Here’s a look at how Colorado members of Congress voted over the previous week.
Along with this week’s roll call votes, the Senate also passed the Recycling Infrastructure and Accessibility Act (S. 1189), to establish a pilot grant program to improve recycling accessibility; and the Recycling and Composting Accountability Act (S. 1194), to require the Environmental Protection Agency to carry out certain activities to improve recycling and composting programs.
House votes
INVESTING IN COMPANIES: The House has passed the Expanding Access to Capital Act (H.R. 2799), sponsored by Rep. Patrick T. McHenry, R-N.C. The bill would reduce regulation of investment in smaller businesses, including by lessening government registration requirements and by expanding eligibility for investment and the size of investments. McHenry said the changes would “make improvements to our public markets and create new opportunities for everyday investors to save and build wealth and enjoy their version of the American Dream.” An opponent, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., said: “By weakening investor protections in numerous ways, this bill would allow fraud to proliferate and retirees and other mom-and-pop investors to be ripped off by bad actors.” The vote, on March 8, was 212 yeas to 205 nays.
NAYS: DeGette D-CO (1st), Crow D-CO (6th), Neguse D-CO (2nd), Pettersen D-CO (7th), Caraveo D-CO (8th)
YEAS: Lamborn R-CO (5th), Boebert R-CO (3rd)
NOT VOTING: Buck R-CO (4th)
RURAL BROADBAND SERVICE: The House has passed the E-BRIDGE Act (H.R. 1752), sponsored by Rep. Sam Graves, R-Mo., to authorize Commerce Department grants for funding broadband Internet development projects in rural areas. Graves said the bill was intended to remove “hurdles to using these grants for broadband projects, including difficult last-mile efforts that often delay rural broadband deployment.” The vote, on March 11, was 375 yeas to 20 nays.
NOT VOTING: DeGette
YEAS: Lamborn, Crow, Neguse, Pettersen, Caraveo
NAYS: Boebert, Buck
OCEAN LITTER: The House has passed the Save Our Seas 2.0 Amendments Act (H.R. 886), sponsored by Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Ore., to make changes to the Marine Debris Foundation and Marine Debris Program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), including requesting that the foundation’s main office be moved from Washington, D.C., to a coastal state. Bonamici said it gave NOAA “greater flexibility to deliver federal resources and enter into cooperative agreements to conduct marine debris prevention and cleanup.” The vote, on March 11, was 326 yeas to 73 nays.
NOT VOTING: DeGette
YEAS: Lamborn, Crow, Neguse, Pettersen, Caraveo
NAYS: Boebert, Buck
USE OF FEDERAL OFFICE SPACE: The House has passed the Utilizing Space Efficiently and Improving Technologies Act (H.R. 6276), sponsored by Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., to require the establishment of standards to measure the utilization and management of federal government buildings, and require a plan for ensuring that building utilization in Washington, D.C., exceeds 60%. Perry said: “Empty federal buildings are not only a drain to the federal taxpayer, they also don’t produce investments needed for local economies because nobody is in the building.” A bill opponent, Rep. Rick Larsen, D-Wash., said it “does fall short by failing to take into account the complexity of the federal leasing process and using an incomplete and flawed metric for measuring the occupancy rate of federal buildings.” The vote, on March 12, was 217 yeas to 203 nays.
NAYS: DeGette, Crow, Neguse, Pettersen
YEAS: Lamborn, Boebert, Buck, Caraveo
BIDEN IMMIGRATION POLICIES: The House has passed a resolution (H. Res. 1065), sponsored by Rep. Monica De La Cruz, R-Texas, to denounce the Biden administration’s immigration policies as creating the country’s worst border security crisis ever. De La Cruz said the administration’s “approach to border security, marked by…
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