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Published: November 8, 2009
Updated: 11/08/2009 01:50 am
Here's how area members of Congress voted on major issues last week.
HOUSE
CHEMICAL-PLANT SECURITY: Voting 230 for and 193 against, the House on Friday passed a bill (HR 2868) to permanently extend chemical-plant security requirements that otherwise would expire in October 2010. In part, the rules require about 6,000 facilities that manufacture or store chemicals to establish plans to prevent and respond to terrorist attacks, conduct background checks on employees, and allow Department of Homeland Security inspections. The bill also requires public and private sewage-treatment facilities to put in place similar anti-terrorism measures.
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
ISRAEL, UNITED NATIONS: Voting 344 for and 36 against, the House on Tuesday denounced a United Nations report that charges Israel committed war crimes by inflicting heavy civilian casualties during the war in Gaza last December and January. Prepared by South African jurist Richard Goldstone for the U.N. Human Rights Council, the report also charges Hamas with war crimes in its launching of rockets against Israeli civilians. The vote adopted H Res 867, a nonbinding measure.
Voting yes: Butterfield, Etheridge, Foxx, Coble, McIntyre, Kissell, Myrick, McHenry, Shuler, Miller
Voting no: Price, Watt
Not voting: Jones
SENATE
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT BUDGET: Voting 71 for and 28 against, the Senate on Thursday sent to conference with the House a bill (HR 2847) appropriating $64.4 billion for the fiscal 2010 budgets of the Justice and Commerce departments, the National Aeronautics and Space Agency and several other agencies. The bill represents a 12 percent spending increase over 2009.
Voting yes: Kay Hagan, D
Voting no: Richard Burr, R
Not voting: None
9/11 PRISONER TRIALS: Voting 54 for and 45 against, the Senate on Nov. 5 tabled (killed) an amendment to HR 2847 (above) to prohibit the government from prosecuting 9/11 terrorist suspects in federal civilian courts. The amendment sought to require suspects such as Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the alleged 9/ll architect, to be tried before military commissions. The administration wants the option of either civilian or military trials for 9/11 suspects.
Voting yes: Hagan
Voting no: Burr
Not voting: None
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