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Proud to Praise 'Em!

Below are the names of the GOP representatives who voted for the three "green" amendments on May 18.

Click here to read our Green Elephant article about these good votes.

And click here to read Jim DiPeso's May 22 blog: a cogent and witty-as-always analysis of the political winds that produced these three good votes and several others.

If your representative's name appears on any of these lists, please thank him or her for the good vote(s)!

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Amendment #1 — Steve Chabot GOP sponsor: amendment to ban the use of federal funds for the construction of logging roads in the Alaska's Tongass National Forest (passed 237-181)

AL Bonner
CA Campbell, Rohrabacher, Royce
CT Johnson, Shays, Simmons
DE Castle
FL Shaw, Young
GA Price
IL Biggert, Hyde, Johnson, Kirk
KY Whitfield
MD Bartlett
MI Miller, Upton
MN Ramstad
MO Aken
MS Pickering
NC Coble, Foxx, Jones
NE Fortenberry, Terry
NH Bass, Bradley
NJ Ferguson, Frelinghuysen, Garrett, LoBiondo, Saxton, Smith
NY Boehlert, Kelly, Kuhl, Sweeney
OH Chabot, Gillmor, Pryce, Tiberi
PA Dent, English, Fitzpatrick, Gerlach, Hart, Murphy, Pitts, Platts, Weldon
SC Barrett, Inglis
TX Hensarling, McCaul, Paul, Poe, Smith
VA J. Davis, T. Davis, Wolf
WA Reichert
WI Green, Petri, Ryan, Sensenbrenner
WV Capito

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Amendment #2 — Adam Putnam GOP sponsor: amendment to remove language in the appropriations bill that would have ended the moratorium on offshore gas leasing and production (passed 217-203)

AL Bonner
CA Bono, Calvert, Campbell, Dreier, Gallegly, Royce
CT Johnson, Shays, Simmons
DE Castle
FL Bilirakis, Brown-Waite, Crenshaw, L. Diaz-Balart, M. Diaz-Balart, Feeney, Foley, Harris, Keller, Mack, Miller, Putnam, Ros-Lehtinen, Shaw, Stearns, Young
GA Kingston
IL Biggert, Johnson, Kirk, LaHood
MD Bartlett, Gilchrest
MI Ehlers, McCotter
MN Kennedy, Ramstad
NC Jones
NH Bass, Bradley
NJ Ferguson, Frelinghuysen, Garrett, LoBiondo, Saxton, Smith
NY Boehlert, Fossella, Kelly
OH LaTourette
PA Fitzpatrick, Weldon
VA Cantor, J. Davis, T. Davis, Drake
WA Reichert
WI Petri

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Amendment #3 — Jim Leach GOP sponsor: amendment to remove language in the appropriations bill that would have prohibited the EPA from narrowing the scope of the Clean Water Act (passed 217-203)

CT Johnson, Shays, Simmons
DE Castle
FL Foley, Shaw, Young
IA Leach
IL Biggert, Johnson, Kirk
MD GIlchrest
MI Ehlers, Schwarz, Upton
MN Ramstad
NC Jones
NH Bass, Bradley
NJ Ferguson, Frelinghuysen, LoBiondo, Saxton, Smith
NM Wilson
NY Boehlert, Kelly, Walsh
OH LaTourette
PA Fitzpatrick, Gerlach, Platts
VA T. Davis, Forbes
WA Reichert
WI Green, Petri, Ryan