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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

hr3261-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To improve the retirement security of United States families by strengthening Social Security.

5 clauses May 11, 2023

hr3199-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide increased locality pay rates to certain Bureau of Prisons employees whose duty stations are located in the pay locality designated as Rest of U.S., and for other purposes.

1 clause May 10, 2023

hr17-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex, and for other purposes.

14 clauses Mar 10, 2023
Law Enforcement

hr1540-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To establish a means-tested assistance program for national flood insurance program policyholders, and for other purposes.

3 clauses Mar 10, 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

hr1247-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To award a Congressional Gold Medal to the Freedom Riders, collectively, in recognition of their unique contribution to Civil Rights, which inspired a revolutionary movement for equality in interstate travel.

3 clauses Feb 28, 2023

hr953-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To establish universal child care and early learning programs.

26 clauses Feb 9, 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

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