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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

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

hr7941-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to establish additional considerations with regard to the adequacy of permit performance bonds, and for other purposes.

1 clause Apr 11, 2024

hr7940-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to protect taxpayers from liability associated with the reclamation of surface coal mining operations, and for other purposes.

2 clauses Apr 11, 2024

hr7275-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To establish a national mercury monitoring program, and for other purposes.

6 clauses Feb 7, 2024

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

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

hr5468-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To amend the Social Security Act, the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, and the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 to require that the value of children’s savings accounts be disregarded for the purpose of determining eligibility to receive certain benefits under such Acts, and for other purposes.

5 clauses Sep 14, 2023

hr4811-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to require testing of underground sources of drinking water in connection with hydraulic fracturing operations, and for other purposes.

2 clauses Jul 20, 2023

hr4777-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To require regulation of wastes associated with the exploration, development, or production of crude oil, natural gas, or geothermal energy under the Solid Waste Disposal Act, and for other purposes.

1 clause Jul 20, 2023

hr4782-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To amend the Clean Air Act to eliminate the exemption for aggregation of emissions from oil and gas sources, and for other purposes.

1 clause Jul 20, 2023

hr4778-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study with respect to stormwater runoff from oil and gas operations, and for other purposes.

1 clause Jul 20, 2023

hr4556-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To amend title 49, United States Code, to increase access to general aviation airports, and for other purposes.

2 clauses Jul 11, 2023

hr3970-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To improve Federal populations surveys by requiring the collection of voluntary, self-disclosed information on sexual orientation, gender identity, and variations in sex characteristics in certain surveys, and for other purposes.

2 clauses Jun 9, 2023

hr1840-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To address the impact of climate change on agriculture, and for other purposes.

51 clauses Mar 28, 2023

hr1695-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To improve the visibility, accountability, and oversight of agency software asset management practices, and for other purposes.

17 clauses Mar 22, 2023

hr698-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To regulate assault weapons, to ensure that the right to keep and bear arms is not unlimited, and for other purposes.

5 clauses Feb 1, 2023
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