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How often do Pa. members of Congress align with Trump policies? Trump Score vote report has answers
Updated: Oct. 15, 2025, 9:16 a.m.|Published: Oct. 15, 2025, 5:10 a.m.
Among the least Trump-aligned Democratic lawmakers: Sen. John Fetterman, voting with the president only 6% of the time; and Pittsburgh-area Democrat Rep. Summer Lee (4.30%).

The ranking — dubbed “Trump Score” — was compiled by the Institute for Legislative Analysis, a conservative group with ties to several GOP organizations and political action committees, and whose leadership includes a four-term Ohio congressman endorsed by Trump.

During Lamb’s first session in Congress, he voted almost 70 percent of the time in line with Trump’s positions on issues like opposing a carbon tax, expressing support for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and denouncing calls to abolish ICE, and making signature pieces of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act permanent.

Lamb also voted in favor of a measure by former Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, to fund a border wall under Trump and to extend the ongoing war in Iraq (he was one of just two Democrats to vote for extension). In addition, he voted against the HEROES Act, one of his party’s signature Covid-19 reliefs packages. Other votes Lamb took in recent years include a vote last year against a measure that would have prevented Trump from using military force against protests; a vote against a bill to decriminalize marijuana; and a vote in favor of a failed measure that would have prevented tax-paying families with an undocumented parent from receiving stimulus checks.

Rep. Conor Lamb is usually described in a way that alludes to his centrist chops — moderate, Blue Dog and, my favorite, “a fine young normal white fellow.”

His brief tenure in the House of Representatives representing Pennsylvania’s 17th Congressional District has yielded indefensible votes — real gems such as voting to fund a border wall, prevent families with an undocumented parent from receiving stimulus checks and oppose marijuana decriminalization.

Lamb voted in line with Trump’s position an inexcusable 68% of the time during the 115th Congress, which he joined in April 2018 after winning a special election.