Legislative Oversight

Social Security & Medicare

Nearest position: Delivery, fraud control, and administration

Confidence: high · 76 mapped votes · 1 unmapped (cast, not linked to a position)

• 35 → delivery-and-integrity ★
• 24 → solvency-via-adjustments
• 17 → protect-benefits-status

Inflation & Cost of Living

Nearest position: Macro restraint (fiscal/monetary framing)

Confidence: medium · 3 mapped votes · 31 unmapped (cast, not linked to a position)

• 2 → macro-tight-policy ★
• 1 → household-relief

Gun Policy

Nearest position: Catalog gap — 5 real Yea/Nay votes on this issue could not be mapped to a catalog position (not an absence).

Confidence: none · 0 mapped votes · 5 unmapped (cast, not linked to a position)

Criminal Justice & Public Safety

Nearest position: Targeted tools and interdiction capacity

Confidence: high · 65 mapped votes

• 23 → targeted-tech-interdiction ★
• 20 → tougher-penalties-enforcement
• 19 → status-quo-reject-change
• 3 → treatment-prevention

Voting & Elections

Nearest position: Catalog gap — 6 real Yea/Nay votes on this issue could not be mapped to a catalog position (not an absence).

Confidence: none · 0 mapped votes · 6 unmapped (cast, not linked to a position)

Veterans Affairs

Nearest position: Constrain benefits scope or cost

Confidence: high · 53 mapped votes

• 26 → constrain-benefits-scope-cost ★
• 15 → expand-benefits-access
• 8 → status-quo-reject-change
• 4 → care-quality-capacity

Taxes & Government Spending

Nearest position: Lower taxes and constrain spending growth

Confidence: high · 222 mapped votes

• 62 → lower-taxes-constrain-spend ★
• 59 → process-fiscal-rules
• 51 → status-quo-reject-change
• 48 → revenue-for-programs
• 2 → targeted-incentives

Immigration & Border

Nearest position: Enforcement- and deterrence-first

Confidence: high · 77 mapped votes

• 46 → enforcement-deterrence ★
• 20 → status-quo-reject-change
• 7 → minimal-restriction
• 2 → legal-pathways-asylum
• 2 → incremental-status-quo

Education

Nearest position: Gender-identity-inclusive participation

Confidence: high · 25 mapped votes

• 8 → gender-identity-inclusive-participation ★
• 6 → workforce-higher-ed-focus
• 5 → sex-based-sports-eligibility
• 2 → federal-standards-equity
• 2 → status-quo-reject-change
• 2 → local-control-limit-federal

Housing

Nearest position: Status quo / reject this change

Confidence: high · 53 mapped votes

• 27 → status-quo-reject-change ★
• 11 → finance-credit-markets
• 9 → supply-zoning-barriers
• 6 → demand-side-assistance

Public Lands & Wildlife

Nearest position: Conservation and preservation first

Confidence: high · 15 mapped votes

• 12 → conservation-preservation-first ★
• 2 → status-quo-reject-change
• 1 → species-delisting-active-management

Regulation & Agency Oversight

Nearest position: Preserve agency rules and standards

Confidence: high · 103 mapped votes

• 48 → preserve-agency-rules ★
• 27 → disapprove-nullify-rules
• 17 → deregulatory-burden-reduction
• 11 → process-transparency-reporting

Healthcare

Nearest position: Status quo / reject this change

Confidence: high · 75 mapped votes · 35 unmapped (cast, not linked to a position)

• 37 → status-quo-reject-change ★
• 22 → public-health-capacity
• 7 → protect-gender-transition-care-access
• 5 → restrict-gender-transition-care
• 4 → coverage-expansion

Congressional Procedure

Nearest position: Adopt majority agenda and special rules

Confidence: high · 44 mapped votes

• 23 → adopt-majority-agenda-rules ★
• 20 → protect-minority-deliberation
• 1 → transparency-ethics-process

Foreign Policy & Sanctions

Nearest position: Restraint and limited overseas commitments

Confidence: high · 61 mapped votes

• 39 → restraint-limit-commitments ★
• 14 → engagement-diplomacy-aid
• 3 → status-quo-reject-change
• 2 → trade-preference-extension
• 2 → democracy-human-rights-abroad
• 1 → sanctions-pressure

Abortion & Reproductive Policy

Nearest position: Federal restrictions or limited federal funding

Confidence: high · 31 mapped votes · 51 unmapped (cast, not linked to a position)

• 20 → restrict-federal-role ★
• 11 → protect-access

Labor & Employment

Nearest position: Employer flexibility and burden relief

Confidence: high · 33 mapped votes

• 21 → employer-flexibility-burden-relief ★
• 6 → targeted-enforcement-existing-law
• 4 → status-quo-reject-change
• 2 → stronger-worker-protections

Energy & Climate

Nearest position: Accelerate clean-energy transition

Confidence: high · 124 mapped votes · 21 unmapped (cast, not linked to a position)

• 73 → accelerate-clean-transition ★
• 32 → expand-domestic-production
• 13 → status-quo-reject-change
• 6 → reliability-affordability

Defense & National Security

Nearest position: Reduce defense outlays or scope

Confidence: high · 110 mapped votes · 28 unmapped (cast, not linked to a position)

• 54 → reduce-defense-outlays ★
• 48 → force-structure-readiness
• 7 → status-quo-reject-change
• 1 → personnel-quality-of-life