Submitted by Tom on Thu, 2011-04-14 21:23
Rep. Latham voted to cut off all funding for the Affordable Care Act and Planned Parenthood today. Of course the Senate rejected the Republican House agenda. These measures got tacked onto the current resolution to finally fund government for what's left of the current fiscal year. Latham supported that vote, too, which should make his future Tea Party constituents mad.
Iowa delegation split as Congress approves current-year spending bill
by: desmoinesdem
Thu Apr 14, 2011 at 20:22:33 PM CDT
The federal government is no longer in danger of shutting down. Today Congress approved a bill to fund operations through fiscal year 2011, which ends on September 30. In the House of Representatives, the bill passed
by 260 votes to 167 (roll call)
. The bill needed bipartisan support, because only 179 House Republicans voted yes, including Iowa's Tom Latham (IA-04). Steve King (IA-05) was among the 59 Republicans who voted against; that's about one-fourth of the House GOP caucus. Leonard Boswell (IA-03) was among the 81 House Democrats who voted for the budget bill; Bruce Braley (IA-01) and Dave Loebsack (IA-02) voted against it.
After the bill passed, the House voted for two "corrections" to the bill, which passed on nearly party-line votes (roll calls here and here). One of those resolutions would defund the 2010 health care reform measure, the Affordable Care Act. The other would eliminate federal funding for Planned Parenthood. Latham and King voted for both "corrections," while Boswell, Loebsack and Braley voted against them.