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Aaron Schock

Former

Republican · IL-18 · 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
R+1.00
Healthcare
R+0.96
Immigration & Border
—
Guns
—
Abortion & Reproductive Rights
R+1.00
Environment & Energy
R+0.39
Crime & Policing
—
Defense & Veterans
R+0.30
Economy & Labor
R+1.00
Foreign Policy & Trade
—
Civil Rights & Social
—
Education
R+1.00
Government & Democracy
R+1.00
Judicial & Executive Nominations
—

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

Aaron Schock'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

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

Socially conservativeSocially progressiveEconomic leftEconomic rightSchock

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Most and least aligned members

Treating Schock'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
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2) to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to repeal the Medicare sustainable growth rate and strengthen Medicare access by improving physician payments and making other improvements, to reauthorize the Children's Health Insurance Program, and for other purposes, and providing for proceedings during the period from March 27, 2015, through April 10, 2015.
2015-03-26 · Passed · Healthcare, Government & Democracy
YEA
Establishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025.
2015-03-25 · Passed · Taxes & Fiscal, Healthcare, Economy & Labor, Defense & Veterans
YEA
Establishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025.
2015-03-25 · Passed · Taxes & Fiscal, Healthcare, Economy & Labor, Defense & Veterans
YEA
Access to Life-Saving Trauma Care for All Americans Act
2015-03-16 · Passed · Healthcare
YEA
Access to Life-Saving Trauma Care for All Americans Act
2015-03-16 · Passed · Healthcare
YEA
Trauma Systems and Regionalization of Emergency Care Reauthorization Act
2015-03-16 · Passed · Healthcare
YEA
NOTICE Act
2015-03-16 · Passed · Healthcare
YEA
Passenger Rail Reform and Investment Act of 2015
2015-03-04 · Passed · Economy & Labor, Taxes & Fiscal, Government & Democracy
YEA
Passenger Rail Reform and Investment Act of 2015
2015-03-04 · Passed · Economy & Labor, Taxes & Fiscal, Government & Democracy
YEA
Long-Term Care Veterans Choice Act
2015-03-02 · Passed · Defense & Veterans, Healthcare, Government & Democracy
NAY
Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2015
2015-02-27 · Failed · Taxes & Fiscal, Immigration & Border, Government & Democracy, Defense & Veterans
YEA
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to ensure that emergency services volunteers are not taken into account as employees under the shared responsibility requirements contained in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
2015-02-27 · Passed · Healthcare, Taxes & Fiscal

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