Vote Alert: Increase Spending by $81 Billion

This vote was to approve an additional $81 billion in "emergency" spending as a response to damage caused by hurricanes and other natural disasters in California, Florida, Puerto Rico, and Texas. Despite the fact that Congress had already passed a $36.5 billion spending bill for emergency aid in October 2017, the House of Representatives has approved this new spending increase without offsetting spending cuts.

By the numbers, the bill is fiscally irresponsible, containing no reductions to spending elsewhere in the federal budget. With over $20 trillion in debt, Congress can ill afford to greenlight additional spending without spending cuts or a plan to address future natural disasters that don't require breaking the federal budget. The House voted on and passed this bill on December 21, 2017, in a roll call vote of 251-169.

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Conservative position: NO

Minority party (Democrats) in italics

YEAS — 251

Abraham

Adams

Aderholt

Aguilar

Allen

Amodei

Arrington

Babin

Bacon

Barletta

Barr

Barton

Bera

Bergman

Bilirakis

Bishop (GA)

Bishop (MI)

Bishop (UT)

Black

Blum

Bost

Brady (TX)

Brooks (IN)

Brownley (CA)

Buchanan

Bucshon

Burgess

Bustos

Butterfield

Byrne

Calvert

Carbajal

Carter (GA)

Carter (TX)

Castor (FL)

Castro (TX)

Cheney

Coffman

Cole

Collins (GA)

Collins (NY)

Comstock

Conaway

Connolly

Cook

Cooper

Costa

Costello (PA)

Cramer

Crawford

Crist

Cuellar

Culberson

Curbelo (FL)

Curtis

Davis (CA)

Davis, Rodney

DeFazio

Delaney

DelBene

Demings

Denham

Dent

DeSantis

DeSaulnier

Deutch

Diaz-Balart

Donovan

Duffy

Dunn

Estes (KS)

Farenthold

Faso

Ferguson

Fitzpatrick

Fleischmann

Flores

Fortenberry

Frankel (FL)

Frelinghuysen

Gabbard

Gaetz

Gallagher

Garamendi

Gianforte

Gibbs

Gohmert

Gonzalez (TX)

Gowdy

Graves (LA)

Graves (MO)

Green, Al

Guthrie

Handel

Harper

Hartzler

Hastings

Herrera Beutler

Higgins (LA)

Hill

Himes

Huffman

Huizenga

Hunter

Hurd

Issa

Jackson Lee

Jenkins (KS)

Jenkins (WV)

Johnson (LA)

Johnson (OH)

Johnson, E. B.

Johnson, Sam

Joyce (OH)

Katko

Kelly (MS)

Kelly (PA)

Kilmer

King (IA)

King (NY)

Kinzinger

Knight

Krishnamoorthi

Kuster (NH)

Kustoff (TN)

LaHood

LaMalfa

Lance

Larsen (WA)

Latta

Lawson (FL)

Lieu, Ted

Lipinski

LoBiondo

Loebsack

Long

Love

Lowenthal

Lucas

Luetkemeyer

MacArthur

Marchant

Marino

Marshall

Mast

Matsui

McCarthy

McCaul

McHenry

McKinley

McMorris Rodgers

McNerney

Meehan

Mitchell

Moolenaar

Mullin

Murphy (FL)

Newhouse

Nolan

Norman

Nunes

O'Halleran

O'Rourke

Olson

Palazzo

Panetta

Paulsen

Pearce

Peters

Peterson

Pittenger

Poe (TX)

Poliquin

Posey

Price (NC)

Ratcliffe

Reed

Reichert

Rice (SC)

Roby

Roe (TN)

Rogers (AL)

Rogers (KY)

Rohrabacher

Rooney, Francis

Rooney, Thomas J.

Ros-Lehtinen

Rosen

Roskam

Ross

Rothfus

Rouzer

Royce (CA)

Ruiz

Ruppersberger

Russell

Rutherford

Ryan (WI)

Scalise

Schiff

Schneider

Scott, Austin

Scott, David

Sessions

Sewell (AL)

Sherman

Shimkus

Shuster

Simpson

Sinema

Smith (NE)

Smith (NJ)

Smucker

Soto

Stefanik

Stewart

Stivers

Takano

Taylor

Tenney

Thompson (CA)

Thompson (PA)

Thornberry

Tiberi

Tipton

Trott

Turner

Upton

Valadao

Veasey

Vela

Visclosky

Wagner

Walberg

Walden

Walorski

Walters, Mimi

Wasserman Schultz

Waters, Maxine

Weber (TX)

Webster (FL)

Wenstrup

Westerman

Williams

Wilson (FL)

Wilson (SC)

Womack

Yoder

Yoho

Young (AK)

Zeldin

NAYS — 169

Amash

Banks (IN)

Barragán

Bass

Beatty

Beyer

Biggs

Blackburn

Blumenauer

Blunt Rochester

Bonamici

Boyle, Brendan F.

Brady (PA)

Brat

Brown (MD)

Buck

Budd

Capuano

Cárdenas

Carson (IN)

Cartwright

Chabot

Chu, Judy

Cicilline

Clark (MA)

Clarke (NY)

Clay

Cleaver

Clyburn

Cohen

Comer

Correa

Courtney

Crowley

Cummings

Davidson

Davis, Danny

DeGette

DeLauro

DesJarlais

Dingell

Doggett

Doyle, Michael F.

Duncan (SC)

Duncan (TN)

Ellison

Emmer

Engel

Eshoo

Espaillat

Esty (CT)

Evans

Foxx

Fudge

Gallego

Garrett

Gomez

Goodlatte

Gosar

Gottheimer

Graves (GA)

Griffith

Grijalva

Grothman

Gutiérrez

Hanabusa

Harris

Heck

Hensarling

Hice, Jody B.

Higgins (NY)

Holding

Hollingsworth

Hoyer

Hudson

Hultgren

Jayapal

Jeffries

Johnson (GA)

Jordan

Kaptur

Keating

Kelly (IL)

Khanna

Kihuen

Kildee

Kind

Labrador

Lamborn

Langevin

Larson (CT)

Lawrence

Lee

Levin

Lewis (GA)

Lewis (MN)

Lofgren

Loudermilk

Lowey

Lujan Grisham, M.

Luján, Ben Ray

Lynch

Maloney, Carolyn B.

Maloney, Sean

Massie

McClintock

McCollum

McEachin

McGovern

McSally

Meadows

Meeks

Meng

Messer

Mooney (WV)

Moore

Moulton

Nadler

Neal

Noem

Norcross

Pallone

Palmer

Pascrell

Payne

Pelosi

Perlmutter

Perry

Pingree

Polis

Quigley

Raskin

Rice (NY)

Richmond

Rokita

Roybal-Allard

Rush

Ryan (OH)

Sánchez

Sanford

Sarbanes

Schakowsky

Schrader

Schweikert

Scott (VA)

Sensenbrenner

Serrano

Shea-Porter

Sires

Slaughter

Smith (MO)

Smith (WA)

Speier

Swalwell (CA)

Thompson (MS)

Titus

Tonko

Torres

Tsongas

Vargas

Velázquez

Walker

Walz

Watson Coleman

Welch

Wittman

Woodall

Yarmuth

Young (IA)

NOT VOTING — 12

Bridenstine

Brooks (AL)

Foster

Granger

Green, Gene

Jones

Kennedy

Napolitano

Pocan

Renacci

Smith (TX)

Suozzi