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Did Vicente Gonzalez vote in 2021 to cap insulin at $35?

Matches stated record claim. He voted for the 2021 Build Back Better Act, whose $35 insulin cap reached private insurance; it died, and the cap he voted for in 2022 covers Medicare only.

Vicente Gonzalez

A $35 cap on insulin

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What they say

His campaign says that in 2021 he voted for historic legislation to cap the cost of insulin at $35 and bring down the cost of medicines.

“In 2021, Vicente voted for historic legislation to cap the cost of insulin at $35”

What the record shows ·

On November 19, 2021 he voted Yea on the Build Back Better Act (Roll Call 385, 220-213). As passed by the House it would have barred group health plans and individual insurance from charging more than $35 a month for selected insulin products from 2023. That bill did not become law. On August 12, 2022 he voted Yea on the Inflation Reduction Act (Roll Call 420), which limits Medicare cost-sharing for covered insulin products and became Public Law 117-169.

Limit: The 2021 vote is as he describes it. The cap he voted for in 2021 reached private insurance; the cap that became law a year later covers Medicare only. Both votes split almost entirely by party; in 2021 one Democrat, Jared Golden of Maine, voted No.

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  1. Accomplishmentshttps://vicentegonzalez.com/accomplishments/

    Vicente Gonzalez for Congress · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Campaign-controlled source and the page where he makes claims about his own record: seven sections on the economy, jobs, seniors, veterans, women's rights, health care and education. Every quoted sentence on this desk was matched against the live page.

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  2. Roll Call 385, 2021, H.R. 5376, Build Back Better Acthttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2021385

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Recorded vote of November 19, 2021; the question was on passage; it passed 220-213. Read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by Gonzalez's member ID, G000581, which Congress.gov's by-state listing for the 119th Congress gives for him.

    official legislative record

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  3. H.R. 5376, Build Back Better Act, as passed by the Househttps://api.govinfo.gov/packages/BILLS-117hr5376eh/htm

    U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    The engrossed text of November 19, 2021. Section 30604 would have barred group health plans and individual insurance from charging more than $35 a month for selected insulin products from 2023; sections 27001 and 139401 carry the same rule for other plan types. This version did not become law.

    official legislative record

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  4. Roll Call 420, 2022, H.R. 5376, the Inflation Reduction Acthttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2022420

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Recorded vote of August 12, 2022; the question was on the motion to concur in the Senate amendment; it carried 220-207. Read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by Gonzalez's member ID, G000581, which Congress.gov's by-state listing for the 119th Congress gives for him.

    official legislative record

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  5. Public Law 117-169, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022https://api.govinfo.gov/packages/PLAW-117publ169/htm

    U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Enacted text. Section 11001 sets up Medicare price negotiation for certain high-priced drugs; section 11406 limits Medicare cost-sharing for covered insulin products; section 50121 funds home energy rebates.

    official legislative record

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