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Christopher's
Votes - February, 2003
Arts,
Immigration, Social Services and other Domestic Issues
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(23) HJRES19: Ronald Reagan's Birthday - Passage
February 11, 2003 - - Blackburn, R-Tenn., motion to suspend
the rules and pass the resolution that would wish former President
Ronald Reagan a happy 92nd birthday. Motion agreed to 406-6.
VOTE: Yea
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(27) HR4: Welfare Reauthorization - Kucinich Substitute
February 13, 2003 - Kucinich, D-Ohio, amendment that would
continue current law provisions that require welfare recipients
to work 30 hours per week and require states to have at least
half of the families in their caseloads working. It also would
allow legal immigrants to receive assistance, give states
a poverty reduction bonus, provide annual funding increases
for inflation, and increase mandatory child care funding to
$20 billion over five years. Rejected 124-300
VOTE: Nay
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(28) HR4: Welfare Reauthorization - Cardin Substitute
February 13, 2003 - Cardin, D-Md., amendment that would maintain
the 30-hour-per-week work requirement for welfare recipients
but require that 24 of those hours be in certain core activities.
It would give states greater flexibility to provide job training
and education to recipients, allow legal immigrants to receive
benefits, and increase child care funding by $11 billion over
the next five years. Motion rejected 197-225.
VOTE: Nay
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(29) HR4: Welfare Reauthorization - Recommit
February 13, 2003 - Cardin, D-Md., motion to recommit the
bill to the House Ways and Means Committee with instructions
that it be reported back with language that would provide
additional funding for child care programs. Motion rejected
197-221.
VOTE: Nay
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(30) HR4: Welfare Reauthorization - Passage
February 13, 2003 - Passage of the bill that would authorize
$16.5 billion to renew the Temporary Assistance for Needy
Families block grant program through fiscal 2008 and require
new welfare aid conditions. The bill would increase the work
requirements for individuals receiving assistance from 30
to 40 hours per week and require states to increase the number
of recipient families working from the current level of 50
percent to 70 percent or more in 2008. The bill also would
provide an additional $1 billion in mandatory state child
care grants and $200 million to be matched by $100 million
of state money for marriage promotion programs. Passed 230-192.
VOTE: Yea
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(33) HRES46: Al Hirschfeld Tribute
February 25, 2003 - Blackburn, R-Tenn., motion to suspend
the rules and adopt the resolution that would honor the life
and legacy of caricaturist Al Hirschfeld. Motion agreed to
403-0.
VOTE: Yea
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(35) HCONRES36: Emancipation Proclamation Anniversary -
Adoption
February 26, 2003 - Jo Ann Davis, R-Va., motion to suspend
the rules and adopt the resolution that would recognize the
historical significance of the 140th anniversary of the Emancipation
Proclamation, commend Abraham Lincoln's efforts to end slavery,
and encourage the people of the United States to celebrate
the proclamation's anniversary.
Motion agreed to 415-0.
VOTE: Yea
Budget, Taxes, and Economy
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(18) HJRES18: Fiscal 2003 Continuing Appropriations - Recommit
February 5, 2003 - Obey, D-Wis., motion to recommit the joint
resolution to the House Appropriations Committee with instructions
that it be reported back with language that would continue
payment rates for physician services under Medicare at fiscal
2002 levels and increase the base payment amount that hospitals
in small urban and rural areas receive through Medicare to
the same as that for larger urban hospitals. Motion rejected
195-215.
VOTE: Nay
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(31) HJRES2: Fiscal 2003 Omnibus Appropriations - Recommit
February 13, 2003 - Obey, D-Wis., motion to recommit the conference
report on the joint resolution that would provide $397.4 billion
in fiscal 2003 spending to the conference committee with instructions
to strike several environmental-related provisions including
one that would permit leasing studies of Alaska's Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge and to add language that would provide additional
funding for conservation resource programs and $500 million
for state and local "first responders." Motion rejected
193-226.
VOTE: Nay
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(32) HJRES2: Fiscal 2003 Omnibus Appropriations - Conference
Report
February 13, 2003 - Adoption of the conference report on the
joint resolution that would provide $397.4 billion in fiscal
2003 spending for all Cabinet departments and government agencies
covered in 11 unfinished spending bills. The included bills
are: Agriculture, Treasury-Postal, Transportation, VA-HUD,
Legislative Branch, Energy and Water, District of Columbia,
Labor-HHS, Commerce-Justice-State, Interior and Foreign Operations.
The agreement would provide a 0.65 percent across-the-board
cut to many programs to offset additional increased funding
primarily for education. It would provide $10 billion for
intelligence and military activities, an additional $3.1 billion
for drought relief, $1.5 billion for state election overhaul
efforts, and an increase in Medicare payments to physicians
by $54 billion over 10 years. Adopted 338-83.
VOTE: Yea
Business, Trade, and Consumer Affairs
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(26) HR395: Do Not Call Registry - Passage
February 12, 2003 - Passage of the bill that would allow the
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to collect user fees to set
up a program that would let individuals avoid telemarketers
by placing their numbers on a "do not call" list.
The program would expire in 2007. It also would require the
Federal Communications Commission to complete its own current
review of telemarketing rules within six months of the bill's
enactment and work to reconcile its rules with those of the
FTC. Motion agreed to 418-7.
VOTE: Yea
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(36) HR258: Nickel Redesign - Adoption
February 26, 2003 - Biggert, R-Ill., motion to suspend the
rules and adopt the bill that would allow the Treasury Secretary
to change the design on 5-cent coins issued in 2003, 2004,
and 2005 in recognition of the bicentennial of the Louisiana
Purchase and the expedition of Meriwether Lewis and William
Clark, and establish the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee
to advise the Treasury Secretary on the selection of themes
and designs for coins. Motion agreed to 412-5.
VOTE: Yea
Crime, Drugs, and Judicial Affairs
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(24) HR346: Fraud in Emergencies - Passage
February 12, 2003 - Stearns, R-Fla., motion to suspend the
rules and pass the bill that would increase from $11,000 to
$22,000 the maximum civil penalty that may be imposed on an
individual who commits an unfair or deceptive act that exploits
popular reaction during an emergency that is declared by the
president. Motion agreed to 422-1.
VOTE: Yea
Congress and Federal Elections
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(34) HCONRES40: Holocaust Remembrance - Adoption
February 25, 2003 - Mica, R-Fla., motion to suspend the rules
and adopt the resolution that would permit the use of the
Capitol Rotunda for a ceremony as part of the commemoration
of the days of remembrance of victims of the Holocaust. Motion
agreed to 408-0.
VOTE: Yea
Defense and National Security
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(25) HRES62: Prisoners of War in Vietnam - Adoption
February 12, 2003 - Hunter, R-Calif., motion to suspend the
rules and adopt the resolution that would pay tribute to Rep.
Sam Johnson, R-Texas, and other members of the U.S. armed
forces imprisoned during the Vietnam War and urge an accounting
of all members still missing from that conflict. Motion agreed
to 424-0.
VOTE: Yea
Enviornment, Energy, Science and Technology
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(19) HRES51: Space Shuttle Columbia - Adoption
February 5, 2003 - Adoption of the resolution that would offer
condolences to the families of the seven crew members killed
Feb. 1 aboard the space shuttle Columbia. Adopted 404-0.
VOTE: Yea
Foreign Affairs
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(20) HCONRES27: Human Rights Commission - Adoption
February 11, 2003 - - Hyde, R-Ill., motion to suspend the
rules and adopt the resolution that would condemn the selection
of Libya as the chair of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights.
It also would urge the president to push for renewed U.N.
sanctions against Libya because of its involvement in the
attack on Pam Am Flight 103 and urge the secretary of State
to encourage other countries to support U.S. opposition to
the election of human rights violators to leadership positions
in the United Nations. Motion agreed to 402-6.
VOTE: Yea
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(21) HCONRES22: Vaclav Havel Tribute - Adoption
February 11, 2003 - Bereuter, R-Neb., motion to suspend the
rules and adopt the resolution that would honor Vaclav Havel,
a playwright and the former president of the Czech Republic,
for his support of human rights and democracy. Motion agreed
to 415-0.
VOTE: Yea
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(22) HRES61: Israel Tribute - Adoption
February 11, 2003 - Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., motion to suspend
the rules and adopt the resolution that would commend Israel
for its free and fair election process and express gratitude
for the U.S.-Israel relationship. Motion agreed to 411-2.
VOTE: Yea
Health Care
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(37) HR534: Prohibition on Human Cloning - Substitute
February 27, 2003 - Greenwood, R-Pa., substitute amendment
that would prohibit human cloning for reproduction but allow
the cloning of embryos for medical research purposes. Researchers
would be required to register with the Food and Drug Administration
and would have to obtain the consent of embryo donors. The
bill would make it illegal to pursue cloning to initiate a
pregnancy and impose on violators a prison term of up to 10
years and a fine of up to $10 million. Rejected 174-231.
VOTE: Yea
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(38) HR534: Prohibition on Human Cloning - Recommit
February 27, 2003 - Lofgren, D-Calif., motion to recommit
the bill to the House Judiciary Committee with instructions
to add language that would exempt from the ban on imports
of cloned embryos those products related to developing a cure
for various diseases including Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, cancer
and heart disease. The instructions provide that the exempted
products of the cloning process could not be used to begin
a pregnancy. Motion rejected 164-237.
VOTE: Yea
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(39) HR534: Prohibition on Human Cloning - Passage
February 27, 2003 - Passage of the bill that would ban human
cloning and punish violators with up to 10 years in prison
and fines of at least $1 million. The bill would prohibit
cloning, and attempts at cloning, for both medical research
and reproductive purposes. It also would forbid importing
cloned embryos or products made from them. Passed 241-155.
VOTE: Nay
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