HOW YOUR CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATES VOTED
For the week that ended March 22
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BOSNIA PEACE ACCORDS: The House has passed the Upholding the Dayton Peace Agreement Through Sanctions Act (H.R. 4723), sponsored by Rep. Ann Wagner, R-Mo. The bill would require sanctions against foreigners deemed to be threatening the peace, stability, or territorial integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, or undermining the Dayton Peace Agreement that ended the Bosnian War of the 1990s. The vote, on March 19, was 365 yeas to 30 nays.
YEAS: Stansbury, D-1, Vasquez, D-2, Leger Fernández, D-3
UKRAINIAN CHILDREN AND RUSSIA: The House has passed a resolution (H. Res. 149), sponsored by Rep. Susan Wild, D-Pa., declaring that Russian abduction and forcible transfer of children from Ukraine to Russia in the past two years amounts to genocide. The vote, on March 19, was 390 yeas to 9 nays.
YEAS: Stansbury, Vasquez, Leger Fernández
SELLING DATA TO U.S. ADVERSARIES: The House has passed the Protecting Americans Data from Foreign Adversaries Act (H.R. 7520), sponsored by Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J., to make it illegal for data brokers to send data on U.S. residents to North Korea, Russia, China, or Iran, with the Federal Trade Commission to enforce the prohibition. The vote, on March 20, was unanimous with 414 yeas.
YEAS: Stansbury, Vasquez, Leger Fernández
OIL, GAS DRILLING ON FEDERAL LANDS: The House has passed the Restoring American Energy Dominance Act (H.R. 6009), sponsored by Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., to require the withdrawal of a Bureau of Land Management rule that would increase fees for oil and natural gas production leases on federal lands. The vote, on March 20, was 216 yeas to 200 nays.
NAYS: Stansbury, Vasquez, Leger Fernández
HYDROCARBON FRACKING: The House has passed the Protecting American Energy Production Act (H.R. 1121), sponsored by Rep. Jeff Duncan, R-S.C., to bar an executive order by the president banning hydraulic fracturing (fracking) of oil and natural gas wells without Congressional authorization, and state that states should continue to be the primary regulators of fracking. The vote, on March 20, was 229 yeas to 188 nays.
NAYS: Stansbury, Leger Fernández
YEAS: Vasquez
BIDEN ENERGY POLICIES: The House has passed a resolution (H. Res. 987), sponsored by Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., to denounce the energy and federal land policies of the Biden administration as harmful and unpredictable, and promote domestic production of reliable and affordable energy. The vote, on March 21, was 217 yeas to 200 nays.
NAYS: Stansbury, Vasquez, Leger Fernández
CARBON EMISSIONS TAX: The House has passed a resolution (H. Con. Res. 86), sponsored by Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Mont., expressing the sense of Congress that a carbon dioxide emissions tax would harm the U.S. economy. The vote, on March 21, was 222 yeas to 196 nays.
NAYS: Stansbury, Leger Fernández
YEAS: Vasquez
MARINE SHIPPING: The House has passed the Ocean Shipping Reform Implementation Act (H.R. 1836), sponsored by Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D. The bill would bar U.S. port authority agencies from using Chinese government-linked transportation data platforms, and require the Federal Maritime Commission to handle complaints about shipping exchanges while also increasing the commission’s authority to curtail market manipulation. The vote, on March 21, was 393 yeas to 24 nays.
YEAS: Stansbury, Vasquez, Leger Fernández
FEDERAL WATER REGULATIONS: The House has passed the Creating Confidence in Clean Water Permitting Act (H.R. 7023), sponsored by Rep. David Rouzer, R-N.C. The bill would change Clean Water Act regulations of water quality and water use permits, and require implementation of the Waters of the United States rule that complies with a Supreme Court ruling that limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulatory powers. The vote, on March 21, was 213 yeas to 205 nays.
NAYS: Stansbury, Vasquez, Leger Fernández
APPEALS COURT JUDGE: The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Nicole Berner to be a judge on the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Berner has been a lawyer at the Service Employees International Union since 2006, after several years at Planned Parenthood and as a private practice lawyer. The vote, on March 19, was 50 yeas to 47 nays.
YEAS: Heinrich, D, Luján, D
ASSISTANT LABOR SECRETARY: The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Jose Javier Rodriguez to be the Labor Department’s Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training. Rodriguez was a Florida state legislator from 2013 through 2020; currently he is a lawyer, specializing in labor and pension law, at a Miami law firm. The vote, on March 21, was 50 yeas to 48 nays.
YEAS: Heinrich, Luján
IMPORTS OF PARAGUAY BEEF: The Senate has passed a resolution (S.J. Res. 62), sponsored by Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., to disapprove of and void an Agriculture Department rule allowing imports of fresh beef from Paraguay. Imports had been disallowed due to concerns about foot-and-mouth virus being in the imported beef. The vote to approve the resolution, on March 21, was 70 yeas to 25 nays.
NAYS: Heinrich, Luján