Recent House Votes:
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Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act
Vote Passed (367-59, 1 Present, 6 Not Voting)
The House passed this fraud enforcement bill with an amendment to create a commission to investigate the causes of the financial crisis, sending the bill back to the Senate for its approval.
Rep. Jeff Fortenberry voted
Not Voting
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Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act
Vote Passed (300-114, 19 Not Voting)
The House approved this bill to reform mortgage lending practices.
Rep. Jeff Fortenberry voted
Not Voting
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Barack Obama has used a nautical metaphor to describe the slow, slow turning of the giant ship of State. Perhaps these two abstentions indicate Rep. Fortenberry's tentative turning away from the dead-ender Republican Party's march into history. A welcome sign, even if for the wrong reason: political survival is not quite the same as the noble, self-sacrificing actions of a principled statesman, but, for these two instances, at least he's stopped doing the wrong thing.
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