Politician
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Party
Republican
Chamber
Senate
State
SC
In office since
2013
Next election
2028
Votes recorded
890
Total votes
890
Missed
27 (3.0%)
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 patient-centered health care with interstate insurance shopping, equal tax treatment for individual premiums, state high-risk pools, and medical malpractice (tort) reform.
No votes address interstate insurance, tax treatment, high-risk pools, or tort reform.
Strongly pro-life, supports bans on abortion funding and legislation like the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, and backs traditional marriage and religious liberty protections.
No votes on abortion funding bans, Pain-Capable Act, marriage, or religious liberty.
Prioritizes securing the southern border, finishing the border wall, reinstating Title 42, and increasing Border Patrol funding before other immigration reforms; voted against the 2013 Senate immigration bill.
Votes on S2 touch immigration funding but are procedural and do not confirm border priorities or Title 42.
Advocates reducing the size of the federal government, including opposing IRS agent increases and redirecting funds toward border security.
No votes on IRS agents, spending cuts, or redirecting to border security.
As top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, calls for Federal Reserve transparency and accountability and links illegal immigration to negative wage and economic effects.
Fed nominations appear but no record on transparency, accountability, or immigration wage links.