WASHINGTON — Here’s a look at how area members of Congress voted over the week ending Dec. 13.
Along with roll call votes this week, the House also passed these bills: the Amtrak Transparency and Accountability for Passengers and Taxpayer Act (H.R. 8692), to require Amtrak to publicly disclose certain bonus compensation paid to Amtrak executives; the FEMA Loan Interest Payment Relief Act (H.R. 2672), to provide for the authority to reimburse local governments or electric cooperatives for interest expenses; and the Veterans Expedited TSA Screening Safe Travel Act (H.R. 7365), to provide PreCheck to certain severely injured or disabled veterans.
The Senate also passed the Stop Campus Hazing Act (H.R. 5646), to require institutions of higher education to disclose hazing incidents; and the Chance to Compete Act (S. 59), to implement merit-based reforms to the civil service hiring system that replace degree-based hiring with skills- and competency-based hiring.
House
TEACHING ABOUT COMMUNISM: The House has passed the Crucial Communism Teaching Act (H.R. 5349), sponsored by Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., to require a foundation to make a curriculum designed to teach high school students about communism as an ideology that has led to more than 100 million deaths. Salazar said the bill was needed “because America’s youth has been brainwashed by media and academia for the last 30 years to believe that communism is good.” The vote, on Dec. 6, was 327 yeas to 62 nays.