Republicans Vote to Stop Justice Dept from Suing States for Voter Suppression

Republican led House of Representatives [that is an oxymoron if ever there was one] has voted to stop the US Justice Dept from going after the states for implement onerous voter ID laws meant to make it hard for minorities, students, and elderly from voting.  These groups normally vote Democratic, that is why the Republicans feel their best shot at staying in power is to prevent the 'wrong people' from voting.

 

H.AMDT.1075 (A042)
Amends: H.R.5326
Sponsor: Rep Schweikert, David [AZ-5] (offered 5/9/2012)

AMENDMENT PURPOSE:

An amendment to prohibit the use of funds to be used by the Department of Justice to bring any action against any State for implementation of a State law requiring voter identification.

STATUS:

5/9/2012 4:21pm:

Amendment (A042) offered by Mr. Schweikert. (consideration: CR H2504-2505, H2519-2520; text: CR H2504)

5/9/2012 6:48pm:

On agreeing to the Schweikert amendment (A042) Agreed to by recorded vote: 232 - 190 (Roll no. 231).

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 231

      H R 5326      RECORDED VOTE      9-May-2012      6:47 PM
      AUTHOR(S):  Schweikert of Arizona Amendment
      QUESTION:  On Agreeing to the Amendment

	AYES	NOES	PRES	NV
REPUBLICAN	231	7		3
DEMOCRATIC	1	183		6
INDEPENDENT
TOTALS	232	190		9

---- AYES    232 ---

Adams Aderholt Akin Alexander Altmire Amodei Austria Barletta Bartlett Barton (TX) Bass (NH) Benishek Berg Bilbray Bilirakis Bishop (UT) Black Blackburn Bonner Bono Mack Boustany Brady (TX) Brooks Broun (GA) Buchanan Bucshon Buerkle Burgess Burton (IN) Calvert Camp Campbell Canseco Cantor Capito Carter Cassidy Chabot Chaffetz Coble Coffman (CO) Cole Conaway Cravaack Crawford Crenshaw Culberson Davis (KY) Denham Dent DesJarlais Diaz-Balart Dold Dreier Duffy Duncan (SC) Duncan (TN) Ellmers Emerson Farenthold Fincher Fitzpatrick Flake Fleischmann Fleming Flores Fortenberry Foxx Franks (AZ) Frelinghuysen Gallegly Gardner Garrett Gerlach Gibbs Gingrey (GA) Gohmert Goodlatte

Gosar Gowdy Granger Graves (GA) Graves (MO) Griffin (AR) Griffith (VA) Grimm Guinta Guthrie Hall Hanna Harper Harris Hartzler Hastings (WA) Heck Hensarling Herger Herrera Beutler Huelskamp Huizenga (MI) Hultgren Hunter Hurt Issa Jenkins Johnson (IL) Johnson (OH) Johnson, Sam Jones Jordan Kelly King (IA) King (NY) Kingston Kinzinger (IL) Kline Labrador Lamborn Lance Landry Lankford Latham LaTourette Latta Lewis (CA) LoBiondo Long Lucas Luetkemeyer Lummis Lungren, Daniel E. Mack Manzullo Marchant Marino McCarthy (CA) McCaul McClintock McCotter McHenry McKeon McKinley McMorris Rodgers Mica Miller (FL) Miller (MI) Miller, Gary Mulvaney Murphy (PA) Myrick Neugebauer Noem Nugent Nunes Nunnelee Olson

Palazzo Paul Paulsen Pearce Pence Petri Pitts Platts Poe (TX) Pompeo Posey Price (GA) Quayle Reed Rehberg Reichert Renacci Ribble Rivera Roby Roe (TN) Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rogers (MI) Rohrabacher Rokita Rooney Ros-Lehtinen Roskam Ross (FL) Royce Runyan Ryan (WI) Scalise Schilling Schock Schweikert Scott (SC) Scott, Austin Sensenbrenner Sessions Shimkus Shuster Simpson Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smith (TX) Southerland Stearns Stivers Stutzman Sullivan Terry Thompson (PA) Thornberry Tiberi Tipton Turner (NY) Turner (OH) Upton Walberg Walden Walsh (IL) Webster West Westmoreland Whitfield Wilson (SC) Wittman Wolf Womack Woodall Yoder Young (AK) Young (FL) Young (IN)

---- NOES    190 ---

Ackerman Amash Andrews Baca Baldwin Barrow Bass (CA) Becerra Berkley Berman Biggert Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Blumenauer Bonamici Boren Boswell Brady (PA) Braley (IA) Brown (FL) Butterfield Capps Capuano Cardoza Carnahan Carney Carson (IN) Castor (FL) Chandler Chu Cicilline Clarke (MI) Clarke (NY) Clay Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Connolly (VA) Conyers Cooper Costa Costello Courtney Critz Crowley Cuellar Cummings Davis (CA) Davis (IL) DeFazio DeGette DeLauro Deutch Dicks Dingell Doggett Doyle Edwards Ellison Engel Eshoo Farr Fattah Forbes

Frank (MA) Fudge Garamendi Gibson Gonzalez Green, Al Green, Gene Grijalva Gutierrez Hahn Hanabusa Hastings (FL) Hayworth Heinrich Higgins Himes Hinchey Hinojosa Hirono Hochul Holden Holt Honda Hoyer Israel Jackson (IL) Jackson Lee (TX) Johnson (GA) Johnson, E. B. Kaptur Keating Kildee Kind Kissell Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lee (CA) Levin Lewis (GA) Lipinski Loebsack Lofgren, Zoe Lowey Luján Lynch Maloney Markey Matheson Matsui McCarthy (NY) McCollum McDermott McGovern McIntyre McNerney Meehan Meeks Michaud Miller, George Moore Moran Murphy (CT) Nadler

Napolitano Neal Olver Owens Pallone Pascrell Pastor (AZ) Pelosi Perlmutter Peters Peterson Pingree (ME) Polis Price (NC) Quigley Rahall Rangel Reyes Richardson Richmond Rigell Ross (AR) Rothman (NJ) Roybal-Allard Ruppersberger Rush Ryan (OH) Sánchez, Linda T. Sanchez, Loretta Sarbanes Schakowsky Schiff Schrader Schwartz Scott (VA) Scott, David Serrano Sewell Sherman Shuler Sires Smith (WA) Speier Stark Sutton Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Tierney Tonko Towns Tsongas Van Hollen Velázquez Visclosky Walz (MN) Wasserman Schultz Waters Watt Waxman Wilson (FL) Woolsey Yarmuth

---- NOT VOTING    9 ---

Bachmann Bachus Donnelly (IN)

Filner Kucinich Miller (NC)

Schmidt Slaughter Welch

Sources:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/L?d112:./temp/~bdaDCsn:1[1-63](Amendments_For_H.R.5326)&./temp/~bdhSYN

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HR05326:@@@D&summ2=m&