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| 2024-05-08 | Equal Representation Act [HR7109] | Passed (206-202) |
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| Edwards (R-NC) bill which requires census questionnaires to include a question to determine if the respondent is a citizen and requires the Department of Commerce to make public the number of citizens and noncitizens in each state and that the report from the President to Congress exclude noncitizens. CPAC opposes counting noncitizens in the census, as it is used to allocate federal dollars and congressional districts and supported this bill. The House passed the bill, but it was not taken up in the Senate. | |||||
| 2024-06-12 | Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act [HR8070] | Failed (173-241) |
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| Greene (R-GA) amendment to the National Defense Authorization bill would help get the government out of the electric car business by prohibiting any Defense Department funding from being used for electric cars or charging stations. CPAC opposes the use of government funds to favor one type of car over others and supported this amendment. | |||||
| 2024-06-14 | Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act [HR8070] | Failed (188-228) |
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| Perry (R-PA) amendment to require a report from the Secretary of Defense on the use of taxpayer-funded official time. | |||||
| 2024-06-27 | Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act [HR8771] | Failed (81-331) |
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| Greene (R-GA) amendment to the Foreign Operations appropriation eliminates all funding for A.I.D. CPAC opposes the wasteful operations of A.I.D. which include a $1.5 million effort to promote DEI in Serbia, $2 million for sex change procedures in Guatemala, free meals for Al-Qaeda fighters, and $1 million for climate activists in Tajikistan. CPAC supported Greene's amendment. This vote was double-scored, meaning it counted twice as much as each of the other votes when the House members' scores were calculated. | |||||
| 2024-07-23 | Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act [HR8998] | Failed (147-269) |
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| Brecheen (R-OK) amendment to the Department of the Interior Appropriation bill wihch would reduce the appropriation for the National Endowment for the Humanities to FY 2019 levels. This would reduce the NEH's budget from $207 million to $155 million. CPAC supports efforts to rein in automatic spending increases to government agencies and supported this amendment. | |||||
| 2024-07-24 | Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act [HR8998] | Failed (156-236) |
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| Brecheen (R-OK) amendment to defund the Woodrow Wilson Institute International Center for Scholars and move its $12 million in appropriations to the spending reduction account. | |||||
| 2024-07-24 | Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act [HR8998] | Failed (174-239) |
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| Harshbarger (R-TN) amendment to prohibit funding for the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. | |||||
| 2024-07-24 | Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act [HR8998] | Failed (173-243) |
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| Perry (R-PA) amendment to eliminate funding for the Council on Environmental Quality and move the funding to the spending reduction account. | |||||
| 2024-09-20 | Multi-Pollutant Emissions Standards for Model Year 2027 [HJRES136] | Passed (215-191) |
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| Using the Congressional Review Act, this resolution by James (R-MI) repeals the EPA emissions rule which restricts light and heavy-duty trucks. CPAC opposes forcing people to buy a new truck and supported this resolution. The House passed the resolution, but it was not taken up by the Senate. | |||||
| 2024-09-25 | Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act [HR9747] | Passed (341-82) |
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| The choice: cancel Christmas or vote for the leftist budget. This bill is a Continuing Resolution (CR) that expires just before Christmas. The U.S. national debt is now $36.7 trillion, and the deficit was $2 trillion in Fiscal Year 2024 so urgent action is needed to rein in federal spending. This Continuing Resolution pushes the budget fight into Christmas, purposely making it impossible to have proper consideration. CPAC opposed this resolution. | |||||
| 2024-12-05 | Prove It Act [HR7198] | Passed (208-196) |
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| Finstad (R-MN) bill which reigns in the regulatory state by making it more difficult for federal agencies to arbitrarily burden small businesses. CPAC supports efforts to add requirements that prevent agencies from making up arbitrary new rules and supported this bill. The House passed the bill, but it was not taken up in the Senate. | |||||
| 2024-12-10 | Liberty in Laundry Act [HR7673] | Passed (215-200) |
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| Ogles (R-TN) bill which makes it more difficult for the Department of Energy to prescribe and enforce burdensome new standards for clothes washers. The bill requires, among other things, that the standards are economically justified and not likely to result in additional net costs to consumers. CPAC believes that in a free society people should be able to buy any clothes washers they desire and supported this modest effort at controlling excess regulation. The House passed the bill, but it was not taken up by the Senate. | |||||
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Indicates that this member voted against the conservative position on a particular vote.
"No vote" means that this member did not cast a vote (or voted 'Present' instead of Yes or No). |