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Elijah E. Cummings

Former

Democrat · MD-7 · U.S. House

No longer in office — profile reflects their service in the 114th–119th Congresses (2015–present).

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

FiscalHealthImmig.GunsAbortionEnviron.CrimeDefenseEconomyForeignCivil R.Educ.GovtJudicial
Taxes & Fiscal
D+0.62
Healthcare
D+0.64
Immigration & Border
D+0.95
Guns
D+0.99
Abortion & Reproductive Rights
D+0.96
Environment & Energy
D+0.88
Crime & Policing
R+0.03
Defense & Veterans
D+0.16
Economy & Labor
D+0.61
Foreign Policy & Trade
D+0.62
Civil Rights & Social
D+0.83
Education
D+0.53
Government & Democracy
D+0.77
Judicial & Executive Nominations
D+1.00

Each issue runs left right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Elijah E. Cummings's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

On the political map

Elijah E. Cummings (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

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Most and least aligned members

Treating Cummings's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.

Recent notable votes

YEA
Protecting and Securing Florida’s Coastline Act of 2019
2019-09-11 · Passed · Environment & Energy
NAY
Bipartisan Budget Act of 2019
2019-07-25 · Failed · Taxes & Fiscal
NAY
Bipartisan Budget Act of 2019
2019-07-25 · Failed · Taxes & Fiscal
YEA
PAST Act
2019-07-25 · Passed · Crime & Policing, Civil Rights & Social
YEA
Bipartisan Budget Act of 2019
2019-07-25 · Passed · Taxes & Fiscal, Economy & Labor
NAY
Bipartisan Budget Act of 2019
2019-07-25 · Failed · Taxes & Fiscal
YEA
Venezuela TPS Act of 2019
2019-07-25 · Passed · Immigration & Border
YEA
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3877) to amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, to establish a congressional budget for fiscal years 2020 and 2021, to temporarily suspend the debt limit, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 549) to designate Venezuela under section 244 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to permit nationals of Venezuela to be eligible for temporary protected status under such section, and for other purposes; and waiving a requirement of clause 6(a) of rule XIII with respect to consideration of certain resolutions reported from the Committee on Rules.
2019-07-25 · Passed · Government & Democracy
YEA
PAST Act
2019-07-25 · Passed · Crime & Policing, Civil Rights & Social
YEA
Stopping Bad Robocalls Act
2019-07-24 · Passed · Government & Democracy
YEA
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 397) to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to create a Pension Rehabilitation Trust Fund, to establish a Pension Rehabilitation Administration within the Department of the Treasury to make loans to multiemployer defined benefit plans, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3239) to require U.S. Customs and Border Protection to perform an initial health screening on detainees, and for other purposes; providing for proceedings during the period from July 29, 2019, through September 6, 2019; and for other purposes.
2019-07-24 · Passed · Government & Democracy
YEA
Opposing efforts to delegitimize the State of Israel and the Global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement targeting Israel.
2019-07-23 · Passed · Foreign Policy & Trade

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