Closed record ·Former U.S. Representative ·Florida ·District 6
Michael Waltz
- Party
- Republican
- Left office
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9 votes total
- HR 30Jan 16, 2025ImmigrationPassed ChamberNot voting
Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act
House vote · 274-145
Democrats61-145Republicans213-0What this does
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make certain aliens inadmissible and deportable based on sex offenses and other violent crimes. An alien who has been convicted of, admits having committed, or admits committing the essential elements of a sex offense, as that term is defined in the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006, or a conspiracy to commit one, is inadmissible. The same inadmissibility applies to a crime of domestic violence, stalking, child abuse, child neglect, child abandonment, or violating the portion of a protection order that guards against credible threats of violence, repeated harassment, or bodily injury. On the deportability side, the bill makes an alien convicted of such a sex offense deportable, and it broadens the existing crime-of-domestic-violence ground to include any crime meeting the domestic-violence definition in the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, regardless of whether the jurisdiction receives grant funding under that Act.
Single subject. Both amendments add the same categories of sex and violent offenses as grounds for immigration inadmissibility and deportability. The title matches the content.
- HR 33Jan 15, 2025TaxationPassed ChamberNot voting
United States-Taiwan Expedited Double-Tax Relief Act
House vote · 423-1
Democrats210-0Republicans213-1Official title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide special rules for the taxation of certain residents of Taiwan with income from sources within the United States.
What this does
This bill cuts the US taxes that residents of Taiwan pay on income they earn in the United States, and conditions that relief on Taiwan giving Americans the same treatment. It adds a new Section 894A to the tax code that lowers the standard 30 percent withholding rate on interest, dividends, and royalties paid to qualified Taiwan residents to 10 percent, with dividends taxed at 15 percent, or 10 percent for a qualifying Taiwan corporate holder. It exempts most wages a Taiwan resident earns from a non-US employer, and exempts a Taiwan entertainer's or athlete's US income entirely when their US receipts for the year total $30,000 or less. A Taiwan business's US income is taxed only when it is tied to a US permanent establishment, and the branch profits tax on Taiwan corporations drops from 30 percent to 10 percent. The relief is limited to qualified residents of Taiwan under ownership and limitation-on-benefits tests, and is denied where an entity is at least half owned or controlled by residents of a foreign country of concern. None of it takes effect unless the Treasury Secretary determines that Taiwan grants reciprocal benefits to US persons. A second title authorizes the President to negotiate a tax agreement with Taiwan after that reciprocity determination, but no agreement can take force until Congress passes approval and implementing legislation.
Single subject: US-Taiwan double-taxation relief. Title I grants the tax reductions, and Title II authorizes a later tax agreement. Title II keys its authority to the same reciprocity determination Title I creates, so the two titles are one coupled subject rather than separate matters. No unrelated rider rides along.
- HR 144Jan 15, 2025Government Operations and PoliticsPassed ChamberNot voting
Tennessee Valley Authority Salary Transparency Act
House vote · 423-0
Democrats209-0Republicans214-0What this does
Congress rewrites the Tennessee Valley Authority's salary report and then shields the salary figures in it from public disclosure. The bill amends Section 9 of the TVA Act to require a report giving the total number of TVA employees at the management level or above, to include all executives and board members, listing the names, salaries, and duties of those paid at or above the maximum rate for grade GS-15. It then exempts the salary information in that report from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act and from the requirements of the Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act.
The title promises transparency. The operative text points the other way. Section 2 requires the salary report to exist, then exempts the salary figures in it from Freedom of Information Act disclosure and from the public-posting requirements of the Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act. Every provision still concerns the one subject of the TVA salary report, so this is a single measure. The gap worth naming is between the title's word transparency and the disclosure exemptions the bill actually contains.
- HR 164Jan 15, 2025Emergency ManagementPassed ChamberNot voting
POWER Act of 2025
House vote · 419-2
Democrats210-0Republicans209-2What this does
Congress lets electric utilities pair hazard-mitigation work with federal disaster power-restoration aid. The bill amends Section 403 of the Stafford Act so an electric utility may carry out cost-effective hazard-mitigation activities jointly or otherwise in combination with power-restoration activities funded by emergency assistance under that section. It also provides that a utility facility receiving Section 403 assistance for emergency restoration of power stays eligible for any Section 406 hazard-mitigation assistance it otherwise qualifies for. The change applies only to amounts appropriated on or after enactment.
The bill does one thing: change how Stafford Act emergency power-restoration assistance interacts with hazard mitigation for electric utilities. Both operative clauses and the applicability provision serve that single subject. No unrelated rider is present.
- HR 153Jan 14, 2025Emergency ManagementPassed ChamberYea
Post-Disaster Assistance Online Accountability Act
House vote · 426-0
Democrats209-0Republicans217-0What this does
The bill creates a public transparency page for federal disaster money. The OMB Director must establish a subpage within the existing federal spending transparency website to publish disaster assistance data. No later than 30 days after the end of each calendar quarter, every covered federal agency that provided disaster assistance that quarter must post the total amount provided, the amount expended or obligated to projects, and a detailed list of each project or activity funded. Each project entry must include its name, description, completion status, award identification number, FEMA disaster assistance catalog number, and location down to ZIP Code. Agencies must keep the data machine readable. Covered agencies are any providing aid under the Stafford Act, the Small Business Administration, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Disaster assistance covers SBA disaster loans, HUD community development and flood insurance aid tied to major disasters, and Stafford Act aid. The OMB Director may contract with a private or nonprofit entity to build the subpage.
Every provision serves the one subject the title names, public online accountability for disaster assistance. The bill sets up the subpage, sets the quarterly reporting duty and its contents, and defines the agencies, aid, and recipients covered. There is no unrelated provision and no gap between the title and the content.
- HR 28Jan 14, 2025EducationPassed ChamberYea
Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025
House vote · 218-206
Democrats2-206Republicans216-0What this does
Amends Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 to make it a violation for a recipient of federal financial assistance that operates, sponsors, or facilitates athletic programs to permit a person whose sex is male to participate in an athletic program or activity designated for women or girls. For this purpose the bill defines sex based solely on a person's reproductive biology and genetics at birth. It clarifies that the athletic programs covered include any program or activity conditioned on participation with an athletic team. The bill permits males to train or practice with a women's or girls' program so long as no female is deprived of a roster spot, a chance to participate in a practice or competition, a scholarship, admission to an institution, or any other benefit of participation. It directs the Comptroller General to study the meaning of the phrase 'any other benefit,' documenting the psychological, developmental, participatory, and sociological effects on girls of allowing males to compete in girls' programs, and to report the results to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Single subject. One amendment to Title IX on sex in athletics, with a study to interpret one phrase within that amendment. The title matches the content.
- HR 152Jan 13, 2025Emergency ManagementPassed ChamberNot voting
Federal Disaster Assistance Coordination Act
House vote · 405-5
Democrats205-0Republicans200-5What this does
The bill rewrites Section 1223 of the Disaster Recovery Reform Act of 2018 to order studies, not to change any benefit. Within 2 years, the FEMA Administrator must conduct a study and develop a plan to make the collection of information from disaster assistance applicants and grantees less burdensome, duplicative, and time consuming. FEMA must also develop a plan for the regular collection and public reporting of federal disaster assistance awarded, including a public website. Separately, FEMA must convene a working group with the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Transportation, Commerce, the Small Business Administration, OMB, and inspectors general to identify duplication in preliminary damage assessments after disaster declarations, and to determine whether one agency could make those assessments for all. That group must consider emerging technologies such as unmanned aircraft systems to speed the assessments. FEMA must submit one comprehensive report to the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, post it publicly on FEMA's website, and brief Congress on request within 180 days.
Every operative provision serves the one subject the title names. The bill directs a study of disaster assistance information collection, a plan for public reporting, and a working group on preliminary damage assessments, all inside a single amended section of existing law. There is no unrelated provision and no gap between the title and the content.
- HR 192Jan 13, 2025Transportation and Public WorksPassed ChamberNot voting
Amtrak Executive Bonus Disclosure Act
House vote · 407-0
Democrats201-0Republicans206-0What this does
The bill requires Amtrak to publish executive pay in the annual report it already files. It amends Section 24315(a) of title 49 so that the report must be posted on Amtrak's website in addition to being submitted to Congress, and it rewrites the pay-disclosure paragraph to require the annual base pay and any bonus compensation for members of the executive leadership team, naming the chief executive officer, president, and officers, along with the criteria and metrics used to set any bonus.
Single subject. The operative section amends one statute, Section 24315(a) of title 49, to add website posting and expand what executive-pay information the report must contain.
- HR 23Jan 9, 2025International AffairsPassed ChamberNot voting
Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act
House vote · 243-140
Democrats45-140Republicans198-0What this does
Requires the President to impose sanctions on any foreign person who engages in, aids, or materially supports an International Criminal Court effort to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute a protected person, beginning within 60 days of enactment and continuing on an ongoing basis. The sanctions are the blocking of all property and property interests in the United States under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, plus visa ineligibility, inadmissibility, and immediate revocation of any current visa. The visa and entry sanctions also reach the immediate family members, defined as spouse, parent, sibling, or adult child, of a sanctioned person. The bill defines protected person to cover United States persons and the citizens and officials of United States allies that have not consented to ICC jurisdiction, unless the United States formally consents to that jurisdiction and joins the Rome Statute. Separately, it rescinds any funds already appropriated for the ICC and bars any future appropriated funds from being used for the ICC. The President may waive sanctions case-by-case for periods up to 90 days on a written national-security determination reported to Congress, and may terminate sanctions if the ICC ceases and permanently ends its efforts against protected persons. The findings section states that the ICC's Pre-Trial Chamber issued arrest warrants for Israeli officials Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant on November 21, 2024.
Single subject. The sanctions regime and the funding rescission both aim at one target, the International Criminal Court's actions against protected persons, so the funding cutoff reads as part of the same policy rather than an unrelated rider. The title matches the content.