Washington D.C. Roll Call Report

WASHINGTON — Here’s a look at how area members of Congress voted over the week ending April 29.

House

FISHERIES RESEARCH: The House has passed the American Fisheries Advisory Committee Act (S. 497), sponsored by Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, to create an American Fisheries Advisory Committee that would advise the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on grants for fisheries research. The vote, on April 26, was 404 yeas to 11 nays.

YEAS

Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-3rd

RUSSIA, UKRAINE, AND CHINA: The House has passed the Assessing Xi’s Interference and Subversion Act (H.R. 7314), sponsored by Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky. The bill would require the State Department to report to Congress on support from China for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The vote, on April 27, was 394 yeas to 3 nays.

YEAS

Herrera Beutler

RUSSIA AND GEORGIA: The House has passed the Georgia Support Act (H.R. 923), sponsored by Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, D-Va., to require sanctions against foreign individuals over Russia’s occupation of two sections of the country of Georgia. Connolly said the bill also “enhances the U.S.-Georgia relationship on several fronts by bolstering security assistance, promoting democratic governance reforms, enhancing cooperation to fight Russian disinformation, and strengthening economic ties.” The vote, on April 27, was 406 yeas to 20 nays.

YEAS

Herrera Beutler

TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN EUROPE: The House has passed the Transatlantic Telecommunications Security Act (H.R. 3344), sponsored by Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, to direct the State Department and other federal government agencies to support efforts by Eastern and Central European countries to improve their telecommunications security. A supporter, Rep. Dan Meuser, R-Pa., said: “Ensuring the security of the telecommunications network of our NATO allies and partners in Central and Eastern Europe is unquestionably in the U.S. national security interest.” The vote, on April 27, was 366 yeas to 60 nays.

YEAS

Herrera Beutler

RUSSIA AND AFRICA: The House has passed the Countering Malign Russian Activities in Africa Act (H.R. 7311), sponsored by Rep. Gregory W. Meeks, D-N.Y., to require the State Department to send Congress, every year, a report on U.S. measures to counter Russia’s activity in Africa. The vote, on April 27, was 415 yeas to 9 nays.

YEAS:

Herrera Beutler

RELATIONS WITH CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES: The House has passed the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative Authorization Act (H.R. 4133), sponsored by Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y., to develop a State Department disaster response strategy for Caribbean nations and authorize spending on the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative. The vote, on April 27, was 340 yeas to 86 nays.

YEAS

Herrera Beutler

MALNUTRITION OVERSEAS: The House has passed the Global Malnutrition Prevention and Treatment Act (H.R. 4693), sponsored by Rep. Michael T. McCaul, R-Texas. The bill would require the U.S. Agency for International Development to take steps to address and prevent malnutrition globally. A supporter, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, D-Va., said: “By coordinating activities throughout the U.S. government with our partner countries with the United Nations’ specialized agencies, civil society, private-sector actors and more, we can sustain nutrition interventions that save lives.” The vote, on April 27, was 384 yeas to 44 nays.

YEAS

Herrera Beutler

TAIWAN AND THE WHO: The House has passed a bill (S. 812), sponsored by Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., to require the State Department to make a strategy for regaining observer status in the World Health Organization for Taiwan. The vote, on April 27, was unanimous with 425 yeas.

YEAS

Herrera Beutler

AID TO UKRAINE: The House has passed the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act (S. 3522), sponsored by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, to waive regulations in order to facilitate the lending or leasing of military weapons to Ukraine and other Eastern European countries affected by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. A supporter, Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., called the bill “critical legislation to help Ukrainians avoid further loss of life at the hands of Putin’s murderous forces.” The vote, on April 28, was 417 yeas to 10 nays.

YEAS

Herrera Beutler

Senate

FEDERAL RESERVE: The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Lael Brainard to be vice chairman of the Federal Reserve bank’s board of governors. Brainard, a member of the board since mid-2014, was previously an Obama administration Treasury Department official. The vote, on April 26, was 52 yeas to 43 nays.

YEAS

Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., Patty Murray, D-Wash.

FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD: The Senate has rejected a cloture motion to end debate on the nomination of Lisa DeNell Cook to be a member of the Federal Reserve bank’s board of governors. Cook, a member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers during the Obama administration, is an economics professor at Michigan State University. A supporter, Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, said Cook would bring a needed perspective to the board because she “has seen how economic policy affects all kinds of different people in different parts of the country — from the rural South, where she grew up, to the industrial Midwest, where she built a career.” An opponent, Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., said he was “concerned about Lisa Cook’s qualifications to be fighting inflation when she refused to articulate any plan for dealing with inflation.” The vote to end debate, on April 26, was 47 yeas to 51 nays.

YEAS

Cantwell, Murray

CALIFORNIA JUDGE: The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Sherilyn Garnett to be a judge on the U.S. district court for the central district of California. Garnett was an assistant U.S. attorney in the district for 13 years then, in 2014, became a judge on the Los Angeles County Superior Court. The vote, on April 27, was 62 yeas to 33 nays.

YEAS

Cantwell, Murray

ABORTION AND FAMILY PLANNING FUNDS: The Senate has rejected a motion to proceed to consideration of a resolution (S.J. Res. 41), sponsored by Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., that would have disapproved of and voided a Health and Human Services Department rule barring abortion providers from receiving federal funds through the title X Family Planning Program. Rubio said: “By reversing this administration’s ruling, abortion clinics will once again be excluded from receiving this taxpayer money, and it would put more money toward improving and saving lives instead of ending them.” An opponent, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said the resolution would “bring back the gag rule and deny women across the country access to services made possible by Title X.” The vote, on April 27, was 49 yeas to 49 nays.

NAYS

Cantwell, Murray