House (11 districts) — Robert J. Wittman (R-1st), E. Scott Rigell (R-2nd), Robert C. Scott (D-3rd), J. Randy Forbes (R-4th), Robert Hurt (R-5th), Robert W. Goodlatte (R-6th), Eric I. Cantor (R-7th), James P. Moran (D-8th), H. Morgan Griffith (R-9th), Frank R. Wolf (R-10th), Gerald E. Connolly (D-11th).
Senate — Mark R. Warner (D), Jim Webb (D)
House
War Memorial, FDR Prayer: Members voted 386-26 to require the World War II Memorial in Washington to be engraved with the 527-word "Let Our Hearts Be Stout" prayer read by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a U.S. radio audience on June 6, 1944, which was D-Day. A yes vote was to send HR 2070 to the Senate.
Yes: Wittman, Rigell, Forbes, Hurt, Goodlatte, Cantor, Griffith, Wolf, Connolly.
No: Scott, Moran.
Senate
Debt-Limit Rollback: Voting 44-52, senators refused to block a $1.2 trillion increase in Treasury borrowing authority needed by Jan. 27 to keep the government from defaulting on debt already incurred. Defeat of this measure (HJ Res 98) allowed the U.S. debt ceiling to rise to $16.4 trillion from $15.2 trillion. A yes vote was to roll back a debt-limit rise enacted last year by Congress as part of the Budget Control Act. The new limit is expected to last for at least one year.
No: Warner, Webb.
Federal Judge John Gerrard: Voting 74-16, the Senate on Jan. 23 confirmed Nebraska Supreme Court Justice John M. Gerrard, 58, as a federal judge for the District of Nebraska. Gerrard drew criticism for his opposition to Nebraska's use of the electric chair. In February 2008, the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled that the state's use of electrocution to administer the death penalty was cruel and unusual punishment. Gerrard voted with the majority in that 6-1 decision.
Yes: Warner, Webb.
Voterama in Congress, ©2011 Thomas Voting Reports Inc.
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