Department of Peacebuilding Act 2013(U.S. Cong. Lee) takes up Dept of Peace Act 2011(fmr Cong. Kucinich)

Recognizing the links: U.S. violence at home, U.S. violence abroad

Seeking change in ethos and action: violence to nonviolence

Editing, re-reporting by 

Carolyn Bennett

Department of Peace to Department of Peace building

This week U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Lee, carrying the torch for peace launched two years ago by former U.S. Representative Dennis Kucinich with 63 cosponsors (H.R.808 “Department of Peace Act of 2011”), introduced H.R. 808, the “Department of Peacebuilding Act of 2013”

The term “peacebuilding,” in the context of this bill, refers to “activities that target root causes of violence and broad measures used to prevent violent conflict and create sustainable peace.”

U.S. Congresswoman
Barbara Lee

latest action

Department of Peace building

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n introducing the “Department of Peacebuilding Act of 2013,” Representative Barbara Lee said, “The Department of Peacebuilding advances the good work of my friend and former colleague Congressman Kucinich and has the potential ─

To reduce suffering on a national and global scale while saving billions of dollars through violence reduction and increased economic productivity

“This culture of violence that we live in is unacceptable,” the congresswoman said. “On our streets and across the globe, the pervasive presence of violence has infected the lives of millions, and it is far past time we address it as a nation.

“We invest hundreds of billions each year in the Pentagon, in war colleges, military academies, and our national defense universities all to develop war tactics and strategies. 

“Now we need that kind of investment in peace and nonviolence here at home.”

Congresswomen Lee & Woolsey

This proposed Department of Peacebuilding and its Secretary, says the congresswoman’s press release, will have the responsibilities of ─

Developing national strategies and programs for violence reduction both domestically and internationally

Working across agencies

Sponsoring conflict prevention and dispute resolution initiatives

Facilitating peace summits between conflicting parties

Encouraging community policing

Supporting efforts by local community and religious groups to reduce gun violence, racial and ethnic violence and prevent violence against women and LGBT Americans

Among the bill’s sponsors are U.S. Representatives Robert Andrews, Yvette Clarke, John Conyers Jr., Janice Hahn, James McGovern, Chellie Pingree, and Jared Polis.

previous action

Dennis Kucinich

Department of Peace

H.R.808: Department of Peace Act of 2011

Sponsor: Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. [OH-10] (introduced 2/18/2011) Cosponsors (63)

Major Status Action: 3/18/2011 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Organization, Efficiency, and Financial Management.

Congressional Research Service reports

Bill (introduced) Summary February 18, 2011

T

he Department of Peace Act of 2011 would have established a Department of Peace headed by a Secretary of Peace (Secretary); its mission the ─

Cultivation of peace as a national policy objective

Development of policies that promote national and international conflict prevention, nonviolent intervention, mediation, peaceful conflict resolution, and structured conflict mediation

The Department of Peace Act of 2011 proposal would have established within the Department of Peace the offices of:

Peace Education and Training

Domestic Peace Activities

International Peace Activities

Technology for Peace

Arms Control and Disarmament

Peaceful Coexistence and Nonviolent Conflict Resolution

Human Rights and Economic Rights

Intergovernmental Advisory Council on Peace

The original proposal “directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) and Secretary of State to consult with Secretary [Secretary of Peace] concerning nonviolent means of conflict resolution when a conflict between the United States and any other government or entity is imminent or occurring.”

It “transfers to the Department [of Peace] the functions, assets, and personnel of various federal agencies; establishes the Federal Interagency Committee on Peace; and directs the Secretary [of Peace] to encourage citizens to celebrate the blessings of peace and endeavor to create peace on a Peace Day.”

Supporters of H.R.808: Department of Peace Act of 2011 (63 cosponsors)

Rep Andrews, Robert E. [NJ-1] - 7/28/2011; Rep Baldwin, Tammy [WI-2] - 2/18/2011; Rep Bass, Karen [CA-33] - 8/2/2012; Rep Brown, Corrine [FL-3] - 2/18/2011; Rep Carson, Andre [IN-7] - 4/19/2012 ; Rep Christensen, Donna M. [VI] - 7/21/2011; Rep Chu, Judy [CA-32] - 8/2/2012 ; Rep Clarke, Yvette D. [NY-11] - 4/19/2012; Rep Clay, Wm. Lacy [MO-1] - 7/28/2011; Rep Cleaver, Emanuel [MO-5] - 4/19/2012; Rep Conyers, John, Jr. [MI-14] - 2/18/2011; Rep Cummings, Elijah E. [MD-7] - 7/28/2011; Rep Davis, Danny K. [IL-7] - 4/19/2012; Rep Davis, Susan A. [CA-53] - 5/26/2011; Rep DeFazio, Peter A. [OR-4] - 2/18/2011

Congresswoman Lee - left
fmr Congressman Kucinich - 2nd from right

Rep Edwards, Donna F. [MD-4] - 8/2/2012; Rep Ellison, Keith [MN-5] - 3/29/2011; Rep Farr, Sam [CA-17] - 2/18/2011; Rep Filner, Bob [CA-51] - 5/26/2011; Rep Fudge, Marcia L. [OH-11] - 8/2/2012; Rep Green, Al [TX-9] - 4/19/2012; Rep Grijalva, Raul M. [AZ-7] - 5/17/2012; Rep Hahn, Janice [CA-36] - 12/1/2011; Rep Hastings, Alcee L. [FL-23] - 5/17/2012; Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. [NY-22] - 4/19/2012; Rep Hirono, Mazie K. [HI-2] - 4/19/2012; Rep Holt, Rush [NJ-12] - 7/28/2011; Rep Honda, Michael M. [CA-15] - 3/1/2011; Rep Jackson Lee, Sheila [TX-18] - 3/1/2011; Rep Jackson, Jesse L., Jr. [IL-2] - 4/17/2012; Rep Johnson, Eddie Bernice [TX-30] - 8/2/2012; Rep Johnson, Henry C. "Hank," Jr. [GA-4] - 7/20/2011; Rep Kaptur, Marcy [OH-9] - 7/28/2011; Rep Kildee, Dale E. [MI-5] - 7/28/2011; Rep Larson, John B. [CT-1] - 4/19/2012

Rep Lee, Barbara [CA-9] - 2/18/2011; Rep Lewis, John [GA-5] - 2/18/2011; Rep Markey, Edward J. [MA-7] - 8/2/2012; Rep McCollum, Betty [MN-4] - 6/1/2011; Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] - 7/28/2011; Rep McGovern, James P. [MA-3] - 7/28/2011; Rep Miller, George [CA-7] - 7/6/2011; Rep Moore, Gwen [WI-4] - 2/18/2011; Rep Moran, James P. [VA-8] - 8/2/2012

Rep Nadler, Jerrold [NY-8] - 9/9/2011; Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes [DC] - 2/18/2011

Rep Olver, John W. [MA-1] - 2/18/2011; Rep Pingree, Chellie [ME-1] - 5/5/2011; Rep Polis, Jared [CO-2] - 2/18/2011; Rep Rangel, Charles B. [NY-15] - 5/8/2012; Rep Richardson, Laura [CA-37] - 4/17/2012; Rep Richmond, Cedric L. [LA-2] - 8/2/2012; Rep Rothman, Steven R. [NJ-9] - 4/19/2012; 

Rep Rush, Bobby L. [IL-1] - 8/2/2012; Rep Ryan, Tim [OH-17] - 4/19/2012

Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. [IL-9] - 7/28/2011; Rep Serrano, Jose E. [NY-16] - 9/20/2011; Rep Sherman, Brad [CA-27] - 2/18/2011; Rep Smith, Adam [WA-9] - 8/2/2012; Rep Stark, Fortney Pete [CA-13] - 3/29/2011; Rep Waters, Maxine [CA-35] - 8/2/2012; Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. [CA-6] - 2/18/2011; Rep Wu, David [OR-1] - 3/2/2011

  

Sources and notes

 

Department of Peacebuilding Act 2013

“Congresswoman Barbara Lee Introduces Bill to Create Department of Peacebuilding” (Washington, D.C.—Today, Congresswoman Barbara Lee introduced H.R. 808, the “Department of Peacebuilding Act of 2013” to create a cabinet-level Secretary and Department of Peacebuilding), February 15, 2013Issues: Global Peace & Security; Follow Barbara Lee on Facebook and Twitter @RepBarbaraLee. To learn more, visit lee.house.gov.

http://lee.house.gov/press-release/congresswoman-barbara-lee-introduces-bill-create-department-peacebuilding

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, each life cut short by a homicide costs the U.S. economy $1.65 million. 

Worldwide, the Institute for Economics and Peace estimates that violence and conflict cost the global economy $9 trillion in 2011.

BARBARA LEE

U.S. Representative Barbara Lee (D-California) has been a member of the U.S. House of Representatives since April 7, 1998, the 105th Congress. Before entering the U.S. House, she was a member of the California state assembly (1991-1997) and a member of the California State Senate (1997-1998). In earlier years, she worked on the staff of former U. S. Representative Ron Dellums.

Congresswoman Lee took her academic credentials at Mills College (B.A., Oakland) and University of California (Master’s, Berkeley). http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000551

Department of Peace Act 2011

Bill Summary & Status, 112th Congress (2011 - 2012), H.R.808, CRS Summary

Co-sponsors of Department of Peace Act as introduced by former U.S. Representative Dennis Kucinich, http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d112:72:./temp/~bdIQok:@@@P

DENNIS KUCINICH

Former U.S. Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) was a member of the U.S. Congress from January 3, 1997 until January 3, 2013 (the 105th and seven succeeding Congresses). Before entering to the U.S. Congress, Congressman Kucinich was a member of the Cleveland City Council (1969-1973, 1983); Clerk of Courts (Cleveland, 1975); Cleveland Mayor (1977-1979); Member of the Ohio State Senate (1995-1996). In 2008, he was a candidate in the campaign for the U.S. presidency.

Kucinich took his academic baccalaureate and master’s credentials at Case Western Reserve University. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000336

SEE ALSO: 

http://www.thepeaceclinic.org/global_peace_partners.html

http://www.thepeacealliance.org/

http://www.thepeaceclinic.org/global_peace_partners.html

Peace Alliance (http://www.thepeacealliance.org/): We are working to help create a significant cultural shift:

From punitive to restorative

War-making to peacebuilding

Incarceration to prevention & intervention

Bullying to conflict resolution education

Stress to inner peace

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Kucinich calls for leaders principled in nonviolence, Stop the War calls for "Home by Christmas"

Children of Afghanistan
caught in crossfire

I could not agree more

Excerpt, editing by 

Carolyn Bennett

“We need a new era of bold leadership … that will stand against perpetual war; stand up for peace and economic justice,” Dennis Kucinich declares.

We need leadership that is unafraid of bucking Party leadership and speaking out for what is right and just.

“We need bold leaders who are fearless in their determination to make our nation and our world a more peaceful place for all people — regardless of their race, gender, background or beliefs.” 

together

We must come together to prevent repeating mistakes of the past, prevent the destruction of war.

We must present and advance leaders who advance peace and justice.

Hon. Dennis Kucinich concluding his tenure as

Member of U.S. House of Representatives

Head of Kucinich Action movement

Soon announcing “Champions of Change”

http://action.kucinich.us/page/s/bold-voices/

http://action.kucinich.us/page/s/yourchoice

Home by Christmas

Stars and Stripes
Union Jack

Afghanistan Protest

Naming the Dead

Bring troops home by Christmas

Stop the War Coalition

Sunday October 7, 2012, 1 p.m., Trafalgar Square, London, England

  

On the 11th anniversary of the start of the war on Afghanistan, Stop the War-UK Names the Dead in a ceremony commemorating those killed: Afghan civilians and British soldiers.

“The protest will also demand that the British government end its involvement in an unjustified and futile war now, and bring all the troops home by Christmas.”

Also from Austrialia

Leading the ceremony will be Joan Humphries, whose grandson died in war against Afghanistan; joined by Paul Flynn MP, expelled recently from the British parliament for accusing the government of lying about Afghanistan.

Musician Brian Eno, Afghans for Peace Mitra Quayoom, actor Celia Mitchell, journalist Victoria Britain, Member of Parliament Jeremy Corbyn, actor Miriam Margolyes, and musician Dave Randall will also participate in the ceremony.

http://stopwar.org.uk/index.php/action-a-events/national-events/1890-october-7-afghanistan-protest-bring-the-troops-home-by-christmas

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Faction, false patriot endanger domestic, international liberty

Washington’s farewell in current affairs, questions of leadership and partisanship

“Father of country,” George Washington was American general and commander in chief of the colonial armies in the American Revolution (1775–83) before becoming the first president of the United States (April 30, 1789–March 3, 1797, Federalist Party, Vice President John Adams who succeeded him with Thomas Jefferson as his vice president). Washington was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia (1732) and died in Mount Vernon, Virginia (1799).

Editing, brief comment by Carolyn Bennett

Particularly relevant to current affairs, Washington calls out false patriots and private profit masquerading as public good. In his 1796 Farewell Address, George Washington warns “against the mischief” of “favorites” and factions in foreign and domestic “intrigue” and “against the impostures (assumed character, the fraud) of pretended patriotism”

Indispensability of government

President
George Washington's Farewell

“… For the efficient management of your common interests, in a country so extensive as ours, a government of as much vigor as is consistent with the perfect security of liberty is indispensable.

“With powers properly distributed and adjusted, liberty itself will find in such a government its surest guardian. Where the government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, it is, indeed, little else than a name.”

Domestic, international affairs: Factions' breach of law tramples liberty

First
U.S. President's Farewell

“All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of the fundamental principle [of liberty].”

These obstructionists “serve to organize faction; to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation [the People], the will of a party — often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; … [making]

[t]he public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels and modified by mutual interests.

Fourth
U.S. President James Madison

Tyranny: faction, partisan political party, corporate cabal over common good

“The … domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension — which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities — is itself a frightful despotism;” and at length, “leads to a more formal and permanent despotism.”

The resulting “disorders and miseries… gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual. And sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation — on the ruins of public liberty.”

Fast forward 200 years

Middle East Resources

United States post 9/11 years of irrationality, endless wars

“The nation, prompted by ill will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the government, contrary to the best calculations of policy.

“The government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject. At other times, it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. Often the peace — sometimes perhaps the liberty of nations — has [become] the victim.”

U.S. Foreign relations paradigm and practice

Major financial contributor to
U.S. political party campaigns

Siding with and leading aggressors, despots against demonstrators for justice, liberty, human rights

A nation’s passionate attachment for another nation produces a variety of evils, Washington said.

“Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification.

It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others, which is apt doubly to injure the nation [that makes] the concessions: by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained; and by exciting jealousy, ill will, and, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld, a disposition to retaliate.

“It gives to the ambitious, corrupted or deluded citizens (who devote themselves to the favorite nation) the facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country. Without odium, sometimes even with popularity,” to ornament deception, cover up “the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption or infatuation” with “the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable defense for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good.”

“To the truly enlightened and independent patriot,” such attachments “in avenues to foreign influence are particularly alarming.”

“…How many opportunities do they afford to tamper with domestic factions, to practice the arts of seduction, to mislead public opinion, to influence or awe the public councils?”

Such an attachment of a small or weak nation toward a great and powerful nation dooms the weak to be a satellite to the powerful. “Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another causes those whom they provoke to see danger only on one side and to veil, even to second the arts of influence on the other.”

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ore than 200 years later, what hits home in George Washington’s farewell speech is this. Islanding or isolation is still out of the question. We must engage as a nation among nations; we must also care honestly for our own people.

Washington seems to be saying to our era of irrational post 9/11 pretexts and paranoia, of gilded “patriotic” play of favorites and pseudo-favorites with Saudi Arabian despots and Israeli aggressors, capriciously marking “enemies” (reverberating against peoples across the Middle Eastern region and domestically), endless hostility and retaliatory warfare and domestic neglect — these are not emblematic of “real patriotism.” They are in fact its antithesis: traitorous to the common good everywhere.  

Reinterpreting Washington, the real patriot resists “intrigues of favorite,” dangerous dichotomies: friend or foe, enemy or ally, the Forty-third’s “Axis of Evil,” financing or demonizing those “for us or against us.”

Sources and notes

George Washington: Farewell Address, published September 19, 1796 in Philadelphia’s American Daily Advertiser, http://www.greatamericandocuments.com/speeches/washington-farewell.html.

Kucinich’s Facebook quote today prompted my search for the first U.S. president. As a progressive, I believe we should take good ideas of the past and build on them (do not stop at Washington or Jefferson, whoever seemed on the right track), ever pushing ourselves, our society in the largest sense constructively forward.

Dennis Kucinich:

“Political party — Does the ‘partisan spirit’ today serve the interests of the American people?

“In his Farewell Address delivered September 19, 1796, George Washington warned repeatedly against ‘the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit’ of political parties:

‘They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put in the place of the delegated will of the Nation, the will of a party; ...

‘[t]hey are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning ambitious and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the Power of the People and to usurp, for themselves, the reins of Government….’

“Does partisanship today,” Kucinich asks, “‘subvert the power of the people’ putting our nation at risk?” 

I think George Washington would have answered yes to Dennis Kucinich’s question, and so do I.

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U.S. House says NO to U.S. White House in Libya

House Members against foreign massacres, U.S. destruction

“We have been in Afghanistan for ten years at a cost of over a half trillion dollars, in Iraq for eight years at a long term cost of at least three trillion.

“Those who told us the war in Libya would last days, now want to extend it for another year at total cost of billions.

“It is surreal we could even be considering authorizing this war at a time when the government is collapsing in debt.

“Those who told us the war in Libya was to save civilians’ lives quickly switched to regime change with innocent civilians dying from NATO’s bombs.

“Prior to NATO assuming responsibility, we launched hundreds of cruise missiles and dropped tons of bombs on Libya. Since NATO took over, the U.S. has struck from the air at least 90 times, including drone attacks but these are not hostilities, claims the White House, so what business is it of Congress?

“We must put an end not only to the war in Libya, but we must put an end to the thinking that the Constitution is a doormat and that our constituents must simply bear the consequences of the misguided policies of this Administration without this Congress having any say whatsoever.

“Defeat the authorization for the war. Vote for the Rooney bill which limits the war and when we return let’s vote for a total cutoff of funds for this wrongheaded adventure.” [U.S. Representative Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, June 24, 2011, on the House Floor http://kucinich.house.gov/News/DocumentPrint.aspx?DocumentID=248640]

Excerpted by Carolyn Bennett from 
Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, http://clerk.house.gov/

FAILED

H.J. Res. 68: “Authorizing the limited use of the United States Armed Forces in support of the NATO mission in Libya”

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 493 FAILED by recorded vote: 123 - 295 (Roll no. 493) ECORDED VOTE June 24, 2011, 12:16 PM

Republican Democratic  Independent   Ayes Noes PRES NV: TOTALS 123 295   13

http://clerk.house.gov/floorsummary/floor.aspx?day=20110624&today=20110625

Here are the 295 NOES:

Adams Aderholt Akin Alexander Amash Andrews Austria Bachmann Baldwin Barletta Bartlett Barton (TX) Bass (NH) Becerra Benishek Biggert Bilbray Bilirakis Bishop (GA) Bishop (UT) Black Blackburn Bonner Bono Mack Boustany Brady (TX) Braley (IA) Brooks Broun (GA) Buchanan Bucshon Buerkle Burgess Burton (IN) Calvert Camp Campbell Canseco Cantor Capito Capuano Carney Carson (IN) Carter Cassidy Chabot

Chaffetz Cicilline Clarke (MI) Clarke (NY) Clay Coble Coffman (CO) Cole Conaway Conyers Costello Cravaack Crawford Crenshaw Culberson Davis (IL) Davis (KY) DeFazio          Denham DesJarlais Diaz-Balart Dold Duffy Duncan (SC) Duncan (TN) Ellmers Emerson Farenthold Farr Fincher Fitzpatrick Flake Fleischmann Fleming Flores Forbes Fortenberry Foxx Frank (MA) Franks (AZ) Frelinghuysen Gallegly Gardner Garrett Gerlach Gibbs

Gibson Gohmert Gonzalez Goodlatte Gosar Gowdy Granger Graves (GA) Graves (MO) Green, Gene Griffin (AR) Griffith (VA) Grijalva Grimm Guinta Guthrie Gutierrez Hall Hanabusa Hanna Harper Harris Hartzler Hastings (WA) Hayworth Heck Hensarling Herger Herrera Beutler Himes Hinchey Hinojosa Holt Honda Huelskamp Huizenga (MI) Hultgren Hunter Hurt Issa Jackson (IL) Jenkins Johnson (IL) Johnson (OH) Johnson, Sam

Jones Jordan Keating Kelly Kingston Kline Kucinich Labrador Lamborn Lance Landry Lankford Larson (CT) Latham LaTourette Latta Lee (CA) Lewis (CA) Lewis (GA) Lipinski LoBiondo Loebsack Lofgren, Zoe Long Lucas Luetkemeyer Luján Lummis Lungren, Daniel E. Lynch Maloney Manzullo Marchant Marino McCarthy (CA) McCaul McClintock McGovern McHenry McIntyre McKeon McKinley McMorris Rodgers

Meehan Mica Michaud Miller (FL) Miller (MI) Miller, Gary Miller, Geo Moore Mulvaney Murphy (CT) Murphy (PA) Myrick Nadler Neugebauer Noem Nugent Nunes Nunnelee  Olson Palazzo Pallone Pastor (AZ) Paul Paulsen Pearce Pence Peterson Petri Pingree (ME) Pitts Platts Poe (TX) Pompeo Posey Price (GA) Quayle Quigley Reed Rehberg Reichert Renacci Ribble Richardson Rigell Roby Roe (TN)

Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rohrabacher Rokita Rooney Ros-Lehtinen Roskam Ross (AR) Ross (FL) Royce Runyan Ryan (WI) Sanchez, Loretta Scalise Schilling Schmidt Schock Schrader Schweikert Scott (SC) Scott (VA) Scott, Austin Sensenbrenner Serrano Sessions Sherman Shimkus Shuler Shuster Simpson Slaughter Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smith (TX) Southerland Stark Stearns Stutzman Sullivan Terry Thompson (PA) Thornberry Tiberi Tierney

Tipton Tsongas Turner Upton Velázquez Visclosky Walberg Walden Walsh (IL) Waters Waxman Webster Westmoreland Whitfield Wilson (SC) Wittman Wolf Womack Woodall Woolsey Wu Yoder Young (AK) Young (FL) Young (IN)

On Follow up measure, H R 2278,  concerning U.S. forces and NATO operation in Libya

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 494

H R 2278      RECORDED VOTE      June 24, 2011      2:00 PM
QUESTION:  On Passage FAIL

BILL TITLE: To limit the use of funds appropriated to the Department of Defense for United States Armed Forces in support of North Atlantic Treaty Organization Operation Unified Protector with respect to Libya,  unless otherwise specifically authorized by law, 494 June 24, 2011 H R 2278 

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/index.asp

SUMMARY AS OF: 6/22/2011--Introduced.

“Prohibits, unless otherwise specifically authorized by law, funds appropriated or otherwise available to the Department of Defense (DOD) from being obligated or expended for U.S. Armed Forces in support of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Operation Unified Protector with respect to Libya, except for: (1) search and rescue; (2) intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; (3) aerial refueling; and (4) operational planning.”

Sponsor: Rep Rooney, Thomas J. [FL-16] (introduced 6/22/2011)      Cosponsors (None)

Related Bills: H.RES.328

Latest Major Action: 6/24/2011 Failed of passage/not agreed to in House. Status: On passage Failed by recorded vote: 180 - 238 (Roll no. 494).

H.R.2278

6/24/2011 12:15pm: Rule provides for consideration of H.J. Res. 68 and H.R. 2278 with 1 hour of general debate. Motion to recommit with or without instructions is allowed. Will be considered read. Bill is closed to amendments. The rule provides one hour of debate on H.J.Res. 68 with 40 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and 20 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Armed Services. All points of order against consideration and provisions are waived.

6/24/2011 12:18pm: DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on H.R. 2278.

6/24/2011 1:35pm: The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.

6/24/2011 1:59pm: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

6/24/2011 1:59pm: On passage Failed by recorded vote: 180 - 238 (Roll no. 494).

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HR02278:@@@X

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HR02278:@@@D&summ2=m&

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/index.asp

ROLL CALL

(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)

	Ayes	Noes	PRES	NV
Republican	144	89		6
Democratic	36	149		7
Independent
TOTALS	180	238		13

---- AYES    180 ---

Aderholt Akin Alexander Austria Barletta Barton (TX) Bass (NH) Benishek Bilbray Bilirakis Bishop (UT) Black Bonner Bono Mack Boustany Brady (TX) Braley (IA) Buchanan Bucshon Calvert Cantor Capito Capuano Carney Cassidy Chabot Cicilline Coble Coffman (CO) Conaway Conyers Cravaack Crenshaw Culberson Davis (KY) DeFazio Denham DesJarlais Duffy Emerson Farenthold Farr Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Fleming Flores Forbes Fortenberry Foxx Frank (MA) Frelinghuysen Gallegly Gerlach Gibbs Gibson Gohmert Gonzalez Goodlatte Granger Graves (MO)

Griffith (VA) Grimm Guthrie Hall Harper Harris Hartzler Hastings (WA) Hayworth Hensarling Herger Herrera Beutler Himes Hinchey Holt Huizenga (MI) Hunter Jackson (IL) Jenkins Johnson (OH) Jordan Kaptur Kelly Kingston Kline Kucinich Lamborn Latham Latta Lee (CA) Lewis (CA) Lipinski LoBiondo Long Lucas Luetkemeyer Lungren, Daniel E. Lynch Mack Marino McCarthy (CA) McCaul McKeon McKinley McMorris Rodgers Meehan Mica Michaud Miller (FL) Miller, Gary Murphy (CT) Murphy (PA) Myrick Nadler Neugebauer Noem Nunes Nunnelee Olson Palazzo

Petri Pingree (ME) Platts Price (GA) Quigley Reed Rehberg Reichert Renacci Ribble Richardson Rigell Roby Roe (TN) Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rooney Ros-Lehtinen Rothman (NJ) Runyan Scalise Schilling Schmidt Schrader Schweikert Scott (VA) Scott, Austin Serrano Sessions Sherman Shimkus Shuler Shuster Simpson Slaughter Smith (NE) Smith (TX) Stark Terry Thornberry Tiberi Turner Upton Visclosky Walberg Walden Waters Webster Whitfield Wilson (SC) Wittman Wolf Womack Woodall Woolsey Wu Yoder Young (AK) Young (FL) Young (IN)

---- NOES    238 ---

Ackerman Adams Altmire Amash Andrews Baca Bachmann Baldwin Barrow Bartlett Bass (CA) Becerra Berkley Berman Biggert Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Blackburn Blumenauer Boren Boswell Brady (PA) Brooks Broun (GA) Brown (FL) Buerkle Burgess Burton (IN) Campbell Canseco Capps Cardoza Carnahan Carson (IN) Carter Castor (FL) Chaffetz Chandler Chu Clarke (MI) Clarke (NY) Clay Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Cole Connolly (VA) Cooper Costa Costello Courtney Crawford Critz Crowley Cuellar Cummings Davis (CA) Davis (IL) DeGette DeLauro Dent Deutch Diaz-Balart Dicks Dingell Doggett Dold Donnelly (IN) Doyle Dreier Duncan (SC) Duncan (TN) Edwards Ellison Ellmers Eshoo Fattah Filner Fincher Flake

Franks (AZ) Fudge Garamendi Gardner Garrett Gosar Gowdy Graves (GA) Green, Al Green, Gene Griffin (AR) Grijalva Guinta Gutierrez Hanabusa Hanna Hastings (FL) Heck Heinrich Higgins Hinojosa Hirono Hochul Holden Honda Hoyer Huelskamp Hultgren Inslee Israel Issa Jackson Lee (TX) Johnson (GA) Johnson (IL) Johnson, E. B. Johnson, Sam Jones Keating Kildee Kind King (IA) King (NY) Kinzinger (IL) Kissell Labrador Lance Landry Langevin Lankford Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) LaTourette Levin Lewis (GA) Loebsack Lofgren, Zoe Lowey Luján Lummis Maloney Manzullo Marchant Markey Matheson Matsui McCarthy (NY) McClintock McCollum McCotter McDermott McGovern McHenry McIntyre McNerney Meeks Miller (MI) Miller (NC) Miller, George Moore Moran

Mulvaney Neal Nugent Olver Owens Pallone Pascrell Pastor (AZ) Paul Paulsen Payne Pearce Pelosi Pence Perlmutter Peters Peterson Pitts Poe (TX) Polis Pompeo Posey Price (NC) Quayle Rahall Rangel Reyes Richmond Rivera Rogers (MI) Rohrabacher Rokita Roskam Ross (AR) Ross (FL) Roybal-Allard Royce Ruppersberger Rush Ryan (WI) Sánchez, Linda T. Sanchez, Loretta Sarbanes Schakowsky Schiff Schock Schwartz Scott (SC) Scott, David Sensenbrenner Sires Smith (NJ) Smith (WA) Southerland Speier Stearns Stutzman Sullivan Sutton Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Thompson (PA) Tierney Tipton Tonko Tsongas Van Hollen Velázquez Walsh (IL) Walz (MN) Wasserman Schultz Watt Waxman Welch West Westmoreland Wilson (FL) Yarmuth

---- NOT VOTING    13 ---

Bachus Berg Butterfield Camp Engel

Giffords Gingrey (GA) Hurt Napolitano Ryan (OH)

Sewell Stivers Towns

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