Mar 22 2010

House Health Care Bill Votes

U.S. House Passes Health Care Reform Bill

Up Dates will be added as the votes take place  

First Vote

Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendments to H.R. 3590 – Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Reps. Waxman/Levin/George Miller – Energy and Commerce/Ways and Means/Education and Labor)

Democratic   Yea 219   Nay 34

Republican   Yea   Nay 176  NV 2

Second Vote

On the motion to recommit with instructions.

Rep. Dave Camp (R) New Jersey  abortion can’t really even be dealt with through reconciliation because of the Byrd rule.

Democratic   Yea 21  Nay 232  

Republican   Yea 178 Nay    

On Passage HR 4872

Democratic  Yea 220     Nay 33  

Republican  Yea      Nay 178  

 

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    • TMC on March 22, 2010 at 04:25
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    From the Live Blog at FDL

    Republicans are going to offer a motion to recommit based on abortion language. It is a good stunt but abortion can’t really even be dealt with through reconciliation because of the Byrd rule. Republicans are calling this the most pro-abortion bill in decades (ironic because it is in realty the biggest lose for the pro-choice movement in decades. It is almost sad that the pro-life groups can’t even take joy in their own huge victory.)

    failed 199 – 232

    • TMC on March 22, 2010 at 04:29
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    John Dingell ask for a recorded vote on the reconciliation package that “fixes” the excise tax and reforms the student loan system. A 15 minute vote is now taking place.

    • TMC on March 22, 2010 at 04:38
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    The reconciliation bill now has 217 votes so it will pass. It will then go to the Senate. (Very strange the reconciliation bill did not get more Democratic votes. It was mostly an attempt to delay the unpopular excise tax and strip the unpopular Nebraska Medicaid money “Cornhusker kickback.” What Democrats are actually choosing to vote against  removing the “Cornhusker kickback?”)

    • RUKind on March 22, 2010 at 05:09
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    WALSTIB

  6. or is there some non-coincidence to Rahm Emmanuel being interviewed on CBS/60 Minutes tonight.  As in “I did not lose.  It is (not) all about me.  (Don’t) pay attention to this historic moment (that I tried my best to destroy). (Cuz it is happening…..right…..NOW……….)

    Interesting that the only MSM news source to break the news mid-prime-time-stream (Desperate Housewives no less!) was ABC.

    The same ABC that stole the Amanpour thunder from CNN.

    Who is running that ABC anyway?

    OK, not really hyping ABC, but giving a little bit of credit where credit is due, if……oh, well, you get my drift.

  7. What’s up?  

  8. Bob Dole is smiling.

  9. When this bill turns out not to make American health care any better, and when voters take their resentment about mandates and the other shortcomings of this legislation to the polls over the next few election cycles, I hope the fools who are cheering for this bill’s passage tonight will take ownership of what they’ve done.  Barring that, when they try scapegoating progressives for their losses, as they always do, I hope we’ll have the strength to be persistent in reminding them how utterly full of shit they are.

  10. After long having the sense that my U. S. Representative was a dyed-in-the-wool DINO, I just stumbled across a website that is a treasure trove on such matters.  

    Not surprisingly, I discovered that my representative had a lower Progressive Action Score and a higher Right Wing Index Score than a Republican representative from an adjacent district.  The term “centrist” would truly describe this representative, if one were looking for the moral (I use the term loosely) center of the Republican Party, although he might even fall a little to the right of center in that party as well.  

    And, I suppose I should now be even less surprised that he committed to supporting that mixed bag (perhaps a used air sickness bag would better describe it) that is touted as health care reform, only on the day before passage, and that he has failed to respond to my request for a response as to whether he would be willing to support or oppose Alan Grayson’s Medicare for All bill, H. R. 4777.  

    To make a long story short, on every measure, at least as a Democrat, even in today’s beneath the rabbit hole world, he simply does not measure up.

    To find the scores that have been assigned to your two senators, or any other senator, for that matter, you can go here: http://progressivepatriots.com… and if you’d rather not enter the entire url address, you can click here.

    To locate the scores that have been assigend to your representative, or any other representative, you can go here: http://progressivepatriots.com… or you can click here.

    If you click on the hypertexted blue lettering that states, “Progressive Action Score”, that will take you to a page that describes the issues in detail, and also adds a column to the right which lists his/her Right Wing Index score, and a description of the issues in that column.  

    The two preceding webpages will provide you with a number of other options, which appear near the top of the page.  You will also find choices at the top of each page allowing you to list the members by progressive ranking, alphabetical order, conservative ranking, or something the website describes as a strictly pro-Constitution score, the Oath of Office Index.   There are a number of other choices as well, such as scores in various categories such as discrimination, environment, constitution, economy and LBGT concerns.  

    Caveat:  These rankings are for the 110th Congress, so the scores for the current session may change.

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