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Here's how state members of Congress voted on major roll calls in the week that ended Friday.
How Your U.S. Lawmaker Voted
WASHINGTON — Here's how state members of Congress voted on major roll calls in the week that ended Friday.
House
War, domestic spending
By a vote of 308-114, the House on Wednesday sent President Obama a bill, HR 4899, to appropriate an additional $32.8 billion this year for U.S. combat operations, with most of the sum to be used to pay for his buildup of 30,000 troops in Afghanistan.
Voting yes: Rick Larsen, D-2; Brian Baird, D-3; Doc Hastings, R-4; Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-5; Norm Dicks, D-6; Dave Reichert, R-8; Adam Smith, D-9.
Voting no: Jay Inslee, D-1; Jim McDermott, D-7.
Pakistan withdrawal
By a vote of 38-372, the House on Tuesday defeated a measure, H Con Res 301, to remove all U.S. military personnel from Pakistan under the 1973 War Powers Act. There is dispute over whether the U.S. forces in Pakistan are in combat or advisory roles.
Voting yes: McDermott.
Voting no: Inslee, Larsen, Baird, Hastings, McMorris Rodgers, Dicks, Reichert, Smith.
2011 veterans' appropriations
By a vote of 411-6, the House on Wednesday sent the Senate a bill, HR 5822, to appropriate $120.8 billion in mandatory and discretionary spending for the Department of Veterans Affairs in fiscal 2011, up 9 percent over the comparable 2010 figure.
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Voting yes: Inslee, Larsen, Baird, Hastings, McMorris Rodgers, Dicks, McDermott, Reichert, Smith.
Guns in bankruptcy
By a vote of 307-113, the House on Wednesday sent the Senate a bill, HR 5827, permitting individuals filing for bankruptcy to exempt up to three firearms with an aggregate value of $1,500 or less from creditors' claims. The exemption applies to pistols, rifles and shotguns.
Voting yes: Inslee, Larsen, Hastings, McMorris Rodgers, Dicks, Reichert, Smith.
Voting no: Baird, McDermott.
Housing, transportation budgets
By a vote of 251-167, the House on Thursday sent the Senate an appropriations bill, HR 5850, that provides $67.4 billion in discretionary spending and $126 billion in total spending for transportation, housing and urban-development programs in fiscal 2011.
Voting yes: Inslee, Larsen, Baird, Dicks, McDermott, Smith.
Voting no: Hastings, McMorris Rodgers, Reichert.
Stimulus spending cut
By a vote of 177-247, the House on Thursday defeated an amendment to inflict a $10.5 billion across-the-board cut in transportation spending in HR 5850. The amendment also sought to rescind $10.5 billion for transportation projects that is included in the 2009 economic-stimulus law but not yet spent.
Voting yes: Hastings, McMorris Rodgers, Reichert.
Voting no: Inslee, Larsen, Baird, Dicks, McDermott, Smith.
9/11 responders' benefits
By a vote of 255-159, the House on Thursday failed to reach a two-thirds majority for passing a deficit-neutral bill, HR 847, setting up a fund to benefit thousands who developed health problems as a result of their work at or near the World Trade Center site after 9/11. The bill would provide up to $3.5 billion in medical benefits and $4.2 billion for death and physical-injury claims through 2020. The cost would be offset by measures such as requiring large corporations to accelerate their estimated tax payments to the Treasury and closing a payroll-tax loophole that benefits U.S. subsidiaries of foreign corporations.
Voting yes: Inslee, Larsen, Baird, Dicks, McDermott, Smith.
Voting no: Hastings, McMorris Rodgers, Reichert.
Offshore drilling
Members voted, 209-193, on Friday to set new safety and environmental rules for offshore drilling, lift the $75 million cap on a firm's liability after spills and give whistle-blower protections to workers who report violations on rigs.
Voting yes: Inslee, Larsen, Baird, Dicks, McDermott, Smith.
Voting no: Hastings, McMorris Rodgers, Reichert.
Senate
Campaign-finance disclosures
By a vote of 57-41, the Senate on Tuesday failed to reach 60 votes for ending Republican blockage of a bill, S 3628, requiring corporations, unions and interest groups to publicly disclose within 24 hours their role in funding campaign commercials. The bill would prohibit foreign-controlled companies, recipients of federal bailouts and entities with more than $10 million in federal contracts from financing U.S. campaign ads. Chief executives would have to appear in their organization's political ads and take responsibility for them, as politicians must do in their spots. The bill also would require corporations, unions and interest groups to disclose their campaign activities to shareholders and identify on screen the top donors paying for their campaign ads.
Voting yes: Maria Cantwell, D; Patty Murray, D.
GOP business-bill filibuster
By a vote of 58-42, the Senate on Thursday failed to reach 60 votes to end a Republican filibuster of a deficit-neutral bill, HR 5297, that would provide more than $12 billion in tax breaks and tens or hundreds of billions of dollars in credit to help small businesses regain economic strength. Democrats allowed three GOP amendments, but Republicans said they wanted more.
The bill uses incentives such as non-taxation of capital gains and the waiver of certain Internal Revenue Service penalties to stimulate small-business growth.
Voting yes: Cantwell, Murray.
Roll Call Report Syndicate
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