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Historical Details

Position on Issues

Voting Record, 2012

Co-sponsored DISCLOSE Act, increasing disclosure requirements for independent campaign expenditures

Candidate's Website, 2014

"Virginia's women have a right to make their own decisions about contraception without their bosses interfering. I'm proud to have cosponsored and voted today in support of legislation to undo the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision and restore the right of women to access basic health care. Individuals clearly deserve to have constitutional protection for their religious beliefs but for-profit corporate employers should have no role in a woman's decisions about her own healthcare."

Voting Record

S 1
Authorizes the Keystone XL Pipeline and amends energy efficiency regulations
S 2578 (2014)

Prohibits any employer that maintains a group health plan for its employees from denying coverage of any health care item or service required under federal law (e.g. birth control)

S Amdt 3584 (2014)

Lowering the federal gas tax and giving states more control over transportation infrastructure funding

S 540 (2014)

Temporary debt limit extension

S 1752 (2014)

Increasing regulation of court martials for rape in the military

HR 3547 (2014)

Appropriates funds for fiscal year 2014

S 2280 (2014)

Authorizes the Keystone XL Pipeline

S 1845 (2014)

To provide for the extension of certain unemployment benefits

S 2223 (2014)

Minimum Wage Fairness Act, to increase the federal minimum wage

S 2685 (2014)

Limits the collection of phone records by the government

S J Res 19 (2014)

Constitutional amendment related to campaign finance, potentially overturning the Citizens United decision

S 2569 (2014)

Prohibiting tax credits for outsourcing expenses and creating a tax credit for insourcing expenses

S Amdt 711 (2013)

Establishes regulations on assault weapons

S 815 (2013)

Prohibits employment discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity

S 744 (2013)
“Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act,” which creates a path to citizenship for illegal/undocumented immigrants, increase border security, and reforms the visa system
S 743 (2013)

Requires online retailers to collect sales tax for other states

S 47 (2013)
Reauthorizes the “Violence Against Women Act”
S Amdt 30 (2013)
Prohibits spending on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly known as “Obamacare”
H J Res 59 (2013)

Continues the 2013 budget and delays the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (known as 'Obamacare')

HR 2775 (2013)

Extends the current budget and raise the debt ceiling until early 2014

HR 1911 (2013)

Matches the Stafford Direct Student Loan rates to the 10-year Treasury note rather than using a fixed rate

S Amdt 715 (2013)

Requires background checks for all firearms purchases

S Amdt 2153 (2012)

“Lamar Bill,” which extends current student loan interest rates; also repeals the Prevention and Public Health Fund established by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (commonly known as “Obamacare”)

S 2573 (2012)

Extends tax cuts established in 2001 and 2003

S Amdt 2310 (2012)

Requires labeling of genetically modified food (GMOs)

S Amdt 2174 (2012)

Limits eligibility for SNAP (food stamps)

S 3412 (2012)

Extends tax cuts from 2001 and 2003, except for certain high-income individuals

S 3240 (2012)

Continues farm subsidies and reforms SNAP (food stamps)

S 1925 (2012)
Reauthorizes the “Violence Against Women Act”
S Amdt 2172 (2012)

Gets rid of bonuses to states for administering SNAP (food stamps)

S 2343 (2012)

“Reid Bill,” which extends student loan interest rates

HR 5949 (2012)

Reauthorizes electronic surveillance laws passed after 9/11

HR 1249 (2011)

Changes US patent issuance from "first to invent" to "first inventor to file"

HR 514 (2011)

Extends certain expiring provisions of the PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005

S 365 (2011)

Raising the debt ceiling and enacting budget cuts

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