How your congressmen voted in Washington, D.C. | Albany Herald

WASHINGTON — Here’s how the Georgia congressional delegation voted on major issues in the period that ended Thursday.

HOUSE VOTES

EXTENDING TAX CREDITS, DEDUCTIONS: The House has passed the Tax Increase Prevention Act (H.R. 5771), sponsored by Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich. The bill would retroactively extend through 2014 an array of tax credits and tax deductions that expired at the end of 2013, including renewable energy credits and the mortgage insurance and tuition tax deductions. Camp said timely approval of the extensions was needed to avoid uncertainty and disruptions as the tax filing season approaches, and assure taxpayers that they can continue to take their accustomed credits and deductions. A bill opponent, Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., D-N.J., said: “Congress should be extending these provisions until the end of 2015, in a fiscally responsible way, and then get back to work on real, permanent tax reform that ends this destructive cycle of expiring and renewing temporary tax policy once and for all.” The vote, on Wednesday, was 378 yeas to 46 nays.

YEAS: Barrow, Bishop, Broun, Collins, Gingrey, Graves, Johnson, Kingston, Lewis, Price, A. Scott, D. Scott, Westmoreland, Woodall

NAYS: Broun, Lewis

ENFORCING IMMIGRATION LAWS: The House has passed the Preventing Executive Overreach on Immigration Act (H.R. 5759), sponsored by Rep. Ted S. Yoho, R-Fla. The bill would bar the Obama administration from exempting or deferring illegal immigrants from deportation proceedings and void any administration efforts to circumvent the ban. Yoho said that because the Obama administration “is refusing to enforce our existing immigration laws for millions of unlawful aliens,” the bill was needed to assert Congress’s sole constitutional authority to make laws and resist presidential efforts to avoid enforcing those laws. An opponent, Rep. John Conyers Jr., D-Mich., said the bill “would deprive nearly 5 million immigrants and their families of the hope that they might finally live without constant fear of separation and deportation” that would prevent them from contributing to communities and the economy. The vote, on Thursday, was 219 yeas to 197 nays.

YEAS: Barrow, Broun, Collins, Gingrey, Graves, Kingston, Price, A. Scott, Westmoreland, Woodall

NAYS: Bishop, Johnson, Lewis, D. Scott

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