Tenure: 118th Congress–Present
Years of Service: 2023–Present
Notable Actions
119th Congress
✅ Cosponsor of the Fighting Inhumane Gambling and High-Risk Trafficking (FIGHT) Act, S. 1454, to strengthen federal enforcement against animal fighting and related criminal activity.
✅ Cosponsor of the Stop Billion-Dollar FWS Plan to Kill Half a Million Owls, S.J. Res. 69, a Congressional Review Act resolution to nullify the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plan to kill approximately 450,000 barred owls to reduce competition with northern spotted owls.
Cosponsored the bipartisan Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (RAWA), supporting long-term wildlife conservation funding.
Limited public legislative engagement to date on major anti-cruelty or farm-animal welfare legislation.
Has generally aligned with mainstream Republican agricultural and conservation priorities.