Eric A. "Rick" Crawford

Overview

Rick Crawford represents Arkansas in the U.S. House of Representatives and has cast 565 recorded votes across a wide range of policy areas. His voting record reflects strong support for fiscal and energy-related legislation, with high approval rates on budget measures (87% Yea), taxation bills (85% Yea), and environment and energy legislation (86% Yea). His energy votes include support for measures that would limit certain Environmental Protection Agency regulations, consistent with a preference for reduced federal environmental oversight. Crawford has been particularly active on healthcare legislation, casting 76 votes in that category with a 62% Yea rate. His healthcare votes show a pattern of supporting Republican-led health policy proposals while opposing Democratic procedural motions, such as motions to recommit on Medicaid and health premium legislation. As a representative from a largely agricultural state, he has voted in favor of agriculture-related bills 75% of the time across 16 votes. On defense and foreign policy, Crawford's record shows a pattern of supporting military engagement and opposing efforts to limit executive authority on troop deployments. He voted against multiple War Powers Resolution measures that would have directed the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Lebanon. He has also shown consistent support for criminal justice legislation, voting Yea on all 13 criminal justice bills in his record, and for banking and financial regulation measures. His lowest support rates appear in labor policy (33% Yea) and foreign policy (36% Yea), where he has more frequently voted against the bills that reached the floor.

Key Positions

• •Consistently supports budget and spending legislation, voting Yea on 87% of budget-related bills, including the fiscal year 2027 congressional budget resolution and continuing appropriations measures.
• •Voted in favor of rolling back EPA environmental regulations, including a measure disapproving California harbor craft emission standards, and supported the Ratepayer Protection Act, reflecting a preference for limiting federal environmental regulation.
• •Voted against multiple War Powers Resolution measures that would have directed the removal of U.S. forces from Lebanon, indicating support for maintaining executive flexibility in military deployments abroad.
• •Supported all 13 criminal justice bills that came to a vote, making it his most unanimously supported policy category.
• •Voted against labor-related legislation in the majority of cases, supporting only 2 of 6 labor bills on record.
• •Actively supported agriculture legislation with a 75% Yea rate across 16 votes, consistent with representing a state where agriculture is a major economic sector.
• •On healthcare, voted against Democratic motions to recommit on the Do No Harm in Medicaid Act and the Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act, while supporting the procedural rule that brought those bills to the floor.
• •Cast one recorded vote on reproductive rights legislation, voting Nay.