HOW YOUR CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATES VOTED
For the week that ended July 2
Contact your legislators at the U.S. Capitol ZIP codes: House 20515, Senate 20510 Capitol operator: (202) 224-3121
REGULATING OIL AND NATURAL GAS: The House has passed a resolution (S.J. Res. 14), sponsored by Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., to disapprove of and nullify a September 2020 Environmental Protection Agency
rule concerning methane emissions and oil and natural gas production. The vote, on June 25, was 229 yeas to 191 nays.
NAYS: Yvette Herrell, R-2
YEAS: Melanie Stansbury, D-1, Teresa Leger Fernandez, D-3
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION: The House has passed the National Science Foundation for the Future Act (H.R. 2225), sponsored by Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas, to authorize spending on the National Science Foundation through fiscal 2026. The vote, on June 28, was 345 yeas to 67 nays.
NAYS: Herrell
YEAS: Stansbury, Leger Fernandez
ENERGY AND SCIENCE: The House has passed the Department of Energy Science for the Future Act (H.R. 3593), sponsored by Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas, to authorize and set out regulations for research and development programs at the Energy Department’s Office of Science. The vote, on June 28, was 351 yeas to 68 nays.
NAYS: Herrell
YEAS: Stansbury, Leger Fernandez
INFECTIOUS DISEASES: The House has passed the Global Health Security Act (H.R. 391), sponsored by Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, D-Va., to establish the Global Health Security Agenda Interagency Review Council, which would implement an international initiative for responding to infectious disease threats. The vote, on June 28, was 307 yeas to 112 nays.
NAYS: Herrell
YEAS: Stansbury, Leger Fernandez
PASSING LEGISLATION: The House has passed a motion sponsored by Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., to pass five bills and two resolutions without a separate vote on each piece of legislation. Topics addressed by the bills included learning loss due to COVID-19 lockdowns, and overseas policy in Haiti, Iraq and Afghanistan. The vote, on June 29, was 366 yeas to 46 nays.
NAYS: Herrell
YEAS: Stansbury, Leger Fernandez
TERRORISM IN NORTH AFRICA: The House has passed the Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership Program Act (H.R. 567), sponsored by Rep. Michael T. McCaul, R-Texas, to authorize a State Department program for working with countries in North Africa against terrorist and extremist groups. The vote, on June 29, was 395 yeas to 15 nays.
NOT VOTING: Herrell
YEAS: Stansbury, Leger Fernandez
GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS: The House has passed the IG Independence and Empowerment Act (H.R. 2662), sponsored by Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, D-N.Y. The bill would change policies regarding the federal government’s inspectors general (IG), including requiring the president to notify Congress of removals of inspectors and setting out specific causes, including malfeasance, that justify removal. The vote, on June 29, was 221 yeas to 182 nays.
NOT VOTING: Herrell
YEAS: Stansbury, Leger Fernandez
CAPITOL BUILDING STATUES: The House has passed a bill (H.R. 3005), sponsored by House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., that would replace the bust of Supreme Court Justice Roger Taney in the Capitol building with a bust of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, and remove statues of people who were in the Confederacy from display. The vote, on June 29, was 285 yeas to 120 nays.
NOT VOTING: Herrell
YEAS: Stansbury, Leger Fernandez
CAPITOL RIOT: The House has passed a bill (H. Res. 503), sponsored by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to establish a House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. The vote, on June 30, was 222 yeas to 190 nays.
NOT VOTING: Herrell
YEAS: Stansbury, Leger Fernandez
WATER AND TRANSPORTATION: The House has passed the Investing in a New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation in America Act (H.R. 3684), sponsored by Rep. Peter A. DeFazio, D-Ore. The bill would authorize through fiscal 2026 $715 billion of spending on drinking water and wastewater programs and various Transportation Department programs, including new mass transit and climate change programs at the agency. The vote, on July 1, was 221 yeas to 201 nays.
NAYS: Herrell
YEAS: Stansbury, Leger Fernandez