OK folks, time to engage in our rights of citizenship. You know what to do. Phones and email contact info at the bottom. – Anthony
UPDATE2: test vote passes narrowly, 7 votes needed to defeat this bill – Anthony
UPDATE: C-SPAN1 is covering this live, there is a live media streaming page which you can access here:
http://www.c-span.org/Watch/C-SPAN_wm.aspx
CSPAN also has live phone in. Phone in your comments: (202)585-3885 , -3886, -3887
From GreenHell blog the Waxman-Markey pre-vote count…
Waxman-markey pre-liminary head-count as of Thursday afternoon (courtesy Myron Ebell):
218 needed to win…
Yes
Yes = 175
Leaning Yes = 35
TOTAL = 210
Undecided = 20
No
No = 190
Leaning No = 14
TOTAL = 204
Undecided or Won’t Say:
Kirkpatrick Az
Boyd Fla
Brown Fla
Bishop Ga
R Kirk Ill
Foster Ill
Donnelly Ind
R Jones NC
McIntyre NC
R Frelinghuysen NJ
Tonko NY
Arcuri NY
Space Ohio (he voted for it in committee)
Carney Penna.
Davis Tenn
Al Green Tex
Jackson Lee Tex
Ortiz Tex
Eddie Bernice Johnson Tex
Kind Wisc
Leaning Yes:
Mitchell Az
Cardoza Calif
Costa Calif
Baca Calif
R Castle Del
Grayson Fla
Meek Fla
Kozmas Fla
Abercrombie Hi
Bean Ill
R Cao La
Kratovil Md
R Ehlers Mich
Kildee Mich
Schauer Mich
Peters Mich
Clay Mo
Skelton Mo
Thompson Miss
Shuler NC
Adler NJ
Lance NJ
Meeks NY
McMahon NY
Murphy NY
R McHugh NY
Maffei NY
Driehaus Ohio
Fudge Ohio
Kilroy Ohio
Cooper Tenn
Edwards Tex
Rodriguez Tex
Nye Va
Kagan Wisc
Leaning No:
Salazar Colo
Marshall Ga
Boswell Iowa
Minnick Idaho
Halvorson Ill
Etheridge NC
Kissell NC
Massa NY
Kaptur Ohio
Boccieri Ohio
R Gerlach Penna
Hinojosa Tex
Mollohan WV
Rahall WV
U.S. readers can use this link…
http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml
…to contact their representative and senators regarding the Waxman-Markey bill.
The link makes it very easy to send an email or make a phone call.
Use the US Representatives link after clicking on the link above since this vote will occur in the House of Representatives.
A one or two sentence email, or a one minute call is all that is necessary. Just mention that you’re a constituent of the Representative or Senator, that it’s a bad bill, and ask him/her to please vote against it.
Elected folks keep score. They have their staffs keep a tally of pro and con calls, letters and emails. If they hear from enough people, it can make a difference.
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Heh, Boehner is my rep. I am glad to see he is taking my correspondence seriously. Good for him.
“It’s a custom of the House.” LOL!!
Boehner has the floor and he ain’t given it up. 🙂 This has become an exercise in bladder control. The Dems made a potentially fatal tactical error by putting out the amendment at 3:00 am.
“Green Banking Centers”
… that’s where We The People pay interest on fiat money printed up for the purpose of building new “green” buildings where the bankers we just bailed out sell us new “products” …
… and everyone lives happily ever after.
It’s possible that letting it get this far was a strategy just to expose this amendment and with the exposure of the provisions of it, kill the bill.
@ur momisugly 3×2 (15:13:43) :
If you pop over here to the NOAA CO2 trend, where exactly is the current economic slump? If the current one isn’t there in the CO2 record then just exactly how long and deep does a global slump have to be before it shows up in the CO2 trend?
My question as well.. this would seem to falsify the notion that humans are even primarily responsible for the CO2 increases.
Wow.
Boehner is essentially “filibustering,” by actually READING what’s in the 300 pages that were slipped in by Waxman at 3am this morning.
What he’s revealing is absolutely stunning.
I don’t see how it could pass now. This is horrible.
If anyone chooses to say thankyou to Rep John Boehner, here is is web page.
http://johnboehner.house.gov/
I thought it was interesting that they are posting the following:
If you go to that post, the comments are over whelming positive.
This is where you make it known you want our representatives to read and understand legislation they vote on!
Larry
Oh God… Waxman just chided Boehner for “talking too long” even though he was just reading highlights from the crap-pile that was added to the bill this morning.
Now he’s yielded to Madame Pelosi to close.
DO NOT LET THIS PASS, AMERICA!
I called my Congressman. Unfortunately I live in The Peoples Republic of Maryland, so I’m sure it will be a solid – party line – yes for every rep in the state.
My fingers are crossed
Good God, I hope Boehner got through.
They are voting on the amendment, now.
Not looking good so far.
[noted, but this sort of comment is not appropriate here – Anthony]
72 for 63 Nay
If this thing passes a massive assault will be needed to waken everyone you can to scientific reason. This isn’t the middle ages and it sure as hell isn’t supposed to be Orwell’s vision.
114to 97
It’s been a partisan Bacchanal since the election. What, after all, is a “vintage year”?
Well I called half a dozen of these people, mind you I am stationed in Okinawa Japan calling long distance… I would have called more if I were in the US.
REPLY: thank you – great effort – Anthony
I have to wonder why the people in the Northern States and the Northern industrial states voted for Obama. I shook my head at the time. Didn’t they realize they will need heat? Didn’t they want to keep working? My mother in law in Florida kept telling me “we need a change” like a mantra? I guess she won’t be able to afford her air conditioning anymore. Or heat in the winter.
And yes, Dion’s dog was named Kyoto. Hope he is freezing his ass off in Quebec. More likely, he is in France.
Republican substitute fails.
vote on the Forbes amendment ( which strikes the Waxman-Markey bill replacing it with HR 513 )
Yea : 172
Nay : 256
No Vote : 6
Is that the party for the people, putting party before the people?
This is it. Final passage vote.
The GOP admendment failed. NOOOOOoooooOOOoo.