Two weeks ago, the Senate passed two resolutions, both 52 to 46, to block Obama’s recent carbon regulations for power plants. One resolution focused on the EPA rule for existing power plants, and the other focused on the EPA rule targeted at future power plants.
Today, the House brought the two resolutions up for consideration, and, as expected, both passed.
The first, on existing power plants, passed 242 to 180, on a mostly party line vote.
4 Democrats , however, voted for it: Brad Ashford (NE-02), Sanford Bishop (GA-02), Henry Cuellar (TX-28), and Collin Peterson (MN-07).
And 2 Republicans voted against it: Bob Dold (IL-10) and Richard Hanna (NY-22).
The second, on future power plants, passed 235 to 188.
The same 4 Democrats voted for it, but now 10 Republicans opposed it.
Here are the 10:
Ryan Costello (PA-06)
Carlos Curbelo (FL-26)
Bob Dold (IL-10)
Mike Fitzpatrick (PA-08)
Chris Gibson (NY-19)
Richard Hanna (NY-22)
John Katko (NY-24)
Frank LoBiondo (NJ-02)
Pat Meehan (PA-07)
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL-27)
All ten Republicans are from purple districts (R+4 to D+5), with the exception of Dold, who represents a bluer district (D+8). Fitzpatrick and Gibson will be retiring next year. The districts encompass the Philadelphia suburbs, the Chicago suburbs, the Miami suburbs, and Upstate New York.
The ten who voted against the second resolution largely align with the group of 11 House Republicans who co-sponsored a hand-waving resolution about supporting unspecified climate action back in September. For most of them, this vague support for climate action does not entail supporting regulations on existing power plants, of course.