Roll call

WASHINGTON – Here’s how area members of Congress were recorded on major roll call votes in the week ending Friday.

U.S. House

Voter ID requirement

Voting 228-196, the House on Wednesday sent the Senate a bill requiring that by 2008 voters in federal elections would have to show a photo ID. Starting in 2010, the photo document would have to also show proof of citizenship. Those not fully identified on election day could cast provisional ballots and be granted 48 hours to comply.

Voting yes: Doc Hastings, R-4; Cathy McMorris, R-5; Dave Reichert, R-8

Voting no: Jay Inslee, D-1; Rick Larsen, D-2; Brian Baird, D-3; Norm Dicks, D-6; Jim McDermott, D-7; Adam Smith, D-9

Democrats’ vote plan

Voting 196-225, the House on Wednesday defeated a Democratic bid to exempt from HR 4844 (above) military voters and their families at home and abroad, the elderly, the disabled, and certain Hurricane Katrina victims. The measure sought to delay the law until the federal government has provided states with funds to administer it and also until the U.S. Election Assistance Commission has ruled it fair to minorities, American Indians, the elderly and the disabled.

Voting yes: Inslee, Larsen, Baird, Dicks, McDermott, Smith

Voting no: Hastings, McMorris, Reichert

International border tunnels

Voting 422-0, the House on Thursday sent the Senate a bill providing up to 20 years’ imprisonment for persons convicted of building or financing cross-border tunnels for the smuggling of illegal aliens or contraband into the United States, and up to 10 years in jail for property owners convicted of authorizing such tunnels on their land.

Voting yes: Inslee, Larsen, Baird, Hastings, McMorris, Dicks, McDermott, Reichert, Smith

Voting no: None

Sept. 11 Commission proposals

Voting 225-195, members on Thursday blocked a bid by Democrats for a House vote on their bill to fully enact the Sept. 11 Commission’s recommendations for securing America’s borders. Democrats sought, for example, to add 750 immigration agents, detention officers and U.S. marshals and 25,000 beds for holding illegal aliens.

Voting yes: Hastings, McMorris, Reichert

Voting no: Inslee, Larsen, Baird, Dicks, McDermott, Smith

U.S. Senate

Mexican border fence

Voting 94-0 against, the Senate on Wednesday advanced a plan to build 700 miles of two-layered fencing along the nearly 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border, with a final vote on the House-passed bill (HR 6061) expected the following week. The fencing project would cost at least $6.6 billion to install.

Voting yes: Maria Cantwell, D; Patty Murray, D

Oman trade agreement

Voting 62-32, the Senate on Tuesday sent President Bush a bill (HR 5684) to implement a free-trade accord with the Arabian Peninsula state of Oman. Under the agreement, Oman interests could perform work such as cargo handling and maintenance at U.S. ports, although U.S. presidents could act to bar their involvement in the name of national security.

Voting yes: Cantwell, Murray

Key votes this week

Both chambers will take up bills that set new rules for domestic spying and military tribunals and define the extent to which the U.S. can subject prisoners in the fight against terrorism to harsh methods of interrogation.