The Congressional Black Caucus Voted

Overwhelmingly to Continue Militarizing

Police

In the aftermath of the militarized police response to Ferguson protesters, observers are
wondering what went wrong. According to a report in The Week, among the things that went
wrong were the votes of a majority of Congressional Black Caucus members:
In June of this year, Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) introduced an amendment to halt the Pentagons 1033
program, which distributes hundreds of millions of dollars of military-grade weapons and equipment
to local police annually. The amendment overwhelmingly failed, and just seven out of 41 voting
members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) supported it.

We need to re-evaluate distributing this kind of war equipment to municipalities, said

Rep Emanuel Cleaver, according to the Huffington Post. And if we are going to do it, we
must at least have other requirements, including something as simple as adequate training.
Cleaver supports military weaponry being funneled to local municipalities. When you peel
away all the qualifying words, thats what hes saying.
Of course, none of this should come as any surprise after a report revealed how the CBC uses
backdoor channels to do the bidding of Wall Street:
A bombshell Huffington Post report published last week details the sheer cravenness and hypocrisy of
many CBC members. As the report thoroughly lays out, even though Wall St. systematically targets
African-Americans with its mortgage fraud schemes, members of the CBC have been actively doing

Wall Streets bidding, even working to upend legislation intended to rein in the worst offenses of the
greediest banks.
You can find the full list of members who voted yay and nay on military weapons being given to police
here.

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2014/roll329.xml
In Yellow are members who support the stop of military grade weapons in municipalities. In
Green are members who are in favor of military grade weapons. Blue did not vote.

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 329

(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)
H R 4870 RECORDED VOTE
19-Jun-2014
AUTHOR(S): Grayson of Florida Amendment
QUESTION: On Agreeing to the Amendment
Ayes

10:56 PM

Noes

PRES

NV

Republican

19

210

Democratic

43

145

11

62

355

14

Independent
TOTALS

---- AYES 62 --Amash

Barrow (GA)
Blumenauer
Braley (IA)
Bridenstine
Broun (GA)
Crdenas
Cartwright
Castor (FL)
Chu
Conyers
Duncan (TN)
Edwards
Ellison
Gibson
Grayson
Griffith (VA)
Grijalva
Holt
Honda
Johnson (GA)

Jones
Jordan
Kingston
Labrador
Lee (CA)
Lewis
Maffei
Massie
Matheson
Matsui
McClintock
McDermott
McGovern
McNerney
Miller, George
Nadler
Negrete McLeod
O'Rourke
Pallone
Perlmutter
Perry

Petri
Pocan
Rohrabacher
Sanchez, Loretta
Sanford
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Scott (VA)
Serrano
Shimkus
Slaughter
Smith (WA)
Speier
Stewart
Stockman
Takano
Tierney
Tonko
Velzquez
Waters

---- NOES 355 --Aderholt

Amodei
Bachmann
Bachus
Barber
Barletta
Barr
Barton
Bass
Beatty
Becerra
Benishek
Bentivolio
Bera (CA)
Bilirakis
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Bonamici
Boustany
Brady (PA)
Brady (TX)
Brooks (AL)
Brooks (IN)
Brown (FL)
Brownley (CA)
Buchanan
Bucshon
Burgess
Bustos
Butterfield
Byrne
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Cantor
Capito
Capps
Capuano
Carney

Gardner
Garrett
Gerlach
Gibbs
Gingrey (GA)
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (MO)
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Griffin (AR)
Grimm
Guthrie
Gutirrez
Hahn
Hall
Hanabusa
Hanna
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Hastings (FL)
Hastings (WA)
Heck (NV)
Heck (WA)
Hensarling
Herrera Beutler
Higgins
Himes
Hinojosa
Holding
Horsford
Hoyer
Hudson
Huelskamp
Huffman
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren

Noem
Nolan
Nugent
Nunes
Olson
Owens
Palazzo
Pascrell
Pastor (AZ)
Paulsen
Payne
Pearce
Pelosi
Peters (CA)
Peters (MI)
Peterson
Pingree (ME)
Pittenger
Pitts
Poe (TX)
Pompeo
Posey
Price (GA)
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rahall
Reed
Reichert
Renacci
Ribble
Rice (SC)
Rigell
Roby
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rokita
Rooney
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross

Carson (IN)
Carter
Cassidy
Castro (TX)
Chabot
Chaffetz
Cicilline
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Coble
Coffman
Cohen
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Conaway
Connolly
Cook
Cooper
Costa
Cotton
Courtney
Cramer
Crawford
Crenshaw
Crowley
Cuellar
Culberson
Cummings
Daines
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny
Davis, Rodney
DeFazio
DeGette
Delaney
DeLauro
DelBene
Denham
Dent
DeSantis
DesJarlais
Deutch

Hunter
Hurt
Israel
Issa
Jackson Lee
Jeffries
Jenkins
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, E. B.
Johnson, Sam
Jolly
Joyce
Kaptur
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kelly (PA)
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilmer
Kind
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kinzinger (IL)
Kline
Kuster
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Lance
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Latham
Latta
Levin
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Loebsack
Lofgren
Long
Lowenthal
Lowey
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lujn, Ben Ray (NM)
Lummis
Lynch

Rothfus
Roybal-Allard
Royce
Ruiz
Runyan
Ruppersberger
Ryan (WI)
Salmon
Snchez, Linda T.
Scalise
Schiff
Schneider
Schock
Schrader
Schwartz
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Scott, David
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Sewell (AL)
Shea-Porter
Sherman
Shuster
Simpson
Sinema
Sires
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Southerland
Stivers
Stutzman
Swalwell (CA)
Terry
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tipton
Titus
Tsongas
Turner
Upton
Valadao

Diaz-Balart
Dingell
Doggett
Doyle
Duckworth
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Ellmers
Engel
Enyart
Eshoo
Esty
Farenthold
Farr
Fattah
Fincher
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foster
Foxx
Frankel (FL)
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Gabbard
Gallego
Garamendi
Garcia

Maloney, Carolyn
Maloney, Sean
Marchant
Marino
McAllister
McCarthy (CA)
McCaul
McCollum
McHenry
McIntyre
McKeon
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
Meadows
Meehan
Meeks
Meng
Messer
Mica
Michaud
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller, Gary
Moore
Moran
Mullin
Murphy (FL)
Murphy (PA)
Napolitano
Neal
Neugebauer

Van Hollen
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
Visclosky
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walorski
Wasserman Schultz
Waxman
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Welch
Wenstrup
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Williams
Wilson (FL)
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Wolf
Womack
Woodall
Yarmuth
Yoder
Yoho
Young (AK)
Young (IN)

---- NOT VOTING 14 --Fudge

Kirkpatrick
Lankford
Lujan Grisham (NM)
McCarthy (NY)

Mulvaney
Nunnelee
Polis
Rangel
Richmond

Rush
Ryan (OH)
Thompson (MS)
Walz

ARTICLE #2
http://theweek.com/speedreads/446985/congressional-black-caucus-voted-preserve-policemilitarization
Playing politics

The Congressional Black Caucus voted to

preserve police militarization
September 3, 2014

In June of this year, Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) introduced an amendment to halt the Pentagon's
1033 program, which distributes hundreds of millions of dollars of military-grade weapons and
equipment to local police annually. The amendment overwhelmingly failed, and just seven out of
41 voting members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) supported it.
That vote has drawn controversy in the wake of this summer's protests and grotesquely
militarized police response in Ferguson, Missouri. Ferguson's own congressman is Rep. Lacy
Clay (D-Mo.); he is a member of the CBC, and he voted against demilitarizing police.

Now, The New York Times reports that the CBC is campaigning on what happened in Ferguson
to turn out African-American voters for 2014, an effort which would presumably be more
difficult were the CBC's record on police militarization more widely known. Bonnie Kristian
Article #3
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/18/police-militarization-congress_n_5688357.html

CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS

https://cbc-butterfield.house.gov/members
(As of May 12, 2015)
See Members below
Members names highlighted in yellow voted to stop the weapons in our community. Keep
in mind that some members today were not in office at the time of the votes.

Member Directory

The Honorable Karen The Honorable Joyce

Bass (CA-37)
Beatty (OH-03)

The Honorable
Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.
(GA-02)

The Honorable
Corrine Brown (FL05)

The Honorable G. K.
Butterfield (NC-01)

The Honorable Andr

Carson (IN-07)

The Honorable Yvette The Honorable Wm.

Clarke (NY-09)
Lacy Clay (MO-01)

The Honorable
Emanuel Cleaver, II
(MO-05)

The Honorable James

E. Clyburn (SC-06)

The Honorable Alma

Adams (NC-12)

The Honorable Cory

Booker (NJ)

The Honorable John

Conyers, Jr. (MI-13)

The Honorable Elijah

E. Cummings (MD-07) The Honorable Danny The Honorable Donna
K. Davis (IL-07)
F. Edwards (MD-04)

The Honorable Keith

Ellison (MN-05)

The Honorable Chaka The Honorable Marcia The Honorable Al

Fattah (PA-02)
L. Fudge (OH-11)
Green (TX-09)

The Honorable Alcee

L. Hastings (FL-20)

The Honorable
Eleanor Holmes
Norton (DC)

The Honorable
The Honorable Sheila
Hakeem Jeffries (NYJackson Lee (TX-18)
08)

The Honorable Eddie The Honorable Hank

Bernice Johnson (TX- Johnson (GA-04)
30)

The Honorable Robin The Honorable

Kelly (IL-02)
Brenda Lawrence (MI14)

The Honorable
Barbara Lee (CA-13)

The Honorable John

Lewis (GA-05)

The Honorable Mia

Love (UT-04)

The Honorable Gwen

Moore (WI-04)

The Honorable
The Honorable Donald The Honorable Stacey
Charles B. Rangel (NYM. Payne, Jr. (NJ-10)
Plaskett (VI)
13)

The Honorable
Gregory W. Meeks
(NY-06)

The Honorable Cedric The Honorable Bobby The Honorable David The Honorable Robert
Richmond (LA-02)
L. Rush (IL-01)
Scott (GA-13)
C. "Bobby" Scott (VA03)

The Honorable Terri

A. Sewell (AL-07)

The Honorable Bennie The Honorable Marc

Thompson (MS-02)
Veasey (TX-33)

The Honorable Bonnie The Honorable

Watson Coleman (NJ- Frederica Wilson (FL12)
24)

The Honorable
Maxine Waters (CA43)