ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>2009 National Environmental Scorecard</title> <link href="http://lcv-ftp.org/scorecard09/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <!-- jQuery library --> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://sorgalla.com/projects/jcarousel/lib/jquery-1.2.3.pack.js"></script> <!-- jCarousel library --> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://sorgalla.com/projects/jcarousel/lib/jquery.jcarousel.pack.js"></script> <!-- jCarousel core stylesheet --> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://sorgalla.com/projects/jcarousel/lib/jquery.jcarousel.css" /> <!-- jCarousel skin stylesheet --> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://sorgalla.com/projects/jcarousel/skins/tango/skin.css" /> <script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(document).ready(function() { jQuery('#mycarousel').jcarousel(); }); </script> </head> <body> <div id="shadow"> <div id="red"><a href="http://lcv.org"><img src="images/red_footer.jpg" border="0"></a></div> <div id="inner"> <table align="center" width="900" border="0"><tr><td> <div id="content"> <a href="http://lcv.org/scorecard"><img src="http://lcv-ftp.org/scorecard09/scorecard_logo_sub.png" border="0"></a> <div id="blockw"> <!-- CONTENT BEGINS HERE --> <h1>SENATE VOTE DESCRIPTIONS</h1> 1. Clean Energy Recovery <BR><BR> The Obama administration and Congress quickly took steps to address the nation's economic crisis early in 2009. As job losses mounted, numerous proposals circulated as to how best to stimulate the economy, repositioning the United States for sustainable economic growth. Investing in clean energy research, development and deployment can solidify America's status as an economic power while creating jobs, improving our national security and protecting the planet. <BR><BR> In February, the Senate took up H.R. 1, The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The $787 billion package included nearly $80 billion in clean-energy investments, by far the largest down payment in renewable technology in American history. Included in this funding were resources to rebuild the national electricity grid to promote efficiency and accommodate next-generation technology, tax credits for clean energy businesses, weatherization of low-income homes and investments in cleaner transportation like high-speed rail. Together, these investments would preserve 390,000 jobs and reduce oil consumption by 15 million barrels of oil per year. <BR><BR> On February 13, the Senate passed the H.R. 1 conference report by a vote of 60-38 (Senate roll call vote 64). YES IS THE PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOTE. The House passed the conference report on the same day, and the President signed the bill into law on February 17. <BR><BR> 2. Public Lands Protection <BR><BR> The Omnibus Public Land Management Act, considered one of the most important public land conservation measures in decades, designated more than 2 million acres of public lands as wilderness in nine states and established three new national park units, a new national monument, three new national conservation areas, more than 1,000 miles of national wild and scenic rivers and four new national trails. The Act enlarged the boundaries of more than a dozen existing national park units and established ten new national heritage areas. It also formally established the National Landscape Conservation System, containing millions of acres of wilderness, monuments and conservation areas that are managed by the Bureau of Land Management. <BR><BR> The Omnibus Public Land Management Act also authorized numerous land exchanges and conveyances to help Western communities, addressed water resource and supply issues and launched programs to study the effects of climate change on natural resources. A provision not supported by the conservation community was a measure that may permit a road within the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. <BR><BR> On January 11, in its first vote of the session, the Senate invoked cloture on the public lands bill by a vote of 66-12 (Senate roll call vote 1). YES IS THE PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOTE. The House passed H.R. 146 on March 25, and the President signed the bill into law on March 30. <BR><BR> 3. Budget <BR><BR> When the President's annual budget is submitted, typically in February, Congress begins to develop its own budget plan that reflects its spending priorities. The federal budget resolution sets funding levels for the next fiscal year and sets forth budget totals for the next five years. <BR><BR> Because the budget resolution determines the spending authority of Senate appropriations committees, the federal budget is a powerful tool for establishing national policy priorities. Programs that protect our air, water, climate, wildlife, parks, forest, refuges and other public lands fall under the Interior-Environment Appropriations Subcommittee. <BR><BR> S. Con Res 13 marks the third year of reversing cuts to many important environmental and conservation programs that occurred for nearly a decade. The budget agreement increases investments in a clean energy economy, supporting a healthier environment and paving the way for comprehensive climate legislation this year. The concurrent resolution allows for up to $1.086 trillion in non-emergency discretionary spending for fiscal 2010. It also creates a deficit-neutral reserve fund for climate change legislation. <BR><BR> As a concurrent resolution the bill does not need the President's signature. On April 29, the Senate passed S. Con. Res. 13, by a vote of 53-43 (Senate roll call vote 173). The House approved this resolution that same day, setting the congressional budget for fiscal year 2010. YES IS THE PROENVIRONMENT VOTE. <BR><BR> 4. Environmental Funding <BR><BR> The Interior-Environment appropriations bill allocates yearly funding for many federal environment and natural resource programs that protect our public lands, wildlife, air and water and safeguard communities from toxic pollution. In addition, as the nation increasingly grapples with the need to address climate change and its impacts, the Interior-Environment appropriations bill has become an important vehicle for making advances on this critical front. <BR><BR> H.R. 2996, the FY 2010 bill as passed by the Senate, while not perfect, continues to take important strides in reviving programs devastated by years of starvation budgets, providing a total of $32.1 billion, $4.5 billion (16%) over the FY 2009 level. The bill provided significant funding in a number of areas including $3.63 billion for clean drinking water and wastewater; $478 million to protect great bodies of water such as the Great Lakes and Chesapeake Bay; $419 million for the Land and Water Conservation Fund and Forest Legacy; and significant increases for wildlife conservation and to bolster management of our national forests, wildlife refuges, parks, monuments and other public lands. <BR><BR> In addition, the Federal Land Assistance, Management and Enhancement (FLAME) Act of 2009 was added as an amendment to the bill on the Senate floor, intended to help create a dedicated, steady and predictable funding stream for wildfire suppression activities and to alleviate the pressure from fire fighting activities on regular agency budgets. <BR><BR> On June 26, H. R. 2996 passed the Senate by a vote of 77-21 (Senate roll call vote 298). YES IS THE PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOTE. The conference report on the Interior-Environment appropriations bill was passed by both chambers and signed into law by the President on October 30. <BR><BR> 5. National Security & Climate Change <BR><BR> Defense experts have begun to focus on the national security implications of climate change. In 2008, the National Intelligence Council, which produces government-wide intelligence analyses, finished the first assessment of the national security implications of climate change. It concluded that climate change by itself would have significant geopolitical impacts around the world and would contribute to a host of problems, including poverty, environmental degradation and the weakening of national governments. <BR><BR> On September 25, the President announced the creation of a new office in the Central Intelligence Agency to study the future implications of climate change: the Center on Climate Change and National Security. This group within the CIA will assess the national security implications of increased competition for resources, population shifts, water shortages, changes in crop yields, and the spread of climate-sensitive diseases such as malaria. <BR><BR> On October 6, Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) offered an amendment to the FY 2010 Defense appropriations bill to eliminate funding for this office. The amendment failed on a vote of 38-60 (Senate roll call vote 307). NO IS THE PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOTE. <BR><BR> 6. Defunding Environment & Energy Staff <BR><BR> Given the urgent need to bring about a new energy future and reduce global warming pollution, President Obama created the position of Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change. The President has directed her to coordinate the work of multiple Cabinet level agencies on climate change and the creation of clean energy and clean energy jobs that are essential for long-term economic growth. Her power and influence relies primarily on persuasion and in communicating to the federal agencies decisions of the President. <BR><BR> The amendment to the Interior-Environment appropriations bill by Senator David Vitter(RLA) would cut off funding for any action that an agency directed by the Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change undertook. The goal was to weaken the President's energy and climate advisor and throw into question the legality of the implementation of the President's energy and climate agenda. <BR><BR> Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) offered an amendment to table the Vitter amendment. On September 24, the amendment passed 57-41 (Senate roll call vote 295). YES IS THE PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOTE. <BR><BR> 7. Polar Bear Protections & Global Warming <BR><BR> The FY 2009 Omnibus appropriations bill (H.R. 1105), included a provision, Section 429, that would allow the Obama administration to quickly withdraw two damaging regulations proposed near the end of the Bush administration that would weaken implementation of the Endangered Species Act and harm the imperiled polar bear. Neither of these rules underwent sufficient public process or opportunity for comment. <BR><BR> The first of these rules would allow federal agencies to decide on their own if their actions would harm a threatened or endangered species. Many of these agencies do not have scientists or other staff qualified to make such a determination. This rule was intended to disallow consideration of the impact of greenhouse gas emissions on polar bears or other wildlife affected by global warming, as well as limit protection of all listed species and critical habitat from a host of indirect effects resulting from federal actions, permits or funding decisions. <BR><BR> The second of the rules would effectively ensure that the polar bear receives no additional protection by being listed under the ESA. Although the Bush administration was unable to avoid listing the polar bear in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence that the species faces extinction in the United States by mid-century because of global warming, it instead quickly endeavored to ensure that the listing would have no real effect. <BR><BR> Senator Murkowski (R-AK) offered an amendment to the Omnibus appropriations bill that would have delayed replacement of the flawed rules under the pretext of providing opportunity for public comment. On March 5, the Murkowski amendment was rejected by a vote of 42-52 (Senate roll call vote 82). NO IS THE PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOTE. The President signed the Omnibus appropriations bill into law on March 11 with Section 429 intact. <BR><BR> 8. Water Resources <BR><BR> The Bay-Delta Estuary is the largest estuary on the West Coast. It is an ecosystem that supports an important array of species including listed salmon, steelhead, sturgeon, and smelt populations. In recent years, the Delta ecosystem has been on the verge of collapse. Water diversions from the Delta have depressed salmon numbers and resulted in the closure of the salmon fishery for the last two years. This has caused an economic disaster along hundreds of miles of the Pacific Coast, with estimated losses in California of $2.8 billion and 23,000 jobs in the commercial and recreational fishing industries in 2008 and 2009. <BR><BR> During consideration of FY 2010 Interior-Environment appropriations bill, Senator James DeMint (R-SC) introduced an amendment to instruct the Senate Appropriations Committee to prohibit funding for court-mandated protections, or a biological opinion, for the California Bay Delta Estuary and for the threatened and endangered species that depend on the estuary. The amendment would have also threatened thousands of fishing jobs. <BR><BR> Implementation of these protections is critical to restoring the health of the Bay Delta ecosystem and sustaining California's sport and commercial salmon fishery. The biological opinion is the result of several years of consultation with state and federal agencies and has undergone two separate peer review studies. <BR><BR> On September 22, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) offered a motion to table the DeMint amendment. The motion was passed by a vote of 61-36 (Senate roll call vote 292). YES IS THE PRO -ENV IRONMEN T VO TE. <BR><BR> 9. Offshore Drilling <BR><BR> By renewing each year a Congressional moratorium on new drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), Congress had protected for more than 25 years our sensitive coastal waters of the Atlantic, Pacific and eastern Gulf of Mexico from offshore oil and gas exploration and development. That moratorium expired in 2008, and the Bush Administration issued a new five-year plan to govern leasing and development in these areas. When President Obama took office in 2009, Secretary Salazar issued a Òtime outÓ on new drilling and suspended the Bush OCS program to allow the new administration to evaluate future options for offshore energy development. <BR><BR> On September 23, during consideration of the FY 2010 Interior-Environment appropriations bill, Senator David Vitter (R-LA) offered a motion to recommit the bill to the Senate Appropriations Committee with instructions that it be reported back immediately with an amendment that would bar the use of funds in the bill to delay the Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program. Senator Vitter was attempting to end the suspension imposed by the Obama administration and have the Bush drilling plan reinstated. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) introduced a motion to table the Vitter amendment, which prevailed by a vote of 56-42 (Senate roll call vote 293). YES IS THE PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOTE. <BR><BR> 10. Land and Water Conservation Fund <BR><BR> The Land and Water Conservation Fund is used by land management agencies to protect recreational access, natural resources and cultural heritage sites. <BR><BR> During consideration of the Interior-Environment appropriations bill Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) offered an amendment that would have taken funding for land acquisition under the Land and Water Conservation Fund and authorized it for operations, maintenance, and repair or rehabilitation projects for constructed assets. Had this amendment passed, the Land and Water Conservation Fund would effectively have been raided for the foreseeable future to give priority to construction projects. Construction was not the original intent of the 1965 law establishing this fund, which stated that offshore development royalties be used to acquire new lands Ð an asset for an asset. Because of the sheer number of operations and maintenance projects in the agency pipelines, the Land and Water Conservation Fund might not have received any land acquisition money at all and this important program would cease to exist as we currently know it. <BR><BR> On September 24, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) offered a motion to table the Coburn amendment, which passed by a vote of 79-19 (Senate roll call vote 297). YE S IS THE PRO -ENV IRON MEN T VO TE. <BR><BR> 11. Population <BR><BR> By allowing women to plan the size of their families, voluntary family-planning programs also help conserve natural resources in areas where expanding human numbers threaten biodiversity and endangered species and help to reduce human vulnerability to the effects of climate change. Since the mid-1990s, family-planning opponents have cut U.S. funding for these programs by arguing, in part, that the money funds abortion. In fact, the use of U.S. foreign assistance to fund abortion has been prohibited since 1973. <BR><BR> On his third full day in office, President Obama rescinded Bush administration restrictions that prohibited U.S. assistance for foreign nongovernmental organizations that use funding from any other source to: 1) perform abortion in cases other than a threat to the life of the woman, rape, or incest; 2) provide counseling and referral for abortion; or 3) lobby to make abortion legal or more available in their own country. <BR><BR> The Bush administration's gag rule had forced clinics in Ethiopia, Kenya, Zambia and Ghana to close down. The rule has also cut off many family-planning organizations from contraceptive supplies and impeded efforts to reduce unintended pregnancies and abortion and to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS. <BR><BR> During debate on an unrelated State Children's Health Insurance Program reauthorization bill, Senator Mel Martinez (R-FL) offered an amendment to restore the Bush administration's policy by nullifying President Obama's January 23 presidential memorandum and by prohibiting U.S. family planning assistance to Òany private, nongovernmental, or multilateral organization that performs or actively promotes abortion as a method of birth control.Ó <BR><BR> On January 28, the Senate rejected the Martinez amendment by a 37-60 vote (Senate roll call vote 19). NO IS THE PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOTE. <BR><BR> <!-- CONTENT ENDS HERE --> </div><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR></div> <div id="aside"> <a href="http://lcv.org/scorecard"><img src="http://lcv-ftp.org/scorecard09/09_logo_sub3.png" border="0"></a> <div id="asided"> <div id="blockg"> <img src="http://lcv-ftp.org/scorecard09/contents.png"> <div class="g"> <p><BR>&bull; &nbsp;<a href="http://lcv-ftp.org/scorecard09/overview09.html">2009 Overview</a> <p>&bull; &nbsp;<a href="http://lcv-ftp.org/scorecard09/averages.html">2009 State Averages</a> <p>&bull; &nbsp;<a href="http://lcv-ftp.org/scorecard09/highslows.pdf">2009 High and Low Scores (.pdf)</a> <p>&bull; &nbsp;<a href="http://lcv-ftp.org/scorecard09/senate_descriptions.html">Senate Vote Descriptions</a> <p>&bull; &nbsp;<a href="http://lcv-ftp.org/scorecard09/house_descriptions.html">House Vote Descriptions</a> <p>&bull; &nbsp;<a href="http://lcv-ftp.org/scorecard09/committee.pdf">Rating the Leadership of Environmental Committees (.pdf)</a> <p>&bull; 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