May 16, 2016
In this MegaVote for Connecticut's 3rd Congressional District:
Recent Congressional Votes
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Senate: Fiscal 2017 Energy-Water Appropriations – Cloture to the Substitute Amendment
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Senate: Fiscal 2017 Energy-Water Appropriations – Cloture to the Substitute Amendment
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Senate: Fiscal 2017 Energy-Water Appropriations – Passage
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House: Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force – Passage
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House: Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Reduction – Passage
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House: Comprehensive Anti-Opioid Efforts – House Amendment to the Senate-Passed Bill
Upcoming Congressional Bills
- Senate:
Fiscal 2017 Military Construction-Veterans Affairs and Fiscal 2017
Transportation-Housing and Urban Development Appropriations
- House: Fiscal 2017 Defense Authorization
- House: Fiscal 2017 Military Construction-Veterans Affairs Appropriations
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Recent Senate Votes |
Fiscal 2017 Energy-Water Appropriations – Cloture to the Substitute Amendment - Vote Rejected (50-42, 8 Not Voting)
 The
Senate rejected the McConnell, R-Ky. motion to invoke cloture on the
Alexander, R-Tenn. substitute amendment that would provide $37.5
billion in fiscal 2017 for various items including $6 billion for the
Army Corps of Engineers, $5.4 billion for Department of Energy science
research and $12.9 billion for the Department’s nuclear security
programs.
 Sen. Christopher Murphy voted NO Sen. Richard Blumenthal voted NO
Fiscal 2017 Energy-Water Appropriations – Cloture to the Substitute Amendment - Vote Agreed to (97-2, 1 Not Voting)
 The
Senate agreed to the McConnell, R-Ky. motion to invoke cloture on the
Alexander, R-Tenn. substitute amendment that would provide $37.5
billion in fiscal 2017 for various items including $6 billion for the
Army Corps of Engineers, $5.4 billion for Department of Energy science
research and $12.9 billion for the Department’s nuclear security
programs.
 Sen. Christopher Murphy voted YES Sen. Richard Blumenthal voted YES
Fiscal 2017 Energy-Water Appropriations – Passage - Vote Passed (90-8, 2 Not Voting)
 The
Senate passed a measure that would provide $37.5 billion in fiscal 2017
for various items including $6 billion for the Army Corps of Engineers,
$5.4 billion for Department of Energy science research and $12.9
billion for the Department’s nuclear security programs.
 Sen. Christopher Murphy voted YES Sen. Richard Blumenthal voted YES
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Recent House Votes |
Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force – Passage - Vote Passed (412-4, 17 Not Voting)
 The
House passed legislation that establishes a Pain Management Best
Practices Inter-Agency Task Force to review, modify and update medical
best practices for pain management and prescribing pain medication.
 Rep. Rosa DeLauro voted YES
Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Reduction – Passage - Vote Passed (413-5, 15 Not Voting)
 The
chamber passed a measure that creates two new grant programs in the
Justice Department to assist in combating opioid abuse: one to state,
local and tribal governments that could be used for a variety of opioid
abuse reduction programs and activities and one to assist veterans
suffering from opioid abuse.
 Rep. Rosa DeLauro voted YES
Comprehensive Anti-Opioid Efforts – House Amendment to the Senate-Passed Bill - Vote Passed (400-5, 28 Not Voting)
 The
House passed legislation, as amended, that includes 18 bills previously
passed by the chamber. Among other items, it establishes two grant
programs to create state systems under which physicians and others who
prescribe opioids to patients would at the same time prescribe opioid
overdose reversal drugs to those patients thought to be at an elevated
risk of overdose. It also creates a grant program to create state
systems under which trained pharmacists may dispense reversal drugs to
opioid users or families of those at risk of an overdose and authorizes
$5 million through fiscal 2019 for those grants.
 Rep. Rosa DeLauro voted YES
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Upcoming Votes |
Fiscal 2017 Military Construction-Veterans Affairs and Fiscal 2017 Transportation-Housing and Urban Development Appropriations
- HR2577
 The
military construction and veterans part of the bill would provide a
total $177.4 billion in both discretionary and mandatory funding for the
Veterans Affairs Department, including increases for health care,
benefit claims processing, medical and prosthetic research and homeless
veterans assistance.
The transportation and housing portion of the bill would provide $56.5
billion in discretionary funding for fiscal 2017 for the Transportation
and Housing and Urban Development departments and related agencies.

Fiscal 2017 Defense Authorization
- HR4909
 The
bill would authorize $602.2 billion for discretionary defense spending
in fiscal 2017, including $543.4 billion for the Pentagon's base,
non-war budget. It also would include $58.8 billion for uncapped
Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) funding for war operations and
other anti-terror activities but provides that $23.1 billion of that
total be used for non-war, base defense budget needs, including $18
billion for aircraft, ships and other items.

Fiscal 2017 Military Construction-Veterans Affairs Appropriations
- HR4974
 The
bill would provide a total of $81.6 billion in discretionary spending
for fiscal 2017 to fund military construction projects and programs of
the Veterans Affairs Department and would provide $102.5 billion in
mandatory spending for fiscal 2017 and $172 million in Overseas
Contingency Operations funding.
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