act", "question": "On Passage of the Bill", "result": "Passed (VP broke tie)", "yea": 50, "nay": 50, "category": "Spending and debt", "subcategory": "Budgets, CRs, omnibus", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 2, "reason": "Senate passage of the 2025 reconciliation law (One Big Beautiful Bill Act): tax cuts, spending cuts including Medicaid, and border and defense funding. The Vice President broke the 50 to 50 tie.", "contested": "deficit hawks objected to the cost", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "prototype", "reviewed_by": "", "review_date": "", "source": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00372.xml", "page": "/v/sen-119-1-372/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-1-190", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 190, "date": "2025-07-03", "bill": "H.R. 1", "title": "One Big Beautiful Bill Act (final House vote)", "question": "On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendment", "result": "Passed", "yea": 218, "nay": 214, "category": "Spending and debt", "subcategory": "Budgets, CRs, omnibus", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 2, "reason": "Final House vote on the 2025 reconciliation law (One Big Beautiful Bill Act): tax cuts, spending cuts including Medicaid, and border and defense funding.", "contested": "deficit hawks objected to the cost", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "prototype", "reviewed_by": "", "review_date": "", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll190.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-1-190/" }, { "vote_id": "sen-119-1-411", "chamber": "sen", "congress": 119, "roll": 411, "date": "2025-07-17", "bill": "H.R. 4", "title": "Rescissions Act of 2025 (foreign aid and public media cuts)", "question": "On Passage of the Bill", "result": "Passed", "yea": 51, "nay": 48, "category": "Spending and debt", "subcategory": "Rescissions and cuts", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 2, "reason": "Senate passage of the 2025 Rescissions Act, which cancels about $9B in foreign aid and public broadcasting funds. It became law.", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "prototype", "reviewed_by": "", "review_date": "", "source": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00411.xml", "page": "/v/sen-119-1-411/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-1-203", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 203, "date": "2025-07-18", "bill": "H.R. 4", "title": "Rescissions Act of 2025, final House approval (adopted through the rule, H.Res. 590)", "question": "On Agreeing to the Resolution", "result": "Passed", "yea": 216, "nay": 213, "category": "Spending and debt", "subcategory": "Rescissions and cuts", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 2, "reason": "The House vote that adopted the 2025 Rescissions Act, which cancels about $9B in foreign aid and public broadcasting funds. The rule deemed the bill passed, so this procedural vote is the decision.", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "prototype", "reviewed_by": "", "review_date": "", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll203.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-1-203/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-1-205", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 205, "date": "2025-07-18", "bill": "H.R. 4016", "title": "Greene amendment: strike Taiwan Security Cooperation Initiative funding", "question": "On Agreeing to the Amendment", "result": "Failed", "yea": 6, "nay": 421, "category": "Foreign entanglements", "subcategory": "Aid and arms: Taiwan", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 1, "reason": "Greene amendment to the 2026 defense appropriations bill to strike funding for the Taiwan Security Cooperation Initiative. Yea is the side that doesn't send U.S. money or arms abroad.", "contested": "the default treats any U.S. aid or arms abroad as foreign support, for every country alike", "countries": "Taiwan", "side_favoring_countries": "Nay", "review_status": "prototype", "reviewed_by": "", "review_date": "", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll205.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-1-205/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-1-207", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 207, "date": "2025-07-18", "bill": "H.R. 4016", "title": "Greene amendment: strike $500M for Israeli missile defense", "question": "On Agreeing to the Amendment", "result": "Failed", "yea": 6, "nay": 422, "category": "Foreign entanglements", "subcategory": "Aid and arms: Israel", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 1, "reason": "Greene amendment to the 2026 defense appropriations bill to strike $500M for Israeli missile defense. Yea is the side that doesn't send U.S. money or arms abroad.", "contested": "the default treats any U.S. aid or arms abroad as foreign support, for every country alike", "countries": "Israel", "side_favoring_countries": "Nay", "review_status": "prototype", "reviewed_by": "", "review_date": "", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll207.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-1-207/" }, { "vote_id": "sen-119-1-454", "chamber": "sen", "congress": 119, "roll": 454, "date": "2025-07-30", "bill": "S.J.Res. 41", "title": "Block an arms sale to Israel (July, first)", "question": "On the Motion to Discharge", "result": "Rejected", "yea": 27, "nay": 70, "category": "Foreign entanglements", "subcategory": "Aid and arms: Israel", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 1, "reason": "Vote to discharge a resolution blocking an arms sale to Israel (July 2025), the decisive Senate vote. Yea is the side that doesn't send U.S. arms abroad, the same rule used for every country.", "contested": "the default treats any US arms sale abroad as foreign support, for every country alike", "countries": "Israel", "side_favoring_countries": "Nay", "review_status": "prototype", "reviewed_by": "", "review_date": "", "source": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00454.xml", "page": "/v/sen-119-1-454/" }, { "vote_id": "sen-119-1-455", "chamber": "sen", "congress": 119, "roll": 455, "date": "2025-07-30", "bill": "S.J.Res. 34", "title": "Block an arms sale to Israel (July, second)", "question": "On the Motion to Discharge", "result": "Rejected", "yea": 24, "nay": 73, "category": "Foreign entanglements", "subcategory": "Aid and arms: Israel", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 1, "reason": "Vote to discharge a second resolution blocking an arms sale to Israel (July 2025), the decisive Senate vote. Yea is the side that doesn't send U.S. arms abroad, the same rule used for every country.", "contested": "the default treats any US arms sale abroad as foreign support, for every country alike", "countries": "Israel", "side_favoring_countries": "Nay", "review_status": "prototype", "reviewed_by": "", "review_date": "", "source": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00455.xml", "page": "/v/sen-119-1-455/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-1-262", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 262, "date": "2025-09-10", "bill": "H.R. 3838", "title": "National Defense Authorization Act FY2026", "question": "On Passage", "result": "Passed", "yea": 231, "nay": 196, "category": "Foreign entanglements", "subcategory": "Wars and troop deployments", "scored": false, "america_first_side": "", "weight": 1, "reason": "", "contested": "some restraint-minded Republicans voted no over foreign commitments", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "", "reviewed_by": "", "review_date": "", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll262.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-1-262/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-1-270", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 270, "date": "2025-09-16", "bill": "H R 4922", "title": "DC CRIMES Act", "question": "On Passage", "result": "Passed", "yea": 240, "nay": 179, "category": "Crime and drugs", "subcategory": "Policing and public order", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 1, "reason": "House passage of H.R. 4922, the DC CRIMES Act (240 to 179). It bars D.C. from changing criminal sentences in force on enactment, and lowers the top age for 'youth offender' leniency from 24 to 18.", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll270.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-1-270/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-1-275", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 275, "date": "2025-09-17", "bill": "H R 5143", "title": "District of Columbia Policing Protection Act", "question": "On Passage", "result": "Passed", "yea": 245, "nay": 182, "category": "Crime and drugs", "subcategory": "Policing and public order", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 1, "reason": "House passage of H.R. 5143, the District of Columbia Policing Protection Act (245 to 182). It repeals D.C.'s 2022 limits on police vehicle pursuits.", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll275.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-1-275/" }, { "vote_id": "sen-119-1-570", "chamber": "sen", "congress": 119, "roll": 570, "date": "2025-10-09", "bill": "S. 2296", "title": "National Defense Authorization Act FY2026", "question": "On Passage of the Bill", "result": "Passed", "yea": 77, "nay": 20, "category": "Foreign entanglements", "subcategory": "Wars and troop deployments", "scored": false, "america_first_side": "", "weight": 1, "reason": "", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "", "reviewed_by": "", "review_date": "", "source": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00570.xml", "page": "/v/sen-119-1-570/" }, { "vote_id": "sen-119-1-594", "chamber": "sen", "congress": 119, "roll": 594, "date": "2025-10-28", "bill": "S.J.Res. 81", "title": "End the tariff emergency on Brazil", "question": "On the Joint Resolution", "result": "Passed", "yea": 52, "nay": 48, "category": "Trade and jobs", "subcategory": "Tariffs and trade deals", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Nay", "weight": 1, "reason": "Resolution to end the national emergency behind the tariffs on Brazil. Nay keeps the tariffs, the side that protects U.S. production.", "contested": "voting yes ends tariffs on that country; some America First voices oppose tariffs on allies", "countries": "Brazil", "side_favoring_countries": "Yea", "review_status": "prototype", "reviewed_by": "", "review_date": "", "source": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00594.xml", "page": "/v/sen-119-1-594/" }, { "vote_id": "sen-119-1-598", "chamber": "sen", "congress": 119, "roll": 598, "date": "2025-10-29", "bill": "S.J.Res. 77", "title": "End the tariff emergency on Canada (October)", "question": "On the Joint Resolution", "result": "Passed", "yea": 50, "nay": 46, "category": "Trade and jobs", "subcategory": "Tariffs and trade deals", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Nay", "weight": 1, "reason": "Resolution to end the national emergency behind the tariffs on Canada (October 2025). Nay keeps the tariffs, the side that protects U.S. production.", "contested": "voting yes ends tariffs on that country; some America First voices oppose tariffs on allies", "countries": "Canada", "side_favoring_countries": "Yea", "review_status": "prototype", "reviewed_by": "", "review_date": "", "source": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00598.xml", "page": "/v/sen-119-1-598/" }, { "vote_id": "sen-119-1-600", "chamber": "sen", "congress": 119, "roll": 600, "date": "2025-10-30", "bill": "S.J.Res. 88", "title": "End the global tariff emergency (October)", "question": "On the Joint Resolution", "result": "Passed", "yea": 51, "nay": 47, "category": "Trade and jobs", "subcategory": "Tariffs and trade deals", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Nay", "weight": 2, "reason": "Resolution to end the national emergency behind the global tariffs (October 2025). It passed 51 to 47. Nay keeps the tariffs, the side that protects U.S. production.", "contested": "tariff votes split America First voices: some back tariffs as leverage for American jobs, others oppose broad tariffs as a tax on Americans", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "prototype", "reviewed_by": "", "review_date": "", "source": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00600.xml", "page": "/v/sen-119-1-600/" }, { "vote_id": "sen-119-1-618", "chamber": "sen", "congress": 119, "roll": 618, "date": "2025-11-10", "bill": "H.R. 5371", "title": "Continuing resolution that ended the 2025 shutdown", "question": "On Passage of the Bill", "result": "Passed", "yea": 60, "nay": 40, "category": "Spending and debt", "subcategory": "Budgets, CRs, omnibus", "scored": false, "america_first_side": "", "weight": 1, "reason": "", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "", "reviewed_by": "", "review_date": "", "source": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00618.xml", "page": "/v/sen-119-1-618/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-1-285", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 285, "date": "2025-11-12", "bill": "H.R. 5371", "title": "Continuing resolution that ended the 2025 shutdown", "question": "On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendment", "result": "Passed", "yea": 222, "nay": 209, "category": "Spending and debt", "subcategory": "Budgets, CRs, omnibus", "scored": false, "america_first_side": "", "weight": 1, "reason": "", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "", "reviewed_by": "", "review_date": "", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll285.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-1-285/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-1-298", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 298, "date": "2025-11-19", "bill": "H R 5214", "title": "District of Columbia Cash Bail Reform Act", "question": "On Passage", "result": "Passed", "yea": 237, "nay": 179, "category": "Crime and drugs", "subcategory": "Bail and repeat offenders", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 1, "reason": "House passage of H.R. 5214, the District of Columbia Cash Bail Reform Act (237 to 179).", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll298.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-1-298/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-2-28", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 28, "date": "2026-01-14", "bill": "H R 7006", "title": "Financial Services and General Government and National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2026", "question": "On Passage", "result": "Passed", "yea": 341, "nay": 79, "category": "Foreign entanglements", "subcategory": "Foreign aid appropriations", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Nay", "weight": 2, "reason": "Passes a two-bill appropriations package that funds financial services and general government plus the State Department and foreign assistance (National Security, State and Related Programs); sending U.S. money abroad is the opposed side.", "contested": "Some America First voices favor funding the full government and the State Department's security programs.", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll028.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-2-28/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-2-31", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 31, "date": "2026-01-15", "bill": "H R 2988", "title": "Protecting Prudent Investment of Retirement Savings Act", "question": "On Passage", "result": "Passed", "yea": 213, "nay": 205, "category": "Workers and health care", "subcategory": "Retirement and benefits", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 1, "reason": "House passage of H.R. 2988, the Protecting Prudent Investment of Retirement Savings Act (213 to 205). Employer retirement plans must invest on financial factors only, with no ESG mandates. Yea = for workers' returns.", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll031.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-2-31/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-2-38", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 38, "date": "2026-01-21", "bill": "H J RES 140", "title": "Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management relating to Public Land Order No. 7917 for Withdrawal of Federal Lands; Cook, Lake, and Saint Louis Counties, MN", "question": "On Passage", "result": "Passed", "yea": 214, "nay": 208, "category": "Trade and jobs", "subcategory": "Energy independence", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 1, "reason": "Congressional Review Act resolution overturning BLM Public Land Order 7917, which withdrew federal land in northeastern Minnesota from mineral leasing; reopens domestic mining and energy supply.", "contested": "Conservation and local-economy voices on both sides disagree over mining near the Boundary Waters.", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll038.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-2-38/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-2-45", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 45, "date": "2026-01-22", "bill": "H R 7148", "title": "Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026", "question": "On Passage", "result": "Passed", "yea": 341, "nay": 88, "category": "Spending and debt", "subcategory": "Budgets, CRs, omnibus", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Nay", "weight": 2, "reason": "Passage of the fiscal 2026 omnibus, a catch-all spending package that also carries foreign aid.", "contested": "some voices accept omnibus bills to avoid a shutdown or to secure border and defense funding", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-14", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll045.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-2-45/" }, { "vote_id": "sen-119-2-14", "chamber": "sen", "congress": 119, "roll": 14, "date": "2026-01-30", "bill": "H.R. 7148", "title": "Paul Amdt. No. 4272; To eliminate funding for refugee and entrant assistance.", "question": "On the Amendment", "result": "Rejected", "yea": 32, "nay": 67, "category": "Border and immigration", "subcategory": "Asylum, parole, amnesty", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 1, "reason": "Paul amendment to strike refugee and entrant assistance funding from the spending bill.", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-14", "source": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1192/vote_119_2_00014.xml", "page": "/v/sen-119-2-14/" }, { "vote_id": "sen-119-2-18", "chamber": "sen", "congress": 119, "roll": 18, "date": "2026-01-30", "bill": "H.R. 7148", "title": "Sanders Amdt. No. 4290; To rescind certain amounts appropriated for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and certain changes to Medicaid.", "question": "On the Amendment", "result": "Rejected", "yea": 49, "nay": 51, "category": "Border and immigration", "subcategory": "Interior enforcement", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Nay", "weight": 2, "reason": "Sanders amendment would have rescinded ICE funding; opposing it keeps interior enforcement funded.", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-14", "source": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1192/vote_119_2_00018.xml", "page": "/v/sen-119-2-18/" }, { "vote_id": "sen-119-2-20", "chamber": "sen", "congress": 119, "roll": 20, "date": "2026-01-30", "bill": "H.R. 7148", "title": "H.R. 7148, as Amended; A bill making further consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes.", "question": "On Passage of the Bill", "result": "Bill Passed", "yea": 71, "nay": 29, "category": "Spending and debt", "subcategory": "Budgets, CRs, omnibus", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Nay", "weight": 2, "reason": "Passage of the omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 in the Senate; an omnibus funding the full government without spending cuts or border/enforcement guardrails is opposed, consistent with the House vote.", "contested": "Some America First voices favor passing it to avoid a shutdown and fund DHS and defense.", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1192/vote_119_2_00020.xml", "page": "/v/sen-119-2-20/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-2-53", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 53, "date": "2026-02-03", "bill": "H R 7148", "title": "Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026", "question": "On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendments", "result": "Passed", "yea": 217, "nay": 214, "category": "Spending and debt", "subcategory": "Budgets, CRs, omnibus", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Nay", "weight": 2, "reason": "Final House concurrence in the Senate amendment to the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026: a multi-bill package (Defense, Labor-HHS-Education, Transportation-HUD) plus extensions of expiring programs. Opposing catch-all packages is the spending-side America First position.", "contested": "Some America First voices favor passing it to fund defense and avoid a shutdown.", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll053.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-2-53/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-2-55", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 55, "date": "2026-02-04", "bill": "H R 4090", "title": "Critical Mineral Dominance Act", "question": "On Passage", "result": "Passed", "yea": 224, "nay": 195, "category": "Trade and jobs", "subcategory": "Energy independence", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 2, "reason": "Directs Interior to speed hardrock mineral production on federal land, identify priority mining projects that can be approved now, and fix mineral supply chain weaknesses; reduces dependence on foreign supply.", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll055.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-2-55/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-2-64", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 64, "date": "2026-02-11", "bill": "H R 3617", "title": "Securing America\u2019s Critical Minerals Supply Act", "question": "On Passage", "result": "Passed", "yea": 223, "nay": 206, "category": "Trade and jobs", "subcategory": "Energy independence", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 1, "reason": "House passage of H.R. 3617, the Securing America's Critical Minerals Supply Act (223 to 206).", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll064.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-2-64/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-2-65", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 65, "date": "2026-02-11", "bill": "H J RES 72", "title": "Relating to a national emergency by the President on February 1, 2025", "question": "On Passage", "result": "Passed", "yea": 219, "nay": 211, "category": "Trade and jobs", "subcategory": "Tariffs and trade deals", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Nay", "weight": 2, "reason": "Resolution ending the February 2025 national emergency that underpins the tariffs on Canada; voting no keeps the tariffs.", "contested": "voting yes ends tariffs on that country; some America First voices oppose tariffs as a tax on Americans", "countries": "Canada", "side_favoring_countries": "Yea", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-14", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll065.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-2-65/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-2-71", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 71, "date": "2026-02-24", "bill": "H R 6329", "title": "Information Quality Assurance Act", "question": "On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass", "result": "Passed", "yea": 362, "nay": 1, "category": "Liberties and government power", "subcategory": "Courts and agency power", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 1, "reason": "Requires OMB guidelines so agencies rely on the best available evidence for influential information, and publish the critical factual material and sources behind their rules and guidance; a check on agency power.", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll071.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-2-71/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-2-76", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 76, "date": "2026-02-24", "bill": "H R 4626", "title": "Don\u2019t Mess With My Home Appliances Act", "question": "On Passage", "result": "Passed", "yea": 217, "nay": 190, "category": "Liberties and government power", "subcategory": "Courts and agency power", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 1, "reason": "Changes how DOE sets appliance efficiency standards: requires weighing cost and availability and lets DOE revoke or amend standards that raise consumer cost or make products (such as gas stoves) unavailable; limits agency mandates.", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll076.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-2-76/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-2-87", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 87, "date": "2026-03-05", "bill": "H R 7744", "title": "Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026", "question": "On Passage", "result": "Passed", "yea": 221, "nay": 209, "category": "Border and immigration", "subcategory": "Border security and wall", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 2, "reason": "Passage of the fiscal 2026 Homeland Security appropriations bill that funds border and immigration enforcement.", "contested": "some fiscal conservatives object to any large spending bill", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-14", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll087.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-2-87/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-2-94", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 94, "date": "2026-03-18", "bill": "H R 1958", "title": "Deporting Fraudsters Act", "question": "On Passage", "result": "Passed", "yea": 231, "nay": 186, "category": "Border and immigration", "subcategory": "Interior enforcement", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 2, "reason": "Makes noncitizens deportable once convicted of federal identity or document fraud (18 U.S.C. 1028); removing people who defraud Americans with false documents is an America First enforcement step.", "contested": "Opponents raise due-process concerns over minor offenses and removal of immigration-judge discretion.", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll094.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-2-94/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-2-95", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 95, "date": "2026-03-18", "bill": "H J RES 139", "title": "Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States requiring a balanced budget for the Federal Government", "question": "On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass", "result": "Failed", "yea": 211, "nay": 207, "category": "Spending and debt", "subcategory": "Budgets, CRs, omnibus", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 2, "reason": "Constitutional balanced budget amendment: caps spending at the three-year average of receipts (adjusted for citizen population and inflation), with two-thirds override and a supermajority for new taxes. Considered under suspension, so the vote was the decision on whether it went forward.", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll095.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-2-95/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-2-101", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 101, "date": "2026-03-25", "bill": "H R 5103", "title": "Make the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful Act", "question": "On Passage", "result": "Passed", "yea": 218, "nay": 206, "category": "Border and immigration", "subcategory": "Interior enforcement", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 1, "reason": "Creates an executive-branch commission to advise on enforcing federal immigration law and cutting crime in the District of Columbia; advisory only, so the weight is low.", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll101.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-2-101/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-2-104", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 104, "date": "2026-03-26", "bill": "H R 8029", "title": "Pay Our Homeland Defenders Act", "question": "On Passage", "result": "Passed", "yea": 218, "nay": 206, "category": "Border and immigration", "subcategory": "Border security and wall", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 2, "reason": "Funds DHS for the rest of FY2026, including Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and ends the partial DHS shutdown that began February 14, 2026; enforcement agencies stay funded and staffed.", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll104.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-2-104/" }, { "vote_id": "sen-119-2-73", "chamber": "sen", "congress": 119, "roll": 73, "date": "2026-03-26", "bill": "S. 1383", "title": "Photo ID to vote (Husted amendment, cloture)", "question": "On the Cloture Motion", "result": "Cloture Motion Rejected", "yea": 53, "nay": 47, "category": "Elections and citizenship", "subcategory": "Proof of citizenship and voter ID", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 1, "reason": "Cloture on the Husted amendment to require photo ID to vote. Failed 53 to 47.", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1192/vote_119_2_00073.xml", "page": "/v/sen-119-2-73/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-2-120", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 120, "date": "2026-04-16", "bill": "H R 1689", "title": "To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to designate Haiti for temporary protected status", "question": "On Passage", "result": "Passed", "yea": 224, "nay": 204, "category": "Border and immigration", "subcategory": "Asylum, parole, amnesty", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Nay", "weight": 2, "reason": "Would force DHS to designate Haiti for Temporary Protected Status, extending legal status to roughly 350,000 people; America First position is to keep TPS temporary and under executive discretion, applied the same to any country.", "contested": "Humanitarian and some business voices argue for extension; the position is applied identically to every country's TPS.", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll120.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-2-120/" }, { "vote_id": "sen-119-2-84", "chamber": "sen", "congress": 119, "roll": 84, "date": "2026-04-16", "bill": "H.J.Res. 140", "title": "H.J. Res. 140; A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management relating to Public Land Order No. 7917 for Withdrawal of Federal Lands; Cook, Lake, and Saint Louis Counties, MN.", "question": "On the Joint Resolution", "result": "Joint Resolution Passed", "yea": 50, "nay": 49, "category": "Trade and jobs", "subcategory": "Energy independence", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 1, "reason": "Final passage of the Congressional Review Act resolution overturning the Minnesota mineral-leasing land withdrawal; reopens domestic mining and energy supply.", "contested": "Conservation and local-economy voices on both sides disagree over mining near the Boundary Waters.", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1192/vote_119_2_00084.xml", "page": "/v/sen-119-2-84/" }, { "vote_id": "sen-119-2-99", "chamber": "sen", "congress": 119, "roll": 99, "date": "2026-04-23", "bill": "S.Con.Res. 33", "title": "Paul Amdt. No. 5378; To reduce new budget authority for functions 150, 250, 500, and 600 in order to offset $70,000,000,000 of new spending by cutting $45,000,000,000 of foreign aid, eliminating $5,000,000,000 in refugee spending, cutting $16,000,000,000 from the Department of Education, and cutting $4,000,000,000 of National Science Foundation funding.", "question": "On the Amendment", "result": "Rejected", "yea": 25, "nay": 73, "category": "Spending and debt", "subcategory": "Rescissions and cuts", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 1, "reason": "Paul amendment to offset new spending by cutting $45B in foreign aid, $5B in refugee spending and Education Department funds.", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-14", "source": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1192/vote_119_2_00099.xml", "page": "/v/sen-119-2-99/" }, { "vote_id": "sen-119-2-105", "chamber": "sen", "congress": 119, "roll": 105, "date": "2026-04-23", "bill": "S.Con.Res. 33", "title": "S.Con.Res. 33, As Amended; A concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2026 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2027 through 2035.", "question": "On the Concurrent Resolution", "result": "Concurrent Resolution Agreed to", "yea": 50, "nay": 48, "category": "Border and immigration", "subcategory": "Border security and wall", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 2, "reason": "Senate adoption of the same budget resolution: reconciliation instructions to the Homeland Security and Judiciary committees for enforcement and border legislation, up to $70 billion in added deficit.", "contested": "Spending-focused voices object to the added deficit; enforcement-focused voices back the instructions.", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1192/vote_119_2_00105.xml", "page": "/v/sen-119-2-105/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-2-143", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 143, "date": "2026-04-29", "bill": "S CON RES 33", "title": "Setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2026 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2027 through 2035", "question": "On Agreeing to the Resolution", "result": "Passed", "yea": 215, "nay": 211, "category": "Border and immigration", "subcategory": "Border security and wall", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 2, "reason": "Adopts the FY2026 budget resolution that instructs the House and Senate Homeland Security and Judiciary committees to write enforcement and border legislation under reconciliation (up to $70 billion added to the deficit), with a reserve fund for the President's immigration enforcement and border security policy.", "contested": "Spending-focused voices object to the added deficit; enforcement-focused voices back the instructions.", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll143.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-2-143/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-2-155", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 155, "date": "2026-04-30", "bill": "S 4465", "title": "To amend the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to extend the authorities of title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, and for other purposes", "question": "On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass", "result": "Passed", "yea": 261, "nay": 111, "category": "Liberties and government power", "subcategory": "Surveillance (FISA)", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Nay", "weight": 3, "reason": "Extension of the FISA Section 702 warrantless surveillance authority without a warrant requirement.", "contested": "some America First voices back 702 as a national security tool", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-14", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll155.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-2-155/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-2-157", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 157, "date": "2026-05-12", "bill": "H R 2853", "title": "Combating Organized Retail Crime Act", "question": "On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended", "result": "Passed", "yea": 348, "nay": 60, "category": "Crime and drugs", "subcategory": "Policing and public order", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 1, "reason": "H.R. 2853, the Combating Organized Retail Crime Act (348 to 60).", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll157.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-2-157/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-2-171", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 171, "date": "2026-05-14", "bill": "H R 5625", "title": "Cashless Bail Reporting Act", "question": "On Passage", "result": "Passed", "yea": 308, "nay": 116, "category": "Crime and drugs", "subcategory": "Bail and repeat offenders", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 1, "reason": "Directs the Attorney General to publish annually which state and local governments release people charged with violent and other serious offenses without bail; transparency on release of dangerous defendants favors public safety.", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll171.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-2-171/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-2-173", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 173, "date": "2026-05-14", "bill": "H R 8365", "title": "Monitor Accountability Act", "question": "On Passage", "result": "Passed", "yea": 219, "nay": 204, "category": "Liberties and government power", "subcategory": "Courts and agency power", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 1, "reason": "Sets conditions on federal-court monitors imposed on state and local governments under consent decrees: public notice and comment, one appointment at a time, five-year terms, fee caps and public accounting; limits unelected oversight.", "contested": "Civil-rights and law-enforcement-reform voices argue monitors are needed to fix police misconduct; limits-on-oversight voices disagree.", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll173.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-2-173/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-2-190", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 190, "date": "2026-05-21", "bill": "H R 1041", "title": "Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act", "question": "On Passage", "result": "Passed", "yea": 216, "nay": 201, "category": "Liberties and government power", "subcategory": "Second Amendment", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 2, "reason": "Bars the VA from reporting veterans to the gun background-check system solely because a fiduciary manages their benefits, absent a judicial finding of danger; protects due process and gun rights.", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll190.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-2-190/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-2-198", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 198, "date": "2026-06-03", "bill": "H R 7726", "title": "No Funds for Repeat Child Care Violations Act", "question": "On Passage", "result": "Passed", "yea": 217, "nay": 207, "category": "Spending and debt", "subcategory": "Waste and fraud", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 1, "reason": "House passage of H.R. 7726, the No Funds for Repeat Child Care Violations Act (217 to 207). It requires sanctions on states that misuse child care block grants.", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll198.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-2-198/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-2-199", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 199, "date": "2026-06-03", "bill": "H CON RES 86", "title": "Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran", "question": "On Agreeing to the Resolution", "result": "Passed", "yea": 215, "nay": 208, "category": "Foreign entanglements", "subcategory": "Wars and troop deployments", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 2, "reason": "Directs the President under War Powers Act section 5(c) to remove U.S. forces from unauthorized hostilities with Iran; Congress, not the executive, should authorize war and avoid open-ended foreign wars.", "contested": "Some America First voices back the President's authority to strike threats without prior authorization.", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll199.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-2-199/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-2-207", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 207, "date": "2026-06-04", "bill": "H R 2913", "title": "Ukraine Support Act", "question": "On Passage", "result": "Passed", "yea": 226, "nay": 195, "category": "Foreign entanglements", "subcategory": "Aid and arms: Ukraine", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Nay", "weight": 3, "reason": "Passage by discharge petition of a bill authorizing $600M in security assistance for Ukraine plus loan authority for Ukraine and NATO allies; the America First side does not send U.S. money abroad.", "contested": "the default treats any U.S. aid or arms abroad as foreign support, for every country alike", "countries": "Ukraine", "side_favoring_countries": "Yea", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-14", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll207.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-2-207/" }, { "vote_id": "sen-119-2-151", "chamber": "sen", "congress": 119, "roll": 151, "date": "2026-06-05", "bill": "S. 2", "title": "Citizens-only registration and photo ID (Lee amendment, waive)", "question": "On the Motion", "result": "Motion Rejected", "yea": 50, "nay": 49, "category": "Elections and citizenship", "subcategory": "Proof of citizenship and voter ID", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 2, "reason": "Motion to waive the budget point of order on the Lee amendment to the 2026 reconciliation bill: only citizens may register for federal elections, and voters must show photo ID. Failed 50 to 49 (needed 60). This is the Senate's closest vote to the SAVE Act.", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1192/vote_119_2_00151.xml", "page": "/v/sen-119-2-151/" }, { "vote_id": "sen-119-2-163", "chamber": "sen", "congress": 119, "roll": 163, "date": "2026-06-05", "bill": "S. 2", "title": "S. 2, As Amended; An original bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 33.", "question": "On Passage of the Bill", "result": "Passed", "yea": 52, "nay": 47, "category": "Border and immigration", "subcategory": "Border security and wall", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 3, "reason": "Senate passage of the roughly $70B reconciliation bill funding immigration enforcement.", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-14", "source": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1192/vote_119_2_00163.xml", "page": "/v/sen-119-2-163/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-2-214", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 214, "date": "2026-06-09", "bill": "S 2", "title": "Secure America Act", "question": "On Passage", "result": "Passed", "yea": 214, "nay": 212, "category": "Border and immigration", "subcategory": "Border security and wall", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 3, "reason": "Final passage of the roughly $70B reconciliation law funding ICE and border enforcement.", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-14", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll214.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-2-214/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-2-221", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 221, "date": "2026-06-11", "bill": "H R 9238", "title": "To amend the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to extend the authorities of title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, and for other purposes", "question": "On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass", "result": "Failed", "yea": 198, "nay": 218, "category": "Liberties and government power", "subcategory": "Surveillance (FISA)", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Nay", "weight": 1, "reason": "Failed 3-week extension of FISA Section 702 with no warrant requirement; opposing extension without warrant protections defends Americans' privacy, consistent with the existing FISA vote.", "contested": "Many reasonable America First voices favor 702 as a counterterrorism tool and backed the extension.", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll221.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-2-221/" }, { "vote_id": "sen-119-2-184", "chamber": "sen", "congress": 119, "roll": 184, "date": "2026-06-23", "bill": "H.Con.Res. 86", "title": "H. Con. Res. 86; A concurrent resolution directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran.", "question": "On the Concurrent Resolution", "result": "Concurrent Resolution Agreed to", "yea": 50, "nay": 48, "category": "Foreign entanglements", "subcategory": "Wars and troop deployments", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 2, "reason": "Senate adoption of the section 5(c) resolution directing removal of U.S. forces from unauthorized hostilities with Iran; war requires congressional authorization.", "contested": "Some America First voices back the President's authority to strike threats without prior authorization.", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1192/vote_119_2_00184.xml", "page": "/v/sen-119-2-184/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-2-240", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 240, "date": "2026-07-14", "bill": "H R 1181", "title": "Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act", "question": "On Passage", "result": "Passed", "yea": 221, "nay": 201, "category": "Liberties and government power", "subcategory": "Second Amendment", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 2, "reason": "Blocks card networks and banks from tracking lawful firearm purchases through separate merchant category codes; protects gun owners from financial surveillance.", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll240.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-2-240/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-2-247", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 247, "date": "2026-07-15", "bill": "H R 8595", "title": "National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2027", "question": "On Passage", "result": "Passed", "yea": 217, "nay": 209, "category": "Foreign entanglements", "subcategory": "Foreign aid appropriations", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Nay", "weight": 2, "reason": "Passage of the fiscal 2027 State Department and foreign operations appropriations bill, which funds foreign aid and international bodies.", "contested": "some voices accept it as the price of funding diplomacy and embassy security", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-14", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll247.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-2-247/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-2-280", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 280, "date": "2026-07-22", "bill": "H R 7008", "title": "Stop Insider Trading Act", "question": "On Passage", "result": "Passed", "yea": 232, "nay": 198, "category": "Personal integrity", "subcategory": "Stock trading in office", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 3, "reason": "House passed the ban on members of Congress buying individual stocks, with a voter ID provision attached; ending congressional self-dealing is America First.", "contested": "the bill pairs the trading limits with an election provision, so some voices who back the ban objected to the pairing", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-14", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll280.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-2-280/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-2-281", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 281, "date": "2026-07-22", "bill": "H CON RES 113", "title": "Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2027 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2028 through 2036", "question": "On Agreeing to the Resolution", "result": "Passed", "yea": 216, "nay": 214, "category": "Spending and debt", "subcategory": "Budgets, CRs, omnibus", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 1, "reason": "The fiscal 2027 budget resolution, the first step toward another reconciliation bill that can cut spending without a filibuster.", "contested": "deficit hawks object that the budget adds to the deficit", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-14", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll281.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-2-281/" }, { "vote_id": "sen-119-2-223", "chamber": "sen", "congress": 119, "roll": 223, "date": "2026-08-07", "bill": "H.R. 5334", "title": "Paul Amdt. No. 6715; To strike the provision relating to duties on countries that purchase Russian-origin crude oil or natural gas or facilitate sanctions evasion.", "question": "On the Amendment", "result": "Rejected", "yea": 32, "nay": 64, "category": "Trade and jobs", "subcategory": "Tariffs and trade deals", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Nay", "weight": 1, "reason": "Paul amendment to strike the duties on countries buying Russian oil from the sanctions bill; voting no keeps the duties.", "contested": "some America First voices oppose tariffs as a tax on Americans, and some oppose sanctions entanglements", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-14", "source": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1192/vote_119_2_00223.xml", "page": "/v/sen-119-2-223/" }, { "vote_id": "sen-119-2-224", "chamber": "sen", "congress": 119, "roll": 224, "date": "2026-08-07", "bill": "H.R. 5334", "title": "H.R. 5334, as amended; An act to impose sanctions and other measures with respect to the Russian Federation, as championed by the late Senator Lindsey O. Graham, and for other purposes.", "question": "On Passage of the Bill", "result": "Bill Passed", "yea": 86, "nay": 11, "category": "Trade and jobs", "subcategory": "Tariffs and trade deals", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 2, "reason": "Passes Russia and Iran sanctions with secondary tariff authority and no new U.S. aid or arms; it is not a spending vote and uses pressure instead of U.S. money.", "contested": "Some America First voices object to delegating more tariff power to the executive; others oppose sanctions entanglement.", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1192/vote_119_2_00224.xml", "page": "/v/sen-119-2-224/" }, { "vote_id": "sen-119-2-231", "chamber": "sen", "congress": 119, "roll": 231, "date": "2026-08-08", "bill": "S. 5271", "title": "Photo ID to vote (S. 5271, cloture to proceed)", "question": "On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed", "result": "Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected", "yea": 52, "nay": 46, "category": "Elections and citizenship", "subcategory": "Proof of citizenship and voter ID", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 2, "reason": "Cloture on the motion to proceed to S. 5271, which amends the Help America Vote Act to require photo ID to vote. Failed 52 to 46 (needed 60). It was the decisive Senate vote on the bill.", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1192/vote_119_2_00231.xml", "page": "/v/sen-119-2-231/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-2-294", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 294, "date": "2026-09-02", "bill": "H R 1501", "title": "Protecting Domestic Mining Act", "question": "On Passage", "result": "Passed", "yea": 218, "nay": 201, "category": "Trade and jobs", "subcategory": "Energy independence", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 1, "reason": "Makes mining infrastructure projects permanently eligible for expedited FAST Act environmental review and blocks the Permitting Council's proposed narrowing rule; speeds domestic minerals supply.", "contested": "", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll294.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-2-294/" }, { "vote_id": "rep-119-2-307", "chamber": "rep", "congress": 119, "roll": 307, "date": "2026-09-15", "bill": "H CON RES 93", "title": "Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran", "question": "On Agreeing to the Resolution", "result": "Passed", "yea": 220, "nay": 204, "category": "Foreign entanglements", "subcategory": "Wars and troop deployments", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 2, "reason": "Resolution directing removal of U.S. forces from hostilities with Iran absent a congressional authorization; avoiding unauthorized foreign wars is America First.", "contested": "some America First voices back the military action as defending U.S. forces and interests", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-14", "source": "https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll307.xml", "page": "/v/rep-119-2-307/" }, { "vote_id": "sen-119-2-244", "chamber": "sen", "congress": 119, "roll": 244, "date": "2026-09-24", "bill": "H.Con.Res. 89", "title": "H. Con. Res. 89; A concurrent resolution directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran.", "question": "On the Concurrent Resolution", "result": "Rejected", "yea": 49, "nay": 50, "category": "Foreign entanglements", "subcategory": "Wars and troop deployments", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 2, "reason": "Senate vote on the same Iran war powers resolution, which failed 49 to 50.", "contested": "some America First voices back the military action as defending U.S. forces and interests", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-14", "source": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1192/vote_119_2_00244.xml", "page": "/v/sen-119-2-244/" }, { "vote_id": "sen-119-2-253", "chamber": "sen", "congress": 119, "roll": 253, "date": "2026-09-30", "bill": "H.R. 7008", "title": "Stop Insider Trading Act (cloture to proceed)", "question": "On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed", "result": "Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected", "yea": 53, "nay": 47, "category": "Personal integrity", "subcategory": "Stock trading in office", "scored": true, "america_first_side": "Yea", "weight": 3, "reason": "Cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 7008, the Stop Insider Trading Act, which restricts stock trading by members and their families. Failed 53 to 47 (needed 60). The House passage vote is already scored at weight 3 and marked contested; this gives the Senate the same test.", "contested": "Contested on the same grounds as the House vote: the bill's details split supporters of a ban.", "countries": "", "side_favoring_countries": "", "review_status": "approved", "reviewed_by": "Ben", "review_date": "2026-11-15", "source": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1192/vote_119_2_00253.xml", "page": "/v/sen-119-2-253/" } ] }