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</div><div><div id="customSummary"> Former Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA) participated in a how-to-gerrymander training for right-wing lawmakers in August. </div>For years, <a href="https://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">corporate-funded</a>

American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has been the place where

right-wing state lawmakers and corporate lobbyists go to conspire in

secret. But thanks to <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/alec-meeting-gerrymandering-audio-recording.html" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">Slate</a>, the leaked audio from a recent session on how to get away with gerrymandering has been made public.

The presentation was moderated by <a href="https://www.prwatch.org/news/2019/08/13491/election-manipulators-use-alec-push-their-partisan-power-grabs-against-voters" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">voter suppression advocate</a> Cleta Mitchell and featured voter fraud conspiracy theorist <a href="https://blog.ucsusa.org/michael-latner/hans-von-spakovsky-lies-now-hes-testifying-before-congress" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">Hans von Spakovsky</a>, unsuccessful Trump judicial <a href="http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/2019/05/16/judicial-nominee-farr-joins-gop-defense-team-in-redistricting-litigation/" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">nominee</a> and alleged <a href="https://www.naacpldf.org/our-thinking/ldf-blog/access-to-justice/white-supremacy-has-no-place-on-the-federal-bench/" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">white supremacist</a> Thomas Farr, former Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA), and Texas state Rep. Phil King (R). Their focus was on teaching the <a href="https://documented.net/2019/08/alec-legislators-am-2019/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">1,413 attendees</a>

that gerrymandering is a "political adult blood sport" and that those

doing it should pretend to be transparent but destroy the real evidence

of how they devise maps.

Mitchell warned that since Republican lawmakers devising maps to

overrepresent their share of the population were likely to be sued, they

should not keep anything incriminating.

"My advice to you is: If you don’t want it turned over in discovery,

you probably ought to get rid of it before you go home," Mitchell said.

But perhaps most shocking were the comments from Westmoreland, who

represented Georgia in Congress from 2005 to 2017. Before that, he

served as Republican leader in the Georgia House of Representatives,

where he opposed gerrymandering by the Democratic majority in 2001.

When Westmoreland went to the House of Representatives in 2005, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061101011854/http://images.washtimes.com/national/20050225-111610-4014r.htm" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">he pushed</a> Georgia Republicans — who has regained control of the state legislature in the 2004 election — to ram through a <a href="http://www.myweb.ttu.edu/semckee/docs/17.pdf" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">controversial</a> mid-decade <a href="https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2005/03/23/Georgia-legislature-approves-redistricting/48831111597709/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">redistricting plan</a>.

Westmoreland bragged that he expressly tricked Democratic lawmakers

in the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus into undermining their own

interests.

In 2010, he recalled, he co-chaired a GOP gerrymandering effort called called "<a href="http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/04/gops-house-seats-are-safe-heres-why.html" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">REDMAP</a>"

and relied on a map-making computer system. He invited black Democrats

in Georgia to try the software to devise "perfect districts" that packed

in the most minority voters possible and left neighboring districts

more Republican. Then he would use these racially packed districts in

the redistricting.

According to the Slate article:

Westmoreland

recalled inviting the members of the "black caucus" to his office, "off

campus," to create their "perfect map." One incumbent, he said,

"finally fell into the trap and came over there and drew his perfect

district." To show the redistricting plan benefited black Democrats too,

he "immediately got the local paper down there" to run an article on

that lawmaker’s perfect district. Westmoreland then included a district

as close as possible to that overwhelmingly black and Democratic one in

the state’s official map. The legislator, he said, voted against the map

and soon lost his seat.

"I

promise you it’ll be beneficial to you," he told the ALEC attendees.

"They still want to be reelected. They still want to have the best

district they can have."

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Dan Vicuña, Common Cause's national redistricting manager, said

Wednesday that this is "about as clear an example as you can have" of

illegal racial gerrymandering without having a court trial.

Noting that the Supreme Court has repeatedly held that race-based gerrymanders like the ones Westmoreland described are <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/16pdf/15-1262_db8e.pdf" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">unconstitutional</a>,

violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment as

well as Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, he observed that

Westmoreland effectively admitted to illegal activity.

"You've got clear admission by a Republican leader of conspiring with

sitting legislators to pack black voters into as few districts as

possible to ensure white dominance of the rest of the state," he said.

"If that's not illegal racial gerrymandering, I don't know what is."

The Center for Constitutional Rights, a progressive watchdog group, helped <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/alecs-redistricting-workshops-will-help-gop-lawmakers-gerrymander-watchdog-groups-warn-2013be8e41ff/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">sound the alarm</a> about two ALEC gerrymandering panels before they took place at the August conference.

In an interview on Wednesday, the group's advocacy program manager,

Dominic Renfrey, said the leaked audio confirmed "the suspicions that

activists have had for years that ALEC is a bootcamp for corporate

executives and conservative lawmakers determined to rig the system in

their favor."

He added that Westmoreland's admissions are "just as shocking as can be."

"ALEC has been the platform for the development and passage into law

of many initiatives over the years that have directly attacked black and

brown communities," Renfrey said, pointing to model legislation like

so-called "Stand Your Ground" laws and voter ID requirements. "This

initiative, with this recording, doesn't seem to be changing that

trajectory for ALEC."

Vicuña noted that the leaked audio is "important evidence of a process gone terribly wrong."

"There is a public process for show," he added, "a dog-and-pony show

where legislators with serious looks on their faces are accepting public

testimony — and then they go back to smoke filled rooms ... and devise

legislative districts to advantage themselves."

Patrick Rodenbush, communications director for the National

Democratic Redistricting Committee, said in an email that the audio

should be a "wake-up call."

"Republicans are plotting behind closed doors to ensure they can

manipulate the redistricting process in 2021 to lock in power in state

legislatures and congressional delegations across the country," he

wrote. "If we don’t win back power at the state and local level over the

next couple of years, the next Democratic president will have her (or

his) agenda hobbled by a gerrymandered House of Representatives and

conservative state legislatures around the country."

Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.</div><div>
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</div><div><cite>...</cite>here was a recent article in Slate about a audio recording leaked

from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) annual meeting

this year. The audio was of the closed-door “How to Survive

Redistricting” panel discussion, so this was a panel that’s particularly

important for understanding what the GOP has in mind for its 2021

hyper-gerrymandering schemes. The panel’s advice included helpful tips

like destroying evidence under the expectation that the district maps

they draw up are guaranteed to end up challenged in court. The evidence

they recommended attendees destroy included evidence they had attended

this panel discussion. It’s that kind of panel discussion.

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</div><div>the panel had four experts: North Carolina election lawyer Thomas

Farr, former Georgia Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (who co-chaired Project

REDMAP in 2010), Texas state Rep. Phil King, and Hans von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation <a href="https://spitfirelist.com/news/merger-of-crooked-vote-tallyers/#comment-23194">who happens to be one of the GOP’s biggest backers of voter suppression schemes</a>.

In particular, von Spakovsky has specialized in issuing fraudulent

warnings about illegal immigrants voting in US elections and using those

scare stories as justification for voter suppression laws. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/05/28/resignation-texas-is-reminder-how-trumps-vote-fraud-claims-come-up-empty/" rel="nofollow">Von

Spakovsky was also on Trump’s short-lived presidential commission aimed

at uncovering proof of this alleged rampant voter fraud</a>. In keep

with this theme of whipping up fears about immigrants, von Spakovksy has

been one of the chief advocates for using only population based on

citizenship, and not the total number of people in a state, for

redistricting purposes during the 2021 redistricting process. </div><div><div style="[object Object]"><li id="comment-333368"><div class="commentcont">

And that’s all what makes the discovery that Hans von Spakovsky is

leading the GOP’s 2021 gerrymandering schemes one of those ‘of course’

revelations, because of course we’re going to find that the same

people behind the GOP’s voter suppression drive are also be behind the

GOP’s hyper-gerrymandering operations too. It’s all part of the same

‘legalized cheating’ electoral agenda. <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/alec-meeting-gerrymandering-audio-recording.html" rel="nofollow">A legalized cheating agenda that requires the preemptive destruction of evidence of plans of this agenda</a>:

Slate

How to Get Away With Gerrymandering

A leaked audio recording reveals how state lawmakers are taught to trash

evidence, avoid the word gerrymander, and create an appearance of

bipartisanship.

By David Daley

Oct 02, 2019 ...
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cabanas atop Austin’s JW Marriott kept state legislators cool poolside

as August-in-Texas temperatures soared above 103 degrees during each day

of the American Legislative Exchange Council’s 2019 annual meeting. The

gathered Republican officials could enjoy a $14 rooftop Peppered Paloma

cocktail with Patrón silver, housemade grapefruit poblano soda, and

Chilean salt, all while gazing over Lady Bird Lake and the nearby state

Capitol, or catching a ballgame on the cabana’s 55-inch private TV.

Downstairs,

meanwhile, five of the GOP’s most seasoned redistricting minds and

über-lawyers would teach them the finer points of tilting maps and

drawing districts that would allow them to retain such spoils for

another decade.

Slate has obtained an exclusive audio recording

of the closed-door panel called “How to Survive Redistricting,”

moderated by influential Republican lawyer Cleta Mitchell. The

panel’s four experts—Hans von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation,

North Carolina election lawyer Thomas Farr, former Georgia Rep. Lynn

Westmoreland, and Texas state Rep. Phil King—are among the architects and defenders of some of the most notorious gerrymanders and voter suppression plans of this decade.

During

the session, the legislators were advised to treat redistricting as

“political adult blood sport,” trash potential evidence before it can be

discovered through litigation, avoid the word gerrymander, and make

deals with black and Latino legislators that guarantee them easy

reelections by packing as many minority voters as possible into their

districts, thereby making the rest of the map whiter and more

conservative.“You are going to be sued. Let’s start with that.” — Cleta Mitchell

Panelists

offered complicated technical advice, such as adding a legal provision

that would allow a legislature to defend its maps in court even if the

state attorney general refuses. And then there was less-technical

advice, like being sure to put “sharp” legislators on redistricting

committees because they’ll spend a lot of time explaining the maps in

court.

“You are going to be sued. Let’s start with that,”

Mitchell told a packed room at the ALEC gathering, attended by more than

1,400 people, including Trump administration officials and top

conservative lawmakers, thinkers, donors, and activists. Mitchell

made light of ALEC’s reputation as a conveyor belt for cookie-cutter

conservative legislation enacted by state after state. “Mindless state

legislators, we’re just pouring in information and we’re indoctrinating

you, pouring into your empty skulls!” she said, sarcastically. “We’re going to teach you how to gerrymander.”

And then she did.

“Let us begin with the fact that, probably, your notes from this

conference, and this workshop, will probably be part of a discovery

demand,” Mitchell said on the recording, dropping the sarcasm. “My

advice to you is: If you don’t want it turned over in discovery, you

probably ought to get rid of it before you go home.”
View Transcript

Farr,

the veteran North Carolina election lawyer whose nomination to the

federal bench in North Carolina ended amid persistent allegations that

he had defended efforts to suppress the black vote, compared lawsuits

against GOP redistricting plans to a cancer diagnosis. “You better

get some chemotherapy,” he said, “because if you don’t, things aren’t

going to turn out real well for you.” He also told legislators that they

needed to think about any trial as a play that he would direct as the

counsel, and to be sure that they created a script that an attorney

could work with before a judge.

Westmoreland, the former

Georgia congressman who co-chaired a Republican 2010 redistricting

initiative called REDMAP, told a story about giving black Democrats in

his state mapmaking software and encouraging them to draw their “perfect

district,” knowing that districts filled with minority voters would

make surrounding districts whiter and more Republican.

“We ended up being very successful with it,” Westmoreland said.

Westmoreland

recalled inviting the members of the “black caucus” to his office, “off

campus,” to create their “perfect map.” One incumbent, he said,

“finally fell into the trap and came over there and drew his perfect

district.” To show the redistricting plan benefited black Democrats too,

he “immediately got the local paper down there” to run an article on

that lawmaker’s perfect district. Westmoreland then included a district

as close as possible to that overwhelmingly black and Democratic one in

the state’s official map. The legislator, he said, voted against the map

and soon lost his seat.

“I promise you it’ll be

beneficial to you,” he told the ALEC attendees. “They still want to be

reelected. They still want to have the best district they can have.”
View Transcript

The

speakers repeatedly insisted that there is no such thing as a

nonpartisan redistricting process. Farr argued that maps can never be

neutral. “Every time you draw a districting line, it benefits one party

and hurts the other party,” he said.

The idea that Republicans are simply fighting similarly skewed Democratic gerrymanders has been debunked.

According to a University of Southern California study, 59 million

Americans live in states where at least one chamber of the state

legislature is controlled by the party that won fewer votes in 2018. In

every case, Republicans drew the lines, and hold minority control. That

the process is inherently political has been disproved as well: Several

states, including California, Iowa, and New Jersey, use independent

commissions or various neutral or bipartisan processes that have

successfully created fairer and more competitive maps. Three-quarters of

the seats that flipped during the 2018 U.S. House elections were drawn

by commissions or courts. Studies show that maps become more

representative and equitable when more parties have a seat at the table.

Nevertheless,

Farr urged these lawmakers to make their processes appear as open as

possible, even though they are driven by partisanship behind closed

doors.

The legislative record, he told them, must appear to be

business as usual, following every statute, with every transcript and

debate filed for the record.

Given that every map could end up in

court, Farr advised extraordinary caution. “You never know what you

might say, even if it’s unjust, that the left can take out of context

and try to use to make the Republicans look like they’re evil.”

Then, in court, Farr could take it from there.

“It’s

like I’m a director of a play,” he explained to the room. “I know what I

want the play to look like for the judges when we actually have to go

and defend what we’ve done in court, and so this is why you want to make

it look like—I know most of you know this already—you’re very cordial,

cooperative with the minority party or the opposing party. … The more

you take the high road in the legislative process, the better it’s going

to look in court when you have to defend what you’ve done.”
View Transcript

Republicans,

Farr suggested, are outgunned by the litigation power and the expert

witnesses on the side of fair maps. He complained that Republicans have

only five or six expert witnesses, while Democrats have between 18 and

20 “really outstanding and smart people” able to explain “newfangled

theories” about identifying gerrymanders.

Many

of those expert witnesses create tens of thousands of neutral maps

using nonpartisan, legal redistricting criteria. Courts in North

Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Ohio were all persuaded to overturn maps as

partisan gerrymanders by relying, in part, on simulated maps that

demonstrate that the ones drawn by legislators are wild partisan

outliers. This technological advancement offers the potential of

using the same technology that partisans use to rig maps to strip their

intent bare. For Farr, this is a great threat. He warned the legislators

that computer-assisted maps would be the tactic deployed against their

maps as partisan gerrymandering moves to state courts during the

upcoming 2020 redistricting cycle—and that he would help them defeat

those maps.

“Garbage in and garbage out,” he said. “You can read

these things to get the results that you want.” Farr said that the

professors working on these simulated maps were “very smart” and that

the work is “very complex.” “You’ve got to get the right experts to look

at their algorithm and all the backup that they have. But there’s a

definite way to defeat the concept of computer-simulated maps.”
View Transcript

As

Farr and Westmoreland taught lawmakers to conceal the true intent of

their maps and appear to play by the rules, Von Spakovsky envisioned a

longer game to change the rules of redistricting entirely.

Von

Spakovsky, a member of the Trump-Kobach “election fraud” commission,

urged GOP lawmakers to use citizenship data to redistrict state

legislatures rather than count the total populations of districts, the

latter being the constitutional standard for U.S. House districts and

the longtime norm for states, as well. Most state legislatures, however,

could redistrict state legislative lines based on citizen population,

in most cases simply by passing a statute. (Recent revelations from the

files of late GOP redistricting mastermind Thomas Hofeller demonstrated

that Republicans attempted to place a citizenship question on the 2020

census to gather citizenship data for this purpose.)

“All

of you need to seriously consider switching to using citizen population

to do redistricting,” he said, asserting that the concept of “one

person, one vote” was just something that liberal justices on the U.S.

Supreme Court “created … out of whole cloth.”

Von Spakovsky

also told lawmakers that census data is important for two reasons: the

apportionment of U.S. House seats, and state and federal redistricting.

Congressional apportionment based on total population, as the

Constitution mandates, is “fundamentally unfair,” he said, because

“states with large numbers of aliens, particularly illegal aliens, are

getting more political power.”

“Liberals do not

want you doing this,” he said, because “the higher the number of

noncitizens in a district, the greater the chances they’re going to vote

for a liberal.”
View Transcript

Von Spakovsky also praised

Chief Justice John Roberts’ majority, 5–4 opinion earlier this year in

Rucho v. Common Cause, which essentially closed the federal courts to

partisan gerrymandering claims. But he warned that other legal avenues

are still open to proponents of fair maps. “What you have to understand

is this is not the end of this,” he said.

Gerrymandered maps

could get challenged under state constitutions as a political question,

he said, or in federal courts for unconstitutional use of race data and

for diluting the votes of minorities contrary to Section 2 of the Voting

Rights Act. He called this “the Goldilocks principle of redistricting,”

noting that “you can’t use too much race,” but if you don’t use race at

all, “Hispanics, African Americans are going to claim you didn’t create

a district in which they can elect a candidate of their choice.”

To

withstand these inevitable legal challenges, the panelists said, it is

important to control not only legislative majorities but also the judges

approving or rejecting redistricting plans.

“Always know

who’s going to end up ruling on your maps,” Westmoreland, the Georgia

lawmaker, advised. “It’s important to work with the judges, the judicial

system. You need to work for your attorney generals. … You need to work

with as many organizations that you can to make sure that not only you

win the majority, but that you elect people that are going to be able to

supervise what these maps, or what you, come up with.”

Enticing more “dance partners” from minority groups to protect their own seats is another key part of that plan.

“It’s not rocket science,” Westmoreland said. “It’s politics.”

Read the full transcript of the ALEC meeting here.

This

story is part of Slate’s Who Counts? project, which investigates who

has decision-making power in America and what happens to those who

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</div><div>lynn A. Westmoreland (b. April 2, 1950, in Atlanta, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Georgia" title="Georgia">GA</a>) is a former <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republican" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican">Republican</a> member of the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/U.S._House_of_Representatives" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. House of Representatives">U.S. House of Representatives</a>. Westmoreland represented <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Georgia%27s_3rd_Congressional_District" title="Georgia's 3rd Congressional District">Georgia's 3rd Congressional District</a> from 2005 to 2017.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-biography-1">[1]</a>

He previously served in the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Georgia_House_of_Representatives" title="Georgia House of Representatives">Georgia House of Representatives</a> from 1993 to 2003. He also served as the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Georgia_House_of_Representatives" title="Georgia House of Representatives">House</a> <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republican" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican">Republican</a> Leader from 2001 to 2003.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-biography-1">[1]</a>

<h2>Career</h2>

Below is an abbreviated outline of Westmoreland's academic, professional, and political career:<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-2">[2]</a>

<ul><li>2007-2017: U.S. Representative from <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Georgia%27s_3rd_Congressional_District" title="Georgia's 3rd Congressional District">Georgia's 3rd Congressional District</a></li><li>2005-2007: U.S. Representative, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Georgia%27s_8th_Congressional_District" title="Georgia's 8th Congressional District">Georgia's 8th Congressional District</a></li><li>1993-2003: <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Georgia_House_of_Representatives" title="Georgia House of Representatives">Georgia House of Representatives</a>

<ul><li>2001-2003: House Republican Leader</li></ul></li></ul>

<h2>Committee assignments</h2>

<h3>U.S. House</h3>

Westmoreland served on the following committees:<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-3">[3]</a>

<ul><li><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_House_of_Representatives_Committee_on_Financial_Services#Financial_Institutions_and_Consumer_Credit" title="United States House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services">Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit</a></li><li><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_House_of_Representatives_Committee_on_Financial_Services#Housing_and_Insurance" title="United States House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services">Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance</a>, Vice Chairman</li><li><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_House_of_Representatives_Committee_on_Financial_Services#Monetary_Policy_and_Trade" title="United States House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services">Subcommittee on Monetary Policy and Trade</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_House_of_Representatives_Committee_on_Intelligence_(Permanent_Select)" title="United States House of Representatives Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select)">Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence</a></li></ul>

<dl><dd><ul><li><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_House_of_Representatives_Committee_on_Intelligence(Permanent_Select)#CIA" title="United States House of Representatives Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select)">Subcommittee on the CIA</a></li><li><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_House_of_Representatives_Committee_on_Intelligence(Permanent_Select)#NSA_and_Cybersecurity" title="United States House of Representatives Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select)">Subcommittee on NSA and Cybersecurity</a> Chairman</li></ul></dd></dl>

<ul><li>Select Committee on the Events Surrounding the 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi</li></ul>

Westmoreland served on the following committees:<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-4">[4]</a><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-5">[5]</a>

<ul><li>Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit</li><li>Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance</li><li>Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises</li></ul></li><li><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_House_Permanent_Select_Committee_on_Intelligence" class="mw-redirect" title="United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence">Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence</a>

<ul><li>Subcommittee on Oversight - Chairman</li></ul></li></ul>

<ul><li><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_House_of_Representatives_Committee_on_Financial_Services" title="United States House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services">Committee on Financial Services</a><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-biography-1">[1]</a>

<ul><li>Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit</li><li>Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity</li></ul></li><li><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_House_of_Representatives_Committee_on_Intelligence_(Permanent_Select)" title="United States House of Representatives Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select)">United States House of Representatives Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select)</a><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-biography-1">[1]</a></li></ul>

<h2>Key votes</h2>

<h3>114th Congress</h3>

The first session of the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/114th_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="114th Congress">114th Congress</a> enacted into law six out of the 2,616 introduced bills (0.2 percent). Comparatively, the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/113th_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="113th Congress">113th Congress</a> had 1.3 percent of introduced bills enacted into law in the first session. In the second session, the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/114th_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="114th Congress">114th Congress</a> enacted 133 out of 3,159 introduced bills (4.2 percent). Comparatively, the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/113th_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="113th Congress">113th Congress</a> had 7.0 percent of introduced bills enacted into law in the second session.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-6">[6]</a><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-7">[7]</a> For more information pertaining to Westmoreland's voting record in the 114th Congress, please see the below sections.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-8">[8]</a>

<h4>Economic and fiscal</h4>

<h5>Trade Act of 2015</h5>

<dl><dd><dl><dd>See also: <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/The_Trans-Pacific_Partnership_trade_deal,_2015" class="mw-redirect" title="The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, 2015">The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, 2015</a>
</dd></dl></dd></dl>

Trade adjustment assistance

is a federal program providing American workers displaced by foreign

trade agreements with job training and services. The measure was

packaged with <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Trade_promotion_authority_(TPA)" title="Trade promotion authority (TPA)">trade promotion authority (TPA)</a>,

also known as fast-track authority. TPA is a legislative procedure that

allows Congress to define "U.S. negotiating objectives and spells out a

detailed oversight and consultation process for during trade

negotiations. Under TPA, Congress retains the authority to review and

decide whether any proposed U.S. trade agreement will be implemented,"

according to the Office of the United States Trade Representative.

Westmoreland was one of 158 Republicans to vote against TAA.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-9">[9]</a><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-10">[10]</a>

Trade promotion authority

without the opportunity for amendment or filibuster. Although the House

approved TPA, it was a largely symbolic vote given the measure was part

of a package trade bill including <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Trade_adjustment_assistance" class="mw-redirect" title="Trade adjustment assistance">trade adjustment assistance (TAA)</a>, which was rejected earlier the same day. Westmoreland was one of 54 <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republicans" class="mw-redirect" title="Republicans">Republicans</a> to vote against the measure.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-11">[11]</a><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-12">[12]</a>

Trade promotion authority second vote

June 18, 2015. The amendment passed by a vote of 218-208, with all

voting members of the House maintaining their original positions on TPA

except for <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Ted_Yoho" title="Ted Yoho">Ted Yoho</a> (R-Fla.). Westmoreland was one of 50 <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republicans" class="mw-redirect" title="Republicans">Republicans</a> to vote against the amendment.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-13">[13]</a><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-14">[14]</a>

Trade adjustment assistance second vote

<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Portal:Legislative_Branch" title="Portal:Legislative Branch"><img alt="Nay3.png" src="https://cdn.ballotpedia.org/images/thumb/e/ea/Nay3.png/55px-Nay3.png" data-file-width="197" data-file-height="106" width="55" height="30" /></a> The <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/U.S.House_of_Representatives" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. House of Representatives">House</a> passed <a target="blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1295">HR 1295—the Trade Preferences Extension Act of 2015</a>—on June 25, 2015, by a vote of 286-138. The <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/U.S.Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Senate">Senate</a> packaged <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Trade_adjustment_assistance" class="mw-redirect" title="Trade adjustment assistance">trade adjustment assistance (TAA)</a> in this bill after the House rejected the TAA measure in <a target="blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1314/text">HR 1314—the Trade Act of 2015</a>. Along with <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Trade_promotion_authority(TPA)" title="Trade promotion authority (TPA)">trade promotion authority (TPA)</a>, which <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/U.S.Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Congress">Congress</a> passed as part of <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/2146">HR 2146—the Defending Public Safety Employees' Retirement Act</a>—TAA became law on June 29, 2015. Westmoreland was one of 132 <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republicans" class="mw-redirect" title="Republicans">Republicans</a> to vote against HR 1295.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-15">[15]</a><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-16">[16]</a>

<h5>Defense spending authorization</h5>

a vote of 269-151. The bill "authorizes FY2016 appropriations and sets

forth policies for Department of Defense (DOD) programs and activities,

including military personnel strengths. It does not provide budget

authority, which is provided in subsequent appropriations legislation."

Westmoreland voted with 227 other <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republicans" class="mw-redirect" title="Republicans">Republicans</a> and 41 <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Democrats" class="mw-redirect" title="Democrats">Democrats</a> to approve the bill.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-17">[17]</a> The Senate passed the bill on June 18, 2015, by a vote of 71-25. President <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Barack_Obama:_Vetoed_legislation" title="Barack Obama: Vetoed legislation">vetoed the bill</a> on October 22, 2015.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-18">[18]</a>

<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Portal:Legislative_Branch" title="Portal:Legislative Branch"><img alt="Yea3.png" src="https://cdn.ballotpedia.org/images/thumb/c/cd/Yea3.png/50px-Yea3.png" data-file-width="193" data-file-height="107" width="50" height="28" /></a> On November 5, 2015, the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">House</a> passed <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/1356?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22%5C%22s1356%5C%22%22%5D%7D&resultIndex=1">S 1356—the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016</a>—by

a vote of 370-58. The second version of the $607 billion national

defense bill included $5 billion in cuts to match what was approved in

the budget and language preventing the closure of the Guantanamo Bay

military prison.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-19">[19]</a><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-20">[20]</a> Westmoreland voted with 234 other <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republicans" class="mw-redirect" title="Republicans">Republicans</a> and 135 <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Democrats" class="mw-redirect" title="Democrats">Democrats</a> to approve the bill.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-21">[21]</a> On November 10, 2015, the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">Senate</a> passed the bill by a vote of 91-3, and President <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> signed it into law on November 25, 2015.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-22">[22]</a>

<h5>2016 Budget proposal</h5>

a congressional budget proposal for fiscal year 2016, by a vote of

226-197. The non-binding resolution was designed to create 12

appropriations bills to fund the government. All 183 <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Democrats" class="mw-redirect" title="Democrats">Democrats</a> who voted, voted against the resolution. Westmoreland voted with 225 other <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republicans" class="mw-redirect" title="Republicans">Republicans</a> to approve the bill.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-23">[23]</a><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-24">[24]</a><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-25">[25]</a>

<h5>2015 budget</h5>

<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Portal:Legislative_Branch" title="Portal:Legislative Branch"><img alt="Nay3.png" src="https://cdn.ballotpedia.org/images/thumb/e/ea/Nay3.png/55px-Nay3.png" data-file-width="197" data-file-height="106" width="55" height="30" /></a> On October 28, 2015, the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">House</a> passed <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1314/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22%5C%22hr1314%5C%22%22%5D%7D&resultIndex=1">HR 1314—the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015</a>—by a vote of 266-167. The bill increased military and domestic spending levels and suspended the debt ceiling until March 2017.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-26">[26]</a> Westmoreland voted with 166 <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republicans" class="mw-redirect" title="Republicans">Republicans</a> against the bill.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-27">[27]</a> It passed the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">Senate</a> on October 30, 2015.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-28">[28]</a> President <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> signed it into law on November 2, 2015.

<h4>Foreign Affairs</h4>

<h5>Iran nuclear deal</h5>

<dl><dd><dl><dd>See also: <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Iran_nuclear_agreement,_2015" class="mw-redirect" title="Iran nuclear agreement, 2015">Iran nuclear agreement, 2015</a></dd></dl></dd></dl>

had 60 days to review the deal and vote to approve, disapprove, or take

no action on the deal. During the review period, sanctions on Iran

could not be lifted. Westmoreland voted with 18 other <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republican" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican">Republican</a> <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">representatives</a> against the bill.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-29">[29]</a><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-30">[30]</a>

Approval of Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action

3461—To approve the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, signed at

Vienna on July 14, 2015, relating to the nuclear program of Iran</a>—by a vote of 162-269. The legislation proposed approving <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Iran_nuclear_agreement,_2015" class="mw-redirect" title="Iran nuclear agreement, 2015">the nuclear agreement with Iran</a>. Westmoreland voted with 243 <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republicans" class="mw-redirect" title="Republicans">Republicans</a> and 25 <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Democrats" class="mw-redirect" title="Democrats">Democrats</a> against the bill.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-31">[31]</a><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-32">[32]</a>

Suspension of Iran sanctions relief

3460—To suspend until January 21, 2017, the authority of the President

to waive, suspend, reduce, provide relief from, or otherwise limit the

application of sanctions pursuant to an agreement related to the nuclear

program of Iran</a>—by a vote of 247-186. HR 3460 prohibited "the

President, prior to January 21, 2017, from: limiting the application of

specified sanctions on Iran or refraining from applying any such

sanctions; or removing a foreign person (including entities) listed in

Attachments 3 or 4 to Annex II of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action

(JCPA) from the list of designated nationals and blocked persons

maintained by the Office of Foreign Asset Control of the Department of

the Treasury." Westmoreland voted with 244 <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republicans" class="mw-redirect" title="Republicans">Republicans</a> and two <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Democrats" class="mw-redirect" title="Democrats">Democrats</a> for the bill.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-33">[33]</a><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-34">[34]</a>

Presidential non-compliance of section 2

<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Portal:Legislative_Branch" title="Portal:Legislative Branch"><img alt="Yea3.png" src="https://cdn.ballotpedia.org/images/thumb/c/cd/Yea3.png/50px-Yea3.png" data-file-width="193" data-file-height="107" width="50" height="28" /></a> On September 10, 2015, the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">House</a> passed <a target="blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-resolution/411">H Res 411—Finding that the President has not complied with section 2 of the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015</a>—by a vote of 245-186. Section 2 of the <a target="blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1191">Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015</a> required the president to submit all materials related to the nuclear agreement for congressional review. House <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republicans" class="mw-redirect" title="Republicans">Republicans</a>

introduced the resolution because two agreements between the

International Atomic Energy Agency and Iran were not submitted to

Congress. Westmoreland voted with 244 <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republicans" class="mw-redirect" title="Republicans">Republicans</a> for the resolution.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-35">[35]</a><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-rc492-36">[36]</a>

<h5>Export-Import Bank</h5>

a vote of 313-118. The bill proposed reauthorizing the Export-Import

Bank and allowing it to resume offering assistance in the form of loans

and insurance to foreign companies that wanted to buy U.S. goods.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-37">[37]</a> Westmoreland voted with 116 <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republicans" class="mw-redirect" title="Republicans">Republicans</a> and one <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Democrat" class="mw-redirect" title="Democrat">Democrat</a> against the bill.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-38">[38]</a>

<h4>Domestic</h4>

<h5>USA FREEDOM Act of 2015</h5>

2048—the Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and

Ensuring Effective Discipline Over Monitoring Act of 2015 or the USA

FREEDOM Act of 2015</a>—by a vote of 338-88. The legislation revised <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/house-bill/3199?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22Patriot+Act%22%5D%7D">HR 3199—the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005</a>—by ending the bulk collection of metadata under Sec. 215 of the act, requiring increased reporting from the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Court" title="United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court">Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court</a>,

and requiring the use of "a specific selection term as the basis for

national security letters that request information from wire or

electronic communication service providers, financial institutions, or

consumer reporting agencies." Westmoreland voted with 195 <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republicans" class="mw-redirect" title="Republicans">Republicans</a> and 142 <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Democrats" class="mw-redirect" title="Democrats">Democrats</a> to approve the legislation. It became law on June 2, 2015.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-39">[39]</a><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-40">[40]</a>

<h5>Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act</h5>

a vote of 242-184. The bill proposed prohibiting abortions from being

performed after a fetus was determined to be 20 weeks or older. The bill

proposed exceptions in cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of

the mother. Westmoreland voted with 237 <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republicans" class="mw-redirect" title="Republicans">Republicans</a> in favor of the bill.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-41">[41]</a><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-42">[42]</a>

<h5>Cyber security</h5>

a vote of 355-63. The bill proposed creating an information sharing

program that would allow federal agencies and private entities to share

information about cyber threats. It also proposed including liability

protections for companies.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-43">[43]</a> Westmoreland voted with 219 <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republicans" class="mw-redirect" title="Republicans">Republicans</a> and 135 <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Democrats" class="mw-redirect" title="Democrats">Democrats</a> to approve the bill.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-44">[44]</a>

<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Portal:Legislative_Branch" title="Portal:Legislative Branch"><img alt="Yea3.png" src="https://cdn.ballotpedia.org/images/thumb/c/cd/Yea3.png/50px-Yea3.png" data-file-width="193" data-file-height="107" width="50" height="28" /></a> On April 22, 2015, the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">House</a> passed <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1560">HR 1560—the Protecting Cyber Networks Act</a>—by a vote of 307-116.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-45">[45]</a>

The bill proposed procedures that would allow federal agencies and

private entities to share information about cyber threats. Westmoreland

voted with 201 <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republicans" class="mw-redirect" title="Republicans">Republicans</a> and 105 <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Democrats" class="mw-redirect" title="Democrats">Democrats</a> in favor of the bill.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-46">[46]</a>

<h4>Immigration</h4>

<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Portal:Legislative_Branch" title="Portal:Legislative Branch"><img alt="Neutral/Abstain" src="https://ballotpedia.s3.amazonaws.com/images/thumb/2/20/GrayDotX.svg/30px-GrayDotX.svg.png" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="17" width="30" height="26" /></a> On November 19, 2015, the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">House</a> passed <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/4038?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22%5C%22hr4038%5C%22%22%5D%7D&resultIndex=1">HR 4038 - the American SAFE Act of 2015</a> by a vote of 289-137.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-47">[47]</a>

The bill proposed instituting additional screening processes for

refugees from Iraq and Syria who apply for admission to the U.S.

Westmoreland and one other <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republican" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican">Republican</a> did not vote.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-48">[48]</a>

<h3>113th Congress</h3>

The second session of the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/113th_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="113th Congress">113th Congress</a> enacted into law 224 out of the 3215 introduced bills (7 percent). Comparatively, the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/112th_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="112th Congress">112th Congress</a> had 4.2 percent of introduced bills enacted into law in the second session.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-49">[49]</a> For more information pertaining to Westmoreland's voting record in the 113th Congress, please see the below sections.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-50">[50]</a>

<h3>National security</h3>

<h4>DHS Appropriations</h4>

Westmoreland voted in favor of HR 2217 - the DHS Appropriations Act of

The bill passed the House on June 6, 2013, with a vote of 245 -

182 and was largely along party lines.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-votes-51">[51]</a>

<h4>Keystone Pipeline Amendment</h4>

Westmoreland did not vote on House Amendment 69, which would have

amended HR 3 to "require that the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials

Safety Administration, in consultation with the Department of Homeland

Security, conduct a study of the vulnerabilities of the Keystone XL

pipeline to a terrorist attack and certify that necessary protections

have been put in place." The amendment failed on May 22, 2013, with a

vote of 176 - 239 and was largely along party lines.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-votes-51">[51]</a>

<h4>CISPA (2013)</h4>

Westmoreland voted in favor of HR 624 - the CISPA (2013). The bill

passed the House on April 18, 2013, with a vote of 288 - 127. The bill

permitted federal intelligence agencies to share cybersecurity

intelligence and information with private entities and utilities.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-52">[52]</a> The bill was largely supported by Republicans, but divided the Democratic Party.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-votes-51">[51]</a>

Westmoreland voted in support of HR 1960 - the National Defense

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014. The bill passed the House on

June 14, 2013, with a vote of 315 - 108. Both parties were somewhat

divided on the vote.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-votes-51">[51]</a>

<h3>Economy</h3>

<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Portal:Legislative_Branch" title="Portal:Legislative Branch"><img alt="Neutral/Abstain" src="https://ballotpedia.s3.amazonaws.com/images/thumb/2/20/GrayDotX.svg/30px-GrayDotX.svg.png" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="17" width="30" height="26" /></a> On January 29, 2014, the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">U.S. House</a> approved the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013, <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d113:HR2642:">H.R. 2642</a>, also known as the Farm Bill.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-53">[53]</a>

The bill passed by a vote of 251-166. The nearly 1,000-page bill

reformed and continued various programs of the Department of Agriculture

through 2018. The $1 trillion bill expanded crop insurance for farmers

by $7 billion over the next decade and created new subsidies for rice

and peanut growers that would kick in when prices drop.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-54">[54]</a><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-farm-55">[55]</a> However, cuts to the food stamp program cut an average of $90 per month for 1.7 million people in 15 states.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-farm-55">[55]</a> Westmoreland did not vote on the bill.

<h4>2014 Budget</h4>

<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Portal:Legislative_Branch" title="Portal:Legislative Branch"><img alt="Yea3.png" src="https://cdn.ballotpedia.org/images/thumb/c/cd/Yea3.png/50px-Yea3.png" data-file-width="193" data-file-height="107" width="50" height="28" /></a> On January 15, 2014, the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republican" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican">Republican</a>-run <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/U.S.House" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. House">House</a> approved <a target="blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2014/roll021.xml">H.R. 3547</a>, a $1.1 trillion spending bill to fund the government through September 30, 2014.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-cnnhousevote-56">[56]</a><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-vote-57">[57]</a> The House voted 359-67 for the 1,582-page bill, with 64 <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republicans" class="mw-redirect" title="Republicans">Republicans</a> and three <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Democrats" class="mw-redirect" title="Democrats">Democrats</a> voting against the bill.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-vote-57">[57]</a> The omnibus package included 12 annual spending bills to fund federal operations.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-58">[58]</a>

It increased the paychecks of federal workers and military personnel by

1 percent, increased Head Start funding for early childhood education

by $1 billion, reduced funding to the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Internal_Revenue_Service" title="Internal Revenue Service">Internal Revenue Service</a> and the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Environmental_Protection_Agency" class="mw-redirect" title="Environmental Protection Agency">Environmental Protection Agency</a>, and protected the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Healthcare.gov_website_rollout" title="Healthcare.gov website rollout">Affordable Care Act</a> from any drastic cuts. Westmoreland voted with the majority of the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republican" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican">Republican</a> Party in favor of the bill.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-cnnhousevote-56">[56]</a>

<h4>Government shutdown</h4>

<dl><dd><dl><dd>See also: <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_budget_debate,_2013" title="United States budget debate, 2013">United States budget debate, 2013</a></dd></dl></dd></dl>

On September 30, 2013, the House passed a final stopgap spending bill

before the shutdown went into effect. The bill included a one-year delay

of the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate and would have also

stripped the bill of federal subsidies for congressional members and

staff. It passed through the House with a vote of 228-201.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-59">[59]</a>

At 1 a.m. on October 1, 2013, one hour after the shutdown officially

began, the House voted to move forward with going to a conference. In

short order, Sen. <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Harry_Reid" title="Harry Reid">Harry Reid</a> rejected the call to conference.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-60">[60]</a> Westmoreland voted to approve the stopgap spending bill that would have delayed the individual mandate.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-61">[61]</a>

<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Portal:Legislative_Branch" title="Portal:Legislative Branch"><img alt="Nay3.png" src="https://cdn.ballotpedia.org/images/thumb/e/ea/Nay3.png/55px-Nay3.png" data-file-width="197" data-file-height="106" width="55" height="30" /></a> The shutdown ended on October 16, 2013, when the House took a vote on HR 2775 after it was approved by the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">Senate</a>.

The bill to reopen the government lifted the $16.7 trillion debt limit

and funded the government through January 15, 2014. Federal employees

also received retroactive pay for the shutdown period. The only

concession made by <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">Senate Democrats</a> was to require income verification for <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Obamacare" class="mw-redirect" title="Obamacare">Obamacare</a> subsidies.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-62">[62]</a>

The House passed the legislation shortly after the Senate, by a vote of

285-144, with all 144 votes against the legislation coming from <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republican" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican">Republican</a> members. Westmoreland voted against HR 2775.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-63">[63]</a>

<h3>Immigration</h3>

<h4>Morton Memos Prohibition</h4>

Westmoreland voted in favor of House Amendment 136 - Prohibits the

Enforcement of the Immigration Executive Order. The amendment was

adopted by the House on June 6, 2013, with a vote of 224 - 201. The

purpose of the amendment as stated on the official text is to "prohibit

the use of funds to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the

Morton Memos." These memos would have granted administrative amnesty to

certain individuals residing in the United States without legal status.

The vote largely followed party lines.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-votes-51">[51]</a>

<h3>Healthcare</h3>

<h4>Healthcare Reform Rules</h4>

Westmoreland voted in favor of House Amendment 450 - Requires

Congressional Approval for Any Rules Under the Patient Protection and

Affordable Care Act. The amendment was adopted by the House on August 2,

2013, with a vote of 227-185. The amendment requires all changes to the

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act be approved by Congress

before taking effect. The vote was largely along party lines.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-votes-51">[51]</a>

<h4>Keep the IRS Off Your Healthcare Act</h4>

Westmoreland voted in favor of HR 2009 - Keep the IRS Off Your

Healthcare Act of 2013. The bill passed through the House on August 2,

2013, with a vote of 232-185. The bill would prevent the IRS and

Treasury Secretary from enforcing the powers provided to them in the

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The vote largely followed

party lines.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-votes-51">[51]</a>

<h3>Social issues</h3>

<h4>Amash amendment</h4>

Westmoreland voted against House Amendment 413 - Prohibits the National

Security Agency from Collecting Records Under the Patriot Act. The

amendment failed on July 4, 2013, by a vote of 205-217. The amendment

would have prohibited the collection of records by the National Security

Agency under the Patriot Act. Both parties were split on the vote.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-votes-51">[51]</a>

<h3>Government affairs</h3>

<dl><dd><dl><dd>See also: <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Boehner%27s_lawsuit_against_the_Obama_administration" title="Boehner's lawsuit against the Obama administration">Boehner's lawsuit against the Obama administration</a></dd></dl></dd></dl>

<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Portal:Legislative_Branch" title="Portal:Legislative Branch"><img alt="Yea3.png" src="https://cdn.ballotpedia.org/images/thumb/c/cd/Yea3.png/50px-Yea3.png" data-file-width="193" data-file-height="107" width="50" height="28" /></a> On July 30, 2014, the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/U.S.House" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. House">U.S. House</a> approved <a target="blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c113:H.RES.676:">a resolution</a> 225 to 201 to sue President Barack Obama for exceeding his constitutional authority. Five <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republicans" class="mw-redirect" title="Republicans">Republicans</a>—<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Thomas_Massie" title="Thomas Massie">Thomas Massie</a> of Kentucky, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Paul_Broun" title="Paul Broun">Paul Broun</a> of Georgia, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Scott_Garrett" title="Scott Garrett">Scott Garrett</a> of New Jersey, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Walter_Jones" title="Walter Jones">Walter Jones</a> of North Carolina and <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Steve_Stockman" title="Steve Stockman">Steve Stockman</a> of Texas—voted with <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Democrats" class="mw-redirect" title="Democrats">Democrats</a> against the lawsuit.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-64">[64]</a> Westmoreland joined the other 224 <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republicans" class="mw-redirect" title="Republicans">Republicans</a> in favor of the lawsuit. All Democrats voted against the resolution.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-65">[65]</a><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-66">[66]</a>

<h3>Previous congressional sessions</h3>

<h4>Fiscal Cliff</h4>

Westmoreland voted against the fiscal cliff compromise bill, which made

permanent most of the Bush tax cuts originally passed in 2001 and 2003

while also raising tax rates on the highest income levels. He was 1 of

151 Republicans that voted against the bill. The bill was passed in the

House by a 257 - 167 vote on January 1, 2013.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-67">[67]</a>

<h2>Issues</h2>

<h3>National security</h3>

<h4>American response in Syria</h4>

<dl><dd>See also: <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_involvement_in_Syria" class="mw-redirect" title="United States involvement in Syria">United States involvement in Syria</a></dd></dl>

Westmoreland released a statement regarding the situation in Syria on

September 2, 2013. In it he said: "As most of you know, Syria is in the

middle of a violent civil war. According to the latest media reports,

the Assad regime has used chemical weapons against its own people and

now President <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Obama</a> is considering some type of a military intervention in Syria.

However, Article II, Section 8 of the US Constitution clearly gives <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="Congress">Congress</a>,

and not the president, the power to "provide for the common defense"

and "to declare war." Therefore, any use of military force in or against

Syria must be authorized by <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="Congress">Congress</a>.

That is why I signed on to a letter with my colleagues in the House

urging President Obama to "consult and receive authorization from <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="Congress">Congress</a>

before ordering the use of US military force in Syria." We cannot allow

this president to ignore the Constitution, once again, and get our

country involved in what is clearly a religious-based civil war in an

unstable region without authorization by <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="Congress">Congress</a>.

It is our constitutional responsibility and I refuse to sit by and let

President Obama trample all over our Constitution any more than he

already has.

There is also a larger issue here as to whether or not the United

States should so cavalierly be involving ourselves in every internal

dispute in the Middle East. I agree that the reports out of Syria of the

staggering death toll and the reported use of chemical weapons by the

Assad regime are troubling. But that does not mean that the United

States should intervene. This is a complicated situation and there are

conflicting reports about exactly what is happening. While it is

certainly not easy to sit back and watch some of what is being reported

on the news, we should not get involved without all of the information.

We do not want a repeat of what happened with US military intervention

in Libya back in March 2011. Then, President Obama bypassed <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="Congress">Congress</a>

- like he is attempting to do now - and directed the military to

conduct missile strikes to enforce a no-fly zone. Eighteen months later,

the Libyan Ambassador and four other Americans were brutally murdered

in Libya. And now, more than two years later, that country is still

unstable and the situation is not getting any better.

Until we are able to get accurate information about exactly who

the rebels are and what their long-term plans are if they win out, the

United States needs to be very careful about getting involved in Syria.

And the president should not unilaterally make a decision that could

involve our country in an unwinnable war."<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-68">[68]</a>

<h3>Presidential preference</h3>

<h3>2016 presidential endorsement</h3>

✓ Westmoreland endorsed <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Marco_Rubio_presidential_campaign,2016" title="Marco Rubio presidential campaign, 2016">Marco Rubio</a> for the Republican primary in the 2016 U.S. <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Presidential_election,2016" title="Presidential election, 2016">presidential election</a>.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-69">[69]</a>

<dl><dd><dl><dd>See also: <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Marco_Rubio_presidential_campaign,_2016#Endorsements" title="Marco Rubio presidential campaign, 2016">Endorsements for Marco Rubio</a></dd></dl></dd></dl>

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2012

<dl><dd><dl><dd>See also: <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Endorsements_by_state_officials_of_presidential_candidates_in_the_2012_election" title="Endorsements by state officials of presidential candidates in the 2012 election">Endorsements by state officials of presidential candidates in the 2012 election</a></dd></dl></dd></dl>

Lynn Westmoreland endorsed <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Newt_Gingrich" title="Newt Gingrich">Newt Gingrich</a> in the 2012 presidential election.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-70">[70]</a>

<h2>Elections</h2>

<dl><dd><dl><dd>See also: <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Georgia%27s_3rd_Congressional_District_election,_2016" title="Georgia's 3rd Congressional District election, 2016">Georgia's 3rd Congressional District election, 2016</a></dd></dl></dd></dl>

Heading into the election, Ballotpedia <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/U.S._Congress_race_ratings" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Congress race ratings">rated</a> this race as safely Republican. Incumbent <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Lynn Westmoreland</a> (R) did not seek re-election in 2016. <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Drew_Ferguson" title="Drew Ferguson">Drew Ferguson</a> (R) defeated <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Angela_Pendley" title="Angela Pendley">Angela Pendley</a> (D) in the general election on November 8, 2016. Ferguson defeated <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Mike_Crane" title="Mike Crane">Mike Crane</a> in the primary runoff election on July 26, 2016. Prior to that, Ferguson and Crane defeated <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Jim_Pace" title="Jim Pace">Jim Pace</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Richard_Mix" title="Richard Mix">Richard Mix</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Arnall_Thomas" title="Arnall Thomas">Arnall Thomas</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Chip_Flanegan" title="Chip Flanegan">Chip Flanegan</a>, and <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Samuel_Anders" title="Samuel Anders">Samuel Anders</a> to advance to the runoff election, while <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Angela_Pendley" title="Angela Pendley">Angela Pendley</a> defeated <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tamarkus_Cook" title="Tamarkus Cook">Tamarkus Cook</a> in the Democratic primary. The primary elections took place on May 24, 2016.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-list-71">[71]</a><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-primary16-72">[72]</a><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-73">[73]</a>

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</div><div>leon Acton "Lynn" Westmoreland (born April 2, 1950) is an American politician who was the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">U.S. representative</a> for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia%27s_3rd_congressional_district" title="Georgia's 3rd congressional district">Georgia's 3rd congressional district</a> from 2007 to 2017 and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia%27s_8th_congressional_district" title="Georgia's 8th congressional district">8th district</a> from 2005 to 2007. He is a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Republican_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Republican Party">Republican Party</a>.

<div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" dir="ltr" lang="en"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox" /></div>

<ul><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Westmoreland#Early_life,education_and_career">1 Early life, education and career</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Westmoreland#U.S.House_of_Representatives">2 U.S. House of Representatives</a>

<ul><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Westmoreland#Tenure">2.1 Tenure</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Westmoreland#Legislation">2.2 Legislation</a>

<ul><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-5"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Westmoreland#110th_Congress(2007–2008)">2.2.1 110th Congress (2007–2008)</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-6"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Westmoreland#112th_Congress(2011–2012)">2.2.2 112th Congress (2011–2012)</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-7"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Westmoreland#113th_Congress_(2013–2014)">2.2.3 113th Congress (2013–2014)</a></li></ul>

</li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Westmoreland#Committee_assignments">2.3 Committee assignments</a></li></ul>

</li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Westmoreland#Controversy">3 Controversy</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Westmoreland#Political_campaigns">4 Political campaigns</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Westmoreland#Personal_life">5 Personal life</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Westmoreland#References">6 References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Westmoreland#External_links">7 External links</a></li></ul>

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<h2>Early life, education and career</h2>Westmoreland was born in Atlanta, the son of Margaret Ferrell (née Lawson) and Leon Acton Westmoreland.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-1">[1]</a> He grew up in Metro Atlanta. He has no degree beyond a high school diploma. He attended <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_State_University" title="Georgia State University">Georgia State University</a>, but dropped out to work in a family construction business in which he later became an executive. He served in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_House_of_Representatives" title="Georgia House of Representatives">Georgia House of Representatives</a>

from 1993 to 2005, rising to the position of House Republican Leader in

2001. He held that position until 2003 when he stepped down in order to

devote time to his Congressional campaign in late 2003. He continued to

serve in the Georgia House until his election to the US House in 2005.

As Republican Leader in the Georgia House, he led the fight against intense partisan <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering" title="Gerrymandering">gerrymandering</a>

during the redistricting process controlled by the Democratic majority

in 2001. He abandoned his opposition and was instrumental in the

mid-decade redistricting that took place in 2005, after Republicans won

control of the Georgia legislature in the 2004 elections.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-WashTimes-2">[2]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-NYT-3">[3]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-4">[4]</a>

<h2>U.S. House of Representatives</h2><h3>Tenure</h3>During his first term in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/109th_United_States_Congress" title="109th United States Congress">109th United States Congress</a>, Westmoreland was appointed to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.House_Committee_on_Small_Business" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. House Committee on Small Business">U.S. House Committee on Small Business</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.House_Committee_on_Government_Reform" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. House Committee on Government Reform">U.S. House Committee on Government Reform</a>, and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.House_Committee_on_Transportation_and_Infrastructure" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure">U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure</a>.[].

In January 2015, the House Intelligence Committee was reorganized, and a

subcommittee on Cybersecurity and the National Security Agency was

created with Westmoreland appointed to be the subcommittee's first

chairman.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-5">[5]</a>

As a U.S. congressman, Westmoreland cosponsored a bill to place the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments" title="Ten Commandments">Ten Commandments</a> in the House of Representatives and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">Senate</a>. Westmoreland also sponsored a bill that the Ten Commandments could be displayed in courthouses in a historical setting.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-11alive-6">[6]</a> In May 2006, political humorist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Colbert" title="Stephen Colbert">Stephen Colbert</a> interviewed Westmoreland for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colbert_Report" title="The Colbert Report">The Colbert Report</a> show segment <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Know_a_District" title="Better Know a District">Better Know a District</a>, and during the interview, asked Westmoreland to name the Ten Commandments. Westmoreland was able to name only three of them.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-cnn-7">[7]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-8">[8]</a> Govtrack.us ranked Westmoreland as tied for the most conservative member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/112th_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="112th Congress">112th Congress</a>.

Westmoreland led a group of congressmen who opposed the 2006 renewal of certain provisions in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Voting Rights Act">Voting Rights Act</a>

that require nine Southern states and a number of counties (mostly in

the South) to obtain Federal permission for certain changes to election

law or changes in venue. Westmoreland and his colleagues claimed that

it was no longer fair to target their states, given the passage of time

since 1965 and the changes their states had made to provide fair

elections and voting. Despite Westmoreland's objections, a strong

bipartisan majority renewed the Voting Rights Act for another 25 years

without changes.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-cbsnews-9">[9]</a>

In 2008, Westmoreland ran unopposed in the Republican primary and

was re-elected after defeating his Democratic opponent Stephen Camp.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-10">[10]</a> After his win, Westmoreland announced that he was considering running for the office of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Georgia" title="List of governors of Georgia">Governor of Georgia</a> in 2010,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-11">[11]</a> but later indicated in an April 2009 press release that he would not.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-12">[12]</a>

In 2010 Westmoreland signed a pledge sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_Prosperity" title="Americans for Prosperity">Americans for Prosperity</a> promising to vote against any Global Warming legislation that would raise taxes.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-13">[13]</a>

As of February 4, 2016, Westmoreland had the most conservative

ideology score of any member of the House of Representatives in the

114th Congress according to GovTrack.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-14">[14]</a> As of April 25, 2016, he was the second-most conservative member of the House.

<h3>Legislation</h3>Westmoreland has sponsored various bills of his own, including:<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-15">[15]</a>

<h4>110th Congress (2007–2008)</h4><ul><li>H.R.

3229, a bill to mint 350,000 $1 infantry coins for sale during 2012,

with a surcharge of $10 on the sale of such coins, and with revenue to

be allocated to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Infantry_Museum" title="National Infantry Museum">National Infantry Museum</a>, introduced July 30, 2007, signed into law October 8, 2008.</li><li>H.R. 3492, a bill to increase the allowable amount of campaign

contributions to political action committees (PACs), introduced

September 6, 2007.</li></ul>

<h4>112th Congress (2011–2012)</h4><ul><li>H.R.

5710, a bill to establish a total daily energy consumption standard for

medium temperature commercial refrigerators, introduced May 10, 2012.</li></ul>

<h4>113th Congress (2013–2014)</h4><ul><li>H.R. 3985, a bill to prohibit health insurers from making required payments under the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act">Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act</a>

(PPACA) for transitional reinsurance in the individual health insurance

market, and to repeal the PPACA's risk corridors and risk adjustments

for insurance companies, introduced February 3, 2014.</li><li>H.R. 4604, a bill to allow for consumers to opt out of having personally identifiable information collected by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Financial_Protection_Bureau" title="Consumer Financial Protection Bureau">Consumer Financial Protection Bureau</a> (CFPB) and to set a 60-day time limit on how long the CFPB can store such information, introduced May 7, 2014.</li></ul>

<h3>Committee assignments</h3><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Financial_Services" title="United States House Committee on Financial Services">Committee on Financial Services</a>

<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Financial_Services_Subcommittee_on_Financial_Institutions_and_Consumer_Credit" class="mw-redirect" title="United States House Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit">Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Financial_Services_Subcommittee_on_Insurance,_Housing_and_Community_Opportunity" class="mw-redirect" title="United States House Financial Services Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity">Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Permanent_Select_Committee_on_Intelligence" title="United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence">Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Select_Committee_on_the_Events_Surrounding_the_2012_Terrorist_Attack_in_Benghazi" class="mw-redirect" title="House Select Committee on the Events Surrounding the 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi">House Select Committee on the Events Surrounding the 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Study_Committee" title="Republican Study Committee">Republican Study Committee</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_Caucus" title="Tea Party Caucus">Tea Party Caucus</a></li></ul>

<h2>Controversy</h2>On September 4, 2008, Westmoreland described <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Democratic_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Democratic Party">Democratic</a> presidential nominee <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> and his wife <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Obama" title="Michelle Obama">Michelle</a> as "<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/uppity" class="extiw" title="wikt:uppity">uppity</a>", a pejorative historically used to describe African-Americans who have made economic, social, or political progress.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-LATimes-16">[16]</a>

Westmoreland said to reporters, "Just from what little I've seen of her

and Mr. Obama, Senator Obama, they're a member of an elitist-class

individual that thinks that they're uppity." When asked to confirm his

use of the word, Westmoreland answered, "Uppity, yeah."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-HILL-17">[17]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-18">[18]</a>

The ensuing media attention compelled Westmoreland to issue the

following statement: "I've never heard that term used in a racially

derogatory sense. It is important to note that the dictionary definition

of 'uppity' is 'affecting an air of inflated self-esteem—snobbish.'

That's what we meant by uppity when we used it in the mill village where

I grew up."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-autogenerated1-19">[19]</a>

During the national debate in 2015 over the future of the

Confederate flag some Republicans proposed a moderate amendment to allow

Confederate symbols at national cemeteries. Representative Lynn

Westmoreland distinguished between racism and a memorial,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-NYT_2015-20">[20]</a>

<blockquote class="templatequote">When you're putting a flag on

someone's grave, to me it's a little different from being racist. It's

more of a memorial ... You can't make an excuse for things that

happened, but the majority of people that actually died in the Civil War

on the Confederate side did not own slaves. These were people that were

fighting for their states. I don't think they had even any thoughts

about slavery.<cite>
</cite></blockquote>

When Westmoreland was asked if he understood Representative <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lewis" title="John Lewis">John Lewis</a>' perspective, he responded, "I guess the question is, 'Does he understand where I'm coming from?'"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-NYT_2015-20">[20]</a>

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Westmoreland won a plurality of votes in the Republican primary

election in 2004, but faced fellow Republican Dylan Glenn in a runoff.

Westmoreland received 55.5% of the vote in the runoff. The district was

so heavily Republican that Westmoreland's primary victory was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantamount_to_election" class="mw-redirect" title="Tantamount to election">tantamount to election</a> in November. He routed his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a>

opponent, businesswoman Silvia Delamar, with almost 76% of the vote.

The district was renumbered as the 3rd in 2006 and made even more

Republican than its predecessor. Westmoreland was reelected five more

times from this district with no substantive opposition.

<h2>Personal life</h2>He resides in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grantville,_Georgia" title="Grantville, Georgia">Grantville, Georgia</a>, with his wife, Joan; they have three children and nine grandchildren.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] His daughter, Marcy Sakrison, ran unsuccessfully in the 2019 special election for a seat the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_House_of_Representatives" title="Georgia House of Representatives">Georgia House of Representatives</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-21">[21]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Westmoreland#cite_note-22">[22]</a>

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</td><td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_P._Kennedy_II" title="Joseph P. Kennedy II">Joseph P. Kennedy II</a></div>as Former US Representative

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Leon Acton "Lynn" Westmoreland (born April 2, 1950) is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for Georgia's 3rd congressional district from ...
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