From 1972 to 1974 Macris served in the city council of his home town of Americana. In 1975 he was elected to the
São Paulo Legislative Assembly where he served as president from 1999 to 2001. In the
2006 Brazilian general election Macris was elected to the
Federal Chamber of Deputies. In May 2010 Macris voted in favour of the
Ficha Limpa or "Clean Record Act" which barred politicians who had been impeached from holding office. Macris voted in favor of the impeachment motion of then-president
Dilma Rousseff. He voted in favor raising the spending ceiling of Brazil's government and the
2017 Brazilian labor reforms Macris voted in favor of a similar corruption investigation into Rousseff's successor
Michel Temer. In November 2016, Macris opposed "caixa 2" amnesty bill, along with fellow federal deputies
Onyx Lorenzoni,
Fernando Francischini,
Carlos Sampaio, and
Ana Amélia Lemos, listening to the claims of the civil society that signed for the approval of the 10 Anti-corruption Measures, and of the Public Prosecutor's Office, author of the bill. ==References==