Politician
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Party
Republican
Chamber
Senate
State
UT
In office since
2011
Next election
2028
Votes recorded
890
Total votes
890
Missed
26 (2.9%)
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 reasserting Congress's constitutional role in declaring war, controlling military spending, and checking executive power in foreign policy and military engagements.
Multiple nays on Iran war-powers resolutions conflict with reasserting congressional checks, though some budget votes touch military spending.
🗳 Nay on SJRES181 (2026-07-30)🗳 Nay on SJRES180 (2026-07-23)🗳 Nay on SJRES185 (2026-06-24)🗳 Nay on HCONRES86 (2026-06-23)
Acknowledges the immigration system is broken and supports phased, incremental reform, while raising concerns about comprehensive bills such as the 2013 'Gang of Eight' legislation, citing problems beyond border security.
Sponsored bill closing immigration loopholes aligns with phased reform and concerns over incentives for unlawful entry.
Supports a constitutional balanced budget amendment and broader fiscal responsibility measures, including spending caps and cuts to wasteful or duplicative federal programs, to restore constitutionally limited government.
No votes or bills address balanced budget amendment, spending caps, or targeted cuts to waste.
Opposes cronyism and special-interest favoritism (e.g., bailouts, subsidies, tax loopholes) and supports a free-market, anti-cronyist approach that limits government's role in picking economic winners and losers.
Record shows no direct action on cronyism, bailouts, subsidies, or tax loopholes.
Supports the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act, a bipartisan bill to eliminate per-country caps on employment-based immigration visas.
No record on Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act or per-country caps.
Supports term limits, earmark reform, and entitlement reform as part of restoring constitutionally limited government.
No evidence on term limits, earmark reform, or entitlement reform.
S. 5371 — A bill to close loopholes in the immigration laws that serve as incentives to aliens to attempt to enter the United States unlawfully, and for other purposes.
2026-08-07 · Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
S. 5372 — A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for the issuance of natural lifetime injunctions for certain victims.
2026-08-07 · Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
S. 5191 — Citizenship for International Adoptees Act of 2026
2026-07-30 · Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
S. 5202 — Protecting Our Kids from Harmful Research Act
2026-07-30 · Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
S. 4708 — S. 4708, Arctic Security and Diplomacy Act
2026-07-27 · Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 516.
S. 5128 — GRACE Act
2026-07-23 · Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.