[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 9]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 11831]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

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                          HON. TERRI A. SEWELL

                               of alabama

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, July 19, 2012

  Ms. SEWELL. Mr. Speaker, on Tuesday July 17 and Wednesday July 18, 
2012, I was not present for recorded votes and was with my constituents 
in my district preparing for and attending tornado recovery related 
events with the First Lady of the United States.
  If I were present, I would have voted in the following way:
  Tuesday July 17
  H.R. 6018--To authorize appropriations for the Department of State 
for fiscal year 2013, and for other purposes--voted ``yes.''
  S. 2009--Insular Areas Act of 2011--voted ``yes.''
  Wednesday July 18
  H.R. 5872--Sequestration Transparency Act of 2012--voted ``yes.''
  McCollum Amendment to H.R. 5856--Reduces Military Retirement Funds 
(for military bands) by $187,770,000 and applies the savings to the 
spending reduction account--voted ``no.''
  Kingston/McCollum Amendment to H.R. 5856--Reduces the amount of 
Defense Department funding for professional sports sponsorships by 
$72,300,000 and applies the savings to the spending reduction account--
voted ``yes.''
  Quigley Amendment to H.R. 5856--Reduces the Navy Shipbuilding and 
Conversion account by $988 million (funding for one DDG-51 Destroyer) 
and applies the savings to the spending reduction account--voted 
``no.''
  Cohen Amendment (#1) to H.R. 5856--Reduces the Navy Cruiser 
Modernization account by $506,660,000 and increases the Defense Health 
Program (for cancer research) account by $470 million--voted ``no.''
  Pompeo Amendment to H.R. 5856--Strikes the $250 million Rapid 
Innovation Fund from the bill and applies the savings to the spending 
reduction account--voted ``no.''
  Markey Amendment (#1) to H.R. 5856--Reduces the funding for ground 
based missile defense by $75 million and applies the savings to the 
spending reduction account--voted ``no.''
  Amash Amendment to H.R. 5856--Allows outsourcing of Defense-related 
work and strikes the requirement that such outsourcing be done on a 
competitive and cost-beneficial basis--voted ``no.''
  Cohen Amendment (#2) to H.R. 5856--Reduces the Afghanistan 
Infrastructure Fund by $175 million and applies the savings to the 
spending reduction account--voted ``no.''
  Cicilline Amendment to H.R. 5856--Strikes the $375 million in funding 
for the Afghanistan Infrastructure Fund and applies the savings to the 
spending reduction account--voted ``no.''
  Woolsey Amendment (#1) to H.R. 5856--Reduces total defense funding by 
$181 million--the same amount that the FY13 Transportation/HUD bill cut 
the Federal Transit Administration--voted ``no.''
  Markey Amendment (#2) to H.R. 5856--Prohibits the use of funds to 
operate or maintain more than 300 land-based intercontinental ballistic 
missiles (ICBMs)--voted ``no.''
  Woolsey Amendment (#2) to H.R. 5856--Reduces funding in the bill by 
$293,900,000--the same amount as was cut in the proposed FY13 Labor/HHS 
appropriations bill for Title X Family Planning (zeroing out the 
account)--voted ``no.''
  Woolsey Amendment (#3) to H.R. 5856--Reduces funding in the bill by 
$1,700,000,000--the same amount as the Republican budget cut the Social 
Services Block Grant program (zeroing out the account)--voted ``no.''
  Lee Amendment to H.R. 5856--Reduces funding for the Overseas 
Contingency Operation (OCO) by $21 billion, excluding: the Defense 
Health Program; Defense Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activities; 
the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Fund; and the Office of 
the IG--voted ``no.''
  King (IA) Amendment to H.R. 5856--Prohibits the use of funds to be 
used to implement, administer, or enforce the requirements in the 
Davis-Bacon Act--voted ``no.''

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