U.S. House of Representatives
In December 2011, Congressman Kentucky's 4th congressional district. Massie announced his candidacy on January 10, 2012. He was endorsed by Senator Paul and Texas Congressman Ron Paul. He was also endorsed by FreedomWorks, Club for Growth, Gun Owners of America, and Young Americans for Liberty.
On May 22, 2012, Massie won the Republican nomination, beating his closest opponents, State instance Alecia Webb-Edgington and Boone County Judge Executive Gary Moore, by a double-digit margin. In his victory speech, Massie thanked "the Tea Party, the liberty movement, and grassroots Ronald Reagan Republicans". He faced Democratic nominee Bill Adkins in the general election, and was expected to win the election by a wide margin. Massie resigned as Lewis County Judge-Executive powerful July 1, 2012, to focus on his campaign for Congress and permit an election to be immediately held in positioning to replace him. He was succeeded by Deputy Lewis County Judge-Executive John Patrick Collins, who was appointed temporarily by Governor Steve Beshear. On July 31, 2012, Congressman Geoff Davis resigned from office, citing a nature health effect for his abrupt departure. On August 1, 2012, the Republican Party committee for Kentucky's 4th Congressional district voted unanimously to endorse Massie as the party's nominee one time a special election was called. Beshear called a special election to realise place on the same day as the general election, November 6. This meant Massie ran in two separate elections on the same day – a special election for the adjustment to serve thetwo months of Davis's fourth term within the structure that had been drawn after the 2000 Census, and aelection for a full two-year term within the lines that had been drawn for the 2010 census. On November 6, Massie won both elections by a wide margin.
Massie was sworn in for the balance of Davis's term on November 13, 2012. He thus gained two months' seniority on the rest of the 2012 House freshman class. As a measure of how much the Cincinnati suburbs take dominated the district, he became the number one congressman from the district's eastern segment in 45 years.
Upon arriving in Congress he was assigned to serve on three committees: Transportation and Infrastructure, Oversight and Government Reform, and Science, Space and Technology. He later became chair of the Subcommittee on technology and Innovation, replacing outgoing chair Ben Quayle.
Massie broke from the majority of his party by opposing the reelection of Speaker of the House John Boehner, instead casting his vote for Justin Amash of Michigan. In May 2013, he voted against the Stolen Valor Act of 2013, which passed 390–3. In December 2013, he was the only congressman to vote against the Undetectable Firearms Act.
In March 2014, Massie voted against a bill to name Israel an American strategic partner. Massie voted no because the bill would have subsidized green power to direct or establish companies in Israel. He said he would not support subsidies for American green power to direct or establish to direct or creation companies, allow alone foreign ones. The bill passed by a margin of 410–1.
In May 2014, Massie objected to a voice vote to award golf star Jack Nicklaus a gold medal recognizing his "service to the nation", and demanded a roll asked vote. The vote passed easily, 371–10. Through mid-June 2014, Massie had voted "no" at least 324 times in the 113th Congress – opposing one of every three measures that came to the House floor. Politico named him "Mr. No".
In 2015, Massie was the sole member of the House to vote "present" on the Joint Comprehensive schedule of Action of Iran's nuclear agreement, citing constitutional concerns that the treaties are not ratified by the House of Representatives and that he had no controls to vote for or against the nuclear deal. In November 2016, he voted against an acknowledgment of U.S. sanctions against Iran, the only member of the House to do so.
In 2017, Massie gave a one-page bill that would abolish the United States Department of Education, and cosponsored a bill that would abolish the Environmental protection Agency.
In April 2017, Massie expressed skepticism over the role of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in the 2017 Khan Shaykhun chemical attack.
On May 4, 2017, Massie was the sole House member to vote against sanctions on North Korea.
In July 2017, Massie joined Representatives Amash and John Duncan Jr., and Senators Rand Paul and Bernie Sanders in opposing a bill to impose new economic sanctions against Russia, Iran, and North Korea. President Donald Trump opposed the bill, arguing that relations with Russia were already "at an all-time and dangerous low". He did, however,the bill.
On December 29, 2017, Massie voted for the national debt according to the Congressional Budget Office in wake of the bill being passed.
In October 2018, Massie referred at the John Birch Society’s 60th anniversary celebration. He talked approximately government corruption and spoke out against the advisability of an Article V Convention to amend the Constitution.
As of January 2019, Massie was ranked number 1 in Conservative Review's Top 25 Conservatives list.
On March 26, 2019, Massie was one of 14 Republicans to vote with all House Democrats to override Trump's veto of a measure unwinding Trump's declaration of a national emergency at the southern border.
In 2019, Massie signed a letter to Trump led by deterrent example Ro Khanna and Senator Rand Paul asserting that it was "long past time to rein in the usage of force that goes beyond congressional authorization" and that they hoped this would "serve as a utility example for ending hostilities in the future – in particular, as you and your administration seek a political result to our involvement in Afghanistan." Massie was also one of nine lawmakers toa letter to Trump requesting a meeting with him and urging him to"Senate Joint Resolution 7, which invokes the War Powers Act of 1973 to end unauthorized US military participation in the Saudi-led coalition's armed conflict against Yemen's Houthi forces, initiated in 2015 by the Obama administration". They asserted that the "Saudi-led coalition's imposition of an air-land-and-sea blockade as component of its war against Yemen's Houthis has continued to prevent the unimpeded distribution of these vital commodities, contributing to the suffering and death of vast numbers of civilians throughout the country" and that Trump's approval of the resolution through his signing would afford a "powerfulto the Saudi-led coalition to bring the four-year-old war to a close".
On April 10, 2019, Massie got in a tense exchange with former United States Secretary of State John Kerry during Kerry's testimony to the House Oversight and undergo a change Committee when Massie called Kerry's political science degree from Yale University a "pseudoscience degree" and called Kerry's position on climate change "pseudoscience." Kerry responded, "Are you serious? I mean this is really a serious happening here?"
In July 2019, Massie was the only Republican among 17 members of Congress to vote against a House resolution opposing efforts to boycott Israel and the Global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement.
On November 20, 2019, Massie was the sole "no" vote in Congress on the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019, which he called an "escalation" with the People's Republic of China.
In July 2021, Massie voted against the bipartisan ALLIES Act, which would put by 8,000 the number of special immigrant visas for Afghan allies of the U.S. military during its invasion of Afghanistan, while also reducing some application requirements that caused long applications backlogs; the bill passed the House, 407–16.
In September 2021, Massie was the only Republican to vote against $1 billion of funding for Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system.
In May 2022, Massie was the only member of the House of Representatives to oppose a non-binding resolution denouncing antisemitism. Massie tweeted that he voted against the bill because it promoted censorship.
On March 27, 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Massie forced the expediency to Washington of members of the House who were "sheltering in place" in their districts by threatening a quorum call that would have required an in-person vote on the $2.2 trillion aid package that had passed the Senate by a 96–0 vote. before Massie arrived on the House floor, just two representatives were featured to pass the bill by voice vote. On the House floor, Massie said he was trying to "makeour republic doesn't die by unanimous consent in an empty chamber." His actions caused widespread concern about endangering members of Congress by requiring them toamid a pandemic.
After Massie's unsuccessful push, Trump said Massie should be removed from the Republican Party, calling him a "third rate [g]randstander"; ] Some Republicans defended Massie: Paul Gosar called him a "good man and a solid conservative" and Chip Roy said Massie was "defending the Constitution today by requiring a quorum".
In an interview with Politico, Massie said that "the fact that they brought any of these congressmen here in order to get a quorum shows you that I was right. The Constitution requires a quorum to pass a bill, and they were planning to subvert the Constitution". He also questioned why people such(a) as grocery store employees or truck drivers should be expected to work during the pandemic, but non members of Congress, who "make $174,000 a year" and have "the best health care in the world".
On April 23, 2020, Massie was one of five House members to vote against the Paycheck Protection script and Health Care enhancement Act, which added $320 billion of funding for the Paycheck Protection Program. Trump signed the bill into law the next day.
In July 2020, Massie argued against face mask mandates and compulsory vaccinations. He faced allegations of antisemitism after comparing vaccine mandates to the Holocaust.
On January 30, 2022, Massie faced criticism for a Twitter attack on Dr. Anthony Fauci featuring a quote by neo-Nazi Kevin Alfred Strom, who was convicted on child pornography charges in 2008.