Politician
Politician
Party
Republican
Chamber
Senate
State
ID
In office since
1999
Next election
2028
Votes recorded
890
Total votes
890
Missed
11 (1.2%)
Committees
4
Legislative data from the official House/Senate roll-call record via Voteview (UCLA) and the unitedstates/congress-legislators dataset.
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Methodology: stated positions are AI-compiled from cited public sources; conflicts cross-reference them against the official roll-call record. Consistency = 100 − 12 per significant − 6 per moderate − 2 per minor conflict. Severity is editorial-model judgment — every item links its underlying vote so you can decide for yourself.
Supports a balanced budget amendment, budget process reforms, ending continuing-resolution spending, and reforming mandatory programs to reduce the national debt.
Supported final budget resolution and reconciliation passage but opposed multiple amendments on spending and offsets.
🗳 Yea on SCONRES33 (2026-04-23)🗳 Yea on S2 (2026-06-05)🗳 Nay on SCONRES33 (2026-04-23)🗳 Nay on SCONRES33 (2026-04-23)
Favors strong border enforcement, opposes amnesty for illegal immigrants, and opposes extending federal benefits to non-citizens.
Backed citizen-only voting requirements, opposed DACA funding expansions, and supported deportation measures for criminal illegal aliens.
🗳 Yea on S2 (2026-06-05)🗳 Nay on S2 (2026-06-05)🗳 Yea on SCONRES33 (2026-04-22)
Supports reducing regulatory burdens, promoting free-market principles, and addressing inflation and health care affordability through Finance Committee work.
Supported housing supply legislation and sponsored bill aimed at lowering everyday costs through regulatory and market approaches.
Supports extending the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act provisions and preserving pro-growth tax policy to avoid a large tax increase on workers and businesses.
No recorded votes or sponsored bills address extension of 2017 tax cuts or related policy.
Advocates opening foreign markets for Idaho exporters, enforcing trade agreements, and countering unfair trade practices, particularly from China.
No recorded votes or sponsored bills address foreign market access, trade enforcement, or China practices.
S. 24 — S. 24, a bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 154 First Avenue East in Jerome, Idaho, as the "Representative Maxine Bell Post Office"
2026-08-06 · Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
S. 3931 — Improving IRS Customer Service Act
2026-04-15 · Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
S. 2360 — Judicial Reorganization Act of 2025
2025-07-21 · Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
S. 995 — Choice in Automobile Retail Sales Act of 2025
2025-03-12 · Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
S. 3345 — Lower Costs for Everyday Americans Act
2025-03-03 · Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, the Budget, the Judiciary, and Education and Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.