AFA of PA ACTION ALERT
May 27, 2016
Issue
Update on Energy Bill with Anti Christian Amendment
Details
Yesterday the US House once again held a vote on the Energy Appropriations bill (HB 5055). This time there was an entirely different result! The overall bill with Representative Maloney’s amendment failed by a vote of 112 to 305! It is reported that once word got out that 43 Republicans had voted for the Maloney Amendment to deny Christian organizations, such as the Salvation Army, the ability to participate in government contracting unless they changed their policies to include ‘sexual orientation and gender identity,’ the phones were ringing off the hook demanding the overall bill be stopped . . . and it was for now.
It should be noted here that it was killed by both sides — Democrats didn’t like the language of Representative Bradley Byrne’s amendment which simply reiterated existing religious liberty protections and Republicans didn’t like the Maloney amendment. Of special note: PA Representative Charlie Dent (R-15) was one of seven Republicans who voted against the Byrne amendment!
In the end even openly homosexual Representative Maloney (D-NY), who introduced Wednesday’s amendment, voted against the overall bill. Nancy Pelosi is blaming the Republicans for voting down the energy appropriations bill, but she voted against it too and she fails to acknowledge a larger percentage of Democrats voted against the overall bill than Republicans.
Action Steps
As you will see the four PA Republicans who originally voted for the Maloney amendment also voted for passage of the overall bill, but all the PA Democrats voted against it! Here’s how PA legislators voted:
Barletta, Lou (R) — Nay
Boyle, Brendan (D) — Nay
Brady, Robert (D) — Nay
Cartwright, Matthew (D) — Nay
Costello, Ryan (R) — Yea
Dent, Charlie (R) — Yea
Doyle, Michael (D) — Nay
Fattah, Chaka (D) — not voting
Fitzpatrick, Mike (R) — Yea
Kelly, Mike (R) — Nay
Marino, Tom (R) — Nay
Meehan, Pat (R) — Yea
Murphy, Tim (R) — Nay
Perry, Scott (R) — Nay
Pitts, Joe (R) — Nay
Rothfus, Keith (R) — Nay
Shuster, Bill (R) — Nay
Thompson, Glenn G.T. (R) — Nay
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