H.R. 2357, 107th Congress

Houses of Worship Political Speech Protection Act

Originated in the House · Introduced Jun 28, 2001 · Taxation

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107th Congress

Measure	Title
H.R. 1701 · Commerce	Consumer Rental Purchase Agreement Act
H.Con.Res. 239 · Education	Expressing the sense of Congress that schools in the United States should set aside a sufficient period of time to allow children to pray for, or quietly reflect on behalf of, the Nation during this time of struggle against the forces of international terrorism.

Latest action

Oct 2, 2002

On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Failed by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 178 - 239 (Roll no. 429). (consideration: CR H6932; text: CR 10/1/2002 H6913)

CRS summary

As of Jun 28, 2001

Introduced in House

Houses of Worship Political Speech Protection Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit a church to participate or intervene in a political campaign and maintain its tax-exempt status as long as such participation is not a substantial part of its activities.

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Roll-call votes

1 on record

Oct 2, 2002 · On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass

Full roll call

Failed (178–239)

271 of 432 recorded votes are not yet matched to a member profile.

Yea: 178 (61 R · 1 D)

Member	Party	State
RAMSTAD, James	—	MN
HYDE, Henry John	—	IL
WELLER, Gerald C.	—	IL
SHADEGG, John B.	—	AZ
BARTLETT, Roscoe Gardner	—	MD
OTTER, C. L.	—	ID
McINNIS, Scott	—	CO
SCHAFFER, Robert W.	—	CO
PETERSON, John	—	PA
PUTNAM, Adam	—	FL
FLETCHER, Ernest L.	—	KY
FOSSELLA, Vito John	—	NY
MCCRERY, James O., III	—	LA
BALLENGER, Cass	—	NC
LAHOOD, Ray H.	—	IL
HART, Melissa A.	—	PA
GILLMOR, Paul Eugene	—	OH
SHERWOOD, Don	—	PA
RYUN, Jim	—	KS
EHLERS, Vernon James	—	MI
AKIN, W. Todd	—	MO
GUTKNECHT, Gilbert W.	—	MN
HOSTETTLER, John Nathan	—	IN
LINDER, John Elmer	—	GA
RILEY, Robert	—	AL
CLEMENT, Robert Nelson	—	TN
ARMEY, Richard Keith	—	TX
HAYWORTH, John D., Jr.	—	AZ
DOOLITTLE, John Taylor	—	CA
COMBEST, Larry Ed	—	TX
KENNEDY, Mark	—	MN
BONILLA, Henry	—	TX
HANSEN, James Vear	—	UT
BARCIA, James A.	—	MI
LUCAS, Ken	—	KY
TANCREDO, Thomas G.	—	CO
KERNS, Brian D.	—	IN
SOUDER, Mark Edward	—	IN
DAVIS, Thomas M., III	—	VA
TAUZIN, Wilbert Joseph	—	LA
BARR, Bob	—	GA
KELLER, Richard	—	FL
GREEN, Mark	—	WI
COOKSEY, John	—	LA
NORTHUP, Anne Meagher	—	KY
WATKINS, Wesley Wade	—	OK
PHELPS, David Dwain	—	IL
MANZULLO, Donald A.	—	IL
REYNOLDS, Thomas M.	—	NY
BROWN, Henry Edward, Jr.	—	SC
RADANOVICH, George P.	—	CA
FERGUSON, Michael	—	NJ
SULLIVAN, John	—	OK
CRANE, Philip Miller	—	IL
GRUCCI, Jr., Felix J.	—	NY
POMBO, Richard William	—	CA
McHUGH, John Michael	—	NY
YOUNG, Charles William	—	FL
TAYLOR, Charles Hart	—	NC
CANTOR, Eric	—	VA
REHBERG, Denny	—	MT
BRYANT, Ed	—	TN
PAUL, Ronald Ernest	—	TX
DeLAY, Thomas Dale	—	TX
STENHOLM, Charles Walter	—	TX
STEARNS, Clifford Bundy	—	FL
WELDON, Wayne Curtis	—	PA
HEFLEY, Joel M.	—	CO
CANNON, Christopher B.	—	UT
CUBIN, Barbara L.	—	WY
KELLY, Sue W.	—	NY
GIBBONS, James A.	—	NV
HULSHOF, Kenny	—	MO
REGULA, Ralph Straus	—	OH
PICKERING, Charles W. (Chip), Jr.	—	MS
DeMINT, James W.	—	SC
GOODE, Virgil H., Jr.	—	VA
EVERETT, Robert Terry	—	AL
LEWIS, Ron	—	KY
WAMP, Zachary Paul	—	TN
COLLINS, Michael Allen	—	GA
CUNNINGHAM, Randall	—	CA
DUNN, Jennifer Blackburn	—	WA
HOEKSTRA, Peter	—	MI
BILIRAKIS, Michael	—	FL
EMERSON, Jo Ann	—	MO
CONDIT, Gary Adrian	—	CA
MYRICK, Sue	—	NC
SMITH, Nick H.	—	MI
SHAW, Eugene Clay, Jr.	—	FL
NEY, Robert William	—	OH
JENKINS, William Lewis	—	TN
BURTON, Danny Lee	—	IN
ENGLISH, Philip Sheridan	—	PA
WATTS, Julius Caesar, Jr.	—	OK
NORWOOD, Charles W., Jr.	—	GA
MILLER, Daniel	—	FL
LIPINSKI, William Oliver	—	IL
DIAZ-BALART, Lincoln	—	FL
DAVIS, Jo Ann	—	VA
WALSH, James T.	—	NY
FOLEY, Mark A.	—	FL
WELDON, David Joseph	—	FL
HERGER, Walter William	—	CA
OXLEY, Michael Garver	—	OH
SHOWS, Clifford Ronald	—	MS
GALLEGLY, Elton W.	—	CA
NETHERCUTT, George R., Jr.	—	WA
CALLAHAN, Herbert Leon	—	AL
BAKER, Richard Hugh	—	LA
PENCE, Mike	—	IN
ISTOOK, Ernest James, Jr.	—	OK
SUNUNU, John E.	—	NH
HAYES, Robert Cannon	—	NC
SAXTON, Hugh James	—	NJ
TIAHRT, Todd	—	KS
Nick J. Rahall II	Democrat	WV
Don Young	Republican	AK
Spencer Bachus	Republican	AL
John Boozman	Republican	AR
Jeff Flake	Republican	AZ
Dana Rohrabacher	Republican	CA
Darrell Issa	Republican	CA
Edward R. Royce	Republican	CA
Gary G. Miller	Republican	CA
Howard P. "Buck" McKeon	Republican	CA
Ken Calvert	Republican	CA
Ander Crenshaw	Republican	FL
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen	Republican	FL
Jeff Miller	Republican	FL
John L. Mica	Republican	FL
Jack Kingston	Republican	GA
Johnny Isakson	Republican	GA
Saxby Chambliss	Republican	GA
Michael K. Simpson	Republican	ID
John Shimkus	Republican	IL
Jerry Moran	Republican	KS
Ed Whitfield	Republican	KY
Harold Rogers	Republican	KY
David Vitter	Republican	LA
Dave Camp	Republican	MI
Mike Rogers	Republican	MI
Roy Blunt	Republican	MO
Sam Graves	Republican	MO
Roger F. Wicker	Republican	MS
Howard Coble	Republican	NC
Richard Burr	Republican	NC
Walter B. Jones	Republican	NC
Christopher H. Smith	Republican	NJ
Frank A. LoBiondo	Republican	NJ
Rodney P. Frelinghuysen	Republican	NJ
Peter T. King	Republican	NY
Patrick J. Tiberi	Republican	OH
Rob Portman	Republican	OH
Steve Chabot	Republican	OH
Frank D. Lucas	Republican	OK
Bill Shuster	Republican	PA
Joseph R. Pitts	Republican	PA
Patrick J. Toomey	Republican	PA
Joe Wilson	Republican	SC
Lindsey Graham	Republican	SC
John Thune	Republican	SD
John J. Duncan, Jr.	Republican	TN
Joe Barton	Republican	TX
John Abney Culberson	Republican	TX
Kay Granger	Republican	TX
Kevin Brady	Republican	TX
Lamar Smith	Republican	TX
Mac Thornberry	Republican	TX
Pete Sessions	Republican	TX
Ralph M. Hall	Republican	TX
Sam Johnson	Republican	TX
Bob Goodlatte	Republican	VA
Frank R. Wolf	Republican	VA
J. Randy Forbes	Republican	VA
Doc Hastings	Republican	WA
Paul D. Ryan	Republican	WI
Shelley Moore Capito	Republican	WV

Nay: 239 (86 D · 9 R · 1 I)

Member	Party	State
DICKS, Norman DeValois	—	WA
CASTLE, Michael Newbold	—	DE
GEKAS, George William	—	PA
MOLLOHAN, Alan Bowlby	—	WV
ALLEN, Thomas H.	—	ME
WATT, Melvin L.	—	NC
LEWIS, Charles Jeremy	—	CA
LaTOURETTE, Steven C.	—	OH
MORELLA, Constance A.	—	MD
BENTSEN, Kenneth E., Jr.	—	TX
BERMAN, Howard Lawrence	—	CA
STARK, Fortney Hillman (Pete), Jr.	—	CA
HOEFFEL, Joseph M.	—	PA
GORDON, Barton Jennings	—	TN
SWEENEY, John E.	—	NY
JACKSON, Jesse L., Jr.	—	IL
MOORE, Dennis	—	KS
ROTHMAN, Steven	—	NJ
BUYER, Stephen Earle	—	IN
KILPATRICK, Carolyn Cheeks	—	MI
WEXLER, Robert	—	FL
MALONEY, James H.	—	CT
REYES, Silvestre	—	TX
OWENS, Major Robert Odell	—	NY
ROEMER, Timothy John	—	IN
JOHNSON, Timothy V.	—	IL
FRANK, Barney	—	MA
McKINNEY, Cynthia Ann	—	GA
HOBSON, David Lee	—	OH
SAWYER, Thomas Charles	—	OH
OBEY, David Ross	—	WI
SIMMONS, Robert	—	CT
GREENWOOD, James Charles	—	PA
WATSON, Diane Edith	—	CA
LAMPSON, Nicholas V.	—	TX
TAUSCHER, Ellen O'Kane	—	CA
BASS, Charles Foster	—	NH
SKEEN, Joseph Richard	—	NM
SHAYS, Christopher H.	—	CT
EVANS, Lane Allen	—	IL
OSBORNE, Thomas	—	NE
LUTHER, William Paul	—	MN
BORSKI, Robert Anthony, Jr.	—	PA
KUCINICH, Dennis	—	OH
BIGGERT, Judy Borg	—	IL
CLAYTON, Eva M.	—	NC
HOOLEY, Darlene	—	OR
TAYLOR, Gary Eugene	—	MS
KOLBE, James Thomas	—	AZ
ORTIZ, Solomon P.	—	TX
WILSON, Heather	—	NM
SOLIS, Hilda L.	—	CA
TURNER, Jim	—	TX
BOUCHER, Frederick C.	—	VA
KNOLLENBERG, Joseph	—	MI
RODRIGUEZ, Ciro D.	—	TX
OBERSTAR, James Louis	—	MN
COYNE, William Joseph	—	PA
LaFALCE, John Joseph	—	NY
BOYD, F. Allen, Jr.	—	FL
LANTOS, Thomas Peter	—	CA
MILLENDER-MCDONALD, Juanita	—	CA
HOUGHTON, Amory, Jr.	—	NY
GANSKE, Greg	—	IA
TOWNS, Edolphus	—	NY
McCARTHY, Karen	—	MO
STRICKLAND, Ted	—	OH
MURTHA, John Patrick, Jr.	—	PA
DELAHUNT, Bill	—	MA
BLAGOJEVICH, Rod R.	—	IL
DREIER, David Timothy	—	CA
HINCHEY, Maurice Dunlea	—	NY
BERKLEY, Shelley	—	NV
HARMAN, Jane L.	—	CA
FORD, Harold, Jr.	—	TN
BALDACCI, John Elias	—	ME
WOOLSEY, Lynn C.	—	CA
HORN, John Stephen	—	CA
GILCHREST, Wayne Thomas	—	MD
JOHN, Christopher	—	LA
MEEHAN, Martin Thomas	—	MA
DOOLEY, Calvin M.	—	CA
JOHNSON, Nancy Lee	—	CT
BACA, Joe	—	CA
BOSWELL, Leonard L.	—	IA
INSLEE, Jay Robert	—	WA
PLATTS, Todd	—	PA
SKELTON, Isaac Newton, IV	—	MO
WU, David	—	OR
ABERCROMBIE, Neil	—	HI
FROST, Jonas Martin	—	TX
DAVIS, Jim	—	FL
SANDLIN, Max A.	—	TX
KILDEE, Dale Edward	—	MI
COSTELLO, Jerry Francis	—	IL
ACKERMAN, Gary Leonard	—	NY
SABO, Martin Olav	—	MN
SPRATT, John McKee, Jr.	—	SC
BOEHLERT, Sherwood Louis	—	NY
THURMAN, Karen L.	—	FL
KLECZKA, Gerald Daniel	—	WI
CRAMER, Robert E. (Bud), Jr.	—	AL
HOLDEN, Thomas Timothy	—	PA
BEREUTER, Douglas Kent	—	NE
ROSS, Michael Avery	—	AR
MEEK, Carrie P.	—	FL
POMEROY, Earl Ralph, III	—	ND
ETHERIDGE, Bobby R.	—	NC
STUPAK, Bart T.	—	MI
KENNEDY, Patrick Joseph	—	RI
KANJORSKI, Paul E.	—	PA
SNYDER, Victor F.	—	AR
JEFFERSON, William Jennings	—	LA
RIVERS, Lynn Nancy	—	MI
CARSON, Brad	—	OK
QUINN, John Francis	—	NY
THOMAS, William Marshall	—	CA
MATSUI, Robert T.	—	CA
BONIOR, David Edward	—	MI
WEINER, Anthony D.	—	NY
LEACH, James Albert Smith	—	IA
JONES, Stephanie Tubbs	—	OH
FILNER, Bob	—	CA
EDWARDS, Thomas Chester	—	TX
BERRY, Robert Marion	—	AR
ANDREWS, Robert Ernest	—	NJ
GOSS, Porter J.	—	FL
GEPHARDT, Richard Andrew	—	MO
HILLIARD, Earl Frederick	—	AL
BONO, Mary	—	CA
BARRETT, Thomas M.	—	WI
McNULTY, Michael Robert	—	NY
GILMAN, Benjamin Arthur	—	NY
NUSSLE, James Allen	—	IA
HILL, Baron P.	—	IN
PAYNE, Donald Milford	—	NJ
WYNN, Albert Russell	—	MD
OLVER, John Walter	—	MA
GONZALEZ, Charles A.	—	TX
PRYCE, Deborah D.	—	OH
CARSON, Julia May	—	IN
BAIRD, Brian	—	WA
OSE, Doug	—	CA
Ed Pastor	Democrat	AZ
Adam B. Schiff	Democrat	CA
Anna G. Eshoo	Democrat	CA
Barbara Lee	Democrat	CA
Brad Sherman	Democrat	CA
George Miller	Democrat	CA
Grace F. Napolitano	Democrat	CA
Henry A. Waxman	Democrat	CA
Lois Capps	Democrat	CA
Lucille Roybal-Allard	Democrat	CA
Maxine Waters	Democrat	CA
Michael M. Honda	Democrat	CA
Mike Thompson	Democrat	CA
Nancy Pelosi	Democrat	CA
Sam Farr	Democrat	CA
Susan A. Davis	Democrat	CA
Xavier Becerra	Democrat	CA
Zoe Lofgren	Democrat	CA
Diana DeGette	Democrat	CO
Mark Udall	Democrat	CO
John B. Larson	Democrat	CT
Rosa L. DeLauro	Democrat	CT
Corrine Brown	Democrat	FL
John Lewis	Democrat	GA
Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.	Democrat	GA
Bobby L. Rush	Democrat	IL
Danny K. Davis	Democrat	IL
Janice D. Schakowsky	Democrat	IL
Luis V. Gutiérrez	Democrat	IL
Peter J. Visclosky	Democrat	IN
Edward J. Markey	Democrat	MA
James P. McGovern	Democrat	MA
John F. Tierney	Democrat	MA
Michael E. Capuano	Democrat	MA
Richard E. Neal	Democrat	MA
Stephen F. Lynch	Democrat	MA
Benjamin L. Cardin	Democrat	MD
Elijah E. Cummings	Democrat	MD
Steny H. Hoyer	Democrat	MD
John Conyers, Jr.	Democrat	MI
John D. Dingell	Democrat	MI
Sander M. Levin	Democrat	MI
Betty McCollum	Democrat	MN
Collin C. Peterson	Democrat	MN
Bennie G. Thompson	Democrat	MS
David E. Price	Democrat	NC
Mike McIntyre	Democrat	NC
Bill Pascrell, Jr.	Democrat	NJ
Frank Pallone, Jr.	Democrat	NJ
Robert Menendez	Democrat	NJ
Rush Holt	Democrat	NJ
Tom Udall	Democrat	NM
Carolyn B. Maloney	Democrat	NY
Carolyn McCarthy	Democrat	NY
Charles B. Rangel	Democrat	NY
Eliot L. Engel	Democrat	NY
Gregory W. Meeks	Democrat	NY
Jerrold Nadler	Democrat	NY
José E. Serrano	Democrat	NY
Joseph Crowley	Democrat	NY
Louise McIntosh Slaughter	Democrat	NY
Nita M. Lowey	Democrat	NY
Nydia M. Velázquez	Democrat	NY
Steve Israel	Democrat	NY
Marcy Kaptur	Democrat	OH
Sherrod Brown	Democrat	OH
Earl Blumenauer	Democrat	OR
Peter A. DeFazio	Democrat	OR
Chaka Fattah	Democrat	PA
Michael F. Doyle	Democrat	PA
Robert A. Brady	Democrat	PA
James R. Langevin	Democrat	RI
James E. Clyburn	Democrat	SC
Eddie Bernice Johnson	Democrat	TX
Gene Green	Democrat	TX
Lloyd Doggett	Democrat	TX
Rubén Hinojosa	Democrat	TX
Sheila Jackson Lee	Democrat	TX
Jim Matheson	Democrat	UT
James P. Moran	Democrat	VA
Robert C. "Bobby" Scott	Democrat	VA
Adam Smith	Democrat	WA
Jim McDermott	Democrat	WA
Rick Larsen	Democrat	WA
Ron Kind	Democrat	WI
Tammy Baldwin	Democrat	WI
Bernard Sanders	Independent	VT
Robert B. Aderholt	Republican	AL
Tom Latham	Republican	IA
Mark Kirk	Republican	IL
Fred Upton	Republican	MI
Lee Terry	Republican	NE
John A. Boehner	Republican	OH
Greg Walden	Republican	OR
F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr.	Republican	WI
Thomas E. Petri	Republican	WI

Not Voting: 15 (3 D)

Member	Party	State
ROUKEMA, Margaret Scafati	—	NJ
STUMP, Robert Lee	—	AZ
COX, Charles Christopher	—	CA
TANNER, John S.	—	TN
DEUTSCH, Peter R.	—	FL
HILLEARY, Van	—	TN
EHRLICH, Robert L., Jr.	—	MD
SCHROCK, Edward	—	VA
DEAL, John Nathan	—	GA
HASTERT, John Dennis	—	IL
HUNTER, Duncan Lee	—	CA
MASCARA, Frank R.	—	PA
Loretta Sanchez	Democrat	CA
Alcee L. Hastings	Democrat	FL
Wm. Lacy Clay	Democrat	MO

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