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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

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

hr4241-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To amend the Horse Protection Act, to prohibit the transportation of horses in interstate transportation in a motor vehicle containing 2 or more levels stacked on top of one another, and for other purposes.

1 clause Jun 21, 2023

hr4244-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To adjust the definition of service in the uniformed services with respect to readmission requirements for servicemembers under the Higher Education Act of 1965.

1 clause Jun 21, 2023

hr4166-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To authorize contributions to the United Nations Population Fund, and for other purposes.

4 clauses Jun 15, 2023

hr4153-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to authorize a national network of statewide senior legal hotlines, and for other purposes.

2 clauses Jun 15, 2023

hr4121-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To protect an individual’s ability to access contraceptives and to engage in contraception and to protect a health care provider’s ability to provide contraceptives, contraception, and information related to contraception.

6 clauses Jun 14, 2023

hres501-118

Cosponsor In Committee

Honoring the men and women of the Drug Enforcement Administration on the 50th anniversary of the agency.

0 clauses Jun 13, 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

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

hr3867-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To amend the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to include spotted lanternfly control research and development as high-priority research and extension initiative, and for other purposes.

1 clause Jun 6, 2023

hres460-118

Cosponsor In Committee

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Congress should enact the Older Americans Bill of Rights to establish that older Americans should have the right to live with dignity and with independence.

1 clause May 31, 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

hr3600-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the VA Work-Study program.

1 clause May 23, 2023

hr3601-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To amend title 38, United States Code, to extend eligibility for a certain work-study allowance paid by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to certain individuals who pursue programs of rehabilitation, education, or training on at least a half-time basis, and for other purposes.

3 clauses May 23, 2023

hr3589-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To require group health plans and group or individual health insurance coverage to provide coverage for over-the-counter contraceptives.

6 clauses May 22, 2023

hres415-118

Primary Sponsor In Committee

Expressing support for the designation of May as National Bladder Cancer Awareness Month.

1 clause May 17, 2023

hr3421-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To establish an improved Medicare for All national health insurance program.

39 clauses May 17, 2023

hr3429-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To increase cybersecurity education and job growth, and for other purposes.

7 clauses May 17, 2023

hr3449-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To amend title 18, United States Code, to require the impaneling of a new jury if a jury fails to recommend by unanimous vote a sentence for conviction of a crime punishable by death.

1 clause May 17, 2023

hr3261-118

Cosponsor Introduced

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

5 clauses May 11, 2023

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