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Published: November 1, 2009
Updated: 10/31/2009 11:35 pm
Here is how area members of Congress voted on major issues in last week:
HOUSE
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT BUDGET: Voting 247 for and 178 against, the House on Thursday approved the conference report on a bill (HR 2996) to appropriate $32.2 billion for the Department of the Interior and other agencies in fiscal 2010. The figure is nearly 17 percent above 2009 outlays, with most of the increase allocated to restoring the Great Lakes, helping communities provide clean drinking water, suppressing wildfires, addressing climate change and funding programs for Native Americans.
In part, the bill provides $10.3 billion for the Environmental Protection Agency, including $3.6 billion for drinking-water and sewage-treatment grants; $6.7 billion for Native American and Alaska Native programs; $3.5 billion for preventing and fighting wildfires; $2.8 billion for the U.S. Forest Service and $2.7 billion for the National Park Service.
Voting yes: G.K. Butterfield, D-1, Bob Etheridge, D-2, David Price, D-4, Mike McIntyre, D-7, Larry Kissell, D-8, Heath Shuler , D-11, Melvin Watt, D-12, Brad Miller, D-13
Voting no: Walter Jones, R-3, Virginia Foxx, R-5, Howard Coble, R-6, Sue Myrick, R-9, Patrick McHenry, R-10
Not voting: None
SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION: Voting 389 for and 32 against, the House on Thursday passed a bill (HR 3854) to raise from $2 million to $3 million the cap on federally guaranteed loans that banks make in the Small Business Administration's main lending program. Taxpayers would back up to 90 percent of each "Section 7(a)" loan. The SBA has many criteria for determining whether a business is small enough to qualify for its programs. Manufacturing and mining companies, for example, are defined as "small" if they have under 500 employees, and retail and construction firms qualify if they have annual sales in the range of $30 million to $40 million.
Voting yes: Butterfield, Etheridge, Jones, Price, Coble, McIntyre, Kissell, Myrick, Shuler, Watt, Miller
Voting no: Foxx, McHenry
Not voting: None
SENATE
EXTENDED JOBLESS BENEFITS: Voting 87 for and 13 against, the Senate on Oct. 27 advanced a bill (HR 3548) that would provide 20 more weeks of jobless checks for those whose current allotments have expired or soon will expire, and who live in states with at least 8.5 percent unemployment. The bill provides 14 additional weeks of benefits for the long-term jobless in all other states. The $2.4 billion cost would be offset by payroll-tax increases on employers. Jobless checks average $300 a week.
Voting yes: Kay Hagan, D, Richard Burr, R
Voting no: None
Not voting: None
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT BUDGET: Voting 72 for and 28 against, the Senate on Oct. 29 sent President Obama the conference report on a bill (HR 2996, above) to appropriate $32.2 billion for the Department of the Interior and other agencies in fiscal 2010.
In addition to items noted above, the bill provides $1.5 billion for cleansing toxic-waste sites; $1.1 billion for the Bureau of Land Management; $761 million for the Smithsonian Institution; $475 million for restoring the Great Lakes; $385 million for addressing climate change and $335 million for the National Foundation for the Arts and Humanities.
Voting yes: Hagan
Voting no: Burr
Not voting: None
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