Abortion Davidson is staunchly
anti-abortion except to save the mother's life. On August 12, 2020, he and Senator
Mike Braun co-wrote a letter to
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin urging him to direct the
IRS not to treat
premiums for health insurance that covers
abortions as medical care, writing, "in all but the most extreme circumstances, abortion is an elective procedure." On June 26, 2022, when asked by
Pamela Brown on
CNN Newsroom whether he was okay with a
child rape victim carrying out a pregnancy, he said, "It's a compromise. Like I say, rape is raised as an objection and the
Heartbeat Bill already deals with that and it's hard to conceive of somebody who doesn't know they were raped for two months."
Spending Davidson has voted against numerous spending bills including disaster relief for Puerto Rico. He also voted against raising the debt limit to provide
Hurricane Harvey relief. Davidson was one of two Republicans to vote against the
One Big Beautiful Bill Act due to
national debt concerns.
U.S. Capitol Police In June 2021, Davidson was 1 of 21 House Republicans to vote against a resolution to give the
Congressional Gold Medal to police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on
January 6.
Foreign policy and the military Davidson and
Jim Jordan were the only members of Ohio's congressional delegation and two of 60 members of Congress to vote against a bipartisan resolution condemning President
Donald Trump's unilateral withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Syria, which passed the House 354–60 in October 2019. Davidson justified the position in an op-ed that called for an outright rejection of
neoconservative foreign policy, in which he wrote, "the neoconservative consensus has left America less free, less safe, and burdened by unprecedented debt." He also urged
NATO to stipulate that any actions
Turkey took against groups like the
Kurds in response to U.S. withdrawal should be treated as genocide and be grounds for removal as a treaty signatory. Davidson voted against the
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, citing, among other things, "funding for military activity in Afghanistan with no change in strategy or plan to withdraw troops". In June 2021, Davidson was one of 49 House Republicans to vote to repeal the
AUMF against Iraq. In 2023, Davidson voted to provide Israel with support following the
October 7 attacks.
Health care Davidson supports Republican efforts to repeal and replace the
Affordable Care Act.
Intelligence and surveillance activities Davidson supports curtailing many of the broad
signals intelligence permissions granted in the wake of the
September 11 attacks, which he has called an "extralegal spying regime" of "vague laws and lax protections". Efforts stalled after
House Judiciary Committee Chairman
Jerry Nadler canceled markup on the bill at the request of
House Intelligence Committee Chairman
Adam Schiff. Another came during debate over reauthorization of the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), when Davidson worked with Representative
Zoe Lofgren to introduce the Lofgren-Davidson Amendment. The amendment was to serve as an outright prohibition on
warrantless search of American's internet activities by the
Intelligence Community via
Section 215 of FISA empowered by the
USA FREEDOM Act (aka
the Library Records provision). Reauthorization of the soon-to-expire Section 215 concerned a set of provisions known informally as the “business records” power, the “call detail records” authority, the “roving wiretaps” provision, and the never-used “lone wolf” amendment. Among other reforms, the new language would have constrained these powers by creating an affirmative burden on the government to be absolutely sure the target in question is not a U.S. person before obtaining internet records, and make unlawful the incidental collection of U.S. persons' data via selection of all web traffic data for a particular video, search query, or webpage. In addition, if an order could result in a U.S. person's data, it would be unlawful without a warrant narrowly tailored to a specific subject. Both went on to oppose the amendment and underlying reauthorization bill, with Davidson saying, "this is Representative Schiff and intelligence hawks working overtime to protect the surveillance state status quo." After
Attorney General William Barr tried to suggest that FISA could be reauthorized with assurances the
Justice Department would fix abuses through administrative
rulemaking, Davidson pushed back against suggestions that any agency decisions could stand in for crucial
legislative reform. Davidson cited compromises of "Americans’ privacy in the name of fighting terror" as a reason for his vote against the
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021. == Electoral history ==