Clay Higgins, R-LA

Clay Higgins is a Republican Representative from Louisiana's House District 3.

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Sponsored Legislation:

The list below shows the pieces of legislation (including bills, resolutions, and amendments) that this legislator has sponsored. Not all pieces of legislation have been brought for a roll call vote.

• hjres76-119 - Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "Updates to New Chemicals Regulations Under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)".
• hconres35-119 - Requiring Members of the House of Representatives and the Senate to participate in random drug testing. (aka Exposing Congressional Drug Abuse Act)
• hr434-119 - To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to improve U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) identification of staffing needs, and for other purposes. (aka CBP Workload Staffing Model Act)
• hres539-119 - Censuring Representative LaMonica McIver and removing her from the Committee on Homeland Security.
• hr3344-119 - To direct the Attorney General to structure funding issued to the Bureau of Prisons as State block grants. (aka Sovereign States Bureau of Prisons Restructuring Act of 2025)
• hr1070-119 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income certain income from providing real property insurance following certain federally declared disasters. (aka Restoring Competitive Property Insurance Availability Act)
• hr2056-119 - To require the District of Columbia to comply with federal immigration laws. (aka District of Columbia Federal Immigration Compliance Act of 2025)
• hr3345-119 - To abolish the Department of Education, and for other purposes. (aka Sovereign States Education Restoration Act)
• hr1569-119 - To establish a pilot program to assess the use of technology to speed up and enhance the cargo inspection process at land ports of entry along the border. (aka CATCH Fentanyl Act)
• hr4082-119 - To require a report on Coast Guard personnel skills transfer to the dredging sector and the importance of certain waterways to national security, and for other purposes. (aka Industrial Certification for Coast Guard Veterans Act)
• hr1194-119 - To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act and the Mineral Leasing Act to require reports on rejected bids, to clarify timelines for the issuance of leases, and for other purposes. (aka Federal Lands and Waters Leasing Transparency Act)
• hr2716-119 - To improve coordination between Federal and State agencies and the Do Not Pay working system. (aka Ending Improper Payments to Deceased People Act)
• hr1925-119 - To require a report by the Transportation Security Administration on digital identity ecosystems, and for other purposes. (aka Emerging Digital Identity Ecosystem Report Act of 2025)
• hr778-119 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the social security number requirements for claiming the child tax credit and earned income tax credit. (aka Safeguarding American Workers’ Benefits Act)
• hr163-119 - To immediately resume construction of the border wall system along the international border between the United States and Mexico to secure the border, enforce the rule of law, and expend appropriated funds as mandated by Congress, and for other purposes. (aka Finish the Wall Act)
• hr3378-119 - To protect the health and welfare of covered horses and improve the integrity and safety of horseracing by authorizing States to enter into an interstate compact to develop and enforce scientific medication control rules and racetrack safety rules that are uniform for each equine breed, and for other purposes. (aka Racehorse Health and Safety Act of 2025)
• hr3347-119 - To abolish FEMA and establish a block grant program for disaster relief, and for other purposes. (aka Sovereign States Emergency Management Act)
• hr3346-119 - To abolish the Environmental Protection Agency, and for other purposes. (aka Sovereign State Environmental Quality Assurance Act)
• hr2776-119 - To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to ensure the safety of imported seafood. (aka Imported Seafood Quality Enforcement Act)
• hr2715-119 - To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to extend the destruction authority of the Secretary of Health and Human Services to articles that present a significant public health concern, and for other purposes. (aka Destruction of Hazardous Imports Act)
• hr2126-119 - To preserve open competition and Federal Government neutrality towards the labor relations of Federal Government contractors on Federal and federally funded construction projects, and for other purposes. (aka Fair and Open Competition Act of 2025)
• hr4800-119 - To amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to make certain freshwater fisheries eligible for fishery resource disaster relief. (aka Fisheries Modernization Act of 2025)
• hr512-119 - To establish a fund to promote the inspection and consumption of shrimp and products containing shrimp or shrimp parts. (aka Imported Seafood Safety Standards Act)
• hr1698-119 - To provide accountability for unlawful disclosures of firearm trace data in the Firearms Trace System database, and for other purposes. (aka Law Enforcement Protection and Privacy Act of 2025)
• hr513-119 - To nullify certain Presidential withdrawals of unleased offshore land, amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to establish limits on the authority of the President to withdraw unleased offshore land, and for other purposes. (aka Offshore Lands Authorities Act of 2025)

Vote Summary

The chart below shows all the votes cast by this legislator. The bars are color-coded by party. Red bars indicate votes cast in support of Republican-sponsored legislation or against Democrat-sponsored legislation; blue bars indicate the opposite.

See the about page for the methodology we use to determine what is and is not a party-line vote.