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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This is urgent. Air france flight was due to global warming. Severe storms. I am surprised Joe Romms hasn’t linked Farah and jackson death to the interference of the deniers.
My conservative ag congressmen all vote against the bill. I appose global warming. I would rather ride a snow machine at Christmas than have to play golf.
There a two large elephants in the room:
• global governance. HR 2454 lays the groundwork for global taxation which is the same as global governance. This is your very worst nightmare ( though many folks are in denial of this fact )
• “Smart Grid”. HR 2454 creates the actual infrastructure of George Orwell’s “1984”. This is very bad.
visit, call, or email your congressman…
This is getting very serious.
Is anyone else having problem watching the C-SPAN live coverage. It just constantly buffers and mgiht play for 2 seconds and then starts buffering again.. I have a 5 bar connection to my network and an “excellent” connection to the network. I am located in Eastern Canada.
It’s not fair the USA has so much and consumes so much. The obvious answer is to tear down this country so we are no better off than anybody else.
The not-so-obvious answer is to elevate everyone else up to our level, but that’s not part of the agenda.
All: As a Canuck, all I can do is give some advice.
Advise your congressman of the example of the Liberal Party and its leader, in Canada, during the last election.
A major plank in that election was the “Green Shift”. It was similar to Waxman-Markey, in that it would tax carbon, and supposedly shift the revenues back to the less-privileged.
The Liberals lost the election, and fired the leader responsible for the “Green Shift”.
You could also note that Canada is much more “liberal” than the US.
I can’t stream CSPAN either. I have resorted to streaming the CSPAN Radio instead. Does not give you the live debate, but at least there is no Michael Jackson coverage….
My congressman is voting no (Pence, R-IN). I am focusing my energy on Sen Bayh, who I am afraid would support it in the Senate. I am asking him to ask Steve Fielding’s three questions, and am going to point him to the executive summary of the EPA comments.
It would be great if we could create a one-page talking points summary that could create an impact in the first paragraph. I am not sure that anything larger is going to survive the attention span of the AGW proponents.
This became a freak show. According to Hot air. Waxman just dropped in 300 pages of ammendments this morning. Talk about voting blind.
http://www.rules.house.gov/111/SpecialRules/hr2998/waxman1_hr2998_111.pdf\
This is not what either side thinks they are voting for,
It is so excessive that real people would not hessitate and postpone the vote to give time to sort this out. Would you buy a house if it had 300 pages of changes to sign on closing day?
I have a request for anyone contacting their representatives this morning. We have heard from some who are asking when they call about the voulume of calls they are getting and the direction of the sentiment of those calls. If more people could do the same and post their findinds here, it would be interesting to hear those results and also ask them when there has been a strong volumn and sentiment, has it influenced anyone’s vote?
UPDATE: C-SPAN1 is covering this live, there is a live media streaming page which you can access here
I’m getting a black image. Maybe because it’s a local game?
My rep’s office was only 5 min from my home, so I dropped in to register my opinion in person. If you can’t get through to your rep’s washington office, try phoning his/her local office, or better yet, visit. Contact info is available via http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml .
REPLY: Good for you, sir. – Anthony
John G. Bell (07:44:39) :
Re: Mr Lynn (06:38:15)
I am a constituent of Stephen Cohen’s district in Tennessee and also got a 404 error.
http://cohen.house.gov/ does not allow the sending of emails. His official government site is broken. Does anyone know how to obtain his actual email address?
cohenforcongress.com is still up & running with a contact form, but who knows if it’s being monitored.
I imagine Cohen has been overwhelmed with e-mails & phone calls since King Willie resigned yesterday.
“MarkusR (07:30:58) :
You denialists are going to be responsible for the suffering and mass extinctions that AGW is bringing about onto this planet.”
Which one’s are the denialists? Those of us who don’t believe that global warming is caused or influenced by mans activities, or those of you who deny the earth is cooling?
If you call me a denialists because I won’t blindly follow the UN and Al Gore with out real scientific proof, then i am guilty as charged. However are you willing to say the same about yourself? that you are denying the reality of the temperature record and the failure of the models to predict this cooling?
Doubtful you have the courage to even admit you might be wrong.
C-Span feed doesn’t work for me either. Buffers, plays 2-3 seconds, buffers…
Located in NH USA
Rush is talking about the supression of the report on his show now..not a huge fan but at least he has a very large audience that will start calling their reps.
Having the same CSPAN problem as reported above.
I live in California, but I just wrote Rodney Frelinghuysen, whose father succeeded my great-grandfather as congressman from the fifth district in N.J. (now the 11th.) If he votes in favor of this bill, I will write him again and suggest he spend some of his free time here at WUWT.
While this bill is a very dangerous bill, it is not as dangerous as the EPA’s pending endangerment finding. When the vote on this bill is completed, it is important for everyone to focus on and vigorously contest the EPA’s attempt to regulate CO2. If that ever happens, then the horse is out of the barn.
Folks, can somebody tell when voting is expcted to start? Some europeans are too, really interested in the outcome.
I’m on a convent starting in a few minutes, nevertheless will have blackberry with me. Tks.
If this passes into law, or any of its spawn, I will officially change my registration from life long Dem to either Independent, or Republican and will forever vote against any legislature who voted for this bill. Hell, even if it doesn’t pass, I will vote against any legislature who voted for this bill, or who supported it (like Obama). This is a serious political life changer for me and the Dems are just whistling down the primrose path as they throw away their ONE chance to hold on to power. I have lost such faith in my party. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
CSPAN based on all the interest there seems to be, is suffering from some ‘pipe’ problems. . . . server bandwidth saturation or exceeding the maximum simultaneous connections.
Latest:
House Democrats narrowly won an important test vote Friday on groundbreaking legislation to combat global warming and usher in a new era of cleaner energy. Republican opponents said it included the largest tax increase ever.
The vote was 217-205 to send the White House-backed legislation to the full House. Thirty Democrats defected, reflecting the deep divisions over the plan.
We need 7 votes to stop this mess, otherwise we have to focus on the Senate.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D992ETLG0&show_article=1
Not sure why anybody is bothering with this.
The bill will pass, with a small but real majority.
Tomorrow, all the stuff we’ve been celebrating here will be front-page news, with the subtitle “See, it’s working already!”
Regards,
Ric
don’t tarp me bro (08:49:26) :
This became a freak show. According to Hot air. Waxman just dropped in 300 pages of ammendments this morning. Talk about voting blind.
http://www.rules.house.gov/111/SpecialRules/hr2998/waxman1_hr2998
I had a quick read of it DTMB – seemed OK to me. He’s just adding a dash of last-minute, decoration and it really does work for me.
His sensitive purple-prose really does bring out those rich Greens.
For those too busy to soak up every word of the report, I have summarised it below.
AMENDMENT TO H.R. 2454
OFFERED BY MR. WAXMAN OF CALIFORNIA
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310 pages
Document Local : F:\WUWT62609.002.xml
Document Dated: June 26, 2009 (1:34 a.m.)
Remember. . .218 votes are required to send the bill to the senate but it looks like they might have them. It may not reflect true sentement as the House often passes tough to swallow legislation with the intent that the Senate will save them from themselves.
Re: AEGeneral (09:09:05)
Could be. It did not work yesterday also. The Herenton machine is after Cohen. No chance that the DNC will support Cohen’s reelection. What will Rahm or Waxman offer Cohen? A blindfold?
This bill is pure politics. Now that Cohen’s future has been decided for him he is free to vote his mind. Or will he take charge of his fate and listen to his constituents?
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