Take Action! Hold Maryland Representatives Accountable for Riders
Votes! In early August several important environmental votes took place
in Congress. These votes have come in the form of "riders" that
were amendments attached to must-pass appropriations bills. The two appropriations bills that have had the most action recently
are the Interior Appropriations and the VA/HUD and Independent
Agencies Appropriations, (this funds the EPA). Votes 1-6 are votes on amendments to HR 4193, Appropriations for
the department of the Interior FY99. Votes 7and 8 are votes on
amendments to HR 4194, Appropriations for the VA/HUD and Independent
Agencies (funding for the EPA is within this bill). No. 1 of 8 07/21/98--HOUSE Vote No. 2313: 212-213 Favorable Vote: 'YES' (Cardin, Wynn, Cummings, Morella = YES) House rejected the Skaggs amendment that sought to increase funding
for energy conservation funding by $40 million. Funding energy
conservation measures is one way of fighting global warming. No. 2 of 8 07/21/98--HOUSE Vote No. 2315: 203-221 Favorable Vote: 'YES' (Ehrlich, Cardin, Wynn, Cummings, Morella = YES) House rejected the McGovern amendment that sought to provide $30
million for the state side program of the Land and Water Conservation
Fund for important land acquisitions. No. 3 of 8 07/22/98--HOUSE Vote No. 2320: 236-182 Favorable Vote: 'YES' (Cardin, Wynn, Hoyer, Bartlett, Cummings, Morella = YES) House agreed to the Miller of California amendment that forces
the Forest Service to use Knutson-Vandenberg funds for its intended
purpose of forest restoration, not the purchase of office supplies
and furniture for the Forest Service. No. 4 of 8 07/23/98--HOUSE Vote No. 2328: 176-249 Favorable Vote: 'YES' (Cardin, Wynn, Hoyer, Cummings, Morella = YES) House rejected the Hinchey amendment that sought to strike a rider
that allows a 250 foot-wide road to be built in roadless areas,
affecting critical salmon streams in the Chugach National Forest
in Alaska. No. 5 of 8 07/23/98--HOUSE Vote No. 2329: 186-237 Favorable Vote: 'YES' (Cardin, Wynn, Hoyer, Cummings, Morella = YES) House rejected the Miller of California amendment that sought
to prohibit any funds for logging road construction in the Tongass
National Forest. No. 6 of 8 07/23/98--HOUSE Vote No. 2331: 245-181 Favorable Vote: 'NO' (Cardin, Wynn, Cummings, Morella = NO) House passed H.R. 4193, making appropriations for the Department
of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 1999. The final bill still contained many anti-environmental
riders, thus we opposed the bill. No. 7 of 8 07/23/98--HOUSE Vote No. 2332: 226-198 Favorable Vote: 'YES' (Gilchrest, Cardin, Wynn, Hoyer, Cummings, Morella = YES) House agreed to the Obey amendment that specifies that any limitation
on funding to EPA or the Council on Environmental Quality shall
not apply to educational outreach or informational seminars, thus
eliminating the gag rule on the EPA conducting educational conferences
on global warming. No. 8 of 8 07/23/98--HOUSE Vote No. 2334: 176-243 (DEM: 148-47; REP: 27-196) Favorable Vote: 'YES' (Gilchrest, Cardin, Wynn, Hoyer, Cummings, Morella = YES) House rejected the Waxman amendment that would have removed the
report language from the bill that: delays the EPA from implementing
its programs to reduce haze from our national parks and wilderness
areas, reduce mercury emissions from power plants, eliminate dredging
as a remediation tool to clean up toxics like PCBs, interfere
with the clean up of Superfund and Brownfield sites, delays the
implementation of the Food Quality Protection Act and for cleanup
requirements for facilities licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory
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