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WASHINGTON BUREAU NATION ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE 1156 15 TH STREET, NW SUITE 915 WASHINGTON, DC 20005 P (202) 463-2940 F (202) 463-2953 E-MAIL: WASHINGTONBUREAU@NAACPNET.

1 WASHINGTON BUREAU NATION ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE TH STREET, NW SUITE 915 WASHINGTON, DC P (202) F (202) WASHINGTONBUREAU@NAACPNET.ORG WEB ADDRESS DATE: October 23, 2013 TO: FROM: Concerned Parties ISSUE BRIEF Hilary O. Shelton, Director, NAACP Washington Bureau Congress Votes to Re-Open the Federal Government and Avert Financial Catastrophe by Raising the Debt Limit FEDER BUDGET MUST BE PASSED AGAIN BY JANUARY 15, 2014, AND THE DEBT CEILING WILL EXPIRE ON FEBRUARY 7, 2014 THE ISSUE: On Thursday, October 17, 2013, the federal government re- opened after a 16- day shut down during which time as many as 800,000 government employees were furloughed. In addition to the numerous hardships caused by this shut down, economists and policy analysts agree that it cost the U.S. government and the national economy as much as $24 billion in lost economic output. And, while the final agreement which ended the shutdown also included language to retroactively compensate federal employees for the shutdown period, private- sector workers and contractors are not so fortunate. Perhaps the biggest tragedy of this whole mess is that it could repeat itself in the very near future. Under the agreement which ended the shut down, the federal government is funded through January 15, 2014, and the debt ceiling is set to expire on February 7, Because extremists in both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House did not get what they were demanding during this shut down (including a repeal of the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare, a.k.a. comprehensive health care reform), they are considering causing another shut down in January. Attached is a listing which shows how every Member of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate voted on the bill which ended the shut down and avoided a federal default on the U.S. government s financial obligations. The Senate passed the bill by a margin of 81 yeas to 18 nays just before 8:00 pm on October 16; the House passed it by a margin of 285 yeas to 144 nays just after 10:00 pm on the same evening, and President Obama signed it into law just before midnight. MEMBERSHIP IS POWER! JOIN THE NAACP TODAY. To become an NAACP member or to sign up for legislative and press updates, visit SEE HOW EACH MEMBER OF THE HOUSE & SENATE VOTED ON THIS IMPORTANT LEGISLATION TO RE-OPEN THE GOVERNMENT AND RAISE THE DEBT CEILING ON THE FOLLOWING PAGES

2 Final passage of a bill to provide continuing appropriations for government operations through January 14, 2014 and allow borrowing to continue through February 7, The bill also provides retroactive pay for federal employees furloughed since October 1, The bill passed the Senate on October 16, 2013, by a margin of 81 yeas to 18 nays. ABAMA INDIANA NEBRASKA SOUTH CAROLINA Shelby Coats Johanns Graham Sessions Donnelly Fischer Scott ASKA IOWA NEVADA SOUTH DAKOTA Murkowski, L. Grassley Reid, Harry Johnson Begich Harkin Heller Thune ARIZONA KANSAS NEW HAMPSHIRE TENNESSEE McCain Roberts Shaheen Alexander Flake Moran Ayotte Corker ARKANSAS KENTUCKY NEW JERSEY TEXAS Pryor McConnell Chiesa Cornyn Boozman Paul Menendez Cruz CIFORNIA LOUISIANA NEW MEXICO UTAH Feinstein Landrieu Udall, Tom Hatch Boxer Vitter Heinrich Lee COLORADO MAINE NEW YORK VERMONT Udall, Mark Collins Schumer Leahy Bennet CONNECTICUT Blumenthal Murphy DELAWARE Carper Coons FLORIDA Nelson Rubio GEORGIA Chambliss Isakson King (Ind.) MARYLAND Mikulski Cardin MASSACHUSETTS Warren Markey MICHIGAN Levin, Carl Stabenow MINNESOTA Klobuchar Franken Gillibrand NORTH CAROLINA Burr Hagan NORTH DAKOTA Hoeven Heitkamp OHIO Brown Portman OKLAHOMA Inhofe Coburn Sanders (Ind.) VIRGINIA Warner Kaine WASHINGTON Murray Cantwell WEST VIRGINIA Rockefeller Manchin WISCONSIN Johnson Baldwin HAWAII Schatz Hinoro MISSISSIPPI Cochran Wicker OREGON Wyden Merkley WYOMING Enzi Barrasso IDAHO Crapo Risch ILLINOIS Durbin Kirk MISSOURI McCaskill Blunt MONTANA Baucus Tester PENNSYLVANIA Casey Toomey RHODE ISLAND Reed, Jack Whitehouse = Voted in support of the NAACP position and in support of the bill = Voted against the NAACP position and against the bill = Did not vote

3 Final passage of a bill to provide continuing appropriations for government operations through January 14, 2014 and allow borrowing to continue through February 7, The bill also provides retroactive pay for federal employees furloughed since October 1, The bill passed the House of Representatives on October 16, 2013, by a margin of 285 yeas to 144 nays. ABAMA 18 Eshoo 7 Perlmutter 6 Price, Tom 1 V 19 Lofgren CONNECTICUT 7 Woodall 2 Roby 20 Farr 1 Larson, John 8 Scott, Austin 3 Rogers, Mike 21 Valadao 2 Courtney 9 Collins 4 Aderholt 22 Nunes 3 DeLauro 10 Broun 5 Brooks 23 McCarthy 4 Himes 11 Gingrey 6 Bachus 24 Capps 5 Esty 12 Barrow 7 Sewell 25 McKeon DELAWARE 13 Scott, David ASKA 26 Brownley Carney 14 Graves Young, Don 27 Chu FLORIDA HAWAII ARIZONA 28 Schiff 1 Miller, Jeff 1 Hanabusa 1 Kirkpatrick 29 Cardenas 2 Southerland 2 Gabbard 2 Barber 30 Sherman 3 Yoho IDAHO 3 Grijalva 31 Miller, Gary 4 Crenshaw 1 Labrador 4 Gosar 32 Napolitano 5 Brown 2 Simpson 5 Salmon 33 Waxman 6 DeSantis ILLINOIS 6 Schweikert 34 Becerra 7 Mica 1 Rush 7 Pastor 35 Negrete McLeod 8 Posey 2 Kelly 8 Franks 36 Ruiz 9 Grayson 3 Lipinski 9 Simena 37 Bass 10 Webster 4 Gutierrez ARKANSAS 38 Sánchez, Linda 11 Nugent 5 Quigley 1 Crawford 39 Royce 12 Bilirakis 6 Roskam 2 Griffen, Tim 40 Roybal-Allard 13 Young 7 Davis, Danny 3 Womack 41 Takano 14 Castor 8 Duckworth 4 Cotton 42 Calvert 15 Ross 9 Schakowsky CIFORNIA 43 Waters 16 Buchanan 10 Schneider 1 LaMalfa 13 Hahn 17 Rooney 11 Foster 2 Huffman 45 Campbell 18 Murphy 12 Enyart 3 Garamendi 46 Sanchez, Loretta 19 Radel 13 Davis, Rodney 4 McClintock 47 Lowenthal 20 Hastings, Alcee 14 Hultgren 5 Thompson 48 Rohrabacher 21 Deutch 15 Shimkus 6 Matsui 49 Issa 22 Frankel 16 Kinzinger 7 Bera 50 Hunter 23 Wasserman Schultz 17 Bustos 8 Cook 51 Vargas 24 Wilson 18 Schock 9 McNerney 10 Denham 11 Miller, George 12 Pelosi 52 Peters 53 Davis, Susan COLORADO 1 DeGette 25 Diaz-Balart 26 Garcia 27 Ros-Lehtinen GEORGIA = Voted in support of the NAACP position and in support of the bill 13 Lee, Barbara 14 Speier 15 Swalwell 2 Polis 3 Tipton 4 Gardner 1 Kingston 2 Bishop, Sanford 3 Westmoreland = Voted against the NAACP position and against the bill 16 Costa 17 Honda 5 Lamborn 6 Coffman 4 Johnson, Hank 5 Lewis, John = Did not vote V = Seat is vacant

4 Final passage of a bill to provide continuing appropriations for government operations through January 14, 2014 and allow borrowing to continue through February 7, The bill also provides retroactive pay for federal employees furloughed since October 1, The bill passed the House of Representatives on October 16, 2013, by a margin of 285 yeas to 144 nays. INDIANA 1 Visclosky 2 Walorski 3 Stutzman 4 Rokita 5 Brooks 6 Messer 7 Carson, André 8 Bucshon 9 Young, Todd IOWA 1 Braley 2 Loebsack 3 Latham 4 King, Steve KANSAS 1 Huelskamp 2 Jenkins 3 Yoder 4 Pompeo KENTUCKY 1 Whitfield 2 Guthrie 3 Yarmuth 4 Massie 5 Rogers, Harold 6 Barr LOUISIANA 1 Scalise 2 Richmond 3 Boustany 4 Fleming 5 VACANT 6 Cassidy MAINE 1 Pingree 2 Michaud MARYLAND 1 Harris 2 Ruppersberger 3 Sarbanes 4 Edwards, Donna V 5 Hoyer 6 Delaney 7 Cummings 8 Van Hollen MASSACHUSETTS 1 Neal 2 McGovern 3 Tsongas 4 Kennedy 5 VACANT 6 Tierney 7 Capuano 8 Lynch 9 Keating MICHIGAN 1 Benishek 2 Huizenga 3 Amash 4 Camp 5 Kildee 6 Upton 7 Walberg 8 Rogers, Mike 9 Levin, Sander Miller, Candice 11 Bentivolio 12 Dingell 13 Conyers 14 Peters MINNESOTA 1 Walz 2 Kline, John 3 Paulsen 4 McCollum 5 Ellison 6 Bachmann 7 Peterson, Collin 8 Nolan MISSISSIPPI 1 Nunnelee 2 Thompson, Bennie 3 Harper 4 Palazzo V MISSOURI 1 Clay 2 Wagner 3 Luetkemeyer 4 Hartzler 5 Cleaver 6 Graves, Sam 7 Long 8 Smith MONTANA Daines NEBRASKA 1 Fortenberry 2 Terry 3 Smith, Adrian NEVADA 1 Titus 2 Amodei 3 Heck 4 Horsford NEW HAMPSHIRE 1 Shea-Porter 2 Kuster NEW JERSEY 1 Andrews 2 LoBiondo 3 Runyan 4 Smith, Chris 5 Garrett 6 Pallone 7 Lance 8 Sires 9 Pascrell 10 Payne 11 Frelinghuysen 12 Holt NEW MEXICO 1 Lujan Grisham 2 Pearce 3 Luján NEW YORK 1 Bishop, Tim 2 King, Peter 3 Isreal 4 McCarthy, Carolyn 5 Meeks 6 Meng 7 Velázquez 8 Jeffries 9 Clarke, Yvette 10 Nadler 11 Grimm 12 Maloney, Carolyn 13 Rangel 14 Crowley 15 Serrano 16 Engel 17 Lowey Maloney, Sean 18 Patrick 19 Gibson 20 Tonko 21 Owens 22 Hanna 23 Reed 24 Maffei 25 Slaughter 26 Higgins 27 Collins NORTH CAROLINA 1 Butterfield 2 Ellmers 3 Jones, Walter 4 Price, David 5 Foxx 6 Coble 7 McIntyre 8 Hudson = Voted in support of the NAACP position and in support of the bill = Voted against the NAACP position and against the bill = Did not vote V = Seat is vacant

5 Final passage of a bill to provide continuing appropriations for government operations through January 14, 2014 and allow borrowing to continue through February 7, The bill also provides retroactive pay for federal employees furloughed since October 1, The bill passed the House of Representatives on October 16, 2013, by a margin of 285 yeas to 144 nays. North Carolina, cont. 9 Pittenger 10 McHenry 11 Meadows 12 Watt 13 Holding NORTH DAKOTA Cramer OHIO 1 Chabot 2 Wenstrup 3 Beatty 4 Jordan 5 Latta 6 Johnson, Bill 7 Gibbs 8 Boehner 9 Kaptur 10 Turner 11 Fudge 12 Tiberi 13 Ryan 14 Joyce 15 Stivers 16 Renacci OKLAHOMA 1 Bridenstine 2 Mullin 3 Lucas 4 Cole 5 Lankford OREGON 1 Bonamici 2 Walden 3 Blumenauer 4 DeFazio 5 Schrader PENNSYLVANIA 1 Brady, Robert 2 Fattah 3 Kelly 4 Perry 5 Thompson, Glenn 6 Gerlach 7 Meehan 8 Fitzpatrick 9 Shuster 10 Marino 11 Barletta 12 Rothfus 13 Schwartz 14 Doyle 15 Dent 16 Pitts 17 Cartwright 18 Murphy, Timothy RHODE ISLAND 1 Cicilline 2 Langevin SOUTH CAROLINA 1 Sanford 2 Wilson, Joe 3 Duncan, Jeff 4 Gowdy 5 Mulvaney 6 Clyburn 7 Rice SOUTH DAKOTA Noem TENNESSEE 1 Roe 2 Duncan, John Jr. 3 Fleischmann 4 DesJarlais 5 Cooper 6 Black, Diane 7 Blackburn, Marsha 8 Fincher 9 Cohen TEXAS 1 Gohmert 2 Poe 3 Johnson, Sam 4 Hall, Ralph 5 Hensarling 6 Barton 7 Culberson 8 Brady, Kevin 9 Green, Al 10 McCaul 11 Conaway 12 Granger 13 Thornberry 14 Weber 15 Hinojosa 16 O'Rourke 17 Flores 18 Jackson-Lee 19 Neugebauer 20 Castro 21 Smith, Lamar 22 Olson 23 Gallego 24 Marchant 25 Williams 26 Burgess 27 Farenthold 28 Cuellar 29 Green, Gene 30 Johnson, Eddie B. 31 Carter 32 Sessions 33 Veasey 34 Vela 35 Doggett 36 Stockman UTAH 1 Bishop, Rob 2 Stewart 3 Chaffetz 4 Matheson VERMONT Welch VIRGINIA 1 Wittman 2 Rigell 3 Scott, Robert 4 Forbes 5 Hurt 6 Goodlatte 7 Cantor 8 Moran, James P. 9 Griffith, Morgan 10 Wolf 11 Connolly WASHINGTON 1 DelBene 2 Larsen, Rick 3 Herrera Beutler 4 Hastings, Doc 5 McMorris Rodgers 6 Kilmer 7 McDermott 8 Reichert 9 Smith, Adam 10 Heck WEST VIRGINIA 1 McKinley 2 Capito 3 Rahall WISCONSIN 1 Ryan, Paul 2 Pocan 3 Kind 4 Moore, Gwen 5 Sensenbrenner 6 Petri 7 Duffy 8 Ribble WYOMING Lummis = Voted in support of the NAACP position and in support of the bill = Voted against the NAACP position and against the bill = Did not vote V = Seat is vacant

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