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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162 to 162
vote on final passage of HR 2454:
@ur momisugly 10 minutes remaining:
Yea: 193
Nay: 181
NV: 60
Who are those Republicans who voted for it?
ohg geeze 7 republicans voting for it… wuwt?
Seven Republicans Voted Yea, the bill will pass.
Well next stop the Senate.
Joy of Joys.
With luck they are the soon to be unemployed Representatives.
It is awfully close will likely squeek by with a handful of votes.
Larry
As an Englishmen living in Canada, may I say your American congress is insane?
Eve (16:09:09) :
Who are those Republicans who voted for it?
Their names will live forever in the History of the United States.
Passed.
Eve (16:09:09) :
Who are those Republicans who voted for it?
That was my next question! I’m all for democracy, and I really appreaciate the 38 (and counting) Democrats that voted against… but damn. I guess it takes all types. How could you listen to Boehner and not at least have some doubt?
Good try.
This sucks…
…..could this be blocked in the Senate?
HR 2454
Yea: 219
Nay: 212
NV: 3
Can we take this fight to the supreme court?
They sold us out!
It is interesting to click the google ad links in your article. Google is just attaching to key words. The pleasure is to realize those ads help pay for this site, especially if a couple particular ads happen to charge Al or an associated group. Imagine the irony of the free market when We or Cop are paying for WUWT. Imagine the every time they are clicked WUWT gets paid? The internet is grand.
There goes the way of life as we know it we are now slaves to the world
Who are the 8 RINO’s that voted for this?
Now we’ve had 2 trainwrecks in DC in the last week.
The height of presumptive arrogance. Let’s hope the Senate has more sense or we’re really screwed.
Sorry about that, US citizens. Write to your congress people when you are freezing to death. That is what is happening in Europe and the UK now. Personally, I plan to move to a warm banana republic before my government can freeze me to death.
Did you hear of all the UN provisions and now we have to obey the UN on Climate change which means now they can encroach on us laws to go even further than climate change under the guise of climate change.
This is hilariously sad… the Americans were the last ones to vote on Kyoto types of measures, when many countries are getting out or voting down such measures. America will most likely be the last one to return to sanity… but in how many years?
It freekin passed. 7 or 8 Republicans helped do it. Just proves that both parties are really screwed up. It is a sad day for science and an even worse day for any who live paycheck to paycheck, heat or eat will now become a norm for us.
“Fred (16:16:08) :
…..could this be blocked in the Senate?”
Yes. In fact, it’s easier to block the bill in the Senate due to the 60-vote filbuster rule. From what I’ve been reading, passage in the Senate is a real long shot, but given the penchant for dealmaking, you never know. I’m also thinking that this kind of narrow win in the House, where Democrats have a very large majority and more rules on their side, bodes well for failure in the Senate.