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 10:56 PM

AUTHOR(S): Grayson of Florida Amendment

QUESTION: On Agreeing to the Amendment

Ayes Noes PRES NV

Republican 19 210 3

Democratic 43 145 11

Independent

TOTALS 62 355 14

---- 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-police-

militarization

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 Alma

Adams (NC-12)

The Honorable Karen

Bass (CA-37)

The Honorable Joyce

Beatty (OH-03)

The Honorable

Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.

(GA-02)

The Honorable Cory

Booker (NJ)

The Honorable

Corrine Brown (FL-

05)

The Honorable G. K.

Butterfield (NC-01)

The Honorable Andr

Carson (IN-07)

The Honorable Yvette

Clarke (NY-09)

The Honorable Wm.

Lacy Clay (MO-01)

The Honorable

Emanuel Cleaver, II

(MO-05)

The Honorable James

E. Clyburn (SC-06)

The Honorable John

Conyers, Jr. (MI-13)

The Honorable Elijah

E. Cummings (MD-07)

The Honorable Danny

K. Davis (IL-07)

The Honorable Donna

F. Edwards (MD-04)

The Honorable Keith

Ellison (MN-05)

The Honorable Chaka

Fattah (PA-02)

The Honorable Marcia

L. Fudge (OH-11)

The Honorable Al

Green (TX-09)

The Honorable Alcee

L. Hastings (FL-20)

The Honorable

Eleanor Holmes

Norton (DC)

The Honorable Sheila

Jackson Lee (TX-18)

The Honorable

Hakeem Jeffries (NY-

08)

The Honorable Eddie

Bernice Johnson (TX-

30)

The Honorable Hank

Johnson (GA-04)

The Honorable Robin

Kelly (IL-02)

The Honorable

Brenda Lawrence (MI-

14)

The Honorable

Barbara Lee (CA-13)

The Honorable John

Lewis (GA-05)

The Honorable Mia

Love (UT-04)

The Honorable

Gregory W. Meeks

(NY-06)

The Honorable Gwen

Moore (WI-04)

The Honorable Donald

M. Payne, Jr. (NJ-10)

The Honorable Stacey

Plaskett (VI)

The Honorable

Charles B. Rangel (NY-

13)

The Honorable Cedric

Richmond (LA-02)

The Honorable Bobby

L. Rush (IL-01)

The Honorable David

Scott (GA-13)

The Honorable Robert

C. "Bobby" Scott (VA-

03)

The Honorable Terri

A. Sewell (AL-07)

The Honorable Bennie

Thompson (MS-02)

The Honorable Marc

Veasey (TX-33)

The Honorable

Maxine Waters (CA-

43)

The Honorable Bonnie

Watson Coleman (NJ-

12)

The Honorable

Frederica Wilson (FL-

24)