Matt Van Epps

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)
• × 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)
• × Voted YES on barring colleges from federal student aid over boycotts of Israeli businesses, and requiring equal access to Israel study programs (H.R.4795)
• × Voted YES on NDAA FY2027 final passage — bill retains Section 219, a permanent US-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative (H.R.8800)
• × Voted NO 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)
• × 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)

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

• × Voted YES on $10B in ICE funding expansion in the DHS Appropriations bill (H.R.7147)
• × Voted YES on Kayla Hamilton Act — expands detention and enforcement for unaccompanied minors and immigration violations (H.R.4371)
• × Failed to cosponsor a pathway to citizenship for DREAMers and TPS holders (H.R.1589)
• × Voted NO on Requires the Department of Homeland Security to designate Haiti for Temporary Protected Status through three months after January 20, 2029. (H.R.1689)
• × Voted YES on 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 NO 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)
• × Voted YES on National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027, House passage (H.R.8800)
• × 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)
• × Voted NO 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 NO on War Powers resolution directing the removal of U.S. Armed Forces from unauthorized hostilities in Lebanon (H.Con.Res.84)
• × Voted NO on War Powers concurrent resolution directing removal of U.S. forces from unauthorized hostilities with Iran. Second Iran War Powers Resolution to receive a House floor vote in the 119th Congress. (H.Con.Res.40)
• × 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)
• × Voted NO on War Powers resolution to remove U.S. forces from military operations in the Western Hemisphere, including Venezuela (H.Con.Res.61)
• × Voted NO on War Powers resolution to end unauthorized U.S. military involvement in Venezuela (H.Con.Res.64)
• × Failed to cosponsor prohibits first-use nuclear strikes unless Congress expressly authorizes them through a declaration of war (H.R.669)

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

• × Voted NO on extending Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits, keeping insurance affordable for millions (H.R.1834)
• × Failed to cosponsor 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)
• ✓ Voted YES 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)
• × 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)
• × Failed to cosponsor the Paycheck Fairness Act strengthening equal pay protections (H.R.17)
• × Voted NO 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 national paid family and medical leave for all workers (H.R.5390)
• × 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)
• × Failed to cosponsor the PRO Act strengthening the right to unionize and bargain collectively (H.R.20)

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

• × Failed to cosponsor the Women's Health Protection Act codifying the right to abortion nationwide (H.R.12)
• × Failed to cosponsor the Right to Contraception Act protecting access to birth control (H.R.999)
• × Failed to cosponsor ensures access to birth control by requiring insurance coverage and preventing pharmacies from refusing to fill prescriptions (H.R.4084)
• × Voted YES on restrictions on abortion coverage in ACA insurance plans (H.R.6703)
• × Voted YES on Requires schools to distribute anti-abortion materials rather than comprehensive reproductive health information to pregnant students (H.R.6359)
• × Voted YES on directs federal funds to anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers that do not provide comprehensive reproductive healthcare (H.R.6945)
• × Failed to cosponsor repealing the Hyde Amendment to allow federal Medicaid funding for abortion care (H.R.4611)
• × Failed to cosponsor protecting IVF and assisted reproductive technology from state bans (H.R.2049)

Anti-discrimination protections, trans rights, marriage equality, and legislative attacks on LGBTQ+ communities.

• × Voted YES on a ban on Medicaid coverage of gender-affirming care (H.R.498)
• × Failed to cosponsor the Equality Act — comprehensive LGBTQ+ nondiscrimination protections (H.R.15)
• × Failed to cosponsor strengthens hate crime protections specifically for LGBTQ+ individuals (H.R.3708)
• × Failed to cosponsor banning conversion therapy as consumer fraud (H.R.3243)
• × Voted YES on a bill criminalizing gender-affirming healthcare for minors (H.R.3492)
• × Voted YES on 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)
• × Failed to cosponsor Resolution affirming a Transgender Bill of Rights — legal recognition, healthcare access, and anti-discrimination protections (H.Res.1058)
• × Failed to cosponsor prohibits discrimination in foster care and adoption based on sexual orientation or gender identity (H.R.6181)
• × Failed to cosponsor appoints a special envoy for LGBTQ+ human rights to combat persecution of LGBTQ+ individuals worldwide (H.R.6056)
• × 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)
• × Failed to cosponsor Safe Schools Improvement Act — requires schools to adopt anti-bullying policies that specifically protect LGBTQ+ students (H.R.1810)
• × Voted YES on NDAA FY2027 amendment prohibiting TRICARE coverage of gender-affirming medical care (H.Amdt.255 to H.R.8800)
• × Voted YES on NDAA FY2027 amendment restricting transgender students from women's/girls' sports teams at DoD-run (DoDEA) schools (H.Amdt.256 to H.R.8800)
• × Voted YES on 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)
• × Voted YES on 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)
• × Voted YES on Three-year reauthorization of Section 702 of FISA without a warrant requirement for queries of Americans' communications (S.1318)
• × Failed to cosponsor automatic sealing of criminal records (Clean Slate Act) (H.R.3114)

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

• × Voted YES on streamlines natural gas pipeline permitting and reduces environmental review requirements (H.R.3668)
• × Voted YES on the SPEED Act weakening environmental review for energy projects (H.R.4776)
• × Voted YES on delays EPA power plant emission rules under the guise of grid reliability (H.R.3632)
• × Voted YES on 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)
• × Voted YES on 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)
• × Voted YES on Foreign Emissions and Nonattainment Clarification for Economic Stability (FENCES) Act — amends the Clean Air Act to exclude foreign-origin emissions from nonattainment-area determinations, softening EPA enforcement against communities with high cross-border pollution (H.R.6409)
• × Voted YES on reducing and Eliminating Duplicative Environmental Regulations (RED Tape) Act — amends Section 309 of the Clean Air Act to strike EPA's authority to review and comment on (a) federal construction projects, (b) major federal agency actions affecting the environment, and (c) proposed federal regulations (H.R.6398)
• × Voted YES 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)
• × Voted YES on 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)
• × Voted YES on saving Homeowners from Overregulation With Exceptional Rinsing Act — amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to revise the definition of showerhead, rolling back DOE water-efficiency standards (H.R.4593)
• × Voted YES on PERMIT Act — Clean Water Act amendment package weakening NPDES permitting, fast-tracking pipeline reviews, and limiting judicial review. (H.R.3898)
• × 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)

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

• × Failed to cosponsor 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)
• × Failed to cosponsor the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act restoring federal preclearance (H.R.14)

Campaign finance, lobbying disclosure, corporate political influence, and the integrity of the legislative process.

• × 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)