How did PA Home members vote in Congress?

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Right here’s a have a look at how Pennsylvania’s members of the Home voted over the earlier week. There have been no key votes within the Senate.

Together with the week’s roll name votes, the Home additionally handed these measures by voice vote: the Veterans’ Compensation Value-of-Residing Adjustment Act (S 777), to extend charges of compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and charges of compensation for the survivors of sure disabled veterans; the Korean American Vietnam Allies Lengthy Overdue for Reduction Act (HR 366), to deal with sure people who served within the Vietnam Conflict as a member of the armed forces of Korea as a U.S. armed forces veteran for functions of the availability of well being care by the Division of Veterans Affairs; and agreed to the Senate modification to the NOTAM Enchancment Act (HR 346), to determine a activity power on enhancements for notices to air missions.

FENTANYL TRAFFICKING: The Home has handed the Stopping the Financing of Unlawful Artificial Medication Act (HR 1076), sponsored by Rep. Monica De La Cruz, R-Texas, to require the Authorities Accountability Workplace to check the position of illicit financing of trafficking in fentanyl, methamphetamine and related harmful artificial medication. De La Cruz mentioned the examine “will assist regulation enforcement pinpoint the enterprise mannequin of the traffickers, how they transfer and conceal their income, and what the U.S. can do to cease fentanyl cash laundering.” The vote, on Might 22, was 402 yeas to 2 nays.

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YEAS: Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Bucks; Mike Kelly, R-Butler; Dwight Evans, D-Philadelphia; Chrissy Houlahan, D-Chester; Madeleine Dean, D-Montgomery; Scott Perry, R-York; Brendan Boyle, D-Philadelphia; Matt Cartwright, D-Lackawanna; Lloyd Smucker, R-Lancaster; John Joyce, R-Blair; Man Reschenthaler, R-Washington; Glenn Thompson, R-Howard; Dan Meuser, R-Luzerne; Susan Wild, D-Lehigh; Mary Homosexual Scanlon, D-Delaware; Summer time Lee, D-Allegheny; Chris Deluzio, D-Allegheny

FINANCE IN CHINA: The Home has handed the China Monetary Menace Mitigation Act (HR 1156), sponsored by Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va. The invoice would require the Treasury Division to make a report on the impacts China’s monetary sector may have on the U.S. and its monetary stability, in addition to methods for the U.S. to work with different international locations to mitigate dangers posed by China. A supporter, Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, mentioned: “We should have a transparent image of the systemic dangers we face so we will reply appropriately to safeguard our financial pursuits and mitigate these threats.” The vote, on Might 22, was 400 yeas to five nays.

YEAS: Fitzpatrick, Kelly, Evans, Houlahan, Dean, Perry, Boyle, Cartwright, Smucker, Joyce, Reschenthaler, Thompson, Meuser, Wild, Scanlon, Lee, Deluzio

REGULATING VEHICLE EMISSIONS: The Home has handed a decision (SJ Res 11), sponsored by Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb., to disapprove of and void an Environmental Safety Company rule for limiting ozone, particulate matter and different types of air air pollution from heavy-duty motor autos that was issued this January. A decision supporter, Rep. Invoice Johnson, R-Ohio, referred to as the rule an impractical measure that might create heavy prices for “vehicles that not solely ship all the products we depend on but additionally vehicles for our farmers and ranchers, constructing contractors and landscapers, and numerous different employees and small companies.” An opponent, Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J., mentioned: “This decision is one more extremist, Republican assault on commonsense steps EPA is taking to guard People’ well being and the atmosphere.” The vote, on Might 23, was 221 yeas to 203 nays.

YEAS: Kelly, Perry, Smucker, Joyce, Reschenthaler, Thompson, Meuser

NAYS: Fitzpatrick, Evans, Houlahan, Dean, Boyle, Cartwright, Wild, Scanlon, Lee, Deluzio

VETO OF SOLAR PANEL IMPORTS RESOLUTION: The Home has didn’t override President Joe Biden’s veto of a decision (HJ Res 39), sponsored by Rep. Invoice Posey, R-Fla., to disapprove of and void a Commerce Division rule suspending duties on imports of photo voltaic panels that had been assembled in Southeast Asia and used elements made in China. Posey mentioned China has been utilizing compelled labor to make the polysilicon that’s used to assemble panels in neighboring international locations and circumvent U.S. tariffs on Chinese language-made panels. Subsequently, “if we move this decision, we might help put a cease to China’s dishonest and slave labor.” An opponent, Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., mentioned: “All of us need photo voltaic merchandise manufactured proper right here at residence; however within the brief run, our home business can’t enhance manufacturing quickly sufficient to fulfill demand or to fulfill our local weather targets.” The vote, on Might 24, was 214 yeas to 205 nays, with a two-thirds majority required to override the veto.

YEAS: Fitzpatrick, Kelly, Perry, Smucker, Joyce, Reschenthaler, Thompson, Meuser, Deluzio

NAYS: Evans, Houlahan, Dean, Boyle, Cartwright, Wild, Lee

NOT VOTING: Scanlon

REPAYING STUDENT LOANS: The Home has handed a decision (HJ Res 45), sponsored by Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., to disapprove of and void an Training Division rule issued final October that suspended or canceled funds on pupil loans. Good mentioned: “Congress should reclaim its energy and act at present to cease the unilateral motion of President Biden that’s exacerbating the upper schooling monetary disaster.” A decision opponent, Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., mentioned: “President Biden’s pupil mortgage debt reduction plan will assist alleviate the yoke of pupil mortgage debt for thousands and thousands of People.” The vote, on Might 24, was 218 yeas to 203 nays.

YEAS: Fitzpatrick, Kelly, Perry, Smucker, Joyce, Reschenthaler, Thompson, Meuser

NAYS: Evans, Houlahan, Dean, Boyle, Cartwright, Wild, Lee, Deluzio

NOT VOTING: Scanlon

VETERANS AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION: The Home has handed the VET-TEC Authorization Act (HR 1669), sponsored by Rep. Juan Ciscomani, R-Ariz., to require the Veterans Affairs Division to make everlasting a program for offering assist to as much as 8,000 veterans for enrolling in non-degree coaching or expertise programs which are associated to pc programming, media software, information processing or info sciences. Ciscomani mentioned that because it started in 2019, “not solely has this program been helpful for our veterans, however it’s essential for our employers, as effectively. We want a talented workforce working within the tech business, and our veterans are the right match.” The vote, on Might 24, was 409 yeas to 9 nays.

YEAS: Fitzpatrick, Kelly, Evans, Houlahan, Dean, Perry, Boyle, Cartwright, Smucker, Joyce, Reschenthaler, Thompson, Meuser, Wild, Lee, Deluzio

NOT VOTING: Scanlon

REGULATING FENTANYL-LIKE SUBSTANCES: The Home has handed the Halt All Deadly Trafficking of Fentanyl Act (HR 467), sponsored by Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Va. The invoice would classify fentanyl-related substances as a Schedule I managed substance, deemed to have a excessive potential for abuse, with no medical worth, and topic to sure authorized penalties in consequence. Griffith mentioned assigning everlasting Schedule I standing to the substances “will strengthen regulation enforcement’s capability to prosecute fentanyl traffickers and act as a deterrent” to trafficking. A invoice opponent, Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J., mentioned it “will go away our communities worse off and exacerbate present inequities in our prison justice system” by resulting in disproportionate prison penalties for minority teams. The vote, on Might 25, was 289 yeas to 133 nays.

YEAS: Fitzpatrick, Kelly, Houlahan, Perry, Boyle, Cartwright, Smucker, Joyce, Reschenthaler, Thompson, Meuser, Wild, Deluzio

NAYS: Evans, Dean, Scanlon, Lee