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Laurel Lee

Conservative
Republican
House Representative
Florida - District 15

Current Position: US House Representative FL-15

Running For: House Representative - District 15

Policy Positions

Economic Policy

  • For permanent tax relief legislation, including preserving the 20% small business deduction, doubling the child tax credit, eliminating taxes on tips and overtime, and providing tax relief to family farms
  • For cutting government spending and reducing fraud, waste, and abuse in government programs

Business & Labor

  • For responsible AI innovation policy balancing consumer protection, intellectual property, and U.S. technological leadership, as a member of the House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence

Education

  • For expanding Pell grants for technical education and job training through the PELL Act

Civil Rights

  • For strengthening veterans' and military family support, including mental health care access, job placement programs, and improved benefits delivery systems

Voting Rights & Democracy

  • For improving absentee ballot access for deployed servicemembers through the bipartisan Supporting Military Voters Act
  • For strengthening election security and voter integrity, based on her record modernizing Florida's election systems as Secretary of State and advocating for clear, consistent election laws in Congress

Immigration & Foreign Affairs

  • For securing the southern border, including voting for legislation investing over $46 billion in border wall construction and expanding Border Patrol workforce, surveillance technology, and deportation operations
  • For strict immigration enforcement; served as impeachment manager against DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for alleged failure to enforce immigration law

Public Safety

  • For combating human trafficking; introduced National Human Trafficking Hotline Enhancement Act and authored the REPORT Act (now law) holding tech companies accountable for reporting online exploitation
  • For protecting the Second Amendment
  • Against 'defund the police' efforts; co-sponsored a resolution opposing defunding law enforcement
  • Against soft-on-crime policies; voted to overturn the D.C. criminal code overhaul
  • For increased law enforcement resources, including the Debbie Smith Act (DNA testing funding), Prosecutors Need to Prosecute Act, and Lifesaving Gear for Police Act
  • For criminal justice reform allowing rehabilitation opportunities, as a leader in the Second Chances Task Force
  • For reauthorizing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), including Section 702, as lead sponsor of the RISA Act
  • For combating non-consensual deepfake intimate images through the bipartisan DEFIANCE Act