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Chaka Fattah

Former

Democrat · PA-2 · 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+0.69
Healthcare
D+0.67
Immigration & Border
D+0.89
Guns
D+0.95
Abortion & Reproductive Rights
D+1.00
Environment & Energy
D+0.99
Crime & Policing
R+1.00
Defense & Veterans
D+0.75
Economy & Labor
D+0.70
Foreign Policy & Trade
D+0.51
Civil Rights & Social
D+0.75
Education
D+0.94
Government & Democracy
D+0.86
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

Chaka Fattah'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

Chaka Fattah (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

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Most and least aligned members

Treating Fattah'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

NAY
PROMESA
2016-06-09 · Passed · Taxes & Fiscal, Economy & Labor, Government & Democracy
NAY
PROMESA
2016-06-09 · Passed · Taxes & Fiscal, Economy & Labor, Government & Democracy
YEA
Flood Insurance Market Parity and Modernization Act
2016-04-28 · Passed · Economy & Labor, Taxes & Fiscal
NAY
Standard Merger and Acquisition Reviews Through Equal Rules Act of 2015
2016-03-23 · Passed · Economy & Labor, Government & Democracy, Judicial & Executive Nominations
YEA
Condemning in the strongest terms the terrorist attacks in Brussels on March 22, 2016, which murdered more than 30 innocent people, and severely wounded many more.
2016-03-23 · Passed · Foreign Policy & Trade, Defense & Veterans
NAY
Standard Merger and Acquisition Reviews Through Equal Rules Act of 2015
2016-03-23 · Passed · Economy & Labor, Government & Democracy, Judicial & Executive Nominations
YEA
Condemning in the strongest terms the terrorist attacks in Brussels on March 22, 2016, which murdered more than 30 innocent people, and severely wounded many more.
2016-03-23 · Passed · Foreign Policy & Trade, Defense & Veterans
NAY
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2745) to amend the Clayton Act and the Federal Trade Commission Act to provide that the Federal Trade Commission shall exercise authority with respect to mergers only under the Clayton Act and only in the same procedural manner as the Attorney General exercises such authority, and providing for proceedings during the period from March 24, 2016, through April 11, 2016.
2016-03-22 · Passed · Government & Democracy
YEA
Inspiring the Next Space Pioneers, Innovators, Researchers, and Explorers (INSPIRE) Women Act
2016-03-22 · Passed · Education, Civil Rights & Social
YEA
An act to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the inurnment in Arlington National Cemetery of the cremated remains of certain persons whose service has been determined to be active service.
2016-03-22 · Passed · Defense & Veterans
NAY
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2745) to amend the Clayton Act and the Federal Trade Commission Act to provide that the Federal Trade Commission shall exercise authority with respect to mergers only under the Clayton Act and only in the same procedural manner as the Attorney General exercises such authority, and providing for proceedings during the period from March 24, 2016, through April 11, 2016.
2016-03-22 · Passed · Government & Democracy
YEA
Promoting Women in Entrepreneurship Act
2016-03-22 · Passed · Economy & Labor, Civil Rights & Social

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