Ohio in Congress

Thomas Voting Reports

Here are area lawmakers’ decisions on major roll-call votes in

Washington for the week ending Dec. 10.

U.S. House
DREAM Act: Members voted, 216-198, to enable as many as 1.8 million
children of illegal aliens, all of whom are now in the U.S., to gain a path to
citizenship by first serving in the military or finishing two years of college. A
yes vote was to pass a bill known as the DREAM Act. (HR 5281)
LaTourette: No Fudge: Yes

$250 for Seniors: Voting 254-153, the House failed to reach a two-thirds
majority needed to pass a bill providing Social Security recipients and dis-
abled veterans with onetime payments of $250 as compensation for their
not getting cost-of-living increases in 2010 or 2011. (HR 5987)
LaTourette: No Fudge: Yes

U.S. Senate
$250 for Seniors: Voting 53-45, the Senate failed to reach 60 votes
needed to end Republican blockage of a bill that would grant onetime pay-
ments of $250 to Social Security recipients and disabled veterans at a
cost of $14 billion in deficit spending. A yes vote was to advance S 3985.
Brown: Yes Voinovich: No

Police, Firefighter Unions: Senators failed, 55-43, to reach 60 votes

needed to end GOP blockage of a bill granting collective-bargaining rights --
but not the right to strike — to police, firefighters, and other safety workers
in all states. A yes vote was to start debating the bill (S 3991).
Brown: Yes Voinovich: No

Key votes ahead

In the week of Dec. 13, both chambers will take up the economic-stimu-
lus and tax-cut package drafted by President Obama and congressional
Republicans.