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H.R.6304
Roll Call # 437
Title: To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of
1978 to establish a procedure for authorizing certain acquisitions of
foreign intelligence, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Reyes, Silvestre [TX-16]
(introduced 6/19/2008)
Cosponsors (2)
Related Bills:
H.RES.1285
Latest Major Action: 6/23/2008
Senate floor actions. Status: Cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the measure presented in Senate.
Nancy Pelosi voted YEA on this bill. California Democrats who voted NAY were: Xavier Becerra, Lois Capps, Susan Davis, Anna Eshoo, Sam Farr, Bob Filner, Mike Honda, Barbara Lee, Zoe Lofgren, Doris Matsui, George Miller, Grace Napolitano, Lucille Roybal-Allard, Linda Sanchez, Loretta Sanchez, Jackie Speier, Hilda Solis, Mike Thompson, Maxine Waters, Diane Watson, Henry Waxman, and Lynn Woolsey. Pete Stark did not vote, and the other California Democrats -- including Jane Harman, Jerry McNerny, and Ellen Tauscher, voted YEA along with Nancy Pelosi. The bill passed 293 to 129, with one Republican joining 128 opposing Democrats.
Passage of this bill has stirred up controversy, with many, including Senator Russ Feingold, accusing the Democrats of having caved to the Bush administration. The bill seeks to expand the power of law enforcement to spy by permitting the surveillance of communications in which one party is out of the country. As Sen. Feingold put it on Democracy Now!, you might be calling your daughter who is doing her junior year abroad or your family that is still in Iraq.
The bill also seeks to grant retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies that have already participated in warrantless wiretapping.
Feingold has suggested, on Democracy Now!, that if the bill becomes a law, members of the Bush administration -- including Bush himself -- might be immune to charges of impeachment and/or future criminal charges.
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H.R.2642
Roll Call Vote # 431
Title: Making appropriations for military construction, the
Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal
year ending September 30, 2008, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Edwards, Chet [TX-17]
(introduced 6/11/2007)
Cosponsors (None)
Related Bills:
H.RES.480, H.RES.1197, H.RES.1284, H.R.4104, S.1645, S.2363
Latest Major Action: 6/19/2008
Resolving differences -- House actions. Status: Mr. Obey moved that the
House agree with an amendment to the Senate amendments to the House
amendments to the Senate amendment.
House Reports: 110-186
Note: H.R. 2642 is now the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 (the war supplemental).
H.R. 2642
was previously the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs
Appropriations Act, 2008 and was incorporated as Division B in the H.R. 3043 conference report, subsequently removed from that bill, and enacted in H.R. 2764, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008.
This half of H.R. 2642 is the half that is supposed to continue funding for the war. It passed by a vote of 268 YEAS to 155 NAYS, with 12 not voting. Eighty Democrats voted YEA, but 151 voted NAY, including Nancy Pelosi and most of the California Democratic delegation.
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Title: Making appropriations for military construction, the
Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal
year ending September 30, 2008, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Edwards, Chet [TX-17]
(introduced 6/11/2007)
Cosponsors (None)
Related Bills:
H.RES.480, H.RES.1197, H.R.4104, S.1645, S.2363
Latest Major Action: 5/22/2008
Resolving differences -- Senate actions. Status: Senate concurred in
House amendment No. 1 to the Senate amendment with an amendment (SA
4818) Yea-Nay Vote. 70 - 26. Record Vote Number: 139.
House Reports: 110-186
Note: H.R. 2642 is now the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 (the war supplemental).
H.R. 2642
was previously the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs
Appropriations Act, 2008 and was incorporated as Division B in the H.R. 3043 conference report, subsequently removed from that bill, and enacted in H.R. 2764, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008.
This bill passed on June 19, today, by a vote of 416 to 12 with 7 not voting. It is one half of a confusing appropriations bill that sought to separate war funding from things like unemployment extensions and college aid for veterans of the Iraq and Afghan wars. Nancy Pelosi vote AYE. In all, with the passage of this and its companion bill, representatives voted to appropriate $162 million of our tax money to wars -- so that war funding will not be a topic of conversation during the rest of the campaign season.
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H.R.5658
Roll Call number: 365
Title: To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2009 for
military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, to
amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to provide for the protection
of child custody arrangements for parents who are members of the Armed
Forces deployed in support of a contingency operation, and for other
purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Skelton, Ike [MO-4]
(by request) (intro - 3/31/2008) Cosponsors (1)
Related Bills:
H.RES.1213, H.RES.1218, S.2787, S.3001, S.3002
Latest Major Action: 5/22/2008
Passed/agreed to in House. Status: On passage Passed by recorded vote: 384 - 23 (Roll no. 365).
House Reports: 110-652, 110-652 Part 2
This bill, which includes $70 billion for the Iraq war boondoggle, passed 384 to 23, with 27 not voting. Speakers of the House traditionally do not vote, but Nancy Pelosi has been different -- sometimes she votes and sometimes she does not. This time, she ducked and exercised her perogative not to vote.
Californian representatives who voted against this massive military/industrial complex giveaway of tax dollars were: John Campbell, R- South Orange County; Bob Filner, D-San Diego; Barbara Lee, D-Oakland; Maxine Waters, D- Los Angeles; and Lynn Woolsey, D-Petaluma.
Two Californians, in addition to Pelosi, did not vote: Pete Stark, D-Fremont; and Henry Waxman, D-Santa Monica.
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