Matthew Boyle:
The final vote on Speaker John Boehner’s 1,603-page, more than $1 trillion omnibus spending bill is in jeopardy after members almost killed the bill on the rule. A total of 214 members voted for it, less than the majority of members in the House, but since all members weren’t voting, the 212 against the rule wasn’t enough to kill it.
Time for voting had run out minutes before, and briefly the nays—those against the rule—had the majority. At least one Republican had switched a vote from being against the rule to for it, at which time the presiding officer used procedural chicanery to quickly call the vote passed.
Republican Reps. Justin Amash (R-MI), Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Dave Brat (R-VA), Mo Brooks (R-AL), Paul Broun (R-GA), Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Tim Huelskamp (R-KS), Walter Jones (R-NC), Jim Jordan (R-OH), Steve King (R-IA), Raul Labrador (R-ID), Tom Massie (R-KY), Bill Posey (R-FL), Matt Salmon (R-AZ) and Steve Stockman (R-TX) held the line and voted no. Rep. Kerry Bentivolio (R-MI) switched his vote from nay to yay at the last minute.
If the numbers that are being reported—50 to 60, maybe more—of Republicans hold on against the final passage of the bill later in the day, and all the Democrats who opposed the rule oppose the bill, the bill would fail on final passage. It remains to be seen what will happen.
Late last evening, the 1600+ page CR-Omnibus bill was filed and as expected it funds the President’s executive amnesty through the end of February 2015. This is our last chance to stop this bad bill!
Call the list of Representatives below and tell them the following 3 things:
Stop playing games
Find some courage and stand up to the President’s abuse of power
DO NOT fund executive amnesty
Our calls on Monday and Tuesday have made a difference because the bill was initially stalled. Now we have to show them that we are still paying attention!
The CR-Omnibus bill falls terribly short of anything we would want. Do the Republican leaders really think they can temporarily fund the President’s amnesty and get away with it?
Please make as many calls as you can!
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Full List of Targeted Representatives: (If your Representative is not listed, find him or her here)
Representative State DC Phone District Office 1 District Office 2
Don Young AK 202-225-5765 907-271-5978 907-456-0210
Spencer Bachus AL 202-225-4921 205-969-2296 205-280-0704
Tim Griffin AR 202-225-2506 501-358-3481 501-324-5941
Paul Cook CA 202-225-5861 760-247-1815 909-797-4900
Jeff Denham CA 202-225-4540 209-579-5458
Darrell Issa CA 202-225-3906 760-599-5000 949-281-2449
Kevin McCarthy CA 202-225-2915 661-327-3611
Buck McKeon CA 202-225-1956 661-254-2111 661-274-9688
Devin Nunes CA 202-225-2523 559-323-5235 559-733-3861
Ed Royce CA 202-225-4111 714-255-0101 626-964-5123
Jeff Valadao CA 202-225-4695 661-864-7736 559-582-5526
Doug LaMalfa CA 202-225-3076 530-878-5035 530-223-5898
Dana Rohrabacher CA 202-225-2415 714-960-6483 714-960-6483
Mike Coffman CO 202-225-7882 720-748-7514
Cory Gardner CO 202-225-4676 720-508-3937 970-848-2845
Mario Diaz-Balart FL 202-225-4211 305-470-8555 239-348-1620
Jeff Miller FL 202-225-4136 850-479-1183 850-664-1266
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen FL 202-225-3931 305-668-2285
Daniel Webster FL 202-225-2176 407-654-5705 352-383-3552
Phil Gingrey GA 202-225-2931 770-429-1776 770-345-2931
Doug Collins GA 202-225-9893 770-297-3388
Tom Price GA 202-225-4501 770-998-0049
Mike Simpson ID 202-225-5531 208-334-1953 208-523-6701
Adam Kinzinger IL 202-225-3635 815-431-9271 815-432-0580
Aaron Schock IL 202-225-6201 309-671-7027 217-670-1653
John Shimkus IL 202-225-5271 217-446-0664 618-288-7190
Larry Bucshon IN 202-225-4636 812-465-6484 812-482-4255
Luke Messer IN 202-225-3021 765-747-5566 765-962-2883
Jackie Walorski IN 202-225-3915 574-204-2645 574-223-4373
Lynn Jenkins KS 202-225-6601 620-231-5966 785-234-5966
Andy Barr KY 202-225-4706 859-219-1366
Thomas Massie KY 202-225-3465 859-426-0080 606-324-9898
Hal Rogers KY 202-225-4601 606-439-0794 606-886-0844
Vance McAllister LA 202-225-8490 318-445-0818 318-322-3500
Steve Scalise LA 202-225-3015 985-340-2185 985-879-2300
Bill Cassidy LA 202-225-3901 225-929-7711 985-447-1662
Andy Harris MD 202-225-5311 410-588-5670 443-944-8624
Dan Benishek MI 202-225-4735 906-273-2074 877-376-5613
Dave Camp MI 202-225-3561 231-876-9205 989-631-2552
Bill Huizenga MI 202-225-4401 616-414-5516 616-570-0917
Candice Miller MI 202-225-2106 586-997-5010
Fred Upton MI 202-225-3761 269-385-0039 269-982-1986
Tim Walberg MI 202-225-6276 517-780-9075
John Kline MN 202-225-2271 952-808-1213
Erik Paulsen MN 202-225-2871 952-405-8510
Sam Graves MO 202-225-7041 573-221-3400 816-792-3976
Renee Ellmers NC 202-225-4531 910-230-1910 336-626-3060
Virginia Foxx NC 202-225-2071 828-265-0240 336-778-0211
Richard Hudson NC 202-225-3715 704-786-1612 910-997-2070
Patrick McHenry NC 202-225-2576 828-327-6100 704-833-0096
Jeff Fortenberry NE 202-225-4806 402-438-1598 402-379-2064
Adrian Smith NE 202-225-6435 308-384-3900 308-633-6333
Lee Terry NE 202-225-4155 402-397-9944
Rodney Frelinghuysen NJ 202-225-5034 973-984-0711
Frank LoBiondo NJ 202-225-6572 609-625-5008
John Runyan NJ 202-225-4765 856-780-6436 732-279-6013
Steve Pearce NM 202-225-2365 855-473-2723
Mark Amodei NV 202-225-6155 775-686-5760 775-777-7705
Joe Heck NV 202-225-3252 702-387-4941
Chris Collins NY 202-225-5265 585-519-4002 716-634-2324
Michael Grimm NY 202-225-3371 718-351-1062 718-630-5277
Peter King NY 202-225-7896 516-541-4225
John Boehner OH 202-225-6205 513-779-5400 937-339-1524
David Joyce OH 202-225-5731 440-352-3939 330-425-9291
Jim Renacci OH 202-225-3876 330-334-0040 440-882-6779
James Lankford OK 202-225-2132 405-234-9900
Frank Lucas OK 202-225-5565 405-373-1958
Greg Walden OR 202-225-6730 541-776-4646 541-389-4408
Charles Dent PA 202-225-6411 717-867-1026 610-562-4281
Mike Kelly PA 202-225-5406 814-454-8190 724-282-2557
Bill Shuster PA 202-225-2431 814-696-6318 717-264-8308
Kristi Noem SD 202-225-2801 605-275-2868 605-791-4673
Diane Black TN 202-225-4231 931-854-0069 615-206-8204
Marsha Blackburn TN 202-225-2811 931-503-0391 615-591-5161
Kevin Brady TX 202-225-4901 936-441-5700 936-439-9532
Michael Burgess TX 202-225-7772 940-497-5031
John Carter TX 202-225-3864 512-246-1600 254-933-1392
Michael Conaway TX 202-225-3605 432-687-2390 325-646-1950
Blake Farenthold TX 202-225-7742 361-884-2222 361-894-6446
Bill Flores TX 202-225-6105 361-894-6446 979-703-4037
Kay Granger TX 202-225-5071 817-338-0909
Jeb Hensarling TX 202-225-3484 903-675-8288 214-349-9996
Sam Johnson TX 202-225-4201 469-304-0382
Mike McCaul TX 202-225-2401 512-473-2357 281-398-1247
Randy Neugebauer TX 202-225-4005 325-675-9779 432-264-0722
Pete Sessions TX 202-225-2231 972-392-0505
Randy Weber TX 202-225-2831 409-835-0108 979-285-0231
Rob Bishop UT 202-225-0453 801-625-0107 435-734-2270
Jason Chaffetz UT 202-225-7751 801-851-2500
Chris Stewart UT 202-225-9730 801-364-5550 435-627-1500
Bob Goodlatte VA 202-225-5431 540-432-2391 434-845-8306
Doc Hastings WA 202-225-5816 509-543-9396 509-452-3243
David Reichert WA 202-225-7761 509-885-6615 425-677-7414
Cathy McMorris Rodgers WA 202-225-2006 509-353-2374 509-529-9358
Sean Duffy WI 202-225-3365 715-808-8160 715-392-3984
Thomas Petri WI 202-225-2476 920-922-1180 920-231-6333
Paul Ryan WI 202-225-3031 330-630-7311 330-740-0193
James Sensenbrenner WI 202-225-5101 217-670-1653
Shelley Moore Capito WV 202-225-2711 304-925-5964 304-264-8810
David McKinley WV 202-225-4172 304-284-8506 304-232-3801
There’s an interesting part of this bill that explains precisely what today’s so-called conservatives have become.
You can blame the drivers of Obama’s inherited economic disaster of 2008 however you like but that doesn’t change the reality of it. Preventing it from reoccurring doesn’t rest on some binary or simple solution. But there should be lessons that any reasonable legislators would learn from it’
Regardless, taxpayers did indeed bail the banking industry out (the same industry that now holds $15 trillion of our assets while paying much of their full time workforce unlivable wages which middle class tax payers subsidizes for them and the same industry that has poured tons of cash towards these very same legislator’s election campaigns who now cater to them. But, I digress as those are separate arguments) for their bad decisions. So, there was this Frank Dodd thingy that basically said tax payers wouldn’t have to do that again. Banks can still take risk at their discretion but as the law went, don’t come back to the tax payers cause it ain’t gonna happen. I and many people from both parties thought that was a pretty good law and it even mirrored conservatives claim of “free market” and how business were accountable for their decisions. This should very much delight that “taxed enough already” crowd and those moon howlers of wasteful spending.
But now, Republicans insist that law no longer applies.By what possible logic does that apply to this budget? Why and how was that even negotiated? Where is the outcry from the tea partiers?
Now, understand this—had that not been in this bill, it would not have passed. Republicans would not have signed on and accordingly, the government would have again been shut down with working Americans once again taking the brunt of the pain.
Make no mistake. This is precisely what today’s so-called conservative party is all about. This also sheds light on exactly what the Koch owned tea party is all about.
Seeing such blatant Plutocratic kowtowing to Wall Street this early should be an audible warning of what to expect come January.
What’s in the spending bill? We skim it so you don’t have to
Note what falls under the Campaign Finance header. As if our government wasn’t already sufficiently under the influence of wealthy special interests.
There’s lots to look at:
Dodd-Frank. Hey! Wonderful news for the taxpayers! Investment banks won’t have to offload so much risky derivatives trading into non-FDIC insured corporate entities. Meaning they can gamble more extensively with other people’s money, assured that the taxpayers will bail them out in the event their bets go wrong again. Silly democrats, for ever wanting such restrictions.
Light Bulbs. God forbid anyone be forced to use more energy efficient light bulb replacements. Hey, go ahead and be stupid. I just replaced a 40 watt incandescent with a 7 watt LED that has a 27 year life expectancy. It has no mercury. And btw, there’s more mercury in a can of tuna than in the latest Compact Fluorescent Lights.
Pensions. An interesting new development:
That was in the news a lot, wasn’t it? Hey, it’s a beginning. Once they’ve got their foot in the door, nobody’s pension will be safe. (Except maybe members of Congress.) A new meme: We must severely cut current pension amounts to save pension plans. Promises may have been made while you were working, but were done with you now.
If that sounds like a partisan criticism—well, yeah, it is.