Obama/Monsanto Try to Fuck Us Again III

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'Monsanto Protection Act' Roll Call: How Did Your Congressperson Vote On HR 933?

BY CONNOR ADAMS SHEETS

 03/28/13 AT 1:32 PM

A national chorus of rage is rising over the "Monsanto Protection Act," a provision of the HR 933 spending bill that was passed by Congress this month and signed into law Tuesday by President Barack Obama.

Many voters will be wondering how their members of Congress voted on the HR 933 continuing resolution.

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This article provides a brief primer on the criticisms of Section 735 of the bill -- a provision that opponents have dubbed the "Monsanto Protection Act" -- followed by a breakdown of how each member of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives voted on it.

The language in Section 735 effectively bars federal courts from being able to halt the sale or planting of genetically modified crops and seeds, no matter what health consequences from their consumption may come to light in the future, according to interpretations of the law included in a petition against the provision that was circulated by the advocacy group Food Democracy Now.

"This provision is simply an industry ploy to continue to sell genetically engineered seeds even when a court of law has found they were approved by USDA illegally," the petition stated. "It is unnecessary and an unprecedented attack on U.S. judicial review. Congress should not be meddling with the judicial review process based solely on the special interest of a handful of companies. Many food safety advocates maintain that there have not been enough studies into the potential health risks of GMO and GE seeds and crops, and the judicial power to stop companies from selling or planting them was one key recourse they were relying on to stop them from being sold if health risks come to light."

The petition was signed by more than 200,000 people during a drive aimed at getting Obama to veto the bill that Congress sent to his desk. But their effort was not able to sway Obama, and the provision is now in force for the six months during which the continuing provision will remain the law of the land.

Now protesters, food advocates, organic farmers and others are coming together in a push either for Section 735 to somehow be repealed, or at least for it to be struck from any permanent legislation that will likely arise as the period of the continuing resolution draws to a close later this year.

Below is a breakdown of the congressional voting record on HR 933, which provides insight into just how the bill, Section 735 included, made it from the Capitol to the White House:

Here is the 73-26-1 Senate roll call vote breakdown on HR 933, as compiled by the Senate's clerk office:

Alexander (R-TN), Yea    Ayotte (R-NH), Nay         Baldwin (D-WI), Yea

Barrasso (R-WY), Yea    Baucus (D-MT), Yea         Begich (D-AK), Yea        

Bennet (D-CO), Yea      Blumenthal (D-CT), Yea     Blunt (R-MO), Yea         

Boozman (R-AR), Yea    Boxer (D-CA), Yea        Brown (D-OH), Yea          

Burr (R-NC), Nay         Cantwell (D-WA), Yea      Cardin (D-MD), Yea        

Carper (D-DE), Yea      Casey (D-PA), Yea      Chambliss (R-GA), Yea

Coats (R-IN), Yea        Coburn (R-OK), Nay    Cochran (R-MS), Yea       

Collins (R-ME), Yea     Coons (D-DE), Yea     Corker (R-TN), Yea          

Cornyn (R-TX), Yea     Cowan (D-MA), Yea    Crapo (R-ID), Nay

Cruz (R-TX), Nay        Donnelly (D-IN), Yea     Durbin (D-IL), Yea

Enzi (R-WY), Nay       Feinstein (D-CA), Yea    Fischer (R-NE), Nay

Flake (R-AZ), Nay      Franken (D-MN), Yea     Gillibrand (D-NY), Yea

Graham (R-SC), Nay    Grassley (R-IA), Nay     Hagan (D-NC), Yea

Harkin (D-IA), Yea       Hatch (R-UT), Yea       Heinrich (D-NM), Yea

Heitkamp (D-ND), Yea   Heller (R-NV), Nay      Hirono (D-HI), Yea

Hoeven (R-ND), Yea    Inhofe (R-OK), Nay      Isakson (R-GA), Yea

Johanns (R-NE), Yea   Johnson (D-SD), Yea    Johnson (R-WI), Nay

Kaine (D-VA), Yea        King (I-ME), Yea        Kirk (R-IL), Nay

Klobuchar (D-MN), Yea   Landrieu (D-LA), Yea   Lautenberg (D-NJ), Not Voting

Leahy (D-VT), Yea        Lee (R-UT), Nay         Levin (D-MI), Yea

Manchin (D-WV), Yea    McCain (R-AZ), Nay    McCaskill (D-MO), Yea

McConnell (R-KY), Yea   Menendez (D-NJ), Yea   Merkley (D-OR), Yea

Mikulski (D-MD), Yea      Moran (R-KS), Nay        Murkowski (R-AK), Yea

Murphy (D-CT), Yea       Murray (D-WA), Yea       Nelson (D-FL), Yea

Paul (R-KY), Nay          Portman (R-OH), Nay     Pryor (D-AR), Yea

Reed (D-RI), Yea         Reid (D-NV), Yea          Risch (R-ID), Nay

Roberts (R-KS), Nay     Rockefeller (D-WV), Yea   Rubio (R-FL), Nay

Sanders (I-VT), Yea      Schatz (D-HI), Yea        Schumer (D-NY), Yea

Scott (R-SC), Nay        Sessions (R-AL), Yea    Shaheen (D-NH), Yea

Shelby (R-AL), Yea     Stabenow (D-MI), Yea     Tester (D-MT), Nay

Thune (R-SD), Yea     Toomey (R-PA), Nay      Udall (D-CO), Yea

Udall (D-NM), Yea      Vitter (R-LA), Nay        Warner (D-VA), Yea

Warren (D-MA), Yea     Whitehouse (D-RI), Yea   Wicker (R-MS), Yea

Wyden (D-OR), Yea

Here is the 318-109-4 House of Representatives roll call vote breakdown on the final version of HR 933, as compiled by the House's clerk office:

Here is the 318-109-4 House of Representatives roll call vote breakdown on the final version of HR 933, as compiled by the House's clerk office:

Yeas:

Aderholt      Alexander     Andrews    Bachus     Barber    Barletta

Barr      Barrow (GA)     Barton     Beatty     Benishek     Bentivolio

Bera (CA)     Bilirakis     Bishop (GA)     Bishop (UT)    Black

Blackburn     Blumenauer     Bonamici     Bonner     Boustany

Brady (PA)    Brady (TX)    Brooks (AL)    Brooks (IN)    Brown (FL)

Brownley (CA)    Buchanan    Bucshon    Burgess    Bustos

Butterfield     Calvert      Campm     Campbell    Cantor    Capito

Capps     Carney     Carson (IN)     Carter    Cassidy    Castro (TX)

Chabot    Chaffetz     Clay     Cleaver    Clyburn    Coble

Coffman    Cole     Collins (GA)     Collins (NY)    Conaway

Cook    Cooper    Costa    Cotton    Courtney    Cramer

Crenshawm     Cuellar     Culberson     Cummings

Daines    Davis (CA)     Davis, Rodney    DeFazio

Delaney     DelBene     Denham     Dent     Diaz-Balart

Dingell     Duckworth     Duffy     Duncan (SC)

Edwards     Ellmers     Enyart     Eshoo     Esty

Farenthold     Fattah     Fincher     Fitzpatrick

Fleischmann     Flores     Forbes     Fortenberry

Foster     Foxx     Frankel (FL)     Franks (AZ)

Frelinghuysen     Gabbard     Gallego     Garcia

Gardner     Garrett     Gerlach     Gibbs     Gibson

Goodlatte     Gosar     Gowdy     Granger

Graves (GA)     Graves (MO)     Green, Al     Green, Gene

Griffin (AR)     Griffith (VA)     Grimm     Guthrie

Gutierrez     Hanna     Harper     Harris     Hartzler

Heck (NV)     Heck (WA)     Hensarling     Herrera Beutler

Himes     Hinojosa     Holding     Horsford     Hoyer

Hudson     Huffman     Huizenga (MI)     Hunter

Hurt     Israel     Issa     Jenkins     Johnson (GA)

Johnson (OH)     Johnson, E. B.     Johnson, Sam

Jordan     Joyce     Kaptur     Keating     Kelly

Kilmer     Kind     King (IA)     King (NY)

Kinzinger (IL)     Kirkpatrick     Kline     Kuster

Labrador     LaMalfa     Lamborn     Lance

Langevin     Lankford     Larsen (WA)     Latham

Latta     Levin     Lipinski     LoBiondo

Loebsack     Long     Lowenthal     Lowey

Lucas     Luetkemeyer     Lujan Grisham (NM)

Maffei     Maloney, Carolyn     Maloney, Sean

Marchant     Marino     Matheson     McCarthy (CA)

McCarthy (NY)     McCaul     McHenry     McIntyre

McKeon     McKinley     McMorris Rodgers

McNerney     Meadows     Meehan     Meng

Messer     Mica     Michaud     Miller (FL)

Miller (MI)     Miller, Gary     Moore     Moran

Mullin     Mulvaney     Murphy (FL)     Murphy (PA)

Negrete McLeod     Neugebauer     Noem     Nugent

Nunes     Nunnelee     O'Rourke     Olson     Owens

Palazzo     Pastor (AZ)     Paulsen     Payne     Pearce

Pelosi     Perry     Peters (CA)     Peterson     Petri

Pittenger     Pitts     Poe (TX)     Polis     Pompeo

Price (GA)     Price (NC)     Quigley     Radel

Rahall     Reed     Reichert     Renacci     Ribble

Rice (SC)     Rigell     Roby     Roe (TN)

Rogers (AL)     Rogers (KY)     Rogers (MI)

Rohrabacher     Rokita     Rooney     Ros-Lehtinen

Roskam     Ross     Rothfus     Royce     Ruiz

Runyan     Ruppersberger     Ryan (WI)     Sanchez, Loretta

Scalise     Schiff     Schneider     Schock     Schwartz

Schweikert     Scott (VA)     Scott, Austin     Scott, David

Sensenbrenner     Sessions     Sewell (AL)     Shea-Porter

Sherman     Shimkus     Shuster     Sinema     Sires

Smith (NE)     Smith (NJ)     Smith (WA)     Southerland

Stewart     Stivers     Takano     Terry     Thompson (CA)

Thompson (MS)     Thompson (PA)     Thornberry

Tiberi     Tipton     Titus     Turner     Upton     Valadao

Van Hollen     Veasey     Vela     Visclosky     Wagner

Walberg     Walden     Walorski     Walz     Waxman

Weber (TX)     Webster (FL)     Wenstrup     Whitfield

Williams      Wilson (SC)     Wittman     Wolf

Womack     Woodall     Yoder     Yoho

Young (AK)     Young (FL)     Young (IN)

Nays:

Amash

Bachmann

Bass

Becerra

Bishop (NY)

Braley (IA)

Bridenstine

Broun (GA)

Capuano

Cárdenas

Cartwright

Castor (FL)

Chu

Cicilline

Clarke

Cohen

Connolly

Conyers

Crawford

Crowley

Davis, Danny

DeGette

DeLauro

DeSantis

DesJarlais

Deutch

Doggett

Doyle

Duncan (TN)

Ellison

Farr

Fleming

Fudge

Garamendi

Gingrey (GA)

Gohmert

Grayson

Grijalva

Hahn

Hall

Hanabusa

Hastings (FL)

Hastings (WA)

Higgins

Holt

Honda

Huelskamp

Hultgren

Jackson Lee

Jeffries

Jones

Kennedy

Kildee

Kingston

Larson (CT)

Lee (CA)

Lewis

Lofgren

Luján, Ben Ray (NM)

Lummis

Lynch

Markey

Massie

Matsui

McClintock

McCollum

McDermott

McGovern

Meeks

Nadler

Napolitano

Neal

Nolan

Pallone

Pascrell

Perlmutter

Peters (MI)

Pingree (ME)

Pocan

Posey

Rangel

Richmond

Roybal-Allard

Rush

Ryan (OH)

Salmon

Sánchez, Linda T.

Sarbanes

Schakowsky

Schrader

Serrano

Simpson

Slaughter

Smith (TX)

Speier

Stockman

Stutzman

Swalwell (CA)

Tierney

Tonko

Tsongas

Vargas

Velázquez

Waters

Watt

Welch

Westmoreland

Wilson (FL)

Yarmuth

Not Voting:

Amodei

Engel

Miller, George

Wasserman Schultz