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House vote: H.R. 4200 // May 17, 2006

Forest Emergency Recovery and Research Act

Sponsor: GREG WALDEN (R-OR)

Forest Emergency Recovery and Research Act - Title I: Response to Catastrophic Events on Federal Lands (Sec. 101) Directs the Secretary of Agriculture with respect to National Forest System (NFS) land or the Secretary of the Interior with respect to public lands (the Secretary concerned) to develop specified research protocols for conducting and evaluating the effectiveness of a catastrophic event recovery project and emergency stabilization treatments undertaken as part of a burned area emergency response to increase the long-term benefits of management activities and to decrease the short-term impacts of such management activities. Subjects the research protocols developed and any subsequent modification of such protocols to peer review.

Public Lands and Natural Resources Topic assigned by the Congressional Research Service.

Who won, and how much of the country was behind them

Won the vote · Nay

236 votes, representing 125,004,991 people55.5%of U.S. adults

Lost the vote · Yea

189 votes, representing 95,096,741 people42.2%of U.S. adults

The dotted gap is 2.2% of U.S. adults whose member did not vote, voted “present,” or whose seat was vacant.

Share of U.S. adults represented, the House
SideOutcomeVotesShare of U.S. adults
NayWon23655.5%
YeaLost18942.2%
Not represented on this questionNo position taken02.2%