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Update: Cap-and-Trade Vote Count: 210-210, 14 Undecided
From Brian M Johnson on Friday, June 26, 2009 3:53 PMThat's right. We are hearing 210 - 210 with 14 undecided. Keep calling the swtichboard 202-224-3121 and emailing through here to ensure your message gets heard!
Remember: Over the 2012-2035 timeline, job losses average over 1.1 million. By 2035, a projected 2.5 million jobs are lost below the baseline (without a cap and trade bill). Particularly hit hard are sectors of the economy that are very energy-intensive: Manufacturers, farmers, construction, machinery, electrical equipment and appliances, transportation, textiles, paper products, chemicals, plastics and rubbers, and retail trade would face staggering employment losses as a result of Waxman-Markey.














Comments
Who are the 14?
>> Conservative Tom Friday, June 26, 2009 4:14 PM Report Comment
Yes. Who are the 14?
>> Sissy Willis Friday, June 26, 2009 4:18 PM Report Comment
This is to state that I am completely opposed to the CAP-and-Trade bill. It is a bill that is harmful to America and that has been constructed on absolutely false science. It is a fraudulent bill.
>> Ginette Lafleche Friday, June 26, 2009 4:19 PM Report Comment
called 15 times. all circuits are busy. that switchboard is LIT UP!! keep on calling though!! we need to shut this thing down.
>> Gary Friday, June 26, 2009 4:20 PM Report Comment
Had called and gotten thru to my rep this a.m. Called now (4:26 p.m. Eastern) and got a busy signal. Good sign?
>> Sissy Willis Friday, June 26, 2009 4:27 PM Report Comment
If this passes we should demand a letter of apology to our children and grandchildren from every rep. who voted for it. They need to be held accountable.
>> Cara Friday, June 26, 2009 4:40 PM Report Comment
I would like the congress to prove to me that they are listening to the people. I "OPPOSE" this Cap & Trade Bill. Cannot get through to Congress woman Mary Bono-Mack. Tell her for me, if she votes for this bill, I vow she will never get my vote again.
>> kathleen moroney Friday, June 26, 2009 4:44 PM Report Comment
Who are the 14???????
>> Ryan C. Friday, June 26, 2009 5:06 PM Report Comment
Yes--let's stop the bill, because it's better to save $8 a month on utilities than to have a planet that supports human life...
>> Jeff Friday, June 26, 2009 5:08 PM Report Comment
I am "friends" w/ Mary Bono Mack on Facebook. Many, many ppl (including me) are posting on her wall; asking her to vote NO on Cap & Trade. Ppl are really upset that she is still undecided. Kathleeen Moroney-- I just wanted to let you know that I relayed your message to her. The Republicans that vote YES on Cap & Trade are going to be very sorry that they did when they are up for re-election. That is my prediction.
>> Gayle Friday, June 26, 2009 5:17 PM Report Comment
Wake up! We need to focus on the big picture and make the tough decisions necessary to preserve the way of life we all currently enjoy. Learn the science, or just simply listen to the scientists who know! The issue is clear, come to your senses.
>> Ryan J. Friday, June 26, 2009 5:18 PM Report Comment
Based on what, Jeff? Where's the scientific evidence? Why does the bill need to be over 1,200 pages? Ridiculous!!!!
>> Gayle Friday, June 26, 2009 5:21 PM Report Comment
Undecided Reps: Sheila Jackson Lee 202-225-3816 (D TX 18th) John Salazar 202-225-4761 (D CO 3rd) Collin Peterson 202-225-2165 (D MN 7th) Tim Holden 202-225-5546 (D PA 17th) Tim Walz 202-225-2472 (D MN 1st) Mike McIntyre 202-225-2731 (D NC 7th) David Scott 202-225-2939 (D GA 13th) Henry Cuellar 202-225-1640 (D TX 128th)
>> Karsten Friday, June 26, 2009 5:30 PM Report Comment
Republicans who are considering a yes vote Bartlett (MD) Fax: (202) 225-2193 Castle (DE) Fax: (202) 225-2291 Dent (PA) Fax: (202) 226-0778 Ehlers (MI) Fax: (202) 225-5144 Frelinghuysen (NJ) Fax: (202) 225-3186 Gerlach (PA) Fax: (202) 225-8440 Inglis (SC) Fax: (202) 226-1177 Tim Johnson (IL) Fax: (202) 226-0791 Kirk (IL) Fax: (202) 225-0837 Lance (NJ) Fax: (202) 225-9460 LoBiondo (NJ) Fax: (202) 225-3318 Petri (WI) Fax: (202) 225-2356 Platts (PA) Fax: (202) 226-1000 Ros-Lehtinen (FL) Fax: (202) 225-5620
>> Karsten Friday, June 26, 2009 5:35 PM Report Comment
Nothing in this bill does anything for the environment. It is nothing but a disguised tax bill and a slush fund for liberal interest groups and corporate welfare to boot. All this does is increase energy costs, creates massive new government bureaucracy, creates new ways to defraud the taxpayers, and distorts the market, and will cost millions of jobs. There is absolutely no plusses to this bill except for companies who will get subsidies for enterprises that cannot make a profit in the free market. No scientist say this would shave a degree off of any imagined global warming.
>> Razor Friday, June 26, 2009 5:36 PM Report Comment
screw you ryan c the marxist
>> shelley Friday, June 26, 2009 5:46 PM Report Comment
I work for a company that does materials analysis and we are currently struggling in Western Pennsylvania. This industry is already having significant problems in this changing economy. I believe putting any further strangle holds on the steel, iron, or coal industries in which we rely on will not only have a negative impact on my state, but the country as a whole. Oppose this bill.
>> Luke G Friday, June 26, 2009 6:11 PM Report Comment
for the love of our country you undecideds stop this bill we the people are getting angryer by the second
>> GLORIA FARRAGE Friday, June 26, 2009 6:35 PM Report Comment
are you all nuts you and this pres.are off your rocker get off our backs stop spending like drunken saliors and you thought BUSH was bad again I say are you nuts
>> RICHARD FARRAGE Friday, June 26, 2009 6:45 PM Report Comment
If it's Science you want to see, Look At This http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/warming/debate/singer.html
>> Bob Friday, June 26, 2009 7:00 PM Report Comment
Yep! That's right, Bob! I am familiar w/ Dr. S. Fred Singer. Too bad the sheeple of the U.S.A. have already made up their minds based on the information they get from our liberal and biased mainstream media.
>> Gayle Friday, June 26, 2009 7:17 PM Report Comment
The only reason this is so close is 85% of this bill is already going to entitlement programs, that is documented. So 15% will actually go towards our debt and actual "change" in government. What ever happened to drilling for natural gas, which would get us out of spending over 700 BILLION in Saudi oil? What about hydrogen run vehicles? Obama and his cronies say they don't work...after government spending and years of proof that it does work. Here's your "CHANGE!"
>> RAM Friday, June 26, 2009 7:22 PM Report Comment
If Mr. Solomon P. Ortiz doesn't vote against this Bill I anm sure going to do my best to campaign him out of office next election! It will become an obsessive goal for me! This Cap and Trade bill is a bigger Ponzy scheme than anything Bernie Madoff got sent to prison for! That is what should ultimately happen to Waxman, Markey, Pelosi, Bernacke, Geitner, President Barry - Barack Obama of Kenya and Indonesia! Is Barack a counterfeit president?
>> Paul Friday, June 26, 2009 7:30 PM Report Comment
If Mr. Solomon P. Ortiz doesn't vote against this Bill I am sure going to do my best to campaign him out of office next election! It will become an obsessive goal for me! This Cap and Trade bill is a bigger Ponzy scheme than anything Bernie Madoff got sent to prison for! That is what should ultimately happen to Waxman, Markey, Pelosi, Bernacke, Geitner, President Barry - Barack Obama of Kenya and Indonesia! Is Barack a counterfeit president?
>> Paul Friday, June 26, 2009 7:36 PM Report Comment
I have been successful in posting on their Facebook walls. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!
>> momoslong Friday, June 26, 2009 8:17 PM Report Comment
Isn't it over? I am so angry, I can't see straight!! The TURNCOATS are: Bono-Mack Castle Kirk Lance LoBiondo Reichert Smith (NJ) McHugh Flake and Sullivan (NO VOTE) Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack is catching some major flack on her FB wall. Many are vowing that they will do everything possible to make this her last term.
>> Gayle Friday, June 26, 2009 8:24 PM Report Comment
8 GOP idiots hand the left their bill. They ARE DONE! Along with the Mod Dems who also caved. Vote them out.
>> Keith Friday, June 26, 2009 8:28 PM Report Comment
Yes it's over we need to vote these bums out!! Let's start on the Senate NOW and ensure it does not pass there!
>> MOMOSLONG Friday, June 26, 2009 8:37 PM Report Comment
People are more concerned that Michael Jackson is dead than our futures have been sold down the road our representatives in the dark of night.
>> Joe Friday, June 26, 2009 9:36 PM Report Comment
Here's your voting results: http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/111/house/1/votes/477/
>> Derek Davis Friday, June 26, 2009 9:46 PM Report Comment
How can we get a list of all the congress and how they voted?
>> Lynn Richins Saturday, June 27, 2009 12:11 AM Report Comment
Within a minute of the final vote tally, people were already asking, who the Republican sell-outs on the bill were. Here's the list: Mary Bono Mack (CA) Michael Castle (DE) Mark Kirk (IL) Leonard Lance (NJ) Frank LoBiondo (NJ) John McHugh (NY) Dave Reichert (WA) Chris Smith (NJ)
>> Paul Saturday, June 27, 2009 12:25 AM Report Comment
Lynn-- Here is a link to the list: FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 477 http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll477.xml
>> Gayle Saturday, June 27, 2009 12:48 AM Report Comment
Where were Flake and Sullivan today? Why did they miss the vote? That's almost worse than a yes vote....well, maybe not quite! But close.
>> Gayle Saturday, June 27, 2009 12:54 AM Report Comment
Remember the Second Amendment? Lock & load!
>> Bill Saturday, June 27, 2009 8:11 AM Report Comment
We still have a chance to beat it as it has to pass through the Senate! I don't know what the Senate number of the Bill is but we'll have to find out and make sure it doesn't get passed! If it does let me tell you we are doomed! Eg.Environmental Police can come into your home and check it for Energy Efficiency,if it doesn't pass it will have to be brought up to par by a certain date! If not E.police will take over ownership of your home, kick you out on the street or you can go to a Fema camp! That is just part of the hardship that is in that 1300 page Bill! Politicians didn't have time to read it before voting for it! Please folks for our own good help get rid of it!
>> Paul Saturday, June 27, 2009 10:31 AM Report Comment
It will be my life mission to find every YEA vote and have you voted out of office. Freaking slime bucket weasels are always in my pockets and I am not going to take it any more. I intend to find the Yea votes and publish them on every web site you can imagine. I can't wait for the next election to see the exodus begin. No more "business as usual" Obama? Correction business as usual with Dems in charge. Take every dime they got and tell them it's going to save the planet! HA! Make sure the senate does not get sucked in people. Call now!
>> Robert Merchant Saturday, June 27, 2009 6:17 PM Report Comment
Hey folks! Has it occurred to you that 212 No votes is more than enough to begin Impeachment proceedings against Obama and his gang of Fascist thugs? If Cap-n-trade is not the trumpet call to throw this usurper out now, by 2010, representative government will no longer exist in America. Contact everyone who voted Ney, and demand they begin legal proceedings.
>> C. Becknell Sunday, June 28, 2009 8:38 AM Report Comment
If that is actually a legal truth as to what C. Becknell ( Above article ) says then we need to get in touch with credible legal attorneys and push this issue to have Obama and his gang of Fascist thugs inaugerated down the road to impeachment! The sooner the better as to save America from a s much deterioration as they are causing and possibly prevent a confrontational battle which this will come to should we not be able to regain our country by Civil means, so in effect saving perfectly good American lives! Never the less either way we will not quit till we have our America back!
>> Paul Sunday, June 28, 2009 11:11 AM Report Comment
Paul...FYI: Impeachment is a legal proceeding initiated by Congress. It is not a criminal offense adjudicated by private attorneys. Remember when Clinton was impeached? Anyway, Cap-in Trade is an Unconsitutional Bill, and is tantamount to treason! If that isn't enough reason to have Obama impeached, then 'reason' has no place in American Law. You are right, my young friend, the longer this joker reigns, the worse it'll be for all of us. Only nieve fools will wait till 2012. Contact your Reps now! Demand that Obama be impeached immediately for Lawlessness and Treason. And, have no doubts about God being on your side. God hates lawlessness!
>> C Becknell Sunday, June 28, 2009 11:26 PM Report Comment
I am sorry C Becknell, You are right, I just get so enthralled with trying withevery inch of my body and soul to get this piece of counterfeit criminal trash removed from our highest office that I sometimes forget the proper lawful procedures! Thanks for waking me up! Do you know there have been st least two American Military people, one from the US Army Division I believe and one retired Naval Officer who have filed charges of Treason on President Barak Obama for fraud and using a false identity! I don't know if they are grasping at straws or what but I do like to see that others realize he is a crook and imposter and shold enough of these legal tags connect to Back-Track Barack the world may see him for what he really is!
>> Paul Monday, June 29, 2009 12:49 AM Report Comment
Paul, I called Slomon three times and couldn't get through. Igave up and sent a e-mail to him. He answered me Saturday, saying he voted no. I checkedit out and he did. Not bad for a democrat.
>> geoff Monday, June 29, 2009 7:17 PM Report Comment
The Total Takeover Of America Enters Its Final Phase The wholesale looting of America and the transfer of wealth and power over to a private banking elite who are setting up a world government, along with the complete obliteration of any remaining freedom to protest, resist, or even speak out again,is now entering its final phase as numerous different pieces of the jigsaw puzzle fall into place and portray a clear picture of tyranny. We are about to sound the death knell for the United States if every one of the following attacks on our liberty and right to not be ruled over by an unelected banking dictatorship is not fiercely opposed and crushed. To read all of the Story and find out what you can do, Google infowars!
>> Paul Monday, June 29, 2009 7:53 PM Report Comment
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>> Paul Monday, June 29, 2009 8:27 PM Report Comment
Re: The Total Takeover Of America Enters Its Final Phase - To read all of the Story and find out what you can do Go to: http://www.infowars.com It is so important that you help keep America Free!
>> paul Monday, June 29, 2009 8:45 PM Report Comment
Geoff...did you ask Slomon (State?) why he voted Ney on Crap-n-Tax? Most Dems who voted Ney did so to cover their slimmy butts. They were just gaming the system to avoid a voter backlash. Also, did anyone notice that Obama and Clinton have joined Castro and Chevez in opposing the coup that just overthrew the dictator in Hondurus. Imagine that! These two siding with brutal dictators! What does that tell you? Hint: Obama and Hillary prefer Communist governments over Democratic ones...like ours! In my mind, that makes these two brazen Communists. More reason to impeach Obama before he bankrupts the middle class, and enslaves us all.
>> C Becknell Monday, June 29, 2009 11:02 PM Report Comment
Why wasn't this put to a vote by the American people? Instead of shoved down our throats,this is America where the laws still apply as to private property, this Presidency is a slap in the face for all Americans and the Democrats that don't have the guts to stand up and vote this down only proves that the postion and the money is all that they are after, not what their consitiuents want.
>> Lana Friday, August 27, 2010 2:46 PM Report Comment