Here’s a look at how area members of Congress voted over the previous week.
Along with this week’s roll call votes, the Senate also passed the Ending Improper Payments to Deceased People Act (S. 269), to improve coordination between federal and state agencies and the Treasury Department’s Do Not Pay system.
House votes
CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS: The House has passed the Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act (H.R. 5371), sponsored by Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., to provide funding for federal government programs through November 21, and increase spending on security for government officials. Cole called the bill “a clean, short-term stopgap that protects the fiscal year 2026 progress we have made and allows the appropriations process to advance toward full-year bills. It allows us to return the appropriations process to regular order.” A bill opponent, Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro, D-Conn., said it continued “the theft and disregard for the middle class, the working class, and vulnerable Americans” shown in earlier legislation passed by this Congress. The vote, on Sept. 19, was 217 yeas to 212 nays.
NAYS: DeGette D-CO (1st), Crow D-CO (6th), Neguse D-CO (2nd), Pettersen D-CO (7th)
YEAS: Crank R-CO (5th), Boebert R-CO (4th), Evans (CO) R-CO (8th), Hurd (CO) R-CO (3rd)
MEMORIALIZING CHARLIE KIRK: The House has passed a resolution (H. Res. 719), sponsored by House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to condemn the assassination of Charlie Kirk and all forms of political violence, and honor Kirk’s life. Johnson called the resolution a statement “that political violence, but the glorification and celebration of that violence, are profoundly wrong, and it goes against everything we stand for as Americans.” The vote, on Sept. 19, was 310 yeas to 58 nays, with 38 present votes.
PRESENT: DeGette D-CO (1st), Pettersen D-CO (7th)
YEAS: Crank R-CO (5th), Boebert R-CO (4th), Crow D-CO (6th), Evans (CO) R-CO (8th), Hurd (CO) R-CO (3rd)
NOT VOTING: Neguse D-CO (2nd)
Senate votes
U.N. AMBASSADOR: The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Michael Waltz to be the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Waltz was a House member, representing a Florida district, from 2019 until this January, when he joined the White House as its national security advisor. The vote, on Sept. 19, was 47 yeas to 43 nays.
NAYS: Bennet D-CO, Hickenlooper D-CO
ALTERNATIVE CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS BILL: The Senate has rejected the Continuing Appropriations and Extensions and Other Matters Act (S. 2882), sponsored by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash. The bill would have repealed health care-related provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and provided funding for the federal government through October 31. Murray called on Congress “to make sure patients can actually access and afford those cures. That means we have to protect health coverage that helps cancer patients get care.” An opponent, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said the bill was “packed full of partisan policies and measures designed to appeal to Democrats’ leftist base: funding healthcare for able-bodied adults who refuse to work; ensuring that noncitizens go back on the Medicaid rolls.” The vote, on Sept. 19, was 47 yeas to 45 nays, with a three-fifths majority required for approval.
YEAS: Bennet D-CO, Hickenlooper D-CO
