US. CONGRESS

Hinchey/Wolf amendment
In a vote of 175-256, the Hinchey/Wolf amendment failed in the US House on 6/20/07. The amendment would have cut off funding to the US Department of Energy for establishing federal condemnation zones, euphemistically called “National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors”, to allow study and deliberation.

• To see how your members voted visit: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2007/roll526.xml
  
  
• To view a district map (this is pretty interesting) of how members voted across the country visit: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2007-526

Although the amendment did not pass, this issue is gaining the attention of a growing number of Governors, state legislators, nonprofit organizations, and of course, regular citizens. Congress will face this issue again.