FRC Action

Offered by Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), the Motion to Recommit sought to amend the PFAS Action Act of 2019 (H.R. 535) to include unborn children in the list of vulnerable populations to be considered when developing drinking water standards. Including this language acknowledges the fact that clean drinking water for pregnant women also affects their unborn children.

(Failed 01/10/2020, 187 yeas to 219 nays, Roll Call No. 12)

FRC Action Supported this Motion.

Sponsored by Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA), this resolution (H.J.Res.79) sought to remove the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) ratification deadline. If ratified, the ERA would remove existing abortion regulations and force taxpayer funding for abortion. It could also roll back women's civil rights protections. Even with a resolution to remove the ratification deadline, the Department of Justice has said the current ERA is dead, and the process to ratify the amendment would need to start over.

(Passed 02/13/2020, 232 yeas to 183 nays, Roll Call No. 70)

FRC Action Opposed this Resolution.

Offered by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), the Motion to Recommit sought to include the entire language of the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (H.R. 962) as an amendment to the Reversing the Youth Tobacco Epidemic Act of 2019 (H.R. 2339). This language would require health care practitioners to provide the same medical care to infants born alive after a failed abortion as they would to any other infant born at the same gestational age. It would also create criminal penalties to enforce what is currently only a definitional provision in federal law.

(Failed 02/28/2020, 187 yeas to 220 nays, Roll Call No. 77)

FRC Action Supported this Motion.

Sponsored by Rep. Nita Lowey (R-NY), the partisan coronavirus relief bill The Heroes Act (H.R. 6800) attempted to advance policies that negatively impact life, family, and religious freedom. This bill would provide large amounts of funding without pro-life protections, redefine sex to include sexual orientation and gender identity, and grant banking access to the marijuana industry, among other things.

(Passed 05/15/2020, 208 yeas to 199 nays, Roll Call No. 109)

FRC Action Opposed this Resolution.

Sponsored by Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), the Washington, D.C. Admission Act (H.R. 51) would admit Washington, D.C. as the 51st state. This measure is unconstitutional and does not reflect our Founders' intention for the federal seat of government to be independent of any one state in the Union. Furthermore, D.C.'s admission as a state would nullify congressional control over D.C.'s budget, effectively allowing D.C. to fund elective abortions and expand legal access to recreational marijuana.

(Passed 06/26/2020, 232 yeas to 180 nays, Roll Call No. 122)

FRC Action Opposed this Bill.

Sponsored by Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN), the State Health Care Premium Reduction Act (H.R. 1425) would dramatically increase subsidies for Obamacare health care programs in the without Hyde Amendment restrictions. This would provide billions of dollars in new taxpayer funding for abortion on demand through health insurance plans.

(Passed 06/29/2020, 234 yeas to 179 nays, Roll Call No. 124)

FRC Action Opposed this Bill.

Sponsored by Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY), the State, Foreign Operations, Agriculture, Rural Development, Interior, Environment, Military Construction, and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 2021 (H.R. 7608) would undermine current pro-life policies. It would repeal President Trump's Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance Policy, which prohibits global health funds from paying for abortion. It would also weaken the Kemp-Kasten Amendment, which allows the president to withhold funds from organizations that promote coercive abortion policies.

(Passed 07/24/2020, 224 yeas to 189 nays, Roll Call No. 166)

FRC Action Opposed this Bill.

Offered by Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), this amendment (H.Amdt. 864) to the Defense, Commerce, Justice, Science, Energy and Water Development, Financial Services and General Government, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development Appropriations Act (H.R. 7617) would restrict the Department of Justice from enforcing the Controlled Substances Act in states and territories that have legalized recreational marijuana.

(Passed 07/30/2020, 254 yeas to 163 nays, Roll Call No. 174)

FRC Action Opposed this Amendment.

Sponsored by Rep. Peter Visclosky (D-IN), the Defense, Commerce, Justice, Science, Energy and Water Development, Financial Services and General Government, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development Appropriations Act (H.R. 7617) would negatively impact many pro-life and pro-family policies. The bad provisions include blocking President Trump's Transgender Military Policy, Protect Life Rule, and Conscience Protection Rule, as well as giving special status to LGBT-identifying individuals and allowing D.C. to fund abortions.

(Passed 07/31/2020, 217 yeas to 197 nays, Roll Call No. 178)

FRC Action Opposed this Bill.

Sponsored by Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA), the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (H.R. 6210) would require companies to prove that goods produced in Xinjiang, China and imported to the U.S. are not made using forced labor of the Uyghur Muslim minority. It also calls on the U.S. secretary of state to develop a strategy for addressing forced labor in Xinjiang and impose targeted sanctions against individuals responsible for the forced labor program. This important international religious freedom measure sends a message to China’s leaders that their human rights violations will cost them, and the U.S. will not participate in their human rights abuses.

(Passed 09/22/2020, 406 yeas to 3 nays, Roll Call No. 196)

FRC Action Supported this Bill.

Sponsored by Rep. Mike Thompson (D-NY), the House Amendment to the Senate Amendment to H.R. 925, or the Heroes Act, is a coronavirus relief package that includes partisan language that undercuts life, marriage, and religious freedom. This bill would equate domestic partnerships to marriage in paid sick leave policies, exclude homeschool and religious school options in education funding, and increase banking access for the marijuana industry.

(Passed 10/1/2020, 214 yeas to 207 nays, Roll Call No. 214)

FRC Action Opposed this Bill.

Sponsored by Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), this resolution condemns forced sterilization in response to reports that women at the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia were given unwanted hysterectomies. However, it includes a clause that “recognizes that everyone deserves to control their own reproductive choices and make informed choices about their bodies,” which is code for supporting elective abortion. H.Res. 1153, on account of including sweeping language that can be used to promote unlimited access to abortion, is not a serious attempt at securing bipartisan consensus on providing remedies for women who have undergone forced gynecological procedures.

(Passed 10/2/2020, 232 yeas to 157 nays, Roll Call No. 217)

FRC Action Opposed this Resolution.