Politician
Clay Higgins
American politician and reserve law enforcement officer
Politician
American politician and reserve law enforcement officer
Total votes
655
Missed
18 (2.7%)
Committees
3
Legislative data from the official House/Senate roll-call record via Voteview (UCLA) and the unitedstates/congress-legislators dataset.
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Methodology: stated positions are AI-compiled from cited public sources; conflicts cross-reference them against the official roll-call record. Consistency = 100 − 12 per significant − 6 per moderate − 2 per minor conflict. Severity is editorial-model judgment — every item links its underlying vote so you can decide for yourself.
Expresses strong support for police ('Thin Blue Line'), law and order, and views incarceration through a redemptive lens rather than pure punishment.
Supported bills keeping violent offenders off streets, cashless bail reporting, and resolutions backing law enforcement.
🗳 Yea on HR6260 (2026-05-14)🗳 Yea on HR5625 (2026-05-14)🗳 Yea on HRES1252 (2026-05-13)🗳 Yea on HCONRES96 (2026-05-13)
Supports strict border security and enforcement, opposes sanctuary city policies, and backs measures to remove illegal immigrants and enforce federal immigration law nationwide.
No votes or bills address border security, sanctuary policies, or immigration enforcement.
Sponsored legislation to block illegal immigrants from claiming Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit benefits, arguing these should go only to legally authorized workers.
No sponsored bills on file address tax credits for illegal immigrants.
Strongly opposes abortion, supports banning federal funding for abortion providers like Planned Parenthood, and backs legislation protecting infants born alive after attempted abortions.
No votes or bills address abortion funding, Planned Parenthood, or born-alive protections.
Supports scaling back U.S. funding and participation in United Nations operations, viewing the UN as compromising American sovereignty.
No votes or bills address U.S. funding or participation in United Nations operations.
Views Russia as a Christian-majority nation and G-7 ally to be engaged with caution and respect rather than hostility.
No votes or bills address Russia policy or engagement.
H.R. 10243 — Protecting Elders From Government Error Act
2026-09-03 · Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
H.R. 9643 — H.R. 9643, Comment Integrity and Management Act
2026-07-22 · Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 24 - 19.
H.R. 9725 — H.R. 9725, Restoring Integrity and Efficiency to Inspector General Oversight Act of 2026
2026-07-22 · Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 23 - 20.
H.R. 2715 — Destruction of Hazardous Imports Act
2025-11-19 · Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
H.R. 1698 — Law Enforcement Protection and Privacy Act of 2025
2025-02-27 · Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.