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Christopher's
Votes - March, 2006
War on Terror
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(20) - S 2271: Patriot Act Reauthorizing Amendments
- Passage
March 07, 2006 - Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., motion to suspend the
rules and pass the bill that would amend legislation reauthorizing
expiring provisions of the 2001 anti-terrorism law known as
the Patriot Act to clarify that, under the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act, individuals who receive orders to hand over
business records could challenge nondisclosure requirements
after one year, those who receive national security letters
would not be required to disclose the name of their attorney,
and that libraries would not be considered wire or electronic
communication service providers when functioning in their traditional
roles, including providing Internet access.
Motion agreed to 280-138
VOTE: Yea
Agriculture
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(18) - HR 4167: Food Labeling Uniformity - Previous
Question
March 02, 2006 - Gingrey, R-Ga., motion to order the previous
question (thus ending debate and the possibility of amendment)
on adoption of the rule (H Res 702) to provide for House floor
consideration of the bill that would prohibit states from establishing
any food safety labeling notification requirements on food packaging.
Motion agreed to 216-197
VOTE: Yea
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(21) - HR 4167: Food Labeling Uniformity - Previous
Question
March 08, 2006 - Gingrey, R-Ga., motion to order the previous
question (thus ending debate and the possibility of amendment)
on adoption of the rule (H Res 710) to provide for House floor
consideration of the bill that would prohibit states from establishing
any food safety labeling notification requirements on food packaging.
VOTE: Yea
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(27) - HR 4167: Food Labeling Uniformity - Food Health
Effects
March 08, 2006 - Cardoza, D-Calif., amendment that would require
state petitions to be expedited by the Food and Drug Administration
if it involves a request for a food notification requirement
for health effects dealing with cancer, reproductive issues,
birth defects, or other information for parents or guardians
on children's risk to a certain food.
Adopted 417-0
VOTE: Yea
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(28) - HR 4167: Food Labeling Uniformity - Bioterrorism
Food Supply
March 08, 2006 - Waxman, D-Calif., amendment that would preserve
state authority in establishing or maintaining a food supply
that is adequately protected from bioterrorism attack.
Rejected 164-255
VOTE: Nay
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(29) - HR 4167: Food Labeling Uniformity - State Warning Laws
March 08, 2006 - Capps, D-Calif., amendment that would permit
states to maintain or enact food warning laws that require notifications
regarding the risks of cancer, birth defects, reproductive health
issues and allergic reactions associated with sulfiting agents
in bulk foods. It also would allow states to maintain or enact
food warning laws notifying parents or guardians of the risks
of cancer, reproductive or developmental toxins and food-borne
pathogens associated with certain foods.
Rejected 161-259
VOTE: Yea
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(30) - HR 4167: Food Labeling Uniformity - Fish Effects Notification
March 08, 2006 - Wasserman-Schultz, D-Fla., amendment that would
prohibit federal law from affecting any state law, regulation,
proposition or other action that establishes a notification
requirement regarding the presence or potential effects of mercury
in fish and shellfish.
Adopted 253-168
VOTE: Yea
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(31) - HR 4167: Food Labeling Uniformity - Recommit
March 08, 2006 - Stupak, D-Mich., motion that would recommit
the bill to the Energy and Commerce Committee with instructions
that would allow for state notification regarding treatment
of meat, poultry or fish with carbon monoxide.
Motion rejected 170-254
VOTE: Nay
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(32) - HR 4167: Food Labeling Uniformity - Passage
March 08, 2006 - Passage of the bill that would prohibit states
from establishing any food safety labeling notification requirements
on food packaging. It also would prohibit states from continuing
any current food safety notification label warning requirements
after a grace period of 180 days from the bill's enactment.
It would allow states to petition the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) within the grace period for a waiver to allow any labeling
requirements already in place to remain. As amended, the bill
would not take effect until after the Health and Human Services
Department, in consultation with the Homeland Security Department,
certifies to Congress that the implementation of the legislation
will pose no additional risk to the public health or safety
from terrorist attacks to the food supply.
Passed 283-139
VOTE: Nay
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(69) - S 2120: Milk Pricing Rules - Passage
March 28, 2006 - Goodlatte, R-Va., motion to suspend the rules
and pass the bill that require processors shipping milk from
states under federal pricing rules into those with their own
regulations to pay the minimum federal price. It would exempt
milk handlers who produce less than 3 million pounds of milk
per month.
Motion agreed to 285-128
VOTE: Yea
Arts, Immigration, Social Services
and other Domestic Issues
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51 - HR 4939: Fiscal 2006 Supplemental Appropriations
- Coastal Protection
March 16, 2006 - Melancon, D-La., amendment that would increase
by $465 million the amount in the bill provided for Army Corps
of Engineers, with $430 million added for levee armor and $35
million for general coastal restoration and hurricane protection.
Rejected 199-215
VOTE: Nay
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(52) - HR 4939: Fiscal 2006 Supplemental Appropriations
- Community Development Block Grant Program
March 16, 2006 - Jefferson, D-La., amendment that would increase
by $2 billion the amount appropriated by the bill for the Community
Development Block Grant program. It would be offset by reducing
the same amount provided by the bill for the Federal Emergency
Management Agency Disaster Relief Fund.
Rejected 174-248
VOTE: Nay
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(53) - HR 4939: Fiscal 2006 Supplemental Appropriations
- Community Development Block Grant Program
March 16, 2006 - Jefferson, D-La., amendment that would increase
by $1.9 billion the amount appropriated in the bill for the
Community Development Block Grant program.
Rejected 210-212
Vote: Nay
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(56) - HR 4939: Fiscal 2006 Supplemental Appropriations
- Coast Guard and FEMA Funding
March 16, 2006 - Sabo, D-Minn., amendment that would increase
funding for the relocation of personnel and equipment of the
Customs and Border Protection by $700 million, Coast Guard operating
expenses by $125 million and Federal Emergency Management Agency
administrative and regional operations by $300 million.
Rejected 208-210
VOTE: Nay
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(57) - HR 4939: Fiscal 2006 Supplemental Appropriations - Hurricane
Funding
March 16, 2006 - Neugebauer, R-Texas, amendment that would eliminate
the $19.1 billion appropriated by the bill for hurricane recovery.
Rejected 89-332
VOTE: Nay
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(65) - HR 4939: Fiscal 2006 Supplemental Appropriations - Passage
March 16, 2006 - Passage of the bill that would appropriate
$91.9 billion in emergency supplemental funding for fiscal 2006.
It would provide $67.6 billion for defense, $4.3 billion for
foreign aid and $19.2 billion for hurricane relief. The bill
would allow for $750 million to be shifted to fiscal 2006 for
the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. It would bar
DP World, owned by the government of the United Arab Emirates,
from taking over operations at various U.S. ports. As amended,
it would bar funds from being used to enter into a basing rights
agreement between the United States and Iraq that would lead
to a permanent U.S. military presence in Iraq.
Passed 348-71
VOTE: Yea
Budget, Taxes, and Economy
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(40) - HR 4939: Fiscal 2006 Supplemental Appropriations
- Previous Question
March 15, 2006 - Cole, R-Okla., motion to order the previous
question (thus ending debate and the possibility of amendment)
on adoption of the rule (H Res 725) to provide for House floor
consideration of the bill that would appropriate $91.8 billion
in fiscal 2006 for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan
as well as hurricane relief.
Motion agreed to 224-192
VOTE: Yea
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(41) - HR 4939: Fiscal 2006 Supplemental Appropriations
- Rule
March 15, 2006 - Adoption of the rule (H Res 725) to provide
for House floor consideration of the bill that would appropriate
$91.8 billion in fiscal 2006 for military operations in Iraq
and Afghanistan as well as hurricane relief.
Adopted 218-200
VOTE: Yea
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(67) - HR 4297: Tax Reconciliation - Motion to Instruct
March 16, 2006 - Tanner, D-Tenn., motion to instruct House conferees
to insist that the conference report on the bill will neither
increase the federal budget deficit nor the amount of debt subject
to the public debt limit.
Motion agreed to 222-187
VOTE: Nay
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(74) - HR 4297: Tax Reconciliation - Motion to Instruct
March 29, 2006 - Rangel, D-N.Y., motion to instruct conferees
to insist that the conference report include the Senate-passed
provision relating to the Alternative Minimum Tax extension,
eliminate House-passed provisions extending the lower tax rate
on dividends and capital gains that would terminate at the end
of 2008 and insist that the conference report will neither increase
the federal budget deficit nor the amount of the debt subject
to the public debt limit.
Motion rejected 192-229
VOTE: Nay
Business, Trade, and Consumer Affairs
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(24) - HR 1053: Ukraine Trade Relations - Passage
March 08, 2006 - Thomas, R-Calif., motion to suspend the rules
and pass the bill that would give the president the authority
to establish permanent normal trade relations with Ukraine.
Motion agreed to 417-2
Vote: Yea
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(26) - HR 3505: Financial Services Regulatory Relief - Passage
March 08, 2006 - Oxley, R-Ohio, motion to suspend the rules
and pass the bill that would make it easier for banks to open
new branches across state lines and allow banking regulators
to conduct examinations of healthy banking institutions less
frequently than under current law. It also would allow healthy
credit unions to more easily merge and allow certain types of
credit unions to join the Federal Home Loan Bank system.
Motion agreed to 415-2
VOTE: Yea
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(44) - HR 4944: Miscellaneous Tariffs and Trade - Passage
March 15, 2006 - Thomas, R-Calif., motion to suspend the rules
and pass the bill that would temporarily suspend or reduce duties
on hundreds of specific imported goods and make several technical
corrections to trade laws.
Motion agreed to 412-2
VOTE: Yea
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(61) - HR 4939: Fiscal 2006 Supplemental Appropriations - Various
Loan Applications
March 16, 2006 - Velazquez, D-N.Y., amendment that would prohibit
the use of funds to enforce deadlines regarding economic injury
disaster loan applications and physical loan applications.
Rejected 201-213
VOTE: Nay
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(62) - HR 4939: Fiscal 2006 Supplemental Appropriations - Loan
Guarantee Interest Rates
March 16, 2006 - Velazquez, D-N.Y., amendment that would prohibit
the use of funds to make or guarantee a loan under section 7(b)
of the Small Business Act other than a loan for which the borrower
is charged an interest rate in accordance with the act.
Rejected 200-219
VOTE: Nay
Congress and Federal Elections
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(58) - HR 4939: Fiscal 2006 Supplemental Appropriations - Election
Infrastructure
March 16, 2006 - Millender-McDonald, D-Calif., amendment that
would provide an additional $50 million to the Federal Emergency
Management Agency to repair and replace election infrastructure
in states affected by hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Rejected 194-227
VOTE: Nay
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(76) - H Res 746: Ethics Violation Investigation - Motion
to Table
March 30, 2006 - Bishop, R-Utah, motion to table (kill) the
Pelosi, D-Calif., privileged resolution that would ask the Committee
on Standards of Official Conduct to begin an investigation of
the misconduct by members of Congress and their staff implicated
in the scandals associated with lobbyist Jack Abramoff's criminal
activity.
Motion agreed to 216-193
VOTE: Nay
Crime, Drugs and Judicial Affairs
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(17) - H Res 357: Justice Sandra Day O'Connor Tribute
- Adoption
March 01, 2006 - Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., motion to suspend the
rules and adopt the resolution that would honor Justice Sandra
Day O'Connor upon her retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court
and commend her for her work in the practice of law.
Motion agreed to 410-0
VOTE: Yea
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(33) - HR 2829: National Drug Control Policy Office
Reauthorization - Previous Question
March 09, 2006 - Sessions, R-Texas, motion to order the previous
question (thus ending debate and the possibility of amendment)
on adoption of the rule (H Res 713) to provide for House floor
consideration of the bill that would reauthorize for five years,
through fiscal 2011, the Office of National Drug Control Policy
and its associated programs, including the High Intensity Drug
Trafficking Areas program and the National Youth Anti-Drug Media
Campaign.
Motion agreed to 223-195
VOTE: Submitted a statement supporting passage
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(34) - HR 2829: National Drug Control Policy Office Reauthorization
- Methamphetamine Information Clearinghouse
March 09, 2006 - Chabot, R-Ohio, amendment that would direct
the Office of National Drug Control Policy to establish a National
Methamphetamine Information Clearinghouse to promote information-sharing
regarding law enforcement, treatment, environmental concerns
and social services relating to methamphetamine abuse. It would
authorize $1 million in fiscal 2007 and such sums as necessary
from fiscal 2008 through 2011 for the clearinghouse.
Adopted 403-2
VOTE: Submitted a statement supporting passage
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(35) - HR 2829: National Drug Control Policy Office Reauthorization
- Increased Threat of Methamphetamine
March 09, 2006 - Hooley, D-Ore., amendment that would require
the Office of National Drug Control Policy to submit to Congress
a comprehensive strategy to address the increased threat of
methamphetamine, including precursor chemical controls, demand
reduction and treatment efforts.
Adopted 403-3
VOTE: Submitted a statement supporting passage
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(36) - HR 2829: National Drug Control Policy Office Reauthorization
- Sunset of Bill
March 09, 2006 - Paul, R-Texas, amendment that would clarify
that the bill would no longer be in effect after Sept. 30, 2011.
Rejected 85-322
VOTE: Submitted a statement opposing passage
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(37) - HR 2829: National Drug Control Policy Office Reauthorization
- Methamphetamine Abuse Media Campaign
March 09, 2006 - Rehberg, R-Mont., amendment that would require
the Office of National Drug Control Policy to use at least 10
percent of the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign funds
each year for campaigns targeting methamphetamine abuse, or
for grants to private entities running anti-meth ad campaigns.
In fiscal 2008, the office could redirect those funds if domestic
meth lab seizures have decreased by at least 75 percent from
fiscal 2006.
Adopted 399-9
VOTE: Submitted a statement supporting passage
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(38) - HR 2829: National Drug Control Policy Office Reauthorization
- Passage
March 09, 2006 - Passage of the bill that would reauthorize
for five years, through fiscal 2011, the Office of National
Drug Control Policy and associated programs. It would authorize
nearly $1.5 billion between fiscal 2007 and 2011 for the High
Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas program. Up to 10 percent of
the program funding could be spent to combat an emerging drug
trafficking threat in an existing high-intensity area, or to
create a new high-intensity area in response to emerging problems.
The bill would earmark $15 million annually to combat methamphetamine
trafficking in high-intensity drug trafficking areas. It would
authorize more than $1 million between fiscal 2007 and 2011
for the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign.
Passed 399-5
VOTE: Submitted a statement supporting passage
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(45) - HR 4939: Fiscal 2006 Supplemental Appropriations - International
Narcotics Control
March 16, 2006 - Burton, R-Ind., amendment that would transfer
$26 million for marine patrol aircraft for the Colombian Navy
to be used on drug interdiction operations.
Adopted 250-172
VOTE: Yea
Defense and National Security
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(39) - H Con Res 354: Equal Access for Military Recruiters
- Adoption
March 14, 2006 - Drake, R-Va., motion to suspend the rules and
adopt the concurrent resolution that would express the support
of Congress for the requirement that institutions of higher
learning provide military recruiters with the same kind of access
that is provided to any other employer as a condition for receiving
certain federal funds.
Motion agreed to 347-65
VOTE: Yea
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(43) - HR 4939: Fiscal 2006 Supplemental Appropriations - Dubai
Ports World Deal
March 15, 2006 - Gilchrest, R-Md., amendment that would strike
a section in the bill that would prohibit the sale of several
American ports to Dubai Ports World, a state-controlled maritime
company based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Rejected 38-377
VOTE: Nay
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(54) - HR 4939: Fiscal 2006 Supplemental Appropriations - Repair
of Military Exchanges
March 16, 2006 - Taylor, D-Miss., amendment that would add $56
million to the bill for the repair of military exchanges at
Keesler Air Force Base and the Naval Construction Battalion
Center Gulfport in Mississippi, which were each damaged by Hurricane
Katrina.
Adopted 250-171
VOTE: Nay
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(60) - HR 4939: Fiscal 2006 Supplemental Appropriations - Defense
Department Contracts
March 16, 2006 - Waxman, D-Calif., amendment that would prohibit
the awarding of a contract by the secretary of the Army to any
contractor if the Defense Contract Audit Agency has determined
that more than $100 million of a contractor's costs involving
work in Iraq were unreasonable.
Rejected 193-225
VOTE: Nay
Education
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(70) - HR 609: Higher Education Act Reauthorization - Rule
March 29, 2006 - Adoption of the rule (H Res 741) to provide
for House floor consideration of the bill that would authorize
larger Pell grants for low-income college students, increase
competition for consolidated student loans and endorse an "academic
bill of rights." The bill would renew provisions of the
1998 Higher Education Act (PL 105-244).
Adopted 225-198
VOTE: Yea
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(71) - HR 609: Higher Education Act Reauthorization - Advanced
Placement Teachers
March 29, 2006 - McMorris, R-Wash., amendment that would permit
funds authorized by Teacher Quality Enhancement Grants to be
used to increase the number of teachers qualified to teach Advanced
Placement courses, and permit funds authorized under the Robert
C. Byrd Honors Scholarship Program to be used for adjunct teacher
opportunities and foreign language activities.
Adopted 293-134
VOTE: Nay
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(72) - HR 609: Higher Education Act Reauthorization
- Disclosure of Gifts
March 29, 2006 - Burton, R-Ind., amendment that would require
colleges and universities receiving funds under international
education programs to disclose contributions and gifts using
a publicly available and searchable database.
Rejected 120-306
VOTE: Yea
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(75) - HR 609: Higher Education Act Reauthorization
- Rule
March 30, 2006 - Adoption of the rule (H Res 742) to provide
for House floor consideration of the bill that would reauthorize
for another five years provisions of the 1998 Higher Education
Act that were not included in the recently enacted budget reconciliation
law.
Adopted 224-188
VOTE: Yea
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(77) - HR 609: Higher Education Act Reauthorization - Reporting
Requirements
March 30, 2006 - Gohmert, R-Texas, amendment that would strike
from the bill certain reporting requirements for colleges and
universities. It also would remove a provision that would permit
states to apply to the Education Department to become recognized
accreditors.
Adopted 418-2
VOTE: Yea
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(78) - HR 609: Higher Education Act Reauthorization - Mental
Health Workers
March 30, 2006 - Kennedy, D-R.I., amendment that would make
child and adolescent mental health professionals eligible for
loan forgiveness under the high-need professions program.
Adopted 380-38
VOTE: Yea
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(79) - HR 609: Higher Education Act Reauthorization - Demographics
of Admissions
March 30, 2006 - King, R-Iowa, amendment that would require
institutions that receive federal funding to report each year
to the Education Department on whether race, color or national
origin is considered in the process of admitting students. The
report would have to analyze how these factors are considered
in the admissions process.
Rejected 83-337
VOTE: Nay
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(80) - HR 609: Higher Education Act Reauthorization - Democratic
Substitute
March 30, 2006 - Miller, D-Calif., substitute amendment that
would reauthorize for another five years provisions of the 1998
Higher Education Act that were not included in the recently
enacted budget reconciliation law. The substitute would cut
in half the student loan interest rate for borrowers that are
most in need. It would provide for year-round Pell grants and
repeal the single lender rule, which requires student borrowers
to consolidate their loans with their existing lender.
Rejected 200-220
VOTE: Yea
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(81) - HR 609: Higher Education Act Reauthorization - Passage
March 30, 2006 - Passage of the bill that would extend another
five years higher education aid programs that were not extended
and changed by the recently enacted spending cut reconciliation
law. It would authorize an increase in the maximum Pell grant
by $200, to $6,000 and allow for year-round Pell Grants. It
also would repeal the single-holder rule, and allow parents
and students who borrow money for college to shop around for
better deals when they decide to consolidate their loans.
Passed 221-199
VOTE: Yea
Environment, Energy, Science and Technology
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(59) - HR 4939: Fiscal 2006 Supplemental Appropriations - LIHEAP
Funding
March 16, 2006 - Conaway, R-Texas, amendment that would strike
the section of the bill that would make the $750 million in
fiscal 2007 emergency funding for the Low Income Home Energy
Assistance Program (LIHEAP) in current law available in fiscal
2006 as well as fiscal 2007.
Rejected 76-342
VOTE: Nay
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(64) - HR 4939: Fiscal 2006 Supplemental Appropriations - Recommit
March 16, 2006 - Hinchey, D-N.Y., motion to recommit the bill
to the Appropriations Committee with instructions to ensure
that all of the $750 million for the Low Income Home Energy
Assistance Program that is appropriated in the bill be spent
in fiscal 2006.
Motion rejected 188-233
VOTE: Nay
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(66) - S 2320: Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program - Passage
March 16, 2006 - Barton, R-Texas, motion to suspend the rules
and pass the bill that would shift $1 billion for the Low Income
Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) included in the budget
reconciliation law, from fiscal 2007 to fiscal 2006. It would
provide that $500 million be distributed according to formula
and $500 million be emergency contingency funds.
Motion agreed to 287-128
VOTE: Nay
Executive Branch, Federal Buildings, and
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(19) - HR 4054: Dewey F. Bartlett Post Office - Passage
March 07, 2006 - Dent, R-Pa., motion to suspend the rules and
pass the bill that would designate a post office in Tulsa, Okla.,
for Dewey F. Bartlett, who served as governor (1967-71) and
U.S. senator (1973-79) from the state.
Motion agreed to 413-1
VOTE: Yea
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(23) - HR 4192: President Bill Clinton Birthplace - Passage
March 08, 2006 - Gohmert, R-Texas, motion to suspend the rules
and pass the bill that would designate the birthplace home of
former President Bill Clinton in Hope, Ark., as a national historic
site and part of the national park system.
Motion agreed to 409-12
VOTE: Yea
Foreign Affairs
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(25) - H Res 673: Democracy in Belarus - Adoption
March 08, 2006 - Smith, R-N.J., motion to suspend the rules
and adopt the resolution that would ask the Republic of Belarus
to establish a democratic political system, including the freedom
of association and assembly, as well as ensure the full transparency
of procedures in the 2006 presidential election.
Motion agreed to 419-1
VOTE: Yea
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(42) - H Con Res 190: Religious Freedoms in the Russian
Federation - Adoption
March 15, 2006 - Smith, R-N.J., motion to suspend the rules
and adopt the concurrent resolution that would urge Russia to
ensure full protection of freedoms for all religious communities
and to end the harassment of unregistered religious groups by
the security apparatus and other government agencies.
Motion agreed to 411-1
VOTE: Yea
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(46) - HR 4939: Fiscal 2006 Supplemental Appropriations - Peacekeeping
Operations
March 16, 2006 - Capuano, D-Mass., amendment that would increase
by $50 million the amount appropriated in the bill for peacekeeping
operations in Darfur.
Adopted 213-208
VOTE: Yea
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47 - HR 4939: Fiscal 2006 Supplemental Appropriations - State
Department Diplomatic and Consular Program
March 16, 2006 - Doggett, D-Texas, amendment that would add
$7.8 million to the State Department's Diplomatic and Consular
Program to upgrade levees along the Rio Grande River that are
under the exclusive control of the International Boundary and
Water Commission, an agency within the department.
Rejected 198-221
VOTE: Nay
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(48) - HR 4939: Fiscal 2006 Supplemental Appropriations - Promoting
Democracy in Iran
March 16, 2006 - Garrett, R-N.J., amendment that would reduce
by $5 million the amount provided in the bill for State Department
diplomatic and consular programs.
Rejected 75-344
VOTE: Nay
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(49) - HR 4939: Fiscal 2006 Supplemental Appropriations
- Cultural Exchange Programs with Iran
March 16, 2006 - Garrett, R-N.J., amendment that would reduce
by $5 million the amount provided by the bill for educational
and cultural exchange programs with Iran.
Rejected 78-343
VOTE: Nay
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(50) - HR 4939: Fiscal 2006 Supplemental Appropriations
- Radio Free Europe
March 16, 2006 - Foxx, R-N.C., amendment that would eliminate
funding to the State Department's Broadcasting Board of Governors
designated for Radio Free Europe.
Rejected 88-333
VOTE: Nay
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(73) - H Res 736: Religious Conversion in Afghanistan - Adoption
March 29, 2006 - Pence, R-Ind., motion to suspend the rules
and adopt the resolution to express the sense of the House that
legal action in Afghanistan against citizens who have already
converted or plan to convert to other religions is deplorable
and unjust.
Motion agreed to 427-0
VOTE: Yea
Health Care
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(55) - HR 4939: Fiscal 2006 Supplemental Appropriations - Ruling
of the Chair
March 16, 2006 - Motion to sustain the ruling of the chair that
upheld the Lewis, R-Calif., point of order against the DeLauro,
D-Conn., amendment on grounds that it would constitute unauthorized
legislation on an appropriations bill. The DeLauro amendment
would repeal, as of Sept. 30, 2006, a provision in current law
that prohibits lawsuits against drugmakers who supply drugs
or vaccines to address a disease designated as a public health
emergency by the Health and Human Services Department.
Motion agreed to 223-193
VOTE: Yea
Housing
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(63) - HR 4939: Fiscal 2006 Supplemental Appropriations - Housing
for Hurricane Victims
March 16, 2006 - Lee, D-Calif., amendment that would prohibit
the use of funds to implement, administer, or enforce the termination
of the hotel and motel emergency sheltering program established
by the Federal Emergency Management Agency for families displaced
by hurricanes in 2005.
Rejected 189-230
VOTE: Nay
Labor and Retirement
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(22) - HR 2830: Pension Overhaul - Motion to Instruct
March 08, 2006 - Miller, D-Calif., motion to instruct House
conferees to include Senate language related to special funding
rules for plans maintained by commercial airlines as well as
language related to plan benefits guaranteed when prescribed
Federal Aviation Administration regulations require an individual
to retire before age 65. Motion agreed to 265-158
VOTE: Yea
Veterans
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(68) - HR 4882: Vietnam Memorial Visitor Center - Passage
March 28, 2006 - Pearce, R-N.M., motion to suspend the rules
and pass the bill that would set a 30-day deadline after the
bill's enactment for the final approval of the design of a Vietnam
Veterans Memorial visitors center on the National Mall. The
center would be located between Henry Bacon Drive, 23rd Street,
Constitution Ave. and the Lincoln Memorial.
Motion agreed to 404-4
VOTE: Yea
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