WASHINGTON — Here’s a look at how area members of Congress voted over the week ending Sept. 30.
Along with the week’s roll call votes, the Senate also passed, by voice vote, a resolution (S. Res. 753) urging the government of Brazil to ensure that its elections this month are conducted in a free, fair, credible, transparent, and peaceful manner; and the Technological Hazards Preparedness and Training Act (S. 4166), to authorize preparedness programs to support communities containing technological hazards and emerging threats.
House
AVIATION CENTER: The House has passed the National Center for the Advancement of Aviation Act (H.R. 3482), sponsored by Rep. Andre Carson, D-Ind., to create the National Center for the Advancement of Aviation, which would be an enterprise for improving partnerships between military and civil aviation and aerospace parties. Carson said the center was intended to address the problem that “innovation and lessons learned in various aviation sectors have not been shared in a collaborative or even a timely manner, especially considering rapid developments in new technology.” The vote, on Sept. 28, was 369 yeas to 56 nays.
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Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-3rd
MENTAL HEALTH SPENDING: The House has passed the Mental Health Matters Act (H.R. 7780), sponsored by Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, D-Calif., to create federal grant programs to fund schools’ provision of mental health services and bar certain provisions in employer-sponsored benefit plans that restrict mental health care coverage. The vote, on Sept. 29, was 220 yeas to 205 nays.