CBC Opposes President Bush's Healthy Forest Initiative
 
May 20, 2003: Eighty-nine percent (89%) of the CBC voted against H.R. 1904.  CBC members voting for the bill: 1) Sanford D. Bishop (2-GA), 2) Artur Davis (7 AL), 3) David Scott (13 GA), 4) Bennie G. Thompson (2 MS)

CBC Opposes Energy Bill
April 11, 2003: Eighty-four percent (84%) of the Congressional Black Caucus voted against H.R. 6, the Energy Policy Act of 2003. Six members of the CBC voted for the Administration bill sponsored by Energy and Commerce Chairman Billy Tauzin: 1) Bishop GA), 2) Jackson-Lee (TX), 3) Jefferson (LA), 4) Bernice-Johnson (TX), 5) Rush (IL), & 6) Scott (GA). Only Bishop voted for the energy bill and for ANWR drilling.

CBC Opposes ANWR Oil Drilling
April 10, 2003: Ninety-two percent (92%) of the CBC opposed ANWR drilling.  Three members of the Congressional Black Caucus opposed the Markey Amendment to the energy bill and supported drilling in ANWR: 1) Bishop (Ga), 2) Clyburn (SC), & 3) Thompson (MS). Last year, four CBC members supported ANWR: 1) Clyburn (SC), 2) Earl F. Hilliard (AL), 3) Bennie Thompson (MS), & 4) Edolphus Towns (NY).  Note that Towns voted for ANWR last year but against ANWR this year.

Majority of CBC Supports Yucca Mountain
2002:  The Congressional Black Caucus voted for Yucca Mountain 22 to 15--57% of the CBC and Black Republican J.C. Watts (not a member of the CBC) also voted for the mountain.  Thus, 60% of the blacks in Congress voted in favor of storing the nation's nuclear waste at the Nevada repository.  The repository has been designed to solve the continuing buildup of high-level nuclear waste.