A Conversation With Erin

[Perianne]

Erin: Who determines what money is spent by the U.S. government?

Peri: The House of Representatives controls the spending.

Erin: Which party controls the House?

Peri: The Republicans, by a wide margin 246-188.

Erin: I read recently where the Omnibus Bill was passed and the Democrats got nearly everything they wanted. How can that happen when the Republicans control the House?

Peri: Sadly, the Republicans either are for the same things or it doesn't matter to them. The Republicans are not on the side of the people who voted them into office and only care that they get elected into office.

Erin: Then why vote for them?

Peri: I don't know.

[Perianne]

Alabama:	Sessions (R-AL), Nay	Shelby (R-AL), Nay
Alaska:	Murkowski (R-AK), Yea	Sullivan (R-AK), Nay
Arizona:	Flake (R-AZ), Nay	McCain (R-AZ), Nay
Arkansas:	Boozman (R-AR), Nay	Cotton (R-AR), Nay
California:	Boxer (D-CA), Not Voting	Feinstein (D-CA), Yea
Colorado:	Bennet (D-CO), Yea	Gardner (R-CO), Yea
Connecticut:	Blumenthal (D-CT), Yea	Murphy (D-CT), Yea
Delaware:	Carper (D-DE), Yea	Coons (D-DE), Yea
Florida:	Nelson (D-FL), Yea	Rubio (R-FL), Not Voting
Georgia:	Isakson (R-GA), Yea	Perdue (R-GA), Yea
Hawaii:	Hirono (D-HI), Yea	Schatz (D-HI), Yea
Idaho:	Crapo (R-ID), Nay	Risch (R-ID), Nay
Illinois:	Durbin (D-IL), Yea	Kirk (R-IL), Yea
Indiana:	Coats (R-IN), Yea	Donnelly (D-IN), Yea
Iowa:	Ernst (R-IA), Nay	Grassley (R-IA), Nay
Kansas:	Moran (R-KS), Nay	Roberts (R-KS), Yea
Kentucky:	McConnell (R-KY), Yea	Paul (R-KY), Nay
Louisiana:	Cassidy (R-LA), Nay	Vitter (R-LA), Nay
Maine:	Collins (R-ME), Yea	King (I-ME), Yea
Maryland:	Cardin (D-MD), Yea	Mikulski (D-MD), Yea
Massachusetts:	Markey (D-MA), Nay	Warren (D-MA), Yea
Michigan:	Peters (D-MI), Yea	Stabenow (D-MI), Yea
Minnesota:	Franken (D-MN), Yea	Klobuchar (D-MN), Yea
Mississippi:	Cochran (R-MS), Yea	Wicker (R-MS), Yea
Missouri:	Blunt (R-MO), Yea	McCaskill (D-MO), Nay
Montana:	Daines (R-MT), Nay	Tester (D-MT), Nay
Nebraska:	Fischer (R-NE), Nay	Sasse (R-NE), Nay
Nevada:	Heller (R-NV), Yea	Reid (D-NV), Yea
New Hampshire:	Ayotte (R-NH), Yea	Shaheen (D-NH), Yea
New Jersey:	Booker (D-NJ), Yea	Menendez (D-NJ), Yea
New Mexico:	Heinrich (D-NM), Yea	Udall (D-NM), Yea
New York:	Gillibrand (D-NY), Yea	Schumer (D-NY), Yea
North Carolina:	Burr (R-NC), Nay	Tillis (R-NC), Yea
North Dakota:	Heitkamp (D-ND), Yea	Hoeven (R-ND), Yea
Ohio:	Brown (D-OH), Yea	Portman (R-OH), Nay
Oklahoma:	Inhofe (R-OK), Yea	Lankford (R-OK), Yea
Oregon:	Merkley (D-OR), Nay	Wyden (D-OR), Nay
Pennsylvania:	Casey (D-PA), Yea	Toomey (R-PA), Nay
Rhode Island:	Reed (D-RI), Yea	Whitehouse (D-RI), Yea
South Carolina:	Graham (R-SC), Yea	Scott (R-SC), Nay
South Dakota:	Rounds (R-SD), Yea	Thune (R-SD), Nay
Tennessee:	Alexander (R-TN), Yea	Corker (R-TN), Yea
Texas:	Cornyn (R-TX), Yea	Cruz (R-TX), Nay
Utah:	Hatch (R-UT), Yea	Lee (R-UT), Nay
Vermont:	Leahy (D-VT), Yea	Sanders (I-VT), Nay
Virginia:	Kaine (D-VA), Yea	Warner (D-VA), Yea
Washington:	Cantwell (D-WA), Yea	Murray (D-WA), Yea
West Virginia:	Capito (R-WV), Yea	Manchin (D-WV), Nay
Wisconsin:	Baldwin (D-WI), Yea	Johnson (R-WI), Yea
Wyoming:	Barrasso (R-WY), Yea	Enzi (R-WY), Nay

[Perianne]

H R 2029 YEA-AND-NAY 18-Dec-2015 9:49 AM
QUESTION: On Concurring in Senate Amdt with Amdt Specified in Section 3(a) of H.Res. 566
BILL TITLE: Making appropriations for military construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016, and for other purposes

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	Yeas	Nays	PRES	NV
Republican	150	95		1
Democratic	166	18		4
Independent
TOTALS	316	113		5

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<center>---- YEAS 316 ---</center>

Adams Aderholt Aguilar Allen Ashford Barr Barton Bass Beatty Benishek Bera Beyer Bilirakis Bishop (GA) Bishop (MI) Bishop (UT) Blumenauer Bonamici Bost Boustany Boyle, Brendan F. Brady (PA) Brady (TX) Brooks (IN) Brown (FL) Brownley (CA) Buchanan Bucshon Burgess Bustos Butterfield Calvert Capps Capuano Cárdenas Carson (IN) Carter (GA) Carter (TX) Cartwright Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Chabot Chaffetz Chu, Judy Cicilline Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Clay Cleaver Clyburn Coffman Cohen Cole Collins (GA) Collins (NY) Comstock Conaway Connolly Conyers Cook Cooper Costa Costello (PA) Courtney Cramer Crenshaw Crowley Culberson Cummings Curbelo (FL) Davis (CA) Davis, Danny Davis, Rodney DeFazio DeGette Delaney DeLauro DelBene Denham Dent DeSaulnier Deutch Diaz-Balart Dingell Dold Donovan Doyle, Michael F. Duckworth Duffy Edwards Ellmers (NC) Engel Eshoo Esty Farr Fattah Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Flores Foster Foxx Frankel (FL) Frelinghuysen Fudge Gabbard Garamendi

Gibson Graham Granger Graves (GA) Graves (MO) Grayson Green, Al Green, Gene Grothman Guthrie Hahn Hanna Harper Hartzler Hastings Heck (WA) Hensarling Herrera Beutler Higgins Hill Himes Hinojosa Honda Hoyer Huffman Huizenga (MI) Hurd (TX) Israel Issa Jackson Lee Jeffries Jenkins (WV) Johnson (OH) Jolly Joyce Kaptur Katko Keating Kelly (IL) Kelly (MS) Kilmer Kind King (NY) Kinzinger (IL) Kirkpatrick Kline Knight Kuster Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lawrence Lee Levin Lewis Lipinski LoBiondo Loebsack Loudermilk Love Lowenthal Lowey Lucas Luetkemeyer Lujan Grisham (NM) Luján, Ben Ray (NM) Lynch MacArthur Maloney, Carolyn Maloney, Sean Marchant Matsui McCarthy McCaul McCollum McGovern McHenry McMorris Rodgers McNerney McSally Meeks Meng Messer Mica Miller (MI) Moolenaar Moore Moulton Mullin Murphy (FL) Murphy (PA) Nadler Napolitano Neal Neugebauer Newhouse Noem Nolan Norcross Nugent Nunes O'Rourke Olson Palazzo Pallone Pascrell

Paulsen Payne Pearce Pelosi Perlmutter Peters Peterson Pingree Pittenger Pitts Poe (TX) Poliquin Price (NC) Price, Tom Quigley Rangel Reed Reichert Renacci Ribble Rice (NY) Rice (SC) Richmond Rigell Rogers (KY) Rokita Rooney (FL) Ros-Lehtinen Roskam Ross Rouzer Roybal-Allard Royce Ruiz Ruppersberger Rush Russell Ryan (OH) Ryan (WI) Sánchez, Linda T. Sanchez, Loretta Sarbanes Scalise Schakowsky Schiff Scott (VA) Scott, Austin Scott, David Sensenbrenner Serrano Sessions Sewell (AL) Sherman Shimkus Simpson Sinema Sires Slaughter Smith (NJ) Smith (WA) Speier Stefanik Stewart Stivers Swalwell (CA) Takai Thompson (CA) Thompson (PA) Thornberry Tiberi Titus Tonko Torres Trott Tsongas Turner Upton Valadao Van Hollen Vargas Veasey Vela Velázquez Visclosky Wagner Walberg Walden Walorski Walters, Mimi Walz Wasserman Schultz Watson Coleman Weber (TX) Wenstrup Westmoreland Wilson (FL) Wilson (SC) Womack Woodall Yarmuth Yoder Young (AK) Zeldin Zinke

<center>---- NAYS 113 ---</center>

Abraham Amash Amodei Babin Barletta Becerra Black Blackburn Blum Brat Bridenstine Brooks (AL) Buck Byrne Carney Clawson (FL) Crawford DeSantis DesJarlais Doggett Duncan (SC) Duncan (TN) Ellison Emmer (MN) Farenthold Fleming Forbes Fortenberry Franks (AZ) Gallego Garrett Gibbs Gohmert Goodlatte Gosar Gowdy Graves (LA) Griffith

Grijalva Guinta Gutiérrez Hardy Harris Heck (NV) Hice, Jody B. Holding Hudson Huelskamp Hultgren Hunter Hurt (VA) Jenkins (KS) Johnson (GA) Johnson, Sam Jones Jordan Kelly (PA) King (IA) Labrador LaHood LaMalfa Lamborn Lance Latta Lieu, Ted Lofgren Long Lummis Marino Massie McClintock McDermott McKinley Meadows Meehan Miller (FL)

Mooney (WV) Mulvaney Palmer Perry Pocan Polis Pompeo Posey Ratcliffe Roby Roe (TN) Rogers (AL) Rohrabacher Rothfus Salmon Sanford Schrader Schweikert Shuster Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smith (TX) Stutzman Takano Thompson (MS) Tipton Walker Waters, Maxine Webster (FL) Welch Westerman Whitfield Williams Wittman Yoho Young (IA) Young (IN)

<center>---- NOT VOTING 5 ---</center>

[fj1200]

Peri: The House of Representatives controls the spending.

The House doesn't control spending. POTUS submits a budget request to Congress.

[Gunny]

The House doesn't control spending. POTUS submits a budget request to Congress.

To the House.