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Becca Balint
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Voting Record — 519
Yes39%
No59%
Present0%
Not Voting1%
Party align98%
Cross-party0%
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Becca Balint
U.S. RepresentativeDemocratVermont at-large
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Becca's ATmosphere Activity
20 recent posts · 18 sponsored · 125 cosponsored
Recent ATmosphere posts, sponsorships, and cosponsorships.
Release the Epstein files.
It's been reported that Trump has plans to erase the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse-gas emissions, causing global warming, threaten human life.
This lays the foundation to roll back any and all progress this country has made to fight climate change.
The federal minimum wage has been $7.25 for 16 years now. Let's be honest, no one can live off of that. We need livable wages now.
Honored to meet with Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia student who was unlawfully jailed by the Trump administration and missed the birth of his first child.
This administration has no regard for free speech. Being thrown in jail for protesting is the definition of authoritarianism.
Yesterday, Wilmer Chavarria, a Vermonter & US Citizen, was held and interrogated for hours in the Houston airport by CBP agents.
He's a school superintendent. So don’t try to tell us this is about removing violent criminals. This is how they use psychological terror to intimidate us into silence.
Mike Johnson has cancelled votes in the House, and Congress will not be back until September. All to avoid a vote on the Epstein files and hide Trump's involvement with Jeffrey Epstein.
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On today's Democratic Daily Download, @balint.house.gov explains how Republicans' Big, Ugly Law is a betrayal of hardworking Americans that will hit rural America especially hard.
Giant corporations like UnitedHealth have ballooned profits while buying up competition. Decades of monopolistic behavior has led to one unmanageable mess for patients and families.
In the middle of the night, Republicans jammed through $9 billion in cuts to public media and humanitarian aid.
Millions of Americans rely on public TV and radio for free and factual news and lifesaving emergency alerts.
Rural communities suffer while the rich get richer.
The crypto bills that the House passed today will help Trump and his family cash in. I voted no.
For the record, 62% of voters support preventing Trump from profiting off crypto while in office.
Congress has had 2 chances this week to release the Epstein files. Republicans blocked it both times.
These are people who rode these conspiracy theories into office. Now when we ask them about it, they look at their shoes. They won't make eye contact. They know they're wrong.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau returned over $21 billion back to people who were scammed by billionaires and corporations. Trump dismantled it so the rich can keep on getting richer by taking advantage of us.
I'm proud to lead a task force to end corporate greed.
Greedy billionaires and corporations run our lives and dictate the choices available to us. At the pharmacy, at the grocery store, when searching for a new home, you name it.
It's time for the people to take our control back.
Let's air out the Epstein files in the Judiciary Committee.
Your move, Jim Jordan.
*We* pay the tariffs. Not other countries. We do. That's how tariffs work.
UPDATE: Ro Khanna put forth an amendment yesterday to preserve and release the Epstein files.
You guessed it, it was blocked by House Republicans. See the members below who voted NAY.
Trump is illegally withholding $7 billion promised to public schools. That means $26 million for Vermont's schools is at risk.
He's already dismantled the Department of Education and wants to devastate public schools as well.
Trump: Unfreeze the money for schools.
The Pentagon has signed a $200 million agreement to use Grok, Elon Musk's AI chatbot, according to xAI.
Despite the social media wars, the Trump-Elon corruption machine is alive and well.
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Voting History519 total votesExpandCollapse
Voting History
519 total votes
Recent roll calls with party-majority context so it is easier to scan how this member tends to vote.
| Date | Bill | Question | Position | Party Maj | Align? | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-22 | H.R. 187 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-21 | H.R. 186 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-16 | H.R. 30 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-16 | H.R. 30 (119th) | Send back to committee | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-01-15 | H.R. 33 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-15 | H.R. 144 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-15 | H.R. 164 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-14 | H.R. 28 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-14 | H.R. 28 (119th) | Send back to committee | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-01-14 | H.R. 153 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-14 | H.R. 152 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-13 | H.R. 192 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-09 | H.R. 23 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-07 | H.R. 29 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-03 | H. Res. 5 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-03 | H. Res. 5 (119th) | Motion to Commit with Instructions | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-01-03 | H. Res. 5 (119th) | End debate now | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-03 | — | Election of the Speaker | NOT_VOTING | — | — | Johnson (LA) |
| 2025-01-03 | — | Call by States | PRESENT | — | — | Passed |
Alignment stats consider only votes where a clear yes/no majority existed for the legislator's party. Cross-party marks divergence where the vote matched the opposite party majority. ↔ indicates cross-party divergence.
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