WASHINGTON — Here’s how area members of Congress voted on major issues last week.
House
Keeping America in Climate Pact: Voting 231-190, the House on May 2 passed a bill that would deny funding to carry out President Trump’s plan to remove the United States from the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change. The bill also requires the administration to develop a plan for achieving voluntary carbon-reduction goals to which America subscribed when the Obama administration joined the agreement in 2016. A yes vote was to send HR 9 to the Senate.
Yes: Tom O’Halleran, D-1, Ann Kirkpatrick, D-2, Raul Grijalva, D-3, Ruben Gallego, D-7, Greg Stanton, D-9
No: Paul Gosar, R-4, Andy Biggs, R-5, David Schweikert, R-6, Debbie Lesko, R-8
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Republican Bid to Preserve U.S. Jobs: The House on May 2 defeated, 206-214, a GOP bid to prevent HR 9 (above) from taking effect until President Trump certifies it would not result in a net loss of U.S. jobs to China. Republicans said U.S. participation in the Paris accord would ravage fossil-fuel industries, while Democrats said carbon-related job losses would be more than offset by gains in clean-energy employment. A yes vote was to adopt the motion.
Yes: Gosar, Biggs, Schweikert, Lesko
No: O’Halleran, Kirkpatrick, Grijalva, Gallego, Stanton
Treaty Status for Paris Pact: Voting 189-234, the House on May 2 defeated an amendment to HR 9 (above) that sought to end U.S. participation in the Paris Agreement by reclassifying it as a treaty that would need ratification by a two-thirds majority in the Senate. Amendment foes said the pact is only a subsidiary agreement to a United Nations climate-change treaty the Senate ratified in October 1992. A yes vote was to adopt the amendment.
Yes: Gosar, Biggs, Schweikert, Lesko
No: O’Halleran, Kirkpatrick, Grijalva, Gallego, Stanton
Senate
Upholding Trump Veto Over War Powers: Voting 53-45, the Senate on May 2 failed to reach a two-thirds majority needed to override President Trump’s veto of a measure ending American military involvement in Yemen’s civil war unless Congress approves the action. This derailed what would have been Congress’s first use of the 1973 War Powers Resolution to stop a military deployment it has not authorized. A yes vote was to override Trump’s veto of SJ Res 7.
Yes: Kyrsten Sinema, D
No: Martha McSally, R
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