 In this MegaVote for Alabama's 5th Congressional District:
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| Recent Senate Votes |
Fiscal 2017 Energy-Water Appropriations – Cloture to the Substitute Amendment - Vote Rejected (50-42, 8 Not Voting)
The Senate rejected the McConnell, R-Ky. motion to invoke cloture on
the Alexander, R-Tenn. substitute amendment that would provide $37.5
billion in fiscal 2017 for various items including $6 billion for the
Army Corps of Engineers, $5.4 billion for Department of Energy science
research and $12.9 billion for the Department’s nuclear
security programs.
Sen. Richard Shelby voted YES
Sen. Jeff Sessions voted YES
Fiscal 2017 Energy-Water Appropriations – Cloture to the Substitute Amendment - Vote Agreed to (97-2, 1 Not Voting)
The Senate agreed to the McConnell, R-Ky. motion to invoke cloture
on the Alexander, R-Tenn. substitute amendment that would provide $37.5
billion in fiscal 2017 for various items including $6 billion for the
Army Corps of Engineers, $5.4 billion for Department of Energy science
research and $12.9 billion for the Department’s nuclear
security programs.
Sen. Richard Shelby voted YES
Sen. Jeff Sessions voted YES
Fiscal 2017 Energy-Water Appropriations – Passage - Vote Passed (90-8, 2 Not Voting)
The Senate passed a measure that would provide $37.5 billion in
fiscal 2017 for various items including $6 billion for the Army Corps of
Engineers, $5.4 billion for Department of Energy science research and
$12.9 billion for the Department’s nuclear security programs.
Sen. Richard Shelby voted YES
Sen. Jeff Sessions voted NO
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| Recent House Votes |
Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force – Passage - Vote Passed (412-4, 17 Not Voting)
The House passed legislation that establishes a Pain Management Best
Practices Inter-Agency Task Force to review, modify and update medical
best practices for pain management and prescribing pain medication.
Rep. Mo Brooks voted NO
Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Reduction – Passage - Vote Passed (413-5, 15 Not Voting)
The chamber passed a measure that creates two new grant programs in
the Justice Department to assist in combating opioid abuse: one to
state, local and tribal governments that could be used for a variety of
opioid abuse reduction programs and activities and one to assist
veterans suffering from opioid abuse.
Rep. Mo Brooks voted NO
Comprehensive Anti-Opioid Efforts – House Amendment to the Senate-Passed Bill - Vote Passed (400-5, 28 Not Voting)
The House passed legislation, as amended, that includes 18 bills
previously passed by the chamber. Among other items, it establishes two
grant programs to create state systems under which physicians and others
who prescribe opioids to patients would at the same time prescribe
opioid overdose reversal drugs to those patients thought to be at an
elevated risk of overdose. It also creates a grant program to create
state systems under which trained pharmacists may dispense reversal
drugs to opioid users or families of those at risk of an overdose and
authorizes $5 million through fiscal 2019 for those grants.
Rep. Mo Brooks voted NO
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| Upcoming Votes |
Fiscal 2017 Military Construction-Veterans Affairs and Fiscal 2017 Transportation-Housing and Urban Development Appropriations - HR2577
The military construction and veterans part of the bill would
provide a total $177.4 billion in both discretionary and mandatory
funding for the Veterans Affairs Department, including increases for
health care, benefit claims processing, medical and prosthetic research
and homeless veterans assistance. The transportation and housing portion
of the bill would provide $56.5 billion in discretionary funding for
fiscal 2017 for the Transportation and Housing and Urban Development
departments and related agencies.
Fiscal 2017 Defense Authorization - HR4909
The bill would authorize $602.2 billion for discretionary defense
spending in fiscal 2017, including $543.4 billion for the Pentagon's
base, non-war budget. It also would include $58.8 billion for uncapped
Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) funding for war operations and
other anti-terror activities but provides that $23.1 billion of that
total be used for non-war, base defense budget needs, including $18
billion for aircraft, ships and other items.
Fiscal 2017 Military Construction-Veterans Affairs Appropriations - HR4974
The bill would provide a total of $81.6 billion in discretionary
spending for fiscal 2017 to fund military construction projects and
programs of the Veterans Affairs Department and would provide $102.5
billion in mandatory spending for fiscal 2017 and $172 million in
Overseas Contingency Operations funding.
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