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Mike Kelly
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Foreign-lobby money compromises America First. The U.S. has no formal mutual-defense treaty with Israel; AIPAC operates a super-PAC (United Democracy Project) that spent over $100M during the 2024 cycle on independent expenditures against U.S. candidates who criticize Israeli government policy. A candidate who has accepted that money has, in their own revealed preference, accepted a foreign-policy filter on their congressional vote. The same logic covers China-linked donations, where federal law also prohibits CCP members from contributing.
For every candidate with a documented donor record, two things happen: (1) the specific category question is marked False (foreign_policy_restraint[q4] for AIPAC + China; economic_stewardship[q5] — the WEF/ESG/Davos capture question — for Soros-network donors), so the per-category subscore drops by 2 points; (2) an additional dollar-bracket adjustment is applied to the total, making the penalty proportional to the magnitude of the funding. Both impacts are visible on this page.
- AIPAC / pro-Israel-lobby contributions-3TrackAIPAC career-total report shows $45,463 from AIPAC and pro-Israel-lobby PACs.AIPAC operates a super-PAC (United Democracy Project) that spent over $100M during the 2024 cycle on independent expenditures targeting U.S. candidates who criticize Israeli government policy. The U.S. has no formal mutual-defense treaty with Israel. RESOLUTE Citizen treats documented AIPAC contributions as a failure on foreign_policy_restraint/q4 (the foreign-lobby question) AND applies a dollar-bracket adjustment to the total score.
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Re-introduced H.R. 175, the Heartbeat Protection Act (January 2025), which prohibits abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected; scored by SBA Pro-Life America and has consistently voted against taxpayer-funded abortion at home and abroad across his tenure since 2011.
- SBA Pro-Life AmericaRight Advocacy
- U.S. HouseOfficial
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Signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge from Americans for Tax Reform, committing to oppose all income-tax-rate increases. Has publicly called for a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution as a necessary constitutional constraint to stop 'Washington's inflationary overspending,' arguing that Congress requires a hard spending ceiling tied to actual revenue — aligning with the rubric's demand for anti-deficit, balanced-budget stewardship.
- BallotpediaCenter
- U.S. HouseOfficial
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Filed a September 2024 lawsuit demanding photo-ID verification for overseas and military absentee ballots in Pennsylvania; earlier joined a Supreme Court case seeking to scrutinize mail-in ballot procedures in GA, MI, PA, and WI — a consistent advocate for ballot-integrity enforcement measures.
- BallotpediaCenter
- WikipediaEncyclopedia
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Praised and voted for H.R. 2, the Secure the Border Act of 2023 (supporting border-wall construction); and backed the Laken Riley Act (signed January 2025) requiring ICE to detain illegal aliens who commit theft or burglary, citing the need to 'protect American communities.'
- U.S. HouseOfficial
- U.S. HouseOfficial
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Describes himself as 'a strong believer in the Second Amendment of the Constitution' who opposes government infringement on the right to keep and bear arms; has maintained a consistent pro-gun voting record across his House tenure, opposing gun-control measures advanced by House Democrats.
- U.S. HouseOfficial
- WikipediaEncyclopedia
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Voted YES on the $95.3 billion Ukraine/Israel/Taiwan foreign-aid package (House floor vote, April 20, 2024), supporting continued U.S. military underwriting of the Ukraine war. Kelly stated the aid was necessary because it lets Ukraine 'fight their own war without our own forces getting directly involved' and helps 'replenish America's defense industrial base' — echoing the neoconservative rationale for sustained overseas entanglement that the rubric's foreign-policy-restraint pillar opposes.
- U.S. HouseOfficial
- U.S. HouseOfficial
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