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Debbie Lesko

Debbie Lesko

R AZ-8 · House

2023–2025 House Of Representatives (District 8)
2021–2023 House Of Representatives (District 8)
2019–2021 House Of Representatives (District 8)
2018–2019 House Of Representatives (District 8)

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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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

hr7109-118

Cosponsor Reported

To require a citizenship question on the decennial census, to require reporting on certain census statistics, and to modify apportionment of Representatives to be based on United States citizens instead of all persons.

11 clauses Jan 29, 2024

hres974-118

Cosponsor In Committee

Expressing support for the designation of the week of January 21 through January 27, 2024, as National School Choice Week.

1 clause Jan 18, 2024

hr7044-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To ensure that women seeking an abortion are notified, before giving informed consent to receive an abortion, of the medical risks associated with the abortion procedure and the major developmental characteristics of the unborn child.

1 clause Jan 18, 2024

hr7035-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the estate and generation-skipping transfer taxes.

4 clauses Jan 18, 2024

hr7011-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 209 Main Street in Duncan, Arizona, as the Sandra Day O’Connor Post Office.

0 clauses Jan 17, 2024

hr6951-118

Cosponsor Reported

To lower the cost of postsecondary education for students and families.

99 clauses Jan 11, 2024

hr6918-118

Cosponsor Reported

To prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from restricting funding for pregnancy centers.

8 clauses Jan 9, 2024

hr6816-118

Cosponsor Reported

To prohibit the availability of Federal education funds for elementary and secondary schools that receive direct or indirect support from the Government of the People’s Republic of China.

5 clauses Dec 14, 2023

hr6734-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To prohibit the use of Federal funds to finalize, implement, or enforce proposed ATF Rule 2022R–17, entitled Definition of Engaged in the Business as a Dealer in Firearms.

1 clause Dec 13, 2023

hr6749-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To require the Director of the National Institutes of Health to evaluate the results and status of completed and ongoing research related to menopause, perimenopause, or mid-life women’s health, to conduct and support additional such research, and for other purposes.

3 clauses Dec 13, 2023

hr6772-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce the age for making catch-up contributions to retirement accounts to take into account time out of the workforce to provide dependent care services.

1 clause Dec 13, 2023

hr4468-118

Cosponsor Reported

To prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from finalizing, implementing, or enforcing a proposed rule with respect to emissions from vehicles, and for other purposes.

4 clauses Dec 7, 2023
Government Automotive Oil & Gas

hr6619-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To prohibit the Department of Justice from bringing a civil action against a State under section 9 or 10 of the Act of March 3, 1899, for certain border security measures, and for other purposes.

0 clauses Dec 6, 2023

hr6543-118

Cosponsor Passed House

To prohibit unfair and deceptive advertising of prices for hotel rooms and other places of short-term lodging, and for other purposes.

4 clauses Dec 1, 2023

hr6485-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To ensure that organizations with religious or moral convictions are allowed to continue to provide services for children.

6 clauses Nov 28, 2023

hr6421-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To prohibit the Secretary of Energy from enforcing energy efficiency standards applicable to manufactured housing, and for other purposes.

2 clauses Nov 15, 2023

hr6346-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To update oversight and inspection practices of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and for other purposes.

4 clauses Nov 9, 2023

hres859-118

Cosponsor In Committee

Honoring the service and sacrifice of America’s veterans on Veterans Day, 2023.

0 clauses Nov 9, 2023

hr1607-118

Cosponsor Reported

To clarify jurisdiction with respect to certain Bureau of Reclamation pumped storage development, and for other purposes.

4 clauses Nov 7, 2023
Government Water Supply And Irrigation Systems Mining Oil & Gas

hr6215-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To prohibit Federal funds from being made available for the Justice40 Initiative or for the American Climate Corps.

1 clause Nov 3, 2023

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