Last Week In Congress: How Cascadia’s U.S. lawmakers voted (March 13th-17th)

Good morn­ing! Here’s how Cascadia’s Unit­ed States Sen­a­tors vot­ed on major issues dur­ing the leg­isla­tive week end­ing March 17th, 2023.

The House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives was in recess.

In the United States Senate

BRENT NEIMAN, ASSISTANT TREASURY SECRETARY: The Sen­ate on March 15th con­firmed the nom­i­na­tion of Brent Neiman to be the Trea­sury Depart­men­t’s Assis­tant Sec­re­tary for Inter­na­tion­al Finance and Devel­op­ment. A for­mer staffer at a Fed­er­al Reserve bank and at the White House Coun­cil of Eco­nom­ic Advis­ers, Neiman is cur­rent­ly an inter­na­tion­al eco­nom­ics pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Chica­go. The vote was 54 yeas to 40 nays.

	Vot­ing Yea (2): Repub­li­can Sen­a­tors Jim Risch and Mike Crapo
	Vot­ing Yea (2): Demo­c­ra­t­ic Sen­a­tors Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley
	Vot­ing Yea (2): Demo­c­ra­t­ic Sen­a­tors Maria Cantwell and Pat­ty Murray

Cas­ca­dia total: 6 yea votes

ERIC GARCETTI, AMBASSADOR TO INDIA: The Sen­ate on March 15th con­firmed the nom­i­na­tion of Eric Garcetti to be U.S. ambas­sador to India. Garcetti had been the may­or of Los Ange­les from 2013 to late 2022, and pre­vi­ous­ly was a city coun­cilor for the city and a naval intel­li­gence offi­cer. An oppo­nent, Sen­a­tor Chuck Grass­ley, R‑Iowa, cit­ed “the seri­ous and cred­i­ble alle­ga­tions that he enabled sex­u­al harass­ment and racism to run ram­pant in the Los Ange­les may­or’s office.” The vote was 52 yeas to 42 nays.

	Vot­ing Nay (2): Repub­li­can Sen­a­tors Jim Risch and Mike Crapo
	Vot­ing Yea (2): Demo­c­ra­t­ic Sen­a­tors Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley
	Vot­ing Yea (2): Demo­c­ra­t­ic Sen­a­tors Maria Cantwell and Pat­ty Murray

Cas­ca­dia total: 4 yea votes, 2 nay votes

RAVI CHAUDHARY, AIR FORCE ASSISTANT SECRETARY: The Sen­ate has con­firmed the nom­i­na­tion of Ravi Chaud­hary to be the Air Force’s Assis­tant Sec­re­tary for Instal­la­tions, Ener­gy, and the Envi­ron­ment. Chaud­hary was an Air Force pilot and offi­cer from 1993 to 2015; he then became a senior offi­cial at the Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion. The vote was 65 yeas to 29 nays.

	Vot­ing Nay (2): Repub­li­can Sen­a­tors Jim Risch and Mike Crapo
	Vot­ing Yea (2): Demo­c­ra­t­ic Sen­a­tors Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley
	Vot­ing Yea (2): Demo­c­ra­t­ic Sen­a­tors Maria Cantwell and Pat­ty Murray

Cas­ca­dia total: 4 yea votes, 2 nay votes

JESSICA G.L. CLARKE, U.S. DISTRICT COURT JUDGE: The Sen­ate on March 16th con­firmed the nom­i­na­tion of Jes­si­ca G.L. Clarke to be a judge on the U.S. Dis­trict Court for the South­ern Dis­trict of New York. Clarke has been a civ­il rights lawyer in the New York Attor­ney Gen­er­al’s Office since 2019; she was a civ­il rights lawyer in the Oba­ma admin­is­tra­tion. A sup­port­er, Sen­ate Major­i­ty Leader Chuck Schumer, D‑N.Y., said Clarke “is a great civ­il rights lawyer, and I am cer­tain she will make an excel­lent mem­ber of the fed­er­al bench.”

The vote was 48 yeas to 43 nays.

	Vot­ing Nay (2): Repub­li­can Sen­a­tors Jim Risch and Mike Crapo
	Vot­ing Yea (2): Demo­c­ra­t­ic Sen­a­tors Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley
	Vot­ing Yea (2): Demo­c­ra­t­ic Sen­a­tors Maria Cantwell and Pat­ty Murray

Cas­ca­dia total: 4 yea votes, 2 nay votes

Key votes ahead

The House is slat­ed to take up the “Par­ents Bill of Rights Act” this week, and may also try to over­ride Pres­i­dent Biden’s veto of House Joint Res­o­lu­tion 30.

The Sen­ate will resume con­sid­er­a­tion of S.316, which would repeal the autho­riza­tions for use of mil­i­tary force against Iraq, post-cloture.

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