HOW YOUR CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATES VOTED
For the week that ended December 3
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VACCINATION DATABASES: The House has passed the Immunization Infrastructure Modernization Act (H.R. 550), sponsored by Rep. Ann Kuster, D-N.H., to require the Health and Human Services Department to take measures to improve vaccination administration monitoring systems, including authorizing $400 million of grants to states for that purpose. The vote, on Nov. 30, was 294 yeas to 130 nays.
NAYS: Yvette Herrell, R-2
YEAS: Melanie Stansbury, D-1, Teresa Leger Fernandez, D-3
6G WIRELESS NETWORKS: The House has passed the Future Uses of Technology Upholding Reliable and Enhanced Networks Act (H.R. 4045), sponsored by Rep. Michael F. Doyle, D-Pa. The bill would create the 6G Task Force at the Federal Communications Commission. The vote, on Dec. 1, was 394 yeas to 27 nays.
YEAS: Stansbury, Herrell, Leger Fernandez
CYBERSECURITY EDUCATION: The House has passed the American Cybersecurity Literacy Act (H.R. 4055), sponsored by Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., to require the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to adopt a cybersecurity literacy campaign to educate the general public of ways to reduce cybersecurity risks. The vote, on Dec. 1, was 408 yeas to 17 nays.
YEAS: Stansbury, Herrell, Leger Fernandez
TRIBAL LANDS: The House has passed a bill (H.R. 4352), sponsored by Rep. Betty McCollum, D-Minn., to override a 2009 Supreme Court ruling and allow the Interior Department to take land into trust on behalf of American Indian tribes regardless of when the tribes were recognized by the federal government. The vote, on Dec. 1, was 302 yeas to 127 nays.
NAYS: Herrell
YEAS: Stansbury, Leger Fernandez
APPROPRIATIONS EXTENSION: The House has passed the Further Extending Government Funding Act (H.R. 6119), sponsored by Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro, D-Conn., to extend appropriations for federal government programs through February 18, 2022. The vote, on Dec. 2, was 221 yeas to 212 nays.
NAYS: Herrell
YEAS: Stansbury, Leger Fernandez
EXPORTING TRIBAL ARTIFACTS: The House has passed the Safeguard Tribal Objects of Patrimony Act (H.R. 2930), sponsored by Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez, D-N.M., to bar the exportation of illegally acquired American Indian tribal materials. The vote, on Dec. 2, was 364 yeas to 57 nays.
YEAS: Stansbury, Herrell, Leger Fernandez
COMBATING FINANCIAL CRIME: The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Brian Nelson to be the Treasury Department’s under secretary for terrorism and financial crimes. Nelson, a longtime official in California’s Justice Department whose assignments there included money laundering and transnational crime, is currently chief legal officer for the organizing committee for the 2028 summer Olympics. The vote, on Dec. 2, was 50 yeas to 49 nays.
YEAS: Martin Heinrich, D, Ben Ray Luján, D
COVID-19 VACCINES: The Senate has rejected an amendment sponsored by Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., to the Further Extending Government Funding Act (H.R. 6119). The amendment would have barred funding for enforcement of the Biden administration’s various federal government and private employer COVID-19 vaccination requirements. The vote, on Dec. 2, was 48 yeas to 50 nays.
NAYS: Heinrich, Luján
APPROPRIATIONS EXTENSION: The Senate has passed the Further Extending Government Funding Act (H.R. 6119), sponsored by Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro, D-Conn., to extend appropriations for federal government programs through Feb. 18, 2022. The vote, on Dec. 2, was 69 yeas to 28 nays.
YEAS: Heinrich, Luján