Hinchey-Rohrabacher Amendment Fails Again - but gains a little

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Last night, the U.S. House of Representatives again thumbed its nose at compassion and common sense by rejecting the Hinchey-Rohrabacher amendment, which would have prohibited the federal government from undermining state medical marijuana laws. The final vote was 163 for / 259 against. This year there were two more “yes” votes than last year, a sign that support is slowly growing. (Since three Representatives who voted for the amendment last year couldn’t make the vote this year, the base of support is actually up five over last year).

Below is a breakdown. I did not list the Republicans that didn’t vote for Hinchey-Rohrabacher or the Democrats that did vote for this resolution because except for the following the Republicans voted against it and the Democrats voted for it. Below are the exceptions.

The Republicans that voted for Hinchey-Rohrabacher this year are:

Bartlett (MD)
Beauprez (CO)
Burton (IN) (voted No last year)
Campbell (CA) (voted No last year)
Flake (AZ)
Garrett (NJ) (voted No last year)
Gilchrest (MD)
Johnson (CT)
Johnson (IL)
LaTourette (OH) (voted No last year)
Otter (ID)
Paul (TX)
Porter (NV)
Rehberg (MT)
Rohrabacher (CA)
Royce(CA)
Simmons (CT)
Tancredo (CO)

Republicans who did not vote:

Cannon (UT) (voted No last year)
Gerlach (PA) (voted No last year)
Hyde (IL) (did not vote last year)
Johnson, Sam (TX) (voted No last year)
Poe (TX) (voted No last year)
Sherwood (PA) (voted No last year)


These Republicans were gained this year Burton(IN), Garrett (NJ), Campbell(CA), LaTourette (OH).

This Republican voted for it last year but he voted against it this year – Simpson (ID)


Democrats who voted against the Hinchey-Rohrabacher Amendment

Baca (CA) (voted Yea in 2005)
Barrow (GA)
Bean (IL)
Berry (AZ)
Boren (OK)
Boswell (IA)
Boucher (VA)
Boyd (FL)
Cardoza (CA)
Chandler (KY)
Cooper (TN)
Costa (CA)
Costello (IL)
Cramer (AL)
Cuellar (TX) (did not vote last year)
Cummings (MD)
Davis (AL)
Davis (TN)
Dingell (MI)
Edwards (TX)
Emanuel (IL) (voted yea in 2005)
Etheridge(NC)
Ford (TN)
Gonzalez (TX) (voted yea in 2005)
Gordon (TN)
Green, Gene(TX)
Herseth (SD)
Hinojosa (TX)
Larsen (WA)
Levin (MI)
Lipinski (IL)
Lynch (MA)
Marshall (GA)
Matheson (UT)
McIntyre (NC)
Meek (FL) (voted yea in 2005)
Miller (NC)
Mollohan (WV)
Ortiz (TX)
Peterson (MN)
Pomeroy (ND)
Rahall (WV)
Reyes (TX)
Ross (AR)
Salazar (CO)
Schwartz (PA)
Skelton (MO)
Snyder (AR)
Spratt (SC)
Tanner (TN)
Taylor (MS)
Visclosky (IN)
Wasserman Schultz (FL)

Since I am from Texas I included a complete list of how the Texas Delegation voted.

Texas Delegation Votes

Barton, Joe (R) Ennis 6th NO
Bonilla, Henry (R) San Antonio 23rd NO
Brady, Kevin (R) The Woodlands 8th NO
Burgess, Michael C. (R) Flower Mound 26th NO
Carter, John R. (R) Round Rock 31st NO
Conaway, K. Michael (R) Midland 11th NO
Cuellar, Henry (D) Laredo 28th NO
Culberson, John A.(R) Houston 7th NO
Delay, Tom (R) Sugarland 22nd NOT VOTING (gone)
Doggett, Lloyd (D) Austin 25th YES
Edwards, Chet (D) Waco 17th NO
Gohmert, Louie (R) Tyler 1st NO
Gonzalez, Charles A.(D) San Antonio 20th NO
Granger, Kay (R) Fort Worth 12th NO
Green, Al (D) Houston 9th YES
Green, Gene (D) Houston 29th NO
Hall, Ralph M. Rockwall 4th NO
Hensarling, Jeb Dallas 5th NO
Hinojosa, Rubén (D) Mercedes 15th NO
Jackson-Lee, Sheila (D) Houston 18th YES
Johnson, Eddie Bernice (D) Dallas 30th YES
Johnson, Sam (R) Plano 3rd NOT VOTING
McCaul, Michael T. Austin 10th NO
Marchant, Kenny (R) Coppell 24th NO
Neugebauer, Randy (R) Lubbock 19th NO
Ortiz, Solomon P. (D) Corpus Christi 27th NO
Paul, Ron (R) Surfside 14th YES
Poe, Ted (R) Humble 2nd NOT VOTING
Reyes, Silvestre (D) El Paso 16th NO
Sessions, Pete (R) Dallas 32nd NO
Smith, Lamar S. (R) San Antonio 21st NO
Thornberry, Mac (R) Clarendon 13th NO

Texas Democrats who voted against Hinchey-Rohrabacher:

Cuellar, Henry
Edwards, Chet
Gonzalez, Charles A
Green, Gene
Hinojosa, Rubén
Ortiz, Solomon
Reyes, Silvestre

It is very strange that, except for Gene Green, who has a predominantly Hispanic Distict and Chet Edwards, the others democrats in Texas that voted against it were Hispanic.

[T Wolf]

1. Another in the multitude of reasons why I will NOT vote to send

Alyson Schwartz (D-PA) back to Congress.