How Arkansas’ congressional delegation voted
Here is how Arkansas’ U.S. senators and U.S. representatives voted on major roll call votes during the week that ended Friday.
House Republicans will continue to try to elect a speaker during the week of Oct. 23, while the Senate will vote on confirming a U.S. ambassador to Israel and take up President Biden’s emergency funding request for Israel and Ukraine.
HOUSE
Jim Jordan loses speakership bid. Defeated by receiving 200 out of 217 needed votes, Rep. Jordan, a nineterm Republican from Ohio lost a bid to become speaker of the House on Oct. 17. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the Democratic leader, received the votes of all 212 members of his caucus, and 22 Republicans voted for individuals other than Jordan. One Republican was absent, and there are two vacancies in the 435-member House.
According to a report by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, Jordan was “a significant player” in former President Donald Trump’s efforts to throw out the results of the presidential election in some states won by President Joe Biden, helping to develop “strategies for challenging the election, chief among them claims that the election had been tainted by fraud.” Jordan refused to appear before the committee. Supporter Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., said: “Jim Jordan is a patriot. He’s an America-first warrior who wins the toughest of fights, going after corruption and delivering accountability at the highest levels of government … Jim is the voice of the American people who have felt voiceless for far too long … Jim is strategic, scrappy, tough and principled. He’s a mentor, a worker and, above all, he’s a fighter … a winner on behalf of the American people.” Opponent Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., said: “A vote today to make the architect of a nationwide abortion ban, a vocal election denier and an insurrection insider to [become] the speaker of the House would be a terrible message to the country and our allies. It would send an even more troubling message to our enemies, that the very people who would seek to undermine democracy are rewarded with positions of immense power. We are talking about somebody who has spent his entire career trying to hold our country back.” The House on Oct. 18 and Oct. 20 rejected two additional bids by Jordan to become speaker. Voted for Jordan:
☑ Rick Crawford (R)
☑ French Hill (R
☑ Bruce Westerman (R) Voted for Rep. Steve Scalise:
☑ Steve Womack (R)
SENATE
Nullifying Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
rule. Nullified 53-42, a proposed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) rule that would prevent banks and other lenders from denying credit requests on the basis of the applicant’s race, color, religion, national origin, sex, marital status or, in most cases, age. The rule requires creditors to report much of the demographic information they collect from applicants on an en masse, anonymous basis to the agency. In other provisions, the rule requires lenders to retain records of credit applications, notify applicants
of all actions taken on their requests, report credit histories in the names of both spouses and provide applicants with copies of appraisal reports. This vote adopted SJ Res 32, which is now before the House. A yes vote was to adopt the resolution.
☑ John Boozman (R)
☑ Tom Cotton (R)
Declaring support for Israel, condemning Hamas.
Adopted 97-0, a non-binding resolution (S Res 417) affirming U.S. support for Israel and condemning Hamas’s terrorist attack on Israeli civilians on Oct. 7.
No senator spoke against the resolution
A yes vote was to adopt the resolution.
☑ Boozman (R)
☑ Cotton (R)
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