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Elise Stefanik On The Record
House Representative (R), New York-21
Data taken from: https://thenewamerican.com/freedom-index/#/legislator/20753
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR1799 [bad vote] - Paycheck Protection Program Extension - We oppose. The Constitution does not authorize the federal government to bail out or lend funds to business.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR1603 [bad vote] - Agricultural Migrant Amnesty - We oppose. This bill would encourage and reward mass migration to the United States. Mass migration is a tool of the Deep State to fundamentally alter the United States. By importing significant numbers of individuals from cultures with no knowledge or understanding of the U.S. Constitution and the Founding Fathers’ philosophical principles, the Deep State is able to reshape the nation to its liking — importing the very type of socialist and corrupt governments that many migrants arrived from.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR1158 [bad vote] - Omnibus Appropriations I - Oppose. Many programs within this defense-related minibus are unconstitutional. This bill also is fiscally irresponsible, considering the $26 trillion national debt and projected $3.8 trillion budget deficit.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR1865 [bad vote] - Omnibus Appropriations II - Oppose. Most of the spending programs in this appropriations bill are unconstitutional. Also, congressional spending for fiscal 2020 is grossly fiscally irresponsible. In mid-2020, our national debt was about $26 trillion, and the federal budget deficit for 2020 was expected to be an astounding $3.8 trillion.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR5430 [bad vote] - USMCA - Oppose. Congress is not authorized by the Constitution to surrender our national sovereignty to any transnational regional government, including the nascent North American Union.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR6172 [bad vote] - FISA - We oppose. While many of the proposed FISA modifications positive from a freedom and privacy standpoint, Congress should have instead voted to not reauthorize the FISA and let it expire. Despite the program’s title, the act permits surveillance of Americans who are not charged with any crime.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR266 [bad vote] - Fourth Coronavirus Package (Replenishment for Small Business Loans) - Oppose. Nowhere in the Constitution is the federal government authorized to disburse loans to small businesses or cover the salaries of laid-off employees. It is not the responsibility of the federal government to bail out businesses or the unemployed.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR1957 [bad vote] - Public Lands - We oppose. This bill irresponsibly increases the federal deficit and diverts energy royalties from being spent for needed constitutional purposes. Additionally, the Constitution does not authorize Congress to purchase private property except “for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings.” Moreover, the federal government already owns a huge percentage of land directly —about 28 percent of the nation — and is a demonstrably poor steward of public lands.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR7573 [bad vote] - Removing Statues From the Capitol - We oppose. The statues that fill the National Statuary Hall are sent by the states at their discretion, and Congress should not be assuming the authority to tell the states which statues they are and are not allowed to place in the hall. This is plainly an attempt to erase American history.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HJRes31 [bad vote] - Consolidated Appropriations - Oppose. Most of the bill’s spending programs are unconstitutional and unacceptably expand our debt and deficit.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on S47 [bad vote] - Public Lands - Oppose. The Constitution does not authorize Congress to purchase private property except “all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings.”
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR9 [bad vote] - Paris Agreement - Oppose. The Paris Agreement never should have been signed by the U.S. It functions as a treaty, despite the U.S. Senate having never ratified it as is constitutionally-required. Also, fulfilling the agreement’s terms would stifle the U.S. economy and energy sector while making no impact on alleged man-made global warming.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR2157 [bad vote] - Disaster Supplemental Appropriations - Oppose. The federal government has no constitutional authority to rebuild areas stricken by natural disasters. Such activity should be undertaken by private companies and charities first, and, as a last resort, handled by local or state governments. Disasters would arguably be handled more effectively this way compared to the feds.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR5 [bad vote] - Equality Act - Oppose. This bill would harm heterosexual children and adults, as well as threaten the First Amendment freedoms of religion and association.
- Elise Stefanik voted NO on HR2500 [bad vote] - Indefinite Military Detention - We support Representative Amash’s amendment. Indefinite detention without trial is a serious violation of the right to habeas corpus, the issuance of a warrant based on probable cause (Fourth Amendment), and the right to a “speedy and public” trial (Sixth Amendment).
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR3877 [bad vote] - Budget Deal - Oppose. Spending must be brought under control, and deficits must be eliminated to avoid fiscal disaster — not “down the road,” but now. Additionally, much of the bill’s spending is unconstitutional.
- Elise Stefanik voted NO on S139 [bad vote] - Warrantless Surveillance - During consideration of the bill (S. 139) reauthorizing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), Representative Justin Amash (R-Mich.) introduced an amendment to end NSA collection of communications data that is neither to nor from an approved foreign target, but rather communications “about” a foreign target entirely between American citizens. It would prohibit the FBI and intelligence agencies from searching the NSA database for information on U.S. citizens without first obtaining a warrant.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR3326 [bad vote] - H R 3326: World Bank Accountability Act of 2017 - The World Bank Accountability Act (H.R. 3326) would authorize $3.29 billion in U.S. contributions to the World Bank’s International Development Association, which discharges concessional loans known as “credits” and economic grants to the world’s poorest and most underdeveloped countries.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR4909 [bad vote] - School Violence - The STOP School Violence Act of 2018 (H.R. 4909) would authorize $75 million a year through fiscal year 2028 for the Justice Department’s Secure Our Schools grant program. SOS is a grant program of the Justice Department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, which has been instrumental in laying the foundations for nationalizing local police by providing federal “assistance” in the form of funds, equipment, training, and development of guidelines to local law-enforcement agencies.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR1625 [bad vote] - Omnibus Appropriations - This bill (H.R. 1625) would provide $1.3 trillion in discretionary appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2018 for federal government operations and services. This represents an overall increase in discretionary spending of 12 percent over the 2017 level. The big winner was the Department of Defense, with an increase of 10 percent over last year’s appropriations.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR3249 [bad vote] - Law Enforcement Partnership Grants - This bill (H.R. 3249) would establish a Project Safe Neighbor-hoods Block Grant Program within the Of-fice of Justice Programs at the Department of Justice to foster and improve existing partnerships between local, state, and fed-eral law-enforcement agencies to create safer neighborhoods through sustained reductions in violent crimes. It would authorize $50 million a year in each of the fiscal years from 2019 through 2021.
- Elise Stefanik voted NO on HR3 [bad vote] - Appropriations Cuts - This bill (H.R. 3) would cut nearly $15 billion from previously approved, unspent funding, including $7 billion from the Children’s Health Insurance Program and $4.3 billion from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR1238 [bad vote] - Homeland Security Defense of Agriculture - The Securing Our Agriculture and Food Act (H.R. 1238) would expand the War on Terror to the farm and dairy front in order to "share information and quickly respond to agro-terrorism threats," according to the bill's lead sponsor, Representative David Young (R-Iowa). Congressman Young cited the 2015 avian influenza that "wiped out millions of layer hens, turkeys, and backyard flocks" in Iowa to justify the need for his bill, despite the fact that the bird flu was not caused by terrorists.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR244 [bad vote] - H R 244: Omnibus Appropriations - The Consolidated Appropriations Act or omnibus bill (H.R. 244) would provide $1.16 trillion in discretionary appropriations through September 30, 2017 for the following federal departments and agencies: $20.9 billion for Agriculture, $56.6 billion for Commerce-Justice-Science, $593 billion for Defense, $37.8 billion for Energy-Water, $21.5 billion for Financial Services, $42.4 billion for Homeland Security, $32.2 billion for Interior-Environment, $161 billion for Labor-HHS-Education...
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HRes397 [bad vote] - NATO - This legislation (H. Res. 397) “solemnly reaffirms the commitment of the United States to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s principle of collective defense as enumerated in Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty.” Under Article 5, the member nations of the NATO military alliance “agree that an armed attack against one or more of them ... shall be considered an attack against them all.”
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR2028 [bad vote] - H R 2028: Continuing Appropriations - This bill (H.R. 2028) perpetuates Congress’ growing habit of avoiding hard decisions about the level of federal spending by kicking the can down the road into the middle of the new fiscal year, with a continuing resolution that would provide funding for federal government operations at the fiscal year 2016 level through April 28, 2017 at an annualized “discretionary” rate of $1.07 trillion.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR1567 [bad vote] - H R 1567: Global Food Security Strategy - This bill (H.R. 1567) would require the president to coordinate development and implementation of a global food security strategy, and would authorize approximately $1 billion for fiscal 2017 to implement portions of the strategy that relate to the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
- Elise Stefanik voted NO on HR4909 [bad vote] - H R 4909: Environmental Executive Orders - During consideration of the National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 4909), Representative Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) introduced an amendment to repeal the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) that was enacted in 2001 for the purpose of authorizing U.S. military intervention in Afghanistan in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks. Since then, however, the AUMF has been invoked numerous times by the executive branch for U.S. military intervention not only in Afghanistan but elsewhere.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR749 [bad vote] - H R 749: To reauthorize Federal support for passenger rail programs and for other purposes - Amtrak Reauthorization. The proposed Passenger Rail Reform and Investment Act of 2015 (H.R. 749) would authorize $7.2 billion for Amtrak funding over the next four years, through 2019. Representative Tom McClintock (R-Calif.), who opposed the reauthorization of federal funds to Amtrak, noted: We will shell out $45 every time a passenger steps aboard an Amtrak train. That is $45 per passenger per trip and directly billed to taxpayers, up from $32 from six years ago.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR2146 [bad vote] - H R 2146: Trade Promotion Authority - During consideration of an otherwise relatively innocuous bill about public safety employee withdrawals, Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) made a motion to concur with a House amendment to the bill that would grant Trade Promotion Authority(TPA) to the executive branch.
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House Representative (R), New York-21
Data taken from: https://thenewamerican.com/freedom-index/#/legislator/20753
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR1799 [bad vote] - Paycheck Protection Program Extension - We oppose. The Constitution does not authorize the federal government to bail out or lend funds to business.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR1603 [bad vote] - Agricultural Migrant Amnesty - We oppose. This bill would encourage and reward mass migration to the United States. Mass migration is a tool of the Deep State to fundamentally alter the United States. By importing significant numbers of individuals from cultures with no knowledge or understanding of the U.S. Constitution and the Founding Fathers’ philosophical principles, the Deep State is able to reshape the nation to its liking — importing the very type of socialist and corrupt governments that many migrants arrived from.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR1158 [bad vote] - Omnibus Appropriations I - Oppose. Many programs within this defense-related minibus are unconstitutional. This bill also is fiscally irresponsible, considering the $26 trillion national debt and projected $3.8 trillion budget deficit.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR1865 [bad vote] - Omnibus Appropriations II - Oppose. Most of the spending programs in this appropriations bill are unconstitutional. Also, congressional spending for fiscal 2020 is grossly fiscally irresponsible. In mid-2020, our national debt was about $26 trillion, and the federal budget deficit for 2020 was expected to be an astounding $3.8 trillion.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR5430 [bad vote] - USMCA - Oppose. Congress is not authorized by the Constitution to surrender our national sovereignty to any transnational regional government, including the nascent North American Union.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR6172 [bad vote] - FISA - We oppose. While many of the proposed FISA modifications positive from a freedom and privacy standpoint, Congress should have instead voted to not reauthorize the FISA and let it expire. Despite the program’s title, the act permits surveillance of Americans who are not charged with any crime.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR266 [bad vote] - Fourth Coronavirus Package (Replenishment for Small Business Loans) - Oppose. Nowhere in the Constitution is the federal government authorized to disburse loans to small businesses or cover the salaries of laid-off employees. It is not the responsibility of the federal government to bail out businesses or the unemployed.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR1957 [bad vote] - Public Lands - We oppose. This bill irresponsibly increases the federal deficit and diverts energy royalties from being spent for needed constitutional purposes. Additionally, the Constitution does not authorize Congress to purchase private property except “for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings.” Moreover, the federal government already owns a huge percentage of land directly —about 28 percent of the nation — and is a demonstrably poor steward of public lands.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR7573 [bad vote] - Removing Statues From the Capitol - We oppose. The statues that fill the National Statuary Hall are sent by the states at their discretion, and Congress should not be assuming the authority to tell the states which statues they are and are not allowed to place in the hall. This is plainly an attempt to erase American history.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HJRes31 [bad vote] - Consolidated Appropriations - Oppose. Most of the bill’s spending programs are unconstitutional and unacceptably expand our debt and deficit.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on S47 [bad vote] - Public Lands - Oppose. The Constitution does not authorize Congress to purchase private property except “all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings.”
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR9 [bad vote] - Paris Agreement - Oppose. The Paris Agreement never should have been signed by the U.S. It functions as a treaty, despite the U.S. Senate having never ratified it as is constitutionally-required. Also, fulfilling the agreement’s terms would stifle the U.S. economy and energy sector while making no impact on alleged man-made global warming.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR2157 [bad vote] - Disaster Supplemental Appropriations - Oppose. The federal government has no constitutional authority to rebuild areas stricken by natural disasters. Such activity should be undertaken by private companies and charities first, and, as a last resort, handled by local or state governments. Disasters would arguably be handled more effectively this way compared to the feds.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR5 [bad vote] - Equality Act - Oppose. This bill would harm heterosexual children and adults, as well as threaten the First Amendment freedoms of religion and association.
- Elise Stefanik voted NO on HR2500 [bad vote] - Indefinite Military Detention - We support Representative Amash’s amendment. Indefinite detention without trial is a serious violation of the right to habeas corpus, the issuance of a warrant based on probable cause (Fourth Amendment), and the right to a “speedy and public” trial (Sixth Amendment).
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR3877 [bad vote] - Budget Deal - Oppose. Spending must be brought under control, and deficits must be eliminated to avoid fiscal disaster — not “down the road,” but now. Additionally, much of the bill’s spending is unconstitutional.
- Elise Stefanik voted NO on S139 [bad vote] - Warrantless Surveillance - During consideration of the bill (S. 139) reauthorizing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), Representative Justin Amash (R-Mich.) introduced an amendment to end NSA collection of communications data that is neither to nor from an approved foreign target, but rather communications “about” a foreign target entirely between American citizens. It would prohibit the FBI and intelligence agencies from searching the NSA database for information on U.S. citizens without first obtaining a warrant.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR3326 [bad vote] - H R 3326: World Bank Accountability Act of 2017 - The World Bank Accountability Act (H.R. 3326) would authorize $3.29 billion in U.S. contributions to the World Bank’s International Development Association, which discharges concessional loans known as “credits” and economic grants to the world’s poorest and most underdeveloped countries.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR4909 [bad vote] - School Violence - The STOP School Violence Act of 2018 (H.R. 4909) would authorize $75 million a year through fiscal year 2028 for the Justice Department’s Secure Our Schools grant program. SOS is a grant program of the Justice Department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, which has been instrumental in laying the foundations for nationalizing local police by providing federal “assistance” in the form of funds, equipment, training, and development of guidelines to local law-enforcement agencies.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR1625 [bad vote] - Omnibus Appropriations - This bill (H.R. 1625) would provide $1.3 trillion in discretionary appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2018 for federal government operations and services. This represents an overall increase in discretionary spending of 12 percent over the 2017 level. The big winner was the Department of Defense, with an increase of 10 percent over last year’s appropriations.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR3249 [bad vote] - Law Enforcement Partnership Grants - This bill (H.R. 3249) would establish a Project Safe Neighbor-hoods Block Grant Program within the Of-fice of Justice Programs at the Department of Justice to foster and improve existing partnerships between local, state, and fed-eral law-enforcement agencies to create safer neighborhoods through sustained reductions in violent crimes. It would authorize $50 million a year in each of the fiscal years from 2019 through 2021.
- Elise Stefanik voted NO on HR3 [bad vote] - Appropriations Cuts - This bill (H.R. 3) would cut nearly $15 billion from previously approved, unspent funding, including $7 billion from the Children’s Health Insurance Program and $4.3 billion from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR1238 [bad vote] - Homeland Security Defense of Agriculture - The Securing Our Agriculture and Food Act (H.R. 1238) would expand the War on Terror to the farm and dairy front in order to "share information and quickly respond to agro-terrorism threats," according to the bill's lead sponsor, Representative David Young (R-Iowa). Congressman Young cited the 2015 avian influenza that "wiped out millions of layer hens, turkeys, and backyard flocks" in Iowa to justify the need for his bill, despite the fact that the bird flu was not caused by terrorists.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR244 [bad vote] - H R 244: Omnibus Appropriations - The Consolidated Appropriations Act or omnibus bill (H.R. 244) would provide $1.16 trillion in discretionary appropriations through September 30, 2017 for the following federal departments and agencies: $20.9 billion for Agriculture, $56.6 billion for Commerce-Justice-Science, $593 billion for Defense, $37.8 billion for Energy-Water, $21.5 billion for Financial Services, $42.4 billion for Homeland Security, $32.2 billion for Interior-Environment, $161 billion for Labor-HHS-Education...
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HRes397 [bad vote] - NATO - This legislation (H. Res. 397) “solemnly reaffirms the commitment of the United States to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s principle of collective defense as enumerated in Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty.” Under Article 5, the member nations of the NATO military alliance “agree that an armed attack against one or more of them ... shall be considered an attack against them all.”
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR2028 [bad vote] - H R 2028: Continuing Appropriations - This bill (H.R. 2028) perpetuates Congress’ growing habit of avoiding hard decisions about the level of federal spending by kicking the can down the road into the middle of the new fiscal year, with a continuing resolution that would provide funding for federal government operations at the fiscal year 2016 level through April 28, 2017 at an annualized “discretionary” rate of $1.07 trillion.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR1567 [bad vote] - H R 1567: Global Food Security Strategy - This bill (H.R. 1567) would require the president to coordinate development and implementation of a global food security strategy, and would authorize approximately $1 billion for fiscal 2017 to implement portions of the strategy that relate to the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
- Elise Stefanik voted NO on HR4909 [bad vote] - H R 4909: Environmental Executive Orders - During consideration of the National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 4909), Representative Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) introduced an amendment to repeal the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) that was enacted in 2001 for the purpose of authorizing U.S. military intervention in Afghanistan in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks. Since then, however, the AUMF has been invoked numerous times by the executive branch for U.S. military intervention not only in Afghanistan but elsewhere.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR749 [bad vote] - H R 749: To reauthorize Federal support for passenger rail programs and for other purposes - Amtrak Reauthorization. The proposed Passenger Rail Reform and Investment Act of 2015 (H.R. 749) would authorize $7.2 billion for Amtrak funding over the next four years, through 2019. Representative Tom McClintock (R-Calif.), who opposed the reauthorization of federal funds to Amtrak, noted: We will shell out $45 every time a passenger steps aboard an Amtrak train. That is $45 per passenger per trip and directly billed to taxpayers, up from $32 from six years ago.
- Elise Stefanik voted YES on HR2146 [bad vote] - H R 2146: Trade Promotion Authority - During consideration of an otherwise relatively innocuous bill about public safety employee withdrawals, Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) made a motion to concur with a House amendment to the bill that would grant Trade Promotion Authority(TPA) to the executive branch.
For a list of all potential candidates:
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