WASHINGTON — Here’s a look at how area members of Congress voted over the previous week.
Along with roll call votes this week, the House also passed the following measures: the Commercial Remote Sensing Amendment Act (H.R. 290), to provide for transparent licensing of commercial remote sensing systems; and the Expanding Access to Capital for Rural Job Creators Act (H.R. 298), to expand access to capital for rural small businesses.
House Vote 1:
PETROLEUM RESERVE: The House has passed the Strategic Production Response Act (H.R. 21), sponsored by Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash. The bill would require the federal government to take measures to increase oil and natural gas production on federal lands when it makes withdrawals from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The vote, on Jan. 27, was 221 yeas to 205 nays.
YEAS: Bost R-IL (12th), Feenstra R-IA (4th), Hinson R-IA (2nd), LaHood R-IL (16th), Miller (IL) R-IL (15th), Miller-Meeks R-IA (1st), Nunn (IA) R-IA (3rd)
NAYS: Budzinski D-IL (13th), Casten D-IL (6th), Davis (IL) D-IL (7th), Foster D-IL (11th), Jackson (IL) D-IL (1st), Kelly (IL) D-IL (2nd), Krishnamoorthi D-IL (8th), Quigley D-IL (5th), Ramirez D-IL (3rd), Schakowsky D-IL (9th), Schneider D-IL (10th), Sorensen D-IL (17th), Underwood D-IL (14th)
NOT VOTING: Garcia (IL) D-IL (4th)
House Vote 2:
FINANCE AND FRAUD: The House has passed the Financial Exploitation Prevention Act (H.R. 500), sponsored by Rep. Ann Wagner, R-Mo., to allow an investment management company (also known as a mutual fund) to delay its redemption of a security if it believes the redemption was fraudulently requested, and use the delay to determine whether the request is valid. The vote, on Jan. 30, was unanimous with 419 yeas.
YEAS: Bost R-IL (12th), Budzinski D-IL (13th), Casten D-IL (6th), Davis (IL) D-IL (7th), Feenstra R-IA (4th), Foster D-IL (11th), Hinson R-IA (2nd), Jackson (IL) D-IL (1st), Kelly (IL) D-IL (2nd), Krishnamoorthi D-IL (8th), LaHood R-IL (16th), Miller (IL) R-IL (15th), Miller-Meeks R-IA (1st), Nunn (IA) R-IA (3rd), Quigley D-IL (5th), Ramirez D-IL (3rd), Schakowsky D-IL (9th), Schneider D-IL (10th), Sorensen D-IL (17th), Underwood D-IL (14th)
NOT VOTING: Garcia (IL) D-IL (4th)
House Vote 3:
COVID VACCINES AND HEALTH CARE WORKERS: The House has passed the Freedom for Health Care Workers Act (H.R. 497), sponsored by Rep. Jeff Duncan, R-S.C., to cancel the Covid vaccination requirement for health care workers at facilities that receive funds from Medicare and Medicaid. Duncan said the requirement “has only created resentment and distrust toward the government and loss of jobs, nursing jobs, CNA jobs, often replaced with traveling nurses being paid a higher rate, a higher cost for the taxpayers and the hospitals.” The vote, on Jan. 31, was 227 yeas to 203 nays.
YEAS: Bost R-IL (12th), Feenstra R-IA (4th), Hinson R-IA (2nd), LaHood R-IL (16th), Miller (IL) R-IL (15th), Miller-Meeks R-IA (1st), Nunn (IA) R-IA (3rd)
NAYS: Budzinski D-IL (13th), Casten D-IL (6th), Davis (IL) D-IL (7th), Foster D-IL (11th), Jackson (IL) D-IL (1st), Kelly (IL) D-IL (2nd), Krishnamoorthi D-IL (8th), Quigley D-IL (5th), Ramirez D-IL (3rd), Schakowsky D-IL (9th), Schneider D-IL (10th), Sorensen D-IL (17th), Underwood D-IL (14th)
NOT VOTING: Garcia (IL) D-IL (4th)
House Vote 4:
ENDING COVID HEALTH EMERGENCY: The House has passed the Pandemic is Over Act (H.R. 382), sponsored by Rep. Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., to terminate the Covid public health emergency declared by President Trump on Jan. 31, 2020, on the date the bill becomes law. The vote, on Jan. 31, was 220 yeas to 210 nays.
YEAS: Bost R-IL (12th), Feenstra R-IA (4th), Hinson R-IA (2nd), LaHood R-IL (16th), Miller (IL) R-IL (15th), Miller-Meeks R-IA (1st), Nunn (IA) R-IA (3rd)
NAYS: Budzinski D-IL (13th), Casten D-IL (6th), Davis (IL) D-IL (7th), Foster D-IL (11th), Jackson (IL) D-IL (1st), Kelly (IL) D-IL (2nd), Krishnamoorthi D-IL (8th), Quigley D-IL (5th), Ramirez D-IL (3rd), Schakowsky D-IL (9th), Schneider D-IL (10th), Sorensen D-IL (17th), Underwood D-IL (14th)
NOT VOTING: Garcia (IL) D-IL (4th)
House Vote 5:
REMOTE WORK POLICIES: The House has passed the Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems Act (H.R. 139), sponsored by Rep. James Comer, R-Ky. The bill would require the federal government’s executive branch agencies to reinstate the telework policies they had as of the close of 2019. The vote, on Feb. 1, was 221 yeas to 206 nays.
YEAS: Bost R-IL (12th), Feenstra R-IA (4th), Hinson R-IA (2nd), LaHood R-IL (16th), Miller (IL) R-IL (15th), Miller-Meeks R-IA (1st), Nunn (IA) R-IA (3rd)
NAYS: Budzinski D-IL (13th), Casten D-IL (6th), Davis (IL) D-IL (7th), Foster D-IL (11th), Jackson (IL) D-IL (1st), Kelly (IL) D-IL (2nd), Krishnamoorthi D-IL (8th), Quigley D-IL (5th), Ramirez D-IL (3rd), Schakowsky D-IL (9th), Schneider D-IL (10th), Sorensen D-IL (17th), Underwood D-IL (14th)
NOT VOTING: Garcia (IL) D-IL (4th)
House Vote 6:
ENDING NATIONAL COVID EMERGENCY: The House has passed a resolution (H.J. Res. 7), sponsored by Rep. Paul A. Gosar, R-Ariz., to end the national emergency in response to Covid that was declared by President Trump on March 13, 2020. The vote, on Feb. 1, was 229 yeas to 197 nays.
YEAS: Bost R-IL (12th), Feenstra R-IA (4th), Hinson R-IA (2nd), LaHood R-IL (16th), Miller (IL) R-IL (15th), Miller-Meeks R-IA (1st), Nunn (IA) R-IA (3rd)
NAYS: Budzinski D-IL (13th), Casten D-IL (6th), Davis (IL) D-IL (7th), Foster D-IL (11th), Jackson (IL) D-IL (1st), Kelly (IL) D-IL (2nd), Krishnamoorthi D-IL (8th), Quigley D-IL (5th), Ramirez D-IL (3rd), Schakowsky D-IL (9th), Schneider D-IL (10th), Sorensen D-IL (17th), Underwood D-IL (14th)
NOT VOTING: Garcia (IL) D-IL (4th)
House Vote 7:
REMOVING MEMBER FROM COMMITTEE: The House has passed a resolution (H. Res. 76), sponsored by Rep. Max L. Miller, R-Ohio, to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., from the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Miller said the action would state clearly that the House “does not condone hate and to reaffirm that we will always condemn anti-Semitism” that Omar has expressed in remarks criticizing Israel. Omar said she has merely spoken “on behalf of those who are experiencing unjust wars, atrocities, ethnic cleansing, occupation, or displacement.” The vote, on Feb. 2, was 218 yeas to 211 nays.
YEAS: Bost R-IL (12th), Feenstra R-IA (4th), Hinson R-IA (2nd), LaHood R-IL (16th), Miller (IL) R-IL (15th), Miller-Meeks R-IA (1st), Nunn (IA) R-IA (3rd)
NAYS: Budzinski D-IL (13th), Casten D-IL (6th), Davis (IL) D-IL (7th), Foster D-IL (11th), Garcia (IL) D-IL (4th), Jackson (IL) D-IL (1st), Kelly (IL) D-IL (2nd), Krishnamoorthi D-IL (8th), Quigley D-IL (5th), Ramirez D-IL (3rd), Schakowsky D-IL (9th), Schneider D-IL (10th), Sorensen D-IL (17th), Underwood D-IL (14th)
House Vote 8:
SOCIALISM: The House has passed a resolution (H. Con. Res. 9), sponsored by Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., to denounce socialism in all its forms, and oppose the implementation of socialist policies in the U.S. The vote, on Feb. 2, was 328 yeas to 86 nays.
YEAS: Bost R-IL (12th), Budzinski D-IL (13th), Feenstra R-IA (4th), Foster D-IL (11th), Hinson R-IA (2nd), Jackson (IL) D-IL (1st), Krishnamoorthi D-IL (8th), LaHood R-IL (16th), Miller (IL) R-IL (15th), Miller-Meeks R-IA (1st), Nunn (IA) R-IA (3rd), Quigley D-IL (5th), Schneider D-IL (10th), Sorensen D-IL (17th), Underwood D-IL (14th)
NOT VOTING: Casten D-IL (6th)
NAYS: Davis (IL) D-IL (7th), Garcia (IL) D-IL (4th), Kelly (IL) D-IL (2nd), Ramirez D-IL (3rd), Schakowsky D-IL (9th)
Senate Vote 1:
PEACE INSTITUTE MEMBER: The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Roger Israel Zakheim to be a member of the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace for a 4-year term. Zakheim, director of the Reagan Institute since 2018, has also been a lawyer specializing in government and public policy, and a military official in the George W. Bush administration. The vote, on Jan. 30, was 84 yeas to 10 nays.
YEAS: Durbin D-IL, Duckworth D-IL, Grassley R-IA, Ernst R-IA
Senate Vote 2:
SECOND PEACE INSTITUTE MEMBER: The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Joseph Lee Falk to be a member of the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace for a 4-year term. Falk is a consultant at the Akerman LLP law firm and has served on the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. The vote, on Feb. 2, was 60 yeas to 37 nays.
YEAS: Durbin D-IL, Duckworth D-IL
NAYS: Grassley R-IA, Ernst R-IA
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