Okay Folks, here are the votes from the House, that's just the Congresspeople, not the Senators. The Senate vote will be the votes of the Senators.

Read below and act accordingly.

          House Votes on Health Care Reform

 

 

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 887(Democrats in roman; Republicans in italic; Independents underlined)

      H R 3962      RECORDED VOTE      7-Nov-2009      11:16 PM
      QUESTION:  On Passage
      BILL TITLE: Affordable Health Care for America Act

	Ayes	Noes	PRES	NV
Democratic	219	39
Republican	1	176
Independent
TOTALS	220	215

 

---- AYES    220 ---

 

Abercrombie Ackerman Andrews Arcuri Baca Baldwin Bean Becerra Berkley Berman Berry Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Blumenauer Boswell Brady (PA) Braley (IA) Brown, Corrine Butterfield Cao Capps Capuano Cardoza Carnahan Carney Carson (IN) Castor (FL) Chu Clarke Clay Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Connolly (VA) Conyers Cooper Costa Costello Courtney Crowley Cuellar Cummings Dahlkemper Davis (CA) Davis (IL) DeFazio DeGette Delahunt DeLauro Dicks Dingell Doggett Donnelly (IN) Doyle Driehaus Edwards (MD) Ellison Ellsworth Engel Eshoo Etheridge Farr Fattah Filner Foster Frank (MA) Fudge Garamendi Giffords Gonzalez Grayson Green, Al Green, Gene Grijalva

Gutierrez Hall (NY) Halvorson Hare Harman Hastings (FL) Heinrich Higgins Hill Himes Hinchey Hinojosa Hirono Hodes Holt Honda Hoyer Inslee Israel Jackson (IL) Jackson-Lee (TX) Johnson (GA) Johnson, E. B. Kagen Kanjorski Kaptur Kennedy Kildee Kilpatrick (MI) Kilroy Kind Kirkpatrick (AZ) Klein (FL) Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lee (CA) Levin Lewis (GA) Lipinski Loebsack Lofgren, Zoe Lowey Luján Lynch Maffei Maloney Markey (MA) Matsui McCarthy (NY) McCollum McDermott McGovern McNerney Meek (FL) Meeks (NY) Michaud Miller (NC) Miller, George Mitchell Mollohan Moore (KS) Moore (WI) Moran (VA) Murphy (CT) Murphy, Patrick Murtha Nadler (NY) Napolitano Neal (MA) Oberstar Obey Olver Ortiz

Owens Pallone Pascrell Pastor (AZ) Payne Pelosi Perlmutter Perriello Peters Pingree (ME) Polis (CO) Pomeroy Price (NC) Quigley Rahall Rangel Reyes Richardson Rodriguez Rothman (NJ) Roybal-Allard Ruppersberger Rush Ryan (OH) Salazar Sánchez, Linda T. Sanchez, Loretta Sarbanes Schakowsky Schauer Schiff Schrader Schwartz Scott (GA) Scott (VA) Serrano Sestak Shea-Porter Sherman Sires Slaughter Smith (WA) Snyder Space Speier Spratt Stark Stupak Sutton Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Tierney Titus Tonko Towns Tsongas Van Hollen Velázquez Visclosky Walz Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Watt Waxman Weiner Welch Wexler Wilson (OH) Woolsey Wu Yarmuth

 

---- NOES    215 ---

 

Aderholt Adler (NJ) Akin Alexander Altmire Austria Bachmann Bachus Baird Barrett (SC) Barrow Bartlett Barton (TX) Biggert Bilbray Bilirakis Bishop (UT) Blackburn Blunt Boccieri Boehner Bonner Bono Mack Boozman Boren Boucher Boustany Boyd Brady (TX) Bright Broun (GA) Brown (SC) Brown-Waite, Ginny Buchanan Burgess Burton (IN) Buyer Calvert Camp Campbell Cantor Capito Carter Cassidy Castle Chaffetz Chandler Childers Coble Coffman (CO) Cole Conaway Crenshaw Culberson Davis (AL) Davis (KY) Davis (TN) Deal (GA) Dent Diaz-Balart, L. Diaz-Balart, M. Dreier Duncan Edwards (TX) Ehlers Emerson Fallin Flake Fleming Forbes Fortenberry Foxx

Franks (AZ) Frelinghuysen Gallegly Garrett (NJ) Gerlach Gingrey (GA) Gohmert Goodlatte Gordon (TN) Granger Graves Griffith Guthrie Hall (TX) Harper Hastings (WA) Heller Hensarling Herger Herseth Sandlin Hoekstra Holden Hunter Inglis Issa Jenkins Johnson (IL) Johnson, Sam Jones Jordan (OH) King (IA) King (NY) Kingston Kirk Kissell Kline (MN) Kosmas Kratovil Kucinich Lamborn Lance Latham LaTourette Latta Lee (NY) Lewis (CA) Linder LoBiondo Lucas Luetkemeyer Lummis Lungren, Daniel E. Mack Manzullo Marchant Markey (CO) Marshall Massa Matheson McCarthy (CA) McCaul McClintock McCotter McHenry McIntyre McKeon McMahon McMorris Rodgers Melancon Mica Miller (FL) Miller (MI)

Miller, Gary Minnick Moran (KS) Murphy (NY) Murphy, Tim Myrick Neugebauer Nunes Nye Olson Paul Paulsen Pence Peterson Petri Pitts Platts Poe (TX) Posey Price (GA) Putnam Radanovich Rehberg Reichert Roe (TN) Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rogers (MI) Rohrabacher Rooney Ros-Lehtinen Roskam Ross Royce Ryan (WI) Scalise Schmidt Schock Sensenbrenner Sessions Shadegg Shimkus Shuler Shuster Simpson Skelton Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smith (TX) Souder Stearns Sullivan Tanner Taylor Teague Terry Thompson (PA) Thornberry Tiahrt Tiberi Turner Upton Walden Wamp Westmoreland Whitfield Wilson (SC) Wittman Wolf Young (AK) Young (FL)

 

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October 12, 2009

Keep your eyes on centrist Democrats, including Senators Evan Bayh of Indiana, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Mary L. Landrieu of Louisiana and her fellow Arkansan, Senator Mark Pryor.

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Senator Blanche Lincoln’s was the only Democrat to support an amendment by Senator Jim Bunning, Republican of Kentucky, demanding that the bill be translated into legalese before a final vote, a departure from the panel’s longstanding practice of acting on detailed, plain-English summaries of bills.

Okay, you Arkansas folks, here's more on Senator Lincoln's paid performance. Who's paying her anyway?

http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/a-senate-democrat-with-a-central-role/?hp

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From the Spokesman-Review Online News

The federal government should reform health care in steps, rather than through one major overhaul that would be as hard to change as it’s going to be to pass, U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers told a Spokane Valley crowd Monday.

Speaking to a crowd of mostly senior citizens, the Eastern Washington Republican said Congress should try to bring down insurance costs by limiting medical malpractice lawsuits, give businesses tax relief for offering health care to their employees, and allowing people to buy insurance from other states. It should cut paperwork and put more emphasis on information technology, she added.

If Senate Democrats try to push a health care bill through with just 51 votes through a parliamentary maneuver, “a lot of us will be standing up and basically just trying to shut the place down.”

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Some notes on what I saw during the hearing on pubic health care. I didn't watch all of it. We all need to check into this.

 

Sen. John Ensign The usual song and dance about this eventually becoming a "government run" plan. . This leads to the wait for health care in Canada. He goes on to talk about how wonderful America's health care is.
He goes right into the key to our health care being our behavior. He also includes that government shouldn't compete with private insurers.  Have you heard enough yet, Nevada people?

Schumer did a small bit where he mentioned sympathetically the insurance companies probably three times. He's trying to ride the middle rail. We'd better check his amendments.

             Yes Senator, I understand that their priority was their shareholders. That's their job. Right. Right up until people started dying because of their actions. If I act and cause the death of another, intentional or not, I'm going to jail.

              The last I heard, insurance execs and politicians are subject to the same laws I am.

 

Senator Rockefeller was a real fighter for the public option..well, he wrote the first bill. He couldn't have tried any harder. Let's help get rid of some of these Senators that worry so much about these big insurance companies, the same ones that voted against this public option.

Senator Kyl: (I'm sorry. This is my least favorite Senator. It's hard to be impartial.) As expected, he states that the AMA is against a government sponsored health plan. This is the same man complaining about maternity care being included in insurance plans.

We'll look into this further, eh?

Here's your shocker. Senator Menendez, a Republican, did a pretty good job of speaking for our health care cause. He really came across well.

I think I'll look for some transcripts.

 

On the fly:

Senator Stabenow (Michigan) did good for ya. This woman has really been tussling for the people.

Senator Bunning (Kentucky)  This man's got numbers on how many doctors REALLY want a public option.   Unfortunately, he's also touting facts about health insurance company profit margins. I'm just not buying that these companies are only pulling in a three percent profit, are you? He votes against the public option.

 

Senator Crapo: This guy is frequently in the column for big business against the people. This is no exception. Idaho?? Come on. Keep up on your spoilers. This guy is so worried about the poor insurance companies, it must keep him up at night.

 

Senator Kerry: I have to admit this guy gets on my nerves. I also have to admit that he spoke up for the people in that he supported the public option. Massachusetts can be proud.

 

Senator Cornyn: Oh.. this guy. Right up under Kyl on our least favorite list! He lives up to it in this hearing. He uses Medicare flaws as an example why we shouldn't add another "entitlement".  If there's a pro-public stance column, look for him in the other one. Of course, that's just opinion.

 

Senator Baucus: He voted against the public option. I've said as much as I'm going to for now. I feel sorry for anyone that has to tackle the monster of health care and sign his name to it. Mercy for the weakest amongst us.  

         PS to Senator Baucus: Come on. You're so close to really "doing it". Go forward and help those you were entrusted with.

 

The rest of the Senate: You should be ashamed of yourselves. Never mind your legacy, what do you think of yourselves? Directly or indirectly, those responsible for the death of others eventually face the Ultimate Authority. Isn't it time to let go of the superficial and fleeting pleasures like this offers you and chose to do the right thing? Try it. It feels incredible.

 

Don't trust me on any of this. I'm not asking you to. These hearings are all on the CSPAN web page. Check it out for yourself.

 

TPS reminds you that sometimes Senators say one thing and vote differently. You must still check on your Senators and Congresspeople. TPS also reminds you to reward yourself after you do. Yep. Every time.