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Bill Posey
RTo be claimed
Member, Chinese Drywall Caucus, present
Member, Republican Study Committee, present
Former Member, Environment Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Housing and Insurance Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Oversight Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Space Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (Financial Services), United States House of Representatives
Member, Chinese Drywall Caucus, present
Member, Republican Study Committee, present
Former Member, Environment Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Housing and Insurance Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Oversight Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Space Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives
Member, Committee on Financial Services
Member, Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
Member, Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions
Member, Subcommittee on Housing, Community Development and Insurance
Member, Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics
— Awards:
American Legislative Exchange Council "1999 Legislator of the Year"
American Cancer Society "Legislative Award"
Brevard Community College "Distinguished Alumnus"
Legislator of the Year Awards
American Legislative Exchange Council "1999 Legislator of the Year"
American Cancer Society "Legislative Award"
Brevard Community College "Distinguished Alumnus"
Favorite Quote:
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."
— Number of Grandchildren:
1. Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
- Pro-life
1. In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
- No
2. Do you support expanding federal funding to support entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare?
- No
1. Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you support the protection of government officials, including law enforcement officers, from personal liability in civil lawsuits concerning alleged misconduct?
- Yes
Do you support increasing defense spending?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth?
- No
2. Do you support lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth?
- Yes
3. Do you support providing financial relief to businesses AND/OR corporations negatively impacted by the state of national emergency for COVID-19?
- Yes
1. Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
- No
1. Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, geo-thermal)?
- Yes
2. Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
- No
1. Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- No
1. Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
- Yes
2. Do you support requiring businesses to provide paid medical leave during public health crises, such as COVID-19?
- Yes
1. Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border?
- Yes
2. Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship?
- Yes
1. Should the United States use military force to prevent governments hostile to the U.S. from possessing a weapon of mass destruction (for example: nuclear, biological, chemical)?
- Unknown Position
2. Do you support reducing military intervention in Middle East conflicts?
- Unknown Position
Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)?
- Yes
1. Abortions should always be illegal.
- No Answer
2. Abortions should always be legally available.
- No Answer
3. Abortions should be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy.
- No Answer
4. Abortions should be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape.
- X
5. Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered.
- X
6. Eliminate public funding for abortions and public funding of organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
- No Answer
7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Education (Higher)
- Slightly Increase Funding
2. Education (K-12)
- Greatly Increase Funding
3. Environment
- Maintain Funding Status
4. Health care
- Maintain Funding Status
5. Law enforcement
- Maintain Funding Status
6. Transportation and Highway infrastructure
- Maintain Funding Status
7. Welfare
- Slightly Decrease Funding
8. Other or expanded categories
- Maintain Status
9. Alcohol taxes
- Maintain Status
10. Capital gains taxes
- Maintain Status
11. Cigarette taxes
- Maintain Status
12. Corporate taxes
- Maintain Status
13. Estate taxes
- Maintain Status
14. Gasoline taxes
- Maintain Status
15. Property taxes
- Maintain Status
16. Sales taxes
- Eliminate
17. Vehicle taxes
- Maintain Status
18. Should Internet sales be taxed?
- No
19. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Do you support the current limit of two, four-year terms for Florida governors?
- Yes
2. Do you support the current limit of two, four-year terms for Florida state senators?
- Yes
3. Do you support the current limit of four, two-year terms for Florida state representatives?
- Yes
4. Individual
- Yes
5. PAC
- Yes
6. Corporate
- Yes
7. Political Parties
- Yes
8. Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information?
- Yes
9. Do you support partial funding from state taxes for state level political campaigns?
- No
10. Do you support voting on-line?
- No
11. Do you support adopting statewide standards for counting, verifying and ensuring accuracy of votes?
- Yes
12. Should all ballot initiatives include a fiscal impact statement?
- Yes
13. Do you support prohibiting the reporting of media exit polling results until all polling locations in Florida are closed?
- Yes
14. Should Florida recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- No
15. Should Florida restrict marriage to a union only between a man and a woman?
- Yes
16. Do you support further restrictions on smoking in public places?
- Yes
17. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and for hiring of additional prison staff.
- No Answer
2. Support contracting with private sector firms to build and/or manage state prisons.
- No Answer
3. Support the use of the death penalty in Florida.
- X
4. Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
- X
5. End parole for repeat violent offenders.
- X
6. Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
- No Answer
7. Decriminalize the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes.
- No Answer
8. Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes.
- X
9. Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
- X
10. Require that crimes based on gender, sexual orientation or disability be prosecuted as hate crimes.
- No Answer
11. Ban the use of racial profiling by law enforcement officers.
- No Answer
12. Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.
- No Answer
13. Increase state funding for additional security of critical infrastructure against terrorist attacks.
- X
14. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Support national standards and testing of public school students.
- X
2. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any participating school (public, private, religious).
- No Answer
3. Increase state funds for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure).
- No Answer
4. Increase state funds for hiring additional teachers.
- No Answer
5. Support teacher testing and reward teachers with merit pay.
- X
6. Support displaying the Ten Commandments in public schools.
- X
7. Endorse teacher-led voluntary prayer in public schools.
- No Answer
8. Require public schools to administer high school exit exams.
- No Answer
9. Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.
- X
10. Increase state funding to reduce class sizes.
- No Answer
11. Increase state funding to make pre-school available to all four-year-old children.
- No Answer
12. Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.
- No Answer
13. Support age-appropriate sexual education programs that teach about abstinence, contraceptives and HIV/STD prevention methods.
- No Answer
14. Support abstinence-only sexual education programs.
- No Answer
15. Support local school district control over school gun policy.
- No Answer
16. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Increase funding for state job-training programs that re-train displaced workers or teach skills needed in today's job market.
- X
2. Reduce state government regulations on the private sector to encourage investment and economic expansion.
- X
3. Provide low interest loans and tax credits for starting, expanding or relocating businesses.
- No Answer
4. Provide tax credits for businesses that provide child care for their employees.
- No Answer
5. Increase state funds to provide child care for children of low-income working families.
- No Answer
6. Include sexual orientation in Florida's anti-discrimination laws.
- No Answer
7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
8. College and university admissions
- No Answer
9. Public employment
- No Answer
10. State contracting
- No Answer
1. Promote increased use of alternative fuel technology.
- X
2. Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused or abandoned.
- No Answer
3. Do you support the citrus canker eradication policy in Florida?
- Yes
4. Should the Preservation 2000 fund be used only for its intended purpose?
- Yes
5. Do you support state funding for open space preservation?
- Yes
6. Should state environmental regulations be stricter than federal law?
- No Answer
7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Ban the sale or transfer of semi-automatic guns, except those used for hunting.
- No Answer
2. Maintain and strengthen the enforcement of existing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer
3. Ease state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer
4. Repeal state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer
5. Allow citizens to carry concealed guns.
- No Answer
6. Require manufacturers to provide child-safety locks on guns.
- No Answer
7. Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows.
- No Answer
8. Require a license for gun possession.
- No Answer
9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Ensure that citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms or state-funded care where necessary.
- No Answer
2. Transfer more existing Medicaid recipients into managed care programs.
- No Answer
3. Limit the amount of damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
- No Answer
4. Support patients' right to sue their HMOs.
- No Answer
5. Support patients' right to appeal to an administrative board of specialists when services are denied by their HMO.
- No Answer
6. Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
- No Answer
7. Legalize physician-assisted suicide in Florida.
- No Answer
8. Increase state funding for training health workers to recognize and respond to the release of biological agents.
- No Answer
9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Support current time limits on welfare benefits.
- X
2. Increase employment and job training programs for welfare recipients.
- X
3. Provide tax incentives to businesses that hire welfare recipients.
- No Answer
4. Provide child care for welfare recipients who work.
- X
5. Increase access to public transportation for welfare recipients who work.
- No Answer
6. Eliminate government-funded welfare programs.
- No Answer
7. Redirect welfare funding to faith-based and community-based private organizations.
- No Answer
8. Use federal TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) funds to expand state services to include the working poor.
- X
9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
In a total of seventy-five (75) words or less, please explain what your two main legislative priorities will be if elected. Please explain how you would obtain any additional government funding needed to implement these priorities.
- No Answer
1. Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
- Pro-life
1. In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
- No
2. In order to balance the budget, do you support reducing defense spending?
- No
1. Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth?
- No
2. Do you support lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth?
- Yes
1. Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, thermal)?
- Yes
2. Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
- No
1. Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- No
1. Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
- Yes
1. Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border?
- Unknown Position
2. Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship?
- Yes
Do you support the legalization of marijuana for recreational purposes?
- Unknown Position
1. Should the United States use military force in order to prevent governments hostile to the U.S. from possessing a nuclear weapon?
- Unknown Position
2. Do you support increased American intervention in Middle Eastern conflicts beyond air support?
- Unknown Position
Latest Action: 06/19/2019 On agreeing to the Posey amendment (A008) Agreed to by voice vote.
Latest Action: House - 06/18/2019 Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Tracker:Latest Action: House - 06/18/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Tracker:By Senator Bill Posey As we celebrate Independence Day, let us also take some time to remember our brave men and women in uniform, and their families, who have made great personal sacrifices to defend our liberty. Without their dedication it would not be possible to hold on to our freedoms throughout the years. I wanted to take a minute to share some recent legislative accomplishments for our troops and veterans: Providing New Equipment and Pay Increases for Troops -- The House recently passed the National Defense Authorization Act, which provides important tools that our military needs to protect and defend the nation and rewards our brave men and women for their service. I was pleased to support this legislation to modernize our forces with new technology, replace equipment for the Army and help build up our naval fleet. Altogether the bill authorizes $717 billion for our national defense which also includes bonuses for military service members who work in high-demand fields and the largest pay increase our troops have seen in nine years. Improving the VA Experience -- Congress recently passed and President Trump signed into law the VA Mission Act which makes major reforms to the VA to ensure that veterans have timely access to the care and benefits they have earned. The bill improves the VA's community care programs by consolidating them into a single system, removing barriers so veterans can receive care closer to their homes and encouraging more community care providers to participate. It also improves the VA workforce by providing more educational and training opportunities for employees and offering scholarships to medical students in exchange for service to the VA. To further help those veterans who are not happy with the services offered by the VA, the VA Mission Act provides $5.2 billion to the VA Choice Program so veterans have more options for care. It also expands the VA Family Caregiver program to include pre-9/11 veterans and establishes a review process to make recommendations on how to modernize and realign the VA's medical facilities. We owe it to our veterans to provide the best possible service and this legislation continues to make good on our promise. Assisting Student Veterans -- The House overwhelmingly approved bipartisan legislation I cosponsored to assist student veterans attending colleges and universities under the G.I. Bill. The legislation (H.R. 4830) ensures that veterans will not be penalized if the VA sends late payments to their schools due to paperwork processing delays. This is an important fix for our veterans as many choose to further their education only to face disruptions to their studies because of bureaucracy. Helping Homeless Veterans with Children -- I recently joined my House colleagues in cosponsoring bipartisan legislation called the Homeless Veteran Families Act to assist community agencies with offsetting the cost of providing children of homeless veterans with safe shelter. The bill aims to keep families together during times of hardship. Honoring America's commitment to our veterans and supporting our troops has been a top priority for me. If you know of any veteran in our community who is having trouble with VA services, please reach out to them and encourage them to contact my office at 321-632-1776. In fact, please call us if you are having trouble with any federal agency -- the VA, the Social Security Administration, Medicare or even the IRS. My staff and I are here to serve you.
Congress convened a joint session on January 6-7, 2021, to count electoral votes by state and confirm the results of the 2020 presidential election. Posey voted against certifying the electoral votes from Arizona and Pennsylvania. The House rejected both objections by a vote of 121-303 for Arizona and 138-282 for Pennsylvania.
