Originally published Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 12:23 AM
Comments (0)
E-mail article
Print view
Share
How your U.S. lawmaker voted this week
Here's how state members of Congress voted on major issues in the week that ended Friday.
WASHINGTON — Here's how state members of Congress voted on major issues in the week that ended Friday.
House
Interior Department
Members passed, 247-178, the final version of a $32.2 billion budget for the Department of the Interior and agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency in 2010.
Voting yes: Jay Inslee, D-1, Rick Larsen, D-2, Norman Dicks, D-6, Jim McDermott, D-7, Dave Reichert, R-8, Adam Smith, D-9
Voting no: Brian Baird, D-3, Doc Hastings, R-4, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-5
Small Business Administration
By a vote of 389-32, the House on Oct. 29 passed a bill (HR 3854) to raise from $2 million to $3 million the cap on federally guaranteed loans made by banks in the Small Business Administration's main lending program. Taxpayers would back up to 90 percent of each "Section 7(a)" loan. The SBA has many criteria for determining whether a business is small enough to qualify for its programs. Manufacturing and mining companies, for example, are defined as "small" if they have under 500 employees, and retail and construction firms qualify if they have annual sales in the range of $30 million to $40 million.
Voting yes: Inslee, Larsen, Baird, Hastings, McMorris Rodgers, Dicks, McDermott, Reichert, Smith
Senate
Extended jobless benefits
By a vote of 87-13, the Senate on Oct. 27 advanced a bill (HR 3548) that would provide 20 more weeks of jobless checks for those whose current allotments have expired or soon will expire and who live in states with at least 8.5 percent unemployment. The bill provides 14 additional weeks of benefits for the long-term jobless in all other states. The $2.4 billion cost would be offset by payroll-tax increases on employers. Jobless checks average $300 per week.
![]()
Voting yes: Maria Cantwell, D, Patty Murray, D
Interior Department budget
By a vote of 72-28, the Senate on Oct. 29 sent President Obama the conference report on a bill (HR 2996, above) to appropriate $32.2 billion for the Department of the Interior and other agencies in fiscal 2010. In addition to items noted above, the bill provides $1.5 billion for cleansing toxic-waste sites; $1.1 billion for the Bureau of Land Management; $761 million for the Smithsonian Institution; $475 million for restoring the Great Lakes; $385 million for addressing climate change and $335 million for the National Foundation for the Arts and Humanities.
Voting yes: Cantwell, Murray
Roll Call Report Syndicate
E-mail article
Print view
Share
NEW - 10:41 PM
Senate Democrats split on health bill's fate
UPDATE - 10:50 PM
Senate Democrats at odds over health care bill
Mammogram guidelines spark debate over health bill
Historic health care bill nears key Senate vote
Raw Video | Real Salt Lake receives the MLS Cup trophy
Real Salt Lake is handed the 2009 MLS Cup trophy at Qwest Field, November 22, 2009.

Entertainment | Top Video | World | Offbeat Video | Sci-Tech
nwjobs

Post a comment

Michelle Goodman blogs about work/life balance.
How to tell your office you're gravely ill
Post a comment
nwautos

Choosing a new sedan? Weigh the impact of your choice on your wallet and on the planet.
Post a comment
- 'The Road' takes Viggo Mortensen to Mount St. Helens and Astoria, Ore.
- Craigslist adoption ad: A plea by young mother-to-be? A scam?
- Tugboat sinks at Seattle waterfront pier
- Child-support error costs nearly $21,000
- Italian lead prosecutor argues Knox motive was hatred
- Italian prosecutors request life sentence for UW student
- Man shot in chest on E. Union Street in Capitol Hill
- Chase shrugs off loss of CD investors
- Washington state wines make annual best-of list
- Vikings easily beat the Seahawks
- Senate vote clears hurdle
239 - Vikings easily beat the Seahawks
132 - Palin excitement builds in Tri-Cities
123 - Child-support error costs nearly $21,000
123 - Tight Senate vote launches health care over hurdle
122 - Cutting through breast-cancer confusion
90 - Game thread
70 - Historic health care bill clears Senate hurdle
63 - New York terror trials will restore faith in rule of law
61 - Chase shrugs off loss of CD investors
53
- Washington state wines make annual best-of list
- Nonprofits get creative using Twitter and Facebook to make donation easier
- It's possible to recover a life lost to hoarding
- Lynnwood is reinventing itself — again
- Great places to cross-country ski for free (or almost) in the Methow
- 'The Road' takes Viggo Mortensen to Mount St. Helens and Astoria, Ore.
- Child-support error costs nearly $21,000
- Recipes: Sesame Pork Roast, Sour Cream Mashed Potatoes, Gingerbread with Lemon Sauce and more
- Banff: powder, peaks & purity
- Chase shrugs off loss of CD investors





