Legislative
Alert #5
May 2000
A Victory! House Votes
315-102 for CARA!
Congratulations!
The U.S. House of
Representatives yesterday
voted 315-102 in favor
of passing the Conservation
and Reinvestment Act
(CARA, H.R. 701),
which fully funds
the Land and Water
Conservation Fund
(LWCF) at its authorized
$900 million. The
bill also annually
funds the Urban Park
and Recreation Recovery
Act (UPARR) at $125
million; the Wildlife
Conservation and Restoration
Fund at $350 million;
The Historic Preservation
Fund at $100 million;
Federal Indians and
Lands Restoration
at $200 million; Conservation
Easements and Species
Recovery at $150 million;
and Payment-in-Lieu-of-Taxes
at $200 million.
House
Committee on Resources
Chairman Don Young
(R-AK) and Ranking
Member George Miller
(D-CA) led a bipartisan
team of Republicans
and Democrats in advancing
this bill to the floor
and to final passage
through the House
of Representatives.
Thanks to your grassroots
actions, they were
able to fend off amendments
that would have gutted
the core programs
within the bill.
Your
presence during the
week's events leading
up to, and including,
the vote was felt
at every level. More
than one Capitol Hill
staffer was heard
to remark, "Please
stop the calls, we'll
vote your way!" Some
Members of Congress
stood up and talked
about the number of
letters, calls, faxes,
and email that had
been pouring into
their offices during
the week. Others talked
of meeting with LWCF
supporters in their
home districts. Rep.
George Miller referenced
youth sports organizations!
Representative Jay
Inslee (D-WA) stood
up to talk about a
kayak trip through
an LWCF-funded site
that was organized
by local activists.
Even Chairman Young
got into the act.
At one point, when
he was told that support
for the bill was lean,
he brandished a list
of more than 6,000
local, regional, and
national organizations,
businesses, elected
leaders, and agencies
from all fifty states,
proclaiming that support
for these programs
was broad and diverse
(and you wondered
why we asked you for
copies of your letters,
resolutions, etc.).
Your work made the
difference.
The
Senate will take up
LWCF legislation sometime
next month, so we
have only a few weeks
to reconnoiter and
keep the momentum
moving in a positive
way.
For
now, take the weekend
to relax and give
yourselves a pat on
the shoulder. You
deserve it.
Check
out below how your
Member of Congress
voted on CARA (its
alphabetical, not
by state) and, remember
to call and thank
them for voting this
historic bill through
the House.
Here
are the FINAL VOTE
RESULTS FOR HR-701
BILL TITLE: Conservation
and Reinvestment Act
(CARA) RECORDED VOTE,
MAY 11, 2000, 4:01
PM QUESTION: On Passage
of CARA
THE
VOTE RESULTS:
REPUBLICAN
118 ayes, 93 noes,
10 non-voting
DEMOCRATIC
196 ayes, 8 noes,
7 non-voting
INDEPENDENT
1 aye, 1 no TOTALS
315 ayes, 102 noes,
17 non-voting
Here's
how your U.S. Representative
voted!
--- AYES
315 ---
Abercrombie
Ackerman Allen Andrews
Baca Bachus Baird
Baker Baldacci Baldwin
Ballenger Barcia Barr
Barrett (WI) Bass
Bateman Becerra Bentsen
Bereuter Berkley Berman
Biggert Bilbray Bilirakis
Bishop Blagojevich
Blumenauer Boehlert
Bonior Bono Borski
Boswell Boucher Boyd
Brady (PA) Brady (TX)
Brown (FL) Brown (OH)
Burr Callahan Camp
Canady Capps Capuano
Cardin Carson Castle
Chambliss Clay Clayton
Clement Clyburn Collins
Combest Condit Conyers
Cooksey Costello Coyne
Cramer Crane Crowley
Cummings Cunningham
Danner Davis (FL)
Davis (IL) Davis (VA)
Deal DeFazio Delahunt
DeLauro Deutsch Diaz-Balart
Dicks Dingell Dixon
Doggett Dooley Doyle
Dreier Dunn Edwards
Ehlers Ehrlich Engel
English Eshoo Etheridge
Evans Farr Fattah
Filner Fletcher Foley
Forbes Fossella Fowler
Frank (MA) Franks
(NJ) Frelinghuysen
Frost Gallegly Ganske
Gejdenson Gekas Gephardt
Gilchrest Gillmor
Gilman Gonzalez Gordon
Goss Green (TX) Green
(WI) Greenwood Gutierrez
Gutknecht Hall (OH)
Hansen Hastings (FL)
Hayes Hefley Hill
(IN) Hill (MT) Hilliard
Hinchey Hinojosa Hoeffel
Holden Holt Hooley
Horn Houghton Hyde
Inslee Isakson Jackson
(IL) Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson Jenkins
John Johnson (CT)
Johnson, E. B. Jones
(NC) Jones (OH) Kanjorski
Kaptur Kelly Kennedy
Kildee Kilpatrick
Kind (WI) King (NY)
Kleczka Klink Kucinich
Kuykendall LaFalce
LaHood Lampson Lantos
Larson LaTourette
Lazio Leach Lee Levin
Lewis (GA) Lewis (KY)
Lipinski LoBiondo
Lowey Lucas (KY) Luther
Maloney (CT) Maloney
(NY) Markey Martinez
Mascara Matsui McCarthy
(NY) McCollum McCrery
McDermott McGovern
McHugh McIntyre McKinney
McNulty Meehan Meeks
(NY) Menendez Metcalf
Mica Millender-McDonald
Miller (FL) Miller,
George Minge Mink
Moakley Mollohan Moore
Moran (VA) Morella
Myrick Nadler Napolitano
Neal Ney Northup Norwood
Nussle Oberstar Olver
Ortiz Owens Pallone
Pascrell Pastor Payne
Pease Pelosi Peterson
(MN) Petri Phelps
Pickering Pickett
Pitts Pomeroy Porter
Portman Price (NC)
Pryce (OH) Quinn Rahall
Ramstad Rangel Reyes
Reynolds Riley Rivers
Rodriguez Roemer Rogan
Rogers Ros-Lehtinen
Rothman Roukema Roybal-Allard
Rush Ryan (WI) Sanchez
Sanders (I) Sandlin
Sawyer Saxton Scarborough
Schakowsky Scott Serrano
Sessions Shaw Shays
Sherman Shimkus Shows
Shuster Sisisky Skeen
Skelton Slaughter
Smith (NJ) Smith (WA)
Snyder Souder Spratt
Stabenow Stark Strickland
Stupak Sweeney Tancredo
Tanner Tauscher Tauzin
Taylor (MS) Terry
Thompson (CA) Thompson
(MS) Thune Thurman
Tierney Towns Traficant
Turner Udall (CO)
Udall (NM) Upton Velazquez
Vitter Waters Watt
(NC) Waxman Weiner
Weldon (PA) Weller
Wexler Weygand Whitfield
Wilson Woolsey Wu
Wynn Young (AK)
--- NOES
102 ---
Aderholt
Archer Armey Barrett
(NE) Bartlett Berry
Bliley Blunt Boehner
Bonilla Bryant Burton
Buyer Calvert Cannon
Chabot Chenoweth-Hage
Coburn Cook Cox Cubin
DeLay Dickey Doolittle
Duncan Emerson Everett
Ewing Gibbons Goode
Goodlatte Goodling
Granger Hall (TX)
Hastings (WA) Hayworth
Herger Hilleary Hobson
Hoekstra Hostettler
Hoyer Hulshof Hunter
Hutchinson Istook
Johnson, Sam Kasich
Kingston Knollenberg
Kolbe Largent Latham
Lewis (CA) Linder
Manzullo McKeon Miller,
Gary Moran (KS) Murtha
Nethercutt Obey Ose
Oxley Packard Paul
Peterson (PA) Pombo
Radanovich Regula
Rohrabacher Royce
Ryun (KS) Sabo Salmon
Sanford Schaffer Sensenbrenner
Shadegg Simpson Smith
(MI) Smith (TX) Spence
Stearns Stenholm Stump
Sununu Talent Taylor
(NC) Thomas Thornberry
Tiahrt Toomey Visclosky
Walden Wamp Watkins
Watts (OK) Weldon
(FL) Wicker Wolf Young
(FL)
--- NOT
VOTING 17 ---
Barton
Campbell Coble DeGette
DeMint Ford Graham
Lofgren Lucas (OK)
McCarthy (MO) McInnis
McIntosh Meek (FL)
Sherwood Vento Walsh
Wise
