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The Senate bail-out vote tally, complete list
By April MacIntyre Oct 2, 2008, 2:36 GMT
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Well, so much for representing their constituencies...
I'm satisfied to see that both the Louisiana Senators voted against this nonsense.
glad to see that Matt and the rest of the know-nothings are annoyed. Good sign for recovery.
Split vote from NC.. I am PO'd... It appears that Attention Deficit Disorder is running rampant in Washington. 'No taxation without representation' started a major revolt and war at some point in our history as I recall. What a sham vote !!
Well now I know who I'm not voting for.
Calibama, Califsippi.... Boxer and Feinstein ...what and insult to your constituency.
This is horrible!! What I want to know is what country are we gonna borrow THIS money from to bail out the idiot banks that loaned moeny to people that didn't have an income?!? We borrowed from China (the world's largest army) to get a stimulus check. Who will we get this cash from...China again?!? Like we're not subject to them already. UGH! This so makes me mad!! Have we (and the politicians) forgotten that 'WE THE PEOPLE' pay their stinking paychecks?? When 'WE THE PEOPLE' decide to really stop paying their income maybe they'll stop and listen to us! But until then we are...for lack of better words...screwed!
Just turn those printing presses on ant print out another 85 billion.
pretty soon our dollar wont be worth nothing.
NO INTEGRIY,NO CREDIBILITY,NO LOYALTY.What a bunch of low lifes that voted for this scam. Once again the American people get slapped in the f ace. First they try to scare us, then they just don't listen to us. I bet they listen when we vote their sorry butts right out of office
No bailout. You vote for the bailout and we vote you out. What part of that don't they understand?
contact the yes voters and let them know their fate!
i'm on the search to get the actual text of the bill.
will be looking for the pork stuffed in, one item i heard about was the suspension of the excise tax on arrows (as in bow and arrow) with wooden shafts, around page 300.
whoever inserted that, and i'm sure other such items, needs to be FIRED by me, the paymaster/taxpayer.
the level of incompetence...............
George Soros is calling for nationalization of banks. How did we get here?
It's not just paper that the government is buying. Its properties that must be selected, managed, and resold. What an opportunity to create bigger government and more corruption. If there had to be a bailout, why couldn't the government just purchase stock in the struggling companies and let the companies figure out how to become profitable again?
The Senate specializes in high-stakes legislating-by-enticement, and the long list of sweeteners it added was designed to attract votes from various constituencies.
Tax cuts new and old are favorites for most House Republicans, the main target of intense lobbying to gain support for the measure. Help for rural schools was aimed mainly at lawmakers in the West, while disaster aid was a top priority for lawmakers from across the Midwest and South.
Another addition, to extend the deductibility of state and local taxes for people in states without income taxes, helps Florida and Texas, among others.
And there were plenty of obscure tax breaks to go around, like one for certain wooden arrows used by children, and another benefiting litigants in the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.
Senate leaders were expected to try adding another goodie before the final vote: extending a tax break for homeowners who do not itemize their tax returns.
Raising the federal deposit insurance limit - along with the SEC's decision to ease accounting rules on valuing assets - helped House Republicans claim credit for some substantive changes.
Good job Bill Nelson of Florida. I guess I will be voting for you next time. You actually listen to the voters.
Martinez what a disappointment.
I am outraged! Even IF this bailout was a good idea.... Supposedly we're in a financial crisis??? So what's up with the PORK then? FOR SALE: United States of America. A lot of land, many resources, but included in the price is a lot of very angry people.
As far as I'm concerned get them ALL out and start over again from scratch (meaning the CONSTITUTION).
Sorry to see that you voted for the 'bailout'
I will no longer vote for you anymore and hope you lose your senate seat...(and I am a life long republican).
The republican Party used to stand for Limited Government and the Constitution but those days are long gone. Socialist Sellouts like you make me sick to my stomach.
Just remember Mr Martinez, you're in that position to represent 'US'...I told you to vote 'NO' so I'll vote 'NO' next time you're up for election!!!!
I have made a list of the way they all voted and will be voting anyone who voted yes out the next time they are up for election. This is truly unacceptable. They have revolted from what they know the people want to feed their own greed. It's time that we do the same to them. It's our only chance. BOTH parties obviously are corruped byond recognition now.
Even in the face of a collapse of our financial system, we got more of the same. Was it really necessary to add $150,000,000 to this package. I guess they believe that they haven't done enough to destroy this country. More debt, way to go!!!!
All those who voted Yea, voted with their pockets, not with their mind.
And the pork that was attached...its obscene!
Now come November 4th., I'll just stay home. What's the use of
voting.
Please let me know when is time to re-elect new senators..
senator Burr your ass is grass..
In response to Richard McDonough and the rest of you who prefer socialism! If you really want the government doing everything for you, go live in a socialistic country. The rest of us prefer freedom of choice, the very basis of our constitution. If you prefer to eventually pay 70% of your income to the country so they can pay for these social programs then leave!!!!! Let us true Americans get this country back to the way it was and should be!!!!
This is so ridiculous. We the people of this once great nation need to take it back. These few with the big bucks are running our lives. We can think for ourselves and they need to know that they need to listen. I am so sick and tired of our gov't being a joke. They are a bunch of rich people who look out for themselves. And though I will vote for Obama it is not because I want to. He is just the lesser of two evils. The best thing for this country is to get rid of the 2 party system!! It has just turned into a popularity contest and say anything to get voted into office. This is our govt NOT a beauty contest- not a contest at all. I am ashamed of Hillary and Chuck. How dare you? Just because we live in NY!!!! Come on. Everyone is feeling this. This is not the way. Why aren't they looking at other ways to 'bail' us out. We are strong people. We need to NOT pass this vote and pull together in our communities and on a smaller scale. Stop listening to the media. They filter. They don't tell the whole story just as our so called representatives keep us in the dark. Let the high paid people who loaned the money take from there own money and reinvest. It's not a brainbuster here people. We're already in trouble and this is not the solution. Let's find another way!! PLEASE!
This is so ridiculous. We the people of this once great nation need to take it back. These few with the big bucks are running our lives. We can think for ourselves and they need to know that they need to listen. I am so sick and tired of our gov't being a joke. They are a bunch of rich people who look out for themselves. And though I will vote for Obama it is not because I want to. He is just the lesser of two evils. The best thing for this country is to get rid of the 2 party system!! It has just turned into a popularity contest and say anything to get voted into office. This is our govt NOT a beauty contest- not a contest at all. I am ashamed of Hillary and Chuck. How dare you? Just because we live in NY!!!! Come on. Everyone is feeling this. This is not the way. Why aren't they looking at other ways to 'bail' us out. We are strong people. We need to not pass this vote and pull together in our communities and on a smaller scale. Stop listening to the media. They filter. They don't tell the whole story just as our so called representatives keep us in the dark. Let the high paid people who loaned the money take from there own money and reinvest. It's not a brainbuster here people. We're already in trouble and this is not the solution. Let's find another way!! PLEASE!
why are my comments not coming up?
this is so ridiculous...why are we bailin out idiots who shd have charges filed against them and thrown in jail? i hope this moronity energises ppl to roll out the vote and start paying to politics and less on reality shows..
Let me get this right, The banks loan money to people who can't pay it back. They now won't loan money to people who can pay it back, unless we bailout the ones who can't? This is the first time I've ever been held hostage. If the people who are running Washington are still in office the next election. Then we deserve everything we just got poked with.
This bill will destroy the country. I know what will follow if this bill is passed, and it makes me very upset.
Have they lost their minds?
I must have missed the information that said this was a good idea. Or the survey that said any of the Yea voting senator's constituencies thought this was a good idea.
Using a greed and self interest to shove through a bad bail out bill will not help a problem created by greed and self interest.
Adding 180 Billion in PORK to an EMERGENCY 700 Billion bailout is Unconscionable. I will vote against both Senators Alexander and Corker from Tennessee on the basis of their votes for this bill.
THROW THE BUMS OUT!!!
Yay to Senator Dorgan of North Dakota for voting no! Yay to all the members of congress with enough balls to vote no. Boo to all that voted yes... including Obama, Biden, and McCain. I hear Obama is calling up House members and trying to get them to vote yes. He has SOOOO lost my vote.
Make no mistake. This is the biggest swindle in human history. Taxpayers will pay, 100% face value, for all the worthless derivatives paper held by American and foreign banks. How big is it? Unlimmitted, the treasury insisted upon it. This will lead to a hyperinflationary collapse of the dollar. The only solution is an orderly chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganiztion of the entire IMF/ Federal Reserve system, carried out by the federal government. Put the Fed, Citicorp, Bank of America etc, into receivership. Write off all the bad derivatives. There is not enough money in circulation to pay for them anyway. Issue new Treasury notes ( Hamiltons American system of economics ) , as done before by Lincoln and Kennedy, and build our way out of this, as done before by Roosevelt. Issue 1-2% low interst credit, thru a 3rd national bank, for capitol improvements. Such as Mag Lev rail, nuclear power, fussion energy research and even a manned mission to Mars. That's the solution. Continue the bailouts? Risk your life, your families and the American Republic. That's my two cents worth.
When the American people find out what the true nature of this is, they will be out for blood. I would hate to be in the shoes of anyone who put there names to this. This is all tanamount to TREASON!! Hey all you sports fans out there waving your proletarian thumbs. That Mutual fund and pension you were counting on: POOF IT's GONE!! If your in your twenties and don't have one, don't worry. Your young and your strong. When you get chosen for a slave labor assighnment, then you will understand. Maybe one of the six or so states that already use confederate style chain gangs. Deal with realty or reality will deal with you.
I am so disappointed that my state reps completely ignored the people's will. Shame on Lieberman AND especially Dodd.
I know it says not to do this but, I think it is appropriate for this one time.
I received this from a friend and I had not seen it this way. Here it is ......YOU DECIDE.
This is an article written by Charlie Reese, a former columnist for the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper. Very interesting perspective on the
state of our Nation!
545 PEOPLE
By Charlie Reese
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, we have deficits?
Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don't propose a federal budget. The President does.
You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations.
The House of Representatives does.
You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.
You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.
You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 state representatives, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly,
legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing.
I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that
what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive
amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.
The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts – of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in th e red.
If the Marines are in IRAQ , it's because they want them in IRAQ .
If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement
plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.
There are no insoluble government problems.
Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like 'the economy,' 'inflation,' or politics' that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.
They, and they alone, have the power.
They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are
their bosses provided the voters have the gumption to manage their
own employees.
We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!
What you do with this article now that you have read it is up to you,
though you appear to have several choices:
1. You can send this to everyone in your address book, and hope
they do something about it.
2. You can agree to vote against everyone that is currently in
office, knowing that the process will take several years.
3. You can decide to run for office yourself and agree to do the
job properly.
4. Lastly, you can sit back and do nothing, or re-elect the current bunch.
Interesting that Kennedy didn't vote at all. Wonder why?
I want to thank all those who voted no. May God bless you for making the right vote. At a time of financial crisis, spending $192M for rum producers, $128M for auto racing and the such, is no more than a bribe. Anyone who votes for a person who will not take the time to put together a workable solution to our problems deserves the results this bill will produce. It is a shame that the rest of us must also suffer too.
Again I thank you all for voting no to this bill.
Brett C
This is what I want to know.
What senators are responsible for adding the pork?
Please identify what senator goes with what pork.
Also on the house level, who added what pork?
I am an Independant. It makes no difference to me what party they are from.
If any are from my home state I will be voting against them for reelection!
House, you will vote on this bill today. I beg you all, please send it back. There are Harvard economic brains across our country, get these people up there to assist, get their ideas, create a bill that will address the root problem. Providing $6M for producers of wooden arrows, 10M for film and TV production is far from getting help to the root of the problem. If 700B was given to all the tax payers how much would this be per house hold. Would it be enough to pay off every ones home? Is not the loss of jobs the real reason why people can not pay for there homes? What does $128M for auto racing have to do with this? Or $223M for Alaskan fisherman have to do with this? Or $192M this bill will give to the production of rum in Puerto Rico. This kind of spending is why were are in the shape we are in. Let us commit to do better as the world is watching us. Vote this bill down and let's not get pressured into making billion or trillion dollar blunders that will send us into decades of debt.
Michigan voters - it's time to send LEVIN packing!!! He is ole party politics Washington! Remember your vote matters. We are already the worst state in the nation re: unemployment, jobs, housing, etc, can we afford 4 more years of a democratic govenor and senators??? Can we??
I am ashamed of my own rep.from RI, for voting for this bill. I am ashamed it took all this added crap to get it passed, It still is wahsington as usual. I am just ashamed of all of them.
I am ashamed of my rep from RI for voting for this.I am ashamed it took all this added special intrest crap to get it passed. I guess' wahsington as usual' is still working for them. I am just ashamed of all of them.
I think that the time has come to hold them responsible now. It is apalling to hear them say they didn't want to vote yes on it but did anyway. Maybe I can try that with my taxes this year. I wanted to pay them but I didn't. I wrote all of my delegates and told them I did not want this. I think this is taxation without rep. Here is what I think is going on. The Republicans know that they are going to lose the race so this is nothing more than a big free for all so that the Dem's have nothing left in the coffers to carry out ambitious plans. Four years later we re-elect a Rep because of failed leadership. We could have had FREE healthcare for every American for one year with just the 700 billion. I guarantee you that others will now be in line. Welcome to the gravy train folks. Take a look at Iraq and all of the contractors over there taking advantage of us. Next will be auto, then airline, maybe a little construction bailout. We the taxpayers should have had a vote on this important issue. I have made a list and I am checking it twice. I feel so strongly about this being wrong that if either presidential candidate would have been against it I would have voted for them. Suck it up folks, the gov is gonna take us for the ride of the century now that they know they can do whatever they want.
Remember these clowns when you place your vote and bail THEM out!!!
Remember these clowns when you vote and bail THEM out!
Now you see why South America is moving to the left,America's democracy and free market system are a fraud, corrupted by greed and crooks. We have lost all credibility; starting with the fraudulent Presidential election in 2000, the President lying to the American people to start a petro-war in in Iraq, the loss of our civil liberties with the Patriot Act and now the bail out of Wall Street against the will of the people.
I am disillusioned and angry by the Democrats and Republicans who supported this bail out, but I'm ecouraged by the dissenting members of both parties who courageoulsy opposed this socialist give away.
This is the most ridiculous event in our history.........already bailing out companies that made a ton of money and now adding $100BB+ in pork!!!
Now Governor Arnold (can't spell his last name) wants us to bail Cal out!!
I'd like to see a list of who?, what? and where? the $150,000,000 of the PORK is going to have this bill passed. Who was paid off? What industries were supported? and from what states?
In the 70's we asked 'where's the beef' .. In this decade I'd like to know 'Where's the Pork?'. Seriously. Who's with me on this one? Who was paid off?
I think it's high-time they earn thier money and awesome benefits and make it illegal to add anything to a bill. A bill should pass on it's own merit and not because a special interest wish is attached. No more of the hog-wash of blind funding to these groups and no more lamb's wool over our eyes. These guys have to be embarrassed. Imagine what our fore-fathers would say to them. It's absolutely shameful. We CAN'T afford your pork anymore!
This bailout split the US like the Civil War.
It was not a party line vote. In fact, it damn near split the GOP.
It was a vote showing the new line of division in this country...whether you support a corporate-government takeover of our country or not.
Like the Civil War, this bill pitted brother against brother:
Senator Salazar (D-CO) voted for the bailout ripoff.
His brother, Representative Salazar (D-CO), voted against.
Obviously Congressman Salazar is the smarter brother and Senator Salazar was dropped on his head when he was a baby. I hope the Congressman beats the living crap out of the Senator the next time they meet.
The United States of America, as we know it, DIED yesterday.
Rest in Peace.
I think it is time for that revolt. It's obvious that our elected officials for the most part are thumbing their noses at we the people. I know who I'm not voting for too.
Everyone seems to think the worst of my state -- for a variety of reasons, some are legitimate while others aren't. In spite of a lot of things being wrong here, at least our senators voted against this bill. I'm proud of them for that -- and how often do you get to say that about a politician?
I'm from SC. Glad to see that Demint voted against it, but Lindsey Graham needs to get his head out of McCain's rear end and stand up for the conservatives he represents.
Well just to let all those Senators who voted Yea won't be getting my vote.
I guess we'll have to clean house next election. If these elected officials don't yet get the idea. You don't give tax payer money away without it costing the politician his job!
America, we need to rotate these political fools out of office every election, until we start to see a change in behavior from Washington.
Glenn
'Just back from his runoff victory, Saxby Chambliss took up right where he left off in dry-humping the last three of his constituants who have any money left'
Film at 11
I'm GLAD that the Republicans had the guts to vote No on this so call bailout. The Republicans in Congress did GREAT by voting no. Now I hope the Senate does the same. Vote NO!!!!!! Let the democrats make this mess. I'm tired of the Republicans not having a back bone aganist the democrats. You guys vote for this and their gonna blame you in the end.
Your fellow Republican from CA
Dolores A. Gonzales
getting better all the time, illegals will get stimulus money, they alreay get health care, the mexican drug cartels can come here kidknap U. S. Citizens, many jobs now require bi-lingual in spanish..........who the hell are the clowns in Washington representing? Damn sure not the americans
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