Nominations and Confirmations

Congress.org presents MEGAVOTE for October 10, 2017 and Georgia's 13th Congressional District.
Recent Congressional Votes

• Senate: Pai Nomination – Confirmation
• Senate: Quarles Nomination – Confirmation
• Senate: Cissna Nomination – Confirmation
• House: Abortion Ban
• House: Fiscal 2018 Budget Resolution 

Upcoming Congressional Bills

• House: Federal Whistleblower Protections

The Senate is not doing legislative business this week.

The time has passed, I wish they were still in recess.

Recent Senate Votes:
Pai Nomination – Confirmation Vote Confirmed (52-41, 7 Not Voting)
The Senate confirmed the nomination of Ajit V. Pai to be a member of the Federal Communications Commission.
Sen. Johnny Isakson voted YES
Sen. David Perdue voted YES

Pai came into the FCC as an appointment of President Obama. He is a lawyer, undergraduate of Harvard and earned his JD from the Univerity of Chicago. He is an opponent of "Net Neutrality".

Quarles Nomination – Confirmation Vote Confirmed (65-32, 3 Not Voting)
The Senate confirmed the nomination of Randal Quarles to be a member of the Board of Governors for the Federal Reserve System.
Sen. Johnny Isakson voted YES
Sen. David Perdue voted YES

Another lawyer, he was a partner of The Carlyle Group before coming into government during the administration of President posts in the George W. Bush.

Cissna Nomination – Confirmation Vote Confirmed (54-43, 3 Not Voting)
The Senate confirmed the nomination of Lee Francis Cissna to be director of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Sen. Johnny Isakson voted YES
Sen. David Perdue voted YES

Cissna is 51 years old and a lawyer, earned his undergraduate degree from MIT, MA from Columbia and JD from Georgetown. The current administration supports Lee Cissna for his expertise and study on the displacement of U.S. workers by foreign workers on H-1B visas. A position certainly not palatable in the circles of "we are the world".

Recent House Votes:

Abortion Ban Vote Passed (237-189, 7 Not Voting)
The House passed the bill that would prohibit abortions in cases where the probable age of the fetus is 20 weeks or later, and it imposes criminal penalties on medical professionals who violate the ban.
Rep. David Scott voted NO

Don't see this getting out of the Senate, probably not even to a vote.

Fiscal 2018 Budget Resolution Vote Passed (219-206, 9 Not Voting)
The House adopted the concurrent resolution that would provide for $3.2 trillion in new budget authority in fiscal 2018, not including off-budget accounts. It would assume $1.22 trillion in discretionary spending in fiscal 2018. It would assume the repeal of the 2010 health care overhaul law. It also would propose reducing spending on mandatory programs such as Medicare and Medicaid and changing programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (also known as food stamps). It would call for restructuring Medicare into a “premium support” system beginning in 2024. It would also require the House Ways and Means Committee to report out legislation under the budget reconciliation process that would provide for a revenue-neutral, comprehensive overhaul of the U.S. tax code and would include instructions to 11 House committees to trigger the budget reconciliation process to cut mandatory spending.
Rep. David Scott voted NO

Who knows what is right when they design budgets?

 Chances are good that it's mostly bs.

Upcoming Votes:
Federal Whistleblower Protections - S585 The House will vote on the bill that would provide additional protections for federal employees who are retaliated against for disclosing waste, fraud or abuse, require federal agencies to suspend for at least three days any supervisory employee who retaliates against a whistleblower and require that the supervisory employee be fired for a second offense.

An age old issue, that with the newly developed stigma of being a national populist, has become more of a political argument. People should be motivated by either their god or their moral code to expose wrong doing. Problems arise when "exposures" are generated by those with political axes to grind. Do you think that there is any chance the Snowden would have a chance of seeing daylight fifty years ago?

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