Area Votes in Congress
Interrogation videotapes. The House required, 224-193, the government to videotape all military interrogations, except during combat, and retain the tapes in a secured and classified repository. The amendment was added to the military budget bill.
A yes vote backed the amendment.
Voting yes: Adler, Andrews, Brady, Castle, Fattah, Murphy, Schwartz, Sestak, and Smith.
Voting no: Dent, Gerlach, LoBiondo, Holden, and Pitts.
Cap-and-trade energy package. The House voted, 219-212, to shift U.S. energy production and consumption from fossil fuels to renewable fuels while setting cap-and-trade rules to cut emissions linked to global warming.
A yes vote was to pass the measure.
Voting yes: Adler, Andrews, Brady, Castle, Fattah, LoBiondo, Murphy, Sestak, Schwartz, and Smith
Voting no: Dent, Gerlach, Holden, and Pitts.
Senate
Tourism in America. By a 53-34 vote, the Senate failed to get 60 votes for ending a filibuster on a bill that would establish a federal corporation to increase foreign travel to the United States and expand Department of Commerce tourism programs.
A yes vote was to advance the bill.
Voting yes: Thomas Carper (D., Del.), Bob Casey (D., Pa.), Ted Kaufman (D., Del.), Frank Lautenberg (D., N.J.), and Robert Menendez (D., N.J.).
Not voting: Arlen Specter (D., Pa.).
Harold Koh nomination. The Senate confirmed, 62-35, the nomination of Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh as the Department of State's top lawyer.
A yes vote was to confirm Koh.
Voting yes: Carper, Casey, Kaufman, Lautenberg, Menendez, and Specter.
Legislative branch budget. The Senate killed, 65-31, a motion to reduce the $3.12 billion legislative branch budget for fiscal 2010 to its 2009 level. The bill remained in debate.
A yes vote opposed a budget freeze at 2009 levels.
Voting yes: Casey, Carper, Kaufman, Lautenberg, Menendez, and Specter.




