Analilia Mejia

Votes on military aid, weapons transfers, and ceasefire resolutions, and whether representatives have recognized the genocide in Gaza as documented by the ICJ, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch.

• ✓ Cosponsored the Block the Bombs Act to stop the transfer of U.S. weapons used in Gaza (H.R.3565)
• × Failed to cosponsor recognizing genocide in Gaza, blocking weapons transfers, and imposing sanctions (H.Res.876)
• × Failed to cosponsor demanding unimpeded humanitarian aid delivery to Gaza, where famine conditions exist (H.Res.473)
• × Failed to cosponsor recognizing the Nakba (1948 mass displacement of Palestinians) and affirming refugee rights (H.Res.409)
• × Failed to cosponsor restoring U.S. funding for UNRWA, the UN agency serving Palestinian refugees (H.R.2411)
• × Failed to cosponsor blocking $12B in U.S. weapons transfers to Israel, in violation of U.S. and international law (H.J.Res.68)
• ✓ Opposed barring colleges from federal student aid over boycotts of Israeli businesses, and requiring equal access to Israel study programs (H.R.4795)
• ✓ Opposed NDAA FY2027 final passage — bill retains Section 219, a permanent US-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative (H.R.8800)
• ✓ Voted YES on the Massie amendment barring Israel from FY2027 State Department appropriations and eliminating its $3.3 billion Foreign Military Financing (H.Amdt.235 to H.R.8595)

Border and asylum policy, DACA, deportation practices, ICE enforcement, and the treatment of immigrants and refugees.

• ✓ Cosponsored a pathway to citizenship for DREAMers and TPS holders (H.R.1589)

Military authorizations, arms sales, sanctions, foreign aid, and US engagement in conflicts abroad (excluding Palestine/Israel, which is scored in its own dedicated category).

• × Failed to cosponsor prohibits export licenses for defense articles to the UAE until the president certifies the UAE is not arming the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan (H.R.2059)
• × Failed to cosponsor repeals the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba by dismantling the statutory pillars of 60+ years of economic sanctions (H.R.7521)
• × Failed to cosponsor urges the U.S. to adopt a no-first-use policy, end sole presidential nuclear launch authority, and halt the nuclear arms race (H.Res.317)
• × Failed to cosponsor prohibits the use of federal funds for military force in or against Cuba (H.R.8103)
• × Failed to cosponsor War Powers resolution directing the removal of U.S. Armed Forces from unauthorized hostilities in Cuba (H.J.Res.153)
• × Failed to cosponsor prohibits the use of federal funds for military force in or against Venezuela without congressional authorization (H.R.6915)
• × Failed to cosponsor prohibits first-use nuclear strikes unless Congress expressly authorizes them through a declaration of war (H.R.669)
• ✓ Opposed National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027, House passage (H.R.8800)
• ✓ Voted YES on War Powers concurrent resolution directing removal of U.S. forces from unauthorized hostilities in Lebanon, with added carve-outs for security cooperation with the Lebanese Armed Forces and diplomatic-facility protection (H.Con.Res.108)
• ✓ Voted YES on War Powers resolution directing the removal of U.S. Armed Forces from unauthorized hostilities in Lebanon (H.Con.Res.84)

Affordable care access, Medicare expansion, drug pricing, insurance regulation, and public health funding.

• ✓ Cosponsored Medicare for All — a single government-run health plan covering all Americans (H.R.3069)
• × Failed to cosponsor restoring healthcare services eliminated by DOGE cuts and executive actions (H.R.4796)
• × Failed to cosponsor repeals OBBBA Medicaid cuts and permanently extends enhanced ACA premium tax credits — the core Democratic healthcare counter-bill (H.R.4849)
• × Failed to cosponsor Medicare Advantage reform package — curbs prior authorization abuse and increases insurer accountability for denied claims (H.R.6109)
• × Failed to cosponsor opposes the WISPR model that restricts Medicare Advantage beneficiary access to healthcare providers (H.Res.704)
• × Failed to cosponsor allows states to create their own single-payer universal healthcare systems using federal waivers (H.R.4406)
• × Failed to cosponsor setting minimum nurse-to-patient staffing ratios in hospitals (H.R.3415)
• × Failed to cosponsor expanding Medicare to cover dental, vision, and hearing services for seniors (H.R.2045)
• × Failed to cosponsor protects Social Security and Medicare from privatization and benefit cuts (H.R.1950)

Rent costs, public housing, homelessness, housing discrimination, and the right to stable shelter.

• × Failed to cosponsor Housing Is a Human Right Act — addresses root causes of homelessness and transitions toward guaranteed housing for all (H.R.4457)
• × Failed to cosponsor $5B in McKinney-Vento grants to build 410K homes and end homelessness (H.R.4872)
• × Failed to cosponsor expanding Low-Income Housing Tax Credits to build more affordable rental housing (H.R.2725)
• × Failed to cosponsor reauthorizes and increases HOME program funding for affordable housing construction and rehabilitation (H.R.2031)
• × Failed to cosponsor comprehensive housing: homebuyer credits, LIHTC expansion, and renter credits (H.R.6390)

Workers' rights, union protections, minimum wage, workplace safety, and corporate accountability to employees.

• × Failed to cosponsor raising the federal minimum wage to a living wage (H.R.2743)
• ✓ Cosponsored the Paycheck Fairness Act strengthening equal pay protections (H.R.17)
• × Failed to cosponsor removes tax deductions for companies that spend money on union-busting consultants and anti-union campaigns (H.R.2692)
• × Failed to cosponsor a nationwide right to unionize, preventing anti-union state laws (H.R.5159)
• × Failed to cosponsor extends minimum wage, overtime, and workplace safety protections to domestic workers like nannies and home care aides (H.R.3971)
• × Failed to cosponsor protects public sector workers from retaliation and ensures fair treatment for government employees (H.R.3139)
• ✓ Cosponsored national paid family and medical leave for all workers (H.R.5390)
• ✓ Cosponsored establishes a national paid sick days standard so workers don't lose pay when they're ill (H.R.7531)
• ✓ Cosponsored the PRO Act strengthening the right to unionize and bargain collectively (H.R.20)

Abortion access, contraception coverage, maternal healthcare, and reproductive autonomy legislation.

• ✓ Cosponsored the Women's Health Protection Act codifying the right to abortion nationwide (H.R.12)
• ✓ Cosponsored the Right to Contraception Act protecting access to birth control (H.R.999)
• ✓ Cosponsored ensures access to birth control by requiring insurance coverage and preventing pharmacies from refusing to fill prescriptions (H.R.4084)
• × Failed to cosponsor protecting IVF and assisted reproductive technology from state bans (H.R.2049)
• ✓ Cosponsored repealing the Hyde Amendment to allow federal Medicaid funding for abortion care (H.R.4611)

Anti-discrimination protections, trans rights, marriage equality, and legislation that restricts LGBTQ+ rights.

• ✓ Cosponsored the Equality Act — comprehensive LGBTQ+ nondiscrimination protections (H.R.15)
• × Failed to cosponsor strengthens hate crime protections specifically for LGBTQ+ individuals (H.R.3708)
• ✓ Cosponsored banning conversion therapy as consumer fraud (H.R.3243)
• × Failed to cosponsor Do No Harm Act — prevents the Religious Freedom Restoration Act from being used to discriminate against LGBTQ+ individuals (H.R.1954)
• ✓ Opposed Requires public elementary and middle schools, as a condition of receiving funds under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, to obtain parental consent before changing a minor student's gender markers, pronouns, or preferred name on any school form, or changing the student's sex-based accommodations (locker rooms, bathrooms). (H.R.2616)
• ✓ Cosponsored protecting access to gender-affirming healthcare (H.R.2487)
• ✓ Cosponsored appoints a special envoy for LGBTQ+ human rights to combat persecution of LGBTQ+ individuals worldwide (H.R.6056)
• ✓ Cosponsored prohibits discrimination in foster care and adoption based on sexual orientation or gender identity (H.R.6181)
• ✓ Cosponsored Safe Schools Improvement Act — requires schools to adopt anti-bullying policies that specifically protect LGBTQ+ students (H.R.1810)
• ✓ Cosponsored Resolution affirming a Transgender Bill of Rights — legal recognition, healthcare access, and anti-discrimination protections (H.Res.1058)
• ✓ Opposed NDAA FY2027 amendment prohibiting TRICARE coverage of gender-affirming medical care (H.Amdt.255 to H.R.8800)
• ✓ Opposed NDAA FY2027 amendment restricting transgender students from women's/girls' sports teams at DoD-run (DoDEA) schools (H.Amdt.256 to H.R.8800)
• ✓ Opposed NDAA FY2027 amendment to codify Executive Order 14183, banning transgender individuals from military service (H.Amdt.254 to H.R.8800)

Policing accountability, mass incarceration, surveillance, due process, and civil liberties protections.

• × Failed to cosponsor ends qualified immunity for police officers, allowing victims of misconduct to sue for civil rights violations (H.R.3602)
• × Failed to cosponsor the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act — ending qualified immunity and police accountability (H.R.5361)
• × Failed to cosponsor ending solitary confinement in federal prisons (H.R.4682)
• × Failed to cosponsor FAIR Act — reforms civil asset forfeiture so police can't seize property from people who haven't been convicted of a crime (H.R.5350)
• × Failed to cosponsor descheduling marijuana at the federal level (MORE Act) (H.R.5068)
• × Failed to cosponsor Ban Flock Act (H.R.10691)
• × Failed to cosponsor automatic sealing of criminal records (Clean Slate Act) (H.R.3114)
• ✓ Opposed treats organizations that post bail for defendants — including charitable bail funds — as insurance businesses under federal law, subjecting them to federal insurance-fraud prosecution and state insurance-commission regulation (H.R.6260)
• ✓ Opposed Three-year reauthorization of Section 702 of FISA without a warrant requirement for queries of Americans' communications (S.1318)

Climate legislation, fossil fuel subsidies, environmental regulation, and the transition to clean energy.

• × Failed to cosponsor End Polluter Welfare Act — eliminates approximately $190 billion in fossil fuel subsidies, tax loopholes, and federal giveaways over 10 years, including provisions for enhanced oil recovery, fossil fuel R&D, and below-market royalty rates on federal lands (H.R.4714)
• × Failed to cosponsor Polluters Pay Climate Fund Act — imposes a $1 trillion total assessment ($100 billion per year over 10 years) on the largest fossil-fuel companies, allocated by each company's share of covered historical greenhouse-gas emissions, with proceeds funding climate adaptation and damage mitigation (H.R.1135)
• ✓ Opposed Fire Improvement and Reforming Exceptional Events (FIRE) Act — amends the Clean Air Act to exclude air-quality monitoring data influenced by wildfires from compliance determinations, allowing states to discount real exposure when measured against federal standards (H.R.6387)
• ✓ Opposed Reliable Federal Infrastructure Act — amends the Energy Conservation and Production Act to repeal federal building energy efficiency performance standards (Section 305(a)(3)(D)(i)), removing fossil-fuel-reduction targets for new and majorly-renovated federal buildings (H.R.4690)
• ✓ Cosponsored House Concurrent Resolution declaring a health and safety emergency disproportionately affecting the fundamental rights of children due to executive-branch directives that unleash fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions while suppressing climate change science (H.Con.Res.44)

Voting access, election integrity, gerrymandering, and the defense of democratic institutions.

• ✓ Cosponsored D.C. statehood giving 700,000 residents full voting representation in Congress (H.R.51)
• × Failed to cosponsor independent redistricting commissions to end partisan gerrymandering (H.R.5449)
• × Failed to cosponsor strengthens protections against voter intimidation at polling places and during the registration process (H.R.4894)
• ✓ Signed letter accusing DOJ and DHS of using the search of Rep. Ilhan Omar's home 22 days before her election to sway the vote, and demanding no further action that could affect it (Omar Search Letter)
• ✓ Cosponsored the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act restoring federal preclearance (H.R.14)

Campaign finance, lobbying, corporate influence over lawmaking, and how Congress regulates banks, Wall Street, crypto, and consumer financial protections.

• × Failed to cosponsor banning members of Congress from trading individual stocks while in office (H.R.1908)
• × Failed to cosponsor requiring disclosure of dark money donors in elections (H.R.2498)
• × Failed to cosponsor Constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United by clarifying that constitutional rights apply to people, not corporations (H.J.Res.54)
• × Failed to cosponsor abolishing Super PACs that allow unlimited political spending (H.R.2352)
• × Failed to cosponsor closes the revolving door between Congress and lobbying by extending cooling-off periods and restricting lobbying by former officials (H.R.3554)
• × Failed to cosponsor eliminating corporate PACs from making campaign contributions (H.R.4799)