WASHINGTON - Here s a look at how area members of Congress voted over the previous week.
Along with the week s roll call votes, the Senate also passed the COVID-19 Origin Act (S. 1867), to require the Director of National Intelligence to declassify information relating to the origin of COVID-19.
There were no key votes in the House this week.
Senate votes:
Senate Vote 1: RUNNING MEDICARE AND MEDICAID: The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Chiquita Brooks-LaSure to be the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services at the Health and Human Services Department. Brooks-LaSure was a health care official in the Obama administration, then became a managing director at Manatt Health, a consultancy. An opponent, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said a no vote was needed to prompt the Biden administration to reverse its unprecedented revoking, without consultation, of Texas s section 1115 Medicaid waiver. The vote, on May 25, was 55 yeas to 44 nays.
Montana law provides that employers, including governmental entities, are prohibited from refusing employment to a person or discriminating against a person in employment based on the person’s vaccination status or whether the person has an immunity passport.