House of Representatives Approves NCLI ACT

From Abby Ybarra NCLI Grassroots Coordinator:   A Grassroots Victory in Washington for Environmental Education   We are pleased to report that environmental education won a major boost today when the U.S. House of Representatives approved the No Child Left Inside Act of 2008.   The bill received bipartisan support and was approved by a vote of 293 to 109.   This is only one step in the process, but it is a major one and gives us enormous momentum to keep working to pass the bill in the months ahead. And the vote represents a victory for all of us who care about environmental education.   We know from our work on Capitol Hill that we passed this bill because of the grassroots interest and energy of our members across the country. Those calls, visits, emails and letters made an enormous difference.   So thank you for everything you and your organizations have done in support of No Child Left Inside! You have turned this Coalition into a powerhouse.   Please take a minute to send an email to thank those members in the House who supported the NCLI Act.   Our Coalition, formed only a year and a half ago, is growing every day. Today we have more than 745 member organizations, with more than one in every state in the country, representing well over 40 million people who understand the value of environmental education.   We'll be in touch soon with information about next steps. For now, enjoy a victory that will one day pay great dividends for our kids and our environment. And continue to spread the word about No Child Left Inside. Here is the Tally Sheet for the vote on the No Child Left Inside Act. Please be sure to call or write to thank your Representative if they voted in favor, and if they voted No, let them know you strongly support the NCLI Act and will continue to do so until it becomes law.     FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 614 (Democrats in roman; Republicans in italic; Independents underlined)       H R 3036      YEA-AND-NAY      18-Sep-2008      5:25 PM       QUESTION:  On Passage       BILL TITLE: No Child Left Inside Act of 2008 Yeas Nays PRES NV Democratic 225 1   8 Republican 68 108   23 Independent         TOTALS 293 109   31 ---- YEAS    293 --- Abercrombie Ackerman Allen Altmire Andrews Arcuri Baca Bachus Baird Baldwin Barrow Bean Becerra Berkley Berman Berry Bilbray Bilirakis Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Blumenauer Bono Mack Boren Boswell Boucher Boyd (FL) Boyda (KS) Brady (PA) Braley (IA) Brown, Corrine Brown-Waite, Ginny Buchanan Butterfield Buyer Capito Capps Capuano Cardoza Carnahan Carney Carson Castle Castor Cazayoux Chandler Childers Clarke Clay Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Conyers Cooper Costa Costello Courtney Crenshaw Cuellar Cummings Davis (AL) Davis (CA) Davis (IL) Davis, Lincoln Davis, Tom DeFazio DeGette Delahunt DeLauro Dent Diaz-Balart, L. Diaz-Balart, M. Dicks Dingell Doggett Donnelly Doyle Edwards (MD) Edwards (TX) Ehlers Ellison Emanuel Engel English (PA) Eshoo Etheridge Farr Fattah Ferguson Filner Fortenberry Fossella Foster Frank (MA) Frelinghuysen Gerlach Giffords Gilchrest Gillibrand Gonzalez Gordon Graves Green, Al Green, Gene Gutierrez Hall (NY) Hare Harman Hayes Herseth Sandlin Higgins Hill Hinchey Hinojosa Hirono Hobson Hodes Holden Holt Honda Hooley Hoyer Inslee Israel Jackson (IL) Jefferson Johnson (GA) Johnson (IL) Johnson, E. B. Kagen Kanjorski Kaptur Keller Kennedy Kildee Kilpatrick Kind Kirk Klein (FL) Knollenberg Kucinich Kuhl (NY) LaHood Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Latham LaTourette Lee Levin Lewis (GA) Lipinski LoBiondo Loebsack Lofgren, Zoe Lowey Lynch Mahoney (FL) Maloney (NY) Markey Marshall Matheson Matsui McCarthy (NY) McCaul (TX) McCollum (MN) McDermott McGovern McHugh McIntyre McKeon McNerney McNulty Meek (FL) Meeks (NY) Melancon Michaud Miller (MI) Miller (NC) Miller, George Mitchell Mollohan Moore (KS) Moore (WI) Moran (VA) Murphy (CT) Murphy, Patrick Murtha Nadler Napolitano Neal (MA) Oberstar Obey Olver Ortiz Pallone Pascrell Pastor Payne Pearce Perlmutter Peterson (MN) Petri Platts Pomeroy Porter Price (NC) Putnam Rahall Ramstad Rangel Regula Reichert Renzi Reyes Reynolds Rodriguez Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Ros-Lehtinen Roskam Ross Rothman Roybal-Allard Ruppersberger Rush Ryan (OH) Salazar Sánchez, Linda T. Sanchez, Loretta Sarbanes Schakowsky Schiff Schmidt Schwartz Scott (GA) Scott (VA) Serrano Shays Shea-Porter Sherman Shimkus Shuler Sires Skelton Slaughter Smith (NJ) Smith (WA) Snyder Solis Souder Space Speier Spratt Stark Stupak Sutton Tanner Tauscher Taylor Terry Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Tiberi Tierney Towns Tsongas Turner Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Upton Van Hollen Velázquez Visclosky Walsh (NY) Walz (MN) Wamp Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Watt Waxman Weiner Welch (VT) Weller Wexler Whitfield (KY) Wilson (OH) Wittman (VA) Wolf Woolsey Wu Yarmuth Young (FL) ---- NAYS    109 --- Aderholt Akin Alexander Bachmann Barrett (SC) Bartlett (MD) Barton (TX) Blackburn Blunt Boehner Bonner Boozman Boustany Broun (GA) Brown (SC) Burton (IN) Calvert Camp (MI) Campbell (CA) Cannon Cantor Carter Chabot Coble Cole (OK) Conaway Culberson Davis (KY) Davis, David Deal (GA) Doolittle Drake Duncan Ellsworth Emerson Fallin Feeney Forbes Foxx Franks (AZ) Gallegly Garrett (NJ) Gingrey Gohmert Goode Goodlatte Granger Hall (TX) Heller Hensarling Herger Hoekstra Inglis (SC) Johnson, Sam Jones (NC) Jordan King (IA) Kline (MN) Lamborn Latta Lewis (CA) Lewis (KY) Linder Lucas Lungren, Daniel E. Mack Manzullo McCarthy (CA) McCotter McHenry Mica Miller (FL) Miller, Gary Moran (KS) Murphy, Tim Musgrave Myrick Neugebauer Paul Peterson (PA) Pickering Price (GA) Radanovich Rehberg Rogers (MI) Rohrabacher Royce Ryan (WI) Sali Saxton Scalise Sensenbrenner Sessions Shadegg Shuster Simpson Smith (NE) Smith (TX) Stearns Sullivan Tancredo Thornberry Tiahrt Walberg Weldon (FL) Westmoreland Wilson (NM) Wilson (SC) Young (AK) ---- NOT VOTING    31 --- Biggert Bishop (UT) Brady (TX) Burgess Cramer Crowley Cubin Dreier Everett Flake Grijalva Hastings (FL) Hastings (WA) Hulshof Hunter Issa Jackson-Lee (TX) King (NY) Kingston Lampson Marchant McCrery McMorris Rodgers Nunes Pence Pitts Poe Pryce (OH) Richardson Sestak Walden (OR)