WASHINGTON — Here’s a look at how area members of Congress voted over the week ending July 12.
Along with roll call votes this week, the House also passed, by voice vote, a bill (H.R. 6062), to restore the ability of the people of American Samoa to approve amendments to their territorial constitution.
The Senate also confirmed the nomination of Danny Lam Hoan Nguyen to be a judge on the Superior Court of Washington, D.C.; and passed the Federal Prison Oversight Act (H.R. 3019), to establish an inspections regime for the Bureau of Prisons; the Mining Schools Act (S. 912), to require the Energy Department to provide technology grants to strengthen domestic mining education; the SHIELD Act (S. 412), to provide that it is unlawful to knowingly distribute private intimate visual depictions of an individual with reckless disregard for the individual’s lack of consent; and the Affordable Prescriptions for Patients Act (S. 150).
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ALABAMA UNDERWATER FOREST: The House has passed the Alabama Underwater Forest National Marine Sanctuary and Protection Act (H.R. 897), sponsored by Rep. Jerry L. Carl, R-Ala. The bill would establish a federal marine sanctuary off the Alabama coast to preserve a cypress forest that was preserved intact when it was inundated by saltwater roughly 60,000 years ago. Carl said: “This legislation ensures the underwater cypress forest remains a source of pride, wonder, and economic opportunity for generations to come.” The vote, on July 8, was 349 yeas to 19 nays.