ban offshore drilling along the Atlantic coast, Pacific coast, and eastern Gulf of Mexico coast. In 2019, he introduced bipartisan legislation (cosponsored by eight Florida Democrats and nine Florida Republicans) to extend a moratorium on oil and gas drilling in federal waters off Florida's Gulf Coast until 2029, and to create a similar moratorium on offshore drilling in federal waters off Florida's South Atlantic coast and in the Straits of Florida. Health care Rutherford supported the unsuccessful 2017 effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act. In 2021, he sponsored legislation seeking to block the government from asking passengers on domestic flights whether they had been vaccinated against COVID-19. LGBT rights Rutherford voted against the Equality Act in 2019 and 2021. He voted against a 2019 measure opposing a ban on openly transgender people serving in the U.S. military. Policing and criminal justice One of two former sheriffs in Congress, Rutherford is "skeptical" of shorter prison sentences for nonviolent drug offenses, but in December 2018 voted for the First Step Act (legislation amending federal sentencing and prison laws). During his campaign for Congress, he called Black Lives Matter a "hate group"; in 2020, he voted against the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, a police reform bill aimed at preventing brutality and racial discrimination in policing. Rutherford defended the doctrine of qualified immunity for police officers. Rutherford opposes capital punishment, citing his Catholic faith. Economy, trade, and taxation Rutherford voted against an increase in the federal hourly minimum wage to $15. He voted for the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement. He voted against a $3 trillion COVID-19 economic rescue package in May 2020, but for a pandemic relief bill in December 2020. Rutherford voted against the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act in 2020. Rutherford voted for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, a measure he praised as good for the economy. He voted against legislation to repeal the cap on state and local tax deductions. In 2018, Rutherford voted for legislation that repealed some of the Dodd-Frank banking regulations. He voted against a bill to restrict companies from imposing mandatory arbitration clauses. During the 2018–19 federal government shutdown, Rutherford voted against bills to reopen the government without money that Trump had demanded for construction of a U.S.–Mexico border wall. Rutherford voted against restoring net neutrality regulations. Foreign and military policy In February and April 2019, Rutherford voted against legislation to end