AAEA

HOME

CBC

CBC Vote on Energy Policy Act of 2005 Conference Report

7-28-2005 The largest number of CBC members so far vote for H.R. 6, Energy Policy Act of 2005. The energy bill was supported by 43% of the CBC, including Senator Barack Obama.

Member Voting Yea Member Voting Yea

1) Sanford Bishop   9) William Jefferson

2) G.K Butterfield 10) E.B. Johnson

3) Julia Carson 11) Gregory Meeks

4) James Clyburn 12) Bobby Rush

5) Artur Davis 13) David Scott

6) Harold Ford 14) Robert Scott

7) Al Green 15) Edolphus Towns

  8) Sheila Jackson-Lee 16) Albert Wynn

17) Barack Obama

CBC Yes: 17, CBC No: 22, NV 1 (Payne).  The House vote was 275 Yeas to 156 Nays, 3 NV. Clyburn, Butterfield, Carson, R. Scott, and E.B. Johnson, joined the other 11 members voting Yea before (See below).

CBC Opposes Energy Bill in 2005

4-21-2005 The largest number of CBC members so far vote for H.R. 6, Energy Policy Act of 2005:

Member Yes on H.R. 6

1) Sanford Bishop
X

2) Artur Davis
X

   3) Harold Ford
X

   4) Al Green
X

5) Sheila Jackson-Lee
X

   6) William Jefferson
X

   7) Gregory Meeks
X

   8) Bobby Rush
X

   9) David Scott
X

10) Edolphus Towns
X

11) Albert Wynn
X

CBC Yes: 11, CBC No: 29. The energy bill was opposed by 73% of the CBC. The House vote was 249 Yeas to 183 Nays.

Congressman Wynn Hydrogen Amendments Added To Energy Bill

April 13, 2004 -- Congressman Albert Wynn (D-MD), who serves on the House Energy & Commerce Committee introduced an amendment to the energy bill to provide special consideration to proposed nuclear plants that produce hydrogen in addition to electricity under a Combined Operating License. The Wynn-Shimkus language (pdf) will put the hydrogen economy on a fast track by creating federally supported, collaborative demonstration projects between the private sector, major universities (including Historically Black Colleges) and laboratories. The amendment directs the Administration to embark on a plan to produce hydrogen from nuclear energy for use in fuel cells. AAEA supports the amendment.

The Wynn-Shimkus wind and solar amendment (pdf) will put the hydrogen economy on a fast track by creating federally supported, collaborative demonstration projects between the private sector, major universities (including Historically Black Colleges) and laboratories. This amendment authorizes the Administration to embark on a plan to produce hydrogen from the renewable energy sources of solar and wind power for use in fuel cells. AAEA supports the amendment.

CBC Opposes Energy Bill Conference Report

11-18-2003, 4:47 p.m.The Congressional Black Caucus opposed the Conference Report to the Energy Bill (H.R. 6) by a vote of 8 yeas and 29 Nays. Seventy-two (72) percent of the CBC opposed the report. Voting for the bill: 1) Davis, 2) Jefferson, 3) Meek, 4) Towns, 5) Bishop, 6) Thompson, 7) Scott & 8) Wynn. The House vote was 246 Yeas to 180 Nays.

CBC Opposes Energy Bill

April 11, 2003: Eighty-four percent (84%) of the Congressional Black Caucus voted against H.R. 6, the Energy Policy Act of 2003. Six members of the CBC voted for the Administration bill sponsored by Energy and Commerce Chairman Billy Tauzin: 1) Bishop GA), 2) Jackson-Lee (TX), 3) Jefferson (LA), 4) Bernice-Johnson (TX), 5) Rush (IL), & 6) Scott (GA). Only Bishop voted for the energy bill and for ANWR drilling.

CBC Opposes Healthy Forest Initiative

May 20, 2003: Eighty-nine percent (89%) of the CBC voted against H.R. 1904. CBC members voting for the bill: 1) Sanford D. Bishop (2-GA), 2) Artur Davis (7 AL), 3) David Scott (13 GA), 4) Bennie G. Thompson (2 MS)

CBC Opposes ANWR Oil Drilling

April 10, 2003: Ninety-two percent (92%) of the CBC opposed ANWR drilling. Three members of the Congressional Black Caucus opposed the Markey Amendment to the energy bill and supported drilling in ANWR: 1) Bishop (Ga), 2) Clyburn (SC), & 3) Thompson (MS). Last year, four CBC members supported ANWR: 1) Clyburn (SC), 2) Earl F. Hilliard (AL), 3) Bennie Thompson (MS), & 4) Edolphus Towns (NY). Note that Towns voted for ANWR last year but against ANWR this year.

8 of 36 Congressional Black Caucus + JC Watts Vote FOR Bush ENERGY Bill

2002 -- Tweny-five percent (25%) of America's black Congressional representatives voted to approve HR 4, the Bush/Cheney Securing America's Future Energy (SAFE) Act. The bill now moves to the U.S. Senate. The CBC supporters included: Bishop (GA), Brown (Fla), Clyburn (SC), Hilliard (Ala), Jackson-Lee (TX), Jefferson (LA), Thompson (MS), Towns (NY) and non-CBC black Republican Watts (OK).

Four members of the CBC broke ranks to support drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on the grounds that it would create thousands of jobs. The Democratic leadership, Dick Gephardt, (Missouri), minority leader and David E. Bonior (D-Mich), minority whip, joined the CBC members listed below in opposing increases in automobile fuel efficiency standards in the bill. Representatives Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, Edolphus Towns of New York, Earl F. Hilliard of Alabama and James E. Clyburn of South Carolina were among Mr. Bush's supporters for drilling and against increased car mileage standards.

Majority of CBC Supports Yucca Mountain

The Congressional Black Caucus voted for Yucca Mountain 22 to 15--57% of the CBC and Black Republican J.C. Watts (not a member of the CBC) also voted for the mountain. Thus, 60% of the blacks in Congress voted in favor of storing the nation's nuclear waste at the Nevada repository. The repository has been designed to solve the continuing buildup of high level nuclear waste. Taxpayers, through the Nuclear Waste Fund, have already paid 7 billion for the project's development. Those voting in favor:

1) Bishop (GA-2) 2) C. Brown (Fl-3) 3) B. Carson (OK-2)

4) Clay (MO-1) 5) Clayton (NC-1) 6) Clyburn (SC-6)

7) Cummings (MD-7) 8) D. Davis (IL-7) 9) Fattah (PA-2)

10) Ford (tn-9) 11) A. Hasting (FL-23) 12) Hilliard (AL-7)

13) Jefferson (LA-2) 14) E.B. Johnson (TX-30)

15) Kilpatrick (MI-15) 16) G. Meeks (NY-6) 17) Payne (NJ-10)

18) Rush (IL-1) 19) B. Thompson (MS-2) 20) Towns (NY-10)

21) M. Watt (NC-12) 22) Wynn (MD-4) and J.C. Watts (R-OK-4)

[Eleanor Holmes-Norton does not have a vote--total of 38 CBC members.]

House Approves Yucca Mountain

5-8-2002 The vote wasd 306 to 117. Gov. Kenny Guinn of Nevada, who had rejected the Bush administration's plan to ship waste from all over the country to Yucca Mountain beginning in 2010. Tens of thousands of tons of high-level radioactive waste are stored at 131 locations in 39 states.

AAEA applauds the victory in the House and the Senate. We believe that increased use of nuclear power plants, combined with electric and hybrid vehicles will reduce smog, reduce asthma deaths, reduce global warming and climate change and will reduce our reliance on imported oil, reduce acid rain and reduce the risk of war over oil. Nuclear power plants also currently provide 20% of our nation's electricity.