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Ryan K. Zinke

MT-1 · Republican · House

F3312 votes tracked · 5 of 8 subjects

The short version

Ryan K. Zinke hurt women and families in 8 of the 12 votes we track.

What hurt women and families most

  • Voted for the 2025 law that cut Medicaid.

    What it means for herShe's 24, works part-time in Ohio with no insurance from her job, and hopes to have a baby someday. Medicaid pays for about 4 in 10 U.S. births. Starting in 2027 in most states, she must show 80 hours of work a month. If a slow month or a lost form cuts her off, she loses coverage before she is even pregnant. Source: KFF, 2025

  • Voted for adding prison time for health workers to a born-alive law that already exists.

    What it means for herShe's 22 weeks pregnant and just learned her baby has a fatal condition. Only 1.1% of U.S. abortions happen at 21 weeks or later. If her baby is born alive after an abortion, this bill would make her doctor send the baby to a hospital right away, even if it cannot survive, or face up to five years in prison. Source: CDC, Abortion Surveillance, 2024

  • Voted for a permanent ban on federal money for abortion.

    What it means for herShe's 30, self-employed in Illinois, and gets federal help paying for her marketplace plan. Illinois is one of 13 states that require plans like hers to cover abortion. This bill would have kept plans bought with federal help from covering abortion, and made the yearly ban on federal money for abortion permanent. Source: KFF, 2026

Every vote we track

Hurt women and families8

  • Voted yesThe 2025 law that cut Medicaid · Hurt women and familiesWhat it means for herShe's 24, works part-time in Ohio with no insurance from her job, and hopes to have a baby someday. Medicaid pays for about 4 in 10 U.S. births. Starting in 2027 in most states, she must show 80 hours of work a month. If a slow month or a lost form cuts her off, she loses coverage before she is even pregnant. Source: KFF, 2025
    DetailsOfficial title: H.R.1 — 2025 reconciliation, Medicaid cuts (concur in Senate amendment, enacted)From the official House roll call (2025–26, Roll Call 190): voted YEA.official roll call
  • Voted yesAdding prison time to an existing born-alive law · Hurt women and familiesWhat it means for herShe's 22 weeks pregnant and just learned her baby has a fatal condition. Only 1.1% of U.S. abortions happen at 21 weeks or later. If her baby is born alive after an abortion, this bill would make her doctor send the baby to a hospital right away, even if it cannot survive, or face up to five years in prison. Source: CDC, Abortion Surveillance, 2024
    DetailsOfficial title: H.R.21 — Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (House passage)From the official House roll call (2025–26, Roll Call 27): voted YEA.official roll call
  • Voted yesAdding prison time to an existing born-alive law · Hurt women and familiesWhat it means for herShe's 22 weeks pregnant and just learned her baby has a fatal condition. Only 1.1% of U.S. abortions happen at 21 weeks or later. If her baby is born alive after an abortion, this bill would make her doctor send the baby to a hospital right away, even if it cannot survive, or face up to five years in prison. Source: CDC, Abortion Surveillance, 2024
    DetailsOfficial title: H.R.26 — Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (House passage, 2023)From the official House roll call (2023–24, Roll Call 29): voted YEA.official roll call
  • Voted yesAdding prison time to an existing born-alive law · Hurt women and familiesWhat it means for herShe's 22 weeks pregnant and just learned her baby has a fatal condition. Only 1.1% of U.S. abortions happen at 21 weeks or later. If her baby is born alive after an abortion, this bill would make her doctor send the baby to a hospital right away, even if it cannot survive, or face up to five years in prison. Source: CDC, Abortion Surveillance, 2024
    DetailsOfficial title: H.R.3504 — Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (House passage, 2015)From the official House roll call (2015–16, Roll Call 506): voted YEA.official roll call
  • Voted yesA permanent ban on federal money for abortion · Hurt women and familiesWhat it means for herShe's 30, self-employed in Illinois, and gets federal help paying for her marketplace plan. Illinois is one of 13 states that require plans like hers to cover abortion. This bill would have kept plans bought with federal help from covering abortion, and made the yearly ban on federal money for abortion permanent. Source: KFF, 2026
    DetailsOfficial title: H.R.7 — No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act (House passage, 2015)From the official House roll call (2015–16, Roll Call 45): voted YEA.official roll call
  • Voted yesCutting child care money to states over rule-breaking · Hurt women and familiesWhat it means for herShe's 26, a single mom who works at a nursing home. A state subsidy pays for her son's day care. About 1.3 million children get this help each month. When a state breaks the program's rules, this bill would force extra penalties, which can include cutting off its grant. If her state lost it, she could lose her help. Source: Administration for Children and Families, 2026
    DetailsOfficial title: H.R.7726 — No Funds for Repeat Child Care Violations Act (House passage)From the official House roll call (2025–26, Roll Call 198): voted YEA.official roll call
  • Voted yesOverturning the 2024 Title IX rule · Hurt women and familiesWhat it means for herShe's 19, in college, and a classmate sexually assaulted her. Among college women, only 20% of rapes and sexual assaults are reported to police. The 2024 rule widened what her school must do when she reports it. This vote would have thrown that rule out. Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2014
    DetailsOfficial title: H.J.Res.165 — overturning the 2024 Title IX rule (House passage, 2024)From the official House roll call (2023–24, Roll Call 354): voted YEA.official roll call
  • Voted yesLeaving non-citizens out of the count for House seats · Hurt women and familiesWhat it means for herShe's 34, has a green card, and works as a home health aide in Florida. Her two children are U.S. citizens. About 13 million people with green cards live in the U.S. The Constitution counts every person. This bill would have left her out of the count that decides her state's seats in the U.S. House. Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of Homeland Security Statistics, 2026
    DetailsOfficial title: H.R.7109 — Equal Representation Act, census citizenship question (House passage, 2024)From the official House roll call (2023–24, Roll Call 193): voted YEA.official roll call

Helped women and families3

  • Voted yesA bigger Child Tax Credit · Helped women and familiesWhat it means for herShe's raising two kids alone on a low-wage job. Because the credit grows with earnings, she gets less of it than families who earn more. This bill would have raised the credit for about 16 million children in families like hers in its first year. Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 2024
    DetailsOfficial title: H.R.7024 — Child Tax Credit expansion (House passage)From the official House roll call (2023–24, Roll Call 30): voted YEA.official roll call
  • Voted yesRenewing help for trafficking victims · Helped women and familiesWhat it means for herShe's 16, and a man she met online is selling her for sex. In confirmed U.S. sex trafficking cases, 94% of victims were female. These bills renew or expand federal programs that help victims like her get safe and punish traffickers. Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2011
    DetailsOfficial title: H.R.5856 — Trafficking Victims Reauthorization Act of 2023 (House passage, 2024)From the official House roll call (2023–24, Roll Call 41): voted YEA.official roll call
  • Voted yesRenewing help for trafficking victims · Helped women and familiesWhat it means for herShe's 16, and a man she met online is selling her for sex. In confirmed U.S. sex trafficking cases, 94% of victims were female. These bills renew or expand federal programs that help victims like her get safe and punish traffickers. Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2011
    DetailsOfficial title: S.178 — Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act (House passage, 2015)From the official House roll call (2015–16, Roll Call 244): voted YEA.official roll call

Shown for context, not counted1

  • Voted yesAn immigration bill named after violence against women · Shown for context, not countedShown for context. It is an immigration bill, so it does not count.
    DetailsOfficial title: H.R.30 — Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act (House passage)Shown for context, not scored. From the official House roll call (2025–26, Roll Call 17): voted YEA.official roll call
How we count

We wrote down which bills and nominations count, and why, before we scored anyone. A vote counts as hurting women and families when it takes away care, coverage, safety or rights, and as helping when it protects them. A missed vote never counts against anyone. Money and court cases are shown, but never change the grade.

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