Torture Ban, Motion To Instruct Defense Appropriations Conferees
109th Congress, 1st Session
December 14, 2005
Representative John Murtha (D-PA) offered a motion to instruct conferees on the Defense Appropriations bill to adopt language prohibiting "cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment of anyone in U.S. custody." The language tracked that proposed by Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and adopted by the Senate. The House approved this language by a vote of 308-122, with 121 Republicans voting for the motion and one Democrat against.
The table below permits analysis of votes within eight House caucuses. Twenty-three members of the conservative Republican Study Committee voted for the motion. The one Democrat voting against it was Representative Jim Marshall (D-GA).
Data Set Sorted By state, cd in Ascending Order
Representative Sort |
Vote Sort |
State Sort |
District |
Party Sort |
CBC Sort |
CHC Sort |
Progressive Caucus Sort |
Blue Dogs Sort |
New Democrats Sort |
Republican Study Comm. Sort |
Rural Caucus Sort |
Don Young |
N |
AK |
A-L |
R |
RURAL |
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Jo Bonner |
N |
AL |
1 |
R |
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Terry Everett |
N |
AL |
2 |
R |
RURAL |
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Mike Rogers |
N |
AL |
3 |
R |
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Robert B. Aderholt |
N |
AL |
4 |
R |
RSC |
RURAL |
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Robert E. (Bud) Cramer Jr. |
Y |
AL |
5 |
D |
BD |
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Spencer Bachus |
Y |
AL |
6 |
R |
RSC |
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Artur Davis |
Y |
AL |
7 |
D |
B |
ND |
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Marion Berry |
Y |
AR |
1 |
D |
BD |
RURAL |
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Vic Snyder |
Y |
AR |
2 |
D |
RURAL |
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John Boozman |
Y |
AR |
3 |
R |
RSC |
RURAL |
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Mike Ross |
Y |
AR |
4 |
D |
BD |
RURAL |
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Rick Renzi |
N |
AZ |
1 |
R |
RSC |
RURAL |
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Trent Franks |
N |
AZ |
2 |
R |
RSC |
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John B. Shadegg |
N |
AZ |
3 |
R |
RSC |
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Ed Pastor |
Y |
AZ |
4 |
D |
H |
P |
RURAL |
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J. D. Hayworth |
N |
AZ |
5 |
R |
RSC |
RURAL |
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Jeff Flake |
Y |
AZ |
6 |
R |
RSC |
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Raúl M. Grijalva |
Y |
AZ |
7 |
D |
H |
P |
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Jim Kolbe |
Y |
AZ |
8 |
R |
RURAL |
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Mike Thompson |
Y |
CA |
1 |
D |
BD |
RURAL |
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Wally Herger |
N |
CA |
2 |
R |
RSC |
RURAL |
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Daniel E. Lungren |
N |
CA |
3 |
R |
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John T. Doolittle |
N |
CA |
4 |
R |
RSC |
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Doris Matsui |
Y |
CA |
5 |
D |
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Lynn C. Woolsey |
Y |
CA |
6 |
D |
P |
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George Miller |
Y |
CA |
7 |
D |
P |
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Nancy Pelosi |
Y |
CA |
8 |
D |
P |
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Barbara Lee |
Y |
CA |
9 |
D |
B |
P |
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Ellen O. Tauscher |
Y |
CA |
10 |
D |
BD |
ND |
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Richard W. Pombo |
Y |
CA |
11 |
R |
RSC |
RURAL |
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Tom Lantos |
Y |
CA |
12 |
D |
P |
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Fortney Pete Stark |
Y |
CA |
13 |
D |
P |
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Anna G. Eshoo |
Y |
CA |
14 |
D |
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Michael M. Honda |
Y |
CA |
15 |
D |
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Zoe Lofgren |
Y |
CA |
16 |
D |
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Sam Farr |
Y |
CA |
17 |
D |
P |
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Dennis A. Cardoza |
Y |
CA |
18 |
D |
BD |
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George Radanovich |
N |
CA |
19 |
R |
RSC |
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Jim Costa |
NV |
CA |
20 |
D |
BD |
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Devin Nunes |
N |
CA |
21 |
R |
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William M. Thomas |
Y |
CA |
22 |
R |
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Lois Capps |
Y |
CA |
23 |
D |
ND |
RURAL |
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Elton Gallegly |
N |
CA |
24 |
R |
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Howard P. ``Buck'' McKeon |
N |
CA |
25 |
R |
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David Dreier |
N |
CA |
26 |
R |
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Brad Sherman |
Y |
CA |
27 |
D |
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Howard L. Berman |
Y |
CA |
28 |
D |
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Adam B. Schiff |
Y |
CA |
29 |
D |
BD |
ND |
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Henry A. Waxman |
Y |
CA |
30 |
D |
P |
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Xavier Becerra |
Y |
CA |
31 |
D |
P |
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Hilda L. Solis |
Y |
CA |
32 |
D |
H |
P |
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Diane E. Watson |
Y |
CA |
33 |
D |
B |
P |
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Lucille Roybal-Allard |
Y |
CA |
34 |
D |
H |
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Maxine Waters |
Y |
CA |
35 |
D |
B |
P |
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Jane Harman |
Y |
CA |
36 |
D |
BD |
ND |
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Juanita Millender-McDonald |
Y |
CA |
37 |
D |
B |
ND |
RURAL |
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Grace F. Napolitano |
Y |
CA |
38 |
D |
H |
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Linda T. Sánchez |
Y |
CA |
39 |
D |
H |
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Edward R. Royce |
N |
CA |
40 |
R |
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Jerry Lewis |
N |
CA |
41 |
R |
RSC |
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Gary G. Miller |
N |
CA |
42 |
R |
RSC |
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Joe Baca |
Y |
CA |
43 |
D |
H |
BD |
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Ken Calvert |
N |
CA |
44 |
R |
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Mary Bono |
N |
CA |
45 |
R |
RURAL |
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Dana Rohrabacher |
N |
CA |
46 |
R |
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Loretta Sanchez |
Y |
CA |
47 |
D |
H |
BD |
ND |
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Darrell E. Issa |
Y |
CA |
49 |
R |
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Bob Filner |
Y |
CA |
51 |
D |
P |
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Duncan Hunter |
N |
CA |
52 |
R |
RSC |
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Susan A. Davis |
Y |
CA |
53 |
D |
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Diana DeGette |
Y |
CO |
1 |
D |
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Mark Udall |
Y |
CO |
2 |
D |
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John T. Salazar |
Y |
CO |
3 |
D |
H |
BD |
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Marilyn N. Musgrave |
N |
CO |
4 |
R |
RSC |
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Joel Hefley |
N |
CO |
5 |
R |
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Thomas G. Tancredo |
Y |
CO |
6 |
R |
RSC |
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Bob Beauprez |
Y |
CO |
7 |
R |
RSC |
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John B. Larson |
Y |
CT |
1 |
D |
ND |
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Rob Simmons |
Y |
CT |
2 |
R |
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Rosa L. DeLauro |
Y |
CT |
3 |
D |
P |
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Christopher Shays |
Y |
CT |
4 |
R |
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Nancy L. Johnson |
Y |
CT |
5 |
R |
RURAL |
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Michael N. Castle |
Y |
DE |
A-L |
R |
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Jeff Miller |
N |
FL |
1 |
R |
RSC |
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Allen Boyd |
Y |
FL |
2 |
D |
BD |
RURAL |
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Corrine Brown |
Y |
FL |
3 |
D |
B |
P |
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Ander Crenshaw |
N |
FL |
4 |
R |
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Ginny Brown-Waite |
Y |
FL |
5 |
R |
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Cliff Stearns |
N |
FL |
6 |
R |
RSC |
RURAL |
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John L. Mica |
N |
FL |
7 |
R |
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Ric Keller |
Y |
FL |
8 |
R |
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Michael Bilirakis |
N |
FL |
9 |
R |
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C. W. Bill Young |
N |
FL |
10 |
R |
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Jim Davis |
Y |
FL |
11 |
D |
ND |
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Adam H. Putnam |
N |
FL |
12 |
R |
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Katherine Harris |
Y |
FL |
13 |
R |
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Connie Mack |
Y |
FL |
14 |
R |
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Dave Weldon |
N |
FL |
15 |
R |
RSC |
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Mark Foley |
Y |
FL |
16 |
R |
RURAL |
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Kendrick B. Meek |
Y |
FL |
17 |
D |
B |
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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen |
Y |
FL |
18 |
R |
H |
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Robert Wexler |
Y |
FL |
19 |
D |
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz |
Y |
FL |
20 |
D |
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Lincoln Diaz-Balart |
Y |
FL |
21 |
R |
H |
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E. Clay Shaw Jr. |
Y |
FL |
22 |
R |
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Alcee L. Hastings |
Y |
FL |
23 |
D |
B |
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Tom Feeney |
N |
FL |
24 |
R |
RSC |
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Mario Diaz-Balart |
NV |
FL |
25 |
R |
H |
RSC |
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Jack Kingston |
N |
GA |
1 |
R |
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Sanford D. Bishop Jr. |
Y |
GA |
2 |
D |
B |
BD |
RURAL |
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Jim Marshall |
N |
GA |
3 |
D |
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Cynthia McKinney |
Y |
GA |
4 |
D |
B |
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John Lewis |
Y |
GA |
5 |
D |
B |
P |
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Tom Price |
N |
GA |
6 |
R |
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John Linder |
N |
GA |
7 |
R |
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Lynn A. Westmoreland |
N |
GA |
8 |
R |
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Charlie Norwood |
N |
GA |
9 |
R |
RSC |
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Nathan Deal |
N |
GA |
10 |
R |
RURAL |
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Phil Gingrey |
N |
GA |
11 |
R |
RSC |
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John Barrow |
Y |
GA |
12 |
D |
BD |
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David Scott |
Y |
GA |
13 |
D |
B |
BD |
ND |
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Neil Abercrombie |
Y |
HI |
1 |
D |
P |
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Ed Case |
Y |
HI |
2 |
D |
BD |
ND |
RURAL |
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Jim Nussle |
Y |
IA |
1 |
R |
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James A. Leach |
Y |
IA |
2 |
R |
RURAL |
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Leonard L. Boswell |
Y |
IA |
3 |
D |
BD |
RURAL |
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Tom Latham |
Y |
IA |
4 |
R |
RURAL |
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Steve King |
N |
IA |
5 |
R |
RSC |
RURAL |
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C. L. ``Butch'' Otter |
Y |
ID |
1 |
R |
RURAL |
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Michael K. Simpson |
N |
ID |
2 |
R |
RURAL |
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Bobby L. Rush |
Y |
IL |
1 |
D |
B |
P |
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Jesse L. Jackson Jr. |
Y |
IL |
2 |
D |
B |
P |
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Daniel Lipinski |
Y |
IL |
3 |
D |
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Luis V. Gutierrez |
Y |
IL |
4 |
D |
H |
P |
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Rahm Emanuel |