[haw-info] Roll-Call Vote on HR 4038 American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 643(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)
      H R 4038      RECORDED VOTE      19-Nov-2015      1:55 PM
      QUESTION:  On Passage
      BILL TITLE: American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act

	Ayes	Noes	PRES	NV
Republican	242	2		2
Democratic	47	135		6
Independent
TOTALS	289	137		8

---- AYES    289 ---

Abraham Aderholt Aguilar Allen Amash Amodei Ashford Babin Barletta Barr Barton Benishek Bera Bilirakis Bishop (GA) Bishop (MI) Bishop (UT) Black Blackburn Blum Bost Boustany Brady (TX) Brat Bridenstine Brooks (AL) Brooks (IN) Brownley (CA) Buchanan Buck Bucshon Burgess Bustos Byrne Calvert Carney Carter (GA) Carter (TX) Chabot Chaffetz Clawson (FL) Coffman Cole Collins (GA) Collins (NY) Comstock Conaway Connolly Cook Cooper Costa Costello (PA) Courtney Cramer Crawford Crenshaw Cuellar Culberson Curbelo (FL) Davis, Rodney Delaney Denham Dent DeSantis DesJarlais Diaz-Balart Doggett Dold Donovan Duffy Duncan (SC) Duncan (TN) Ellmers (NC) Emmer (MN) Farenthold Fincher Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Fleming Flores Forbes Fortenberry Foxx Franks (AZ) Frelinghuysen Gabbard Garamendi Garrett Gibbs Gibson Gohmert Goodlatte Gosar Gowdy Graham Granger Graves (GA)

Graves (LA) Graves (MO) Green, Gene Griffith Grothman Guinta Guthrie Hahn Hanna Hardy Harper Harris Hartzler Heck (NV) Hensarling Herrera Beutler Hice, Jody B. Hill Himes Holding Hudson Huelskamp Huizenga (MI) Hultgren Hunter Hurd (TX) Hurt (VA) Israel Issa Jenkins (KS) Jenkins (WV) Johnson (OH) Johnson, Sam Jolly Jordan Joyce Kaptur Katko Keating Kelly (MS) Kelly (PA) Kind King (NY) Kinzinger (IL) Kline Knight Kuster Labrador LaHood LaMalfa Lamborn Lance Langevin Latta Lipinski LoBiondo Loebsack Long Loudermilk Love Lucas Luetkemeyer Lummis Lynch MacArthur Maloney, Sean Marchant Marino Massie McCarthy McCaul McClintock McHenry McKinley McMorris Rodgers McSally Meadows Meehan Messer Mica Miller (FL) Miller (MI) Moolenaar Mooney (WV) Mullin Mulvaney Murphy (FL) Murphy (PA) Neugebauer Newhouse Noem Nolan Norcross Nugent Nunes Olson Palazzo

Palmer Paulsen Pearce Perry Peters Peterson Pittenger Pitts Poe (TX) Poliquin Polis Pompeo Posey Price, Tom Ratcliffe Reed Reichert Renacci Ribble Rice (NY) Rice (SC) Rigell Roby Roe (TN) Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rohrabacher Rokita Rooney (FL) Ros-Lehtinen Roskam Ross Rothfus Rouzer Royce Ruiz Russell Ryan (OH) Ryan (WI) Salmon Sanford Scalise Schrader Schweikert Scott, Austin Scott, David Sensenbrenner Sessions Sewell (AL) Shimkus Shuster Simpson Sinema Slaughter Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smith (TX) Stefanik Stewart Stivers Stutzman Thompson (PA) Thornberry Tiberi Tipton Trott Turner Upton Valadao Veasey Vela Wagner Walberg Walden Walker Walorski Walters, Mimi Walz Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Wenstrup Westerman Whitfield Wilson (SC) Wittman Womack Woodall Yoder Yoho Young (AK) Young (IA) Young (IN) Zeldin Zinke

---- NOES    137 ---

Adams Bass Beatty Becerra Beyer Blumenauer Bonamici Boyle, Brendan F. Brady (PA) Brown (FL) Butterfield Capps Capuano Cárdenas Carson (IN) Cartwright Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Chu, Judy Cicilline Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Clay Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Conyers Crowley Cummings Davis (CA) Davis, Danny DeGette DeLauro DelBene DeSaulnier Deutch Dingell Doyle, Michael F. Duckworth Edwards Engel Eshoo Esty Farr Fattah Foster

Frankel (FL) Fudge Gallego Grayson Green, Al Grijalva Gutiérrez Hastings Heck (WA) Higgins Honda Hoyer Huffman Jackson Lee Jeffries Johnson (GA) Johnson, E. B. Jones Kelly (IL) Kennedy Kildee Kilmer King (IA) Kirkpatrick Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lawrence Lee Levin Lewis Lieu, Ted Lofgren Lowenthal Lowey Lujan Grisham (NM) Luján, Ben Ray (NM) Maloney, Carolyn Matsui McCollum McDermott McGovern McNerney Meeks Meng Moore Moulton

Nadler Napolitano Neal O'Rourke Pallone Pascrell Payne Pelosi Perlmutter Pingree Pocan Price (NC) Quigley Rangel Richmond Roybal-Allard Rush Sánchez, Linda T. Sanchez, Loretta Sarbanes Schakowsky Schiff Scott (VA) Serrano Sherman Sires Smith (WA) Speier Swalwell (CA) Takano Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Titus Tonko Torres Tsongas Van Hollen Vargas Velázquez Visclosky Wasserman Schultz Waters, Maxine Welch Wilson (FL) Yarmuth

---- NOT VOTING    8 ---

DeFazio Ellison Hinojosa

Ruppersberger Takai Watson Coleman

Westmoreland Williams

[haw-info] URGENT House vote to Dismantle Refugee Program Thurs, Nov. 19

URGENT House vote to Dismantle Refugee Program Thurs, Nov. 19

 

It is tragic, but no surprise that members of Congress are using the attacks in Paris as an excuse to close our borders to fleeing Syrians. Now is not the time to turn a cold shoulder to people in need.

 

Call your representative today and tell them to vote against efforts to slam the door on Syrian refugees. The number is 844-735-1362.

 

The House leadership is scheduling a quick vote on Thursday November 19 on HR 4038 which is designed to halt the refugee program until massive changes are implemented. This could set the program back years.

 

In the wake of last week's attacks Historians Against the War remains determined to oppose US militarism in all its manifestations, to support inclusive diplomacy and to urge a massive redirection of resources to aid the millions of men, women and children rendered homeless by the proliferating wars.

 

HR 4038 is a harsh, unnecessary step in the wrong direction.

 

Call your representative today and tell them to vote against efforts to slam the door on Syrian refugees. The number is 844-735-1362.

Margaret Power and Carolyn Rusti Eisenberg

on behalf of Historians Against War Steering Comittee

 

[haw-info] statement by the antiwar coalition United for Peace and Justice on the attacks in Paris and elsewhere

United for Peace and Justice, the antiwar coalition to which Hiistorians Against the War belongs, issued the following statement yesterday, November 16.

Statement on Recent Attacks and Global Violence

United for Peace and Justice shares with people around the world a deep sorrow over the recent attacks in Paris, along with the civilian deaths on the downed Russian airplane and in Beirut.

Beirut

The massive news coverage of Paris brings home to everyone the humanity of these particular victims and the tragedy of innocent lives upended or destroyed. Yet in mourning the deaths in France, we cannot the ignore the reality of fourteen years in which millions of civilians in the Middle East and elsewhere have endured shattering losses, as the harsh and irresponsible American "war on terror" exacts its fearful price.

Paris

We recognize there are no simple, easy solutions to the challenge of ISIS and other terrorist formations. But we have had ample opportunity to observe the personal tragedies which ensue when a horrific international crime is transformed into the occasion for war.  Bombing the Syrian city of Raqqa may be cathartic for some, but there are innocent people living there, whose lives are as precious as those of Paris or New York. We do not believe that accelerated air-strikes, increased weapons deliveries or expanded "boots on the ground" are a practical or moral answer to the danger of international terrorist plots.

Egypt

United for Peace and Justice was formed in 2002, in an effort to deter a catastrophic war in Iraq. The emergence of ISIS is dramatic testament to the folly of that governmental decision. The intervening years of suffering and violence have confirmed the necessity for a mobilized, vocal peace movement. We remain determined to oppose US militarism in all its manifestations, to support inclusive diplomacy and to urge a massive redirection of resources to aid the millions of men, women and children rendered homeless by the proliferating wars.

Coordinating Committee of United for Peace and Justice

Please click here to learn how you can participate in our call-to-action for Syria on Human Rights 

[haw-info] HAW Notes 11/12/15: Links to recent articles of interest

Links to Recent Articles of Interest

"Review of Annie Jacobsen's 'The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top Secret Military Research Agency"

By Jeremy Kuzmarov, History News Network, posted November 11

The author teaches history at the University of Tulsa.

"Kissinger, the Bombardier: How Diplomacy via Air Power Became an All-American Tradition"

By Greg Grandin, TomDispatch.com, posted November 8

The author teaches history at New York University.

"The Indonesian Massacre: What Did the U.S. Know?"

By Margaret Scott, New York Review of Books, posted November 2

"The Servile Fanatic: Niall Ferguson's Grotesque but Compelling New Biography of Henry Kissinger"

By Todd Gitlin, Tablet, posted October 28

"Tourists of Empire: America's Peculiar Brand of Global Imperialism"

By William J. Astore, TomDispatch.com, posted October 27

The author is a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and formerly taught at the U.S. Military Academy.

"The 1983 War Scare Declassified and For Real"

Documents posted by the National Security Archive, October 24

"What If They Gave a War and Everyone Came? What Could Possibly Go Wrong (October 2015 Edition)"

By Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch.com, posted October 22

The author served with the U.S.State Department in post-invasion Iraq.

"The Big Bush Question"

By Elizabeth Drew, New York Review of Books, posted October 21

On the George W. Bush administration and its inaction before 9/11

"Yes, the U.S. Can Leave Afghanistan"

By Andrew J. Bacevich, Los Angeles Times, posted October 18

The author is a professor of history and international relations emeritus at Boston University.

Thanks to an anonymous reader for suggesting two of the articles included above. Suggestions can be sent to jimobrien48@gmail.com.