Although Matt Gaetz, Florida First District Representative spearheaded an “Amendment to Stop The Spending of 300 MILLION of Taxpayer Money On A New FBI Building”, it was squashed in defeat. The Amendment to the House of Representatives Appropriations Bill on Wednesday , November 8, 2023, to prohibit funding for new FBI headquarters; 70 Republicans and 2043 Democrats rejected the Gaetz Amendment in a 273 -145 Vote, according to the House of Representatives Clerk Kevin McCumber.
Watch The Video Discussing Why Gaetz Presented this Amendment to House Members.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1722370295116206564
Want to know what House of Representatives supported the funding and who was against the Amendment, look at the chart below:
H R 4664 RECORDED VOTE 8-Nov-2023 9:27 PM
AUTHOR(S): Gaetz of Florida Part B Amendment No. 54
QUESTION: On Agreeing to the Amendment
| AYES | NOES | PRES | NV | |
| REPUBLICAN | 145 | 70 | 8 | |
| DEMOCRATIC | 203 | 1 | 11 | |
| INDEPENDENT | ||||
| TOTALS | 145 | 273 | 1 | 19 |
—- AYES 145 — Rejected FBI 300 Million Funding
| Aderholt Alford Allen Amodei Armstrong Arrington Babin Baird Balderson Banks Bean (FL) Bergman Biggs Bilirakis Boebert Brecheen Burchett Burgess Burlison Cammack Carl Carter (GA) Ciscomani Cline Cloud Clyde Collins Comer Crane Crawford Davidson De La Cruz DesJarlais Donalds Duncan Dunn (FL) Emmer Estes Ezell Fallon Finstad Fischbach Fitzgerald Fleischmann Foxx Franklin, Scott Fry Fulcher Gaetz |
Gallagher Garcia, Mike Good (VA) Gooden (TX) Gosar Graves (LA) Green (TN) Greene (GA) Griffith Grothman Guest Hageman Harris Harshbarger Hern Higgins (LA) Hill Houchin Hudson Huizenga Hunt Issa Jackson (TX) James Johnson (OH) Johnson (SD) Jordan Joyce (PA) Kelly (MS) Kiggans (VA) LaMalfa Langworthy Latta LaTurner Lesko Loudermilk Luna Luttrell Mace Mann Massie Mast McCaul McClain McClintock Miller (IL) Miller (WV) Mills Molinaro |
Moolenaar Mooney Moore (AL) Moran Nehls Norman Ogles Owens Palmer Pence Perry Pfluger Posey Reschenthaler Rodgers (WA) Rose Rosendale Rouzer Roy Rutherford Santos Scalise Schweikert Self Smith (NE) Spartz Stauber Steel Stefanik Steil Steube Tenney Tiffany Timmons Van Drew Van Duyne Walberg Waltz Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Westerman Williams (NY) Williams (TX) Wilson (SC) Wittman Yakym Zinke |
—- NOES 273 — Supported FBI 300 Million Funding
| Adams Aguilar Allred Auchincloss Bacon Balint Barr Barragán Beatty Bentz Bera Beyer Bice Bishop (GA) Blumenauer Blunt Rochester Bonamici Bost Bowman Boyle (PA) Brown Brownley Buchanan Buck Budzinski Bush Calvert Caraveo Carbajal Cárdenas Carey Carson Carter (LA) Carter (TX) Cartwright Casar Case Casten Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Chavez-DeRemer Cherfilus-McCormick Chu Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Cole Correa Costa Courtney Craig Crockett Crow Cuellar D’Esposito Davids (KS) Davis (IL) Davis (NC) Dean (PA) DeGette DeLauro DelBene Deluzio DeSaulnier Diaz-Balart Dingell Doggett Duarte Edwards Ellzey Escobar Eshoo Espaillat Evans Feenstra Ferguson Fitzpatrick Fletcher Flood Foster Foushee Frankel, Lois Frost Gallego Garamendi Garbarino García (IL) Garcia (TX) Garcia, Robert |
Golden (ME) Goldman (NY) Gomez Gonzales, Tony Gonzalez, Vicente González-Colón Gottheimer Granger Graves (MO) Green, Al (TX) Grijalva Guthrie Harder (CA) Hayes Higgins (NY) Himes Hinson Horsford Hoyer Huffman Ivey Jackson (IL) Jackson (NC) Jacobs Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Joyce (OH) Kamlager-Dove Kaptur Kean (NJ) Keating Kelly (IL) Kelly (PA) Khanna Kildee Kiley Kilmer Kim (CA) Kim (NJ) Krishnamoorthi Kuster Kustoff LaHood LaLota Lamborn Landsman Larson (CT) Lawler Lee (CA) Lee (FL) Lee (NV) Lee (PA) Leger Fernandez Letlow Levin Lieu Lofgren Lucas Luetkemeyer Lynch Magaziner Malliotakis Manning Matsui McBath McClellan McCollum McCormick McGarvey McGovern McHenry Meeks Menendez Meng Meuser Mfume Miller (OH) Moore (UT) Moore (WI) Moskowitz Moulton Moylan Mrvan Mullin Murphy Nadler Napolitano Neal Neguse Newhouse |
Nickel Norton Nunn (IA) Obernolte Ocasio-Cortez Omar Pallone Panetta Pappas Pascrell Payne Pelosi Peltola Perez Peters Pettersen Plaskett Pocan Porter Quigley Ramirez Raskin Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Ross Ruiz Ruppersberger Ryan Sablan Salazar Salinas Sánchez Sarbanes Scanlon Schakowsky Schiff Schneider Schrier Scott (VA) Scott, Austin Scott, David Sessions Sewell Sherman Sherrill Simpson Slotkin Smith (MO) Smith (NJ) Smith (WA) Smucker Sorensen Soto Spanberger Stansbury Stanton Stevens Strickland Strong Swalwell Sykes Takano Thanedar Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Thompson (PA) Titus Tlaib Tokuda Tonko Torres (CA) Torres (NY) Trahan Trone Turner Underwood Valadao Van Orden Vargas Vasquez Veasey Velázquez Wagner Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Coleman Wenstrup Wild Williams (GA) Wilson (FL) Womack |
—- ANSWERED “PRESENT” 1 —
| Connolly |
—- NOT VOTING 19 —
| Bishop (NC) Bucshon Crenshaw Curtis Gimenez Houlahan Hoyle (OR) |
Jackson Lee Larsen (WA) McCarthy Miller-Meeks Morelle Norcross Phillips |
Pingree Pressley Radewagen Scholten Wexton |
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