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
Mike Bryant (17:06:54) :
Sullivan and Flake did not vote…
Flake by name….
“So congress fights phantoms (global warming) in the name of party loyalty.”
Yes, it is about party loyalty and not any form of enlightened thinking. It’s the same thing with celebrities who jump on bandwagons and causes just so they can cozy up to other celebrities in order to open up more business opportunities for themselves. The most irresponsible thing about that is how they involve the public, especially young people, to back them thereby dividing a nation along side ideological, political, religious and racial lines. The era of the great thinkers who envisioned an enlightened future has long gone because of this crony behaviour.
A quote from a political blog that I visit often:
“If the government stops working for you, stop working for the government.”
Truth is important. The EPA “carbongate” is still important in what it can still do to the final passage of this bill. And if muzzling at EPA is serious, surely we also need to open up the case of the apparent rewriting of the 1995 IPCC “Report for Policymakers” that is supposed to have been done by Ben Santer? The suggestion is that the IPCC scientists’ conclusions were radically tampered with, so what was reported as scientists’ conclusions was not their conclusions, not at all… I wrote up what I could find about that story here
Thanks Anthony for making WUWT the center of this controversy. We all expected Mr. Henkie to show his ugly face on this vote. After all, the administration has decided to move on endangerment. It just required enough buyouts of the politicians and took all day to write the checks.
There is no word I have for the politicians other than they better not meet me in private, I have a few things to say.
The problem is, of course, that they don’t actually read the bills they vote on. I call that criminal negligence.
In my opinion, a more apt name for HR 2454 would be the “American Eco-Reparations Act”
what a day our nation dies and a Saint was born when he died last night seems like Michael Jackson is more important than Our Nation
This about sums it up. (As a Canadian, I am helpless to effect this)
sigh…
Contact your Senators now to let them know your displeasure. Be polite, no vulgarity, but don’t be tooo nice about it. You do need to let them know how upset you are. If they get a huge spike in communications right after the bill passes, I am sure they will sit up and take notice.
Mark Granklin, he will be drinking the very finest champaign,
Jay (17:21:47) : Gotta give credit to the 44 Dems who voted against. I say this as an R who is VERY peeved at those 8 backstabbers…
Do future tea parties have to be green now? Because green tea is some nasty stuff.
They’re taking thousands of dollars from MY pocket and putting it right into algore’s. The CBO knows this. Don’t they know that the sunspots are all gone? We’re on the verge of a new ice age– all real scientists know this– and algore wants to line his pockets.
A little Photoshop processing and the Waxman image could be morphed into a “green” wienie.
AEGeneral (17:40:03) : I prefer Raspberry, but why dump good tea? That would be wasteful.
In my opinion, this bill is so incredibly unconstitutional I regard any congressman who voted for it to be a traitor worthy of the lawful punishment due traitors.
To paraphrase Thomas Paine:
“THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. The Democratic Party, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but “to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER” and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God.”
It is time to realize that what the Democrats are foisting upon our country is coup d’etat usurping our Constitution and Federalist system of government, our free market economic system, for a socialist tyranny that will destroy our industry, our weath, our property, and our future. This is a crisis of the sort which has not tried our nation in over a century and a half, it is time to fight for the souls and legacies left to us by our forefathers by whatever means necessary, to remove and depose these treasonous snakes from the halls of power and restore to us constitutional government by legislators who recognise their power is limited and circumscribed by that sacred document.
The ‘scientists” and the devilcrats are conspiring to suprrest the TRUTH. God gave us the earth he wouldn’t just destory it like the dimocrats are saying. WAKE UP PEOPLE. This is a plot to take your $$$$ and gve it to the government. The “scientists” are in on it– WHERE DO YOU THINK THEY GET THERE $$$ FROM???
Congress passing the bailout bill last year did all but confirm that the Representatives (I capitalized “R” with reservation) have given up representing their consiituents anymore. So this time around shouldn’t come as a surprise. As long as Americans are comfortable with being patsies, nothing will ever change.
It is with great regret that I see this passed. I actually read 700 pages of this bill this morning, and the 300 page amendment tonight. What a piece of over reaching garbage. There is a lot not to like if you use energy.
I e-mailed my congressman, but he was leaning yes and tipped over that way. He is up for reelection in 2010, and is in an at risk seat formerly held by a secure republican.
Like Squidly, I control more than a few web sites and domains. The local big city paper likes when I write for them. My blog entertains thousands. I am not a happy guy and the world is about to find out about it. I don’t care if I have to take a campaign position or even run myself, this guy’s congressbum is getting the bum’s rush in 2010.
In my travels of this horrifying document, section 13 sub iii is my favorite… I put it in stars to highlight it.
(13) QUALIFIED HYDROPOWER- The term ‘qualified hydropower’ means–
‘(A) energy produced from increased efficiency achieved, or additions of capacity made, on or after January 1, 1992, at a hydroelectric facility that was placed in service before that date and does not include additional energy generated as a result of operational changes not directly associated with efficiency improvements or capacity additions; or
‘(B) energy produced from generating capacity added to a dam on or after January 1, 1992, provided that the Commission certifies that–
‘(i) the dam was placed in service before the date of the enactment of this section and was operated for flood control, navigation, or water supply purposes and was not producing hydroelectric power prior to the addition of such capacity;
‘(ii) the hydroelectric project installed on the dam is licensed (or is exempt from licensing) by the Commission and is in compliance with the terms and conditions of the license or exemption, and with other applicable legal requirements for the protection of environmental quality, including applicable fish passage requirements; and
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‘(iii) the hydroelectric project installed on the dam is operated so that the water surface elevation at any given location and time that would have occurred in the absence of the hydroelectric project is maintained, subject to any license or exemption requirements that require changes in water surface elevation for the purpose of improving the environmental quality of the affected waterway.
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A hydro dam where the water is no deeper on either side of the dam? Watts up with that?
Oh well, the science is settled, and we were just dying for a federal building code and something to put the power companies out of business. Since my tourism based businesses will be devastated, it looks like it is time to go into politics. Now where did I put those federalist papers…
I would prefer Hansen’s plan of a revenue-neutral carbon tax.
Mike Lorrey (17:47:44) :
You will be hard pressed to find anything passed by the congress that is constitutional.
I hear America Crying
I HEAR America crying, the varied dirge I hear;
That of mechanics–each one moaning his, about his past, blithe and
strong;
The carpenter hammering his, as he measures his plank or beam,
The mason singing his, as he makes ready for work, or leaves off
work;
The boatman lamenting what had belonged to him in his boat–the deckhand
grieving on the tugboat deck;
The shoemaker chanting as he sits on his bench–the plumber sighing as
he stands;
The wood-cutter’s sorrow–the farmer’s, on his way in the morning,
or at the noon intermission, or at sundown;
The piteous singing of the mother–or of the young wife at work–or
of the girl sewing or washing–Each missing what had belonged to
her, and to none else;
Pretend to work for pseudo pay–At night, the wailing of young
fellows, morose, unfriendly,
Singing, with open mouths, a low discordant requiem,
As America is dying.
Apologies to Walt Whitman… for the poem and the vote…
There is so much happening so fast….it’s has to be more than just a natural event. tick tick tick keep your eye on the Eastern Sky.
If we get global currency, and I feel we will soon……snap crackel pop, we are in the final days before the tribulation.
I think its funny honestly. Americans were so pent up in their hate for Bush and what he did that they blindly voted in a new set of tyrannts…even worse then the past one…lol
America and Americans get what is coming to them.