Susan Wild

On December 31, 2017, Wild resigned from office to pursue her candidacy for the United States House of Representatives to succeed retiring Representative Charlie Dent (R) in 2018.[9] Dent's district had previously been the 15th, represented by seven-term Republican Charlie Dent. She won the Democratic Party primary election and faced Republican Lehigh County commissioner Marty Nothstein in the November 6 general election.[10][11] She defeated Nothstein in the general election with 53.4% of the vote.[12][13]

On the same day, Wild also ran in a separate special election for the balance of Dent's term; he had resigned in May after announcing the previous fall that he would not run for reelection.[14][15] On November 15, 2018, it was announced that Wild had won the 15th congressional district's special election, receiving 130,353 votes to Nothstein's 129,593 votes.[16][17]

There was a closer margin in the special election because that election was under the former 15th district, which had been thrown out by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in February 2018. The former 15th had stretched from the Lehigh Valley into heavily Republican territory between Lebanon and Harrisburg, by way of a tendril in Berks County. The new 7th district is a more compact district centered in the Lehigh Valley, and includes a sliver of the Poconos.

Upon taking office, Wild became the first Democrat to represent the Lehigh Valley since 1999. She had two months' more seniority than the rest of the large Democratic freshman class of 2018. She was one of four Democratic women elected from Pennsylvania in 2018. The others were Mary Gay Scanlon, Madeleine Dean and Chrissy Houlahan. The state's congressional delegation had previously been all male.

Wild has been critical of Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro, for holding views characterized as 'far-right', 'misogynistic', 'homophobic' and 'anti-immigrant'. In March 2019, Wild and 29 other Democratic lawmakers wrote a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo; the letter read in part, "Since the election of far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro as president, we have been particularly alarmed by the threat Bolsonaro’s agenda poses to the LGBTQ+ community and other minority communities, women, labor activists, and political dissidents in Brazil. We are deeply concerned that, by targeting hard-won political and social rights, Bolsonaro is endangering Brazil’s long-term democratic future."[18]

On December 10, 2019, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee advanced two articles of impeachment against Republican President Donald Trump. On December 18, 2019, Wild voted 'Yes' on the first article of impeachment, "abuse of power", and 'Yes' on the second article of impeachment, "obstruction of Congress".[19]

Voted 'Yes' on U.S. House Joint Resolution 46: "Relating to a National Emergency Declared by the President on February 15, 2019." [20] The resolution's purpose was to terminate President Trump's declaration of an emergency at the U.S.-Mexican border, which allowed him to bypass Congress and re-allocate funds to build a border wall.[21] The resolution passed in the House on February 25th, 2019.

Voted 'Yes' on U.S. House Bill 1644: "Save the Internet Act of 2019."[22] The bill's purpose was to reinstate Federal Communications Commission rules that would regulate Internet service providers as public utilities. The rules would prohibit providers from offering pricing models that let websites or customers pay more to get faster speeds; prohibit providers from blocking or "throttling" the speed of certain websites; and impose other restrictions how providers may manage their networks. The bill passed in the House on April 9th, 2019.[21]

Voted 'Yes' on U.S. House Bill 4617: "Stopping Harmful Interference in Elections for a Lasting Democracy Act." [23] The bill's purpose was to expand federal regulations and restrictions on online political communications, mandate that social media companies keep detailed records on individuals and organizations sponsoring political ads, require political campaigns to report offers of foreign assistance, prohibit foreign nationals from contributing to ballot initiative and referendum campaigns, increase restrictions on U.S. political campaigns soliciting support from foreign entities, and make it a federal crime to mislead voters about the time and place for voting and qualifications to vote. The bill passed in the House on October 22nd, 2019.[21]

Voted 'Yes' on U.S. House Bill 4: "Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2019."[24] The bill's purpose was to mandate that states or local governments must get approval of the federal government before they make changes to voting practices in certain circumstances. This mandate for federal "pre-clearance" would apply to any state that has had 15 or more voting rights act violations in the past 25 years. The mandate would apply to local governments that have had at least 3 voting rights act violations in the past 25 years. The bill passed in the House on December 5th, 2019.[21]

Voted 'Yes' on U.S. House Concurrent Resolution 83: "Directing the President pursuant of section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution to terminate the use of United States Armed Forces to engage in hostilities in or against Iran."[25] The resolution served to adopt a non-binding House resolution directing President Trump to end military action in or against Iran unless Congress authorizes such action. The resolution passed in the House on January 8th, 2020.[21]

Voted 'Yes' to U.S. House Bill 6172: "USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act of 2020." [26] The bill served to renew provisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that permit the federal government to collect business records and other information during national security investigations without a warrant. The FISA law allows a federal judge to approve such collections without notifying the target or hearing opposing arguments. The bill would also expand the circumstances that require FISA judges to hear from a government-appointed critic of such requests, and increasing the number of FISA courts. The bill passed in the House on March 10th, 2020.[21]

Voted 'Yes' to U.S. House Bill 6201: "Families First Coronavirus Response Act." [27] The bill's purpose was to mandate that businesses with fewer than 500 employees offer paid sick leave for two weeks, increase federal unemployment insurance payments to the states by $1 billion, provide more federal money for food aid programs, prohibit the Trump Administration from strengthening social welfare benefit work requirements, and provide waivers to insurance companies to give no-cost coronavirus tests, among other things. The bill passed in the House on March 13th, 2020.

• Committee on Foreign Affairs
  • Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations (Vice Chair)
  • Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, Energy, and the Environment
• Committee on Education and Labor
  • Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions
• Committee on Ethics

• New Democrat Coalition
  • Climate Change Task Force(Co-Chair)
• Servicewomen and Women Veterans Congressional Caucus
• House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition
• Bipartisan Heroin and Opioid Task Force
• Freshman Working Group on Addiction
• Blue Collar Caucus
• Congressional Labor and Working Families Caucus
• Middle Class Jobs Caucus
• Congressional Homelessness Caucus
• Congressional Caucus on Foster Youth
• Bipartisan Task Force for Combatting Anti-Semitism
• Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus
• Congressional Caucus on Maternity Care
• Black Maternal Health Caucus
• Congressional Baby Caucus
• House Nursing Caucus
• Congressional Autism Caucus
• Congressional Diabetes Caucus
• Congressional Native American Caucus
• National Heritage Area Caucus
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