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Why is the Securities and Exchange Commission asking companies to show how they're alleviating global warming? U.S. Reps. Joe Barton, R-Texas, and Greg Walden, R-Ore., ask the SEC chairman to explain how a global warming action plan improves safety and security for investors.



Committee Votes

Capps Amendment: Enabling Federally Funded Abortions

July 30, 2009

An amendment offered by Rep. Capps D-CA., would allow for immediate federal funding of elective abortion coverage through the public plan, permit taxpayer subsidies of private plans that cover elective abortion, and mandate that all areas of the country contain one private plan that covers abortion. For text of this amendment, click here.

Recorded Vote: 28 Nay, 30 Yea
Representative
Vote
 
Representative
Vote
Mr. Waxman
YEA
 
Mr. Barton
NAY
Mr. Dingell
YEA
 
Mr. Hall
NAY
Mr. Markey
YEA
 
Mr. Upton
NAY
Mr. Boucher
YEA
 
Mr. Stearns
NAY
Mr. Pallone
YEA
 
Mr. Deal
NAY
Mr. Gordon
YEA
 
Mr. Whitfield
NAY
Mr. Rush
YEA
 
Mr. Shimkus
NAY
Ms. Eshoo
YEA
 
Mr. Shadegg
NAY
Mr. Stupak
NAY
 
Mr. Blunt
NAY
Mr. Engel
YEA
 
Mr. Buyer
NAY
Mr. Green
YEA
 
Mr. Radanovich
NAY
Ms. DeGette
YEA
 
Mr. Pitts
NAY
Ms. Capps
YEA
 
Ms. Bono Mack
NAY
Mr. Doyle
YEA
 
Mr. Walden
NAY
Ms. Harman
YEA
 
Mr. Terry
NAY
Ms. Schakowsky
YEA
 
Mr. Rogers
NAY
Mr. Gonzalez
YEA
 
Ms. Myrick
NAY
Mr. Inslee
YEA
 
Mr. Sullivan
NAY
Ms. Baldwin
YEA
 
Mr. Murphy (PA)
 
Mr. Ross
NAY
 
Mr. Burgess
NAY
Mr. Weiner
YEA
 
Ms. Blackburn
NAY
Mr. Matheson
NAY
 
Mr. Gingrey
NAY
Mr. Butterfield
YEA
 
Mr. Scalise
NAY
Mr. Melancon
NAY
 
 
 
Mr. Barrow
NAY
 
 
 
Mr. Hill
NAY
 
 
 
Ms. Matsui
YEA
 
 
 
Ms. Christensen
YEA
 
 
 
Ms. Castor
YEA
 
 
 
Mr. Sarbanes
YEA
 
 
 
Mr. Murphy (CT)
YEA
 
 
 
Mr. Space
YEA
 
 
 
Mr. McNerney
YEA
 
 
 
Ms. Sutton
YEA
 
 
 
Mr. Braley
YEA
 
 
 
Mr. Welch
YEA
 
 
 

 

U.S. Representative Joe Barton

U.S. Representative Joe L. Barton
Joe Barton was first elected to congress by the people of Texas' Sixth Congressional District in 1984. In 2004, he was selected by his House colleagues to be the chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce...
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