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Description
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Our Position
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Result
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Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME) offered this amendment to overhaul the regulatory process. This legislation threatens public health, safety and our environment by delaying rulemaking, wasting agency time and resources, and denying consideration of the benefits provided by these safeguards, including lives saved, illnesses and natural resource damage avoided, and safety improvements. NO is the pro-environment vote.
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Oppose
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Failed
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Jim Moran (D-VA) offered this amendment to strike a harmful provision in the FY12 Energy & Water Appropriations bill that blocks the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from protecting our nation's waterways, which threatens sources of drinking water for 117 million Americans. YES is the pro-environment vote.
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Support
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Failed
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James Lankford (R-OK) offered this amendment to gut funding for the Council on Environmental Quality, a critical division within the White House that coordinates environmental policy across the Executive Branch agencies. NO is the pro-environment vote.
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Oppose
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Failed
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Sponsored by Representative John Sullivan (R-OK), this legislation--known as the TRAIN Act--represents the single biggest assault on the Clean Air Act in its over 40 year history. This reckless bill guts health-based clean air standards and blocks two of the most significant and long overdue clean air protections that reduce harmful pollution--like mercury, smog, and soot--from power plants, resulting each year in tens of thousands of premature deaths, over 200,000 asthma attacks, and increased health care costs for families already struggling to make ends meet.
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Oppose
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Passed
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This motion would table a bill passed by the U.S. House that imposes draconian mandatory spending cuts and makes an increase in the debt ceiling conditional on passage of a balanced budget constitutional amendment. Such a constitutional amendment, given current federal revenues, would mean devastating cuts to environmental, public health, and other essential programs. YES is the pro-environment vote.
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Support
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Agreed To
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This bill, sponsored by Representative Bob Gibbs (R-OH), prevents the EPA from protecting our waterways from the discharge of harmful pesticides, which contaminate the water we drink, severely harm fish, and work their way up the food chain. NO is the pro-environment vote.
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Oppose
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Passed
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Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) sponsored this legislation to repeal billions of dollars of wasteful subsidies for large oil companies. YES is the pro-environment vote.
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Support
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Failed
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Sponsored by Chairman Doc Hastings (R-WA), HR 1229 imposes a rushed and arbitrary deadline of just 30 days for the Secretary of the Interior to approve or deny drilling permits and grants automatic approval if no action has been taken within 60 days, even if oversight capacity precludes the Department of the Interior from properly assessing drilling applications. NO is the pro-environment vote.
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Oppose
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Passed
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This legislation, led by Joe Barton (R-TX), repeals the commonsense light bulb efficiency standards signed into law by President Bush in 2007. These standards contribute to billions of dollars in savings for American families, thousands of new jobs in the manufacturing sector, and energy savings equivalent to 30 large power plants. NO is the pro-environment vote.
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Oppose
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Failed
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The sweeping assaults on the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the wildlife and wild places Americans hold dear contained in this budget measure make it the most anti-environmental piece of legislation passed by a House of Congress in recent memory. NO is the pro-environment vote.
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Oppose
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Failed
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