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