But, here again, it is important for people to know the bad votes, which negates the good votes, and how we have steadily declined in terms of freedom and fiscal responsibility.
Whether you are pleasantly happy and smile with the "trade-off's", want to hold him accountable during his terms in office, or wish to run a candidate who is grounded in principles, here it is:
- Matt Gaetz: "House Republicans must do better. We must be led better.
We must return Trump to the White House.”
- Matt Gaetz voted
YES on H.R. 406 ASEAN Relations
We Oppose. ASEAN is a political and economic union, as opposed to an individual sovereign nation. Providing a permanent ASEAN mission in the United States with the same privileges and immunities as embassies further accelerates globalist designs of collectivizing nations into regional unions rather than dealing with them as individual sovereign states. Furthermore, two of the 10 member-states that comprise ASEAN officially have Marxist-Leninist governments: the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic. This resolution expands U.S. relations with the communist regimes that oppress those two nations and that heavily influence the policies of the ASEAN union.
- Matt Gaetz voted
YES on H.R. 133 Appropriations/Coronavirus
We Oppose. Congress is failing to address its profligate spending that yielded an annual federal deficit of $3.1 trillion in fiscal 2020. Moreover, Congress is minimizing its accountability to voters by combining all “discretionary” federal spending and coronavirus aid into one gigantic bill and only holding two votes on that bill in the House.
- Matt Gaetz voted
YES on H.R. 266 Coronavirus
We 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.
- Matt Gaetz voted
YES on H.R. 5430 USMCA
We Oppose. Congress is not authorized by the Constitution to surrender our national sovereignty to any transnational regional government, including the nascent North American Union.
- Matt Gaetz voted
NO on H R 2500 On Agreeing to the Amendment 33 to H R 2500
We Support. 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).
- Matt Gaetz voted
YES on H R 2157 Disaster Supplemental Appropriations
We 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.
- Matt Gaetz voted
YES on S 47 Public Lands
We 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.”
- Matt Gaetz voted
YES on H.J.R. 31 Consolidated Appropriations (H.J.R. 31)
We Oppose. Most of the bill’s spending programs are unconstitutional and unacceptably expand our debt and deficit.
- Matt Gaetz voted
YES on H.R. 6157 Appropriations for Defense, Labor-HHS-Education, and Continuing Appropriations
We Oppose. Social welfare spending falls outside the enumerated powers of the federal government, and lumping multiple appropriations bills into one mega bill reduces lawmakers’ accountability to their constituents. Moreover, even though defense spending is constitutional, the “defense” budget is bloated with funding for overseas military operations that have not contributed to the defense of our own country.
- Matt Gaetz voted
YES on H.R. 302 FAA Reauthorization and Supplemental Disaster Appropriations
We Oppose. The bill is comprised of unconstitutional federal overreach in both aviation and disaster relief. One example is the TSA, which is known for groping and violating air travelers in the name of providing security. Instead of relying on an inefficient federal bureaucracy, security should be provided by the airlines, which have a vested interest in keeping their customers safe. Another area the feds should stay out of is the regulation of private-sector drones, which instead should be managed by local ordinances or (at most) state laws. And the market, not the feds, should determine such issues as the dimensions of seats on passenger airliners. Regarding disaster relief, this should be handled by private charitable efforts, not the federal government.
- Matt Gaetz voted
YES on S. 1182 Flood Insurance
We Oppose. The Constitution does not give the federal government authority to get into the insurance business. Having the federal government as an insurer essentially subsidizes risky behavior, such as building in flood-, fire-, and earthquake-prone areas, and forces the taxpayer to pick up the tab. Insurance policies for natural disasters should be offered by private insurers, with the market setting the rates for such coverage.
- Matt Gaetz voted
YES on H.R. 4909 School Violence
We Oppose. School safety is not a proper function of the federal government. School safety should be addressed at the local level. The nationalizing of local police and school security, as well as any other gun-control measures contained in the bill, are all strictly unconstitutional.
In a podcast interview with Conservative Review,
Representative Thomas Massie (RKy.) said the “STOP School Violence Act was bad enough for nationalizing defense of our schools,” but he further revealed, “There is money in that bill that is going to go to gun control groups. It literally says in there you can give it to the 501-C3s, and then it also says in there it can’t go to train anybody on gun safety. It’s got to go for all the liberal sort of agendas.”
- Matt Gaetz voted
NO on S.139 Warrantless Surveillance
We Support. This amendment is an attempt to limit NSA surveillance of U.S. citizens. Warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens is unconstitutional, and NSA surveillance certainly falls under this category. Amash’s amendment would require the FBI to obtain a warrant, rather than merely FISA Court approval, in order to access the NSA’s database.
- Matt Gaetz voted
YES on H.R. 3180 Intelligence Authorization
We Oppose. The very idea of Congress authorizing classified amounts of spending is unconstitutional, as well as frightening. Furthermore, some of the agencies that this “classified” spending is funding are themselves engaged in unconstitutional activities, such as spying on and gathering data from U.S. citizens without a warrant. While assessing (dubious) Russian influence in U.S. politics is an acceptable use of federal funds, much of this bill’s spending is unconstitutional and should be rejected.
- Matt Gaetz voted
YES on H.Res.397 NATO
We Oppose. The United States should stay clear of entangling alliances such as NATO, which undermine the provision in the U.S. Constitution that assigns to Congress the power to declare war.
- Matt Gaetz voted
YES on H.R. 1616 National Computer Forensics Institute Authorization
We Oppose. Providing federal equipment and training to state and local law-enforcement officers not only is unconstitutional, but also further federalizes the police system.
- Matt Gaetz voted
YES on H.R. 1628 ObamaCare Replacement
We Oppose. We have assigned pluses to the nays because ObamaCare should be repealed, not replaced with a Republican variant of unconstitutional government healthcare that more liberty-minded lawmakers have referred to as "ObamaCare Lite" and "ObamaCare 2.0."
https://thenewamerican.com/freedom-index/legislator/g000578/votes/congress-115/
