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Mikie Sherrill — Democratic U.S. Representative for New Jersey's 11th Congressional District (official headshot)

Mikie Sherrill Voting Record & Scorecard | Christian Employers Alliance

US Representative from NJ

District: 11 • Democrat

2025 Alignment:

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Lifetime Alignment:

12.57%

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2025 Ratings by Policy Category

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Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ-11) is tracked on the Christian Employers Alliance legislative scorecard. Highest category scores: Operational Freedom (63%), First Freedom (15%), and Economic Freedom (7%). Mikie Sherrill represents New Jersey's 11th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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Lawmaker Position

H.J. RES. 105House 2025-20262x

Overturning a Biden Bureau of Land Management Rule that Restricts Oil, Gas, and Coal Development on Federal Lands in North Dakota.

Against CEA
This resolution introduced by Rep. Julie Fedorchak (R-ND) utilizes the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to nullify a Biden administration rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) relating to the "North Dakota Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan." Resource management plans guide how BLM-administered lands are managed, including where energy development is allowed or restricted. Biden's North Dakota plan modified the prior 1988 plan by limiting oil and gas development in certain areas and restricting new coal leasing to areas within four miles of existing mines. According to supporters, the rule represents a federal land-use "lock up" that would limit access to domestic resources, threaten jobs and state revenues, and increase energy costs for families and businesses
Christian Employers Alliance supports this measure because families, workers, and employers depend on affordable, reliable energy, and federal overreach that restricts lawful production harms communities and stewardship through prosperity. Congress should protect freedom, accountability, and the ability of local communities to thrive without constant federal interference.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Luke 22:25 – "Jesus said to them, 'The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them; and those who exercise authority over them call themselves Benefactors."
Leadership Insight
Jesus exposes how power corrupts through title and control. Kingdom leaders serve instead of dominating. True authority flows from humility, not hierarchy. Leaders who "lord over" others betray their calling - service precedes honor.
H.J. RES. 106House 2025-20262x

Overturning a Biden Bureau of Land Management Plan that Blocks Mineral Extraction on Millions of Acres in Alaska's Central Yukon Region.

Against CEA
This resolution introduced by Rep. Nicholas Begich (R-AK) utilizes the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to nullify a Biden administration rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) relating to the "Central Yukon Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan." Resource management plans guide how BLM-administered lands are managed, including where uses such as responsible development, access, and conservation rules will apply. The Central Yukon plan was issued on November 12, 2024, and, among other changes, designates 21 areas as "critical environmental concern" and locks up roughly 3.6 million acres. According to supporters, these designations and related restrictions amount to a federal land "lock up" that can limit multiple-use access, hinder economic opportunity, and place Washington bureaucrats in charge of decisions that should be made closer to the people most affected
Christian Employers Alliance supports this measure because families, workers, and employers depend on predictable access to affordable resources, and sweeping federal land mandates can undermine thriving communities. Congress should uphold accountable government that respects local stewardship, productive work, and the freedom to provide for one’s household.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Isaiah 10:1-2 – "Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless."
Leadership Insight
God pronounces woe on lawmakers who craft economic policies that oppress the poor through excessive taxation, regulatory barriers to entry, and cronyism that favors the connected over the capable. Economic freedom is justice for the poor - when the working class keeps more of their earnings, when small businesses can compete without crushing compliance costs, and when families can build wealth without government extraction. Unjust economic laws always hit the poor hardest.
H.J.Res. 20House 2025-20262x

Repealing a Biden Rule at the Department of Energy that Effectively Bans Popular Natural Gas Tankless Water Heaters

Against CEA
This joint resolution, introduced by Rep. Gary Palmer (R-AL), would utilize the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to repeal a Biden Department of Energy rule titled "Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Consumer Gas-fired Instantaneous Water Heaters" and published on December 26, 2024. The underlying rule set new federal efficiency standards for gas-fired instantaneous (tankless) water heaters, including widely used non-condensing models. According to supporters, the rule was designed in a way that effectively pushes non-condensing units out of the market and forces homeowners and small businesses into more expensive options and complicated retrofits. They argue this is part of a broader regulatory playbook where Washington uses appliance rules to squeeze out natural gas products, shrinking consumer choice while raising costs for everyday replacements and home repairs
Christian Employers Alliance supports protecting families and employers from rules that pressure them into higher-cost appliances and reduced energy choices. Government should be limited and accountable, not used to force ideological energy preferences that burden households and small businesses.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Ecclesiastes 5:19 – "When God gives someone wealth and possessions, and the ability to enjoy them... this is a gift of God."
Leadership Insight
Enjoyment is not indulgence - it’s gratitude. God delights in leaders who enjoy His blessings without forgetting His mission. Gratitude keeps wealth from becoming an idol.
H.J.Res. 25House 2025-20261x

Repealing a Biden IRS Rule that Grows Financial Surveillance Through Expanded Crypto "Broker" Reporting

With CEA
This joint resolution, introduced by Rep. Mike Carey (R-OH), would utilize the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to repeal an Internal Revenue Service rule titled "Gross Proceeds Reporting by Brokers That Regularly Provide Services Effectuating Digital Asset Sales" and published on December 30, 2024. The underlying rule expands who the IRS treats as a "broker" for digital asset sales and would require covered entities to report gross proceeds and send new tax statements tied to crypto transactions. According to supporters, repealing the Biden rule would stop Washington from rewriting the definition of "broker" to sweep in parts of the digital asset economy that do not operate like traditional brokerages, including technology platforms that cannot realistically collect the personal data the rule demands. They argue the Biden rule is less about honest tax administration and more about building a new reporting regime that turns financial innovation into a compliance trap, pushing lawful activity overseas while increasing the federal government's ability to monitor Americans' economic lives
Christian Employers Alliance supports limiting federal overreach that treats lawful commerce as a reason to expand surveillance and coercive reporting. A restrained government better protects families and employers seeking to steward resources faithfully without unnecessary intrusion.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Luke 12:58 – "As you are going with your adversary to the magistrate, try hard to be reconciled on the way, or your adversary may drag you off to the judge, and the judge turn you over to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison."
Leadership Insight
Jesus warns against rushing to court - wisdom that protects operational freedom from predatory litigation. Businesses today face adversaries who weaponize lawsuits to extract settlements, destroy reputations, and bankrupt enterprises through legal costs alone. Operational freedom requires tort reform, loser-pays provisions, and protection from frivolous claims that use the courthouse as a tool of extortion rather than justice.
H.J.Res. 35House 2025-20262x

Repealing Biden's EPA Methane Fee Rule That Grows Federal Penalties and Drives Up Domestic Energy Costs

Against CEA
This joint resolution, introduced by Rep. August Pfluger (R-TX), would utilize the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to repeal a Biden Environmental Protection Agency rule titled "Waste Emissions Charge for Petroleum and Natural Gas Systems: Procedures for Facilitating Compliance, Including Netting and Exemptions" and published on November 18, 2024. The underlying rule sets the compliance framework for the federal "waste emissions charge," including how covered facilities calculate emissions, use "netting," and qualify for exemptions, with EPA positioned to assess penalties when standards are not met. According to supporters, this rule is the enforcement engine for a Washington created methane tax that punishes American oil and gas production, increases compliance burdens across the supply chain, and ultimately raises energy prices for families and job creators. They argue it hands regulators another tool to pressure domestic producers while making the U.S. less competitive and more dependent on foreign energy
Christian Employers Alliance supports repealing punitive regulatory schemes that drive up energy costs and make it harder for employers to provide for their workers and communities. Government should pursue stewardship with accountability and restraint, not by expanding coercive penalties that burden families and undermine economic stability.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Proverbs 29:2 – "When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule, the people groan."
Leadership Insight
Righteous economic leadership creates prosperity that lifts all people; wicked rulers impose taxation, regulation, and cronyism that make the people groan. Economic freedom flourishes under leaders who fear God and protect property rights. When government becomes extractive rather than protective, citizens suffer under the weight of policies designed to benefit the powerful rather than serve the productive.
H.J.Res. 87House 2025-20262x

Blocking a De Facto National Zero Emission Truck Mandate by Overturning the Biden EPA's California Advanced Clean Trucks Waiver.

Against CEA
This joint resolution, introduced by Rep. John James (R-MI), would utilize the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to repeal a Biden Environmental Protection Agency notice titled "California State Motor Vehicle and Engine Pollution Control Standards; Heavy-Duty Vehicle and Engine Emission Warranty and Maintenance Provisions; Advanced Clean Trucks; Zero Emission Airport Shuttle; Zero-Emission Power Train Certification; Waiver of Preemption; Notice of Decision" and published on April 6, 2023. The underlying action granted California a waiver to enforce regulations that drive heavy-duty vehicles and equipment toward government-directed "zero-emission" requirements and impose stricter warranty and maintenance mandates on diesel engines. By allowing one state to set the pace for manufacturers and other states, this waiver functions as a backdoor way to reshape the national truck market without Congress voting on the costs. Supporters argue the waiver raises prices for truckers and small businesses, threatens supply chain reliability, and hands regulators sweeping leverage to force an energy transition that working Americans did not choose
Christian Employers Alliance supports this resolution because coercive mandates that raise costs and restrict livelihoods undermine responsible stewardship and the ability of families and employers to provide. Restraining bureaucratic power protects freedom and helps communities flourish without government forcing ideological climate agendas through backdoor regulation.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Proverbs 16:12 – "It is an abomination to kings to do evil, for the throne is established by righteousness."
Leadership Insight
Righteous governance sustains authority; evil erodes it. Leaders who embrace corruption forfeit moral legitimacy. God establishes thrones through justice, not power. Character determines whether influence endures or collapses.
H.J.Res. 88House 2025-20261x

Blocking California's Backdoor National EV Mandate by Overturning the Biden EPA's Advanced Clean Cars II Waiver

Against CEA
This joint resolution, introduced by Rep. John Joyce (R-PA), would utilize the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to repeal a Biden Environmental Protection Agency action granting California a waiver of federal preemption for its "Advanced Clean Cars II" program, published on December 18, 2024. By nullifying the waiver, the resolution would prevent California from enforcing emissions standards that effectively function as an electric vehicle sales mandate and that pressure automakers and other states to conform to California's regulatory model. The waiver approach turns a single state's preferences into a de facto national policy without a direct vote of Congress, raising costs for families, limiting consumer choice, and empowering regulators to reshape the auto market through executive action rather than legislation
Christian Employers Alliance supports this resolution because families and employers should not be coerced by politicized mandates that restrict choice and raise costs without accountability. Restraining bureaucratic power helps protect freedom and stewardship so communities can flourish without government forcing one ideology onto the whole nation.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Proverbs 16:12 – "It is an abomination to kings to do evil, for the throne is established by righteousness."
Leadership Insight
Righteous governance sustains authority; evil erodes it. Leaders who embrace corruption forfeit moral legitimacy. God establishes thrones through justice, not power. Character determines whether influence endures or collapses.
H.J.Res. 89House 2025-20262x

Blocking California's Draconian Heavy-Duty Diesel Emissions Mandate by Overturning a Biden EPA Action

Against CEA
This joint resolution, introduced by Rep. Jay Obernolte (R-CA), would utilize the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to repeal a Biden Environmental Protection Agency action titled "California State Motor Vehicle and Engine and Nonroad Engine Pollution Control Standards; The 'Omnibus' Low NOX Regulation; Waiver of Preemption; Notice of Decision" and published on January 6, 2025. The underlying action granted California permission to enforce its Omnibus Low-NOx emissions program for heavy-duty engines and certain diesel equipment despite federal preemption under the Clean Air Act. By nullifying the waiver, the resolution would stop California from using federal approval to impose regulations that effectively drive a nationwide push toward stricter diesel requirements as manufacturers and other states are pressured to conform. According to supporters, the waiver is another example of Washington allowing one state to dictate energy and transportation policy for the entire country, raising vehicle and compliance costs, disrupting supply chains, and handing regulators more leverage to squeeze working families, truckers, farmers, and small businesses
Christian Employers Alliance supports this resolution because government should not use regulatory maneuvers to raise costs and restrict the freedom of families and employers to work and provide. Restraining coercive mandates protects stewardship and the ability of faith-driven businesses to serve their communities without being punished by politicized rules.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Isaiah 10:1-2 – "Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless."
Leadership Insight
God pronounces woe on lawmakers who craft economic policies that oppress the poor through excessive taxation, regulatory barriers to entry, and cronyism that favors the connected over the capable. Economic freedom is justice for the poor - when the working class keeps more of their earnings, when small businesses can compete without crushing compliance costs, and when families can build wealth without government extraction. Unjust economic laws always hit the poor hardest.
H.R. 1House 2025-20263x

Extending Tax Relief for Working Families and Businesses through the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act".

Against CEA
This vote on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, introduced by Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-TX), is on the reconciliation package whereby the House concurred with the Senate amendments. The bill contained positive provisions that extended the lower personal and corporate tax rates, as well as key estate and business tax provisions originally enacted within the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that were set to expire. Additionally, the bill increased the child tax credit and created "Trump Accounts" seeded with a $1,000 federal contribution. Keeping taxes low respects the dignity of work and strengthens families by allowing parents and communities to provide for one another without excessive government interference.
Keeping taxes low respects the dignity of work and strengthens families by allowing parents and communities to provide for one another without excessive government interference. At the same time, policymakers should avoid turning the tax code into a tool for favoritism and government-seeded accounts that grow dependence and distort personal responsibility.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
1 Samuel 8:10-18 – "Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a king. He said, 'This is what the king who will reign over you will claim as his rights: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots... He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants. He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants... and you yourselves will become his slaves'"
Leadership Insight
Centralized power always demands sacrifice from the people. God warned Israel that human kings would grow government at the expense of liberty. Limited government protects freedom; expansive government enslaves. Leaders must resist the temptation to control what they should serve.
H.R. 1156House 2025-20262x

Extending the Statute of Limitations to Prosecute Pandemic Unemployment Fraud and Recover Taxpayer Dollars.

With CEA
The "Pandemic Unemployment Fraud Enforcement Act," introduced by Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO), would extend the statute of limitations from 5 years to 10 years for federal criminal prosecution and civil enforcement actions for fraud tied to several COVID-era unemployment insurance programs. This change is aimed at preventing major fraud cases from aging out as the current deadline begins to hit in 2025. According to supporters, pandemic unemployment programs were looted on a massive scale through identity theft and organized fraud schemes, and Washington should not let criminals keep stolen taxpayer dollars simply because the clock ran out. They argue the bill gives investigators and prosecutors the time needed to track down sophisticated fraud networks, pursue recovery through civil actions, and protect honest workers and small businesses from paying the price for a system that was abused
Christian Employers Alliance supports efforts to hold fraudsters accountable and recover stolen taxpayer dollars, reflecting honest stewardship and respect for the rule of law. Government should protect the public from theft and corruption without rewarding wrongdoing through avoidable loopholes.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Malachi 3:10 – "Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse... and see if I will not open the floodgates of heaven."
Leadership Insight
Obedience unlocks overflow. When leaders give God what belongs to Him, Heaven responds with abundance. Tithing is not loss - it’s trust on display.
H.R. 1402House 2025-20262x

Growing the Federal Government to Impose New Mandates on Ticket Sellers Through the "TICKET Act"

Against CEA
The "Transparency In Charges for Key Events Ticketing Act" (TICKET Act), introduced by Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), would impose new federal mandates on ticket sellers and resellers for concerts, sporting events, performances, and other live events regarding how prices and fees are displayed and itemized. The bill would require up-front "all-in" price displays, additional disclosures across the purchasing process, refund requirements in specified circumstances, and new federal prohibitions aimed at resale practices such as listing tickets a seller does not actually possess. According to opponents, this approach expands the role of the Federal Trade Commission by creating new compliance and enforcement obligations that add taxpayer costs and grow the federal regulatory footprint over routine consumer transactions. They argue that if additional rules are needed, they should be carefully tailored and handled at the state level, rather than building another federal enforcement regime that can become a platform for broader regulation of pricing and marketing in the private marketplace
Christian Employers Alliance opposes this bill because truthful commerce does not require expanding federal control and enforcement bureaucracy over everyday transactions. Families and faith-driven employers are better served when government remains limited and accountable, leaving room for local solutions and private integrity rather than centralized mandates.
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
Proverbs 29:2 – "When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule, the people groan."
Leadership Insight
Righteous economic leadership creates prosperity that lifts all people; wicked rulers impose taxation, regulation, and cronyism that make the people groan. Economic freedom flourishes under leaders who fear God and protect property rights. When government becomes extractive rather than protective, citizens suffer under the weight of policies designed to benefit the powerful rather than serve the productive.
H.R. 1526House 2025-20261x

Restoring Separation of Powers by Ending Nationwide Injunctions Issued by Rogue Federal Judges Through the "No Rogue Rulings Act".

Against CEA
The "No Rogue Rulings Act" (NORRA) sponsored by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) limits the authority of federal district courts to issue injunctions. Specifically, the bill prohibits a district court from issuing an injunction unless the injunction applies only to the parties in the particular case before the court. Supporters argue this would stop a single unelected judge from unilaterally freezing federal policy nationwide and would force broad national questions to be resolved through the normal appellate process rather than through "judge-shopping."
Christian Employers Alliance supports restoring constitutional checks and balances so that laws are made by elected representatives, not imposed nationwide by a single judge. A limited judiciary strengthens the rule of law and protects the freedom of communities, families, and faith-based employers to live and work under fair and accountable government.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Micah 6:8 – "What does the Lord require of you? To act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God."
Leadership Insight
True operational success balances justice, mercy, and humility. Leaders who value fairness and compassion build systems Heaven can trust.
H.R. 1534House 2025-20261x

Advancing a Politicized Climate Change Agenda by Forcing Taxpayers to Fund "Low-Emissions" Cement, Concrete, and Asphalt Programs at the Department of Energy.

Against CEA
The "Innovative Mitigation Partnerships for Asphalt and Concrete Technologies Act" (IMPACT Act), introduced by Rep. Max Miller (R-OH), would require the Department of Energy to establish a new program supporting the advanced production of "low-emissions" cement, concrete, and asphalt. The program would focus on specified technologies and processes, including carbon capture and energy-efficient production methods, and it would authorize DOE to select eligible entities – including government, nonprofit, educational, and private-sector organizations – to carry out demonstration projects. According to opponents, this is another example of the federal government picking winners and losers, using taxpayer-backed programs to advance "low-emissions" mandates that can crowd out market-driven innovation and invite future spending expansions
Christian Employers Alliance opposes new federal subsidy programs that shift economic decisions from families and communities to Washington bureaucrats. Faithful stewardship is best served by honest markets and accountable government, not taxpayer-funded schemes that politicize industry and invite waste.
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
Proverbs 22:7 – "The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender."
Leadership Insight
Borrowing beyond purpose is surrendering authority. Debt doesn’t just cost interest - it costs influence. Leaders who manage debt wisely preserve both freedom and dignity.
H.R. 1919House 2025-20261x

Blocking a Federal Reserve "Digital Dollar" that Would Enable a Financial Surveillance State through the "Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act".

Against CEA
The Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act, introduced by Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN), would prohibit a Federal Reserve bank from offering products or services directly to individuals, maintaining accounts on behalf of individuals, or issuing a central bank digital currency (a "digital dollar"). The bill would also prohibit the Federal Reserve Board from using a central bank digital currency to implement monetary policy and would restrict the Fed from testing, studying, creating, or implementing a CBDC except as specifically allowed by the bill. In effect, it would prevent Washington from building a government-controlled payment system that could bypass the private banking system and place day-to-day transactions under federal control. According to supporters of the bill, a CBDC would open the door to unprecedented monitoring, politicized control over what Americans can buy, and new pressure points for bureaucrats to punish disfavored lawful activity
Christian Employers Alliance supports this bill because a government-run digital currency could erode privacy and enable coercive control that threatens the freedom of families, churches, and employers. Financial systems should protect human dignity and honest commerce, not become tools for centralized surveillance and social pressure.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Matthew 5:10 – "Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
Leadership Insight
Persecution is not failure - it’s proof of alignment with Christ. Heaven calls “blessed” those the world cancels. Courage in conflict is the currency of eternal reward.
H.R. 21House 2025-20263x

Protecting Children Who Survive Abortions by Requiring Life-Saving Medical Care Through the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act

Against CEA
The "Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act," introduced by Rep. Ann Wagner (R-MO), would amend federal law to require health care practitioners to provide the same degree of professional care to a baby born alive after an abortion or attempted abortion as would be provided to any other child born alive at the same gestational age, including ensuring the child is immediately transported and admitted to a hospital. The bill also establishes penalties for a practitioner who fails to provide this care and creates reporting requirements, while protecting the mother from prosecution and allowing a civil cause of action in certain cases. According to supporters, this is about closing a moral and legal loophole that leaves the most vulnerable children without guaranteed protection at the very moment they are fighting to live. They argue that when a baby is born alive, the question is no longer about abortion politics but about whether our laws will enforce basic medical care and accountability
Christian Employers Alliance supports protecting the lives of children made in the image of God and ensuring they receive basic medical care when born alive. A just society should not tolerate loopholes that allow the vulnerable to be denied protection at their most defenseless moment.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Psalm 139:13-16 – "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be."
Leadership Insight
David's declaration that God forms life in the womb is foundational to healthcare freedom. Medical professionals who believe life is sacred from conception must be free to practice medicine without being forced to participate in abortion or life-ending procedures. Healthcare freedom protects providers, hospitals, and insurers from government mandates that require complicity in ending the lives God is authoring. Conscience protection is healthcare freedom.
H.R. 26House 2025-20262x

Prohibiting the Executive Branch from Enacting a Fracking Moratorium Without Congressional Approval through the "Protecting American Energy Production Act".

Against CEA
The "Protecting American Energy Production Act," introduced by Rep. August Pfluger (R-TX), would prohibit the President from declaring a moratorium on the use of hydraulic fracturing unless Congress authorizes it. The bill also expresses the sense of Congress that states should maintain primacy for regulating fracking for oil and natural gas production on state and private lands. According to supporters, this is a direct response to the way Washington can use "emergencies," agency pressure, and executive actions to choke off American energy even when families are already being squeezed by high costs. They argue a federal fracking moratorium would kill jobs, raise utility and fuel prices, and hand more control of U.S. energy to bureaucrats and foreign producers
Christian Employers Alliance supports stopping sweeping executive power grabs that threaten the ability of families and employers to afford basic necessities and keep communities thriving. Limited, accountable government better reflects faithful stewardship than top-down mandates that raise costs and undermine honest work.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
1 Timothy 6:17-18 – "Command those who are rich... to be generous and willing to share."
Leadership Insight
Prosperity is not permission for pride - it’s a platform for purpose. God entrusts wealth to distribute blessing, not dominance. Leaders who share extend Heaven’s reach.
H.R. 28House 2025-20263x

Protecting Women's Sports by Codifying Sex-Based Athletic Protections

Against CEA
The "Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act," introduced by Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL), would amend Title IX to make clear that for purposes of athletics, sex is based on an individual's reproductive biology and genetics at birth. The bill would prohibit schools that receive federal education funds from allowing males to participate on women's and girls' sports teams or in women's athletic programs. According to supporters, without a clear law from Congress, federal bureaucrats and activist lawsuits will keep pressuring schools to let biological males compete in girls' sports, undermining fairness, safety, and equal opportunity while forcing families and local communities to comply with Washington's ideological agenda
Christian Employers Alliance supports protecting the dignity and safety of women and girls and affirming the created reality of male and female. Government should not use federal power to force communities and schools to deny biological truth or erase protections for women.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Deuteronomy 22:5 – "A woman must not wear men's clothing, nor a man wear women's clothing, for the Lord your God detests anyone who does this."
Leadership Insight
God's design for gender is intentional, not arbitrary. Leaders who defend biological truth protect the foundation of family, identity, and society. Cultural pressure to erase distinctions does not change divine design. Clarity about gender honors God's created order.
H.R. 3633House 2025-20261x

Establishing Clear Rules for Digital Assets to Rein in "Regulation by Enforcement" and Protect Americans from a Federal Digital Currency

With CEA
The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025, introduced by Rep. French Hill (R-AR), would establish a regulatory framework for digital commodities and clarify when a digital asset is regulated as a security versus a commodity. The bill would assign primary oversight of digital commodity spot markets to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and set standards for exchanges, brokers, dealers, custody practices, and customer protections. It also creates disclosure and compliance requirements intended to bring more transparency and accountability to digital asset markets. According to supporters, these reforms end the current system of regulatory uncertainty, keep innovation in the United States, and protect consumers by replacing ad hoc enforcement with clear rules while also blocking a government-run "digital dollar" model that could expand federal control over private transactions
Christian Employers Alliance supports this bill because clear, restrained rules protect honest commerce and human dignity better than arbitrary government power exercised through enforcement threats. Financial freedom and privacy help families, churches, and employers serve their communities without fear of centralized control.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
2 Corinthians 9:6 – "Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously."
Leadership Insight
Kingdom economics runs on sowing, not hoarding. Leaders who sow generously into God’s purposes never run dry. The size of your harvest mirrors the size of your heart.
H.R. 4House 2025-20262x

Cutting $9.4 Billion in Wasteful Foreign Aid and Federal Propaganda Subsidies Through a Targeted Rescissions Package.

Against CEA
The Rescissions Act of 2025, introduced by Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), would rescind $9.4 billion in previously appropriated but unobligated funding pursuant to President Trump's June 3, 2025 rescissions request under the Impoundment Control Act. The bill would cancel funds from the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development accounts, along with rescissions affecting related entities and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (NPR and PBS). The rescissions target categories such as contributions to international organizations, global health programs, migration, various foreign assistance and stabilization funds, and climate-related international funding. According to supporters, this measure is a first step to rein in entrenched Washington spending, stop sending taxpayer dollars to overseas programs that often lack accountability, and end subsidizing media institutions that have grown dependent on federal funding while advancing biased narratives
Christian Employers Alliance supports this bill because stewardship requires government to curb waste and prioritize responsibilities to citizens rather than funding unaccountable programs and subsidizing politicized institutions. Limiting federal spending protects families, churches, and employers from being compelled to bankroll agendas that do not reflect their convictions.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Proverbs 13:22 – "A good person leaves an inheritance for their children's children, but a sinner's wealth is stored up for the righteous."
Leadership Insight
Generational stewardship reflects Kingdom economics. Leaders who think beyond their tenure create systems that bless future generations. Legacy matters more than immediate gain - righteous wealth builds; selfish wealth burdens.
H.R. 4016 (Greene Amd. 52)House 2025-20262x

Ending Pentagon Mission Creep by Cutting Overseas Humanitarian and Civic Aid Spending

Against CEA
The Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) amendment #52 to the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2026 would strike $117,988,000 for the Overseas Humanitarian, Disaster, and Civic Aid programs. These programs fund certain humanitarian, disaster response, and civic-aid activities conducted by the Department of Defense outside the United States. By removing this funding, the amendment would narrow the Pentagon's role back toward core national defense responsibilities. According to the sponsor, this change helps ensure defense dollars are focused on America's warfighters and military readiness, rather than overseas projects that blur the line between defense and foreign aid
Christian Employers Alliance supports limiting the federal government to its God-ordained duties, including defending the nation rather than expanding into overseas social and civic programs. Taxpayer dollars should not be redirected into global missions better handled by private relief organizations and local communities.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Proverbs 27:23-24 – "Be sure you know the condition of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds; for riches do not endure forever, and a crown is not secure for all generations."
Leadership Insight
Wise leaders pay attention to what others ignore. Stewardship requires awareness - both of people and resources. Neglect always leaks influence.
H.R. 4016 (Greene Amdt. 54)House 2025-20262x

Placing America First by Striking Defense Spending for HIV Prevention Education Programs in Foreign Countries

Against CEA
The Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) amendment #54 to the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2026 would strike funding in the bill for HIV prevention educational activities in foreign countries. It is noteworthy that the U.S., through other appropriation bills, provide roughly $6 billion annually to prevent and treat HIV-AIDS globally. According to the sponsor, such initiatives are best carried out through the countless charities and foundations improving health across the globe, not through funding directed towards national defense
Christian Employers Alliance supports this amendment because government should steward taxpayer dollars responsibly and keep defense spending focused on the limited duty of national defense. Compassion is best expressed through accountable, mission-focused aid and private charitable work, not by expanding unrelated overseas programs through Pentagon funding.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
1 Timothy 5:8 – “Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.”
Leadership Insight
Providing for family is not optional - it's a spiritual mandate. Leaders champion policies that enable work, strengthen families, and protect parental authority. Dependency on government undermines the biblical call to provide. Personal responsibility precedes public assistance.
H.R. 4016 (Greene Amdt. 56)House 2025-20262x

Placing America First by Striking $500 Million in Funding for Jordan's Military within the NDAA.

Against CEA
The Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) amendment #56 to the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2026 would strike $500 million in funding in the bill that supports the Armed Forces of Jordan. According to the sponsor, this amendment is intended to ensure the Defense appropriations bill funds only America's military, not foreign militaries, especially when other legislation already provides substantial additional aid to Jordan, including $1.65 billion in the State and Foreign Operations funding bill released the same week of the vote
Christian Employers Alliance supports this amendment because stewardship requires that public funds be prioritized for the government’s primary duty to protect its own citizens. Charity and diplomacy have a place, but Congress should be transparent and restrained rather than routing major foreign military subsidies through defense spending bills.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
1 Timothy 5:8 – “Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.”
Leadership Insight
Providing for family is not optional - it's a spiritual mandate. Leaders champion policies that enable work, strengthen families, and protect parental authority. Dependency on government undermines the biblical call to provide. Personal responsibility precedes public assistance.
H.R. 4553 (Perry Amd. 66)House 2025-20262x

Ending the Draconian Fracking Ban Imposed by the Delaware River Basin Commission.

Against CEA
The Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) amendment #66 to the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026 would prohibit the use of funds for the Delaware River Basin Commission to implement or enforce the final rule entitled, "Comprehensive Plan and Special Regulations With Respect to High Volume Hydraulic Fracturing; Rules of Practice and Procedure Regarding Project Review Classifications and Fees." Effectively, this measure would terminate the ban on hydraulic fracking within the basin that the Commission had imposed. According to supporters, the Commission has acted as an unaccountable regional regulator by imposing a sweeping ban that blocks lawful domestic energy production, undermines state authority, and drives up costs for families and businesses. The amendment is intended to cut off the funding stream that enables enforcement and help unwind the Commission's anti-energy posture Government should not empower unaccountable authorities to restrict lawful work and energy production that helps families afford heat, power, and transportation. This amendment supports faithful stewardship by limiting bureaucratic overreach and protecting the ability of communities to thrive.
Government should not empower unaccountable authorities to restrict lawful work and energy production that helps families afford heat, power, and transportation. This amendment supports faithful stewardship by limiting bureaucratic overreach and protecting the ability of communities to thrive.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Proverbs 29:2 – "When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule, the people groan."
Leadership Insight
Righteous economic leadership creates prosperity that lifts all people; wicked rulers impose taxation, regulation, and cronyism that make the people groan. Economic freedom flourishes under leaders who fear God and protect property rights. When government becomes extractive rather than protective, citizens suffer under the weight of policies designed to benefit the powerful rather than serve the productive.
H.R. 471House 2025-20262x

Removing Federal Red Tape to Reduce Risk of Catastrophic Wildfires through the "Fix Our Forests Act".

With CEA
The "Fix Our Forests Act," introduced by Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-AR), would expedite environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and improve forest management activities on National Forest System lands, Bureau of Land Management lands, and Tribal lands. The bill establishes new tools and timelines intended to speed up forest restoration and ensure proper forest maintenance. It also includes provisions aimed at reducing delays that can come from procedural hurdles and litigation when agencies try to carry out forest health work. The goal is to increase the pace and scale of preventative management, so federal lands are not left to accumulate dangerous fuels year after year. According to supporters, Washington's slow-walk permitting and endless process has left forests dangerously overcrowded, turning routine fire seasons into catastrophic disasters. They argue that while officials talk about resilience projects, such as cutting overgrown, dead and diseased trees, preventative treatments can sit for years while paperwork piles up and lawsuits stall action
Christian Employers Alliance supports removing needless federal red tape that delays responsible stewardship and leaves communities vulnerable to preventable destruction. Wise governance protects life, property, and God’s creation by enabling timely action and accountability instead of endless process and paralysis.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Colossians 4:5 – "Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity."
Leadership Insight
Excellence is evangelism. How we operate speaks louder than what we declare. Every policy, plan, and process can either reflect Heaven - or hide it.
H.R. 5143House 2025-20262x

Restoring Law and Order in Washington, D.C. through Repeal of Lawless "Criminal Justice Reforms" that Limit Vehicular Pursuits of Criminal Suspects.

With CEA
The "District of Columbia Policing Protection Act of 2025," sponsored by Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA), repeals District of Columbia restrictions on when law enforcement officers may engage in vehicular pursuits of suspects fleeing in motor vehicles. The bill rolls back limits enacted under D.C.'s Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act of 2022 and instead generally requires officers to pursue fleeing suspects when there are no other means of apprehension. Under the new standard, officers would refrain from a pursuit only if it would be futile, would pose an unacceptable risk of harm to someone other than the suspect, or the suspect can be apprehended more effectively or expeditiously by other means. Due to the "criminal justice reforms" implemented by DC's government, violent crime in the District rose 39% from 2023 to 2024 Support because civil government is called to restrain wrongdoing and protect the innocent, and policies that make it harder to stop dangerous offenders place families and communities at greater risk. Reestablishing lawful public order helps safeguard the freedom of churches, employers, and neighbors to live and serve without fear.
Support because civil government is called to restrain wrongdoing and protect the innocent, and policies that make it harder to stop dangerous offenders place families and communities at greater risk. Reestablishing lawful public order helps safeguard the freedom of churches, employers, and neighbors to live and serve without fear.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Psalm 82:3-4 – "Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked."
Leadership Insight
God commands leaders to defend those who cannot defend themselves. Justice is not passive - it requires intervention. Leaders who ignore the vulnerable betray their calling. Advocacy for the powerless is not optional; it's obedience.
H.R. 77House 2025-20262x

Stopping "Midnight Regulations" and Restoring Congressional Accountability by Strengthening the Congressional Review Act

Against CEA
The "Midnight Rules Relief Act," introduced by Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), would amend the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to allow Congress to disapprove more than one federal rule in a single joint resolution when those rules were submitted during the final year of a President's term. Under current practice, agencies can rush out a flood of last-minute regulations and Congress must take them up one-by-one, even when the rules are part of the same end-of-term regulatory push. According to supporters, this bill would stop bureaucrats from playing a numbers game – dumping dozens of costly rules on the public and daring Congress to spend weeks or months trying to reverse them individually. They argue it makes it easier for elected lawmakers to respond quickly, undo sweeping regulatory sprees, and reassert accountability when administrations try to lock in policies on the way out the door
Christian Employers Alliance supports reforms that curb last-minute bureaucratic power grabs and restore accountable lawmaking by elected representatives. Limiting midnight regulations protects families and faith-based employers from being trapped under sweeping rules imposed without transparency or democratic consent.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Isaiah 10:1-2 – "Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless."
Leadership Insight
God pronounces woe on lawmakers who craft economic policies that oppress the poor through excessive taxation, regulatory barriers to entry, and cronyism that favors the connected over the capable. Economic freedom is justice for the poor - when the working class keeps more of their earnings, when small businesses can compete without crushing compliance costs, and when families can build wealth without government extraction. Unjust economic laws always hit the poor hardest.
H.R. 776House 2025-20262x

Socializing State Wildlife Management Costs by Reauthorizing the Federal Nutria Eradication Program Through 2030.

Against CEA
The "Nutria Eradication and Control Reauthorization Act of 2025," introduced by Rep. Josh Harder (D-CA), would reauthorize through FY2030 the Nutria Eradication and Control Act of 2003. The law allows the Department of the Interior to provide financial assistance to states for nutria eradication or control and for restoring marshland damaged by nutria (invasive, semi-aquatic rodents). According to opponents, invasive species management and habitat restoration are not core federal responsibilities and should be handled by states, localities, and private landowners who are closest to the problem. They argue this is another example of Washington shifting localized costs onto federal taxpayers nationwide, inviting waste and bureaucratic sprawl instead of encouraging responsible state-led stewardship and private solutions
Christian Employers Alliance opposes shifting local stewardship responsibilities onto distant federal programs that foster dependency and waste rather than accountability. God-honoring stewardship is strengthened when solutions remain close to communities and property owners, not centralized through taxpayer-funded bureaucracy.
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
Ecclesiastes 5:10 – "Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. This too is meaningless."
Leadership Insight
The pursuit of wealth without purpose breeds emptiness. Leaders who prioritize accumulation over stewardship lose both meaning and influence. Contentment comes from mission, not margin. Economic freedom flourishes when purpose drives prosperity.
H.R. 804House 2025-20262x

Growing Bureaucracy at the Small Business Administration by Imposing New Outreach and Marketing Mandates for Federal Relief Loans

Against CEA
The "Rural Small Business Resilience Act," introduced by Rep. Kelly Morrison (D-MN), would mandate the Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience increase outreach and marketing to rural areas after a disaster declaration so more people apply for SBA disaster loan programs and related assistance. The bill pushes SBA to conduct targeted communications and engagement efforts aimed at rural communities, effectively growing the agency's role beyond emergency response and into ongoing promotion of federal lending and recovery programs. According to opponents, while government has a limited role in immediate disaster response to protect life and ensure basic necessities, it should not function as the nation's "rebuilder," especially when private insurance and local recovery efforts are designed to handle rebuilding. They argue federal disaster relief bureaucracies are already plagued by waste and mismanagement as uncovered by DOGE, and this bill would add unnecessary expense by marketing loan programs and expanding administrative activity instead of focusing government on core functions
Christian Employers Alliance supports a limited government role that prioritizes immediate aid and protection of life without expanding wasteful bureaucracy. Communities, churches, and private institutions are better positioned to lead long-term rebuilding when government acts with restraint and faithful stewardship of taxpayer resources.
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
Leviticus 25:10 – "Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; each of you is to return to your family property and to your own clan."
Leadership Insight
The Year of Jubilee proclaimed economic liberty - restoration of property, cancellation of debts, and freedom from bondage. Economic freedom follows this biblical pattern: protecting property rights, enabling debt relief through bankruptcy rather than permanent servitude, and ensuring families can rebuild wealth across generations. Government policies that permanently trap families in poverty, extract generational wealth through death taxes, or prevent property ownership contradict Jubilee's vision of economic restoration.
H. Res. 590House 2025-20262x

Advancing the Rescission of $9 Billion in Wasteful Spending and the Defunding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Against CEA
This resolution sponsored by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), provides for consideration of the Senate amendment to the Rescissions Act of 2025. The resolution sets the terms for House floor debate and votes on the Senate-amended rescissions package tied to the President's June 3, 2025 special messages submitted under the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act. The underlying package would rescind roughly $9 billion in previously approved funding, including $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which would end all federal support for NPR, PBS, and their member stations, and about $7 billion in foreign aid. According to supporters, adopting the rule is necessary to allow Congress to vote on these targeted cancellations and follow through on spending restraint rather than treating prior funding decisions as untouchable
Christian Employers Alliance supports moving forward on rescissions because faithful stewardship requires restraint and accountability with taxpayer dollars. Congress should prioritize fiscal responsibility so families, employers, and communities are not crushed by debt and wasteful government expansion.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Haggai 1:6 – "You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it."
Leadership Insight
When priorities drift from purpose, prosperity leaks away. God doesn’t bless motion - He blesses alignment. Economic freedom begins when stewardship follows divine order.
H.Res. 719House 2025-20261x

Honoring Charlie Kirk's Life and Legacy while Condemning Political Violence against Americans for Their Beliefs

With CEA
This resolution, introduced by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), would honor the life and legacy of Charlie Kirk and formally condemn his September 10, 2025 assassination at Utah Valley University as an act of political violence. The resolution also commends law enforcement and emergency personnel, extends condolences to Kirk's family, and calls on Americans to reject political violence and recommit to respectful debate. According to supporters of the resolution, Congress had a duty to send a clear bipartisan message that assassination and the glorification of political violence are unacceptable in a free republic. They argued that Americans must be able to speak, organize, and debate public issues without fear that disagreement will be answered with intimidation, hatred, or murder.
Christian Employers Alliance supports this bill because every human life is sacred, and acts of violence against others—especially for their beliefs—are a grave moral wrong. Condemning political violence affirms the call to pursue peace, protect human dignity, and ensure that disagreements are met with respect rather than harm.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Hebrews 13:6 – "The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?"
Leadership Insight
Fear fades when God is near. Leaders emboldened by divine help act with clarity when others retreat. Confidence in God dismantles intimidation and fuels endurance.
S. 1582House 2025-20262x

Creating a Backdoor "Layered" CBDC by Building a Federal Stablecoin Regime that Threatens Self-Custody and Financial Privacy

Against CEA
The GENIUS Act, introduced by Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN), would establish a federal regulatory framework for "payment stablecoins," including who may issue them, what reserves must back them, and what compliance, reporting, and supervisory requirements apply. The bill would concentrate stablecoin issuance inside a permitted, heavily regulated ecosystem and tie the day-to-day use of stablecoins to strict identity verification and ongoing compliance obligations. While stablecoins are often marketed as a private alternative to a central bank digital currency, this framework can still produce a government-shaped digital money system because the rails would be built around surveillance-style controls and permissioned access. Opponents argue the bill effectively enables a "layered" CBDC by pushing Americans into regulated intermediaries, leaving self-custody and the right to hold and manage digital assets outside those intermediaries unclear and unprotected. They also warn that the compliance model encourages stablecoin issuers to rely on large-scale data aggregation and AI analytics vendors to monitor transactions and user behavior, raising concerns that surveillance tools commonly used in government contracting could be repurposed to track, profile, or restrict lawful financial activity
Christian Employers Alliance opposes this bill because concentrating financial control and surveillance in any centralized system threatens human dignity, conscience, and the freedom of families and faith communities. A just society protects privacy and self-governance, not financial structures that can be turned into tools of monitoring and coercion.
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
1 Peter 2:16 – "Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as God’s slaves."
Leadership Insight
Freedom without submission becomes rebellion. Godly leaders understand that liberty is strongest when anchored to righteousness. Submission to Christ secures freedom from corruption.
S. 331House 2025-20261x

Scheduling All Fentanyl Substances as Class 1 Drugs and Closing Traffickers' Loopholes to Strengthen Enforcement Against the Epidemic

With CEA
The Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act (HALT Fentanyl Act), introduced by Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), would permanently place fentanyl-related substances as a class into Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. The bill is intended to prevent traffickers from evading prosecution by making small chemical changes to create new fentanyl analogues that fall outside current enforcement tools. It also includes provisions aimed at supporting legitimate research by streamlining certain registration requirements for researchers working with controlled substances while maintaining penalties for illicit trafficking. According to supporters, this measure closes a dangerous loophole that has been exploited by criminal networks fueling overdose deaths, strengthens law enforcement's ability to prosecute fentanyl traffickers, and helps protect communities by ensuring new fentanyl variants are covered under federal law rather than playing constant catch-up
Christian Employers Alliance supports this bill because government has a duty to restrain those who profit from poisoning communities and destroying lives. Strong action against fentanyl trafficking helps protect families, churches, and employers from a crisis that undermines human dignity and public order.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Exodus 1:17 – "The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live."
Leadership Insight
Pharaoh attempted to conscript private healthcare providers into his genocidal agenda through operational mandates. The midwives understood that operational freedom includes the duty to resist when government co-opts business operations for immoral purposes. Leaders must protect enterprises from regulatory capture that transforms legitimate businesses into instruments of state oppression.
S. 5House 2025-20261x

Stopping the Catch-and-Release of Criminal Illegal Immigrants by Passing the Laken Riley Act.

Against CEA
The "Laken Riley Act," introduced by Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL), would require the Department of Homeland Security to detain certain illegal immigrants who are charged with, arrested for, convicted of, or admit to committing burglary, theft, larceny, or shoplifting. The bill also authorizes states to sue the federal government for certain immigration enforcement decisions or failures, including cases involving the release of illegal immigrants from custody, parole abuses, or failures to detain individuals ordered removed. According to supporters, this is a direct response to an enforcement breakdown where repeat offenders are cycled back into communities instead of being held, leaving families and local law enforcement to deal with the consequences
Christian Employers Alliance supports policies that protect innocent life and restore the rule of law so communities are not forced to absorb the consequences of federal neglect. Government best serves the common good when it upholds justice, restrains wrongdoing, and defends families from preventable harm.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Psalm 82:3-4 – "Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked."
Leadership Insight
God commands leaders to defend those who cannot defend themselves. Justice is not passive - it requires intervention. Leaders who ignore the vulnerable betray their calling. Advocacy for the powerless is not optional; it's obedience.
S.J.Res. 11House 2025-20262x

Repealing a Biden Rule that Slows Offshore Oil and Gas Production through Unnecessary Archaeological Paperwork Mandates

Against CEA
This joint resolution, introduced by Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), would utilize the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to repeal a Biden Bureau of Ocean Energy Management rule titled "Protection of Marine Archaeological Resources" and published on September 3, 2024. The underlying Biden rule requires offshore oil and gas lessees and operators to submit an archaeological report with certain exploration or development plans submitted to BOEM for approval, rather than requiring such reports only when officials have reason to believe a resource may be present. According to supporters, repealing the rule would stop Washington from layering new compliance hurdles onto offshore development in ways that delay projects, increase costs, and discourage domestic production. They argue the rule is another example of regulators using paperwork and process to choke off American energy, leaving families and small businesses to pay higher prices while the U.S. becomes more dependent on unstable foreign supply
Christian Employers Alliance supports repealing rules that weaponize bureaucracy to restrict lawful work and drive up the cost of living for families. A limited, accountable government should protect stewardship without using red tape as a tool to control the economy and burden communities.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Leviticus 25:10 – "Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; each of you is to return to your family property and to your own clan."
Leadership Insight
The Year of Jubilee proclaimed economic liberty - restoration of property, cancellation of debts, and freedom from bondage. Economic freedom follows this biblical pattern: protecting property rights, enabling debt relief through bankruptcy rather than permanent servitude, and ensuring families can rebuild wealth across generations. Government policies that permanently trap families in poverty, extract generational wealth through death taxes, or prevent property ownership contradict Jubilee's vision of economic restoration.
S.J.Res. 13House 2025-20262x

Overturning a Draconian Biden Banking Mergers Rule to Protect Community Banking

Against CEA
This joint resolution, introduced by Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), would utilize the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to repeal a Biden rule at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency titled "Business Combinations Under the Bank Merger Act" and published on September 25, 2024. The Biden rule changed long-standing OCC merger review procedures by tightening standards, reducing the use of streamlined processing, and increasing uncertainty over whether and when approvals would occur. According to supporters, the Biden-era approach functioned as a backdoor attempt to restrict lawful bank mergers through delay and bureaucracy, making it harder for community banks to combine, raise capital, and compete – especially as compliance costs and consolidation pressures grow. They argue the CRA repeal restores predictable, limited rules and stops unelected regulators from using discretionary process changes to reshape the banking marketplace without Congress
Christian Employers Alliance supports this resolution because families and employers are harmed when regulators expand power through uncertainty and coercive process rather than clear, limited law. A predictable rule of law helps communities, including local banks and faith-driven businesses, serve neighbors with integrity and stability.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Isaiah 10:1-2 – "Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless."
Leadership Insight
God pronounces woe on lawmakers who craft economic policies that oppress the poor through excessive taxation, regulatory barriers to entry, and cronyism that favors the connected over the capable. Economic freedom is justice for the poor - when the working class keeps more of their earnings, when small businesses can compete without crushing compliance costs, and when families can build wealth without government extraction. Unjust economic laws always hit the poor hardest.
S.J.Res. 18House 2025-20262x

Overturning the Price Controls on Overdraft Lending Fees Imposed by the Biden Administration.

Against CEA
This joint resolution, introduced by Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), would utilize the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to repeal a Biden Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule titled "Overdraft Lending: Very Large Financial Institutions" and published on December 30, 2024. The underlying rule would force very large financial institutions to cap most overdraft fees at a government-set amount, justify a higher "cost-based" fee, or treat overdraft coverage as credit subject to additional federal lending requirements and disclosures. By nullifying the rule, the resolution would stop Washington from using a last-minute regulation to impose price controls on a common banking service and to expand CFPB leverage over how banks design overdraft protection. According to supporters, the rule would reduce choices for consumers and likely push banks to restrict overdraft coverage or offset lost revenue with new account fees, hitting working families and small businesses who rely on flexible checking options
Christian Employers Alliance supports limiting federal overreach that imposes price controls and disrupts responsible private-sector services that families and employers depend on. Policies that respect freedom, accountability, and honest stewardship are better achieved through transparent lawmaking than by sweeping mandates from unelected bureaucrats.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Proverbs 11:1 – "The Lord detests dishonest scales, but accurate weights find favor with Him."
Leadership Insight
Integrity in business is not optional - it’s spiritual obedience. Every transaction reflects the character of the Kingdom. Honesty is Heaven’s currency for influence.
S.J.Res. 28House 2025-20262x

Overturning the Biden Admin's "Larger Participants" Rule that Imposed Overreaching Regulations on Digital Payment Apps.

Against CEA
This joint resolution, introduced by Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-NE), would utilize the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to repeal a Biden Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule titled "Defining Larger Participants of a Market for General-Use Digital Consumer Payment Applications" and published on December 10, 2024. The underlying rule would classify certain large nonbank payment-app providers as "larger participants" and subject them to ongoing CFPB supervision, even though they are not banks. The repeal of this rule would ensure the CFPB could no longer pull more private companies under its control and expand federal surveillance over how Americans move money through digital wallets and payment apps. According to supporters, the Biden rule is a power grab that would increase compliance costs, discourage innovation and competition, and give federal regulators more leverage to pressure lawful businesses in a rapidly growing part of the economy
Christian Employers Alliance supports limiting federal overreach that expands bureaucracy and invites heavier supervision of lawful commerce without clear congressional authorization. Protecting economic freedom and responsible innovation helps families and employers steward resources faithfully without unnecessary government intrusion.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Ecclesiastes 11:2 – "Invest in seven ventures, yes, in eight; you do not know what disaster may come upon the land."
Leadership Insight
Kingdom economics is not fear-driven but future-minded. Diversification is not doubt - it’s discernment. God expects His leaders to multiply wisely.
S.J.Res. 31House 2025-20262x

Repealing the Biden EPA's "Once In, Always In" Air Rule to Stop Costly Mandates and Restore Common-Sense Compliance Incentives

Against CEA
This joint resolution, introduced by Sen. John Curtis (R-UT), would utilize the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to repeal a Biden-era Environmental Protection Agency rule titled "Review of Final Rule Reclassification of Major Sources as Area Sources Under Section 112 of the Clean Air Act" published on September 10, 2024. The rule changed how certain facilities are treated when they reduce hazardous air pollutant emissions and seek to reclassify from "major sources" to "area sources," effectively tightening the federal requirements they must continue to meet. Supporters of the repeal argue the Biden rule is a revival of "once in, always in" regulation that keeps facilities locked into the most burdensome standards even after they lower emissions, weakening the incentive to make improvements. They note the mandate merely drives-up compliance costs, discourages investment and manufacturing, and expands Washington's regulatory grip without clear public benefit
Christian Employers Alliance supports this resolution because families and employers should not be burdened by endless federal rules that discourage productive work and responsible stewardship. Limiting agency overreach protects the freedom of faith-driven businesses to serve their communities without being crushed by permanent mandates.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Malachi 3:10 – "Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse... and see if I will not open the floodgates of heaven."
Leadership Insight
Obedience unlocks overflow. When leaders give God what belongs to Him, Heaven responds with abundance. Tithing is not loss - it’s trust on display.
H.Con.Res. 58House 2025-20262x

Condemning Socialism and Defending Individual Liberty, Private Property, and Free Enterprise.

Neutral
The "Denouncing the horrors of socialism" concurrent resolution, sponsored by Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL), expresses the sense of Congress that socialism should be denounced in all its forms and that Congress opposes the implementation of socialist policies in the United States. The resolution lays out a series of findings describing the historic record of socialist and communist regimes, including famine, repression, and mass death, and it highlights how centralized economic control often collapses into authoritarian rule. It also underscores America's founding principles by citing the importance of property rights, personal liberty, and the freedom to enjoy the fruits of one's labor Support because Scripture affirms human dignity, honest work, and stewardship, and collectivist systems that concentrate power routinely trample those truths. America should uphold freedom, private property, and the vital role of families and faith communities, not expand government control that displaces conscience and personal responsibility.
Support because Scripture affirms human dignity, honest work, and stewardship, and collectivist systems that concentrate power routinely trample those truths. America should uphold freedom, private property, and the vital role of families and faith communities, not expand government control that displaces conscience and personal responsibility.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Isaiah 10:1-2 – "Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless."
Leadership Insight
God pronounces woe on those who issue oppressive decrees - regulations, mandates, and compliance requirements that crush businesses and deprive workers of opportunity. Operational freedom fights the bureaucratic oppression that kills small businesses, prevents entrepreneurship, and protects established interests at the expense of new entrants. When licensing laws, zoning restrictions, and regulatory burdens make it impossible for the poor to start businesses, government becomes the oppressor Isaiah condemns.
H.J. RES. 104House 2025-20262x

Overturning a Biden Bureau of Land Management Plan that Prevents Coal Leasing on 1.7 Million Acres of Federal Land

Neutral
This resolution introduced by Rep. Troy Downing (R-MT) utilizes the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to nullify a Biden administration rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) relating to the "Miles City Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment." Resource management plans guide how BLM-administered lands are managed, including whether and where coal leasing may be considered. The Miles City plan amendment made 1.7 million acres unavailable for future coal leasing. According to supporters, this kind of federal land "lock up" undermines local economies and energy affordability by putting Washington planners ahead of workers, communities, and responsible development
Christian Employers Alliance supports this measure because families and employers are called to steward resources wisely, and policies that unnecessarily lock up domestic energy can harm livelihoods and raise costs for those trying to provide for their households. Congress should uphold accountable government that respects productive work, local communities, and the freedom to flourish.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Proverbs 27:23-24 – "Be sure you know the condition of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds; for riches do not endure forever, and a crown is not secure for all generations."
Leadership Insight
Wise leaders pay attention to what others ignore. Stewardship requires awareness - both of people and resources. Neglect always leaks influence.
H.J.Res. 130House 2025-20262x

Restoring American Energy and Jobs by Reversing the Biden-Era Plan that Shut Down Future Federal Coal Leasing.

Neutral
This resolution, sponsored by Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY), uses the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to nullify a former Biden administration rule implemented at the Bureau of Land Management titled "Buffalo Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment" on November 20, 2024. The Biden-era rule made no federal coal available for future leasing in the Buffalo Field Office area, effectively ending future federal coal leasing in Wyoming's Powder River Basin. By disapproving the 2024 rule, Congress would undo those restrictions and revert management back to the 2020 Trump-era plan, thus expanding the domestic energy supply Support because faithful stewardship includes ensuring families can access affordable energy and that government does not unjustly lock up resources needed for work and provision. Restoring a balanced, lawful framework helps protect household stability and the freedom of communities, including churches and employers, to thrive.
Support because faithful stewardship includes ensuring families can access affordable energy and that government does not unjustly lock up resources needed for work and provision. Restoring a balanced, lawful framework helps protect household stability and the freedom of communities, including churches and employers, to thrive.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Isaiah 10:1-2 – "Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless."
Leadership Insight
God pronounces woe on lawmakers who craft economic policies that oppress the poor through excessive taxation, regulatory barriers to entry, and cronyism that favors the connected over the capable. Economic freedom is justice for the poor - when the working class keeps more of their earnings, when small businesses can compete without crushing compliance costs, and when families can build wealth without government extraction. Unjust economic laws always hit the poor hardest.
H.J.Res. 131House 2025-20262x

Repealing the Biden-Era ANWR Coastal Plain Leasing Restrictions to Restore Domestic Energy Production and Lower Costs.

Neutral
This resolution, sponsored by Rep. Nicholas Begich (R-AK), uses the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to nullify a former Biden administration rule implemented at the Bureau of Land Management titled "Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program Record of Decision" on December 9, 2024. The Biden-era rule changed how oil and gas leasing can occur in the Coastal Plain program area within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Biden-era decision replaced the 2020 record of decision under the first Trump administration that had made the full 1.6 million acre program area available for leasing. The Biden-era decision made only 400,000 acres available for leasing (the statutory minimum) placing roughly 1.2 million acres off-limits Support because affordable, reliable energy helps families flourish and enables churches and community institutions to serve without unnecessary hardship. Government should practice faithful stewardship by removing unjustified barriers that restrict lawful work and threaten household stability through higher costs.
Support because affordable, reliable energy helps families flourish and enables churches and community institutions to serve without unnecessary hardship. Government should practice faithful stewardship by removing unjustified barriers that restrict lawful work and threaten household stability through higher costs.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Genesis 9:1-3 – "Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, 'Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; they are given into your hands. Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.'"
Leadership Insight
God's command to "be fruitful and increase" includes economic multiplication and resource stewardship. The Creator entrusted humanity with natural resources for provision and prosperity, not scarcity and control. Economic freedom flows from divine mandate - leaders who protect property rights and free enterprise honor God's design for human flourishing through responsible dominion.
H.J.Res. 24House 2025-20262x

Blocking Biden's Costly Walk-In Cooler and Freezer Energy Standards Mandate by Overturning a Department of Energy Rule

Neutral
This joint resolution, introduced by Rep. Stephanie Bice (R-OK), would utilize the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to repeal a Biden Department of Energy rule titled "Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Walk-In Coolers and Walk-In Freezers" and published on December 23, 2024. The underlying rule establishes new federal energy conservation standards for walk-in coolers and walk-in freezers commonly used by grocery stores, restaurants, warehouses, and other commercial facilities. According to supporters, the repeal of the Biden rule would stop Washington from using one-size-fits-all efficiency mandates to dictate the design and purchase of essential refrigeration equipment. They argue these mandates drive up compliance and replacement costs, squeeze small businesses, and ultimately raise prices for consumers as businesses are forced to absorb yet another layer of federal micromanagement
Christian Employers Alliance supports stopping federal mandates that raise operating costs for employers who serve their communities and steward resources responsibly. A limited, accountable government better protects families and faith-based employers than burdensome regulations imposed by distant bureaucracies.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Genesis 9:1-3 – "Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, 'Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; they are given into your hands. Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.'"
Leadership Insight
God's command to "be fruitful and increase" includes economic multiplication and resource stewardship. The Creator entrusted humanity with natural resources for provision and prosperity, not scarcity and control. Economic freedom flows from divine mandate - leaders who protect property rights and free enterprise honor God's design for human flourishing through responsible dominion.
H.J.Res. 42House 2025-20262x

Repealing a Biden Rule at the Department of Energy that Imposed Unnecessary Labeling and Certification Mandates on Consumer Appliances.

Neutral
This joint resolution, introduced by Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA), would utilize the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to repeal a Biden Department of Energy rule titled "Energy Conservation Program for Appliance Standards: Certification Requirements, Labeling Requirements, and Enforcement Provisions for Certain Consumer Products and Commercial Equipment" and published on October 9, 2024. The underlying rule imposed new federal paperwork, labeling, and reporting requirements and expanded enforcement provisions across a wide range of everyday appliances and equipment. It covered roughly 20 product categories, reaching into items like dishwashers, clothes washers, air conditioners and heat pumps, battery chargers, light bulbs, and other common products used by families and employers. According to supporters, by nullifying the rule, the resolution would stop Washington from turning routine appliances into a compliance headache where manufacturers face more audits, more forms, and more threats of enforcement, and then pass those costs along to everyone at the checkout counter
Christian Employers Alliance supports repealing rules that bury honest work under expanding bureaucracy and higher costs that hurt families and local employers. Government should be limited and accountable, not a driver of red tape that undermines faithful stewardship and economic freedom.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Leviticus 25:10 – "Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; each of you is to return to your family property and to your own clan."
Leadership Insight
The Year of Jubilee proclaimed economic liberty - restoration of property, cancellation of debts, and freedom from bondage. Economic freedom follows this biblical pattern: protecting property rights, enabling debt relief through bankruptcy rather than permanent servitude, and ensuring families can rebuild wealth across generations. Government policies that permanently trap families in poverty, extract generational wealth through death taxes, or prevent property ownership contradict Jubilee's vision of economic restoration.
H.J.Res. 61House 2025-20262x

Repealing a Biden EPA Rule that Imposed Costly New Emissions Mandates on U.S. Tire Manufactures.

Neutral
This joint resolution, introduced by Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA), would utilize the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to repeal a Biden Environmental Protection Agency rule titled "National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Rubber Tire Manufacturing" and published on November 29, 2024. The underlying rule imposed new federal emissions standards on parts of the rubber tire manufacturing process and expanded EPA's regulatory reach over domestic tire plants. According to supporters, repealing the Biden rule would stop Washington from piling more red tape and expensive compliance demands onto an industry that supports thousands of American jobs and produces an essential product used by nearly every household and business. They argue the mandate would raise production costs, squeeze smaller facilities the hardest, and push more manufacturing out of the United States
Christian Employers Alliance supports rolling back burdensome regulations that raise costs and threaten the ability of employers to provide stable work for families. Limited, accountable government better reflects faithful stewardship than rulemaking that expands bureaucracy and punishes productive industry.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Isaiah 10:1-2 – "Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless."
Leadership Insight
God pronounces woe on lawmakers who craft economic policies that oppress the poor through excessive taxation, regulatory barriers to entry, and cronyism that favors the connected over the capable. Economic freedom is justice for the poor - when the working class keeps more of their earnings, when small businesses can compete without crushing compliance costs, and when families can build wealth without government extraction. Unjust economic laws always hit the poor hardest.
H.J.Res. 75House 2025-20262x

Blocking Biden's Costly Commercial Refrigeration Energy Standards Mandate by Overturning a Department of Energy Rule

Neutral
This joint resolution, introduced by Rep. Craig Goldman (R-TX), would utilize the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to repeal a Biden Department of Energy rule titled "Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Commercial Refrigerators, Freezers, and Refrigerator-Freezers" and published on January 21, 2025. The underlying rule establishes new federal energy conservation standards for common commercial refrigeration equipment used by grocery stores, restaurants, convenience stores, and other businesses. According to supporters, the repeal of the Biden rule would stop Washington from using one-size-fits-all efficiency mandates to dictate what equipment businesses can buy and how much it must cost to comply. These types of federal standards often function as a hidden tax on everyday commerce by forcing expensive redesigns, accelerating replacement cycles, and raising operating and purchase costs that ultimately get passed on to consumers
Christian Employers Alliance supports stopping federal mandates that raise costs for local businesses and families through regulatory micromanagement. A limited, accountable government better supports faithful stewardship and economic freedom than burdensome rules imposed by distant bureaucracies.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Genesis 1:28 – "God blessed them and said to them, 'Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.'"
Leadership Insight
The dominion mandate establishes human authority as divinely ordained, not culturally negotiated. Leaders who honor this calling protect family, life, and liberty as sacred responsibilities. Subduing the earth means cultivating, not exploiting - stewarding with purpose.
H.R. 1047House 2025-20262x

Preventing Blackouts and Protecting Ratepayers from Costly Grid Failures through the "Guaranteeing Reliability through the Interconnection of Dispatchable Power Act".

Neutral
The "Guaranteeing Reliability through the Interconnection of Dispatchable Power Act," also known as the "GRID Power Act," sponsored by Rep. Troy Balderson (R-OH), is designed to more quickly bring baseload power plant projects online. The bill helps expedite certain power projects by requiring the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to issue a rule revising the prioritization and approval process for interconnection requests for dispatchable power projects. The nation's interconnection queue has become inundated with proposed projects seeking to capitalize on the Biden Administration's taxpayer-funded "green" energy credits. Such projects account for 97% of all projects in the queue and now result in a median weight time of 5 years for projects. This bill will help send projects such as natural gas plants to the front of the line Support because affordable, reliable power is essential for families, churches, and community employers to flourish, and government should not allow red tape to endanger basic needs like heat, light, and work. Prioritizing dependable generation reflects responsible stewardship and helps protect households from preventable shortages and price shocks.
Support because affordable, reliable power is essential for families, churches, and community employers to flourish, and government should not allow red tape to endanger basic needs like heat, light, and work. Prioritizing dependable generation reflects responsible stewardship and helps protect households from preventable shortages and price shocks.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Matthew 25:14-30 – "Parable of the Talents."
Leadership Insight
God expects His leaders to multiply what they manage. Fear buries potential; faith multiplies purpose. Operational freedom means using every resource to expand the Kingdom, not just preserve it.
H.R. 1048 (Tlaib Amdt. 5)House 2025-20261x

Targeting Israel by Labeling It a "Foreign Country of Concern" Through the DETERRENT Act

Neutral
The Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) amendment #5 to the DETERRENT Act is largely intended to target Israel by expanding the bill's definition of a "Foreign Country of Concern." Specifically, the amendment would add any country defending a case before the International Court of Justice related to alleged violations of the Geneva Conventions or the Genocide Convention, and any country whose government includes officials with outstanding arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court. This change would import the judgments of international tribunals into U.S. higher education policy and allow politically charged foreign disputes to trigger sweeping federal consequences under the bill's restrictions and compliance framework. According to the sponsor, the Israeli Government is an "apartheid regime"
Christian Employers Alliance opposes using vague federal labeling powers to single out nations and institutions based on politicized international proceedings rather than clear, accountable U.S. law. Faith-based employers support truthful standards and equal justice that protect lawful education and civic engagement from arbitrary government targeting.
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
Hebrews 13:6 – "The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?"
Leadership Insight
Fear fades when God is near. Leaders emboldened by divine help act with clarity when others retreat. Confidence in God dismantles intimidation and fuels endurance.
H.R. 1048 (Tlaib Amdt. 6)House 2025-20261x

Expanding the State Department's Power to Impose a Politicized Blacklist and Attack Israel by Amending the DETERRENT Act.

Neutral
The Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) amendment #6 to the DETERRENT Act is largely intended to target Israel by expanding the bill's definition of "Investment of Concern" to include any entity that the Secretary of State determines consistently facilitates and enables state violence and repression, war and occupation, or severe violations of international law and human rights. This change would inject broad, subjective foreign-policy judgments into a higher education transparency bill and give the executive branch sweeping discretion to label entities based on political and diplomatic interpretations According to the sponsor, Israel "throws international law in the shredder" and are "perpetrators of the most horrific crimes against humanity."
Christian Employers Alliance opposes expanding vague federal blacklist powers that can be weaponized against U.S. allies such as Israel through politicized standards and selective targeting. Government should act with clear limits and equal justice so that moral conviction and lawful commerce are not chilled by arbitrary federal labeling.
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
John 16:33 – "In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."
Leadership Insight
Courage doesn’t wait for comfort - it rises in conflict. Kingdom leaders understand that victory is already sealed in Christ. We don’t fight for triumph; we fight from it.
H.R. 1223House 2025-20261x

Expanding NSF Climate-Research Bureaucracy Through New Mandates for Activist-Driven Ocean Programs.

Neutral
The "Accelerating Networking, Cyberinfrastructure, and Hardware for Oceanic Research Act" (ANCHOR Act), introduced by Rep. Vince Fong (R-CA), would require the National Science Foundation to develop and carry out a plan to upgrade telecommunications and cybersecurity capabilities for the U.S. Academic Research Fleet. The bill directs NSF to assess vulnerabilities, set modernization priorities, and coordinate improvements for research vessels used as at-sea laboratories. According to opponents, nothing in current law prevents NSF from making improvements using existing authorities and resources, and the bill instead adds another federal mandate that can become a work around to the DOGE reforms to an agency heavily criticized for waste and politicized climate change and DEI priorities
Christian Employers Alliance opposes this bill because stewardship requires restraining federal mission creep and refusing to use cybersecurity as a pretext for expanding politicized programs. Public resources should prioritize true national security needs, leaving families, churches, and employers freer to serve their communities without being taxed to fund activist agendas.
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
Proverbs 19:17 – "Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and He will reward them for what they have done."
Leadership Insight
Generosity is Heaven’s investment strategy. Giving to the poor is not charity - it’s partnership with God. What is released from your hand multiplies in His.
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What is Rep. Mikie Sherrill's voting record?

Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ-11) is tracked on the Christian Employers Alliance legislative scorecard. Highest category scores: Operational Freedom (63%), First Freedom (15%), and Economic Freedom (7%). Mikie Sherrill represents New Jersey's 11th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Where does Mikie Sherrill serve?

Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ-11) represents New Jersey's 11th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat.

What issue categories does Mikie Sherrill score highest and lowest on?

Mikie Sherrill's strongest categories on the Christian Employers Alliance scorecard are Operational Freedom (63%) and First Freedom (15%). The lowest-scoring categories are Workforce Freedom (0%) and Healthcare Freedom (0%).

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