WASHINGTON — Here's how area members of Congress voted on major issues in the week ending March 18.

House

STOPGAP 2011 BUDGET: Voting 271 for and 158 against, the House on March 15 passed a stopgap fiscal 2011 budget (HJ Res 48) to keep the government fully in operation between March 18 and April 8 while cutting spending by $6.1 billion over that period. The bill would cut $3.5 billion from 25 individual programs and rescind $2.6 billion in congressional earmarks abandoned by their sponsors. This is the sixth temporary budget Congress has passed for the fiscal year that ends Sept. 30. The bill was backed by 186 Republicans and 85 Democrats. Compared to a House vote two weeks earlier to pass the fifth stopgap budget, the bill drew the support of 37 fewer Republicans and 19 fewer Democrats.

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