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S Amdt 1660 - Congressional Commission on Hurricane Katrina - Key Vote
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Jeff Bingaman voted Yea (Motion Vote) on this Legislation.
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Legislation - Motion Rejected (Senate) (44-54) - Sept. 14, 2005(Key vote)
Title: Congressional Commission on Hurricane Katrina
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Vote on a motion to suspend paragraph 4, Rule XVI in order to consider an amendment that establishes a commission to examine the government's response to Hurricane Katrina and to suggest changes for the handling of future disasters.
- Establishes an independent ten-person commission to report to Congress on the response to Hurricane Katrina within six months of enactment (Secs. 1, 10).
- Mandates that the Chairman of the Commission shall be appointed by the President (Sec. 2).
- Allows the Senate and House Democratic Leaders to appoint the Vice-Chair (Sec. 2).
- Allows each party in the Senate to appoint two members (Sec. 2).
- Allows each party's House Leadership to appoint two members (Sec. 2).
- Specifies that no more than five members of the Commission may be from the same party (Sec. 2).
- Clarifies that Commission members must not be officers or employees of Federal, State or local governments (Sec. 2).
- Grants the Commission the power to subpoena a witness if they have the affirmative vote of six members of the Commission or the Chair and the Vice Chair are in agreement (Sec. 5).
This is not a vote on the passage of the amendment, but rather a vote to determine if the amendment violates senate rule XVI, #4. The rule requires that amendments to appropriation bills are relevant to the appropriation topic at hand and do not propose new general legislation.
Legislation - Introduced (Senate) - Sept. 12, 2005
Title: Congressional Commission on Hurricane Katrina
Sponsors
- Hillary Rodham Clinton (NY - D) (Out Of Office)
Co-sponsors
- Barbara Boxer (CA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Thomas Richard 'Tom' Carper (DE - D)
- Jon Stevens Corzine (NJ - D) (Out Of Office)
- Richard J. 'Dick' Durbin (IL - D)
- Russell D. 'Russ' Feingold (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Dianne Feinstein (CA - D)
- Thomas 'Tom' Harkin (IA - D) (Out Of Office)
- James Merrill 'Jim' Jeffords (VT - I) (Out Of Office)
- Timothy Peter 'Tim' Johnson (SD - D) (Out Of Office)
- Frank R. Lautenberg (NJ - D) (Out Of Office)
- Barbara A. Mikulski (MD - D) (Out Of Office)
- Barack Hussein Obama II (IL - D) (Out Of Office)
- John Francis 'Jack' Reed (RI - D)
- Ken Salazar (CO - D) (Out Of Office)
- Charles E. 'Chuck' Schumer (NY - D)
- Debbie Ann Stabenow (MI - D)
