Earlier today, the House voted on a number of amendments to the Energy-Water appropriations bill. I want to highlight a few in this diary and will write another tomorrow highlighting others.
Dina Titus (NV-01) offered two amendments related to the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository site.
In 1987, Yucca Mountain was designated as a potential site for storing spent nuclear fuel. It has faced significant (justified) opposition from environmentalists and the broader public because of the risks involved. Although approved by Congress in 2002, the site was closed in 2011 for safety reasons.
Titus offered an amendment to eliminate all $150 million allocated for nuclear waste disposal and divert the funds toward reducing the deficit. She argued that this money would be eventually be spent developing the Yucca Mountain site.
It failed 75 to 344.
69 Democrats and 6 Republicans voted for it. 122 Democrats and 222 Republicans voted against it.
Joyce Beatty (OH-03)
Xavier Becerra (CA-34)
Earl Blumenauer (OR-03)
Julia Brownley (CA-26)
Lois Capps (CA-24)
Mike Capuano (MA-07)
Kathy Castor (FL-14)
Judy Chu (CA-27)
Katherine Clark (MA-05)
Yvette Clarke (NY-09)
Emanuel Cleaver (MO-05)
John Conyers (MI-13)
Joe Crowley (NY-14)
Susan Davis (CA-53)
Ted Deutch (FL-21)
Lloyd Doggett (TX-35)
Donna Edwards (MD-04)
Keith Ellison (MN-05)
Eliot Engel (NY-16)
Anna Eshoo (CA-18)
Lois Frankel (FL-22)
Raul Grijalva (AZ-03)
Luis Gutiérrez (IL-04)
Janice Hahn (CA-44)
Alcee Hastings (FL-20)
Rush Holt (NJ-12)
Mike Honda (CA-17)
Steven Horsford (NV-04)
Jared Huffman (CA-02)
Joe Kennedy (MA-04)
Ann Kirkpatrick (AZ-01)
Barbara Lee (CA-13)
Sandy Levin (MI-09)
John Lewis (GA-05)
Zoe Lofgren (CA-19)
Alan Lowenthal (CA-47)
Ben Luján (NM-03)
Jim Matheson (UT-04)
Doris Matsui (CA-06)
Jim McGovern (MA-02)
Gregory Meeks (NY-05)
Grace Meng (NY-06)
Jerry Nadler (NY-10)
Grace Napolitano (CA-32)
Gloria Negrete McLeod (CA-35)
Frank Pallone (NJ-06)
Donald Payne (NJ-10)
Nancy Pelosi (CA-12)
Gary Peters (MI-14)
Mark Pocan (WI-02)
Jared Polis (CO-02)
Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40)
Raul Ruiz (CA-36)
Tim Ryan (OH-13)
Linda Sánchez (CA-38)
Loretta Sánchez (CA-46)
Jan Schakowsky (IL-09)
David Scott (GA-13)
Jose Serrano (NY-15)
Carol Shea-Porter (NH-01)
Adam Smith (WA-09)
Mark Takano (CA-41)
Mike Thompson (CA-05)
John Tierney (MA-06)
Dina Titus (NV-01)
Niki Tsongas (MA-03)
Nydia Velázquez (NY-07)
Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (FL-23)
Henry Waxman (CA-33)
The geographic reasons why the 6 Republican supporters voted for it are clear.
Mark Amodei (NV-02)
Rob Bishop (UT-01)
Jason Chaffetz (UT-03)
Joe Heck (NV-04)
Buck McKeon (CA-25)
Chris Stewart (UT-02)
Her other amendment would have eliminated a section of the bill that prevents the use of funds to "irrevocably remove the possibility that Yucca Mountain may be a repository option in the future."
The amendment failed 96 to 326.
89 Democrats and 7 Republicans voted for it. 222 Republicans and 104 Democrats voted against it.
The roll call was similar to that of the prior amendment.
It picked up one more Republican supporter: Walter Jones (NC-03).
Here are the Democrats who supported the second amendment but not the first.
Karen Bass (CA-37)
Matt Cartwright (PA-17)
David Cicilline (RI-01)
Danny Davis (IL-07)
Pete DeFazio (OR-04)
Diana DeGette (CO-01)
Rosa DeLauro (CT-03)
Marcia Fudge (OH-11)
John Garamendi (CA-03) [not present for prior vote]
Jim Langevin (RI-02)
Michele Lujan Grisham (NM-01)
Stephen Lynch (MA-08)
Carolyn Maloney (NY-12)
Jerry McNerney (CA-09)
Ed Perlmutter (CO-07)
John Sarbanes (MD-03)
Kurt Schrader (OR-05)
Brad Sherman (CA-30)
Louise Slaughter (NY-25)
Jackie Speier (CA-14)
Juan Vargas (CA-51)
Maxine Waters (CA-43)
Frederica Wilson (FL-24)
Cleaver, Gutierrez, and Smith voted against this amendment even though they voted for the prior one.
In other nuclear-related votes, Mike Quigley (IL-05) offered an amendment to reduce funds for the National Nuclear Security Administration, Weapons Activities account (specifically the Long Range Standoff Cruise Missile Warhead Study) by $7.6 million and apply the savings to the spending reduction account.
It failed 181 to 239.
161 Democrats and 20 Republicans voted for it. 208 Republicans and 31 Democrats voted against it.
Here are the 20 Republicans who voted for it. They like cutting spending more than they like nukes in this case.
Justin Amash (MI-03)
Michele Bachmann (MN-06)
Michael Burgess (TX-26)
Mike Coffman (CO-06)
Rodney Davis (IL-13)
Jimmy Duncan (TN-02)
Morgan Griffith (VA-09)
Richard Hanna (NY-22)
Tim Huelskamp (KS-01)
Walter Jones (NC-03)
Jim Jordan (OH-04)
Tom Massie (KY-04)
Luke Messer (IN-06)
Mick Mulvaney (SC-05)
Tom Petri (WI-06)
Dana Rohrabacher (CA-48)
Mark Sanford (SC-01)
Aaron Schock (IL-18)
Jim Sensenbrenner (WI-05)
Steve Stockman (TX-36)
Here are the 31 Democrats who voted against it:
Ron Barber (AZ-02)
John Barrow (GA-12)
Corinne Brown (FL-05)
Jim Costa (CA-16)
Henry Cuellar (TX-28)
Elijah Cummings (MD-07)
John Dingell (MI-12)
Tulsi Gabbard (HI-02)
Pete Gallego (TX-23)
Al Green (TX-09)
Gene Green (TX-29)
Hank Johnson (GA-04)
Eddie Johnson (TX-30)
Ann Kirkpatrick (AZ-01)
Rick Larsen (WA-02)
Michelle Lujan Grisham (NM-01)
Ben Luján (NM-03)
Sean Maloney (NY-18)
Mike McIntyre (NC-07)
Jim Moran (VA-08)
Collin Peterson (MN-08)
Raul Ruiz (CA-36)
Dutch Ruppersberger (MD-02)
Bradley Schneider (IL-10)
Kurt Schrader (OR-05)
Bobby Scott (VA-03)
Terri Sewell (AL-07)
Kyrsten Sinema (AZ-09)
Louise Slaughter (NY-25)
Adam Smith (WA-09)
Eric Swalwell (CA-15)