ACLU:

Prohibiting Funding of Syringe Exchange Programs

Jul 24, 2009

House Roll call 642

Congress 111 Session 1

Failed: 211-218

Vote:

Roll call 642

Votes For:

211

Votes Against:

218

Not Voting:

On Friday, July 24, 2009, the House defeated an amendment offered by Representative Mark Souder (R-IN) to the FY 2010 Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act (H.R. 3293) by a vote of 211-218. The Souder Amendment would have prohibited federal funds from being used to support syringe exchange programs. The ACLU opposed the Souder Amendment as a rejection of evidence-based science, which would have harmful consequences for public health. Every scientific study of needle exchange programs has concluded that access to sterile injection equipment is a proven way to reduce the spread of deadly, infectious blood-borne diseases like HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C.

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Name	Party	State	Vote
Abercrombie, Neil	Democrat	HI	(Nay)
Ackerman, Gary	Democrat	NY	(Nay)
Aderholt, Robert	Republican	AL	(Yea)
Adler, John	Democrat	NJ	(Nay)
Akin, Todd	Republican	MO	(Yea)
Alexander, Rodney	Republican	LA	(Yea)
Altmire, Jason	Democrat	PA	(Nay)
Andrews, Robert	Democrat	NJ	(Nay)
Arcuri, Michael	Democrat	NY	(Nay)
Austria, Stephen	Republican	OH	(Yea)

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