Information about the vote from special interest groups and other information providers in our Report Cards:
National Taxpayers Union
h2017-528.
h2017-528.
League of Conservation Voters
ANTI-ENVIRONMENTAL SPENDING BILL.
Representative Ken Calvert (R-CA) sponsored H.R. 3354, the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2018, which would harm people’s health and the outdoors by slashing funding for many critical programs and by using radical policy riders to outright block environmental protections. This spending bill contained damaging cuts to programs that protect public health and fuel our outdoor economy, such as the more than $500 million cut to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the 32 percent cut to the Land and Water Conservation Fund. Additionally, this legislation contained a slew of anti-environmental and other ideological policy riders, including a measure that would allow the EPA to bypass the law and hide its repeal of drinking water protections for 117 million people. The House approved H.R. 3354. The Senate took no action on this legislation.
NARAL Pro-Choice America
Attack on Family-Planning Funding, Planned Parenthood, and Abortion Coverage.
Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, H.R.3354 (omnibus appropriations bill). Final Passage. Appropriations bill that defunds Planned Parenthood, eliminates funding entirely for critical family-planning services through Title X and international programs, and includes anti-choice policy riders such as restrictions on abortion care for women who obtain their healthcare coverage through the federal government, prohibitions on abortion coverage in the private market, a broad new refusal law, a ban on federal funding for fetal-tissue research, and codification of the global gag rule. Passed.
National Education Association
FY18 OMNIBUS APPROPRIATIONS BILL.
This group opposed the FY18 Omnibus Appropriations bill (H.R. 3354) which called for drastic cuts to public education funding, specifically eliminating Title II funding for professional development and class-size reduction. The legislation passed.