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Christopher's
Votes - March, 2007
Arts, Immigration, Social Services and
other Domestic Issues
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(117) - HR 800: Employee Union Card Check - Recommit
March 01, 2007 - McKeon, R-Calif., motion to recommit the bill
to the House Education and Labor Committee with instructions
to include language that would require an employee to attest
to being a U.S. citizen or legal resident when returning an
authorization card. Documentary evidence supporting the statement
would be required.
Motion rejected 202-225
VOTE: Yea
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120 - HR 497: Brigadier General Francis Marion Memorial
- Passage
March 05, 2007 - Grijalva, D-Ariz., motion to suspend the rules
and pass the bill that would authorize the Marion Park Project
to establish a commemorative work on federal land in Washington,
D.C., to honor Brigadier General Francis Marion and would bar
federal funds for the commemoration.
Motion agreed to 390-0
VOTE: Yea
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(122) - H Res 149: International Women's Day - Adoption
March 06, 2007 - Watson, D-Calif., motion to suspend the rules
and adopt the resolution that would support the goals and ideals
of International Women's Day, and honor women world-wide for
their struggle for equality. The resolution also would encourage
the president to proclaim March 8 as International Women's Day.
Motion agreed to 403-0
VOTE: Yea
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(129) - HR 700: Water Supply to Communities - Recommit
March 08, 2007 - Price, R-Ga., motion to recommit the bill to
the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee with instructions
that the bill be immediately reported back with language that
would bar the use of funds authorized in the bill to lobby or
retain a lobbyist to influence a federal, state or local government
entity or officer. It also would bar the use of funds to pay
for expenses related to memberships in an organization or association.
Motion agreed to 427-0
VOTE: Yea
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(130) - HR 700: Water Supply to Communities - Passage
March 08, 2007 - Passage of the bill that would authorize $125
million for an EPA pilot program that funds projects intended
to provide water from alternative sources in an environmentally
sustainable manner. As amended, it would require EPA to consider
whether an alternative water source project is located in an
area with a public water system serving 10,000 or fewer when
the agency selects grant recipients for the pilot program.
Passed 368-59
VOTE: Yea
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(137) - H Res 136: Girl Scouts Commendation - Adoption
March 12, 2007 - Davis, D-Ill., motion to suspend the rules
and adopt the resolution that would commend the Girl Scouts
for their 95th anniversary and for their accomplishments, including
its advocacy on the issue of obesity among young girls.
Motion agreed to 395-0
VOTE: Yea
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(161) - H Con Res 42: World War II Glider Pilots - Adoption
March 20, 2007 - Boyda, D-Kan., motion to suspend the rules
and adopt the resolution that would honor the service of the
U.S. Army Air Force's glider pilots during World War II.
Motion agreed to 421-0
VOTE: Nay
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(188) - HR 137: Animal Fighting Prohibitions - Passage
March 26, 2007 - Scott, D-Va., motion to suspend the rules and
pass the bill that would make it a felony to knowingly buy,
sell, transport, deliver or receive any animal in interstate
or foreign commerce for the purpose of participation in a fighting
venture. It would increase the maximum prison sentence for such
crimes to three years and define an "animal fighting venture"
as any event involving a fight between at least two animals
that is conducted "for purposes of sport, wagering, or
entertainment."
Motion agreed to 368-39
VOTE: Yea
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(193) - H Res 266: Social Worker Appreciation - Adoption
March 27, 2007 - Shea-Porter, D-N.H., motion to suspend the
rules and adopt the resolution that would support the goals
of Professional Social Work Month and World Social Work Day
and applaud the work of social workers.
Motion agreed to 417-2
VOTE: Yea
Budget, Taxes and the Economy
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(123) - HR 569: Sewer System Repair - Cost Offset
March 07, 2007 - Price, R-Ga., amendment that would prohibit
the bill's authorization levels from taking effect unless the
cost of those provisions would be offset.
Other 166-260
VOTE: Nay
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(128) - HR 700: Water Supply to Communities - Cost Offset
March 08, 2007 - Price, R-Ga., amendment that would prohibit
the bill's authorization levels from taking effect unless the
cost of those provisions would be offset.
Other 176-256
VOTE: Nay
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(202) - H Con Res 99: Fiscal 2008 Budget Resolution
- Previous Question
March 28, 2007 - Sutton, D-Ohio, motion to order the previous
question (thus ending debate and possibility of amendment) on
adoption of the rule (H Res 275) to provide for House floor
consideration of the concurrent resolution that would set broad
spending and revenue targets for the next five years.
Motion agreed to 225-196
VOTE: Nay
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(203) - H Con Res 99: Fiscal 2008 Budget Resolution
- Rule
March 28, 2007 - Adoption of the rule (H Res 275) to provide
for House floor consideration of the concurrent resolution that
would set broad spending and revenue targets for the next five
years.
Adopted 229-197
VOTE: Nay
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(209) - H Con Res 99: Fiscal 2008 Budget Resolution
- Congressional Black Caucus Substitute
March 29, 2007 - Kilpatrick, D-Mich., substitute amendment that
would reduce the deficit in each fiscal year between 2008-11
and would project a budget surplus of $141 billion in fiscal
2012. It assume a repeal of certain tax cuts resulting in $319
billion in additional revenue over five years, which would go
towards deficit reduction and various education, jobs, health
and other programs. It would project tax increases for married
couples with incomes above $200,000, for single filers' above
$170,000. It would allow for $111.3 billion in discretionary
budget authority in fiscal 2008 for education, training, employment
and social services programs, $70.2 billion in budget authority
in fiscal 2008 for discretionary health programs and $46.5 billion
in budget authority for veterans' benefits and services.
Other 115-312
VOTE: Nay
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(210) - H Con Res 99: Fiscal 2008 Budget Resolution
- Congressional Progressive Caucus Substitute
March 29, 2007 - Woolsey, D-Calif., substitute amendment that
would set non-defense, domestic discretionary spending at $483
billion for fiscal 2008. It would assume $22.7 billion surplus
by fiscal 2010 from a repeal of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts for
the top 1 percent of U.S. households. It would project the elimination
of certain corporate tax provisions. It would allow for $396
billion for defense and end U.S. military involvement in Iraq
by the end of 2007. It would assume full funding for programs
under the No Child Left Behind Act and Individuals with Disabilities
Education law. It would project additional funding for job training,
and an additional $75 billion over five years for the State
Child Health Insurance Program. It would assume that veterans
health care would become a mandatory spending program and that
the amount available in fiscal 2008 be 130 percent of the fiscal
2005 level.
Other 81-340
VOTE: Nay
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(211) - H Con Res 99: Fiscal 2008 Budget Resolution
- Republican Substitute
March 29, 2007 - Ryan, R-Wis., substitute amendment that would
set discretionary funding at $1.1 billion for fiscal 2008, including
money for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and reduce deficits
annually until a projected surplus of $99.5 billion in fiscal
2012. It would allow $503.8 billion for defense discretionary
spending, not counting the $145.2 billion war set-aside. Non-defense
discretionary spending would be set at $433.9 billion, the same
level as fiscal 2007, with increases to various items such as
veterans health care, homeland security and community development
block grants. It would provide for a reconciliation bill to
reduce mandatory spending by $279 billion over five years and
direct the Ways and Means Committee to report legislation cutting
taxes by $447 billion over five years. It would allow for a
$6.5 billion emergency set-aside fund for domestic emergencies
that would require a vote by the Budget Committee before amounts
above that level could be designated as emergencies. It would
create a legislative line-item veto as well as change the House
pay-as-you-go rule to require that increases in mandatory spending
be offset by cuts in mandatory spending, and not by tax increases.
It also would change House rules to require a vote on legislation
that would increase the national debt.
Other 160-268
VOTE: Nay
Business, Trade and Consumer Affairs
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(177) - HR 1130: Judicial Financial Disclosure - Passage
March 21, 2007 - Linda T. Sanchez, D-Calif., motion to suspend
the rules and pass the bill that would extend through 2009 the
right of judicial employees to omit certain personal information
about themselves or their family members from financial disclosure
reports.
Motion agreed to 415-0
VOTE: Yea
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(178) - HR 740: Caller ID Protection - Passage
March 21, 2007 - Linda T. Sanchez, D-Calif., motion to suspend
the rules and pass the bill that would make it a crime to knowingly
modify caller ID information with the intent of misleading the
recipient of a call, a practice known as "spoofing."
Motion agreed to 413-1
VOTE: Yea
Congress and Federal Elections
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(132) - HR 720: Clean Water Revolving Fund - Rule
March 09, 2007 - Adoption of the rule (H Res 229) to provide
for House floor consideration of a bill that would authorize
$14 billion from fiscal 2008 through 2011 for the Clean Water
State Revolving Fund and an additional $2 billion from fiscal
2008 through 2012 for three other existing clean water EPA programs.
Adopted 229-179
VOTE: Nay
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(147) - Procedural Motion - Journal
March 14, 2007 - Approval of the House Journal of Wednesday,
March 13, 2007.
Approved 265-157
VOTE: Nay
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(148) - Procedural Motion - Adjourn
March 14, 2007 - Westmoreland, R-Ga., motion to adjourn.
Motion rejected 142-258
VOTE: Yea
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(163) - Procedural Motion - Journal
March 20, 2007 - Approval of the House Journal of Monday, March
19, 2007.
Approved 265-149
VOTE: Nay
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(167) - Procedural Motion - Permission to Speak
March 21, 2007 - Frank, D-Mass., motion to allow Taylor, D-Miss.,
to proceed in order after the chair ruled out of order his reference
to Tom Price, R-Ga., and ordered the words stricken from the
Record. Under the rules of the House, a member whose words are
taken down for an improper reference loses the privilege of
debate for the rest of the day unless the House allows him to
proceed.
Motion agreed to 265-160
VOTE: Yea
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(184) - Procedural Motion - Journal
March 22, 2007 - Approval of the House Journal of Wednesday,
March 21, 2007.
Approved 256-160
VOTE: Nay
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(185) - Procedural Motion - Journal
March 23, 2007 - Approval of the House Journal of Thursday,
March 22, 2007.
Approved 263-146
VOTE: Nay
Crime, Drugs and Judicial Affairs
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(183) - HR 545: Native American Meth Grants - Passage
March 22, 2007 - Linda T. Sanchez, D-Calif., motion to suspend
the rules and pass the bill that would amend the Omnibus Crime
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to clarify that territories
and Indian tribes are eligible to receive grants for preventing
the use of methamphetamines.
Motion agreed to 423-0
VOTE: Yea
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(189) - HR 580: U.S. Attorney Appointments - Passage
March 26, 2007 - Conyers, D-Mich., motion to suspend the rules
and pass the bill that would allow the attorney general to appoint
interim U.S. attorneys for a period of no more than 120 days
in the event of a vacancy. If a new U.S. attorney is not confirmed
in that time frame, it would require the district court in which
there is a vacancy to appoint an interim U.S. attorney to serve
until a replacement receives Senate confirmation.
Motion agreed to 329-78
VOTE: Yea
Defense and National Security
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(182) - HR 1591: Fiscal 2007 Supplemental - Rule
March 22, 2007 - Adoption of the rule (H Res 261) to provide
for House floor consideration of a bill that would appropriate
approximately $124 billion in fiscal 2007 emergency spending,
as well as set in motion a withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq
by August 2008 and establish waiveable requirements for unit
readiness and deployment lengths.
Adopted 225-201
VOTE: Nay
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(186) - HR 1591: Fiscal 2007 Supplemental - Passage
March 23, 2007 - Passage of the bill that would appropriate
$124.3 billion in fiscal 2007 emergency funding, as well as
set in motion a withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq by August
2008 and establish waiveable requirements for unit readiness
and deployment lengths. It would provide $95.5 billion for military
operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, $6.4 billion for hurricane
recovery and relief, $3.7 billion in crop and livestock disaster
assistance and $2.5 billion for homeland security anti-terrorism
programs.
Passed 218-212
VOTE: Nay
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(190) - HR 1401: Rail and Public Transportation Security
- Previous Question
March 27, 2007 - Hastings, D-Fla., motion to order the previous
question (thus ending debate and possibility of amendment) on
adoption of the rule (H Res 270) to provide for House floor
consideration of the bill that would authorize $6.2 billion
for the next four years for rail, mass transit and bus security
and require the Homeland Security Department to establish regulations
for rail and mass transit systems.
Motion agreed to 222-199
VOTE: Nay
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(191) - HR 1401: Rail and Public Transportation Security
- Rule
March 27, 2007 - Adoption of the rule (H Res 270) to provide
for House floor consideration of the bill that would authorize
$6.2 billion for the next four years for rail, mass transit
and bus security and require the Homeland Security Department
to establish regulations for rail and mass transit systems.
Adopted 223-199
VOTE: Nay
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(194) - HR 1401: Rail and Public Transportation Security
- Grant Program Management
March 27, 2007 - Thompson, D-Miss., amendment that would clarify
that the Homeland Security Department is responsible for choosing
recipients for the rail, public transportation and bus grant
programs and for setting grant requirements. It also would establish
whistleblower protections procedures for rail and public transportation
employees.
Other 224-199
VOTE: Nay
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(195) - HR 1401: Rail and Public Transportation Security
- Hazardous Materials
March 27, 2007 - Cohen, D-Tenn., amendment that would require
the Transportation Department, in consultation with the Homeland
Security Department, to establish a program to coordinate with
state and local governments to minimize the need for rail transportation
of toxic inhalation hazardous materials.
Other 237-188
VOTE: Nay
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(197) - HR 1401: Rail and Public Transportation Security
- Bus Security Grants
March 27, 2007 - Flake, R-Ariz., amendment that would strike
provisions in the bill that would create a grant program to
improve security of over-the-road buses and authorize $87 million
over four years for the program.
Other 98-332
VOTE: Nay
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(198) - HR 1401: Rail and Public Transportation Security
- Revote on Grant Programs Management
March 27, 2007 - Revote on Thompson, D-Miss., amendment that
would clarify that the Homeland Security Department is responsible
for choosing recipients for the rail, public transportation
and bus grant programs and setting grant requirements. It would
also establish whistleblower protection procedures for rail
and public transportation employees.
Adopted 222-197
VOTE: Nay
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(199) - HR 1401: Rail and Public Transportation Security
- Revote on Hazardous Materials
March 27, 2007 - Revote on Cohen, D-Tenn., amendment that would
require the Transportation Department, in consultation with
the Homeland Security Department, to establish a program to
coordinate with state and local governments to minimize the
need for rail transportation of toxic inhalation hazardous materials.
Adopted 234-184
VOTE: Nay
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(200) - HR 1401: Rail and Public Transportation Security
- Recommit
March 27, 2007 - King, R-N.Y., motion to recommit the bill to
the Homeland Security Committee with instructions that the bill
be immediately reported back with language that would grant
individuals that report suspicious activity immunity from lawsuits.
Motion agreed to 304-121
VOTE: Yea
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(201) - HR 1401: Rail and Public Transportation Security
- Passage
March 27, 2007 - Passage of the bill that would authorize $6.2
billion for the next four years for rail, mass transit and bus
security and require the Homeland Security Department to establish
regulations for rail and mass transit systems. Those considered
to be of greatest risk would have to develop security plans
approved by the Homeland Security Department. It would require
training for all rail, transit and bus employees within one
year of departmental approval of training programs. It would
require the development of regulations for rail transportation
of sensitive materials, require operators to assess alternative
routes and extend whistleblower protection to transportation
employees.
Passed 299-124
VOTE: Yea
Environment, Energy, Science and Technology
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(124) - HR 569: Sewer System Repair - Recommit
March 07, 2007 - McHenry, R-N.C., motion to recommit the bill
to the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee with instructions
to report it back immediately with language that would bar the
use of funds authorized in the bill to lobby or retain a lobbyist
to influence a federal, state or local government entity or
officer. It also would bar the use of funds to pay for expenses
related to memberships in an organization or association.
Motion agreed to 425-0
VOTE: Yea
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(125) - HR 569: Sewer System Repair - Passage
March 07, 2007 - Passage of the bill that would authorize $1.7
billion over a five-year period, from fiscal 2008 through 2012,
for sewer overflow control EPA grants. The grants would be used
by municipalities to plan, design and construct new sewer systems
designed to carry both domestic sewage and industrial wastewater.
Passed 367-58
VOTE: Yea
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(127) - H Res 202: Committee Funding - Previous Question
March 08, 2007 - Slaughter, D-N.Y., motion to order the previous
question (thus ending debate and possibility of amendment) on
adoption of the resolution (H Res 219) to provide for House
floor consideration of a resolution that would provide $276.5
million in the 110th Congress for 19 standing committees of
the House and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
The rule would allow for the creation of a Select Committee
on Energy Independence and Global Warming and would provide
funding for the expenses of the committee.
Motion agreed to 228-195
VOTE: Nay
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(131) - H Res 202: Committee Funding - Adoption
March 08, 2007 - Adoption of the resolution that would provide
$280.2 million in the 110th Congress for 19 standing committees
of the House, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
and a new Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global
Warming. The resolution would specify that $137.9 million would
be for the first session and $142.3 million for the second session.
Adopted 269-150
VOTE: Yea
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(134) - HR 720: Clean Water Revolving Fund - Recommit
March 09, 2007 - Cantor, R-Va., motion to recommit the bill
to the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee with instructions
that the bill be immediately reported back with language that
would bar individuals with a transportation worker identification
card from boarding a maritime vessel if they have been convicted
of certain felonies such as racketeering, sedition, espionage
or murder.
Motion agreed to 359-56
VOTE: Yea
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(135) - HR 720: Clean Water Revolving Fund - Passage
March 09, 2007 - Passage of the bill that would authorize $14
billion from fiscal 2008 through 2011 for the Clean Water State
Revolving Fund and an additional $2 billion from fiscal 2008
through 2012 for three other existing clean water EPA programs.
The fund provides money to states for local water infrastructure
projects. The bill would raise revenue from fiscal 2008 through
2017 on tonnage duties assessed on vessels arriving from foreign
ports or embarking on "voyages to nowhere." It would
apply Davis-Bacon requirements to wastewater construction projects
financed with non-federal funds. Davis-Bacon requires that any
workers on a federal project be paid prevailing wages.
Passed 303-108
VOTE: Yea
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(136) - HR 85: Energy Technology Transfer - Passage
March 12, 2007 - Baird, D-Wash., motion to suspend the rules
and pass the bill that would set more detailed requirements
for an existing Energy Department grant program that aims to
encourage the use of energy efficiency through the transfer
of information from the research sector to businesses and governments.
Motion agreed to 395-1
VOTE: Yea
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149 - HR 985: Whistleblower Protection - Employee Communications
March 14, 2007 - Stupak, D-Mich., amendment that would
prohibit supervisors from taking any action that restricts or
prevents an employee performing federally funded research or
analysis from publishing in a peer-reviewed journal or other
scientific publication, or from making oral presentations at
professional society meetings.
Other 250-178
VOTE: Yea
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150 - HR 985: Whistleblower Protection - Accuracy of Federally
Funded Research
March 14, 2007 - Sali, R-Idaho, amendment that would
strike a provision in the bill that would provide whistleblower
protections to federal employees who disclose actions that compromise
the validity or accuracy of federally funded research or analysis
and disseminate false or misleading scientific, medical or technical
information.
Other 159-271
VOTE: Nay
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151 - HR 985: Whistleblower Protection - Revote on Employee
Communications
March 14, 2007 - Revote on Stupak, D-Mich., amendment
that would prohibit supervisors from taking any action that
restricts or prevents an employee performing federally funded
research or analysis from publishing in a peer-reviewed journal
or other scientific publication, or from making oral presentations
at professional society meetings.
Adopted 252-173
VOTE: Yea
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(157) - H Res 138: Hot Springs National Park - Adoption
March 19, 2007 - Grijalva, D-Ariz., motion to suspend
the rules and adopt the resolution that would recognize the
175th anniversary of Hot Springs National Park in Hot Springs,
Ark.
Motion agreed to 399-0
VOTE: Yea
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(158) - HR 658: Natural Resource Cooperative Agreements - Passage
March 19, 2007 - Grijalva, D-Ariz., motion to suspend
the rules and pass the bill that would allow the Park Service
to enter into cooperative agreements with non-federal entities,
such as local governments, nonprofit groups or private landowners
to protect natural resources on park lands and in their surrounding
areas.
Motion agreed to 390-10
VOTE: Yea
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(159) - HR 839: Arthur V. Watkins Dam - Passage
March 19, 2007 - Grijalva, D-Ariz., motion to suspend
the rules and pass the bill that would authorize the Interior
Department to conduct a feasibility study and environmental
evaluation on raising the height of the Arthur V. Watkins Dam
for the development of additional storage to meet water supply
needs within the Weber Basin Project area.
Motion agreed to 394-1
VOTE: Yea
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(187) - HR 802: Maritime Pollution Prevention - Passage
March 26, 2007 - Cummings, D-Md., motion to suspend
the rules and pass the bill that would require the Coast Guard
and the EPA to establish regulations concerning the air emissions
of U.S. vessels, vessels operating in the United States or in
territorial seas, vessels in emission control areas, and in
other areas designated by the EPA. It would permit the EPA or
the Coast Guard, in consultation with the relevant department
or agency, to determine which air emissions requirements would
apply to certain types of public vessels.
Motion agreed to 359-48
VOTE: Yea
Executive Branch, Federal Buildings
and D.C.
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(142) - HR 1254: Presidential Library Donation - Passage
March 14, 2007 - Murphy, D-Conn., motion to suspend
the rules and pass the bill that would require organizations
that raise money for presidential libraries to disclose on a
quarterly basis the identities of donors who contribute $200
or more in the previous quarter. They would be made available
online to the public, to the National Archives and Records Administration
and various congressional committees.
Motion agreed to 390-34
VOTE: Yea
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(143) - HR 1255: Presidential Records - Passage
March 14, 2007 - Clay, D-Mo., motion to suspend the
rules and pass the bill that would allow a former president
to request the current president to claim executive privilege
over the release of the past president's records. However, the
sitting president would not be required to act on that request.
Motion agreed to 333-93
VOTE: Yea
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(144) - HR 1309: Freedom of Information Act Requests - Passage
March 14, 2007 - Clay, D-Mo., motion to suspend the
rules and pass the bill that would clarify that the 20-day time
limit by which an executive branch agency must respond to Freedom
of Information Act (FOIA) requests begins on the date the request
is received. If the deadline is missed, the agency would not
be allowed to charge any fees to the requester. It would require
agencies to establish tracking systems that provide each person
making a FOIA request with a tracking number within 10 days.
Motion agreed to 308-117
VOTE: Yea
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(145) - HR 985: Whistleblower Protection - Previous Question
March 14, 2007 - Hastings, D-Fla., motion to order
the previous question (thus ending debate and possibility of
amendment) on adoption of the resolution (H Res 239) to provide
for House floor consideration of a bill that would provide protection
to federal employees who lawfully disclose evidence of waste,
abuse, or gross mismanagement that they believe is credible
without restriction as to time, place, form, motive, context,
or prior disclosure.
Motion agreed to 224-197
VOTE: Nay
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(146) - HR 985: Whistleblower Protection - Rule
March 14, 2007 - Adoption of the rule (H Res 239) to
provide for House floor consideration of a bill that would provide
protection to federal employees who lawfully disclose evidence
of waste, abuse or gross mismanagement that they believe is
credible without restriction as to time, place, form, motive,
context or prior disclosure.
Adopted 223-193
VOTE: Nay
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(152) - HR 985: Whistleblower Protection - Recommit
March 14, 2007 - Westmoreland, R-Ga., motion to recommit
the bill to the Oversight and Government Reform Committee with
instructions that the bill be immediately reported back with
language that would protect federal employees from retaliation
for the exercise and expression of religion in the workplace.
Motion agreed to 426-0
VOTE: Yea
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(153) - HR 985: Whistleblower Protection - Passage
March 14, 2007 - Passage of the bill that would provide
protection to federal employees who lawfully disclose evidence
of waste, abuse or gross mismanagement that they believe is
credible without restriction as to time, place, form, motive,
context or prior disclosure. It would prohibit employers from
implementing or enforcing any nondisclosure policy or agreement.
Employers would be barred from investigating an employee who
makes a protected disclosure other than routine nondiscretionary
agency investigations. It would provide whistleblower protections
to federal employees who disclose actions that compromise the
validity or accuracy of federally funded research or analysis
and disseminate false or misleading scientific, medical or technical
information.
Passed 331-94
VOTE: Yea
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(154) - HR 1362: Federal Contracting - Rule
March 15, 2007 - Adoption of the rule (H Res 242) to
provide for House floor consideration of a bill that would limit
how long federal no-bid contracts can last, create a plan for
increasing competition in contract bidding and set up disclosure
and oversight requirements for contracts.
Adopted 223-190
VOTE: Nay
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(155) - HR 1362: Federal Contracting - Recommit
March 15, 2007 - T. Davis, R-Va., motion to recommit
the bill to the Oversight and Government Reform Committee with
instructions that the bill be immediately reported back with
language that would prohibit federal contracts with any university
that allows employers, but not the military, to recruit on campus.
Motion agreed to 309-114
VOTE: Yea
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(156) - HR 1362: Federal Contracting - Passage
March 15, 2007 - Passage of the bill that would limit
the time on federal no-bid contracts, create a plan for increasing
competition in contract bidding and set up disclosure and oversight
requirements for contracts. It would require each federal agency
that has awarded at least $1 billion in the preceding fiscal
year to develop and implement a plan to minimize the use of
contracts using non-competitive procedures and cost-reimbursement.
It would require agencies that enter into a non-competitive
contract to make "justification and approval" documents
-- which must explain why the agency did not use a competitive
bid process -- public within 14 days after a contract award.
Passed 347-73
VOTE: Yea
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(162) - HR 759: Bob Hope Memorial Library - Passage
March 20, 2007 - Grijalva, D-Ariz., motion to suspend
the rules and pass the bill that would redesignate the library
in the Ellis Island Immigration Museum as the "Bob Hope
Memorial Library."
Motion agreed to 420-1
VOTE: Yea
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(179) - HR 1433: District of Columbia Voting Rights - Previous
Question
March 22, 2007 - Arcuri, D-N.Y., motion to order the
previous question (thus ending debate and possibility of amendment)
on adoption of the resolution (H Res 260) to provide for House
floor consideration of a bill that would add two seats to the
House of Representatives, one for the District of Columbia and
the other for Utah.
Motion agreed to 228-198
VOTE: Nay
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(180) - HR 1433: District of Columbia Voting Rights - Rule
March 22, 2007 - Adoption of the rule (H Res 260) to
provide for House floor consideration of a bill that would add
two seats to the House of Representatives, one for the District
of Columbia and the other for Utah.
Adopted 226-195
VOTE: Nay
Foreign Affairs
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(121) - H Res 98: John Garang de Mabior Tribute - Adoption
March 06, 2007 - Payne, D-N.J., motion to suspend the rules
and adopt the resolution that would honor the life and achievements
of Dr. John Garang de Mabior, the founder of the Sudan People's
Liberation Army, a political movement in southern Sudan. It
also would reaffirm the House's commitment to lasting peace
in that country.
Motion agreed to 410-1
VOTE: Yea
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(138) - H Res 89: Dutch-American Friendship Day - Adoption
March 12, 2007 - Davis, D-Ill., motion to suspend the rules
and adopt the resolution that would express the sense of the
House that a day should be established as Dutch-American Friendship
Day to celebrate the historic ties between the United States
and the Netherlands.
Motion agreed to 391-0
VOTE: Yea
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(139) - H Res 64: Bangladeshi Journalist - Adoption
March 13, 2007 - Ackerman, D-N.Y., motion to suspend the rules
and adopt the resolution that would express the sense of the
House of Representatives that the government of Bangladesh should
immediately drop all pending charges against Bangladeshi journalist
Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury and immediately return all his
confiscated possessions.
Motion agreed to 409-1
VOTE: Yea
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(140) - H Res 228: Greek Independence - Adoption
March 13, 2007 - Wexler, D-Fla., motion to suspend the rules
and adopt the resolution that would recognize the 186th anniversary
of Greece and celebrate Greek and American democracy.
Motion agreed to 413-0
VOTE: Nay
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(141) - H Res 222: Peace in Northern Ireland - Adoption
March 13, 2007 - Wexler, D-Fla., motion to suspend the rules
and adopt the resolution that would reiterate the support of
the House of Representatives for the 1998 Good Friday Agreement
as the blueprint for a lasting peace in Northern Ireland.
Motion agreed to 419-1
VOTE: Yea
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(181) - H Con Res 66: Holocaust Remembrance - Adoption
March 22, 2007 - Davis, D-Calif., motion to suspend the rules
and adopt the resolution that would authorize the use of the
Capitol Rotunda on April 19, 2007, for a ceremony as part of
the commemoration of the "Days of Remembrance" for
victims of the Holocaust.
Motion agreed to 424-0
VOTE: Yea
Health Care
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(126) - HR 710: Kidney Organ Donation - Passage
March 07, 2007 - Inslee, D-Wash., motion to suspend the rules
and pass the bill that would exclude paired kidney donations
from being considered as a transfer of organs for valuable consideration
and would bar criminal penalties against such donations. It
would provide $30 million during 2009 and $470 million from
2013 to reimburse physicians under the Medicare program.
Motion agreed to 422-0
VOTE: Yea
Housing
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(160) - HR 1227: Gulf Coast Housing Initiative - Rule
March 20, 2007 - Adoption of the rule (H Res 254) to provide
for House floor consideration of the bill that would block the
demolition of damaged New Orleans public housing units until
a plan is developed to replace them and grant public housing
tenants an absolute right of return.
Adopted 228-190
VOTE: Nay
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(164) - HR 1227: Gulf Coast Housing Initiative - Work
Requirements
March 20, 2007 - Hensarling, R-Texas, amendment that would require
recipients of rental assistance provided under the bill to perform
20 hours per week of approved work activities, such as vocational
education, community service and providing child care services.
Other 162-266
VOTE: Nay
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(165) - HR 1227: Gulf Coast Housing Initiative - Replace
Public Housing
March 20, 2007 - Biggert, R-Ill., amendment that would require
all pre-Hurricane Katrina public housing units in New Orleans
be replaced.
Other 198-232
VOTE: Yea
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(166) - HR 1227: Gulf Coast Housing Initiative - FEMA
Extension
March 20, 2007 - Al Green, D-Texas, amendment that would extend
Federal Emergency Management Agency housing assistance for evacuees
of hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma to Dec. 31, 2007, after
which time, evacuees would be transferred onto temporary Section
8 vouchers. Landlords would not be required to accept those
vouchers.
Other 246-184
VOTE: Yea
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(168) - HR 1227: Gulf Coast Housing Initiative - Section
8 Transfer
March 21, 2007 - Neugebauer, R-Texas, amendment that would strike
the provision in the bill which would provide funds to allow
families participating in the Disaster Voucher Program in January
2008 to transfer to the Section 8 voucher program.
Other 185-247
VOTE: Yea
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(169) - HR 1227: Gulf Coast Housing Initiative - Community
Development Block Grants
March 21, 2007 - Price, R-Ga., amendment that would strike the
section of the bill that would allow community development block
grants made available after hurricanes Katrina, Rita, or Wilma
to be used by a state or locality as a matching requirement
for other federal programs.
Other 98-333
VOTE: Nay
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(170) - HR 1227: Gulf Coast Housing Initiative - Revote
on FEMA Extension
March 21, 2007 - Revote on Al Green, D-Texas, amendment that
would extend Federal Emergency Management Agency housing assistance
for evacuees of hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma to Dec. 31,
2007, after which time, evacuees would be transferred onto temporary
Section 8 vouchers. Landlords would not be required to accept
those vouchers.
Adopted 242-184
VOTE: Yea
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(171) - HR 1227: Gulf Coast Housing Initiative - Recommit
March 21, 2007 - Jindal, R-La., motion to recommit the bill
to the Financial Services Committee with instructions that the
bill be immediately reported back with language that would bar
households that include convicted drug dealing, sex, or domestic
violence offenders, or members of violent gangs from occupying
rebuilt public housing in New Orleans. Priority would be given
to households with employed individuals who agree to contribute
to community service.
Motion agreed to 249-176
VOTE: Yea
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(172) - HR 1227: Gulf Coast Housing Initiative - Passage
March 21, 2007 - Passage of the bill that would block the demolition
of damaged New Orleans public housing units until a plan is
developed to replace them and grant public housing tenants an
absolute right of return. It would authorize the reimbursement
of communities and landlords for money lost through providing
assistance to displaced individuals. As amended, it would extend
Federal Emergency Management Agency housing assistance for evacuees
of hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma to Dec. 31, 2007, after
which evacuees would be transferred onto temporary Section 8
vouchers. Landlords would not be required to accept those vouchers.
Passed 302-125
VOTE: Yea
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(173) - HR 835: Hawaiian Housing - Passage
March 21, 2007 - Waters, D-Calif., motion to suspend the rules
and pass the bill that would authorize through fiscal 2012 the
Native Hawaiian Housing Block Grant and Native Hawaiian Housing
Loan Guarantee programs, which provide grants for affordable
housing for low-income Native Hawaiians and guaranteed loans
to families residing on land dedicated for homesteading Native
Hawaiians.
Motion rejected 262-162
VOTE: Yea
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(192) - HR 835: Hawaiian Housing - Rule
March 27, 2007 - Adoption of the rule (H Res 269) to provide
for House floor consideration of the bill that would authorize
the Native Hawaiian Housing Block Grant and Native Hawaiian
Housing Loan Guarantee programs, which provide grants to help
low-income Native Hawaiian families obtain affordable housing.
Adopted 234-188
VOTE: Nay
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(205) - HR 835: Hawaiian Housing - Passage
March 28, 2007 - Passage of the bill that would authorize through
fiscal 2012 the Native Hawaiian Housing Block Grant and Native
Hawaiian Housing Loan Guarantee programs, which provide grants
for affordable housing for low-income Native Hawaiians and guaranteed
loans to families residing on land dedicated for homesteading
by Native Hawaiians.
Passed 272-150
VOTE: Yea
Labor and Retirement
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(112) - HR 800: Employee Union Card Check - Previous
Question
March 01, 2007 - Sutton, D-Ohio, motion to order the
previous question (thus ending debate and possibility of amendment)
on adoption of the resolution (H Res 203) to provide for House
floor consideration of a bill that would allow union organizers
to bypass secret-ballot elections if they can gather a majority
of eligible employees' signatures on a petition in support of
union formation.
Motion agreed to 228-197
VOTE: Nay
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(113) - HR 800: Employee Union Card Check - Rule
March 01, 2007 - Adoption of the rule (H Res 203) to provide
for House floor consideration of a bill that would allow union
organizers to bypass secret-ballot elections if they can gather
a majority of eligible employees' signatures on a petition in
support of union formation.
Adopted 230-195
VOTE: Nay
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(114) - HR 800: Employee Union Card Check - Union Organization
March 01, 2007 - King, R-Iowa, amendment that would provide
that employers are not required to hire individuals seeking
employment with a particular company with the intent to organize
employees into a union, a practice known as "salting."
Other 164-264
VOTE: Nay
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(115) - HR 800: Employee Union Card Check - Union Solicitation
March 01, 2007 - Foxx, R-N.C., amendment that would require
the National Labor Relations Board to promulgate standards and
a model notice so that an employee can request to be on a "do
not call or contact" list to avoid solicitation by a union.
Other 173-256
VOTE: Nay
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(116) - HR 800: Employee Union Card Check - Republican
Substitute
March 01, 2007 - McKeon, R-Calif., substitute amendment that
would prohibit the recognition of a union by the card check
method, in which a majority of employees form a union by signing
cards authorizing it. It also would require that a union be
recognized and certified only after a secret ballot election
conducted by the National Labor Relations Board.
Other 173-256
VOTE: Nay
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(118) - HR 800: Employee Union Card Check - Passage
March 01, 2007 - Passage of the bill that would allow union
organizers to bypass secret-ballot elections if they can gather
a majority of eligible employees' signatures on a petition in
support of union formation. It would establish a system of mediation
and arbitration that would apply to an employer and union that
are unable to agree on their first contract. It would require
the employer to pay three times the amount of backpay that an
employee is due if the employee is illegally fired or discriminated
against during an organizational or first contract drive.
Passed 241-185
VOTE: Yea
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(119) - HR 995: D.C. Disabled Veterans Memorial - Passage
March 05, 2007 - Grijalva, D-Ariz., motion to suspend the rules
and pass the bill that would extend authorization for the Disabled
Veterans' LIFE Memorial Foundation until October 2015 to establish
a memorial in the District of Columbia or its environs to honor
veterans who became disabled while serving in the armed forces.
Motion agreed to 390-0
VOTE: Yea
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(133) - HR 720: Clean Water Revolving Fund - Davis-Bacon
Requirement
March 09, 2007 - Baker, R-La., amendment that would strike a
provision in the bill that would apply Davis-Bacon requirements
to wastewater construction projects financed with non-federal
funds. Davis-Bacon requires that any workers on a federal project
be paid prevailing wages.
Other 140-280
VOTE: Nay
Transportation
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(196) - HR 1401: Rail and Public Transportation Security
- Amtrak Funding
March 27, 2007 - Sessions, R-Texas, amendment that would prohibit
Amtrak from using funds authorized by the bill -- except funds
for fire and life safety improvements -- on the 10 long-distance
routes that have lost the most revenue.
Other 130-299
VOTE: Yea
Veterans
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(174) - HR 327: Veterans Suicide Prevention - Passage
March 21, 2007 - Filner, D-Calif., motion to suspend the rules
and pass the bill that would require the Veterans Affairs Department
to develop and implement a comprehensive program to reduce the
incidence of suicide among veterans.
Motion agreed to 423-0
VOTE: Yea
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(175) - HR 797: Veterans Vision Care - Passage
March 21, 2007 - Filner, D-Calif., motion to suspend the rules
and pass the bill that would provide that veterans who receive
disability compensation because of blindness in one eye would
receive additional benefits if they become visually impaired
in the second eye, rather than when full blindness occurs.
Motion agreed to 424-0
VOTE: Yea
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(176) - HR 1284: Veterans' Compensation - Passage
March 21, 2007 - Filner, D-Calif., motion to suspend the rules
and pass the bill that would increase the rate of compensation
for disabled veterans and the rate of dependency and indemnity
compensation for their families, effective Dec. 1, 2007.
Motion agreed to 418-0
VOTE: Yea
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(204) - HR 1538: Wounded Servicemembers - Rule
March 28, 2007 - Adoption of the rule (H Res 274) to provide
for House floor consideration of the bill that would create
a new system of case managers, advocates and counselors for
wounded servicemembers returning from combat overseas.
Adopted 243-179
VOTE: Nay
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(206) - HR 1538: Wounded Servicemembers - Post-Traumatic
Stress Disorder
March 28, 2007 - Sestak, D-Pa., amendment that would require
the Defense secretary to develop a plan to help prevent post-traumatic
stress disorder and other stress-related psychopathologies,
including substance abuse, from developing in military servicemembers.
Other 434-0
VOTE: Yea
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(207) - HR 1538: Wounded Servicemembers - Revote on
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
March 28, 2007 - Revote on Sestak, D-Pa., amendment that would
require the Defense secretary to develop a plan to help prevent
post-traumatic stress disorder and other stress-related psychopathologies,
including substance abuse, from developing in military servicemembers.
Adopted 426-0
VOTE: Yea
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(208) - HR 1538: Wounded Servicemembers - Passage
March 28, 2007 - Passage of the bill that would create a new
system of case managers, advocates and counselors for wounded
servicemembers returning from combat overseas. It would establish
a toll-free hotline for reporting deficiencies in medical facilities
and create a new system to transfer soldier medical records
from the Defense Department to the Veterans Affairs Department
more efficiently. It would impose a one-year moratorium on the
initiation of new public-private competitions at military medical
facilities.
Passed 426-0
VOTE: Yea
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