HOW YOUR CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATES VOTED
For the week that ended June 24
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By Targeted News Service
INDUSTRIAL CYBERSECURITY: The House has passed the Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Training Act (H.R. 7777), sponsored by Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif. HOUSE The bill would establish
Melanie Stansbury (D) an effort at the
Cybersecurity and
Teresa Leger
Infrastructure Security
Fernandez (D) Agency for training
Yvette Herrell (R) cybersecurity workers on how to protect industrial control systems from cyber attacks. The vote, on June 21, was 368 yeas to 47 nays. NOT VOTING: Herrell, R-2 YEAS: Stansbury, D-1, Leger Fernandez, D-3 MENTAL HEALTH: The House has passed the Restoring Hope for Mental Health and Well-Being Act (H.R. 7666), sponsored by Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J. The bill would reauthorize, through fiscal 2027, various mental and behavioral health programs, and expand eligibility for enrolling in opioid treatment programs. The vote, on June 22, was 402 yeas to 20 nays. YEAS: Stansbury, Herrell, Leger Fernandez HEALTH INNOVATIONS AGENCY: The House has passed the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Health Act (H.R. 5585), sponsored by Rep. Anna G. Eshoo, D-Calif., to create the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Health agency, which would, like similar existing agencies for the military and energy, fund research into novel health and medicine technologies. The vote, on June 22, was 336 yeas to 85 nays. NAYS: Herrell YEAS: Stansbury, Leger Fernandez ACTIVE SHOOTERS: The House has rejected the Active Shooter Alert Act (H.R. 6538), sponsored by Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I. The bill would have established an Active Shooter Alert Communications Network at the Justice Department, and have the network make plans for sending alerts about active shooters by working with local and state governments. The vote, on June 22, was 259 yeas to 162 nays, with a two-thirds majority required for approval. NAYS: Herrell YEAS: Stansbury, Leger Fernandez SCHOOL MEALS: The House has passed the Keep Kids Fed Act (S. 2089), sponsored by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H. The bill would extend waivers for federal child nutrition programs that were first issued in response to closing school classrooms in early 2020 and have been used to provide free school meals, summer meals and subsidies for child care. The vote, on June 23, was 376 yeas to 42 nays. YEAS: Stansbury, Herrell, Leger Fernandez
MENTAL HEALTH AT COLLEGES: The House has passed the Enhancing Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Through Campus Planning Act (H.R. 5407), sponsored by Rep. Susan Wild, D-Pa., to require the Education Department to promote mental health and suicide prevention plans at colleges and universities. The vote, on June 23, was 405 yeas to 16 nays. YEAS: Stansbury, Herrell, Leger Fernandez COLLEGIATE DRUG USE: The House has passed the Campus Prevention and Recovery Services for Students Act (H.R. 6493), sponsored by Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez, D-N.M. The bill would reauthorize, through fiscal 2028, the federal illicit drug and alcohol abuse prevention program for colleges and universities, and provide $15 million of annual funding for grants and other efforts to prevent alcohol and substance misuse at those campuses. The vote, on June 23, was 371 yeas to 49 nays. NAYS: Herrell YEAS: Stansbury, Leger Fernandez SEX AND DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEYS: The House has passed the LGBTQI+ Data Inclusion Act (H.R. 4176), sponsored by Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz. The bill would require federal agencies to include information about non-heterosexuals in surveys that cover demographic data. The vote, on June 23, was 220 yeas to 201 nays. NAYS: Herrell YEAS: Stansbury, Leger Fernandez
CALIFORNIA JUDGE: The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Ana Isabel de Alba to be a judge on the U.S. district court for the eastern district of California. de Alba has been a superior court judge in Fresno County since 2018; for a decade previous, she was a private practice lawyer. The vote, on June 21, was 53 yeas to 45 nays.
SENATE Martin Heinrich (D) Ben Ray Luján (D)
YEAS: Heinrich, D, Luján, D CONSUMER PRODUCTS COMMISSIONER: The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Mary Boyle to be on the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) for a seven-year term ending in fall 2025. Boyle, currently the commission’s executive director, has been at the CPSC for more than a decade. The vote, on June 22, was 50 yeas to 48 nays. YEAS: Heinrich, Luján GUN VIOLENCE: The Senate has passed an amendment to the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (S. 2938) that would establish a variety of measures intended to reduce mass shootings, including spending on behavioral health clinics, funding for school safety efforts, and restrictions on gun ownership by ex-convicts and those found by a court to be mentally ill. A supporter, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said the amendment sought to “create real changes in communities across this country — safer, healthier communities; stronger, more secure schools; saving lives.” An opponent, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., cited concerns that the restrictions would infringe “the constitutional right to bear arms for the innocent.” The vote, on June 23, was 65 yeas to 33 nays. YEAS: Heinrich, Luján