Peter Barca

[Congressional biography]

Born: August 7, 1955 in Kenosha, WI

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Key House Vote Data for Peter Barca in 1993

Date	Subject	Result	Conserv. Position	Barca Voted
1993-06-15	Striker Replacement [HR5]	Passed (239-190)
Passage of the bill to prohibit employers from hiring permanent replacements for striking union workers during economic strikes.
1993-06-17	Fiscal 1994 Foreign Operations Appropriations [HR2295]	Rejected (210-212)
Kasich (R-OH) amendment to cut the $55.8 million capital contribution to the World Bank.
1993-06-22	Fiscal 1994 Treasury-Postal Appropriations [HR2403]	Agreed To (237-171)
Hoyer (D-MD) motion that the Committee of the Whole rise and report the bill back to the House, which would prevent additional amendments. This motion would block an attempt to force the Clinton administration to live up to a campaign promise by cutting the appropriation for White House staff by 25 percent.
1993-06-30	Fiscal 1994 Labor, HHS, Education Appropriations [HR2518]	Agreed To (254-174)
Separate vote at the request of Armey (R-TX), on the Hyde (R-IL) amendment adopted in the Committee of the Whole to prohibit funds in the bill from being spent for an abortion except when it is made known that it is a case of rape, incest or necessity to save the life of the mother.
1993-07-14	Fiscal 1994 Interior Appropriations [HR2520]	Rejected (105-318)
Crane (R-IL) amendment to eliminate the $175 million in funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.
1993-08-05	1993 Budget Reconciliation [HR2264]	Agreed To (218-216)
Adoption of the conference report to reduce the deficit by an estimated $496 billion over five years through almost $241 billion in additional taxes and $255 billion in spending cuts by closely tracking President Clinton's economic proposals. Clinton's budget contained the largest tax increase in U.S. history.
1993-09-08	Fiscal 1994 Defense Authorization [HR2401]	Rejected (197-227)
Schroeder (D-CO) amendment to cut the Ballistic Missile Defense program by $200 million and increase funding for the Technology Reinvestment Project by $229 million.
1993-09-09	Fiscal 1994 Defense Authorization [HR2401]	Rejected (178-240)
Dellums (D-CA) amendment to end procurement of the Trident II submarine (D-5) missile after fiscal 1993 and transfer $564,275,500 of the $1,128,551,000 saved to defense conversion activities.
1993-09-28	Discharge Petition [HRES134]	Agreed To (384-40)
Adoption of the resolution to make public the signatures of members on discharge petitions. This would end the practice of giving rhetorical support to bills, while simultaneously opposing them behind closed doors.
1993-09-28	Fiscal 1994 Defense Authorization [HR2401]	Rejected (144-287)
Hunter (R-CA) amendment to require military personnel to ask whether candidates for the military are homosexual or bisexual.
1993-10-13	School Improvement [HR1804]	Rejected (130-297)
Armey (R-TX) substitute amendment to eliminate the commissions, standards and testing systems in the bill; authorize $400 million in fiscal 1994-98 for model schools, merit schools, school choice programs and decentralized management programs involving parents; allow local communities to define "school choice" to include private schools; require 25 percent of federal funds to be spent on school choice programs by school districts; and add provisions to strengthen parental control of education.
1993-10-28	Fiscal 1994 Continuing Appropriations [HRES287]	Agreed To (252-170)
Adoption of the rule to provide for House floor consideration of the joint resolution to provide continuing appropriations through Nov. 10 for the appropriations bills not yet signed into law. This rule blocked an attempt to force the costs of the Clinton administration's health care reform plans to be included as taxes and expenditures on the federal budget.
1993-11-10	Brady Bill [HR1025]	Passed (238-189)
Passage of the bill to require a five-business-day waiting period before an individual could purchase a handgun to allow local officials to conduct a background check.
1993-11-21	D.C. Statehood [HR51]	Defeated (153-277)
Passage of the bill to admit the District of Columbia into the union as the State of New Columbia.
1993-11-22	Campaign Finance [HR3]	Passed (255-175)
Passage of the bill to give House candidates up to $200,000 in federal benefits if they agree to voluntary spending limits of $600,000. The sums would be indexed for inflation from 1992 forward, and a separate funding mechanism would be required.
1993-11-22	Reinventing Government and Spending Cuts [HR3400]	Rejected (213-219)
Penny (D-MN)-Kasich (R-OH) amendment to cut federal spending by $90 billion over five years through various proposals, including $34 billion in Medicare cuts, $52 billion in discretionary spending cuts and $4 billion in other entitlement cuts and user fee increases. The amendment would also cut 252,000 positions from the federal work force.

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