Life Advocacy Briefing

Voting Record Index – 1st Session of 113th Congress

ABORTION POLICY WAS NOT A DOMINANT FOCUS in either house of the 113th Congress in 2013. Nevertheless, those proposals and nominations which did have cause-of-Life implications and received recorded roll calls covered in Life Advocacy Briefing do collectively constitute a critical voting record. Our annual compilation is always a challenging product; we have endeavored to reflect accurately the records of the men and women who serve America in the Capitol for the benefit of our readers.

In celebration of the Christmas season, we anticipate that this Life Advocacy Briefing will be the last edition for this year.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Key

A            HR-45 – Repeal ObamaCare – Final Passage – May 16, 2013 – 229-195 Passed

B            HR-45 – Recommit Motion (Block Consideration) – May 16, 2013 – 190-230 Failed

C            HRes-215 – End Debate on Rule for Consideration HR-45 – May 16, 2013 – 228-193 Passed

D            HRes-215 – Adoption of Rule for Consideration HR-45 – May 16, 2013 – 226-192 Passed

E            HRes-266 – End Debate on Rule for Consideration of HR-1797 & of a Farm Bill – June 18, 2013 – 229-196 Passed

F            HRes-266 – Rule for Consideration of HR-1797 & of a Farm Bill – June 18, 2013 – 232-193 Passed

G            HR-1797 – Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act – Final Passage – June 18, 2013 – 228-196 Passed

H            HJRes-59 – Continuing Resolution Extending Appropriations into FY2014 but Excluding Funding for ObamaCare Implementation – Sept. 20, 2013 – 230-189 Passed

I            HR-2775 – Motion to Concur in Senate Amendments (Final Passage) Appropriations Continuing Resolution & Debt Ceiling Temporary Deal (Funding ObamaCare) – Oct. 16, 2013 – 285-144 Passed

Voting Record Compilation

100% Pro-Life – Republicans: AL: Aderholt, Roby, Rogers; AZ: Franks, Gosar, Salmon, Schweikert; CA: Denham, LaMalfa, McClintock, Rohrabacher, Royce; CO: Lamborn; FL: DeSantis, Mica, Miller, Nugent, Posey, Radel, Rooney, Ross, Southerland, Yoho; GA: Collins, Gingrey, Graves, Kingston, Price, A. Scott, Westmoreland; IL: Hultgren; IN: Bucshon, Messer, Rokita, Stutzman, Walorski; IA: King; KS: Huelskamp, Pompeo, Yoder; KY: Barr, Massie; LA: Cassidy, Fleming, Scalise; MD: Harris; MI: Amash, Bentivolio, Huizenga, Miller; MN: Bachmann; MS: Nunnelee, Palazzo; MO: Graves, Hartzler, Long, Luetkemeyer; NV: Amodei; NJ: Garrett; NY: Collins, Reed; NC: Ellmers, Foxx, Holding, Hudson, Jones, Meadows; OH: Chabot, Gibbs, Johnson, Jordan, Latta, Renacci, Turner, Wenstrup; OK: Bridenstine, Lankford, Lucas, Mullen; OR: Walden; PA: Marino, Perry, Pitts, Rothfus; SC: Duncan, Gowdy, Mulvaney, Rice, Sanford, Wilson; SD:Noem; TN: Black, Blackburn, DesJarlais, Duncan, Fincher, Fleischmann, Roe; TX: Barton, Brady, Burgess, Carter, Conaway, Culberson, Farenthold, Flores, Gohmert, Granger, Hall, Hensarling, Marchant, McCaul, Neugebauer, Olson, Poe, Sessions, Smith, Stockman, Thornberry, Weber, Williams; UT: Bishop, Chaffetz, Stewart; VA: Forbes, Goodlatte, Griffith, Hurt; WI: Petri, Ryan, Sensenbrenner; WY: Lummis.

100% Pro-Life – Democrats: none

100% Pro-Life when voting (absences designated by lower-case letters) – Republicans: AL: Bonner/e,f,g (no longer in office for h & i), Brooks/d; CA: Campbell/a,b,c,d,e,f,g, Hunter/e,f,g; FL: Young/i; ID: Labrador/a,b,c,d; Alexander/i (no longer in office for vote); MI: Walberg/d; MO: Wagner/a,b,c,d, Smith (not in office for a-d); NM: Pearce/d; TX: S. Johnson/abcd; WI: Duffy/a,b,c,d.

100% Pro-Life when voting (absences designated by lower-case letters) – Democrats: none

Mostly Pro-Life – (absences shown by lower-case letters, 1-3 anti-Life votes shown by caps) – Republicans: AL: Bachus/I; AK: Young/I; AR: Cotton/I, Crawford/I, Griffin/I, Womack/I; CA: Calvert/I, Cook/I, Issa/I, McCarthy/I, McKeon/I, Gary Miller/I, Nunes/I, Valadao/I; CO: Coffman/I, Gardner/I, Tipton/I; FL: Bilirakis/I, Buchanan/I, Crenshaw/I, Diaz-Balart/I, Ros-Lehtinen/I, Webster/I; GA: Broun/G, Woodall/G; ID: Simpson/I; IL: R. Davis/I, Kinzinger/I, Roskam/I, Schock/g/I, Shimkus/I; IN: Brooks/I, Young/I; IA: Latham/I; KS: Jenkins/I; KY: Guthrie/I, Rogers/e,f,g/I, Whitfield/I; LA: Boustany/I; MI: Benishek/I, Camp/I, Rogers/I, Upton/I; MN: Kline/I, Paulsen/I; MS: Harper/I; MT: Daines/I; NE: Fortenberry/I, Smith/I, Terry/I; NV: Heck/I; NJ: Frelinghuysen/G,I, Lance/I, LoBiondo/I, Runyan/G,I, Smith/I; NY: Gibson/I, Grimm/I, Hanna/h/G,I, King/I; NC: Coble/I, McHenry/I, Pittenger/I; ND: Cramer/I; OH: Joyce/I, Stivers/I, Tiberi/I; OK: Cole/b/I; PA: Barletta/I, Dent/G,I, Fitzpatrick/I, Gerlach/I, Kelly/I, Meehan/I, Murphy/h/I, Shuster/I, Thompson/I; VA: Cantor/I, Rigell/H,I, Wittman/I, Wolf/I; WA: Hastings/I, Herrera-Beutler/h/I, McMorris-Rodgers/I, Reichert/I; WV: Capito/I, McKinley/I; WI: Ribble/I

Mostly Pro-Life – (absences shown by lower-case letters, 1-3 anti-Life votes shown by caps) – Democrats: IL: Lipinski/B,F,G; MN: Peterson/B,F,G; NC: McIntyre/b/C,E,I; UT: Matheson/E,F,I; WV: Rahall/B,F,G

Mixed (4-5 anti-Life votes) – Republicans: none

Mixed (4-5 anti-Life votes) – Democrats: none

Mostly Anti-Life (1-2 pro-Life votes shown by caps) – Republicans: none

Mostly Anti-Life (1-2 pro-Life votes shown by caps) – Democrats: TX: Cuellar/G

100% Anti-Life when voting – Republicans: none

100% Anti-Life when Voting (absences shown by lower-case letters) – Democrats: CA: Farr/h; CO: Polis/h; GA: Lewis/a,b; IL: Duckworth/c,d, Gutierrez/h, Quigley/abcd, Rush/h,i; IN: Carson/h; MD: Delaney/h; MA: Keating/d, Markey/d (no longer in office for balance of term); MI: Conyers/b; MS: Thompson/h; MO: Cleaver/h; NJ: Pascrell/e,f,g; NY: Engel/b, McCarthy/c,d,e,f,g,h,i; PA: Fattah/h; SC: Clyburn/a,b,c,d; TN: Cohen/c,d; WA: Larsen/e,f,g

100% Anti-Life – Republicans: none

100% Anti-Life – Democrats: AL: Sewell; AZ: Barber, Grijalva, Kirkpatrick, Pastor, Sinema; CA: Bass, Becerra, Bera, Brownley, Capps, Cardenas, Chu, Costa, Davis, Eshoo, Garamendi, Hahn, Honda, Huffman, Lee, Lofgren, Lowenthal, Matsui, McNerney, George Miller, Napolitano, Negrete-McLeod, Pelosi, Peters, Roybal-Allard, Ruiz, Linda Sanchez, Loretta Sanchez, Schiff, Sherman, Speier, Swalwell, Takano, Thompson, Vargas, Waters, Waxman; CO: DeGette, Perlmutter; CT: Courtney, DeLauro, Esty, Himes, Larson; DE: Carney; FL: Brown, Castor, Deutch, Frankel, Garcia, Grayson, Hastings, Murphy, Wasserman-Schultz, Wilson; GA: Barrow, Bishop, Johnson, D. Scott; HI: Gabbard, Hanabusa; IL: Bustos, D. Davis, Enyart, Foster, Kelly, Schakowsky, Schneider; IN: Visclosky; IA: Braley, Loebsack; KY: Yarmuth; LA: Richmond; ME: Michaud, Pingree; MD: Cummings, Edwards, Hoyer, Ruppersberger, Sarbanes, VanHollen; MA: Capuano, Keating, Kennedy, Lynch, McGovern, Neal, Tierney, Tsongas; MI: Dingell, Kildee, Levin, Peters; MN: Ellison, McCollum, Nolan, Walz; MO: Clay; NV: Horsford, Titus; NH: Kuster, Shea-Porter; NJ: Andrews, Holt, Pallone, Payne, Sires; NM: Grisham, Lujan; NY: Bishop, Clarke, Crowley, Higgins, Israel, Jeffries, Lowey, Maffei, C. Maloney, S. Maloney, Meeks, Meng, Nadler, Owens, Rangel, Serrano, Slaughter, Tonko, Velazquez; NC: Butterfield, Price, Watt; OH: Beatty, Fudge, Kaptur, Ryan; OR: Blumenauer, Bonamici, DeFazio, Schrader; PA: Brady, Cartwright, Doyle, Schwartz; RI: Cicilline, Langevin; TN: Cooper; TX: Castro, Doggett, Gallego, A. Green, G. Green, Hinojosa, Jackson-Lee, E.B. Johnson, O’Rourke, Veasey, Vela; VT: Welch; VA: Connolly, Moran, Scott; WA: DelBene, Heck, Kilmer, McDermott, Smith; WI: Kind, Moore, Pocan

• The Speaker traditionally does not vote; Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) cast one vote in the 2013 Session of the 113th Congress: He voted “anti-Life” on roll call I.

Note: Roll Call I drew many votes from Members who normally vote “pro-Life.” We characterize it as an anti-Life vote and reported it as such at the time of the roll call, because many of those who voted against the motion did so because of its ending the brief parliamentary campaign to block ObamaCare funding by blocking the Continuing Appropriations resolution to reopen the government in Fiscal Year 2014. Life Advocacy and many other pro-life publications and organizations oppose funding ObamaCare because of its anti-Life agenda.

SENATE

Key

A            HR-933 – Defense Appropriation Bill – Cruz Amendment 30 to Prohibit Use of Funds to Implement ObamaCare – March 13, 2013 – 45-52 Failed

B            Senate Budget Bill – Cruz Amendment 202 to Establish Deficit-Neutral Reserve Fund to Provide for ObamaCare Repeal & to Encourage Patient-Centered Reforms – March 22, 2013 – 45-54 Failed

C            Senate Budget Bill – Rubio Amendment 292 to Express Sense of the Senate Favoring Enactment of Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act – March 22, 2013 – 48-51 Failed

D            Senate Budget Bill – Shaheen Amendment 438 to Codify ObamaCare Contraception/Abortifacient/Sterilization Mandate – March 22, 2013 – 56-43 Passed

E            Senate Budget Bill – Fischer Amendment 630 to Establish Reserve Fund to Protect Women’s Healthcare Access in a Manner Protecting Conscience Rights – March 22, 2013 – 44-55 Failed

F            Senate Budget Bill – Cruz Amendment 702 to Create Point of Order Against Any Legislation Funding the UN While Any Member Nation Forces Citizens to Undergo Forced Abortions – March 23, 2013 – 38-61 Failed

G            Nomination of Thomas Perez as Labor Secretary – Cloture Motion – July 17, 2013 – 60-40 – Passed (needing 60)

H            Confirmation of Thomas Perez as Labor Secretary – July 18, 2013 – 54-46 – Passed

I            HJRes-59 – Reid Amendment Restoring ObamaCare Implementation Funding to Continuing Resolution Extending Appropriations into FY2014 – Sept. 27, 2013 – 54-44 — Passed

J            HR-2775 – Appropriations Continuing Resolution & Debt Ceiling Temporary Deal (Funding ObamaCare) – Final Passage – Oct. 16, 2013 – 81-18 — Passed

K            Confirmation of Cornelia Pillard to DC Circuit Court of Appeals – End Debate Motion (Cloture) – Nov. 12, 2013 – 56-41 – Failed (needing 60)

L            Motion to Reconsider Defeated Cloture Motion – Pillard Nomination – Dec. 10, 2013 – 54-44 – Passed

M            Motion to End Debate (Cloture) – PIllard Nomination – Dec. 10, 2013 – 56-42 – Passed (needing 51 under changed Senate Filibuster Rule)

N            Confirmation of Cornelia Pillard – Dec. 12, 2013 – 51-44 – Passed

 Voting Record Compilation

100% Pro-Life – Republicans: AL: Shelby; FL: Rubio; ID: Crapo & Risch; IA: Grassley; KS: Roberts; KY: Paul; LA: Vitter; NV: Heller; PA: Toomey; SC: Scott; TX: Cornyn; UT: Lee; WI: Johnson; WY: Enzi

100% Pro-Life – Democrats: none

100% Pro-Life when voting (absences designated by lower-case letters) – Republicans: OK: Coburn/n & Inhofe/j,k; TX: Cruz/l,m

100% Pro-Life when voting (absences designated by lower-case letters) – Democrats: none

Mostly Pro-Life – (absences shown by lower-case letters, 1-5 anti-Life votes shown by caps) – Republicans: AL: Sessions/F; AZ: Flake/i/F,J & McCain/F,G,J; AR: Boozman/J; GA: Chambliss/n/J, Isakson/J; IN: Coats/J; KS: Moran/n/J; KY: McConnell/J; MS: Cochran/J & Wicker/F,J; MO: Blunt/F,J; NE: Fischer/J & Johanns/k/J; NH: Ayotte/J; NC: Burr/J; ND: Hoeven/J; OH: Portman/J; SC: Graham/J; SD: Thune/J; TN: Alexander/G,J & Corker/G,J; UT: Hatch/i,k/J; WY: Barrasso

Mostly Pro-Life – (1-5 anti-Life votes shown by caps) – Democrats: none

Mixed (6-8 anti-Life votes shown by caps) – Republicans: AK: Murkowski/D,E,F,G,J,K,M,N

Mixed (absences shown by lower-case letters, 6-8 anti-Life votes shown by caps) – Democrats: WV: Manchin/a/B,G,H,I,J,K

Mostly Anti-Life (absences shown by lower-case letters, 1-5 pro-Life votes shown by caps) – Republicans: IL: Kirk/l,m,n/A,B,H,I,K; ME: Collins/A,B,H,I,L

Mostly Anti-Life (absences shown by lower-case letters, 1-5 pro-Life votes shown by caps) – Democrats: AR: Pryor/C,E,N; IN: Donnelly/C,N; NV: Reid/C,K; PA: Casey/C

100% Anti-Life when voting – Republicans: none

100% Anti-Life when voting (absences shown by lower-case letters) – Democrats: DE: Carper/n; MA: Cowan (not in office after “f”) & Markey (not in office before “g”); RI: Whitehouse/a

100% Anti-Life – Republicans: none

100% Anti-Life – Democrats: AK: Begich; CA: Boxer & Feinstein; CO: Bennet & Udall; CT: Blumenthal & Murphy; DE: Coons; FL: Nelson; HI: Hirono & Schatz; IL: Durbin; IA: Harkin; LA: Landrieu; ME: King (“Independent”); MD: Cardin & Mikulski; MA: Warren; MI: Levin & Stabenow; MN: Franken & Klobuchar; MO: McCaskill; MT: Baucus & Tester; NH: Shaheen; NJ: Menendez; NM: Heinrich & Udall; NY: Gillibrand & Schumer; NC: Hagan; ND: Heitkamp; OH: Brown; OR: Merkley & Wyden; RI: Reed; SD: Johnson; VT: Leahy & Sanders (“Independent”); VA: Kaine & Warner; WA: Cantwell & Murray; WV: Rockefeller; WI: Baldwin

• New Jersey GOP Sen. Chiesa filled the Lautenberg vacancy by appointment upon the death of Sen. Lautenberg, who was absent throughout the 113th Congress until he passed away; Sen. Chiesa cast votes on G,H,I & J – pro-life except J; he then left office.  Sen. Cory Booker (D) was elected to fill out the balance of the 113th Congress and voted “anti-Life” on K-N, 100% anti-Life when voting.

Note: Roll Call J drew many votes from Senators who normally vote “pro-Life.” We characterize it as an anti-Life vote and reported it as such at the time of the roll call, because many of those who voted against the motion did so because of its ending the brief parliamentary campaign to block ObamaCare funding by blocking the Continuing Appropriations resolution to reopen the government in Fiscal Year 2014. Life Advocacy and many other pro-life publications and organizations oppose funding ObamaCare because of its anti-Life agenda.