HOW TEXANS VOTED



May 19, 2013

Summary of how Cornyn, Cruz and Poe voted last week:

Senate

Corp of Engineers projects: Passed, 83-14, a bill (S 601) overseeing nearly 700 Army Corps of Engineers water projects costing tens of billions of dollars that directly benefit every state. Now awaiting House action, the bill authorizes or reauthorizes projects for flood control, navigation, shoreline protection, environmental restoration, harbor maintenance, levee safety, wastewater treatment and lock and dam upgrades. It authorizes $12.5 billion over 10 years for new projects on top of a backlog of unfinished projects budgeted at $60 billion. The bill contains no earmarks; puts environmental reviews required by the National Environmental Policy Act on a fast track; expedites rules for Great Lakes harbor dredging; bolsters the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund and allows premium increases to take effect for the National Flood Insurance Program. No senator urged defeat of the bill in floor debate. A yes vote was to pass the bill. Cornyn No, Cruz No

Medicare, Medicaid administration: Confirmed, 91-7, Marilyn Tavenner as chief of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, an agency with jurisdiction over health care for one in three Americans. In addition to administering Medicare and Medicaid, the agency oversees the Children’s Heath Insurance Program and runs part of the 2010 health law. Tavenner had been acting director of the CMS, and before that she was a nurse, hospital administrator and the top health official for Virginia. No senator spoke against Tavenner. A yes vote was to confirm Tavenner. Cornyn Yes, Cruz No

House

Dodd-Frank financial rules: Passed, 235-161, a bill (HR 1062) imposing time-consuming requirements on the Securities and Exchange Commission as it puts the 2010 financial-regulation law known as Dodd-Frank into effect. In part, the bill would require the SEC to conduct cost-benefit analyses of Dodd-Frank’s impact on free-market forces such as capital formation and market liquidity. Dodd-Frank was enacted in response to the Wall Street meltdown in 2007 and the Great Recession that followed. The SEC has issued more than half of the 400-plus rules needed to implement the 2,300-page law. The bill also requires the SEC to conduct costbenefit analyses every five years of every regulation it has issued on any subject since 1933. The bill provides no new funding to cover its projected cost of $26 million. Poe Yes

First responders, foreign takeovers: Defeated, 179-217, a Democratic bid to prevent HR 1062 (above) from reducing the Security and Exchange Commission’s ability to safeguard the pensions of first responders and teachers or protect U.S. companies from foreign takeovers. A yes vote backed the Democratic motion. Poe No

Cost-benefit analyses: Defeated, 165-233, a Democratic bid to replace HR 1062 (above) with a description of the multiple cost-benefit analyses that the Securities and Exchange Commission already is required to make in regulating the financial-services industry. A yes vote backed the Democratic amendment. Poe No

2010 health law repeal: Passed, 229-195, a GOP bill (HR 45) to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which was enacted in 2010 and upheld last year by the Supreme Court. House Republicans now have conducted three votes to repeal the law and more than 30 to substantially change it. The law is designed to provide more than 30 million legal U.S. residents with health insurance they did not have at the time of enactment. Some parts already are in operation, and the law’s two most expansive sections will take effect in 2014. They are an enlargement of Medicaid and the opening of exchanges — online marketplaces — in all states where the uninsured can buy health policies at affordable rates. A yes vote was to send the bill to the Senate. Poe Yes

Active Legislation

113th Congress (2013-2014)

Updated May 16th, 2013

Reference: The Library of Congress Thomas

Details of bills can be found at:



|Categories |

|Appropriations |Agency Authorizations |Public Laws, 113th Congress (selected) |

|Popular Documents |Program Authorizations | |

|Currently Active |

|Bills that may receive floor action this week. |

|Senate chamber |

|Farm bill |S.954 |H.R.1947 |

|Water Resources Development Act of 2013 (WRDA) |S.601 | |

|House chamber |

|Health care overhaul, repeal | |H.R.45 |

|Popular Titles and Subjects |

|A — Active Legislation |

|Key |

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|Air traffic controllers |H.R.1765 |P.L.113-9 |

|Assault weapons |S.150 |H.R.437 |

|B — Active Legislation |

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|Background checks for firearm sales |S.374, S.Amdt.715 to |H.R.21, H.R.137 |

|(SEE: Gun legislation) |S.649 | |

|Balanced budget amendment |S.J.Res.1, S.J.Res.6, |H.J.Res.1, H.J.Res.2, H.J.Res.4, H.J.Res.5, |

| |S.J.Res.7 |H.J.Res.6, H.J.Res.10, H.J.Res.11, H.J.Res.17, |

| | |H.J.Res.18 |

|C — Active Legislation |

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|Campaign finance, disclosure requirements | |H.R.148 |

|Cybersecurity | |H.R.624, H.R.756, H.R.967, H.R.1163 |

|D — Active Legislation |

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|Debt limit, suspend until May 19, 2013 |H.R.325 |P.L.113-3 |

|F — Active Legislation |

|Key |

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|Farm bill |S.954 |H.R.1947 |

|G — Active Legislation |

|Key |

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|Gun legislation | |S.649 |

|H — Active Legislation |

|Key |

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|Health care overhaul, repeal | |H.R.45 |

|Hurricane Sandy, increase Flood Insurance borrowing |H.R.41 |P.L.113-1 |

|authority | | |

|I — Active Legislation |

|Key |

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|Immigration reform |S.744 | |

|Internet sales tax |S.743 | |

|M — Active Legislation |

|Key |

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|Minimum wage, increase the Federal minimum wage |S.460 |H.R.1010 |

|P — Active Legislation |

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|Pay freeze for Federal and Congressional employees, | |H.R.273 |

|extend through December 31, 2013 | | |

|Pay of Members of Congress, eliminate automatic |S.65 |H.R.134, H.R.196 |

|adjustment | | |

|Pay of Members of Congress, hold in escrow if budget |H.R.325 |P.L.113-3 |

|resolution not adopted by April 15, 2013 | | |

|S — Active Legislation |

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|Sequester, replace |S.388, S.16 | |

|Senate rules, changes related to bipartisan cloture |S.Res.16 | |

|motions and conference motions | | |

|Senate rules, changes related to motions to proceed, |S.Res.15 | |

|amendments and nominations | | |

|Senate rules, cloture invoked with less than a |S.Res.5 | |

|three-fifths majority | | |

|Stolen Valor |S.210 |H.R.258 |

|Straw purchases of firearms |S.54 |H.R.404 |

|(SEE: Gun legislation) | | |

|Student loans, prevent doubling of interest rate on July |S.953 |H.R.1911 |

|1, 2013 | | |

|T — Active Legislation |

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|TANF, extend the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families |Sec. 1522, H.R.933 |P.L.113-6 |

|program through September 31, 2013 | | |

|TANF, extend the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families | |Sec. 3, H.R.890 |

|program through December 31, 2013 | | |

|W — Active Legislation |

|Key |

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|Welfare waivers, prohibit HHS from granting a waiver | |Sec. 2, H.R.890 |

|relating to compliance with the work requirements | | |

Sources: Library of Congress, Houston Chronicle

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