2024 Michigan Voter Guide Footnotes
1.) Mike Rogers – Twitter/X – “Inflation, that’s the price we pay for those government benefits everybody thought was free”, Ronald Reagon – “Inflation is driven far more by government policies than anything else. 8/28/2022: https://x.com/mikerogersformi/status/1563247553097121792
Mike Rogers – Twitter/X – “The Biden-Slokin agenda has pushed homeownership out of reach for millions of young Americans. We need to cut Washington’s wasteful spending, rein in inflation and help lower interest rates.” 5/2/2024: https://x.com/mikerogersformi/status/1786077996941799906
WATCH, NM PBS – Off the Record, Mike Rogers “Less taxes means more prosperity” @25:18 3/3/2023: https://portal.knme.org/video/mar-3-2023-mike-rogers-off-the-record-9e4km8/
Mike Rogers – Twitter/X – “Inflation keeps outstripping wage growth month after month. Bidenflation=Pay cuts.” 3/20/2024: https://x.com/mikerogersformi/status/1792639517876236769
Mike Roger, Twitter/X – “(Biden) His radical push for EV mandate will hurt the economy, the environment and crush auto jobs.” 9/25/2023: https://x.com/MikeRogersForMI/status/1706348244152799397
Mike Rogers – Twitter/X – “…Harris and Slotkin cannot run from their radical EV mandates, and if they truly don’t support them, they should do the right thing and repeal the EV mandates today.” 8/27/2024: https://x.com/MikeRogersForMI/status/1828520479550062959
2.) Congressional Website, H.Res.1102 VOTED FOR – Further Consolidated Appropriations Act 2024 – A $1.2 Trillion spending bill 3/22/2024: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024102
Congressional Website, H.R.5376 VOTED FOR Motion to Concur – Inflation Act of 2022
which purports to bring down inflation by increasing regulations, including cutting emissions in half by 2030 and net-zero emissions by 2050. This phases out gas-powered vehicles. 8/16/2022: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2022420
Congressional Website, H.R.1319 VOTED FOR – American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 –
a bill that enacted a policy forcing online sellers to report and keep track of all transactions over $600. 3/10/2021: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202172
Rep. Elissa Slotkin – Twitter/X – “…I voted in favor of the American Rescue Plan, a COVID relief bill that above all, will supercharge distribution of the vaccine and get more help out to our small businesses, families and schools.” 2/27/2021: https://x.com/RepSlotkin/status/1365667002145210368
3.) Mike Rogers, Twitter/X – “The open border, sponsored by Joe Biden and Elissa Slotkin, isn’t just bad policy — it’s dangerous. Known terrorists, human traffickers, Chinese nationalists, and fentanyl are all pouring into our nation.” 5/8/2024: https://x.com/mikerogersformi/status/1788275975169441954
Mike Rogers, Twitter/X – “Joe Biden’s malicious border policies are forcing away legitimate asylum seekers while illegal immigrants receive “backdoor amnesty.” This is an abject failure and dangerous. 12/21/2023: https://x.com/mikerogersformi/status/1737936998298468430
Congressional Website, H.R.2217 VOTED FOR – none of the funds made available in this act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce documents which are known as the Morton memos. (Note: The Morton memos are essentially executive edicts that have flowed from the White House, Secretary of Homeland Security, to Janet Napolitano, down through John Morton, who is the Director of ICE; and they seek to implement an administrative amnesty policy.) 6/6/2013: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2013208
WATCH: RSBN Video – Mike Rogers Facebook – “She (Slotkin) had a chance to say… end to sanctuary cities and very recently she said no. She would prefer sanctuary cities.” @3:19 https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=367426556402366
WATCH: Forbes Breaking News YouTube – “She (Slokin) just voted recently to let illegals vote in US elections. She voted against the wall. She voted for amnesty for illegals. She voted to allow DC to become a sanctuary city. Is that the kind of leadership you want in the United States Senate?” @0:10 8/27/2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b08FDk6mIfM
4.) Congressional Website, H.R.2 VOTED AGAINST – Secure the Border Act Bill – would resume construction of the border wall, limit asylum eligibility and require asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico. 5/11/2023: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2023209
Congressional Website, H.R.5376 VOTED FOR – Build Back Better Act – grants mass amnesty to illegal immigrants. 11/19/2021: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2021385
Congressional Website, H.R.16 Co-Sponsored – American Dream and Promise Act of 2023 – This bill provides amnesty and green cards to millions of illegal immigrants. 6/15/2023: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/16/cosponsors
Congressional Website, H.R.51 VOTED AGAINST the motion to recommit Washington DC Admission Act – The motion would prohibit Washington D.C. from becoming a sanctuary state. (An “against” vote would allow D.C. to become a sanctuary state.) 9/8/2020: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2020121
5.) Mike Rogers, Twitter/X – “Engagement, not entanglement. We need to stop sending money to countries who hate us and restore American energy independence.” 11/7/2023: https://x.com/mikerogersformi/status/1722012881531609106
Mike Rogers, Twitter/X – “Releasing oil from the strategic reserves is an emergency measure & shouldn’t be used as a corrective to POTUS’ bad energy policies. Cutting domestic production & fracking, & then asking OPEC for help are all conscious choices that are contributing to higher prices at the pump.” 11/23/2021: https://x.com/mikerogersformi/status/1463187177278517258
Mike Rogers, Twitter/X – “America must regain energy independence” 1/2/2024: https://x.com/mikerogersformi/status/1750955167652999478
Mike Rogers, Twitter/X – “I wish… (they) would focus on areas of common ground with Republicans like corporate tax reform, trade & Keystone Pipeline” 1/20/2015: https://x.com/MikeRogersForMI/status/557712959938383872
Congressional Website, H.R.5682 VOTED FOR – To Approve the Keystone SL Pipeline 11/14/2014: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2014519
6.) Congressional Website, H.R.8294 VOTED AGAINST – Motion to prohibit the sale of oil drawn from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to entities under the control of the Chinese Communist Party or for export to China. 6/20/2022: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2022382
Congressional Website, H.R.7176 VOTE AGAINST – Unlocking our Domestic LNG Potential Act – This bill repeals certain restrictions on the import and export of natural gas under the Natural Gas Act, including requirements for Department of Energy (DOE) approval and related provisions that address free trade agreements. 2/15/2024: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202452
Congressional Website, H.R.22 VOTED FOR – Protecting America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve from China Act – This bill prohibits the sale and export of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to China 1/24/2023: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202331
Congressional Website, H.R.1121 VOTE AGAINST – Protecting American Energy Production Act – would prevent a ban on fracking 3/20/2024: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202493
Elissa Slotkin, Twitter/X – “Warning: President Trump’s newest proposal opens offshore drilling in nearly all coastal waters. Are our Great Lakes next?” 1/10/2023: https://x.com/ElissaSlotkin/status/951209379814166529
7.) Mike Rogers, Twitter/X – “DC politicians like Slotkin have taken money out of Michiganders’ pockets and put it directly toward paying for hotels and healthcare for illegal immigrants.” 8/8/2024: https://x.com/mikerogersformi/status/1821669089179299874
Article, The Midwesterner – “Mike Rogers vows to tackle food inflation billions to house illegals” – “Washington politicians wasting your tax dollars on corporate welfare, and giving hotels and healthcare to illegals, rather than making life more affordable for families.” 8/8/2024: https://www.themidwesterner.news/2024/08/mike-rogers-vows-to-tackle-food-inflation-billions-to-house-illegals/
8.) Congressional Website, H.R.6800 VOTED FOR – The HEROES Act – allows each family to receive up to $6,000 in stimulus money (including illegal immigrants.) 7/23/2020:
https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2020109
Candidate Website, Elissa Slotkin Press Release – “Slotkin Unveils two bipartisan bills to enhance Border Security, Combat Migrant Trafficking” – “Emergency Migration Response Act would include: Emergency funding for soft-sided facilities, medical care, transportation” 5/18/2022: https://slotkin.house.gov/media/press-releases/slotkin-unveils-two-bipartisan-bills-enhance-border-security-combat-migrant
9.) Mike Rogers, Twitter/X – “Iconic trucks like the F-150, Silverado, & Ram 1500 are set to be banned thanks to the Biden-Slotkin EV mandate…we should have choices, not mandates.” 3/22/2024: https://x.com/mikerogersformi/status/1771231203871363191
Mike Rogers, Twitter/X – “Michiganders…want the government to stop telling them what car to buy.” 6/11/2024: https://twitter.com/MikeRogersForMI/status/1800627022126780568
Mike Rogers, Twitter/X – “His (Biden) radical push for an EV mandate will hurt the economy, the environment, and crush auto jobs.” 9/25/2023: https://x.com/MikeRogersForMI/status/1706348244152799397
Mike Rogers, Twitter/X – “…Harris and Slotkin cannot run from their radical EV mandates, and if they truly don’t support them, they should do the right thing and repeal the EV mandates today!” 8/27/2024: https://x.com/MikeRogersForMI/status/1828520479550062959
10.) Congressional Website, H.R.1435 VOTED AGAINST – Preserving Choice in Vehicle Purchases Act 9/14/2023: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2023391
Congressional Website, H.R.4468 VOTED AGAINST Choice in Automobile Retail Sales Act 12/6/2023: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2023703
Congressional Website, H.R.5376 VOTED for Motion to Concur – Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 – which purports to bring down inflation by increasing regulations, including cutting emissions in half by 2030 and net-zero emissions by 2050. This phases out gas-powered vehicles. 8/12/2022: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2022420
Rep Elissa Slotkin, Twitter/X – “Public-private partnerships like these are an essential way to power the transition to EVs…”8/5/2021: https://x.com/RepSlotkin/status/1423318007909167109
11.) Congressional Website, H.R.2175 Co-Sponsored – Born Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002 – 8/5/2002: https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/2175/cosponsors
12.) Congressional Website, H.R.26 VOTED AGAINST- Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act – This bill establishes requirements for the degree of care a health care practitioner must provide in the case of a child born alive following an abortion or attempted abortion. 1/11/2023: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202329
13.) Mike Rogers, Twitter/X – “Michiganders…They don’t want biological males competing against women.” 6/11/2024: https://twitter.com/MikeRogersForMI/status/1800627022126780568
Mike Rogers, Twitter/X – “We must protect women’s sports” 6/20/2024: https://twitter.com/MikeRogersForMI/status/1803886947011826037
Article, Detroit Free Press – Mike Rogers holds roundtable drawing transgender rights distinctions in US Senate Race – “This is not about…. condemning the LBGTQ community, it’s not any of that…it’s about fairness. It’s about Title IX.” 8/5/2024: https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/08/05/transgender-rights-draw-distinctions-in-senate-race/74681687007/
14.) Congressional Website, H.R.734 VOTED AGAINST – Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023 – prohibits school athletic programs from allowing individuals whose biological sex at birth was male to participate in programs that are for women or girls. 4/25/2023: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/734
Congressional Website, H.R.5 VOTED FOR – Equality Act – would extend Title IV of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes, which could lead to changes in school curriculums and require texts to affirm and promote views on gender and sexuality 2/25/2021: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202139
Congressional Website, H.R.2670 VOTED AGAINST (H.Amdt. 223 to HR.2670) – National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 – Prohibiting TRICARE from covering and the Department of Defense from furnishing sex reassignment surgeries and gender hormone treatments for transgender individuals. 12/22/2023: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2023301
15.) Congressional Website, H.R.5939 Co-Sponsored No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act 7/29/2010: https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/house-bill/5939/cosponsors
Congressional Website, H.R.1797 VOTED FOR – Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act – 8/19/2013: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2013251
Article, The Dispatch – “In Michigan, Mike Rogers Pitches Recalibrated Abortion Position” – ‘I could not support it,” Rogers said. “People say, ‘This is a change in his position.’ No, not really. The people decided, and to me that’s the most important vote that they can make, is a ballot vote…” 9/14/2016: https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/dispatch-politics/when-a-pro-life-republican-defends-his-states-abortion-rights/
Congressional Website, S.3 VOTED FOR – Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act 2003 – Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit any physician or other individual from knowingly performing a partial-birth abortion, except when necessary to save the life of a mother whose life is endangered by a physical disorder, illness, or injury. 11/5/2003: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2003530
Congressional Website, H.R.7 VOTED FOR To Prohibit taxpayer funded abortions 1/29/2014: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/201430
16.) Congressional Website, H.R.2670 VOTED AGAINST (H.Admt 222 to HR.2670) – National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 Prohibiting the Secretary of Defense from paying for or reimbursing expenses relating to abortion services. 12/22/2023: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2023300
Congressional Website, H.R.3755 VOTED FOR – Women’s Health Protection Act of 2021 – A bill to protect a person’s ability to determine whether to continue or end a pregnancy, and to protect a health care provider’s ability to provide abortion services. Provides for abortion without restrictions. 2/28/2022: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2021295
Rep Elissa Slotkin, Twitter/X – “…here’s what we should do: Republican Sens. Collins & Murkowski have a bill to codify Roe. Sen. Manchin today made clear that he would support it. If we have to use a procedural maneuver to bring it to the floor, then that’s what we should do.” 1/24/2022: https://twitter.com/RepSlotkin/status/1540376344764493825
17.) WATCH: NEWSMAX – Carl Higbie Show Interview with Mike Rogers – “What they tell you is if you don’t show up with an ID, you can sign a piece of paper that says, “No, gee whiz, I really am…fill in the blank. Should make you feel a lot better about how that’s handled in the state of Michigan. So, it is concerning.” @21:55 9/7/2024: https://www.newsmaxtv.com/Shows/Carl-Higbie-Frontline/vid/22f84e60-6010-11ef-a1ab-d794b86122bf
18.) Congressional Website, H.R.4 VOTED FOR – John R Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021 – federalizing elections and making state go through DOJ to change voting laws. Voter ID laws would be considered discriminatory. Voting by mail for all. 9/14/2021: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2021260
Congressional Website, H.R.8281 VOTED AGAINST – SAVE Act (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act) – This bill requires individuals to provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship in order to register to vote in federal elections. 7/10/2024: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024345
Congressional Website, HR.1 VOTED FOR – (VOTED AGAINST S 1) – For the People Act of 2021 SEC. 3. FINDINGS OF GENERAL CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY…(C) As a result, Congress finds that it has the authority pursuant to section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment to protect the right to vote. Congress also finds that States and localities have eroded access to the right to vote through restrictions on the right to vote including excessively onerous voter identification requirements, burdensome voter registration procedures, voter purges, limited and unequal access to voting by mail, polling place closures, unequal distribution of election resources, and other impediments. 3/11/2021: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202162
19.) Mike Rogers, Twitter/X – “It’s time to send the world one very clear message: The United States will ALWAYS support Israel’s right to defend itself.” 10/11/2023: https://x.com/mikerogersformi/status/1712195220497223792
Mike Rogers, Twitter/X – “We must always stand beside our #1 ally in the Middle East, and support Israel’s right to defend itself.” 10/15/2023: https://x.com/mikerogersformi/status/1713645376211653047
20.) Congressional Website, H.R.888 VOTED FOR – Reaffirming the State of Israel’s right to exist 11/28/2023: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2023677
21.) Article, WMURg abc – “Mike Rogers shares views with New Hampshire voters on issues including gun rights…” – “I’m a proponent of the 2nd Amendment…you do have to have some way of saying; this person is experiencing some mental distress and should not have the opportunity right now to buy a firearm.” 5/5/2023: https://www.wmur.com/article/new-hampshire-mike-rogers-guns-social-security/43806107
Congressional Website, H.R.1399 Co-Sponsored – District of Columbia Personal Protection Act – Prohibited gun registration in Washington, D.C. 7/4/2008: https://www.congress.gov/bill/110th-congress/house-bill/1399/cosponsors
Article, CNN Press Room – Rep Rogers (R-MI): “Gun control not the problem “
“Trying to point to one incident and one type of weapon isn’t going to solve this problem…When O’Brien asks why not challenge gun laws, too, and not sell AR-15s, Rep. Roger responds, “That’s not what killed those individuals in the movie theater. That weapon didn’t even function correctly…And that’s what I think is dangerous about saying this type of weapon we don’t like.” 7/26/2016: https://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/26/rep-rogers-r-mi-gun-control-not-the-problem/
WATCH: PBS WKAR ‘Off the Record’ – Mike Rogers Interview – “The one thing you’ll hear about red flag laws is you don’t want it to be weaponized. You have to have protections to make sure it’s not weaponized… as long as there is due process protections…fine, because you don’t want the mentally ill or people who are having mental health problems.. having access to firearms.” @9:15 3/3/2023: https://video.wkar.org/video/mar-3-2023-mike-rogers-otr-overtime-6l5k97/
22.) Congressional Website, H.R.1446 VOTED FOR – Enhanced Background Check Act of 2021 Increases the amount of time, from 3 business days to a minimum of 10 business days, that a federal firearms licensee must wait to receive a completed background check prior to transferring a firearm to an unlicensed person. 5/25/2022: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202177
Congressional Website, S.2938 VOTED FOR – Bi-partisan Safer Communities Act – Incentives for states to pass red flag laws, background checks for people under 21 years old. 6/25/2022: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2022299
Congressional Website, H.R.1808 VOTED FOR – Assault Weapons Ban of 2022 – This bill makes it a crime to knowingly import, sell, manufacture, transfer, or possess a semiautomatic assault weapon (SAW) or large capacity ammunition feeding device (LCAFD). 8/1/2022: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2022410
23.) Mike Rogers, Twitter/X – “Let’s give thanks to friends, family and religious freedom. Without that, we might not be here at all” 11/29/2016: https://x.com/mikerogersformi/status/803614509592088576
Mike Rogers, Facebook – “…Obama Administration’s decision to force religious schools and hospitals to offer free contraception as a form of birth control under the new health care law…I oppose this unprecedented mandate. I am a co-sponsor of H.R. 1179, the Respect for Rights of Conscience Act, legislation to overturn this policy which infringes on the First Amendment rights of religious employers.” 2/8/2012: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/gZjwDWF181F1Kwx4/
24.) Congressional Website, H.R.5 VOTED FOR – Equality Act – Would impact businesses, such as florists, photographers, venue owners, and bakers, who would be required to participate in same-sex weddings or gender transition celebrations. 3/17/2021: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202139
Congressional Website, H.R.8404 – Respect for Marriage Act – undermines religious liberty by failing to protect individuals, churches, or any organization that honors traditional marriage. The bill creates the potential of religious nonprofits and other tax-exempt organizations being targeted with lawsuits or having their tax-exempt status revoked. 12/13/2022: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2022513
25.) Congressional Website, H.R.2009 VOTED FOR – Keep the IRS off Your Health Care Act of 2013 Prohibits the Secretary of the Treasury from implementing or enforcing any provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. 8/2/2/2013: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2013447
Congressional Website, H.R.3350 Co-Sponsored – Keep Your Health Plan Act of 2013 – Permits a health insurance issuer that has in effect health insurance coverage in the individual market as of January 1, 2013, to continue offering such coverage for sale during 2014 outside of a health care exchange established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Treats such coverage as a grandfathered health plan for purposes of an individual meeting the requirement to maintain minimum essential health coverage. 11/15/2013: https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/3350/cosponsors
Congressional Website, H.R.3590 VOTED AGAINST – Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – (Obamacare) 3/23/2010: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2010165
26.) Congressional Website, H.R.2000 Co-Sponsored – Medicare-X Choice Act of 2019 – This bill establishes and funds the Medicare Exchange health plan, which allows individuals who are not otherwise eligible for Medicare to enroll in a government-administered health insurance plan. 4/1/2019: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/2000/cosponsors
Elissa Slotkin, Twitter/X – “I believe all people deserve access to health care they can afford. Yes, I believe it’s a right. I will be clear about that.” 10/6/2020: https://twitter.com/ElissaSlotkin/status/1313653310679908353
Article, M Live Michigan “Slotkin rejects Medicare for All, supports public buy in option” – “Slotkin, a freshman Congresswoman who campaigned on being able to bring a moderate voice to her politically-divided district, expressed support for a model proposed by Democratic primary contenders Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg. Under Buttigieg’s plan, ‘Medicare for All Who Want It,’ anyone could opt in to a government health care plan. Biden also supports letting Americans purchase a public health insurance option like Medicare.” 11/8/2019: https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2019/11/slotkin-rejects-medicare-for-all-supports-public-buy-in-option.html