HOW YOUR CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATES VOTED
For the week that ended April 29
Contact your legislators at the U.S. Capitol ZIP codes: House 20515, Senate 20510 Capitol operator: (202) 224-3121
By Targeted News Service
FISHERIES RESEARCH: The House has passed the American Fisheries Advisory Committee Act (S. 497), sponsored by Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, to create an American Fisheries Advisory Committee that National would Oceanic advise and the Atmospheric Administration on grants for fisheries research. The vote, on April 26, was 404 yeas to 11 nays.
YEAS: Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-1, Rep. Yvette Herrell, R-2, Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez, D-3
RUSSIA, UKRAINE AND CHINA: The House has passed the Assessing Xi’s Interference and Subversion Act (H.R. 7314), sponsored by Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky. The bill would require the State Department to report to Congress on support from China for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The vote, on April 27, was 394 yeas to 3 nays.
YEAS: Stansbury, Herrell, Leger Fernandez
RUSSIA AND GEORGIA: The House has passed the Georgia Support Act (H.R. 923), sponsored by Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, D-Va., to require sanctions against foreign individuals over Russia’s occupation of two sections of the country of Georgia. The vote, on April 27, was 406 yeas to 20 nays.
YEAS: Stansbury, Herrell, Leger Fernandez
TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN EUROPE: The House has passed the Transatlantic Telecommunications Security Act (H.R. 3344), sponsored by Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, to direct the State Department and other federal government agencies to support efforts by Eastern and Central European countries to improve their telecommunications security. The vote, on April 27, was 366 yeas to 60 nays.
NAYS: Herrell
YEAS: Stansbury, Leger Fernandez
RUSSIA AND AFRICA: The House has passed the Countering Malign Russian Activities in Africa Act (H.R. 7311), sponsored by Rep. Gregory W. Meeks, D-N.Y., to require the State Department to send Congress, every year, a report on U.S. measures to counter Russia’s activity in Africa. The vote, on April 27, was 415 yeas to 9 nays.
YEAS: Stansbury, Herrell, Leger Fernandez
RELATIONS WITH CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES: The House has passed the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative Authorization Act (H.R. 4133), sponsored by Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y., to develop a State Department disaster response strategy for Caribbean nations and authorize spending on the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative. The vote, on April 27, was 340 yeas to 86 nays.
NAYS: Herrell
YEAS: Stansbury, Leger Fernandez
MALNUTRITION OVERSEAS: The House has passed the Global Malnutrition Prevention and Treatment Act (H.R. 4693), sponsored by Rep. Michael T. McCaul, R-Texas. The bill would require the U.S. Agency for International Development to take steps to address and prevent malnutrition globally. The vote, on April 27, was 384 yeas to 44 nays.
YEAS: Stansbury, Herrell, Leger Fernandez
TAIWAN AND THE WHO: The House has passed a bill (S. 812), sponsored by Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., to require the State Department to make a strategy for regaining observer status in the World Health Organization for Taiwan. The vote, on April 27, was unanimous, with 425 yeas.
YEAS: Stansbury, Herrell, Leger Fernandez
AID TO UKRAINE: The House has passed the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act (S. 3522), sponsored by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, to waive regulations in order to facilitate the lending or leasing of military weapons to Ukraine and other Eastern European countries affected by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The vote, on April 28, was 417 yeas to 10 nays.
YEAS: Stansbury, Herrell, Leger Fernandez
FEDERAL RESERVE: The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Lael Brainard as vice chairman of the Federal Reserve bank’s board of governors. Brainard, a member of the board since mid2014, was previously an Obama administration Treasury Department official. The vote, on April 26, was 52 yeas to 43 nays.
YEAS: Sen. Martin Heinrich, D, Sen. Ben Ray Luján, D
FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD: The Senate has rejected a cloture motion to end debate on the nomination of Lisa DeNell Cook to be a member of the Federal Reserve bank’s board of governors. Cook, a member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers during the Obama administration, is an economics professor at Michigan State University. The vote to end debate, on April 26, was 47 yeas to 51 nays.
YEAS: Heinrich, Luján
CALIFORNIA JUDGE: The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Sherilyn Garnett as a judge on the U.S. district court for the central district of California. Garnett was an assistant U.S. attorney in the district for 13 years then, in 2014, became a judge on the Los Angeles County Superior Court. The vote, on April 27, was 62 yeas to 33 nays.
YEAS: Heinrich, Luján
ABORTION AND FAMILY PLANNING FUNDS:
The Senate has rejected a motion to proceed to consideration of a resolution (S.J. Res. 41), sponsored by Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., that would have disapproved of, and voided, a Health and Human Services Department rule barring abortion providers from receiving federal funds through the title X Family Planning Program. The vote, on April 27, was 49 yeas to 49 nays.
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