Here’s a look at how Colorado members of Congress voted over the previous week. Along with roll call votes this week, the House also passed these measures: the Bottles and Breastfeeding Equipment Screening Enhancement Act (S. 260), to require hygienic handling of breast milk and baby formula by security screening personnel of the Transportation Security Administration and personnel of private security companies providing security screening; the Strengthening Oversight of DHS Intelligence Act (H. R. 2261), to enhance the Department of Homeland Security’s oversight of certain intelligence matters; a bill (H. Res. 782), expressing condolences and support for the victims of the July 4 flooding in Texas, honoring acts of heroism, and committing to stand with those impacted by these floods; and the Veterans’ Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act (S. 2392), to increase the rates of compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities, and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of certain disabled veterans. The Senate also passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act (H. R. 4405); the Taiwan Assurance Implementation Act (H. R. 1512), to require periodic reviews and updated reports relating to the Department of State’s Taiwan guidelines; the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act (S. 222); and the Legacy Mine Cleanup Act (S. 2741), to establish within the Environmental Protection Agency the Office of Mountains, Deserts, and Plains. House votes VEHICULAR TERRORISM: The House has passed the Department of Homeland Security Vehicular Terrorism Prevention and Mitigation Act (H. R. 1608), sponsored by Rep. Carlos A. Gimenez, R-Fla., to require a Homeland Security report on agency plans to prevent terrorism that uses cars and trucks as weapons. Gimenez said: “With major events on the horizon, including America250, the FIFA World Cup, and the Los Angeles Olympics, we must ensure every necessary security measure is in place to protect the millions of visitors and attendees these events will bring.” The vote, on Nov. 17, was 400 yeas to 15 nays. YEAS: DeGette D-CO (1st), Crank R-CO (5th), Crow D-CO (6th), Neguse D-CO (2nd), Pettersen D-CO (7th), Evans (CO) R-CO (8th), Hurd (CO) R-CO (3rd) NAYS: Boebert R-CO (4th) CHINA AND CYBER ATTACKS: The House has passed the Strengthening Cyber Resilience Against State-Sponsored Threats Act (H. R. 2659), sponsored by Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., to require the Homeland Security Department to form an interagency task force that will report on China’s targeting of American critical infrastructure systems by cyber attacks. Ogles said: “This bill strengthens unity and effort. It improves coordination. It increases visibility and accountability. It ensures that the United States can respond to foreign cyber aggression with preparation rather than reaction.” The vote, on Nov. 17, was 402 yeas to 8 nays. YEAS: DeGette, Crank, Crow, Neguse, Pettersen, Evans, Hurd NAYS: Boebert RELEASING JEFFREY EPSTEIN DOCUMENTS: The House has passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act (H. R. 4405), sponsored by Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., to require the Justice Department to post on the Internet all of its unclassified materials that involve the agency’s investigation and prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein. A supporter, Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., said: “We are committed to accountability, transparency, and justice for the American people and for the survivors of these appalling crimes.” The vote, on Nov. 18, was 427 yeas to 1 nay. YEAS: DeGette, Crank, Boebert, Crow, Neguse, Pettersen, Evans, Hurd HOUSE PRIMARY ELECTION: The House has passed a bill (H. Res. 878), sponsored by Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash., to disapprove of Rep. Chuy Garcia, D-Ill., for undermining the possibility of a free and fair Democratic party primary in his district next March by waiting until after the primary filing deadline to announce that he will not be running for re-election in 2026, thereby allowing his chief of staff to be the only registered candidate in the primary. The vote, on Nov. 18, was 236 yeas to 183 nays, with 4 voting present. NAYS: DeGette, Crow, Neguse, Pettersen YEAS: Crank, Boebert, Evans, Hurd COAL MINES ON FEDERAL LAND: The House has passed a bill (H. J. Res. 130), sponsored by Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., to disapprove of and void a Bureau of Land Management rule issued last November, barring federal land in Wyoming from being leased for coal mining. Hageman said: “The Biden administration’s decision to terminate mining in Wyoming’s PRB [Powder River Basin] is not only irresponsible and harmful but downright illegal, a mechanism used by the governing elite to inflict harm on every single citizen of this great country to further climate change lunacy.” A bill opponent, Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif., said: “The plan targeted by this resolution ended new coal leasing in the region because of its harm to the climate and public health and because of decreasing demand for coal.” The vote, on Nov. 18, was 214 yeas to 212 nays. NAYS: DeGette, Crow, Neguse, Pettersen YEAS: Crank, Boebert, Evans, Hurd ALASKA HYDROCARBON DRILLING: The House has passed a bill (H. J. Res. 131), sponsored by Rep. Nicholas J. Begich, R-Alaska, to nullify a Bureau of Land Management rule issued last December that placed a majority of land in a specified portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge off-limits for oil and natural gas production leases. Begich said nullification “restores the full acreage Congress authorized for leasing, and it restores, importantly, the voice of the North Slope residents in Alaska.” An opponent, Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif., said the bill “will do absolutely nothing to lower your energy bills, but it will allow for the sell-off of some of our most special and sacred public lands.” The vote, on Nov. 18, was 217 yeas to 209 nays. NAYS: DeGette, Crow, Neguse, Pettersen YEAS: Crank, Boebert, Evans, Hurd SECOND ALASKA DRILLING RULE: The House has passed a bill (S. J. Res. 80), sponsored by Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, to nullify a 2022 Bureau of Land Management rule that closed oil and natural gas leasing in half of the National Petroleum Reserve in northern Alaska. A bill supporter, Rep. Nicholas J. Begich, R-Alaska, said: “It restores congressional intent. It restores certainty for Alaska’s communities. It restores America’s strategic energy reserve.” An opponent, Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif., said overturning the rule was unnecessary because the Trump administration had already rescinded it for a new land management plan, making the bill “just a recipe for uncertainty and conflict and litigation.” The vote, on Nov. 18, was 216 yeas to 209 nays. NAYS: DeGette, Crow, Neguse, Pettersen YEAS: Crank, Boebert, Evans, Hurd CENSURING DELEGATE: The House has rejected a bill (H. Res. 888), sponsored by Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S. C., that would have censured Del. Stacey Plaskett, D-Virgin Islands, for colluding with Jeffrey Epstein during a Congressional hearing in 2019, and removed her from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Norman said: “Standing against a convicted predator’s influence in our proceedings is not partisan. It is basic decency. We cannot pretend this didn’t happen.” A bill opponent, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said: “I hope all our colleagues will reject this absurd rush to judgment in an attempt to change the subject.” The vote, on Nov. 18, was 209 yeas to 214 nays, with 3 voting present. NAYS: DeGette, Crow, Neguse, Pettersen YEAS: Crank, Boebert, Evans, Hurd CASH BAIL IN WASHINGTON, D. C.: The House has passed the District of Columbia Cash Bail Reform Act (H. R. 5214), sponsored by Rep. Elise M. Stefanik, R-N. Y. The bill would require pre-trial detention in jail for those suspected of committing violent crimes, and require cash bail for certain types of suspects, in Washington, D. C. A supporter, Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., said it “will ensure that violent offenders remain off of the streets of D. C. while awaiting their trial and that those charged with public safety or order offenses will face further deterrence from committing such crimes.” A bill opponent, Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., said: “Pretrial release should be based on a judge’s determination of flight risk and danger to the community. We should let trained judges and prosecutors do their jobs and consider each fact of each case.” The vote, on Nov. 19, was 237 yeas to 179 nays. NAYS: DeGette, Crow, Neguse, Pettersen YEAS: Crank, Boebert, Evans, Hurd POLICE PROCEDURES IN WASHINGTON, D. C.: The House has passed the Common-Sense Law Enforcement and Accountability Now in DC Act (H. R. 5107), sponsored by Rep. Andrew S. Clyde, R-Ga. The bill would repeal a 2022 Washington, D. C., law that prohibited the use of certain physical restraints by the District’s police and expanded oversight of police officers, including body-worn cameras. Clyde said repeal would help “transform D. C. from a crime-ridden capital into a safe, free, and thriving city.” A bill opponent, Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., said: “D. C.’s government should be allowed to govern themselves, to hold local leaders accountable, to elect their own leadership, and to solve problems without Congress consistently interfering.” The vote, on Nov. 19, was 233 yeas to 190 nays. NAYS: DeGette, Crow, Neguse, Pettersen YEAS: Crank, Boebert, Evans, Hurd COUNTER-TERRORISM GRANTS: The House has passed the Enhancing Stakeholder Support and Outreach for Preparedness Grants Act (H. R. 4058), sponsored by Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N. Y., to require the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide aid to local governments regarding their use of federal grants to prevent terrorist attacks. Goldman said the bill sought to ensure “that Homeland Security grants are responsive, transparent, and actually driven by the needs of the communities they are meant to protect.” The vote, on Nov. 19, was 380 yeas to 45 nays. YEAS: DeGette, Crank, Boebert, Crow, Neguse, Pettersen, Evans, Hurd SENATOR SURVEILLANCE LAWSUITS: The House has passed a bill (H. R. 6019), sponsored by Rep. Austin Scott, R-Ga., to repeal authority for senators to file a civil lawsuit against the federal government over the wrongful surveillance of communications involving a given senator’s office. Scott said the provision up for repeal, by allowing a senator to seek up to $500,000 of damages for each individual case of surveillance, was “probably the most self-centered, self-serving piece of language that I have ever seen in my time in office in any piece of legislation.” The vote, on Nov. 19, was unanimous with 426 yeas. YEAS: DeGette, Crank, Boebert, Crow, Neguse, Pettersen, Evans, Hurd CENSURING REPRESENTATIVE: The House has agreed to refer to the House Ethics Committee a bill (H. Res. 893), sponsored by Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S. C., that would censure Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla., and remove Mills from the House Armed Services and Foreign Affairs Committees. The bill asserts that Mills has violated House standards of conduct by owning businesses that have received federal military contracts since Mills joined the House, that he has possibly lied about his conduct while in the military, and that he has been repeatedly officially charged with acts of domestic violence. Mills said: “I believe that all the accusations and false things that are being said will be proven to be absolutely false in many ways. I have the evidence and receipts, and I look forward to working with them.” The vote, on Nov. 19, was 310 yeas to 103 nays, with 12 voting present. YEAS: DeGette, Crank, Evans, Hurd NAYS: Boebert, Crow, Neguse, Pettersen REPORT ON PETROCHEMICAL REFINERIES: The House has passed the Researching Efficient Federal Improvements for Necessary Energy Refining Act (H. R. 3109), sponsored by Rep. Bob Latta, R-Ohio, to require the National Petroleum Council to make a report on U. S. petrochemical refineries and national energy security. The vote, on Nov. 20, was 230 yeas to 176 nays. NAYS: DeGette, Crow, Neguse, Pettersen YEAS: Crank, Boebert, Evans, Hurd REGULATING NATURAL GAS TRADE: The House has passed the Unlocking our Domestic LNG Potential Act (H. R. 1949), sponsored by Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, to give the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission exclusive regulatory authority over the export and import of natural gas, including facilities and operation of facilities, and repeal the requirement for Energy Department approval of gas imports and exports. The vote, on Nov. 20, was 217 yeas to 188 nays. NAYS: DeGette, Crow, Neguse, Pettersen YEAS: Crank, Boebert, Evans, Hurd Senate votes REGULATING NUCLEAR POWER: The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Ho Nieh to be a member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a term ending in the middle of 2029. Nieh has been a vice president at Southern Nuclear for four years, after more than two decades at the NRC as a nuclear power plant inspector and regulator. The vote, on Nov. 19, was 66 yeas to 32 nays. NAYS: Bennet D-CO, Hickenlooper D-CO OIL AND NATURAL GAS EMISSIONS: The Senate has rejected a motion to consider a bill (S. J. Res. 76), sponsored by Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., that would have nullified an Environmental Protection Agency rule issued this July that extended a set of deadlines for compliance with emissions regulations for crude oil and natural gas production, storage, and processing. Schiff said the rule “will help the worst polluters those who don’t want to bother to control methane leaks and who therefore waste the very same energy resources that the Trump administration claims it wants to produce.” The vote, on Nov. 19, was 46 yeas to 51 nays. YEAS: Bennet, Hickenlooper COAL MINES ON FEDERAL LAND: The Senate has passed a bill (H. J. Res. 130), sponsored by Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., to nullify a Bureau of Land Management rule issued last November, barring federal land in Wyoming from being leased for coal mining. A supporter, Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., said overturning the rule would “protect over 4, 000 Wyoming jobs, safeguard more than $1. 9 billion in labor output, preserve the revenue that keeps Wyoming schools strong, and ensure that coal remains available to power America’s future.” The vote, on Nov. 20, was 51 yeas to 43 nays. NAYS: Bennet, Hickenlooper.
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