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Vote Alert: Overturn President Trump’s National Emergency Declaration on the border

Vote Alert: Overturn President Trump’s National Emergency Declaration on the border

This was a vote to terminate the national emergency declaration issued by President Donald Trump declaring a state of emergency at the southern border and reprogramming $2.6 billion of Department of Defense funding to construct a border wall.

The National Emergencies Act of 1976 was created by Congress to authorize the president to invoke emergency powers delegated by the legislature to the president during a time of national crisis. The president’s emergency powers are not unlimited, and under the statute, Congress can terminate an emergency declaration with a joint resolution signed into law.

The problems associated with an open border constitute a national crisis. As Hans von Spakovsky wrote for the Heritage Foundation:

The number of apprehensions at the border is down from a peak of more than 1 million annually throughout most of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, but it's rising again. 2018 saw the largest number of apprehensions at the border since 2012 — almost 467,000, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of the most recent data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. That included 54,000 unaccompanied children and 163,000 family members — three times as many as in 2017.

The sex traffickers are the modern equivalent of the horrible sea captains of the past who kidnapped Africans and brought them to the U.S. under brutal, murderous conditions that we can't even imagine today. Doctors Without Borders estimates that one of every three women caught in these smuggling rings are sexually assaulted before many are forced into prostitution and slavery here.

The same Mexican cartels that DHS spokesperson Katie Waldman says earn $2.5 billion annually from human smuggling are also responsible for an epidemic of drug abuse and overdoses in our country. They are bringing methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine and fentanyl across the border, according to DHS.

In this matter, the president acted while Congress has abdicated its duty to secure the border and protect America’s national sovereignty and security. The National Emergencies Act has previously been used over 50 times without controversy. Trump used the legal, statutory powers delegated to him by Congress. Congress’ determination to undo the president’s executive action without a plan to secure the border demonstrates there is a bipartisan commitment to ignoring the epidemic of drugs, human trafficking, and migration of unaccompanied children for the sake of open borders.

The House of Representatives voted to pass the resolution overturning President Trump’s national emergency declaration on February 26, 2019, at 6:32 PM ET in a roll call vote of 245 – 182.

The U.S. Senate voted to pass the voted to pass the resolution on March 14, 2019, at 2:24 PM ET in a roll call vote of 59 – 41.

CR Position: NO


U.S. House of Representatives*

*Minority party (Republicans) in italics

YEAs — 245

Adams

Aguilar

Allred

Amash

Axne

Barragán

Bass

Beatty

Bera

Beyer

Bishop (GA)

Blumenauer

Blunt Rochester

Bonamici

Boyle, Brendan F.

Brindisi

Brown (MD)

Brownley (CA)

Bustos

Butterfield

Carbajal

Cárdenas

Carson (IN)

Cartwright

Case

Casten (IL)

Castor (FL)

Castro (TX)

Chu, Judy

Cicilline

Cisneros

Clark (MA)

Clarke (NY)

Clay

Cleaver

Clyburn

Connolly

Cooper

Correa

Costa

Courtney

Cox (CA)

Craig

Crist

Crow

Cuellar

Cummings

Cunningham

Davids (KS)

Davis (CA)

Davis, Danny K.

Dean

DeGette

DeLauro

DelBene

Delgado

Demings

DeSaulnier

Deutch

Dingell

Doggett

Doyle, Michael F.

Engel

Escobar

Eshoo

Espaillat

Evans

Finkenauer

Fitzpatrick

Fletcher

Foster

Fudge

Gabbard

Gallagher

Gallego

Garamendi

García (IL)

Garcia (TX)

Golden

Gomez

Gonzalez (TX)

Gottheimer

Green (TX)

Grijalva

Haaland

Harder (CA)

Hastings

Hayes

Heck

Herrera Beutler

Higgins (NY)

Hill (CA)

Himes

Horn, Kendra S.

Horsford

Houlahan

Hoyer

Huffman

Hurd (TX)

Jackson Lee

Jayapal

Jeffries

Johnson (GA)

Johnson (SD)

Johnson (TX)

Kaptur

Keating

Kelly (IL)

Kennedy

Khanna

Kildee

Kilmer

Kim

Kind

Kirkpatrick

Krishnamoorthi

Kuster (NH)

Lamb

Langevin

Larsen (WA)

Larson (CT)

Lawrence

Lawson (FL)

Lee (CA)

Lee (NV)

Levin (CA)

Levin (MI)

Lewis

Lieu, Ted

Lipinski

Loebsack

Lofgren

Lowenthal

Lowey

Luján

Luria

Lynch

Malinowski

Maloney, Carolyn B.

Maloney, Sean

Massie

Matsui

McAdams

McBath

McCollum

McEachin

McGovern

McNerney

Meeks

Meng

Moore

Morelle

Moulton

Mucarsel-Powell

Murphy

Nadler

Napolitano

Neal

Neguse

Norcross

O'Halleran

Ocasio-Cortez

Omar

Pallone

Panetta

Pappas

Pascrell

Payne

Pelosi

Perlmutter

Peters

Peterson

Phillips

Pingree

Pocan

Porter

Pressley

Price (NC)

Quigley

Raskin

Rice (NY)

Richmond

Rodgers (WA)

Rooney (FL)

Rose (NY)

Rouda

Roybal-Allard

Ruiz

Ruppersberger

Rush

Ryan

Sánchez

Sarbanes

Scanlon

Schakowsky

Schiff

Schneider

Schrader

Schrier

Scott (VA)

Scott, David

Sensenbrenner

Serrano

Sewell (AL)

Shalala

Sherman

Sherrill

Sires

Slotkin

Smith (WA)

Soto

Spanberger

Speier

Stanton

Stefanik

Stevens

Suozzi

Swalwell (CA)

Takano

Thompson (CA)

Thompson (MS)

Titus

Tlaib

Tonko

Torres (CA)

Torres Small (NM)

Trahan

Trone

Underwood

Upton

Van Drew

Vargas

Veasey

Vela

Velázquez

Visclosky

Walden

Wasserman Schultz

Waters

Watson Coleman

Welch

Wexton

Wild

Wilson (FL)

Yarmuth

NAYs — 182

Abraham

Aderholt

Allen

Amodei

Armstrong

Arrington

Babin

Bacon

Baird

Balderson

Banks

Barr

Bergman

Biggs

Bilirakis

Bishop (UT)

Bost

Brady

Brooks (AL)

Brooks (IN)

Buchanan

Buck

Bucshon

Budd

Burchett

Burgess

Byrne

Calvert

Carter (GA)

Carter (TX)

Chabot

Cheney

Cline

Cloud

Cole

Collins (GA)

Collins (NY)

Comer

Conaway

Cook

Crawford

Crenshaw

Curtis

Davidson (OH)

Davis, Rodney

DesJarlais

Diaz-Balart

Duffy

Duncan

Dunn

Emmer

Estes

Ferguson

Fleischmann

Flores

Fortenberry

Foxx (NC)

Fulcher

Gaetz

Gianforte

Gibbs

Gohmert

Gonzalez (OH)

Gooden

Gosar

Granger

Graves (GA)

Graves (LA)

Graves (MO)

Green (TN)

Griffith

Grothman

Guest

Guthrie

Hagedorn

Harris

Hartzler

Hern, Kevin

Hice (GA)

Higgins (LA)

Hill (AR)

Holding

Hollingsworth

Hudson

Huizenga

Hunter

Johnson (LA)

Johnson (OH)

Jordan

Joyce (OH)

Joyce (PA)

Kelly (MS)

Kelly (PA)

King (IA)

King (NY)

Kinzinger

Kustoff (TN)

LaHood

LaMalfa

Lamborn

Latta

Lesko

Long

Loudermilk

Lucas

Luetkemeyer

Marchant

Marshall

Mast

McCarthy

McCaul

McClintock

McHenry

McKinley

Meadows

Meuser

Miller

Mitchell

Moolenaar

Mooney (WV)

Mullin

Newhouse

Norman

Nunes

Olson

Palazzo

Palmer

Pence

Perry

Posey

Ratcliffe

Reed

Reschenthaler

Rice (SC)

Riggleman

Roby

Roe, David P.

Rogers (AL)

Rogers (KY)

Rose, John W.

Rouzer

Roy

Rutherford

Scalise

Schweikert

Scott, Austin

Shimkus

Simpson

Smith (MO)

Smith (NE)

Smith (NJ)

Smucker

Spano

Stauber

Steil

Steube

Stewart

Stivers

Taylor

Thompson (PA)

Thornberry

Timmons

Tipton

Turner

Walberg

Walker

Walorski

Waltz

Watkins

Weber (TX)

Webster (FL)

Wenstrup

Westerman

Williams

Wilson (SC)

Wittman

Womack

Woodall

Wright

Yoho

Young

Zeldin

 Not Voting — 5

Cohen

DeFazio

Frankel

Katko

Wagner

*Minority party (Republicans) in italics


U.S. Senate

YEAs — 59

Alexander (R-TN)

Baldwin (D-WI)

Bennet (D-CO)

Blumenthal (D-CT)

Blunt (R-MO)

Booker (D-NJ)

Brown (D-OH)

Cantwell (D-WA)

Cardin (D-MD)

Carper (D-DE)

Casey (D-PA)

Collins (R-ME)

Coons (D-DE)

Cortez Masto (D-NV)

Duckworth (D-IL)

Durbin (D-IL)

Feinstein (D-CA)

Gillibrand (D-NY)

Harris (D-CA)

Hassan (D-NH)

Heinrich (D-NM)

Hirono (D-HI)

Jones (D-AL)

Kaine (D-VA)

King (I-ME)

Klobuchar (D-MN)

Leahy (D-VT)

Lee (R-UT)

Manchin (D-WV)

Markey (D-MA)

Menendez (D-NJ)

Merkley (D-OR)

Moran (R-KS)

Murkowski (R-AK)

Murphy (D-CT)

Murray (D-WA)

Paul (R-KY)

Peters (D-MI)

Portman (R-OH)

Reed (D-RI)

Romney (R-UT)

Rosen (D-NV)

Rubio (R-FL)

Sanders (I-VT)

Schatz (D-HI)

Schumer (D-NY)

Shaheen (D-NH)

Sinema (D-AZ)

Smith (D-MN)

Stabenow (D-MI)

Tester (D-MT)

Toomey (R-PA)

Udall (D-NM)

Van Hollen (D-MD)

Warner (D-VA)

Warren (D-MA)

Whitehouse (D-RI)

Wicker (R-MS)

Wyden (D-OR)

NAYs — 41

Barrasso (R-WY)

Blackburn (R-TN)

Boozman (R-AR)

Braun (R-IN)

Burr (R-NC)

Capito (R-WV)

Cassidy (R-LA)

Cornyn (R-TX)

Cotton (R-AR)

Cramer (R-ND)

Crapo (R-ID)

Cruz (R-TX)

Daines (R-MT)

Enzi (R-WY)

Ernst (R-IA)

Fischer (R-NE)

Gardner (R-CO)

Graham (R-SC)

Grassley (R-IA)

Hawley (R-MO)

Hoeven (R-ND)

Hyde-Smith (R-MS)

Inhofe (R-OK)

Isakson (R-GA)

Johnson (R-WI)

Kennedy (R-LA)

Lankford (R-OK)

McConnell (R-KY)

McSally (R-AZ)

Perdue (R-GA)

Risch (R-ID)

Roberts (R-KS)

Rounds (R-SD)

Sasse (R-NE)

Scott (R-FL)

Scott (R-SC)

Shelby (R-AL)

Sullivan (R-AK)

Thune (R-SD)

Tillis (R-NC)

Young (R-IN)

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