Eric Swalwell

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.

• × Failed to cosponsor 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)
• – Did not vote on imposing sanctions on International Criminal Court (ICC) judges investigating Israeli officials for war crimes (H.R.23)
• × 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)
• × Did not sign letter opposing Israel's use of food as a weapon and starvation tactics in Gaza (Food Weaponization Letter)
• × Failed to cosponsor restoring U.S. funding for UNRWA, the UN agency serving Palestinian refugees (H.R.2411)
• × Did not sign letters demanding the release of detained Palestinian students including Khalil, Ozturk, and Mahdawi (Student Letter)
• × Failed to cosponsor blocking $12B in U.S. weapons transfers to Israel, in violation of U.S. and international law (H.J.Res.68)

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

• ✓ Opposed the SAVE Act requiring citizenship proof to vote — a voter suppression measure (H.R.22)
• ✓ Opposed the Laken Riley Act expanding mandatory ICE detention for immigrants (H.R.29)
• ✓ Opposed $10B in ICE funding expansion in the DHS Appropriations bill (H.R.7147)
• × Voted YES on a resolution thanking ICE for enforcement operations (H.Res.488)
• – Did not vote on Kayla Hamilton Act — expands detention and enforcement for unaccompanied minors and immigration violations (H.R.4371)
• ✓ Cosponsored a pathway to citizenship for DREAMers and TPS holders (H.R.1589)
• ✓ Opposed a bill criminalizing illegal entry as a federal felony (H.R.3486)
• ✓ Opposed Requires Washington, D.C. to comply with federal immigration enforcement, overriding the city's sanctuary policies (H.R.2056)
• ✓ Opposed Agent Raul Gonzalez Officer Safety Act — creates criminal penalties for fleeing federal officers near the border; signed into law (H.R.35)
• ✓ Opposed Standalone FY26 Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act funding ICE detention and CBP enforcement. (H.R.7744)

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

• ✓ Voted YES on War Powers resolution to remove U.S. forces from unauthorized military operations against Iran (H.Con.Res.38)
• × 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)
• ✓ Opposed Department of Defense Appropriations FY2026 — funds $831 billion in military spending (H.R.4016)
• × Voted YES on reaffirms Iran as the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism — whereas clauses invoke AUMF trigger language and Article II authority, designed to legally counter the Iran War Powers Resolution (H.Res.1099)
• × 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 Rescissions Act — cuts $7.9 billion in foreign aid including USAID, development assistance, and global health programs (H.R.4)
• – Did not vote on War Powers resolution to remove U.S. forces from military operations in the Western Hemisphere, including Venezuela (H.Con.Res.61)
• – Did not vote on War Powers resolution to end unauthorized U.S. military involvement in Venezuela (H.Con.Res.64)

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

• ✓ Opposed a budget resolution enabling $880B in Medicaid cuts (H.Con.Res.14)
• ✓ Voted YES on extending Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits, keeping insurance affordable for millions (H.R.1834)
• ✓ Cosponsored Medicare for All — a single government-run health plan covering all Americans (H.R.3069)
• ✓ Cosponsored restoring healthcare services eliminated by DOGE cuts and executive actions (H.R.4796)
• ✓ Cosponsored 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 protects Social Security and Medicare from privatization and benefit cuts (H.R.1950)
• ✓ Cosponsored expanding Medicare to cover dental, vision, and hearing services for seniors (H.R.2045)
• ✓ Opposed Medicaid work requirements projected to strip coverage from 10.9 million people (H.R.1)

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)
• – Did not vote on the bipartisan Housing for the 21st Century Act (H.R.6644)
• ✓ Cosponsored 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)
• ✓ Cosponsored 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.

• ✓ Cosponsored raising the federal minimum wage to a living wage (H.R.2743)
• ✓ Cosponsored the Paycheck Fairness Act strengthening equal pay protections (H.R.17)
• – Did not vote on protecting federal workers' collective bargaining rights from Trump's executive order (H.R.2550)
• × 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 establishes a national paid sick days standard so workers don't lose pay when they're ill (H.R.7531)
• × 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 extends minimum wage, overtime, and workplace safety protections to domestic workers like nannies and home care aides (H.R.3971)
• ✓ 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)
• – Did not vote on restrictions on abortion coverage in ACA insurance plans (H.R.6703)
• ✓ Opposed the Born-Alive Act — an anti-abortion messaging bill (H.R.21)
• ✓ Opposed Requires schools to distribute anti-abortion materials rather than comprehensive reproductive health information to pregnant students (H.R.6359)
• – Did not vote on directs federal funds to anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers that do not provide comprehensive reproductive healthcare (H.R.6945)
• ✓ Cosponsored repealing the Hyde Amendment to allow federal Medicaid funding for abortion care (H.R.4611)
• ✓ Cosponsored protecting IVF and assisted reproductive technology from state bans (H.R.2049)
• ✓ Opposed Planned Parenthood defunding in the One Big Beautiful Bill (H.R.1)

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

• – Did not vote on a ban on Medicaid coverage of gender-affirming care (H.R.498)
• ✓ 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)
• – Did not vote on a bill criminalizing gender-affirming healthcare for minors (H.R.3492)
• × Failed to cosponsor Resolution affirming a Transgender Bill of Rights — legal recognition, healthcare access, and anti-discrimination protections (H.Res.1058)
• × Failed to cosponsor protecting access to gender-affirming healthcare (H.R.2487)
• × Failed to cosponsor Do No Harm Act — prevents the Religious Freedom Restoration Act from being used to discriminate against LGBTQ+ individuals (H.R.1954)
• – Did not vote on a ban on transgender athletes competing in women's sports (H.R.28)
• ✓ Cosponsored prohibits discrimination in foster care and adoption based on sexual orientation or gender identity (H.R.6181)
• ✓ Cosponsored appoints a special envoy for LGBTQ+ human rights to combat persecution of LGBTQ+ individuals worldwide (H.R.6056)
• ✓ Opposed NDAA amendment banning gender-affirming healthcare for military families in the Exceptional Family Member Program (H.Amdt.85 to H.R.3838)
• ✓ Opposed NDAA amendment banning TRICARE from covering gender-affirming healthcare for service members (H.Amdt.86 to H.R.3838)
• ✓ Cosponsored Safe Schools Improvement Act — requires schools to adopt anti-bullying policies that specifically protect LGBTQ+ students (H.R.1810)

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)
• ✓ Cosponsored 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)
• ✓ Cosponsored 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)
• × Voted YES on permanent fentanyl scheduling imposing mandatory minimum sentences (S.331)
• × Failed to cosponsor automatic sealing of criminal records (Clean Slate Act) (H.R.3114)
• ✓ Opposed No Rogue Rulings Act — prohibits federal district courts from issuing nationwide injunctive relief beyond named parties, with a narrow exception for multi-state cases via three-judge panels. (H.R.1526)
• – Did not vote on CLEAN DC Act — repeals D.C. police transparency requirements, use-of-force limits, and civilian oversight protections (H.R.5107)
• – Did not vote on imposes mandatory pretrial detention and cash bail requirements in Washington, D.C. — overriding local criminal justice reforms (H.R.5214)

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

• ✓ Opposed repealing the methane emissions charge on oil and gas producers (H.J.Res.35)
• – Did not vote on streamlines natural gas pipeline permitting and reduces environmental review requirements (H.R.3668)
• ✓ Opposed GRID Power Act — undermines electric grid modernization toward renewable energy sources (H.R.1047)
• – Did not vote on the SPEED Act weakening environmental review for energy projects (H.R.4776)
• – Did not vote on delays EPA power plant emission rules under the guise of grid reliability (H.R.3632)
• × Voted YES on the Fix Our Forests Act reducing NEPA environmental review requirements (H.R.471)
• × 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 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)
• × 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)
• – Did not vote on Homeowner Energy Freedom Act — repeals three IRA building-energy provisions: §50122 home electrification and efficiency rebates (heat pumps, electric stoves, weatherization for low- and moderate-income households), §50123 contractor training grants, and §50131 state energy-code adoption assistance, while rescinding unobligated balances (H.R.4758)
• ✓ Opposed Home Appliance Protection and Affordability Act — bars DOE from prescribing new or amended energy conservation standards unless "technologically feasible and economically justified" (H.R.4626)
• – Did not vote on rolling back DOE water-efficiency standards by redefining what counts as a showerhead (H.R.4593)
• – Did not vote on PERMIT Act — Clean Water Act amendment package weakening NPDES permitting, fast-tracking pipeline reviews, and limiting judicial review. (H.R.3898)
• – Did not vote on fast-tracking of LNG export terminal approvals bypassing environmental review (H.R.1949)
• – Did not vote on FY26 Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act cutting Department of Energy clean energy programs and including policy riders against renewable energy deployment. (H.R.4553)
• ✓ Opposed Budget resolution enabling rollback of clean energy tax credits and environmental regulations (H.Con.Res.14)
• ✓ Opposed amends the Congressional Review Act to allow a single joint resolution to disapprove multiple regulations submitted during the final year of a President's term. (H.R.77)
• ✓ Signed bicameral letter to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin opposing the March 12, 2025 announcement of 31 environmental rule rollbacks (EPA Assault Letter)
• – Did not vote on overturns protections against oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (H.J.Res.131)
• – Did not vote on overturns BLM limits on coal leasing on federal lands in Wyoming (H.J.Res.130)
• – Did not vote on overturns protections against oil and gas drilling in Alaska's Western Arctic (S.J.Res.80)
• ✓ Opposed the One Big Beautiful Bill repealing IRA clean energy credits and expanding drilling (H.R.1)
• – Did not vote on rolling back California's clean car emission standards (H.J.Res.88)
• ✓ Opposed blocks California's waiver requiring manufacturers to sell increasing percentages of zero-emission trucks (H.J.Res.87)
• ✓ Opposed blocks California's waiver setting stricter nitrogen oxide emission limits for heavy-duty trucks (H.J.Res.89)
• ✓ Opposed rescinds U.S. international climate funding commitments, withdrawing from global climate cooperation (H.Res.590)
• ✓ Opposed overturns EPA rule allowing major hazardous air pollutant sources to reclassify as area sources, reducing the scope of Clean Air Act protections (S.J.Res.31)
• ✓ Opposed Joint resolution of disapproval repealing BOEM's rule requiring oil and gas operators to report potential harms to marine archaeological sites before drilling approval. (S.J.Res.11)
• ✓ Opposed overturns Department of Energy efficiency standards for water heaters, blocking energy savings and emissions reductions (H.J.Res.20)

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

• ✓ Opposed the SAVE Act requiring citizenship proof to vote — a voter suppression measure (H.R.22)
• ✓ Cosponsored D.C. statehood giving 700,000 residents full voting representation in Congress (H.R.51)
• ✓ Cosponsored 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)
• ✓ Opposed overriding D.C.'s local election rules on noncitizen voting (H.R.884)
• – Did not vote on Non-binding resolution denouncing socialism in all forms — a political messaging vote (H.Con.Res.58)
• – Did not vote on Resolution honoring the life and legacy of Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, after his assassination (H.Res.719)
• ✓ Voted YES on tabling a resolution to censure Representative Ilhan Omar and strip her committee assignments over public statements (H.Res.713)
• ✓ Opposed censuring Rep. Al Green for protesting Trump's Medicaid cuts on the House floor (H.Res.189)
• ✓ 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)
• ✓ Cosponsored 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)
• × Voted YES on creating federal licenses for private stablecoin issuers, including big tech firms, with no deposit insurance for holders (S.1582)
• × Failed to cosponsor eliminating corporate PACs from making campaign contributions (H.R.4799)
• ✓ Opposed exempting up to $50 million a year in crypto token sales from SEC registration and moving many tokens to CFTC oversight (H.R.3633)
• ✓ Opposed repealing an OCC rule that ended automatic approval of bank mergers and added review of large deals' risks (S.J.Res.13)
• ✓ Opposed repealing CFPB consumer protections for digital payment apps (S.J.Res.28)
• ✓ Opposed repealing the CFPB's $5 cap on overdraft fees at banks and credit unions with over $10 billion in assets (S.J.Res.18)