The House returned from recess and spent its week on socialism resolutions, mining permits, whales, the Supreme Court, and a bill punishing colleges for boycotting Israel. Nobody voted on the premiums that just went up 58%. Here is every Republican with a report card who voted yes.
Moody's Ballots by Election Day Act would bar states from counting any federal ballot that arrives after polls close, even one postmarked days early. Lee filed the House companion on September 3. The voter does everything right and the mail carrier decides.
H.Res. 1490 passed 220-192. It changes no law and spends no money. Its one concrete demand is the SAVE America Act, a proof-of-citizenship rule of the kind Kansas tried — where 31,089 people could not register, against 39 confirmed noncitizens the state found in the previous 14 years. 189 members with a page on this site voted yes.
Food, rent, electricity, healthcare - in America we should be able to afford these basic necessities of life without going bankrupt.
Laurel Lee has supported the current administration's tariffs and other policies which have led to:
Half of all Americans struggling to afford groceries
47% struggling to afford their utility bills
47% struggling to afford healthcare
48% struggling to afford housing
1 in 4 Americans saying they have skipped a medical checkup due to affordability
23% skipping a prescription dose
Gas prices skyrocketing
Lee has never publicly accounted for what the tariffs cost the Tampa-area families she represents. The Tax Foundation calculates they raised taxes on the average American household by $1,000 in 2025, pushing the average effective tariff rate to its highest level since 1947, with another $840 per household in 2026.
We are feeling this directly in our wallets. What is Laurel Lee doing about that? Making things worse. We deserve better.
We all deserve access to quality healthcare so we can live healthy and productive lives.
Laurel Lee disagrees:
She voted to cut more than $1 trillion in federal health care and food assistance as part of the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act"
She voted to let ACA tax credits expire, increasing health costs for millions of Americans, driving many of them to switch to cheaper plans or abandon health insurance coverage altogether. And the less people there are with coverage, the higher the rest of our premiums will be.
She wants to repeal the ACA, reduce Medicare and Medicaid spending, and add work requirements to Medicaid.
The Florida Policy Institute, working from KFF's projections, puts the combined effect of Trump's budget bill and the ACA marketplace changes at 1.5 million Floridians losing their health insurance — an estimated range of 1.1 million to 1.9 million — of which 1.4 million, 93%, is down to the marketplace changes. Florida's uninsured rate is projected to go from a historic low of 10.7% in 2023 to 16.7% starting in 2026.
The health care cuts Lee voted for land squarely on her own constituents. A district-by-district analysis by Democrats on the Joint Economic Committee, allocating a Congressional Budget Office estimate down to districts, projects that 45,545 people in Florida's 15th District will lose health insurance by 2034 — 42,800 losing Affordable Care Act coverage, and 2,745 losing Medicaid under the cuts in the bill Lee voted for.
Florida's own hospitals told her otherwise. Mary C. Mayhew, president and CEO of the Florida Hospital Association, wrote in May 2025 that the Medicaid cuts Congress was weighing were "an extreme blow to a system of care that is already underfunded" and relied on by about one in five Florida residents — and that in smaller communities "hospitals might have to close entirely." Her answer to the waste-and-fraud argument Lee makes: "Florida Medicaid has no fat to trim, no bloat to eliminate, no waste to minimize."
We need healthcare to live. Literally. What is Laurel Lee doing to help us? Making things worse. We deserve better.
Wants to Gut Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security
Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security aren't handouts. They're earned benefits that we pay into out of every single paycheck, our entire working lives, so that we can see a doctor, take care of our parents, and retire with dignity instead of going bankrupt when we get old or sick.
For years, Laurel Lee and her party have been quietly laying the groundwork to gut these programs. Now they've said the quiet part out loud.
They admitted the plan. Speaker Mike Johnson told the "Moon Griffon Show" that "entitlement programs like Medicare, Medicaid and things like Social Security ... have to be adjusted and fixed," and that "We have a plan to do that next year ... desperate times call for desperate measures."
We know what the plan looks like. The Republican Study Committee — a caucus of more than 170 House Republicans that includes Speaker Johnson and his top three deputies in leadership — released a budget calling for raising the Social Security retirement age for future retirees and converting Medicare into a privatized "premium support" model that would hand seniors over to for-profit insurance companies.
They already started. The "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" that Laurel Lee supported cut roughly $1 trillion from Medicaid to help pay for tax cuts for the richest 1 percent.
Even Republicans admit what "reform" means. Sen. Josh Hawley, on the push to "address" and "reform" these programs: "That's usually code for 'cut.' I'm not in favor of that."
It's a broken promise. Donald Trump pledged in 2024, "I will never do anything that will jeopardize or hurt Social Security or Medicare." Laurel Lee and her party are now preparing to do exactly that.
These programs are a promise: work hard, pay in your whole life, and your country will be there for you when you need it. Laurel Lee wants to break that promise so she can keep cutting taxes for billionaires. We deserve better.
Cut Taxes for the Rich, While the Rest of Us Pay For It
We all need to pay our fair share to the government so it can provide the services that benefit all of us.
But billionaires in the U.S. pay a smaller tax rate than most teachers and nurses. That's not fair.
The wealthiest 400 billionaire families in the U.S. paid an average federal individual tax rate of just 8.2 percent. For comparison, the average American taxpayer in the same year paid 13 percent.
23 of the largest and most profitable companies in the US paid no federal corporate income taxes from 2018-2022. And 109 corporations paid zero federal tax in at least one of those years.
The "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" that Laurel Lee supported will reduce taxes for the top 1 percent of taxpayers by more than $1 trillion over the next decade, while raising taxes for the poorest Americans.
Laurel Lee is on the side of the billionaires and big business. We deserve better.
We all deserve clean air, clean water, and a healthy planet to live on.
Laurel Lee has supported the repealing and rolling back of environmental protections and climate change regulations, all so that billionaires and big business can plunder natural resources and destroy our environment in the name of profit.
In Florida, about 3.01 million citizens receive SNAP benefits every month (12.8% of the population)
In Lee's district, 36,368 households — 11.5% of them — rely on SNAP to put food on the table, according to USDA data. 16,502 of those households have children in them, 17,521 include someone 60 or older, and 15,844 include someone with a disability.
Laurel Lee doesn't care if we go hungry. We deserve better.
Is Intentionally Wrecking Our Public Schools and Our Kids' Futures
Nine out of ten American children — 49.6 million of them — go to a public school. It's where they learn to read, where they eat breakfast and lunch, where kids with disabilities are guaranteed an education by law, and where a kid from any family, rich or poor, religious or not, gets a fair shot.
Laurel Lee and her party are taking that apart on purpose: draining public school money into private and religious schools, pushing one religion into everybody else's classrooms, and shutting down the federal department that is supposed to look out for our kids.
She voted to create the first national private school voucher in American history. It is hidden inside the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act." You give up to $1,700 a year to a charity that hands out private school scholarships, and the government gives you back every penny you gave on your taxes. It costs you nothing — no other tax break in the country works that way. Each person is capped at $1,700, but any number of people can do it, so there is no limit on what it drains from the Treasury. It starts January 1, 2027. Congress's own scorekeepers say $26 billion over ten years; one tax research group says as much as $51 billion every year — more than the government spends on Title I ($18.4 billion) for poor schools and IDEA ($14.6 billion) for kids with disabilities combined. And "low-income" means a family earning three times what a normal family in their area earns still qualifies — in some places, $500,000 a year.
They are giving away our tax dollars to families who are already wealthy and were never in public school to begin with. Every state that has tried it gets the same result — the money goes to people already paying private tuition: 95% of Arkansas voucher users never attended a public school. In Florida's first year of universal vouchers, 69% of new recipients were already in private school and only 13% had ever set foot in a public one. In Iowa, two-thirds were already in private school. We aren't rescuing kids from bad schools — we're cutting checks to families who never needed them, with the money coming out of the schools 90% of our kids actually attend.
And the kids who do switch end up doing worse. Four careful studies found the same thing. In Washington, DC, voucher kids fell behind in math. In Louisiana, a student who started in the middle of the class dropped to the bottom third in math after three years. Indiana and Ohio found the same. Kids with disabilities lost the most.
The money goes to religious schools that can turn our kids away. Ohio now spends nearly $1 billion a year on vouchers, the vast majority going to Catholic and evangelical schools — schools that, unlike public schools, can reject your child over their religion, their disability, or who their parents are, or for ANY REASON AT ALL with almost no accountability for the public money they take. Many have simply raised tuition to capture the vouchers instead of enrolling more students.
About 500,000 Florida students — more than 15% of the state's school-age children are now on private school choice programs. Only 31% of them ever attended a Florida public school. Roughly seven in ten never set foot in one — so for most recipients this isn't an escape hatch, it's the state picking up a tuition bill those families were already paying themselves. Meanwhile $400 million in awarded voucher money was sitting unused while public schools went without.
Our public schools took generations to build, and they are the one institution that has to take every single child who walks in the door. Laurel Lee is helping tear them down and hand the pieces to private interests. Our kids will pay for it for the rest of their lives. We deserve better.
A good job where we can make a living to support our families, own a home, and have a good life. That's the American Dream.
Laurel Lee supports policies and an administration that are turning the American Dream into a nightmare.
There were 20.8 million layoffs in the U.S. in 2025
55% of employed Americans say they're concerned about losing their jobs
The unemployment rate is 4.2%
In 2025 the U.S. economy averaged just 15,000 jobs added per month, a dramatic decrease from the monthly average of 125,000 the year before Trump took office.
Overall employment for workers without college degrees fell by 361,000 jobs from January to September 2025.
58,000 net manufacturing jobs have been lost from April, when the administration announced "Liberation Day" tariffs, to September 2025.
Works for Billionaires, Big Business & Special Interests and Not for Us
Our elected officials should work for us, the people.
Laurel Lee works for billionaires and big business, not for us. A fifth of everything spent to keep her in office — $1.5 million — came from super PACs that face no limit on what they can spend, while just 1% of her money came from small grassroots donors. Look at who some of her top funders are:
Pro-Israel PACs, led by AIPAC — $46,200
Ashley Furniture ($39,600) and Fisher Investments ($38,200) — her two largest donors in 2024
Ferman Motor Car Co, the Tampa-area dealership group, and the National Automobile Dealers Association
Publix Super Markets, the Florida grocery chain
Koch, Inc.'s corporate PAC — the Koch brothers' political network
Associated Builders and Contractors, the construction lobby
GuideWell, the parent of Florida Blue, and Heritage Insurance
The National Association of Realtors
Corcoran Partners and the Cassidy Organization — Florida lobbying firms
Republican leadership money: Steve Scalise's Eye of the Tiger PAC, Kevin McCarthy's Majority Committee PAC and the Congressional Leadership Fund
Laurel Lee is funded by billionaires, big business and special interests. No wonder she's not doing anything to improve OUR lives. We deserve better.
Let Elon Musk and DOGE Cut More Than $1.1 BILLION from Florida
We all want a government that works for us as efficiently and effectively as possible. Unfortunately our government doesn't always work that way, so reform is badly needed. Given how big and complicated the government is, it's a tough problem that needs well-thought out solutions, so that we don't make things worse.
That's not what we got.
Laurel Lee stood idly by while billionaire and ketamine-addled chaos monkey Elon Musk and his DOGE goons chainsawed their way through the U.S. government, promising to save the government at least $2 trillion annually in waste, fraud and abuse. Because they had no idea what they were doing and no one to stop them, in the end our government suffered, people suffered, Florida suffered, government spending actually went UP and Elon Musk became even richer.
Elon Musk and DOGE:
Had access to and exfiltrated (stole) all our sensitive personal information.
Kneecapped the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which had returned over $26 billion to the American people since 2011.
Attempted to cut $4 billion in funding for medical research.
Will cost the federal government an estimated $500 billion in lost tax revenue (that could pay for programs for us), due to cuts at the IRS.
Laid waste to the employees at several government departments, removing their top experts and most skilled practitioners, and making their services less effective for all of us. This badly affected veterans, who make up 30% of the federal workforce.
DOGE cut more than $53 million in grants from Florida State University alone — terminating 54 federal grants and contracts from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, the USDA, the Department of Education, USAID, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Meanwhile, 157,970 people in Lee's district were collecting Social Security as of December 2024 — 118,674 retired workers and 18,514 people on disability. While she was praising DOGE on television, DOGE was breaking the agency that mails those checks: the Social Security website crashed four times in 10 days that March, more than 12% of the agency's 57,000 employees were pushed out, its 10 regional offices were cut to four, and callers were told to expect two- and three-hour holds while only 24% of calls were being answered at all.
We'd like to thank you, Laurel Lee, for doing absolutely nothing while an unelected South African big tech billionaire took a chainsaw to vital U.S. government functions and completely failed to make the government more efficient. We deserve better.
As a member of Congress, part of Laurel Lee's job is to act as a check and balance to the executive branch. She and her fellow members of Congress from Florida have completely abdicated their responsibility. These spineless cowards are rubber stamping everything Donald Trump wants to do, no matter how crazy, dangerous or harmful. And we've seen the results. We deserve better.
We deserve to feel safe in our neighborhoods, schools, and places of worship.
In order to do that, we need to take real steps to prevent gun violence. And despite what we've been told, it is possible to support the 2nd Amendment and support common-sense gun safety laws at the same time. But Laurel Lee has opposed bipartisan gun safety laws, while offering meaningless thoughts and prayers every time there's a new mass shooting.
A child or adolescent is killed with a gun every 2 hours and 48 minutes in the U.S.
Age-adjusted firearm homicide rates in the U.S. are 33 times greater than in Australia and 77 times greater than in Germany
Every day, 125 Americans are killed with guns, and more than 200 are shot and wounded
Women in the U.S. are 28 times more likely to be killed with a gun than women in other high-income countries.
America is the land of FREEDOM. Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to start a business, freedom to choose your own career path, freedom to make your own medical decisions, freedom to raise your children according to your values, and freedom to pursue happiness. Freedom is what makes America great.
Unless you're a woman and you're making the deeply personal decision about whether to have a baby or not. A decision that will dramatically affect the rest of your life. In that case Laurel Lee thinks that your freedom doesn't matter and that the government should get to control your body. That's not freedom, that's tyranny.
Laurel Lee:
Opposed Roe v. Wade
Supported federal efforts to ban abortion
Attacked Planned Parenthood throughout her career
Here in Florida, abortion is banned after about 6 weeks — before many women even know they're pregnant. In 2024 a 57% majority voted to protect abortion rights, but the measure fell just short of Florida's 60% threshold, leaving the ban in place.
Said during her 2022 campaign that she personally favors exceptions for rape and incest — and then backed a Florida ban that had none. During her 2022 campaign she told WFLA she supported abortion restrictions with exceptions for rape and incest, but, as Florida Politics reported, "she also reiterated she supported a 15-week ban in Florida with no such exceptions" — and her spokesperson reaffirmed that position, saying "Secretary Lee was very clear in her support of that as well."
Asked repeatedly in 2022 whether she would vote for Senator Lindsey Graham's nationwide 15-week ban, Lee would not answer — declining several times, including in a written statement to the Tampa Bay Times. Her campaign's defense: "It is not evasive to refuse to engage in an endless game of speculation on proposals not yet released." Graham's bill had already been introduced.
Arkansas House of Representatives candidate (and pastor) Robb Ryerse stated it well: "Abortion should remain safe and legal. These are personal decisions best made by patients, their doctors, and their faith — not politicians. You don't have to agree with every decision someone makes to believe they should be free to make it. That's what personal liberty means." Almost 2/3 of Americans agree and believe that abortion should be legal in all or most cases. But Laurel Lee thinks she knows better, and doesn't believe that we should have the freedom to make our own decisions. We deserve better.
In America our vote represents our will. It gives us the power to make the change that we want to see in the world.
Unfortunately that's not a sentiment that Laurel Lee's billionaire and big business donors can stomach. Because when we have voting power, we use it to make our lives better, and they lose power. Read about all the ways they're trying to take away our voting power on our about page, then come back here.
Laurel Lee has opposed legislation to make voting easier while supporting the SAVE Act, which would force every single American citizen to prove their citizenship status in person when registering to vote or updating their voter registration information. For the vast majority of Americans, this would mean presenting a passport or birth certificate at their local election office. This would disenfranchise millions of U.S. citizens: 146 million Americans do not have a passport, and 69 million women who have married do not have a birth certificate that matches their new legal name. Working-class and low-income Americans would also be disproportionately disenfranchised if the bill became law, as the vast majority of these groups do not possess a passport.
Before Congress, Lee served as Florida's Secretary of State — and voting rights groups sued her in federal court nine minutes after Governor DeSantis signed SB 90, a law restricting mail ballots and drop boxes, decrying it as a "voter suppression bill." Lee asked a judge to throw the case out and argued she shouldn't even be a defendant, but the court ruled against her, finding she was "a proper party" because her office enforces the drop-box penalties.
As Secretary of State, Lee's attorneys also went to court to defend the DeSantis-drawn congressional map that dismantled North Florida's District 5 — a district drawn to let Black voters elect a candidate of their choice, and held at the time by a Black Democrat. Her filing accused the plaintiffs of wanting to "revert to some racially gerrymandered" map.
YOU HAVE POWER. Why else do you think Laurel Lee and her bosses are working so hard to take it away? Don't let them. We deserve better.
Whether white, black, or brown, we should all be able to live in America and exercise our constitutional rights without fear that law enforcement will turn on us.
But the current administration has created a secret police force that is abusing their power against anyone who stands in their way, U.S. citizen or not. They claim to be going after "the worst of the worst", but are taking daycare workers, day laborers, grandmas and kids who are valued members of our communities. And Laurel Lee, staunch defender of the Second Amendment to fight back against government tyranny, is doing nothing while the government tyrannizes us.
ProPublica:They describe the legions of masked immigration officers operating in near-total anonymity on the orders of the president as the crossing of a line that had long set the United States apart from the world's most repressive regimes. ICE, in their view, has become an unfettered and unaccountable national police force.
ProPublica:Accosting people outside of their immigration court hearings where they're showing up and trying to do the right thing and then hauling them off to an immigration jail in the middle of the country where they can't access loved ones or speak to counsel. Bands of masked men apprehending people in broad daylight in the streets and hauling them off. Disappearing people to a third country, to a prison where there's a documented record of serious torture and human rights abuse.
New York Times:Masked and heavily armed, ICE agents are sent to cities such as Chicago, Los Angeles and Minneapolis to terrorize immigrant communities and brutalize people who challenge their efforts to stop and detain anyone deemed suspicious. To expand its reach, ICE greatly lowered its recruitment standards, effectively enlisting anyone who cares to sign up. To attract new officers, ICE advertises the chance to do violence to people deemed "enemies" of the United States, likening civil immigration enforcement to a war on a dangerous, alien force. The result is an agency whose agents' first recourse appears to be violence or the threat of violence.
They are executing American citizens. On January 7, 2026 an ICE agent in Minneapolis murdered an American citizen, a mother of 3, by shooting her in the face as she tried to drive away. Then the killer walked away, and our government lied and tried to gaslight us about what happened. Decent politicians condemned the murder. What did Laurel Lee have to say? Nothing.
They are executing American citizens: Part 2. On January 24, 2026 ICE agents in Minneapolis murdered an American citizen, a 37 year old ICU nurse, who was filming their activity and trying to help others. Then our government lied and tried to gaslight us about what happened.
And the list of the dead keeps growing. ICE agents — on duty and off — keep killing members of our communities, while Laurel Lee says nothing:
On December 31, 2025, an off-duty ICE officer in Northridge, Los Angeles shot and killed Keith Porter Jr., a 43-year-old U.S. citizen and father of two who was born and raised in Compton. Federal officials called it self-defense against an "active shooter," but Porter's family says he was peacefully returning home and never posed a threat — and witnesses reported only three shots, matching his autopsy and contradicting claims of an exchange of gunfire.
On July 7, 2026, an ICE officer in Houston shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old father of three and small-business owner who had lived in the U.S. for 35 years. Agents had been hunting a different white van. Harris County's medical examiner ruled his death a homicide, and his co-workers disputed ICE's claim that he used his vehicle as a weapon.
On July 13, 2026, an ICE agent in Biddeford, Maine shot and killed Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a 26-year-old Colombian father who was legally authorized to work in the U.S. and supported his wife and 3-year-old daughter by delivering food and cleaning a veterinary clinic. He was not the target of ICE's warrant — agents were looking for someone else — and were not wearing body cameras. Even Maine's Republican Senator Susan Collins urged DHS to halt non-urgent vehicle stops in the state.
If ICE can murder innocent U.S. citizens without repercussions, what could they do to you? ICE is out of control and a danger to us all - no one is safe. What's Laurel Lee going to do about it? Absolutely nothing. We deserve better.
Voted for the Unnecessary and Unpopular War in Iran
War destroys human lives, families and innocent people, causes economic ruin, and triggers immense suffering. War should always be the option of last resort.
In order to distract from the Epstein Files, Donald Trump started an illegal war of choice with Iran, and now:
We are being dog-walked by Israel, who has been trying to convince presidents to attack Iran forever, and finally found one dumb enough to do so
Pro-Israel PACs, led by AIPAC, have given Laurel Lee $46,200.
The American people don't want this war with Iran. But Laurel Lee supports this madness and voted against the War Powers Resolution that would have stopped it. Does Laurel Lee work for Israel or the people of Florida? We deserve better.
Avoids Her Constituents and Refuses to Hold In-Person Town Halls
Good leaders meet with their constituents and have town halls where citizens can voice concerns, ask questions, and provide input on policies. Laurel Lee doesn't want to hear what we have to say. She only wants to talk to her rich donors or people who agree with her.
She held a telephone town hall in August 2025 that 9,600 people dialed into, using it to promote the "One Big Beautiful Bill" and to tell a Temple Terrace resident that she supports the migrant detention camp in the Everglades. Meanwhile her district office's "Mobile Office Hours" are, by her own website's description, staffed by "Congresswoman Laurel Lee's staff members" rather than by Lee herself — and as of July 2026 that page lists no dates or locations at all, saying only that her office is "currently reorganizing the Mobile Office Hours Schedule."
Two constituents who went to those mobile office hours at Pasco-Hernando State College in spring 2025 described what they got instead of answers: an aide who interrupted their questions to read out a prepared statement of Lee's views. Every time they pressed for what Lee herself thought — about DOGE's cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the threats to FEMA in a hurricane state, the administration's attacks on judges — they were told to sign up for her newsletter to find out where she stands.
Asked at that meeting whether Lee had any public events planned while Congress was out of session, the staffer said there were none. Asked about a town hall being held in Temple Terrace later that same week, the staffer confirmed Lee knew about it and would not be attending — it wasn't an official event, and she was busy.
Roughly 200 constituents turned up to that Temple Terrace town hall and spoke to their absent representative anyway: a veteran worried about cuts at the Department of Veterans Affairs, a retired NOAA officer explaining how the cuts would degrade hurricane warning systems, a teacher, parents alarmed at the gutting of the health agencies, and residents warning about tariffs hitting their retirement accounts — two weeks before Trump's April 2025 tariff rollout sent the markets into a tailspin. Several of them had worked with Lee before and said they were baffled by her sudden refusal to engage.
The follow-up email her office sent after the meeting said Lee "enjoy[s] hearing from constituents like you." The Tampa Bay Times editorial board had endorsed her only months earlier, in part for staying in touch with her constituents.
Laurel Lee is avoiding us because she doesn't care what we think. We deserve better.
We're all going to pay the price for this with increased rates of asthma, cancer, and premature deaths. We deserve better.
