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Matt Cartwright

Matt Cartwright

D PA-8 · House

2023–2025 House Of Representatives (District 8)
2021–2023 House Of Representatives (District 8)
2019–2021 House Of Representatives (District 8)
2017–2019 House Of Representatives (District 17)
2015–2017 House Of Representatives (District 17)
2013–2015 House Of Representatives (District 17)

Policy Effects

Estimated effects on people, organizations, and industries in bills this legislator sponsored, cosponsored, or voted on. Includes bills they voted against.

These are assessments of legislative text, not measurements of realized outcomes or the legislator’s intent.

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Potential benefits are effects assessed as favorable to the named group. Potential burdens impose costs, restrictions, risks, or lost opportunities on that group.

Mixed effects contain countervailing effects on the same group. Unclear effects have an undetermined direction. A group can have separate benefits and burdens; these are counted separately.

Counts describe the number of identified effects, not their size or public value. Bill and clause counts are distinct within each view. Shared evidence may appear under several groups or policy areas, so their counts should not be added together.

Historical bill versions are included. Clauses analyzed in different versions count separately. A bill’s current status does not establish that every analyzed provision was enacted.

Only direct effects with high or medium confidence in the policy-area assignment are included. Bills are connected through sponsorship, cosponsorship, or Yea/Nay votes; a vote against a bill does not reverse its assessed effects. Vote dates filter recorded votes and vote-linked bills; sponsorship remains included.

Sponsored & Cosponsored Bills

hr9650-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To provide incentives for the purchase of water-efficient products, and for other purposes.

6 clauses Sep 18, 2024

hr9120-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To establish an integrated national approach to respond to ongoing and expected effects of extreme weather and climate change by protecting, managing, and conserving the fish, wildlife, and plants of the United States, and to maximize Government efficiency and reduce costs, in cooperation with State and local governments, Indian Tribes, Native Hawaiians, and other entities, and for other purposes.

7 clauses Jul 24, 2024

hr8859-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To require the Bureau of the Census to collect information on deafblind individuals, and for other purposes.

2 clauses Jun 27, 2024

hr8525-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To hold law enforcement accountable for misconduct in court, improve transparency through data collection, and reform police training and policies.

51 clauses May 23, 2024

hr8491-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To amend the Mineral Leasing Act to make certain improvements in the laws relating to coal royalties, and for other purposes.

5 clauses May 22, 2024

hr8168-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to award grants to establish, or expand upon, master’s degree programs in orthotics and prosthetics, and for other purposes.

2 clauses Apr 30, 2024

hr7250-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To strengthen Federal data collection regarding the teacher and principal workforce.

1 clause Feb 6, 2024

hres977-118

Cosponsor In Committee

Recognizing the importance and contributions of National Board Certified Teachers.

1 clause Jan 22, 2024

hr6969-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To direct the Joint Committee on the Library to procure a statue of Benjamin Franklin for placement in the Capitol.

1 clause Jan 11, 2024

hr6882-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To enhance the Federal Government’s planning and preparation for extreme weather and the Federal Government’s dissemination of best practices to respond to extreme weather, thereby increasing resilience, improving regional coordination, and mitigating the financial risk to the Federal Government from such extreme weather, and for other purposes.

8 clauses Dec 22, 2023

hr6747-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To speed up the deployment of electricity transmission and clean energy, with proper input from affected communities, and for other purposes.

62 clauses Dec 13, 2023

hr6446-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To require the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to establish an education program on unleaded aviation gasoline, and for other purposes.

1 clause Nov 17, 2023

hr6327-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To improve the financial literacy of secondary school students.

1 clause Nov 9, 2023

hr6259-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require institutions of higher education to establish record-management plans in order to be accredited or continue to be accredited, and for other purposes.

1 clause Nov 7, 2023

hr6134-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require certain institutions of higher education to provide notice of tuition levels for students.

1 clause Nov 1, 2023

hr6075-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To establish a program to make grants to institutions of higher education to provide courses relating to critical legacy computer languages, and for other purposes.

2 clauses Oct 26, 2023

hr6076-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To establish the Financing Energy Efficient Manufacturing Program at the Department of Energy to provide financial assistance to promote energy efficiency and onsite renewable technologies in manufacturing facilities, and for other purposes.

2 clauses Oct 26, 2023

hr6031-118

Cosponsor In Committee

To address and take action to prevent bullying and harassment of students.

6 clauses Oct 24, 2023

hr5748-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To promote and ensure delivery of high-quality special education and related services to children and youth who are blind or visually impaired, deaf, hard of hearing, deafdisabled, or deafblind through instructional methodologies meeting their unique language and learning needs, to enhance accountability for the provision of such services, and for other purposes.

26 clauses Sep 27, 2023

hr14-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act, and for other purposes.

16 clauses Sep 19, 2023
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