Final vote: 219 Yea, 212 Nay
Lets hope for defeat in the Senate. The list of votes is below.
As they say, making legislation is like making sausage. There’s a final product, but you surely don’t want to see the ugly process of it being made.
Today, those of us watching CSPAN, saw the ugliness of the sausage factory.
Here is the link to the vote tally:
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll477.xml
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Regarding the recently passed Waxman-Markey “climate change” bill …
“Never have so few stolen so much from so many to achieve so little.”
– political blog pundit Stephen Green
Climate BS from the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/29/opinion/29krugman.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1246280601-fCVbfCgdQFOlqtMP1MRaGQ
GREAT NEWS!
Word is that Harry Reid has pronounced Cap ‘n Trade dead on arrival in the Senate. He’s not even going to bring it up.
That means that not only would it not pass filibuster, but it probably is well short of passage even if it made the floor.
Ain’t hap’n’n, Cap’n!
As a result of this last election and this energy bill, I have become very skeptical of politicians in general, regardless of their color or creed. I don’t care if they are RINO’s, DINO’s, Red, Blue, or have D or R listed after their name. There seems to be a class of people we are willing to vote for just because they give us a favorite bone. We’ll stomach this in order to get that. Or we’ll stomach that in order to get this. Are we all that willing to compromise? Why must I be the one to compromise with the “intelligently designed” right or the “loony left”? When did I get so @*&(*%* complacent about the politicians I have voted for? I know this sounds like a cop-out, but it just may be that I will be voting “none of the above” a lot more often than I used too. With my mindset as it is now, I would not have voted for any of the politicians on the presidential ticket.
Hey Pamela, I agree with you. In Canada we are seeing the party we elected (Conservatives), mainly to avoid electing the Liberals and their carbon tax, now support a cap and trade. It is like there is someone telling these parties, “hey guys, you can tax your citizens on heat and lights, take their last dime” . I had thought these last 11 years of cooling would make it clear that these is no AGW. Not even a flicker. I am having the same discussions with fellow Conservatives, we need a new grass roots party, like the Reform party was before it aligned into the Conservatives. I have renounced my party membership and will not give them another dime. Why, when they will take it?
Pam, we Dems here (or perhaps I should say former Dems now), are undoubtedly now people without a party, or I guess Independents. I split my vote in the last election, the first time since the 70’s solely because of the AGW/CC issue. I truly believe that this issue outweighs all others, and that is sad, because there are truly some very important other issues out there. But, until this AGW/CC monstrosity is defeated, nothing else matters because what’s at stake here ultimately, is Truth and Democracy. From now on, the one and only litmus test, for me, will be on which side a candidate falls on this issue. With a vote like this, of course, it’s easy, but with new candidates it means scrutinizing any voting record and/or what their stated position is.
This means that in the last election, if the choice had been between Obama and Bush (although even he was starting to cave a little), I would have voted for Bush, whom I have despised with a passion.
The final bill with the amendments collated in is now available.
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h2454eh.txt.pdf
The buying of the Ration and Tax bill — naked corruption
“When House Democratic leaders were rounding up votes Friday for the massive climate-change bill, they paid special attention to their colleagues from Ohio who remained stubbornly undecided.
They finally secured the vote of one Ohioan, veteran Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Toledo, the old-fashioned way. They gave her what she wanted – a new federal power authority, similar to Washington state’s Bonneville Power Administration, stocked with up to $3.5 billion in taxpayer money available for lending to renewable energy and economic development projects in Ohio and other Midwestern states.
House Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry A. Waxman, California Democrat, included the Kaptur project in a 310-page amendment to the legislation unveiled at 3 a.m. Friday, just hours before the bill was to be debated on the House floor. The amendment was packed with other vote-getting provisions, both large and small, that had been sought by dozens of wavering Democrats.
The wheeling and dealing proved successful. Mr. Waxman and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, backed by the personal lobbying of President Obama, won over enough lawmakers to pass the bill narrowly Friday evening, 219-212.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/01/sweetener-helped-sway-vote-on-house-climate-bill/
What scientific arguments can curb this madness when it is based on corruption!
Waxman and Pelosi’s home state of California will get money funneled in from the taxpayers of most other states: click
Folks in those other states might want to consider contacting their senators and pointing this out, as another reason to vote against the bill.