Democrats APPLAUD the raising of the debt ceiling by almost $2 TRILLION DOLLARS. AYFKM?
Debt limit measure clears hurdle
House Democrats advanced a $1.9 trillion debt limit increase Thursday.
The 217-212 procedural vote clears the way for a vote later this afternoon that will increase the nation’s debt ceiling to roughly $14.3 trillion. No Republicans voted for the procedural motion, and more than two dozen Democrats voted against it.
Once approved, the measure raising the debt limit, approved by the Senate last week, will go to president’s desk as soon as the House clears a statutory pay-as-you-go measure that aims to rein in further spending. That bill is expected to be approved later Thursday.
The pay-go bill would require any new mandatory spending, such as new tax cuts or entitlement programs, be offset with revenue through tax hikes or spending cuts.
With the federal debt expected to hit its limit this month, the increase is needed to allow the government to continue borrowing and avoid default.
Americans are going to LOVE this logic:
Democrats characterized a yes vote on the motion as a vote for responsibility. They said any member who voted for policies that weren’t paid for, such as the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the Medicare prescription drug benefit and stimulus measures under both the Bush and Obama administrations, should feel an obligation to vote for the debt limit increase.
I am still trying to ascertain whether the dems that voted for this debt ceiling increase just committed treason…
FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 46
H RES 1065 RECORDED VOTE 4-Feb-2010 1:51 PM
QUESTION: On Agreeing to the Resolution
BILL TITLE: Providing for consideration of the Senate amendment to the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 45) increasing the statutory limit on the public debt
Ayes | Noes | PRES | NV | |
Democratic | 217 | 37 | 2 | |
Republican | 175 | 3 | ||
Independent | ||||
TOTALS | 217 | 212 | 5 |
Abercrombie Ackerman Altmire Andrews Arcuri Baca Baird Baldwin Barrow Bean Becerra Berkley Berman Berry Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Blumenauer Boren Boswell Boucher Boyd Brady (PA) Braley (IA) Brown, Corrine Butterfield Capps Capuano Cardoza Carnahan Carson (IN) Castor (FL) Chandler Chu Clarke Clay Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Connolly (VA) Conyers Cooper Costa Costello Courtney Crowley Cuellar Cummings Dahlkemper Davis (AL) Davis (CA) Davis (IL) Davis (TN) DeFazio DeGette Delahunt DeLauro Dicks Dingell Doggett Doyle Edwards (MD) Edwards (TX) Ellison Engel Eshoo Etheridge Farr Fattah Filner Frank (MA) Fudge Garamendi Gonzalez | Gordon (TN) Green, Al Green, Gene Grijalva Hall (NY) Hare Harman Hastings (FL) Heinrich Herseth Sandlin Higgins Hill Himes Hinchey Hinojosa Hirono Holden Holt Honda Hoyer Inslee Israel Jackson (IL) Jackson Lee (TX) Johnson (GA) Johnson, E. B. Kagen Kanjorski Kaptur Kennedy Kildee Kilpatrick (MI) Kilroy Kind Klein (FL) Kucinich Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lee (CA) Levin Lewis (GA) Lipinski Loebsack Lofgren, Zoe Lowey Luján Lynch Maloney Markey (MA) Marshall Matheson Matsui McCarthy (NY) McCollum McDermott McGovern McMahon Meek (FL) Meeks (NY) Michaud Miller (NC) Miller, George Mollohan Moore (KS) Moore (WI) Moran (VA) Murphy (CT) Nadler (NY) Napolitano Neal (MA) Oberstar Obey | Olver Ortiz Pallone Pascrell Pastor (AZ) Payne Pelosi Perlmutter Peterson Pingree (ME) Polis (CO) Pomeroy Price (NC) Quigley Rahall Rangel Reyes Richardson Rodriguez Ross Rothman (NJ) Roybal-Allard Ruppersberger Rush Ryan (OH) Salazar Sánchez, Linda T. Sanchez, Loretta Sarbanes Schakowsky Schiff Schrader Schwartz Scott (GA) Scott (VA) Serrano Sestak Shea-Porter Sherman Shuler Sires Skelton Slaughter Smith (WA) Snyder Speier Spratt Stark Stupak Sutton Tanner Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Tierney Tonko Towns Tsongas Van Hollen Velázquez Visclosky Walz Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Watt Waxman Weiner Welch Wilson (OH) Woolsey Yarmuth |
Aderholt Adler (NJ) Akin Alexander Austria Bachmann Bachus Barrett (SC) Bartlett Barton (TX) Biggert Bilbray Bilirakis Bishop (UT) Blackburn Blunt Boccieri Boehner Bonner Bono Mack Boozman Boustany Brady (TX) Bright Broun (GA) Brown (SC) Brown-Waite, Ginny Buchanan Burgess Burton (IN) Buyer Calvert Camp Campbell Cantor Cao Capito Carney Carter Cassidy Castle Chaffetz Childers Coble Coffman (CO) Cole Conaway Crenshaw Culberson Davis (KY) Deal (GA) Dent Diaz-Balart, L. Diaz-Balart, M. Donnelly (IN) Dreier Driehaus Duncan Ehlers Ellsworth Emerson Fallin Flake Fleming Forbes Fortenberry Foster Foxx Franks (AZ) Frelinghuysen Gallegly | Garrett (NJ) Gerlach Giffords Gingrey (GA) Gohmert Goodlatte Granger Graves Grayson Griffith Guthrie Hall (TX) Halvorson Harper Hastings (WA) Heller Hensarling Herger Hodes Hoekstra Hunter Inglis Issa Jenkins Johnson (IL) Johnson, Sam Jones Jordan (OH) King (IA) King (NY) Kingston Kirk Kirkpatrick (AZ) Kissell Kline (MN) Kosmas Kratovil Lamborn Lance Latham LaTourette Latta Lee (NY) Lewis (CA) Linder LoBiondo Lucas Luetkemeyer Lummis Lungren, Daniel E. Mack Maffei Manzullo Marchant Markey (CO) Massa McCarthy (CA) McCaul McClintock McCotter McHenry McIntyre McKeon McMorris Rodgers McNerney Melancon Mica Miller (FL) Miller (MI) Miller, Gary Minnick | Mitchell Moran (KS) Murphy (NY) Murphy, Patrick Murphy, Tim Myrick Neugebauer Nunes Nye Olson Owens Paul Paulsen Pence Perriello Peters Petri Pitts Platts Poe (TX) Posey Price (GA) Putnam Rehberg Reichert Roe (TN) Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rogers (MI) Rohrabacher Rooney Ros-Lehtinen Roskam Royce Ryan (WI) Scalise Schauer Schmidt Schock Sensenbrenner Sessions Shadegg Shimkus Shuster Simpson Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smith (TX) Souder Space Stearns Sullivan Taylor Teague Terry Thornberry Tiahrt Tiberi Titus Turner Upton Walden Wamp Westmoreland Whitfield Wilson (SC) Wittman Wolf Wu Young (AK) |
Gutierrez Murtha | Radanovich Thompson (PA) | Young (FL) |
Not voting is a decision also….
Thanks for posting this, DT. Two of them who didn’t vote are from my state. I’d like to know why they didn’t. At least Patrick Murphy from my state voted against it. He usually votes for everything that the dems bring down the pike. Let’s get them all out of there!
Continentil Congress 2009 has ratified their Articles of Freedom. They areaasking everyone to go to their web site and read them and then sign them. They want everyone to go to their state capitols on April 19 to deliver the articles to the state legislators. The site is http://www.cc2009.us.
working on the article to send people over as we speak. Thanks Nancy!!! 😉
So this is how liberty dies – to thunderous applause. http://tinyurl.com/yh5azmw