Which 31 Democrats Voted Yet Again to Cut Social Spending to Fund War?

Tuesday, the House voted on the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY 2016.

This is the appropriations bill for 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, including the CIA, the National Security Agency, and the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Much of what these agencies do in the first place is bad, so there are grounds enough to oppose the funding bill. However, Republicans did manage to put in some provisions to make them worse. The bill restricts the president's ability to transfer detainees held in Guantanamo Bay Prison, and it also hobbles the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.

It also continues with the GOP's plan to eliminate budget caps on military programs by putting money into a slush fund:

Also similar to the NDAA, the bill inappropriately misuses the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) designation, authorizing approximately 43% more OCO funds than requested by the President – a dangerous gimmick intended to go around the sequester level defense spending cap from the Budget Control Act, while leaving the non-defense sequester level cap in place. This gambit will destabilize long-term national security planning, and allow domestic priorities to wither on the vine.  By removing pressure to replace the sequester level defense caps, it makes a new budget agreement less likely, with drastic negative consequences for our nation’s schools, roads and bridges, law enforcement, scientific research, and other domestic priorities critical to all hardworking Americans. If Republicans want to lift spending above the Budget Control Act's caps, then they should work with Democrats to replace the dangerous and irrational sequester for both defense and non-defense spending with a balanced solution.  

The bill passed 247 to 178. 

 

216 Republicans and 31 Democrats vote for it. 153 Democrats and 25 Republicans voted against it.

Here are the 31 Democrats:

Pete Aguilar (CA-31)
Brad Ashford (NE-02)
Ami Bera (CA-07)
Sanford Bishop (GA-02)
Julia Brownley (CA-26)
Cheri Bustos (IL-17)
Lacy Clay (MO-01)
Jim Cooper (TN-05)
Jim Costa (CA-16)
Henry Cuellar (TX-28)
John Delaney (MD-06)
Tammy Duckworth (IL-08)
Gwen Graham (FL-02)
Denny Heck (WA-10)
Bill Keating (MA-09)
Ann Kirkpatrick (AZ-01)
Annie Kuster (NH-02)
Jim Langevin (RI-02)
Dan Lipinski (IL-03)
Michelle Lujan Grisham (NM-01)
Sean Maloney (NY-18)
Patrick Murphy (FL-18)
Donald Norcross (NJ-01)
Scott Peters (CA-52)
Collin Peterson (MN-07)
Kathleen Rice (NY-04)
Raul Ruiz (CA-36)
Dutch Ruppersberger (MD-02)
Kyrsten Sinema (AZ-09)
Marc Veasey (TX-33)
Tim Walz (MN-01)

The House took a roll call vote on one amendment, introduced by Adam Schiff (CA-28), to strike four sections of the bill which add new restrictions to prevent the Administration from closing the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp.

It failed 176 to 246.

171 Democrats and 5 Republicans voted for it. 235 Republicans and 11 Democrats voted against it.

Here are those 11 Democrats:

Pete Aguilar (CA-31)
Julia Brownley (CA-26)
Henry Cuellar (TX-28)
Gwen Graham (FL-02)
Gene Green (TX-29)
Ann Kirkpatrick (AZ-01)
Dan Lipinski (IL-03)
Sean Maloney (NY-18)
Raul Ruiz (CA-36)
Dutch Ruppersberger (MD-02)
Kyrsten Sinema (AZ-09)