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How Did They Treat Small Business?

In keeping with our promise to monitor key small business votes your lawmakers cast, NFIB presents this special interim report for the 115^th Congress.  Following a year of elections, this report cuts through the rhetoric of campaigns and looks at the hard facts:  how your U.S. Senators and Representatives voted on small business issues during the 115^th Congress.

Lawmakers who voted with small business on key issues 70 percent or more of the time during the 114^th Congress earned NFIB’s Guardian of Small Business Award.  Just as important, this report highlights lawmakers who not only failed to earn a Guardian Award, but who actually voted against small business issues a majority of the time.

This special NFIB member report should come as no surprise to lawmakers.  NFIB asks lawmakers to support the consensus views of our members.  We also remind them that their votes are being monitored and will be reported back to NFIB members.

View the current scorecard, which will be finalized at the end of the 115th Congress.

Now It’s Up to You – the Small Business Owner

Many of the lawmakers listed here have been sent back to Washington, D.C. for the next Congress. NFIB makes it easy for you to continue monitoring them to see how they treat small business in the coming months.

115th Congress

U.S. House Key Votes

• Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act of 2017 (H.R. 720)
• Regulatory Accountability Act of 2017 (H.R. 5)
• American Health Care Act
• Save Local Business Act (H.R. 3441)
• Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (H.R. 1)
• Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (Conference Report)
• ADA Education and Reform Act (H.R. 620)
• Proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States (H.J.Res.2).
• Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (S. 2155)
• Increasing Access to Lower Premium Plans and Expanding Health Savings Accounts Act of 2018 (H.R. 6311)

U.S. Senate Key Votes

•  Cloture vote on the nomination of Judge Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court (PN55)
•  Motion to proceed to the American Health Care Act (H.R. 1628)
•  Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
•  Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (Conference Report)
•  Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (S. 2155)

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