[citation needed] Gorman served as Majority Whip of the Arizona Senate, but resigned the post over a split with the governor over fiscal policy.
Gorman successfully filibustered legislation that would have increased public financial support for political campaigns, the "Clean Elections" Program.
Gorman has been chair of the Standing Committees of the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL); a member of the executive committee of Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC); and a member of the National Legislative Advisory Board of the Heartland Institute; and a participant in Hanns Seidel Foundation Exchange.
In 2005, Gorman joined the Legislative Advisory Board of the Heartland Institute, a think tank that has raised doubts about anthropogenic climate change.
"[5] She attended the grand opening of the Church of Scientology's Psychiatry: An Industry of Death exhibit in Los Angeles in December 2005 at the request of Robin Read, President of the National Federation for Women Legislators, with her round-trip airfare paid for by CCHR.