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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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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

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

hr5433-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To increase child care options for working families and support child care providers.

1 clause Sep 13, 2023

hr5322-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To provide employees with a minimum of two consecutive hours of paid leave in order to vote in Federal elections.

1 clause Sep 1, 2023

hr5266-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To require the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to develop and implement a strategy to interdict fentanyl and other synthetic drugs in the mail at Federal correctional facilities.

3 clauses Aug 25, 2023

hr5247-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to hire psychiatrists.

2 clauses Aug 22, 2023

hr4963-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow workers an above-the-line deduction for union dues and expenses and to allow a miscellaneous itemized deduction for workers for all unreimbursed expenses incurred in the trade or business of being an employee.

2 clauses Jul 27, 2023

hr4889-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To provide for increases in the Federal minimum wage, and for other purposes.

5 clauses Jul 25, 2023

hr4770-118

Cosponsor Reported

To reauthorize the Chesapeake Bay Office of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and for other purposes.

7 clauses 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

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

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

hr4785-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To repeal the exemption for hydraulic fracturing in the Safe Drinking Water Act, and for other purposes.

1 clause Jul 20, 2023

hr4817-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to establish a grant program for planting of qualifying trees in eligible areas, and for other purposes.

1 clause Jul 20, 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

hr4583-118

Cosponsor Introduced

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

21 clauses Jul 12, 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

hres580-118

Cosponsor In Committee

Expressing support for the designation of Journeyman Lineworkers Recognition Day.

1 clause Jul 11, 2023

hr4519-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To amend part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to provide full Federal funding of such part.

3 clauses Jul 10, 2023

hres558-118

Cosponsor In Committee

Expressing support for the designation of June 26 as LGBTQI+ Equality Day.

1 clause Jun 27, 2023

hr4340-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To prohibit commercial sexual orientation conversion therapy, and for other purposes.

2 clauses Jun 23, 2023

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