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Sunday, July 14th, 2019

Last Week In Congress: How Cascadia’s U.S. lawmakers voted (July 8th-12th)

Good morn­ing! Here’s how Cas­ca­di­a’s Mem­bers of Con­gress vot­ed on major issues dur­ing the leg­isla­tive week end­ing Fri­day, July 12th, 2019.

In the United States House of Representatives

Chamber of the United States House of Representatives

The House cham­ber (U.S. Con­gress photo)

911 VICTIMS’ COMPENSATION FUND: By a vote of 402 for and 12 against, the House on July 12th passed a bipar­ti­san bill that would reau­tho­rize the Sep­tem­ber 11th Vic­tim Com­pen­sa­tion Fund through fis­cal 2090. Admin­is­tered by a spe­cial mas­ter, the fund pays eco­nom­ic and non-eco­nom­ic dam­ages to 911 first respon­ders and their sur­vivors as well as to indi­vid­u­als with health prob­lems as a result of par­tic­i­pat­ing in 911 cleanup efforts, and to their survivors.

In addi­tion, the bill would allow claims to be filed until Octo­ber 2089, remove a cap on non-eco­nom­ic dam­ages in cer­tain cir­cum­stances and index for infla­tion the pro­gram’s annu­al lim­its on com­pen­sa­tion for eco­nom­ic losses.

The bill replen­ish­es the fund to avert threat­ened cuts of up to 70% in pend­ing and future claims and makes whole claims already paid at reduced lev­els. Although the bill is pro­ject­ed to cost $10.2 bil­lion in its first 10 years, and count­less bil­lions after that as can­cers and oth­er latent dis­eases emerge, it does not yet include a “pay for” mech­a­nism or long-term fund­ing means.

A yes vote was to send the bill to the Senate.

The State of Idaho

Vot­ing Aye (2): Repub­li­can Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Russ Fulcher and Mike Simpson

The State of Oregon

Vot­ing Aye (5): Demo­c­ra­t­ic Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Suzanne Bonam­i­ci, Earl Blu­me­nauer, Kurt Schrad­er, and Peter DeFazio; Repub­li­can Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Greg Walden

The State of Washington

Vot­ing Aye (10): Demo­c­ra­t­ic Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Suzan Del­Bene, Rick Larsen, Derek Kilmer, Prami­la Jaya­pal, Kim Schri­er, Adam Smith, and Den­ny Heck; Repub­li­can Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Jaime Her­rera-Beut­ler, Dan New­house, and Cathy McMor­ris Rodgers

Cas­ca­dia total: 17 aye votes

$733 BILLION FOR MILITARY IN 2020: Vot­ing 220 for and 197 against, the House on July 12th autho­rized a $733 bil­lion mil­i­tary bud­get (H.R. 2500) for fis­cal 2020, includ­ing $69 bil­lion for com­bat oper­a­tions and more than $57 bil­lion for active-duty and retiree health care. The bill:

  • sets a 3.1 per­cent pay raise for uni­formed personnel;
  • address­es glob­al warm­ing as a nation­al-secu­ri­ty threat;
  • advances the clo­sure of the Guan­tanamo Bay mil­i­tary prison;
  • requires Pen­ta­gon strate­gies for coun­ter­ing Russ­ian inter­fer­ence in the 2020 U.S. elections;
  • lifts an admin­is­tra­tion ban on trans­gen­der mil­i­tary service;
  • pro­hibits U.S. troop reduc­tions in South Korea below 28,000;
  • funds pro­grams for mil­i­tary vic­tims of sex­u­al assault;
  • … and approves tens of bil­lions for con­ven­tion­al and nuclear weapons while defund­ing the devel­op­ment of low-yield nuclear weapons.

In addi­tion, the bill requires what would be the first con­gres­sion­al autho­riza­tion for the U.S. war against Islam­ic State in Iraq and Syr­ia (ISIS) forces in the Mid­dle East. At the same time, it would effec­tive­ly repeal the 2001 Autho­riza­tion for Use of Mil­i­tary Force (AUMF), which, along with the Iraq war res­o­lu­tion approved in 2002, has been the legal basis of U.S. mil­i­tary actions since 911.

The bill also would estab­lish twelve weeks’ paid fam­i­ly and med­ical leave for the fed­er­al work­force to accom­mo­date cir­cum­stances includ­ing child­birth, adop­tions, fos­ter care and seri­ous ill­ness. The leave is now avail­able with­out pay to civ­il ser­vants under the 1993 Fam­i­ly and Med­ical Leave Act.

In addi­tion, the bill allows mil­i­tary per­son­nel who are vic­tims of sex­u­al assaults to receive emer­gency con­tra­cep­tion at base clin­ics, and elim­i­nates co-pays for con­tra­cep­tive ser­vices pro­vid­ed by the Depart­ment of Defense health­care system.

The bill also would:

  • bar fund­ing for space-based mis­sile defenses;
  • pro­hib­it the diver­sion of mil­i­tary funds to wall con­struc­tion on the south­west border;
  • halt the sale of F‑35 air­craft to Turkey unless it can­cels its pur­chase an air defense sys­tem from Russia;
  • require the Marine Corps to admit women to basic training;
  • fund repair of earth­quake dam­ages to mil­i­tary bases in south­ern California;
  • require more accu­rate and trans­par­ent report­ing of U.S.-caused civil­ian casu­al­ties, and pro­vide $250 mil­lion to in secu­ri­ty assis­tance to Ukraine.

A yes vote was to send the bill to a House-Sen­ate con­fer­ence committee.

The State of Idaho

Vot­ing Nay (2): Repub­li­can Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Russ Fulcher and Mike Simpson

The State of Oregon

Vot­ing Aye (3): Demo­c­ra­t­ic Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Suzanne Bonam­i­ci, Peter DeFazio, and Kurt Schrader

Vot­ing Nay (2): Repub­li­can Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Greg Walden; Demo­c­ra­t­ic Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Earl Blumenauer

The State of Washington

Vot­ing Aye (7): Demo­c­ra­t­ic Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Suzan Del­Bene, Rick Larsen, Derek Kilmer, Prami­la Jaya­pal, Kim Schri­er, Adam Smith, and Den­ny Heck

Vot­ing Nay (3): Repub­li­can Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Jaime Her­rera-Beut­ler, Dan New­house, and Cathy McMor­ris Rodgers

Cas­ca­dia total: 10 aye votes, 7 nay votes

DEVELOPING LOW-YIELD NUCLEAR WEAPONS: Vot­ing 201 for and 221 against, the House on June 12th defeat­ed a Repub­li­can amend­ment to H.R. 2500 (above) that sought to fund an admin­is­tra­tion plan to start mount­ing low-yield nuclear weapons — W76‑2 war­heads — on sub­ma­rine-launched Tri­dent bal­lis­tic mis­siles. Mil­i­tary plan­ners say low-yield, or tac­ti­cal, war­heads are for use in lim­it­ed con­flicts, in con­trast to strate­gic nuclear weapons, which are designed to destroy tar­gets far from the imme­di­ate battlefield.

Advo­cates say the Unit­ed States needs to counter Rus­si­a’s exten­sive low-yield arse­nal, while crit­ics say the weapons height­en the risk of Armaged­don because it is fol­ly to think nuclear war can be waged on a lim­it­ed basis.

Mike Turn­er, R‑Ohio, called it “uni­lat­er­al nuclear dis­ar­ma­ment” to not deploy low-yield nuclear weapons.

Our own Adam Smith, D‑Washington, called the weapon “a mis­take” because “it takes us down the road of say­ing we can have a man­age­able nuclear war.”

A yes vote was to add low-yield nuclear weapons to the U.S. arsenal.

The State of Idaho

Vot­ing Aye (2): Repub­li­can Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Russ Fulcher and Mike Simpson

The State of Oregon

Vot­ing Aye (1): Repub­li­can Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Greg Walden

Vot­ing Nay (4): Demo­c­ra­t­ic Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Suzanne Bonam­i­ci, Earl Blu­me­nauer, Peter DeFazio, and Kurt Schrader

The State of Washington

Vot­ing Aye (3): Repub­li­can Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Jaime Her­rera-Beut­ler, Dan New­house, and Cathy McMor­ris Rodgers

Vot­ing Nay (7): Demo­c­ra­t­ic Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Suzan Del­Bene, Rick Larsen, Derek Kilmer, Prami­la Jaya­pal, Kim Schri­er, Adam Smith, and Den­ny Heck

Cas­ca­dia total: 6 aye votes, 11 nay votes

BUDGET INCREASE FOR COMBAT READINESS, PAY RAISE: Vot­ing 204 for and 212 against, the House on July 12th defeat­ed a Repub­li­can motion that sought to add near­ly $3 bil­lion to H.R. 2500 (above) for pur­pos­es such as expand­ing com­bat accounts and increas­ing the bil­l’s pay raise for uni­formed per­son­nel from the 3.1 per­cent lev­el request­ed by Trump to four percent.

Jim Banks, R‑Indiana, said: “Let us give our troops the raise they earned.”

Our own Adam Smith, D‑Washington, said the bill already funds “the largest pay raise for our troops in ten years.”

A yes vote was to adopt the motion.

The State of Idaho

Vot­ing Aye (2): Repub­li­can Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Russ Fulcher and Mike Simpson

The State of Oregon

Vot­ing Aye (1): Repub­li­can Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Greg Walden

Vot­ing Nay (4): Demo­c­ra­t­ic Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Suzanne Bonam­i­ci, Earl Blu­me­nauer, Peter DeFazio, and Kurt Schrader

The State of Washington

Vot­ing Aye (4): Repub­li­can Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Jaime Her­rera-Beut­ler, Dan New­house, and Cathy McMor­ris Rodgers; Demo­c­ra­t­ic Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Kim Schrier

Vot­ing Nay (6): Demo­c­ra­t­ic Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Suzan Del­Bene, Rick Larsen, Derek Kilmer, Prami­la Jaya­pal, Adam Smith, and Den­ny Heck

Cas­ca­dia total: 7 aye votes, 10 nay votes

NEW RULES FOR ALLOCATING GREEN CARDS: Vot­ing 365 for and 65 against, the House on July 10th passed a bill (H.R. 1044) that would change how “green cards” grant­i­ng per­ma­nent legal sta­tus are allo­cat­ed by U.S. Cit­i­zen and Immi­gra­tion Ser­vices to immi­grants liv­ing in the Unit­ed States on tem­po­rary, employ­ment-based H1‑B visas. Those visas are used pri­mar­i­ly to bring high­ly skilled, well-edu­cat­ed for­eign­ers into the U.S. work­force for peri­ods gen­er­al­ly rang­ing from three to six years, after which they are usu­al­ly required leave the coun­try if they have not received a green card.

The bill would remove per-coun­try caps on the num­ber of employ­ment-based green cards issued each year, and instead award them first-come, first-served. The cur­rent caps pro­hib­it natives of any coun­try from receiv­ing more than 7 per­cent of the annu­al num­ber of per­ma­nent, employ­ment-based visas.

That dis­ad­van­tages work­ers from pop­u­lous coun­tries sup­ply­ing large num­bers of H1‑B recip­i­ents. Those from small­er coun­tries do not wait near­ly as long.

Ken Buck, R‑Colorado, said impos­ing per-coun­try caps “doesn’t make sense. Our employ­ment-based immi­gra­tion sys­tem has a sin­gle pur­pose, bring­ing in the best and bright­est. We shouldn’t ham­string our econ­o­my by plac­ing arti­fi­cial caps on who can get a green card quick­er based sole­ly on where you are born.”

Doug Collins, R‑Georgia, said he sup­ports much of the bill, but because it was not sub­ject­ed to com­mit­tee hear­ings to fix what he sees as flaws, it “is not ready for prime time.”

The State of Idaho

Vot­ing Aye (2): Repub­li­can Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Russ Fulcher and Mike Simpson

The State of Oregon

Vot­ing Aye (5): Demo­c­ra­t­ic Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Suzanne Bonam­i­ci, Earl Blu­me­nauer, Kurt Schrad­er, and Peter DeFazio; Repub­li­can Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Greg Walden

The State of Washington

Vot­ing Aye (10): Demo­c­ra­t­ic Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Suzan Del­Bene, Rick Larsen, Derek Kilmer, Prami­la Jaya­pal, Kim Schri­er, Adam Smith, and Den­ny Heck; Repub­li­can Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Jaime Her­rera-Beut­ler, Dan New­house, and Cathy McMor­ris Rodgers

Cas­ca­dia total: 17 aye votes

INVENTORY OF U.S. BASES OVERSEAS: Vot­ing 219 for and 210 against, the House on July 11th required the Depart­ment of Defense to pro­vide Con­gress with an inven­to­ry of U.S. mil­i­tary instal­la­tions on for­eign ter­ri­to­ry along with the cost of oper­at­ing each one and an expla­na­tion of how it serves nation­al security.

The amend­ment was added to the fis­cal 2020 mil­i­tary pol­i­cy bill (H.R. 2500). The depart­ment report­ed­ly owns sev­er­al hun­dred per­ma­nent bases and short-term mil­i­tary facil­i­ties abroad, and the first-ever audit of Pen­ta­gon oper­a­tions, released last Novem­ber, was unable to pin­point some of them.

Spon­sor Ilhan Omar, D‑Minnesota, said: “The Amer­i­can peo­ple deserve to know what their tax dol­lars are being spent on and not take it on blind faith that every dol­lar that is giv­en to the Pen­ta­gon is a dol­lar that is pro­tect­ing their safety.”

Doug Lam­born, R‑Colorado, said Con­gress already has access to bud­get doc­u­ments show­ing “in exhaus­tive detail…thousands of line items on where the Pen­ta­gon spend­ing is going right now — domes­tic, for­eign, everything.”

A yes vote was to require an inven­to­ry of U.S. mil­i­tary hold­ings abroad.

The State of Idaho

Vot­ing Nay (2): Repub­li­can Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Russ Fulcher and Mike Simpson

The State of Oregon

Vot­ing Aye (4): Demo­c­ra­t­ic Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Suzanne Bonam­i­ci, Earl Blu­me­nauer, Peter DeFazio, Kurt Schrader

Vot­ing Nay (1): Repub­li­can Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Greg Walden

The State of Washington

Vot­ing Aye (7): Demo­c­ra­t­ic Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Suzan Del­Bene, Rick Larsen, Derek Kilmer, Prami­la Jaya­pal, Kim Schri­er, Adam Smith, and Den­ny Heck

Vot­ing Nay (3): Repub­li­can Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Jaime Her­rera-Beut­ler, Dan New­house, and Cathy McMor­ris Rodgers

Cas­ca­dia total: 11 aye votes, 6 nay votes

PRESIDENTIAL CONTRACTS WITH FEDERAL AGENCIES: Vot­ing 243 for and 186 against, the House on July 11th amend­ed H.R. 2500 (above) to pro­hib­it pres­i­dents, vice pres­i­dents and cab­i­net mem­bers from hold­ing con­tracts with the U.S. gov­ern­ment, just as mem­bers of Con­gress are barred by fed­er­al law from doing. The ratio­nale of the ban is that high fed­er­al offi­cials, as insid­ers, could exert undue influ­ence over the terms of the contract.

The expand­ed ban pre­sum­ably would pro­hib­it any attempt­ed renew­al of the gov­ern­men­t’s con­tract for leas­ing the Old Post Office on Penn­syl­va­nia Avenue in Wash­ing­ton to the Trump Inter­na­tion­al Hotel, which gen­er­ates prof­its for the Trump Orga­ni­za­tion and there­fore the president.

Our own Adam Smith, D‑Washington, called this “a good amend­ment that will improve the ethics of our government.”

Jody Hice, R‑Georgia, said the amend­ment is “noth­ing oth­er than, once again, an attack on Pres­i­dent Trump and his family.”

A yes vote was to bar top exec­u­tive branch offi­cials, includ­ing pres­i­dents, from hold­ing fed­er­al contracts.

The State of Idaho

Vot­ing Nay (2): Repub­li­can Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Russ Fulcher and Mike Simpson

The State of Oregon

Vot­ing Aye (4): Demo­c­ra­t­ic Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Suzanne Bonam­i­ci, Earl Blu­me­nauer, Peter DeFazio, and Kurt Schrader

Vot­ing Nay (1): Repub­li­can Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Greg Walden

The State of Washington

Vot­ing Aye (7): Demo­c­ra­t­ic Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Suzan Del­Bene, Rick Larsen, Derek Kilmer, Prami­la Jaya­pal, Kim Schri­er, Adam Smith, and Den­ny Heck

Vot­ing Nay (3): Repub­li­can Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Jaime Her­rera-Beut­ler, Dan New­house, and Cathy McMor­ris Rodgers

Cas­ca­dia total: 11 aye votes, 6 nay votes

PROTECTING FEDERAL PERSONNEL AGENCY: Vot­ing 247 for and 182 against, the House on July 11th adopt­ed an amend­ment to HR 2500 (above) that would scut­tle a Trump admin­is­tra­tion pro­pos­al to down­grade the Office of Per­son­nel Man­age­ment (OPM) by merg­ing it with the Gen­er­al Ser­vices Admin­is­tra­tion (GSA). With 5,500 employ­ees, the OPM admin­is­ters pro­grams rang­ing from health insur­ance to retire­ment accounts for mil­lions of active and retired fed­er­al civil­ian work­ers and their families.

The GSA, with a staff of 12,000, is charged with man­ag­ing fed­er­al office space, trans­porta­tion, com­mu­ni­ca­tions and pro­cure­ment, among oth­er duties.

Ger­ald Con­nol­ly, D‑Virgina, said:

“The admin­is­tra­tion’s inad­e­quate plan to dis­man­tle OPM has been a dis­as­ter. After real­iz­ing that it can­not pre­vail on the mer­its, the admin­is­tra­tion is now resort­ing to black­mail” by trim­ming the OPM workforce.

Jody Hice, R‑Georgia, said Repub­li­cans “want to find ways to improve ser­vices for fed­er­al employ­ees and get retire­ment ben­e­fits for fed­er­al retirees. But we need to keep all solu­tions and all options on the table.”

The State of Idaho

Vot­ing Nay (2): Repub­li­can Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Russ Fulcher and Mike Simpson

The State of Oregon

Vot­ing Aye (4): Demo­c­ra­t­ic Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Suzanne Bonam­i­ci, Earl Blu­me­nauer, Peter DeFazio, Kurt Schrader

Vot­ing Nay (1): Repub­li­can Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Greg Walden

The State of Washington

Vot­ing Aye (7): Demo­c­ra­t­ic Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Suzan Del­Bene, Rick Larsen, Derek Kilmer, Prami­la Jaya­pal, Kim Schri­er, Adam Smith, and Den­ny Heck

Vot­ing Nay (3): Repub­li­can Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Jaime Her­rera-Beut­ler, Dan New­house, and Cathy McMor­ris Rodgers

Cas­ca­dia total: 11 aye votes, 6 nay votes

In the United States Senate

Chamber of the United States Senate

The Sen­ate cham­ber (U.S. Con­gress photo)

JOHN PALLASCH, ASSISTANT LABOR SECRETARY: Vot­ing 54 for and 39 against, the Sen­ate on July 10th con­firmed John P. Pal­lasch, the head of Ken­tuck­y’s employ­ment and train­ing agency, as an assis­tant sec­re­tary in the Depart­ment of Labor. He will lead the Employ­ment and Train­ing Admin­is­tra­tion, which con­sumes near­ly two-thirds of the depart­men­t’s bud­get while admin­is­ter­ing work­place pro­grams for 22 mil­lion Amer­i­cans. Pal­lasch was head of the Mine Safe­ty and Health Admin­is­tra­tion in the George W. Bush administration.

Mitch McConnell, R‑Kentucky, called Pal­lasch a “thor­ough­ly well-qual­i­fied” nominee.

The Pacif­ic North­west­’s own Pat­ty Mur­ray, D‑Washington, said fed­er­al job pro­grams need a leader “who is expe­ri­enced and com­mit­ted to pro­vid­ing work­ers with the train­ing, sup­port and ben­e­fits they need to suc­ceed in this chang­ing econ­o­my. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, Mr. Pal­lasch is not that person.”

The State of Idaho

Vot­ing Aye (2):
Repub­li­can Sen­a­tors Jim Risch and Mike Crapo

The State of Oregon

Vot­ing Nay (2):
Demo­c­ra­t­ic Sen­a­tors Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley

The State of Washington

Vot­ing Nay (2):
Demo­c­ra­t­ic Sen­a­tors Maria Cantwell and Pat­ty Murray

Cas­ca­dia total: 2 aye votes, 4 nay votes

ROBERT KING, ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF EDUCATION: The Sen­ate on July 11th con­firmed, 56 for and 37 against, Robert L. King, the pres­i­dent of the Ken­tucky Coun­cil on Post­sec­ondary Edu­ca­tion, as assis­tant sec­re­tary of post­sec­ondary edu­ca­tion. He served pre­vi­ous­ly as head of the Ari­zona Com­mu­ni­ty Foun­da­tion and chan­cel­lor of the State Uni­ver­si­ty of New York sys­tem of high­er edu­ca­tion, and he was an aide to for­mer New York Gov­er­nor George Pataki.

A yes vote was to con­firm the nominee.

The State of Idaho

Vot­ing Aye (2):
Repub­li­can Sen­a­tors Jim Risch and Mike Crapo

The State of Oregon

Vot­ing Nay (2):
Demo­c­ra­t­ic Sen­a­tors Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley

The State of Washington

Vot­ing Nay (2):
Demo­c­ra­t­ic Sen­a­tors Maria Cantwell and Pat­ty Murray

Cas­ca­dia total: 2 aye votes, 4 nay votes

Key votes ahead

Dur­ing the week of July 15th, the House will vote on rais­ing the fed­er­al min­i­mum wage and on whether to hold Attor­ney Gen­er­al William Barr and Com­merce Sec­re­tary Wilbur Ross in crim­i­nal con­tempt of Con­gress over their dis­re­gard of com­mit­tee sub­poe­nas. The Sen­ate, oper­at­ing under the aus­pices of Mitch McConnell, will vote on judi­cial and exec­u­tive branch nominations.

Edi­tor’s Note: The infor­ma­tion in NPI’s week­ly How Cas­ca­di­a’s U.S. law­mak­ers vot­ed fea­ture is pro­vid­ed by Votera­ma in Con­gress, a ser­vice of Thomas Vot­ing Reports. All rights are reserved. Repro­duc­tion of this post is not per­mit­ted, not even with attri­bu­tion. Use the per­ma­nent link to this post to share it… thanks!

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