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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.

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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

hr9742-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To amend title 38, United States Code, to extend certain expiring provisions of law, and for other purposes.

10 clauses Sep 20, 2024

hr9726-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To require the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to develop a flood insurance information tool, and for other purposes.

3 clauses Sep 20, 2024

hr9650-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

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

6 clauses Sep 18, 2024

hr7819-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To ensure that the percentage increase in rates of basic pay for prevailing wage employees shall be equal to the percentage increase received by other Federal employees in the same pay locality, and for other purposes.

1 clause Mar 26, 2024

hr6761-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To amend the Black Lung Benefits Act to ease the benefits process for survivors of miners whose deaths were due to pneumoconiosis.

3 clauses Dec 13, 2023

hr4583-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To protect our Social Security system and improve benefits for current and future generations.

21 clauses Jul 12, 2023

hr15-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation, and for other purposes.

10 clauses Jun 21, 2023

hr3899-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish a refundable child tax credit with monthly advance payment.

4 clauses Jun 7, 2023

hr3702-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a refundable tax credit against income tax for the purchase of qualified access technology for the blind.

2 clauses May 25, 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

hr20-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To amend the National Labor Relations Act, the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947, and the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959, and for other purposes.

17 clauses Feb 28, 2023
Law Enforcement

hr884-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for current year inclusion of net CFC tested income, and for other purposes.

6 clauses Feb 9, 2023

hr953-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To establish universal child care and early learning programs.

26 clauses Feb 9, 2023

hr715-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To require a background check for every firearm sale.

1 clause Feb 1, 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
Law Enforcement

hr35-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for certain reforms with respect to medicare supplemental health insurance policies.

4 clauses Jan 9, 2023

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