Congressional roll call Coming up

Here’s how area members of Congress voted on major issues during the legislative week ending Oct. 18.

House TROOP WITHDRAWAL:

Voting 354-60, the House on Oct. 16 adopted a nonbinding resolution (HJ Res 77) condemning President Trump’s decision to abruptly remove U.S. troops from Syria. The measure also called on Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to halt his country’s attacks on Kurdish forces that began after American forces stood down in northeastern Syria following Trump’s Oct. 6 phone call with Erdogan. The resolution was backed by all 225 Democrats who voted, and by 129 of the 189 Republicans who voted. Four members answered “present,” which indicates they participated in the roll call without taking a stand. They were Republicans Bob Gibbs of Ohio, Jody Hice of Georgia and Chip Roy of Texas and independent Justin Amash of Michigan. A yes vote was to send the resolution to the Senate, where action on it was blocked.

Antonio Delgado, DRhinebeck: Yes Sean Maloney, D-Cold Spring: Yes U.S. JOBS SENT ABROAD:

Voting 226-184, the House on Oct. 18 passed a bill (HR 3624) that would require publicly traded companies to annually report to the Securities and Exchange Commission the number of people they employ in each foreign country, each U.S. territory and each of the 50 states. The geographical breakdowns would enable investors and consumers to assess the extent to which American corporations are exporting jobs and relocating employees within the United States. In part, this would enable the public to determine the extent to which domestic layoffs are attributable to outsourcing. A yes vote was to send the bill to the Senate. Delgado: Yes Maloney: Yes

Senate CLEAN POWER PLAN:

Voting 41 in favor and 53 opposed, the Senate on Oct. 17 defeated a Democratic bid to restore the Obama administration’s “Clean Power Plan” for reducing carbon emissions by coal- and natural gas-fired electricgenerating plants. President Trump in March 2017 ordered a rollback of the previous administration’s many-pronged federal-state plan for addressing global warming caused by power plants. On this vote, the Senate defeated a measure (SJ Res 53) that sought to kill an Environmental Protection Agency rule putting Trump’s directive into effect. Power plant emissions make up about one-third of greenhouse-gas discharges in the United States and are the nation’s largest source of carbon pollution, according to the EPA. A yes vote was to adopt the resolution.

Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.:

Yes Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.: Yes BORDER EMERGENCY:

Voting 53-36, the Senate on Oct. 17 fell short of the two-thirds majority needed to override President Trump’s veto of a measure that would have nullified the national emergency he declared on the southwest border over immigration concerns. The vote affirmed the Feb. 15 emergency declaration, which Trump has used as authority for diverting $3.6 billion appropriated for military construction at bases domestically and overseas to a non-military account for building 175 miles of border barriers. A yes vote was to override the veto of SJ Res 54. Gillibrand: Yes Schumer: Yes

The House this week will take up bills to prevent foreign interference in U.S. elections and the infusion of Russian “dark money” into American campaigns. The Senate will debate fiscal 2020 appropriations.