HOW YOUR CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATES VOTED

For the week that ended February 2, 2023

Contact your legislators at the U.S. Capitol ZIP codes: House 20515, Senate 20510 Capitol operator: (202) 224-3121

By Targeted News Service

HOUSE

Melanie Stansbury (D) Teresa Leger Fernández (D) Gabe Vasquez (D)

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.

NAYS:

Stansbury, D-1, Vasquez, D-2, Leger Fernandez, D-3

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: Stansbury, Vasquez, Leger Fernandez

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. The vote, on Jan. 31, was 227 yeas to 203 nays.

NAYS: Stansbury, Vasquez, Leger Fernandez

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.

NAYS: Stansbury, Vasquez, Leger Fernandez

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.

NAYS: Stansbury, Vasquez, Leger Fernandez

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.

NAYS: Stansbury, Vasquez, Leger Fernandez

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. The vote, on Feb. 2, was 218 yeas to 211 nays.

NAYS: Stansbury, Vasquez, Leger Fernandez

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.

PRESENT: Stansbury, Leger Fernandez

YEAS: Vasquez