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Vance McAllister

Vance McAllister

U.S. Representative
Louisiana 5th District
Republican
D
65%
Freedom Score
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Session Voting Records

Reports

113th Congress

U.S. Congress: House
Score: 65

Omnibus Appropriations

Provides $1.013 trillion in discretionary appropriations in fiscal 2015 for federal departments and agencies.
Read More Pro-Freedom Vote: No Vote Cast: No Annual cost per household: -$8,220.00
H R 83

Executive Action on Immigration

"President Obama's grant of deferred action to more than four million unlawfully present aliens, as directed in a November 20, 2014, memorandum issued by Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Charles Johnson, is without any constitutional or statutory basis," as correctly stated in the bill.
Read More Pro-Freedom Vote: Yes Vote Cast: Yes
H R 5759

Keystone XL Pipeline

This bill essentially gets the federal government out of the way of economic development. While one could correctly argue that the federal government should not have been involved in this issue in the first place, and that from a constitutional standpoint it should be left up to the states, private property owners, and TransCanada to work out an arrangement, this bill is definitely a step in the right direction since it would remove unconstitutional federal regulatory roadblocks against the pipeline project.
Read More Pro-Freedom Vote: Yes Vote Cast: Yes
H R 5682

Federal Reserve Audit

The Federal Reserve System, essentially a cartel of private banks functioning as a central bank, is unconstitutional and is responsible for much of the nation's current financial problems via its control of money and credit. An audit of the Fed would shed light on its otherwise secretive practices and perhaps lead to its eventual abolishment.
Read More Pro-Freedom Vote: Yes Vote Cast: Yes
H R 24

Water Regulation

Both federal water regulations and the EPA are unconstitutional, and if the rule were to pass, activities such as farming would become nearly unfeasible, since farmers would have to get federal permits to do many farm activities, such as cleaning out ditches.
Read More Pro-Freedom Vote: Yes Vote Cast: Yes
H R 5078

Oil and Gas Exploration

The federal government should not hinder the development and utilization of the nation's natural resources, including oil and gas. Encouraging and allowing such development is in line with the Constitution and should therefore be supported. Additionally, such a move would place America further along the road to energy self-sufficiency, which is important for national security and insulation from various global political crises.
Read More Pro-Freedom Vote: Yes Vote Cast: Yes
H R 4899

Military Operations in Afghanistan

Presidents have been able to claim broad authority to go to war whenever or wherever they choose under the AUMF, despite the fact that the Founding Fathers never intended for one man to make this decision and under the Constitution only Congress may "declare war."
Read More Pro-Freedom Vote: Yes Vote Cast: No
H R 4870

Militarizing Local Police

Prohibited any funding in the bill from being used to transfer excess military equipment for police.
Read More Pro-Freedom Vote: Yes Vote Cast: No
H R 4870

Weapons to Syrian Rebels

Arming "moderate" rebels in a foreign country is tantamount to going to war, which would require a declaration of war by Congress. Also, the United States should follow the Founders' advice not to become involved in foreign quarrels.
Read More Pro-Freedom Vote: Yes Vote Cast: Yes
H R 4870

Surveillance

Prevents defense funds from being used to allow U.S. intelligence agencies to sift through electronic metadata that contains the personal information of U.S. citizens.
Read More Pro-Freedom Vote: Yes Vote Cast: Yes
H R 4870

Use of Military Force

The Authorization for the Use of Military Force, while granted by Congress, gives the president almost unlimited powers to invade countries, overthrow governments, and assassinate people under the pretext of waging the "war on terror." Congress essentially handed over its constitutional authority to declare war to the executive branch, thus giving the executive unconstitutional abilities. Any attempt to end the Authorization for the Use of Military Force is a step in the right direction.
Read More Pro-Freedom Vote: Yes Vote Cast: No
H R 4435

Indefinite Military Detention

Any attempt to limit or prohibit indefinite military detention is desirable, especially since persons detained may include U.S. citizens. Indefinite military detention is a blatant violation of the Sixth Amendment, and an executive who can wield such powers is akin to a monarch or dictator. As Rep. Smith said during consideration of the amendment: "That is an enormous amount of power to give the Executive: to take someone and lock them up without due process. It is not necessary. This President has not used the authority. President George W. Bush did not use it after about 2002 and then only in a couple of instances. It is not necessary. It is an enormous amount of power to grant the Executive, and I believe places liberty and freedom at risk in this country."
Read More Pro-Freedom Vote: Yes Vote Cast: No
H R 4435

Ukraine Aid

Provides $150 million for direct aid to Ukraine.
Read More Pro-Freedom Vote: No Vote Cast: No Annual cost per household: -$1.22
H R 4152

Enforcing Existing Laws

Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution requires that the president "shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed." When instead the president picks and chooses which laws to enforce and which to ignore, he is usurping the powers of Congress, which under the Constitution possesses sole legislative powers.
Read More Pro-Freedom Vote: Yes Vote Cast: Yes
H R 4138

EPA Regulations

Restricting greenhouse-gas emissions would be harmful to the economy, carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are not pollutants, and the federal government has no constitutional authority to limit such emissions.
Read More Pro-Freedom Vote: Yes Vote Cast: Yes
H R 3826

Debt Limit Suspension

The federal government should live within its means, suspending the debt limit is even worse than raising it, and most of the spending responsible for the ballooning national debt is unconstitutional.
Read More Pro-Freedom Vote: No Vote Cast: No
S 540

Farm and Food Programs

Both farm aid and food aid are unconstitutional. The food subsidy programs are supposed to help the poor, but in practice they have done little to lift people out of poverty, as evidenced by the growing number of recipients of these programs.
Read More Pro-Freedom Vote: No Vote Cast: Yes
H R 2642

Abortion Funding

The government should not be subsidizing the killing of innocent human life. There is no constitutional authority for the government to manage or finance the healthcare sector.
Read More Pro-Freedom Vote: Yes Vote Cast: Yes
H R 7

Omnibus Appropriations

With this budget agreement Congress is failing to address its fiscally and constitutionally irresponsible budgeting and appropriating process that is currently yielding annual federal deficits measured in the hundreds of billions of dollars that contribute directly to the dramatic growth of our $17 trillion national debt.
Read More Pro-Freedom Vote: No Vote Cast: Yes
H R 3547

Budget Agreement

With this budget agreement Congress is failing to address its fiscally and constitutionally irresponsible budgeting and appropriating process that is currently yielding annual federal deficits measured in the hundreds of billions of dollars that contribute directly to the dramatic growth of our $17 trillion national debt.
Read More Pro-Freedom Vote: No Vote Cast: Yes
H J RES 59
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