House roll call for bailout package vote released

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.