Luke Messer

(IN-06)

2017 Score:: 98
lifetime:: 81
Rank:: 4
District:: 06

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Votes

2017 98%

Title	Description	Club Position	Rep. Position
	Discharge petition to force a vote on a bill to repeal the 2010 health care law known as "Obamacare"	Y	Y
H R 4667	Passage of the bill to provide $81 billion in supplemental spending for disaster relief	N	N
H R 1	Final passage of the House and Senate compromise on the tax cut bill	Y	Y
H R 3979	Passage of the bill to extend the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's volunteer program at a cost of $2 million a year	N	Y
H R 1	Passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act to lower individual and corporate tax rates and limit certain deductions	Y	Y
H RES 569	Passage of a bill to provide $36.5 billion for disaster relief and cancel $16 billion of flood insurance debt	N	N
H R 3354	Amendment to cut the EPA budget by $1.8 million	Y	Y
H R 3354	Amendment to cut National Labor Relations Board salaries and expenses by $99 million	Y	Y
H R 601	Final passage of a bill with $15.2 billion for disaster relief and that suspends the debt limit until Dec. 8, 2017	N	N
H R 10	Passage of the Financial CHOICE Act of 2017 to repeal many provisions in the Dodd-Frank law	Y	Y
H R 3354	Amendment to reduce EPA funding by $10.2 million	Y	Y
H R 3354	Amendment to reduce spending by 2% for the Department of Housing and Urban Development	Y	Y
H RES 502	Final adoption of a bill and agreement to a Senate amendment to add $7.9 billion for hurricane disaster relief	N	Y
H R 3354	Amendment to reduce subsidies by $150 million for air service to small communities	Y	Y
H R 3354	Amendment that includes a reduction of mass transit maintenance grants by $474 million	Y	Y
H R 3354	Amendment to cut $1.1 billion in grants for Amtrak	Y	Y
H R 26	Passage of "REINS" Act to require congressional approval before major rules can take effect	Y	Y
H CON RES	Substitute amendment to the budget resolution to adopt the Republican Study Committee proposal to cut spending and balance the budget	Y	Y
H J RES 36	Passage of a resolution to reject a regulation to reduce methane flaring	Y	Y
H R 3219	Amendment to cut discretionary spending by 1% in the energy and water provisions of the appropriations bill	Y	Y
H R 3219	Amendment to bar funds to be used to enforce Davis-Bacon Act prevailing wage requirements	Y	Y
H R 2883	Motion to add to a bill a requirement that only USA-made iron and steel products be used in border-crossing facilites	N	N
H R 1259	Passage of a bill to bolster the ability of the Veterans Dept to fire employees for poor performance	Y	Y
S CON RES	Passage of a budget resolution with instructions to repeal much of the 2010 healthcare law known as "Obamacare"	Y	Y

2016 n.a.

Title	Description	Club Position	Rep. Position
HR985	On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended	N	Y
HR5325	On Agreeing to the Senate Amendment	N	Y
S 1252	Pass a bill to create a $3.8 billion program to promote global security and agricultural development	N	Y

2015 74%

Title	Description	Club Position	Rep. Position
	Three point penalty for those members who signed the discharge petition to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank	N	N
H R 2029	Passage of FY16 omnibus spending bill with higher spending caps	N	Y
H R 1314	Passage of a bill to increase the debt ceiling and spending caps	N	Y
H R 597	Passage of the bill to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank, a major corporate welfare program	N	N
H R 10	Pass the bill to reauthorize the DC school voucher program	Y	Y
H R 758	Passage of bill to require that the loser pays for frivolous lawsuits	Y	Y
H R 2577	Cut transportation and housing spending bill by 1%	Y	Y
H R 702	Passage of the bill to end the ban on crude oil exports	Y	Y
H R 5	Provide flexible block grants for education instead of the No Child Left Behind program	Y	Y
H R 5	Allow parents to opt their students out of the No Child Left Behind program	Y	Y
H R 2822	Cut Interior-Environment spending bill by 1%	Y	Y
H R 22	Amendment to bar Davis-Bacon wage requirements that would make transportation spending less efficient	Y	Y
H R 749	AMTRAK reauthorization	N	N
H R 22	Amendment to state the sense of Congress to give the states maximum authority over transportation spending	Y	Y
H R 596	Repeal ObamaCare	Y	Y
H R 22	Amendment to create a Tourism Committee in the Transportation Department	N	N
H R 22	Pass the transportation spending bill, which also includes reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank and an increase in crop insurance subsidies	N	Y
S J RES 23	Passage of a resolution to disapprove the EPA's power plant emissions rule	Y	Y
H R 427	Passage of "REINS" Act to require congressional approval before major rules can take effect	Y	Y
H R 3038	Add $8.1 billion to highway spending and extend transportation security fees	N	Y
H R 6	Reauthorize NIH and FDA with bloated and new spending	N	Y
H R 6	Allow Congress to control spending on the NIH Innovation Fund on a yearly basis	Y	Y
H R 2146	Passage of Trade Promotion Authority bill	Y	Y
H R 1314	Agree to Senate amendment to spend money on a trade adjustment assistance program	N	Y
H R 2028	Eliminate funding for the energy efficiency and renewable energy programs	Y	Y
H R 2028	Cut bloated energy & water spending bill by 11%	Y	Y
H R 1105	Death tax repeal	Y	Y
H R 2	Permanent "doc fix" with no offseting spending reductions, a $140 billion increase in debt	N	Y
H CON RES	Pass fiscally responsible Republican Study Cmte. Budget resolution	Y	Y

2014 66%

Title	Description	Club Position	Rep. Position
H R 83	Pass bloated FY 2015 budget bill	N	Y
H R 2	Approve Keystone pipeline, streamline drilling permitting, block EPA rules costing more than $1 billion or fracking rules	Y	Y
H R 3522	Allow people to "keep their plan" rather than get ObamaCare-compliant plans	Y	Y
H R 4745	Cut 10% from a federal housing subsidy program	Y	N
H R 4923	Cut $3.1 billion in corporate welfare research subsidies in energy and water appropriations bill	Y	Y
H R 2548	Pass bill that includes reauthorization of subsidies for overseas private investment	N	Y
H R 3370	Pass fiscally irresponsible changes to federal flood insurance program	N	Y
H R 5771	Pass bill to extend poorly designed "temporary" tax breaks	N	Y
H R 4450	Extend the Travel Promotion Act	N	Y
H R 1022	Creates new program devoted to "critical elements" in the Energy Dept.	N	N
H R 5021	Highway Trust Fund bailout	N	N
H R 4923	Block Davis-Bacon union wage subsidy in energy and water appropriations bill	Y	Y
H R 4923	Cut 7.5% from non-defense spending in energy and water appropriations bill	Y	Y
H R 4923	Amendment to end Energy Department loan program	Y	Y
H R 4660	Cut $247.5 million from the Economic Development Administration	Y	Y
H R 4660	Cut $350 million from the Legal Services Corporation	Y	N
H R 1944	Pass bill to bar funds to state or local gov't using eminent domain for private development	Y	Y
H R 3865	Pass bill to block IRS from imposing new nonprofit political speech limits	Y	Y
S 540	Suspend debt ceiling until March 15, 2015 with no reforms	N	N
H R 2642	Final passage of bloated farm bill	N	Y
H R 3547	Pass bloated FY 2014 budget bill	N	Y

2013 81%

Title	Description	Club Position	Rep. Position
	Did not sponsor anti-China trade bill	Y	Y
	Sandy Votes Points	Y	Y
H J RES 59	Pass Ryan-Murray budget deal that partially unwinds the sequester and increases spending caps	N	Y
H R 2775	Pass government funding bill that cancels automatic spending cuts and suspends the debt ceiling until 2014	N	N
H J RES 59	Pass gov't funding bill that delays the ObamaCare mandate; requires the president, congressmen and staff to use unsubsidized ObamaCare	Y	Y
H J RES 59	Adopt government funding bill that defunds ObamaCare	Y	Y
H R 2609	Cut energy program subsidies by $1.5 billion	Y	Y
H R 807	Pass debt ceiling reform bill	Y	Y
H R 2217	Amendment to block phase out of flood insurance subsidy in current law	N	N
H R 297	Pass bill to fund doctor education at children's hospitals	N	Y
H R 2216	Block Davis-Bacon union wage subsidy in military construction	Y	Y
H R 41	Pass fiscally irresponsible federal flood insurance program	N	Y
H R 367	Require congressional approval of major regulations	Y	Y
H R 2610	Eliminate airline route subsidies	Y	Y
H R 2642	Pass bloated farm bill #2	N	Y
H R 2609	Eliminate funding for the "advanced technology" vehicle manufacturing program	Y	Y
H R 1947	Strike the farmers' market subsidy program from the bill	Y	Y
H R 1947	Allow states to add work require -ments to the food stamp program	Y	Y
H R 1947	Pass bloated farm bill #1	N	Y
H R 1947	Reduce the sugar subsidy program	Y	Y
H R 1947	Eliminate the National Sheep Industry Improvement Center	Y	Y
H R 1947	Strike the Christmas Tree tax from the farm bill	Y	Y
H R 1947	Repeal dairy farm subsidy program	Y	Y
H R 1947	Repeal subsidy to advertise farm products	Y	Y
H R 3	Approve Keystone pipeline	Y	Y
H R 45	Repeal ObamaCare	Y	Y
H R 1120	Prohibit labor board from acting or issuing rules without a quorum	Y	Y
H R 678	Add an anti-trade "Buy American" provision to a hydropower development bill	N	N
H R 152	Cut spending to finance Hurricane Sandy spending	Y	Y
H R 152	Increase Hurricane Sandy spending with no offsetting cuts	N	N
H R 152	Passage of fiscally irresponsible $50.5 billion Hurricane Sandy spending bill	N	N
H R 152	Increase Hurricane Sandy spending bill by $33.7 billion	N	N
H R 152	Cut $1 million of new funding for the Legal Services Corporation	Y	Y

Y = Yes Vote N = No Vote A = Absent for Vote