Scorecard
Welcome to the FRC Action Vote Scorecard for 2021, the First Session of the 117th Congress!
This online scorecard is a compilation of the significant votes on federal legislation affecting family values that FRC Action either supported or opposed so far in 2020. This scorecard will continue to be updated throughout the year.
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Senate - 117th 1st Session Summaries
1. Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Amendment
Offered by Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE), S.Amdt.192 to the Senate Budget Resolution (S.Con.Res.5) would require health care practitioners to provide the same medical care to infants born alive after a failed abortion as they would to any other infant born at the same gestational age. This amendment needed 60 votes to pass.
(Failed 02/4/2021, 52 yeas to 48 nays, Roll Call No. 23)
FRC Action Supported this Amendment.
2. Amendment to Protect Religious Freedom
Offered by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), S.Amdt.821 to the Senate Budget Resolution (S.Con.Res.5) would prohibit the infringement of the free exercise of religion in employment, commerce, social services, faith and community partnerships, and access to housing, health care, and education.
(Failed 02/04/2021, 50 yeas to 50 nays, Roll Call No. 34)
FRC Action Supported this Amendment.
3. Amendment to Promote the Ability of Churches to Worship
Offered by Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), S.Amdt.837 to the Senate Budget Resolution (S.Con.Res.5) would prohibit the violation of First Amendment protection for speech, religious exercise, and belief for houses of worship and faith-based organizations by ensuring they are treated the same as secular organizations with respect to coronavirus-related restrictions.
(Passed 02/05/2021, 51 yeas to 49 nays, Roll Call No. 44)
FRC Action Supported this Amendment.
4. Amendment to Restrict Planned Parenthood from the Paycheck Protection Program
Offered by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), S.Amdt.1014 to S.Amdt.891 to the American Rescue Plan Act (H.R. 1319) would strike language from the bill that would have allowed Planned Parenthood to be eligible to receive loans under the Paycheck Protection Program.
(Failed 03/06/2021, 47 yeas to 51 nays, Roll Call No. 88)
FRC Action Supported this Amendment.
5. Amendment to Restrict Taxpayer Funding for Abortion
Offered by Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), S.Amdt.1031 to S.Amdt.891 to the American Rescue Plan Act (H.R. 1319) would apply the Hyde Amendment to key provisions of the bill, thereby restricting funding from being used on elective abortions. This amendment needed 60 votes to pass.
(Failed 03/06/2021, 52 yeas to 47 nays, Roll Call No. 94)
FRC Action Supported this Amendment.
6. Amendment to Restrict Funding to Schools that Allow Men to Compete in Women's Sports
Offered by Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), S.Amdt.1386 to S.Amdt.891 to the American Rescue Plan Act (H.R. 1319) would prohibit the distribution of certain funds to states, local educational agencies, and institutions of higher education that permit any student whose biological sex is male to participate in an athletic program or activity designated for women or girls. This amendment needed 60 votes to pass.
(Failed 03/06/2021, 49 yeas to 50 nays, Roll Call No. 97)
FRC Action Supported this Amendment.
7. American Rescue Plan Act
Sponsored by Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY), the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (H.R. 1319) is the most substantial deviation from Hyde Amendment principles in decades. This $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package appropriates over $400 billion that can be used to pay for abortion and health plans that cover abortion.
(Passed 03/6/2021, 50 yeas to 49 nays, Roll Call No. 110)
FRC Action Opposed this Bill.
8. Cloture on Xavier Becerra as Secretary of HHS
This vote was a procedural motion to end debate and proceed to the final vote on the confirmation of Xavier Becerra to the position of secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
(Passed 3/17/2021, 50 yeas to 49 nays, Roll Call No. 124)
FRC Action Opposed this Cloture Vote.
9. Confirmation of Xavier Becerra as Secretary of HHS
Xavier Becerra has established himself as an ardent champion for abortion and other liberal causes during his 12 terms in Congress and his tenure as California's attorney general. Additionally, Becerra lacks the necessary experience to lead the nation’s largest public health agency during a global pandemic.
(Confirmed 3/18/2021, 50 yeas to 49 nays, Roll Call No. 125)
FRC Action Opposed this Confirmation.
10. Confirmation of Rachel Levine as Assistant Secretary for Health at HHS
Rachel Levine has a track record of prioritizing a radical LGBT agenda and partisan politics over public health. Levine has advocated for children to choose their gender, obtain hormone blockers, and begin transitioning into the opposite sex early in life. Also, Levine failed to protect vulnerable patients in Pennsylvania during the COVID-19 pandemic.
(Confirmed 3/24/2021, 52 yeas to 48 nays, Roll Call No. 134)
FRC Action Opposed this Confirmation.