Legislation
23 initiatives led by Altmire have been signed into law, including 6 dealing with veterans and military families:

• Treatment and screening of traumatic brain injury for returning veterans;
• Guaranteeing wounded military veterans can keep their enlistment bonuses;
• Expanding business opportunities for veterans who are small business owners;
• Tax relief to military families who are facing financial hardship due to multiple deployments;
• Extending FMLA benefits for all military guard and reserve families;
• Eliminating the late enrollment penalty on prescription drug coverage for low-income seniors;
• Ensuring seniors maintain access to critical medical equipment and supplies;
• Protecting sportsmen's right to hunt, fish,and trap on millions of acres of public land;
• Increasing funding for volunteer firefighters.

• Expanding access to capital for small businesses;
• Making college more affordable for working families;
• Helping veterans secure venture capital funding to launch new businesses.
  

• A tax cut for 95 percent of America’s working families; 
• A bill that will stem the foreclosure crisis and help families save their homes;
• New protections for American consumers who use credit cards;
• Health insurance for 11 million children who would otherwise go without;
• The most significant land conservation bill in 15 years.

 Leadership

• Appointed Chairman of Small Business Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation;
• Helped prevent a proposed hospital budget cut that saved PA hospitals $74 million;
• Convened a congressional field hearing to investigate SBA’s response to flooding in Aliquippa, the North Hills and the A-K Valley.

Funding for the District

Secured over $156 million for western PA projects, including funding for:

• Emergency first responders;
• Community hospitals;
• Transportation and infrastructure improvements including the Ohio River locks and dams;
• Research and development projects for Western PA companies.

Independent Voting Record

Altmire is rated by the non-partisan publications Congressional Quarterly and National Journal as having one of the most reliably moderate and centrist voting records in all of Congress.

Altmire is the only member of the House who has never missed a vote during the past two sessions of Congress. He has cast more than 3,400 consecutive votes since being sworn-in to the House in 2007.