Legislative Record and Policy Positions: Kathy Castor

• •Supported county funding for Planned Parenthood (July 2005).
• •Voted NO on banning federal health coverage that includes abortion (May 2011).
• •Voted YES on expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines (January 2007).
• •Voted YES on $900 billion COVID relief package (December 2020).
• •Voted YES on $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) for COVID relief (March 2021).
• •Voted YES on $192 billion additional anti-recession stimulus spending (July 2009).
• •Voted YES on $825 billion economic recovery package (January 2009).
• •Voted YES on $15 billion bailout for GM and Chrysler (December 2008).
• •Voted YES on $60 billion stimulus package for jobs, infrastructure, and energy (September 2008).
• •Voted YES on modifying bankruptcy rules to avoid mortgage foreclosures (March 2009).
• •Voted YES on regulating the subprime mortgage industry (November 2007).
• •Voted NO on prioritizing spending in case the debt limit is reached (May 2013).
• •Voted NO on terminating the Home Affordable Mortgage Program (March 2011).
• •Served as a member of the House Budget Committee (March 2011).

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