When the elections come in 2010 and 2012, all voters should know how their legislators voted on bills of high importance, especially the ones which are also very controversial. The House passed a bill on November 7 with a very tight vote of 220-215. Only 3 votes would have reversed the decision.
The Republicans are easy to identify, each one of them voted against the bill except one, Joseph Cao, a freshman Representative from Louisiana's District 2. Mr. Cao voted in favor of the bill.
The Democrats were more widely divided with 219 voting for the bill and 39 voting against it. The 39 who voted against it are as follows:
John Adler (New Jersey Dist 3)
Jason Altmire (Pennsylvania Dist 4)
Brian Baird (Washington Dist 3)
John Barrow (Georgia Dist 12)
John Boccieri (Ohio Dist 16)
Dan Boren (Oklahoma dist 2)
Rick Boucher (Virginia Dist 9)
Allen Boyd (Florida Dist 2)
Bobby Bright (Alabama Dist 2)
Ben Chandler (Kentucky Dist 6)
Travis Childers (Mississippi Dist 1)
Lincoln Davis (Tennessee Dist 4) )
Artur Davis (Alabama Dist 7)
Chet Edwards (Texas Dist 17))
Bart Gordon (Tennessee Dist 6)
Parker Griffith (Alabama Dist 5)
Stephanie Sandlin (South Dakota)
Tim Holden (Pennsylvania Dist 17)
Larry Kissell (N. Carolina Dist 8)
Suzanne Kosmas (Florida Dist 24)
Betsy Markey (Colorado Dist 4)
Jim Marshall (Georgia Dist 4)
Frank Kratovil (Maryland Dist 1)
Dennis Kucinich (Ohio Dist 10)
Eric Massa (New York Dist 29)
Jim Matheson (Utah Dist 2)
Mike McIntyre (N. Carolina Dist 7)
Michael McMahon (New York Dist 13)
Charles Melancon (Louisiana Dist 3)
Walt Minnick (Idaho Dist 1)
Scott Murphy (New York Dist 20)
Glenn Nye (Virginia Dist 2)
Collin Peterson (Minnesota Dist 7)
Mike Ross (Arkansas Dist 4)
Heath Shuler (N. Carolina Dist 11)
Ike Skelton (Missouri Dist 4)
John Tanner (Tennessee Dist 8)
Gene Taylor (Mississippi Dist 4)
Harry Teague (New Mexico Dist 2)
One might remember, these Democrats who voted their conscience, crossed party lines even though under tremendous pressure. You at least have to respect them for that. These are the ones which were referred to by the hierarchy of MoveOn.org (George Soros bunch) as well as Howard Dean with his "Democracy for America" PAC. The Soros group has promised to back a Democrat challenger for those that vote against the bill, whenever their primary election comes up next time. Howard Dean has urged the House or Senate to take away the committee chairmanship of any who voted against it. Read my previous article, # 554789.
If nothing else, it would be good to show those two fellows they are not the ones who are the boss, simply because they have big money backing them. Those Representatives, for the most part, who voted against their party leadership, did so because they believe their constituents, by majority, opposed it. And they were trying to please them rather than the money men. Try and remember that when they come up for re-election.
According to most analysts, the bill passed in the house is nothing more than a bragging point for Nancy Pelosi. It is almost identical to the very original one which roused so much ire among voters back in August. They put a light coat of pain on a few major issues but the outcome would have been the same. The Congressional Budget Office again showed the long haul to be much to expensive on the taxpayers. Most of those analysts report that this bill has no possible chance to get through the Senate.
The Administration continues to demean the Republicans and challenges them to come up with a better bill. The truth of the matter is, the Republicans have presented alternate bills but the Democrat majority won't even allow them to go to committee or be brought up on the floor. They don't want the public to hear that there are measures which could correct our present healthcare problems without the outrageous spending proposed by the Democrats. The very most controversial points in the proposals put forth so far are the ones the Democrats are so determined to have.
Author Biography: Joel Hendon was born September 20, 1930 near Gadsden Alabama. He attended public schools in Cherokee County, Alabama and after serving a tour of duty in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, attended Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, Alabama majoring in Business Administration. He became a Christian in 1948, and although he followed secular work as a career and retired from Allied Signal Aerospace in 1997, he is an avid student of the Holy Bible and related works as well as biblical history. He has an extensive website of religious and political conservative articles and links to many other sites. http://hebronics.org/index.html
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