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This vote was on a rule for floor debate of the farm bill. House Republican leadership attached language to the rule prohibiting lawmakers from debating whether the United States should be involved in a war in Yemen, a provision completely unrelated to the farm bill.
The provision, stealthily attached to this rule, said privilege “shall not apply during the remainder of the One Hundred Fifteenth Congress to a concurrent resolution introduced pursuant to … the War Powers Resolution (50 U.S.C. 1544) with respect to Yemen."
Privilege allows lawmakers to force debate and votes on resolutions in the House. By prohibiting lawmakers from debating U.S. involvement in Yemen, House leadership subverted Congress’ constitutional duty to declare war before U.S. military action.
This provision ceded Congress’ Article I constitutional authority to debate and declare war to the executive branch, violating the original intent of the Constitution. The manner in which it was attached to the rules for an unrelated bill represents the worst of the D.C. Swamp.
The House of Representatives agreed to the rule on December 12, 2018, at 2:08 p.m. in a roll call vote of 206 – 203.
To see how your elected officials stack up or other votes that compose the Liberty Score, view our full scorecard here.
CR position: NO
House of Representatives*
*Minority party (Democrats) in italics
YEAs — 206
| Abraham Allen Amodei Arrington Babin Bacon Balderson Banks (IN) Barr Barton Bergman Bilirakis Bishop (MI) Bishop (UT) Bost Brady (TX) Brooks (AL) Brooks (IN) Buck Bucshon Budd Burgess Byrne Calvert Carter (GA) Carter (TX) Chabot Cheney Coffman Cole Collins (GA) Collins (NY) Comer Conaway Cook Costa Costello (PA) Cramer Crawford Culberson Curbelo (FL) Curtis Davis, Rodney Denham DesJarlais Diaz-Balart Donovan Duffy Duncan (SC) Duncan (TN) Dunn Emmer Estes (KS) Faso Ferguson Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Flores Fortenberry Foxx Frelinghuysen Gallagher Gianforte Gibbs Goodlatte Gowdy Granger Graves (GA) Graves (MO) | Griffith Grothman Guthrie Handel Harper Harris Hensarling Hern Herrera Beutler Hice, Jody B. Higgins (LA) Hill Holding Hollingsworth Hudson Huizenga Hultgren Hurd Issa Jenkins (KS) Johnson (LA) Johnson (OH) Johnson, Sam Joyce (OH) Katko Kelly (MS) Kelly (PA) King (IA) King (NY) Kinzinger Kustoff (TN) LaHood LaMalfa Lamborn Lance Latta Lawson (FL) Lesko Lewis (MN) LoBiondo Long Loudermilk Love Lucas Luetkemeyer MacArthur Marchant Marino Marshall Mast McCarthy McCaul McClintock McHenry McKinley McMorris Rodgers McSally Messer Mitchell Moolenaar Mooney (WV) Mullin Newhouse Norman Nunes Olson Palazzo Palmer Paulsen | Pearce Peterson Pittenger Poe (TX) Poliquin Ratcliffe Reed Reichert Renacci Rice (SC) Roby Roe (TN) Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rohrabacher Rokita Rooney, Francis Ros-Lehtinen Ross Rothfus Rouzer Royce (CA) Ruppersberger Russell Rutherford Ryan (WI) Scalise Scott, Austin Scott, David Sensenbrenner Sessions Shimkus Simpson Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smith (TX) Smucker Stefanik Stivers Taylor Tenney Thompson (PA) Thornberry Tipton Trott Turner Upton Valadao Wagner Walberg Walden Walker Walorski Walters, Mimi Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Wenstrup Westerman Williams Wilson (SC) Wittman Womack Woodall Yoder Yoho Young (AK) Young (IA) Zeldin |
NAYs — 203
| Adams Aguilar Amash Barragán Bass Beatty Bera Beyer Biggs Bishop (GA) Blum Blumenauer Blunt Rochester Bonamici Boyle, Brendan F. Brady (PA) Brat Brown (MD) Brownley (CA) Bustos Butterfield Capuano Carbajal Cárdenas Carson (IN) Cartwright Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Chu, Judy Cicilline Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Clay Cleaver Cloud Clyburn Cohen Connolly Cooper Correa Courtney Crist Crowley Cuellar Cummings Davis (CA) Davis, Danny DeFazio DeGette Delaney DeLauro DelBene Demings DeSaulnier Deutch Dingell Doggett Doyle, Michael F. Engel Eshoo Espaillat Esty (CT) Evans Foster Frankel (FL) Fudge Gabbard Gaetz | Gallego Garamendi Garrett Gohmert Gomez Gonzalez (TX) Gosar Gottheimer Graves (LA) Green, Al Green, Gene Gutiérrez Hanabusa Heck Higgins (NY) Himes Hoyer Huffman Jackson Lee Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Johnson, E. B. Jones (MI) Jordan Kaptur Kelly (IL) Kennedy Khanna Kihuen Kildee Kilmer Kind Krishnamoorthi Kuster (NH) Labrador Lamb Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lawrence Lee Levin Lewis (GA) Lieu, Ted Lipinski Loebsack Lofgren Lowenthal Lowey Luján, Ben Ray Lynch Maloney, Carolyn B. Maloney, Sean Massie Matsui McCollum McEachin McGovern McNerney Meadows Meeks Meng Moore Morelle Moulton Murphy (FL) Nadler | Napolitano Neal Nolan Norcross O'Halleran O'Rourke Pallone Panetta Pascrell Payne Pelosi Perlmutter Perry Peters Pingree Pocan Posey Price (NC) Quigley Raskin Rice (NY) Richmond Rosen Roybal-Allard Ruiz Rush Ryan (OH) Sánchez Sanford Sarbanes Scanlon Schakowsky Schiff Schneider Schrader Schweikert Scott (VA) Serrano Sewell (AL) Shea-Porter Sherman Sinema Sires Smith (WA) Soto Speier Suozzi Swalwell (CA) Takano Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Titus Tonko Torres Tsongas Vargas Veasey Vela Velázquez Visclosky Wasserman Schultz Waters, Maxine Watson Coleman Welch Wild Wilson (FL) Yarmuth |
Not Voting — 24
| Aderholt Barletta Black Blackburn Buchanan Comstock Davidson Ellison | Grijalva Hartzler Hastings Hunter Jones (NC) Keating Knight Lujan Grisham, M. | Noem Polis Rooney, Thomas J. Roskam Shuster Smith (NJ) Stewart Walz |
*Minority party (Democrats) in italics
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