[Congressional biography]
Born: March 18, 1976 in Rockford, IL
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2024-01-17 | Denouncing the Biden Administration's Open-Borders Policies [HRES957] | Passed (225-187) |
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This resolution condemns the Biden administration for willfully allowing over 3.3 million illegal aliens (including violent criminals) to enter the United States during his term, and implementing policies that incentivize illegal immigration. The administration has also systematically dismantled immigration enforcement and restricted the ability of immigration officials to deport aliens who violate United States law. | |||||
2024-02-13 | Impeaching Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security [HRES863] | Passed (214-213) |
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This resolution impeaches Secretary of Homeland Security Mayorkas for high crimes and misdemeanors, including for his handling of issues involving fentanyl and border security. Throughout his tenure as Secretary of Homeland Security, Mayorkas has repeatedly violated laws enacted by Congress regarding immigration and border security. In large part because of his unlawful conduct, millions of aliens have illegally entered the United States on an annual basis with many unlawfully remaining in the United States. | |||||
2024-02-29 | Extension of Continuing Appropriations and Other Matters Act [HR7463] | Passed (320-99) |
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This act provides continuing FY2024 appropriations for federal agencies, modifies the requirements for determining eligibility for federal student aid, and provides additional funding for Federal Pell Grants. | |||||
2024-03-07 | Laken Riley Act [HR7511] | Passed (251-170) |
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This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to detain certain non-U.S. nationals (aliens under federal law) who have been arrested for burglary, theft, larceny or shoplifting. The bill also authorizes states to sue the federal government for decisions or alleged failures related to immigration enforcement. Under this bill, DHS must detain an individual who (1) is unlawfully present in the United States or did not possess the necessary documents when applying for admission; and (2) has been charged with, arrested for, convicted for, or admits to having committed acts that constitute the essential elements of burglary, theft, larceny or shoplifting. |
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2024-03-12 | Denouncing the Biden Administration's Immigration Policies [HRES1065] | Passed (226-193) |
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This resolution urges the Biden administration to immediately use certain authorities related to immigration, such as the authority to reinstate the Migrant Protection Protocols, enter into asylum cooperative agreements, and detain inadmissible non-U.S. nationals (aliens under federal law). The resolution also states that the Biden administration is refusing to use such authorities. | |||||
2024-03-13 | Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act [HR7521] | Passed (352-65) |
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This bill prohibits distributing, maintaining, or providing internet hosting services for a foreign adversary controlled application (e.g., TikTok). However, the prohibition does not apply to a covered application that executes a qualified divestiture as determined by the President. | |||||
2024-03-21 | Denouncing the Harmful, Anti-American Energy Policies of the Biden Administration [HRES987] | Passed (217-200) |
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This resolution (1) denounces the harmful anti-American energy policies of the Biden administration; (2) denounces the irrational and unpredictable federal lands policies of the Biden administration; (3) condemns the energy crisis plaguing families, businesses, and Americans around the country that has been caused by the Biden administration; and (4) encourages the domestic production of reliable and affordable energy generation sources. | |||||
2024-03-22 | Cutting Green Corruption and Taxes Act [HR1023] | Passed (209-204) |
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This bill repeals certain programs for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Specifically, it repeals the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which provides financial and technical assistance to states and other eligible recipients to help communities reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, the bill eliminates a program administered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that provides incentives for petroleum and natural gas systems to reduce their emissions of methane and other greenhouse gases. It also repeals a charge on methane emissions from specific types of facilities that are required to report their greenhouse gas emissions to the EPA's Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting Program. |
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2024-04-12 | Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act [HR7888] | Failed (212-212) |
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Biggs (R-AZ) amendment to prohibit warrantless searches of U.S. person communications in the FISA 702 database, with exceptions for imminent threats to life or bodily harm, consent searches or known cybersecurity threat signatures. | |||||
2024-04-15 | Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act [HR7888] | Passed (259-128) |
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Table the motion to reconsider the bill which reauthorizes Title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for five years. Official intelligence documents show that the FBI illegally used FISA 278,000 times to spy on Americans, including their political enemies like President Trump, Trump donors and January 6 families. | |||||
2024-04-17 | Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act [HR4639] | Passed (219-199) |
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This bill expands prohibited disclosures of stored electronic communications under the Stored Communications Act. The Stored Communications Act generally prohibits certain technology providers -- remote computing service (RCS) providers and electronic communication service (ECS) providers -- from disclosing the contents of stored electronic communications to anyone, including the government; and records or information pertaining to a customer or subscriber to a government entity. The bill also limits the authority of law enforcement agencies and intelligence agencies to access certain customer and subscriber records or illegitimately obtained information. | |||||
2024-04-17 | Rescission of Waivers and Licenses Relating to Iran [HR5947] | Passed (259-160) |
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This bill terminates the presidential waiver of certain sanctions on Iran and the licenses issued by the Department of the Treasury that allowed for the transfer of previously blocked Iranian funds (namely, the approximately $6 billion of Iranian funds that the Biden administration permitted to be transferred from restricted accounts in South Korea to restricted accounts in Qatar to facilitate the release of five U.S. citizens detained in Iran). Furthermore, the President may not exercise waiver authority related to certain accounts belonging to Iran. | |||||
2024-04-20 | End the Border Catastrophe Act [HR3602] | Failed (215-199) |
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This bill provides for criminal penalties for certain conduct that interferes with U.S. border control measures. Specifically, a person who knowingly transmits the location or activities of law enforcement with the intent to further a crime related to immigration, customs, or controlled substances may be imprisoned for a maximum of 10 years. A person who knowingly damages or destroys a device deployed to control the border or port of entry may be imprisoned for a maximum of 10 years. | |||||
2024-04-20 | Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 [HR8035] | Passed (311-112) |
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This bill provides FY2024 supplemental appropriations for federal departments and agencies to respond to the conflict in Ukraine. The bill designates the funding as emergency spending, which is exempt from discretionary spending limits. The bill also includes provisions that expand the authorities of the President, including the authority to transfer defense articles and services from DOD to foreign countries or international organizations, and to require the President to transfer long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems to Ukraine. |
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2024-05-01 | Alaska's Right to Produce Act [HR6285] | Passed (214-199) |
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This bill provides for oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Specifically, the bill nullifies any order or action by the President or the Department of the Interior that places a moratorium on, suspends or otherwise pauses leasing in ANWR's 1002 Area. It also ratifies and approves all authorizations and permits issued for the establishment and administration of the Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program. The Environmental Protection Agency and other applicable federal departments and agencies must process, reinstate, or continue to maintain such authorizations and permits. | |||||
2024-05-01 | Denouncing the Biden Administration's Immigration Policies [HRES1112] | Passed (223-191) |
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This resolution denounces certain Biden administration immigration policies and urges the administration to implement other immigration policies. The House of Representatives affirms the Biden administration has taken executive actions that created the current border crisis, including ending the Migrant Protection Protocols and stopping the previous administration's southwest border wall construction; by issuing memoranda limiting immigration enforcement, removing fewer criminal aliens from the United States and purposely violating statutes that require the detention of inadmissible aliens. It also denounces the Biden administration's open-borders policies, which allowed Laken Riley's illegal alien alleged murderer to enter the United States and ensured he would not be removed until it was too late -- if at all; condemns the public safety crisis caused by the Biden administration's open-borders policies; urges the Biden administration to rescind its open-borders policies; and implores the Biden administration to implement policies that end his administration's border crisis. |
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2024-05-07 | Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act [HR6192] | Passed (212-195) |
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This bill modifies the process by which the Department of Energy (DOE) amends, revokes or implements energy conservation standards for certain consumer products (other than automobiles), such as household appliances. First, the bill eliminates the requirement under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act for DOE, within six years of issuing a final rule establishing or amending such standard, to issue a new proposed rule or publish a notice that the standard does not need to be amended. Instead, the bill allows DOE to publish a notice of proposed rulemaking for prescribing a new or amended energy conservation standard for a consumer product at any time. Next, the bill specifies that DOE may grant a petition to revoke or amend energy conservation standards if it finds that the standards (1) result in additional costs to consumers, (2) do not result in significant conservation of energy or water, (3) are not technologically feasible, and (4) result in a product (e.g., gas stoves) not being commercially available in the United States to all consumers. Finally, the bill modifies the criteria used to prescribe new or amended energy conservation standards. For example, new energy conservation standards must be technologically feasible and economically justified. |
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2024-05-08 | Equal Representation Act [HR7109] | Passed (206-202) |
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This bill requires any questionnaire used in the decennial census to include a checkbox or other similar option for respondents to indicate whether the respondent and each household member is a U.S. citizen. The Department of Commerce must make public the number of citizens and noncitizens in each state. The bill also requires that the statement sent by the President to Congress indicating the number of persons in each state (related to the reapportionment of U.S. Representatives) exclude noncitizens. |
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2024-05-15 | DC CRIMES Act [HR7530] | Passed (225-181) |
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This bill limits the authority of the District of Columbia (DC) government over its criminal sentencing laws. The bill eliminates the DC government?s authority to enact any act, resolution, or rule to change any criminal liability sentence in effect on the date of the bill's enactment. The bill also reduces the maximum age of a youth offender from 24 years to 18 years. A DC criminal court currently has the discretion to reduce or modify certain criminal sentences for a youth offenders under specified circumstances. For example, a DC court may sentence a youth offender to probation in lieu of confinement. (However, this discretion does not apply to several specified violent crimes.) |
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2024-05-16 | Israel Security Assistance Support Act [HR8369] | Passed (224-187) |
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This bill specifies that no federal funds may be used to withhold, halt, reverse, or cancel the delivery of defense articles or defense services to Israel. Also, no funds may be used to pay the salary of any Department of Defense (DOD) or Department of State employee who acts to limit defense deliveries to Israel. Additionally, DOD and the State Department shall ensure prompt delivery of all defense articles and services expected to be delivered to Israel in FY2024 and FY2025. |
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2024-05-23 | Prohibit Non-Citizens From Voting in the District of Columbia [HR192] | Passed (262-143) |
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This bill prohibits a non-U.S. citizen from voting in a District of Columbia (DC) election and repeals relevant provisions of DC law. Federal law prohibits noncitizens from voting in a federal election; however in 2022 DC enacted a law allowing noncitizens who meet residency and other requirements to vote in local elections. This bill repeals the DC law, which went into effect on February 23, 2023. |
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2024-06-04 | Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act [HR8282] | Passed (247-155) |
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This bill imposes sanctions with respect to the International Criminal Court engaged in any effort to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute any protected person of the United States and its allies. The bill was a response to the May 20, 2024, arrest warrants issued by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant. | |||||
2024-06-13 | Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 [HR8070] | Agreed To (213-206) |
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Rosendale (R-MT) amendment to prohibit TRICARE from covering and the Department of Defense from furnishing gender transition surgeries and gender hormone treatments for individuals that identify as transgender. | |||||
2024-06-13 | Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 [HR8070] | Agreed To (214-207) |
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Van Duyne (R-TX) amendment to prohibit the Secretary of Defense from paying for or reimbursing expenses relating to abortion services. | |||||
2024-06-13 | Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 [HR8070] | Agreed To (211-208) |
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Norman (R-SC) amendment to eliminate any offices of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion within the Armed Forces and Department of Defense along with the personnel in said offices. | |||||
2024-07-10 | Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act [HR8281] | Passed (221-198) |
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This bill requires individuals to provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship in order to register to vote in federal elections. Each state must take affirmative steps on an ongoing basis to ensure that only U.S. citizens are registered to vote, which shall include establishing a program to identify individuals who are not U.S. citizens using information supplied by specified sources. Additionally, the bill requires states to remove noncitizens from their official lists of eligible voters. | |||||
2024-07-11 | Merrick Garland Contempt [HRES1344] | Failed (204-210) |
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Finding that Merrick Garland, Attorney General of the United States, is in contempt of the House of Representatives for disobeying a subpoena. | |||||
2024-07-25 | Biden-Harris Failure to Secure the United States border [HRES1371] | Passed (220-196) |
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Strongly condemning the Biden administration and its Border Czar, Kamala Harris, for failing to secure the United States border; affirms that the American people deserve elected officials who understand the gravity of the crisis at the border and who will execute the policies to fix the border crisis; and clearly and firmly states that the continuation of the Biden-Harris border policies would be disastrous for both the United States and the American people. Since Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took office, there have been over 9.7 million illegal immigrant encounters nationwide, over 7.9 million of which took place at the United States southern border; and there have been roughly 2 million known "gotaways" who evaded the United States Border Patrol -- more than in the entire previous decade. Illegal immigrants with violent criminal histories have murdered innocent Americans and pose an existential threat to the safety and security of the American people. The cost of the Biden-Harris open-border policies is approximately $150.7 billion per year. In August 2022, Biden and his administration decided to make the border crisis significantly worse by formally ending former President Trump's successful Remain in Mexico program. |
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2024-09-11 | No WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty Without Senate Approval [HR1425] | Passed (219-199) |
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This bill establishes that any convention or agreement on pandemic-related issues reached by the World Health Assembly (WHA) pursuant to a specified negotiating body shall be deemed to be a treaty requiring the advice and consent of the Senate.
Specifically, this bill applies to any international instrument negotiated by the intergovernmental negotiating body established by the WHA in December 2021 to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. |
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2024-09-11 | Protect America's Innovation and Economic Security From CCP [HR1398] | Passed (237-180) |
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This bill reestablishes an initiative related to China within the National Security Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and outlines the goals and requirements for this initiative.
In 2022, DOJ ended a program named the China Initiative. This bill reestablishes and renames it the CCP Initiative to (1) counter nation-state threats to the United States; (2) curb spying by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on U.S. intellectual property and academic institutions; (3) identify and prosecute individuals engaged in trade secret theft, hacking, and economic espionage; and (4) protect U.S. critical infrastructure from foreign threats. DOJ must annually brief specified congressional committees on the progress and challenges of the initiative. The initiative terminates six years after enactment of this bill. |
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2024-09-17 | No Foreign Election Interference [HR8314] | Failed (218-181) |
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Motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill which prohibits specified tax-exempt organizations from making contributions to political committees for eight years from the date of receiving a gift or contribution from a foreign national. Specified tax-exempt organization means, with respect to any taxable year, any organization described in Section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) and exempt from tax under Section 501(a) of the IRC if (1) the gross receipts of such organization for such taxable year equal or exceed $200,000; or (2) the assets of such organization (determined as of the close of such taxable year) equal or exceed $500,000.
Any specified tax-exempt organization that makes such a contribution must pay a penalty that is 200% of the amount of such contribution. The organization loses its tax-exempt status for any taxable year ending on or after the date of a third contribution. A two-thirds vote was required for this motion to pass. |
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2024-09-18 | Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act [HR7909] | Passed (266-158) |
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This bill establishes certain criminal grounds for making non-U.S. nationals ("aliens" under federal law) inadmissible and expands the crimes for which a non-U.S. national is deportable.
First, the bill establishes that a non-U.S. national is inadmissible if the individual has admitted to or is convicted of acts constituting the essential elements of stalking, child abuse, child neglect, child abandonment, a sex offense, conspiracy to commit a sex offense, a violation of certain protection orders, and domestic violence (including physical or sexual abuse or a pattern of coercive behavior when it occurs within certain close relationships). Next, the bill establishes additional grounds for deportation. Under current law, a non-U.S. national is deportable for certain criminal convictions, including domestic violence, stalking and child abuse. The bill makes any sex offense (including crimes against minors) or conspiracy to commit a sex offense a basis for deportation. The bill also expands the domestic violence crimes that make a non-U.S. national deportable to include physical or sexual abuse or a pattern of coercive behavior when it occurs within certain close relationships. |
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2024-09-18 | Continuing Appropriations and Other Matters [HR9494] | Failed (202-220) |
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This bill provides continuing FY2025 appropriations for federal agencies, provides emergency funding for disaster relief, extends various expiring programs and authorities and modifies voter registration requirements for federal elections.
Specifically, the bill provides continuing FY2025 appropriations to federal agencies through the earlier of March 28, 2025, or the enactment of the applicable appropriations act. It is known as a continuing resolution (CR) and prevents a government shutdown that would otherwise occur if the FY2025 appropriations bills have not been enacted when FY2025 begins on October 1, 2024. The CR funds most programs and activities at the FY2024 levels with several exceptions that provide funding flexibility and additional appropriations for various programs. The bill also prohibits states from accepting and processing an application to register to vote in a federal election unless the applicant presents documentary proof of U.S. citizenship. |
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2024-09-19 | End Woke Higher Education [HR3724] | Passed (213-201) |
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This bill revises the requirements for an accrediting agency to be recognized by the Department of Education as a reliable authority on the quality of education being offered at an institution of higher education (IHE).
Specifically, an accrediting agency must confirm that its standards do not require, encourage, or coerce an IHE to (1) support, oppose, or commit to supporting or opposing specific partisan, political or ideological viewpoints or beliefs or specific viewpoints or beliefs on social, cultural or political issues; or (2) support or commit to supporting the disparate treatment of any individual or group on the basis of any protected class under federal civil rights law. Additionally, an accrediting agency must confirm that its standards do not prohibit an IHE from having a religious mission. The accrediting agency may not prohibit the IHE from requiring an applicant, student, employee, or independent contractor to provide a statement of faith or adhere to a code of conduct. |
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2024-09-20 | No Bailout for Sanctuary Cities [HR5717] | Passed (219-186) |
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This bill makes a state or political subdivision of a state ineligible for any federal funds the jurisdiction intends to use to benefit non-U.S. nationals (i.e., aliens under federal law) who are unlawfully present if the jurisdiction withholds information about citizenship or immigration status or does not cooperate with immigration detainers.
Specifically, such funds are denied to any jurisdiction that has a law, policy, or practice that prohibits or restricts any government entity from maintaining, sending or receiving information regarding the citizenship or immigration status of any individual; exchanging information regarding an individual's citizenship or immigration status with a federal, state or local government entity; complying with a valid immigration detainer from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS); or notifying DHS about an individual's release from custody. The funding restriction does not apply to a law, policy or practice that only applies to an individual who comes forward as a victim of or a witness to a criminal offense. |
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2024-09-25 | Ensuring Accountability for Key Officials in the Biden-Harris Administration [HRES1469] | Passed (219-194) |
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McCaul (R-TX) resolution stating that the House of Representatives condemns President Joseph Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and 13 other individuals for their role in the Afghanistan withdrawal and noncombatant evacuation operation. |
Represents a "Yes" vote. Represents a "No" vote. Indicates that this member voted against the conservative position on a particular vote. "No vote" means that this member did not cast a vote (or voted 'Present' instead of Yes or No). |