Miller Amendment House Vote Results

On Friday, June 24, 2005, the House of Representatives passed an amendment introduced by Representative George Miller to an appropriations bill, HR 3010 prohibiting the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) from spending funds on the termination of pension plans. If adopted by the Senate and passed into law, termination of our pension plan would be stopped.

Congressional Record of House Vote>

“We are incredibly grateful to Representatives George Miller, Jan Schakowsky, Ray LaHood, and Joseph Crowley for their persistence and encouragement of their colleagues to act as idealistic servants for every worker in this country who deserves a dignified retirement for a lifetime of service."
                   – MEC President Greg Davidowitch

View a list of votes in favor of Miller’s amendment, including 31 House Republican supporters noted in parenthesis below:

Alabama
Cramer
Davis

Arizona
Grijalva
Pastor

Arkansas
Berry
Ross
Snyder

*California
Baca
Berman
Bono, Mary (R-CA)
Capps
Cardoza
Costa
Davis
Eshoo
Farr
Filner
Honda
Lantos
Lee
Lofgren, Zoe
Matsui
Millender-McDonald
Miller, George
Napolitano
Pelosi
Roybal-Allard
Sánchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Schiff
Sherman
Solis
Stark
Tanner
Tauscher
Thompson
Waters
Watson
Waxman
Woolsey

Colorado
DeGette
Salazar
Tancredo, Thomas (R-CO)
Udall

Connecticut
DeLauro
Larson
Shays, Christopher (R-CT)

Florida
Bilirakis, Michael (R-FL)
Brown, Corrine
Davis
Feeney, Tom (R-FL)
Hastings
Meek
Miller, Jeff (R-FL)
Stearns, Cliff (R-FL)
Wasserman Schultz
Wexler

Georgia
Barrow
Bishop
Marshall
McKinney
Scott

Hawaii
Abercrombie
Case

Idaho
Otter, C.L. (R-ID)

*Illinois
Bean
Costello
Davis
Emanuel
Evans
Hyde, Henry (R-IL)
Jackson
LaHood, Ray (R-IL)
Lipinski
Rush
Schakowsky
Shimkus, John (R-IL)

Indiana
Carson
Visclosky

Iowa
Boswell

Kansas
Moore

Kentucky
Chandler

Louisiana
Jefferson
Melancon

Maine
Allen
Michaud

Maryland
Cardin
Cummings
Hoyer
Ruppersberger
Van Hollen
Wynn

Massachusetts
Capuano
Frank
Lynch
Markey
McGovern
Meehan
Neal
Olver
Tierney

Michigan
Conyers
Dingell
Kildee
Kilpatrick
Levin
McCotter, Thaddeus (R-MI)
Stupak

Minnesota
McCollum
Oberstar
Peterson
Sabo

Mississippi
Thompson

Missouri
Carnahan
Clay
Cleaver
Skelton

Nevada
Berkley
Gibbons, James (R-NV)

*New Jersey
Holt
LoBiondo, Frank (R-NJ)
Menendez
Pallone
Pascrell
Payne
Rothman
Smith, Christopher (R-NJ)

New Mexico
Pearce, Steve (R-NM)

*New York
Ackerman
Bishop
Boehlert, Sherwood (R-NY)
Crowley
Engel
Fossella, Vito (R-NY)
Higgins
Hinchey
Israel
Kuhl, Randy (R-NY)
Lowey
Maloney
McCarthy
McHugh, John (R-NY)
McNulty
Nadler
Owens
Rangel
Serrano
Slaughter
Sweeney, John (R-NY)
Velázquez
Weiner

North Carolina
Butterfield
Etheridge
McIntyre
Miller
Price
Watt

North Dakota
Pomeroy

Ohio
Brown
Jones
Kaptur
Kucinich
LaTourette, Steven (R-OH)
Ryan
Strickland

Oklahoma
Boren

Oregon
Blumenauer
DeFazio
Hooley
Wu

Pennsylvania
Brady
Doyle
Fitzpatrick, Mike (R-PA)
Gerlach, Jim (R-PA)
Holden
Kanjorski
Murtha
Schwartz

Rhode Island
Kennedy
Langevin

South Carolina
Clyburn
Spratt
South Dakota
Herseth

Tennessee
Cooper
Davis
Ford
Gordon

Texas
Cuellar
Doggett
Edwards
Gonzalez
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Hinojosa
Jackson-Lee
Johnson, E. B.
Ortiz
Paul, Ron (R-TX)
Poe, Ted (R-TX)

Utah
Matheson

Vermont
Sanders, Bernard (I-VT)

Virginia
Boucher
Goode, Virgil (R-VA)
Moran
Scott
Wolf, Frank (R-VA)

Washington
Baird
Dicks
Inslee
Larsen
McDermott
Reichert, Dave (R-WA)
Smith

*West Virginia

Wisconsin
Baldwin
Green, Mark (R-WI)
Kind
Moore
Obey
Sensenbrenner, F. James (R-WI)

*The Following Representatives were unable to be present for the amendment vote, but they have already added their name as a cosponsor to H.R. 2327 for a six-month moratorium on pension terminations:

Andrews (D-NJ)
Becerra (D-CA)
Gutierrez (D-IL)
Harman (D-CA)
Rahall (D-WV)
Towns (D-NY)

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