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08-HR5157 on Jan 29, 2008

This bill amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to repeal the provisions prohibiting persons convicted of drug offenses from receiving student financial assistance.

    Participating counts on VoteMatch question 19.
  • Topic: Drugs
  • Headline: Allow rehabilitated drug convicts get student loans (Score: -2)
  • Key for participation codes:
  • Sponsorships: p=sponsored; o=co-sponsored; s=signed
  • Memberships: c=chair; m=member; e=endorsed; f=profiled; s=scored
  • Resolutions: i=introduced; w=wrote; a=adopted
  • Cases: w=wrote; j=joined; d=dissented; c=concurred



Democrats participating in 08-HR5157

Neil Abercrombie s1oHawaii Democrat
Gary Ackerman s1oNew York Dem./Ind./Lib./Working-Fam.
Tom Allen s1oMaine Democrat
Tammy Baldwin s1oWisconsin Democrat
Howard Berman s1oCalifornia Democrat
Earl Blumenauer s1oOregon Democrat
Rick Boucher s1oVirginia Democrat
Robert Brady s1oPennsylvania Democrat
G.K. Butterfield s1oNorth Carolina Democrat
Lois Capps s1oCalifornia Democrat
Michael Capuano s1oMassachusetts Democrat
Yvette Clarke s1oNew York Democrat
William Lacy Clay s1oMissouri Democrat
James Clyburn s1oSouth Carolina Democrat
Steve Cohen s1oTennessee Democrat
John Conyers s1oMichigan Democrat
Elijah Cummings s1oMaryland Democrat
Danny Davis s1oIllinois Democrat
Peter Defazio s1oOregon Democrat
Keith Ellison s1oMinnesota Democrat
Anna Eshoo s1oCalifornia Democrat
Sam Farr s1oCalifornia Democrat
Bob Filner s1oCalifornia Democrat
Barney Frank s1pMassachusetts Democrat
Charles Gonzalez s1oTexas Democrat
Al Green s1oTexas Democrat
Raul Grijalva s1oArizona Democrat
Luis Gutierrez s1oIllinois Democrat
Phil Hare s1oIllinois Democrat
Alcee Hastings s1oFlorida Democrat
Maurice Hinchey s1oNew York Dem./Ind./Lib./Working-Fam.
Mazie Hirono s1oHawaii Democrat
Mike Honda s1oCalifornia Democrat
Jesse Louis Jackson s1oIllinois Democrat
Sheila Jackson Lee s1oTexas Democrat
William Jefferson s1oLouisiana Democrat
Hank Johnson s1oGeorgia Democrat
Stephanie Tubbs Jones s1oOhio Democrat
Dennis Kucinich s1oOhio Democrat
Tom Lantos s1oCalifornia Former Democrat (until 2008)
Barbara Lee s1oCalifornia Democrat
John Lewis s1oGeorgia Democrat
Zoe Lofgren s1oCalifornia Democrat
Ed Markey s1oMassachusetts Democrat
Jim Matheson s1oUtah Democrat
Jim McDermott s1oWashington Democrat
Jim McGovern s1oMassachusetts Democrat
George Miller s1oCalifornia Democrat
Gwen Moore s1oWisconsin Democrat
Jerrold Nadler s1oNew York Dem./Lib./Working-Families
Eleanor Holmes Norton s1oDistrict of Columbia Democrat
John Olver s1oMassachusetts Democrat
Donald Payne s1oNew Jersey Democrat
Charles Rangel s1oNew York Dem./Lib./Working-Families
Lucille Roybal-Allard s1oCalifornia Democrat
Bobby Rush s1oIllinois Democrat
Tim Ryan s1oOhio Democrat
Linda Sanchez s1oCalifornia Democrat
Jan Schakowsky s1oIllinois Democrat
Bobby Scott s1oVirginia Democrat
Louise Slaughter s1oNew York Democrat
Vic Snyder s1oArkansas Democrat
Hilda Solis s1oCalifornia Democrat
Pete Stark s1oCalifornia Democrat
Bennie Thompson s1oMississippi Democrat
John Tierney s1oMassachusetts Democrat
Ed Towns s1oNew York Democrat/Liberal
Chris Van Hollen s1oMaryland Democrat
Debbie Wasserman Schultz s1oFlorida Democrat
Maxine Waters s1oCalifornia Democrat
Mel Watt s1oNorth Carolina Democrat
Henry Waxman s1oCalifornia Democrat
Lynn Woolsey s1oCalifornia Democrat
Albert Wynn s1oMaryland Democrat



Republicans participating in 08-HR5157

Ron Paul s1oPOTUS Republican (Libertarian 1988)



Independents participating in 08-HR5157

Donna Christensen s1oVirgin Islands -



Total recorded by OnTheIssues:

Democrats: 74
Republicans: 1
Independents: 1

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