2024
2024-12-08
VOTED CONTRA
Vote contradicts: statement_vs_disclosure
Lummis champions Bitcoin legislation that could directly enrich her personally. MSNBC's Chris Hayes warned the BITCOIN Act could transfer $100 billion from taxpayers to Bitcoin owners — a group that includes Lummis, who first bought Bitcoin at $330 and has held the asset while writing laws that boost its price.
2024-04-24
VOTED CONTRA
Vote contradicts: statement_vs_disclosure
Lummis voted against the bipartisan infrastructure bill and foreign aid packages citing fiscal concerns, yet she championed the One Big Beautiful Bill which independent analyses projected would add trillions to the deficit. She also pushed a failed Bitcoin tax exemption amendment to that same bill.
2024-04-17
DID
Revealed conduct — Lummis discloses personal Bitcoin holdings as transparency, but the disclosure does not address the conflict - she co-sponsored both the BITCOIN Act (establishing a US strategic Bitcoin reserve) and the GENIUS stablecoin framework, each of which directly underwrites the asset class she holds. Transparency in disclosure is not transparency in the policy gain.
Lummis was an original co-sponsor of S.4155 (the GENIUS Act) at its 17 April 2024 introduction by Sen. Hagerty.
2022
2022-11-29
VOTED CONTRA
Vote contradicts: reversal
Lummis broke from her long-standing opposition to same-sex marriage by voting for the Respect for Marriage Act, becoming one of only 12 Senate Republicans to support it. The Wyoming GOP passed a formal resolution condemning her vote, and multiple county-level censure attempts followed. She justified the reversal as an act of 'tolerating' others' views.
2021
2021-01-06
VOTED CONTRA
Vote contradicts: reversal
Lummis pledged to respect the Electoral College results in December 2020, but weeks later joined senators pledging to object, then voted to object to Pennsylvania's certification on January 6, 2021. The Casper Star-Tribune called her first Senate vote 'a flip-flop on a flip-flop.' Republican Accountability gave her an 'F' democracy score.
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- Promises & violations — every documented commitment + each documented break, with primary sources.
- Contradiction pairs — fact-against-fact entries from the contradictions ledger; the "said" appears in its year, the "did" appears in its year.
- Vote-based analyses — for elected officials, every documented case where a vote diverged from a stated commitment.
- Entity events — major dated events recorded against the entity (acquisitions, indictments, appointments, etc.).
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