The roll call for the bailout package vote on September 29 was just publicly released. I urge all of you on election day (November 4) to consider this roster closely when going into the voting booth.
Those who voted "Yes" on bill H.R. 3997 were willing to give away billions of taxpayer dollars despite strong opposition against it. Some have said this was the most vociferious opposition to a bill expressed by the electorate since the time leading up to the military activities in Iraq in 2002.
If Congress doesn't listen to its constituency when they raise up their voices, when will they ever listen to them?
SUMMARY
| Yes | No | PRES | NV | |
| Democratic | 140 | 95 | ||
| Republican | 65 | 133 | 1 | |
| Independent | ||||
| TOTALS | 205 | 228 |
Voted YES (Democrats in standard text; Republicans in italic; Independents underlined):
| Ackerman Allen Andrews Arcuri Bachus Baird Baldwin Bean Berman Berry Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Blunt Boehner Bonner Bono Mack Boozman Boren Boswell Boucher Boyd (FL) Brady (PA) Brady (TX) Brown (SC) Brown, Corrine Calvert Camp (MI) Campbell (CA) Cannon Cantor Capps Capuano Cardoza Carnahan Castle Clarke Clyburn Cohen Cole (OK) Cooper Costa Cramer Crenshaw Crowley Cubin Davis (AL) Davis (CA) Davis (IL) Davis, Tom DeGette DeLauro Dicks Dingell Donnelly Doyle Dreier Edwards (TX) Ehlers Ellison Ellsworth Emanuel Emerson Engel Eshoo Etheridge Everett Farr Fattah Ferguson |
Fossella Foster Frank (MA) Gilchrest Gonzalez Gordon Granger Gutierrez Hall (NY) Hare Harman Hastings (FL) Herger Higgins Hinojosa Hobson Holt Honda Hooley Hoyer Inglis (SC) Israel Johnson, E. B. Kanjorski Kennedy Kildee Kind King (NY) Kirk Klein (FL) Kline (MN) LaHood Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Levin Lewis (CA) Lewis (KY) Loebsack Lofgren, Zoe Lowey Lungren, Daniel E. Mahoney (FL) Maloney (NY) Markey Marshall Matsui McCarthy (NY) McCollum (MN) McCrery McDermott McGovern McHugh McKeon McNerney McNulty Meek (FL) Meeks (NY) Melancon Miller (NC) Miller, Gary Miller, George Mollohan Moore (KS) Moore (WI) Moran (VA) Murphy (CT) Murphy, Patrick Murtha |
Nadler Neal (MA) Oberstar Obey Olver Pallone Pelosi Perlmutter Peterson (PA) Pickering Pomeroy Porter Price (NC) Pryce (OH) Putnam Radanovich Rahall Rangel Regula Reyes Reynolds Richardson Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Ross Ruppersberger Ryan (OH) Ryan (WI) Sarbanes Saxton Schakowsky Schwartz Sessions Sestak Shays Simpson Sires Skelton Slaughter Smith (TX) Smith (WA) Snyder Souder Space Speier Spratt Tancredo Tanner Tauscher Towns Tsongas Upton Van Hollen Velázquez Walden (OR) Walsh (NY) Wasserman Schultz Waters Watt Waxman Weiner Weldon (FL) Wexler Wilson (NM) Wilson (OH) Wilson (SC) Wolf |
Voted NO (Democrats in standard text; Republicans in italic; Independents underlined):
| Abercrombie Aderholt Akin Alexander Altmire Baca Bachmann Barrett (SC) Barrow Bartlett (MD) Barton (TX) Becerra Berkley Biggert Bilbray Bilirakis Bishop (UT) Blackburn Blumenauer Boustany Boyda (KS) Braley (IA) Broun (GA) Brown-Waite, Ginny Buchanan Burgess Burton (IN) Butterfield Buyer Capito Carney Carson Carter Castor Cazayoux Chabot Chandler Childers Clay Cleaver Coble Conaway Conyers Costello Courtney Cuellar Culberson Cummings Davis (KY) Davis, David Davis, Lincoln Deal (GA) DeFazio Delahunt Dent Diaz-Balart, L. Diaz-Balart, M. Doggett Doolittle Drake Duncan Edwards (MD) English (PA) Fallin Feeney Filner Flake Forbes Fortenberry Foxx Franks (AZ) Frelinghuysen Gallegly Garrett (NJ) Gerlach Giffords |
Gillibrand Gingrey Gohmert Goode Goodlatte Graves Green, Al Green, Gene Grijalva Hall (TX) Hastings (WA) Hayes Heller Hensarling Herseth Sandlin Hill Hinchey Hirono Hodes Hoekstra Holden Hulshof Hunter Inslee Issa Jackson (IL) Jackson-Lee (TX) Jefferson Johnson (GA) Johnson (IL) Johnson, Sam Jones (NC) Jordan Kagen Kaptur Keller Kilpatrick King (IA) Kingston Knollenberg Kucinich Kuhl (NY) Lamborn Lampson Latham LaTourette Latta Lee Lewis (GA) Linder Lipinski LoBiondo Lucas Lynch Mack Manzullo Marchant Matheson McCarthy (CA) McCaul (TX) McCotter McHenry McIntyre McMorris Rodgers Mica Michaud Miller (FL) Miller (MI) Mitchell Moran (KS) Murphy, Tim Musgrave Myrick Napolitano Neugebauer Nunes |
Ortiz Pascrell Pastor Paul Payne Pearce Pence Peterson (MN) Petri Pitts Platts Poe Price (GA) Ramstad Rehberg Reichert Renzi Rodriguez Rogers (MI) Rohrabacher Ros-Lehtinen Roskam Rothman Roybal-Allard Royce Rush Salazar Sali Sánchez, Linda T. Sanchez, Loretta Scalise Schiff Schmidt Scott (GA) Scott (VA) Sensenbrenner Serrano Shadegg Shea-Porter Sherman Shimkus Shuler Shuster Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Solis Stark Stearns Stupak Sullivan Sutton Taylor Terry Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Thornberry Tiahrt Tiberi Tierney Turner Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Visclosky Walberg Walz (MN) Wamp Watson Welch (VT) Westmoreland Whitfield (KY) Wittman (VA) Woolsey Wu Yarmuth Young (AK) Young (FL) |
NOT VOTING
| Weller |
Comments
Just in case there is any confusion on the title of the bill, I'm quite sure the roll call I listed is the right one. Here's the full list of things they have voted on today, and 674 is the only thing that failed: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/index.asp
It also says a few rows below that it references H RES 1517, which is a Senate amendment to HR 3997. HR 3997 is the larger bill, of which the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 is an amendment.
Isn't it great how Congress loves to bury things with obscure titles? :)
Here's a link with a clickable map showing how congressmen/women voted:-
http://www.congress.org/congre...
Isn't it interesting? Two or three years ago, Bush decided that ordinary folks couldn't walk away from their debts. Then he tries this end run pile of crap which essentially helps his country club buddies do that very thing.
I'm keeping this vote for a reference document. No one who voted for this bill will ever get my vote or my time or my money ever again. Tancredo and Sessions were particular surprises and disappointments!
Sessions doesn't necessarily surprise me given what I've heard from some people up around Dallas. He seems to do what he wants to do and doesn't listen as much to his constituency. Tancredo though, I was really a bit surprised when I saw his name on the list. While there are a number of positions where I don't agree with him, this is one bill that I would have thought he would say "no".
During the Bush Administration, more than 1 million jobless workers have used up both their regular state unemployment benefits and their emergency federal benefits and still cannot find jobs; since the emergency federal unemployment program began, more 3 million ran out of federal benefits before finding work. The nation will need a huge payday loan to get the economy back on track. During the Bush administration, job opportunities grew only 2 percent. Compared to the 21 percent growth during Clinton’s presidency, the 2 percent growth seems like nothing. From the early days of the Bush presidency, the unemployment rate rose to a catastrophic state. The job loss epidemic is still on the move and shows no sign of slowing down. Many citizens blame the Bush policies for creating the global financial clutter. Hopefully the new president, Barack Obama, and his plan to repair the economic system will work. I’m just thankful we still have access to a payday loan when those misfortunate financial events hit the hardest.
George Bush carried on the loose money policy of the Clinton years, encouraging vast waste and misallocation of scarce resources.
Bush carried on paying people not to work (what you subsidize you get more of).
Bush increased government spending at a terrible rate to buy off constituencies and fight unnecessary wars.
Now the government needs a payday loan so it can continue to pay people here not to work, to pay its favored tax eaters, and to spend the country further into poverty.
Hopefully the new president, Barack Obama, will not continue in the same mistakes the Bush administration made and that he is promising to make, the continued sovietization of the American economy. But that is pretty unlikely.