WASHINGTON — Here’s a look at how area members of Congress voted over the week ending Jan. 24.
Along with this week’s roll call votes, the House also passed a bill (H.R. 207), to direct the Secretary of Commerce to establish a task force regarding shark depredation.
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MAPPING FEDERAL WATERWAYS: The House has passed the Modernizing Access to our Public Waters Act (H.R. 187), sponsored by Rep. Blake D. Moore, R-Utah, to require the Agriculture Department and Interior Department to standardize, digitize, and make public maps of federal waterways and rules governing access to them. Moore said by improving information availability, the bill would “ensure Americans can quickly see the public resources around them and spend more time recreating on the land and water they love.” The vote, on Jan. 21, was unanimous with 413 yeas.
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Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-3rd
MEMORIALIZING WOUNDED KNEE: The House has passed the Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act (H.R. 165), sponsored by Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., to require the Interior Department to take 40 acres of land in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation into restricted fee status for the Oglala Sioux tribe and Cheyenne River Sioux tribe. Johnson said that by facilitating use of the land to memorialize the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890, the bill “will make sure that we do right as much as we can in the wake of that tragedy.” The vote, on Jan. 22, was unanimous with 416 yeas.