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my reps voted against, at least

Grayson voted yea... gonna miss u dogg

hey my guy (lovably goofy Steve Cohen) voted nay! alright, Steve!

Patriots, all of them.

at least Capuano voted no

sigh

how can you vote nay on the "PATRIOT" act?? it would be like voting "yea" on the SCUD act. i'm holding out hope that someone introduces a "MUSE-SICK N HOUR MESS-AGE" act

omg

you guys, if you put me in the House I SWEAR I will introduce acts named after Public Enemy albums

um where is Pelosi on that list wtf

^would vote for Dan

Hang on that link is for "Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act"

also wrong bill: BILL TITLE: Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act

lol xp

haha I was about to say something about that!

It think this is right one:

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2010/roll066.xml

Medicare Patriot Payment Reform Act

That's the roll call vote as linked from the Bill Summary page:

H.R.3961
Title: An Act to extend expiring provisions of the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 and Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 until February 28, 2011.
Sponsor: Rep Dingell, John D. [MI-15] (introduced 10/29/2009) Cosponsors (6)
Related Bills: H.RES.903, H.RES.1109, H.R.1109, H.R.2920
Latest Major Action: 2/25/2010 Resolving differences -- House actions. Status: On motion that the House agree to the Senate amendments Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 315 - 97 (Roll no. 67).

2/25/2010 7:26pm:
On motion that the House agree to the Senate amendments Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 315 - 97 (Roll no. 67).

Why doesn't Obama just make a public option bill called The Freedom Act? Then all the dems can criticize anyone who votes against Freedom.

And the vote count matches the votes as reported.

Wait wait – how come every GOP member voted against this?

I don't get it is Pelosi no longer a voting member of the House or something

this is the vote

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2010/roll067.xml

That's the one I linked to! Twice!

Wait wait – how come every GOP member voted against this?

Huh?

YEAS NAYS PRES NV
DEMOCRATIC 162 87 5
REPUBLICAN 153 10 15
INDEPENDENT
TOTALS 315 97 20

yah i was correcting ed

ok i'm confused

The actual real vote is here.

quality GOP governing in action

This is what I'm seeing o_O

#66 = BILL TITLE: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2701) to authorize appropriations for FY 2010 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the U.S. Government, the Community Management Account, and the CIA Retirement and Disability System, waiving a requirement of clause 6(a) of rule XIII

Democratic 237(yea) 10(nay)
Republican 166(nay)

#67 = BILL TITLE: Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act

Democratic 162(yea) 87(nay)
Republican 153(yea) 10(nay)

hmmm try this one here

Boner tired of reading long legislation, fantasizes about being Speaker

"And if I become Speaker there will be a 72 hour reading period before any bill is brought to the floor," the Ohio Republican added, repeating a pledge he made at CPAC.

"We don't need these really big bills," he said. "We can keep these bills smaller, more targeted, so that people actually can read them and understand what they are voting on before they come to the floor."

what america REALLY needs is for government to be EVEN SLOWER and legislation EVEN MORE DIFFICULT TO PASS

^most accurate picture of the house floor ever

xpost

Guys I'm confused about why Pelosi would not be on that roll call as well.

so that people actually can read them

lolz c'mon Boner we know you can't actually read, no matter how much time you're given

Speaker would only vote in the event of a tie

huh must've forgotten that bit from civics class my bad

she can vote, it's just customary not to

I don't really know how the government works. ILX is here to help me learn!

"I would have preferred to add oversight and judicial review improvements to any extension of expiring provisions in the USA Patriot Act," said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. "But I understand some Republican senators objected."

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_PATRIOT_ACT?SITE=NVLAS&SECTION=WEATHER&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Yeah we wouldn't want to upset the republicans.
Good job, fucking pussies.

David Price votes Nay on USAPATRIOT, fuck yeah - gotta take what good news I can get

The Patriot Act vote was a resolution to concur on the Senate's ammendment to H.R. 3961, a bill originally about the Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act. So yes, the page that says Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act is the correct vote. The one Ed posted is not directly related.

I'm glad to see Blumenauer was a nay.

Small comfort.

(amendment of the renewal of the Patriot Act onto H.R. 3961, I should specify)

weirdly, my current liberal-democrat congressman (rangel) voted aye, but my soon-to-be conservative-republican congressman (duncan) voted nay. duncan also voted against the iraq war. he's a hard-right guy, but he's an old-line conservative who really believes all the small-government stuff (e.g., doesn't like unnecessary foreign entanglements). so... knoxville represent.

does he hate fags?

yes. he does. he is an east tennessee republican. just one with a little more consistency to his views than most.

Charlie "Four Rent-Controlled Apartments + Villa in the Dominican" Rangel -- NYC's kinda liberal

yeah. i couldn't bring myself to vote for him last time. i guess if he'd had any actual opposition or chance of losing, i might have. but yeesh.

Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA), you may well go down in November for being relatively principled, but I salute you. On climate change/energy reform:

"That’s more insider baseball crap. I don’t really care. I’m sick of starting with what can we get through the Senate; let’s start with what solves the damn problem. Until the Senate gets its head out of its rear end and starts to see the crisis we’re in, our country is literally at risk. Our economy is at risk, because these jobs are being created overseas. It should have the same urgency with this problem that it had bailing out Wall Street. We are swearing an oath to do what’s necessary to protect this country, not do what’s necessary to get a bill through the Senate."

– This is the challenge of our time—the jobs opportunity, the national security challenge, the scientific challenge of our era. Any plan that uses market forces to signal a carbon-constrained environment is going to move us in the right direction. People who don’t support this kind of aggressive energy independence are just selling Americans short.

– We’re so far behind China, Europe, and other areas in the energy jobs of the future because neither party has had the guts to take this on. There are so many spineless people in D.C.

– Every week the Senate doesn’t act, it either freezes that investment and innovation or it sends it overseas. We’re giving up jobs. The Senate—the ridiculous tactics of the Republicans and the timidity of the Democrats—is standing in the way of the kind of job creation we need.

– Unfortunately, good ideas, ideas that could save our country, sometimes take 30 minutes to explain and only 30 seconds to demagogue. In between those two things is leadership, and we haven’t had the moral courage to take this on

Pretty good stuff but I wish cap and trade weren't just an enormous giveaway to the exact same people that send us over the financial edge