Posted on 09/27/2010 8:57:58 AM PDT by RandysRight
http://randysright.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/we-just-got-screwed-the-house-passed-the-clear-act-hr-3534-209-193-july-30-2010/
dont recall hearing anything about this in the news over the summer:
Randys Right
http://gulagbound.com/5833/us-house-puts-oceans-coasts-under-un-senate-vote-will-seal-the-deal
by Carmen Reynolds, Paul McKain and Karen Schoen originally published at Boogai.net on September 21, 2010
Its too late; itll just have to be stopped in the Senate, Tom, the young male answering the phone in U.S. Rep. John Boehners (R-Ohio)Washington D.C. office, said about HR 3534 (CLEAR Act). This is the globalist bill designed to give away our land, oceans, adjacent land masses and Great Lakes to an international body, and makes us pay $900 million per year until 2040.
HR 3534 is a thinly disguised permanent roadblock to American energy which drives American companies out of the Gulf, delays future drilling, increases dependency on foreign oil, implements climate change legislation and youth education programs; but most important, it mandates membership in the Law of the Sea Treaty without the required two-thirds vote to ratify it in the U.S. Senate. Read more at LOST below
The House passed the CLEAR Act (HR 3534) 209-193, July 30, 2010. This bill was originally introduced July 8, 2009, but was resurrected by the recent Deep Water Horizon oil spill crisis. According to www.govtrack.us, a debate may be taking place on a companion bill in the Senate, rather than on this particular bill. This bill was read for the second time Aug. 4, 2010, and placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders, Calendar No. 510. No official Senate Bill number exists as of yet. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-3534
Some have said this bill would be a long shot to be approved in the Senate or it will take a while to surface. Similar assessments were made about the health-care bill. Past precedent reflects how a 2,200+-page bill can be created, printed, members held hostage, and that same bill voted on within hours to facilitate holiday recess.
This bill assesses a Conservation Fee of $2 per barrel of oil and 20 cents per million BTUs of natural gas for all leases on Federal onshore and offshore lands (Section 802). This will jettison Americas energy prices for oil and gas through the roof!
Book offer, click graphic to read more Truth is, HR 3534 could have been stopped in the House and wasnt. Why? Because 21 absent Republicans chose not to show up for this critical vote, while another REP just voted Present: U.S. Rep. Gary Miller (CA-42). This legislation was so egregious; more than a handful of Democrats voted nay which makes the Republicans absence in the House chamber for the vote even more questionable. Be reminded that 193 + 17 absent votes would have killed the bill.
The Consolidated Land, Energy, Aquatic Restoration Act of 2009 (aka: CLEAR Act, HR 3534) gives away ownership of Americas oceans to the United Nations, and sectors America into nine geographic areas. This bill possesses a cap and trade/climate change component as well.
America will be forced to become a member of the UN Law of the Sea Treaty (aka: LOST), circumventing the normal two-thirds U.S. Senate vote necessary for ratification of any treaty. This was accomplished surreptitiously via Section 106 of the bill, which specifies that Executive Orders, rules, regulations, directives or delegations of authority that precede the effective date of this act are applicable to the CLEAR Act.
It just so happens two important documents did precede the CLEAR Act. Documents that contain the deleterious intent and scope of the bill: Obamas Stewardship of the Oceans, Our Coasts and the Great Lakes Executive Order, July 19, 2010, and the Interim Report of the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force, July 10, 2009. Look at the time line very closely:
9-8-2009 The CLEAR Act is introduced in Congress
9-10-2009 Interim Report The Interim Report states that the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force includes adherence to the Law of the Sea Treaty (page 14). Its purpose is to establish a comprehensive set of rules governing the oceans. The Law of the Sea Treaty calls for technology transfers and wealth transfers from developed to undeveloped nations, and requires parties to the treaty to adopt regulations and laws to control pollution of the marine environment all under the authority of the United Nations. Such provisions were among the reasons President Ronald Reagan rejected the treaty in 1982. As Edwin Meese, U.S. Attorney General under President Reagan explained recently, it was out of step with the concepts of economic liberty and free enterprise that Ronald Reagan was to inspire throughout the world.
This Interim Report will provide a recommended framework for coastal and marine spatial planning and addresses conservation, economic activity, user conflicts and sustainable use as well as social justice. Previously, there was no money for National Marine Fisheries Service to implement its mandates and to update its fisheries data collection system. But now with the international flavor, $900 million a year will be dedicated to a global approach to our land, oceans, coastal areas and Great Lakes. Read more 1
http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/documents/09_17_09_Interim_Report_of_Task_Force_FINAL2.pdf
4-20-2010 BP Oil Spill. The Federal government would not accept or provide help, allowing oil to reach shores, allowing BP to dump hundreds of millions of barrel of Corexit (toxic) into the Gulf, poisoning the Gulf for future generations (www.thegulfspeaks.com).
5-20-2010 US forces moratorium on drilling, Judge says not constitutional, but the Feds issue a new version of a moratorium. Thousands are put out of work, and hundreds of millions are lost in revenues.
Wonder why the Feds did nothing for 100 days? Instead we got this Executive Order:
7-19-2010 Executive Order
Moving to the Executive Order, Obama hereby orders as follows in Section 2 (b) (iii): pursuing the United States accession into the Law of the Sea Convention. Note the intent to make an end run around the constitutionally required separate two-thirds U.S. Senate vote necessary to ratify a treaty by burying this in associated documents not in the bill itself. Read more 2
CLEAR Act (Consolidated Land, Energy and Aquatic Resources, HR3534)
This act creates the Regional Outer Continental Shelf Council which will coordinate siting and development of energy resources and prepare OCS strategies. What will these strategies entail? Further moratoriums? High costs for permitting?
It amends the Land and Water Conservation fund to make $900 million available to the fund for each fiscal year until 2040 without further appropriation. It allows grants to coastal states and Indian tribes, the Secretary of the Interior to update regional assessments, regional ocean partnerships and regional coordinating councils, ensuring government, nongovernment organizations and academic entities are considered (Section 605 (a) (3) (A) (B) and (C).
Pay attention to Section 106-e: References relating to the Service in statutes Executive Orders, rules, regulations, directives, or delegations of authority that precede the effective date of this act are deemed to refer as appropriate to the Department, to its officers, employees, or agents, or to its corresponding organizational units or functions. Congress will no longer be needed to vote on those pesky little treaties; the UN will take care of everything.
The CLEAR Act repeals the Energy Policy Act of 2005 by removing royalty incentives for natural gas production from deep wells in shallow Gulf waters, removes royalty relief for deep-water production and directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish fees for leases with less than commercial quantities. So here is the Cap and Trade/ Climate part and job-killing component of the legislation. Dont forget the Conservation Fees of $2 per barrel of oil and 20 cents per BTU of natural gas in Section 802 will be that much more we consumers must pay.
It prohibits the following authorities from developing a fishery management plan, which is the way we have been doing business: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Secretary of Commerce and Regional Fishery Management Councils. In other words, current management of our oceans within the United States will be superseded by the National Ocean Council, comprised of some of the most radical environmentalists in our Administration, co-chaired by Nancy Sutley, White House Council on Environmental Quality and Dr. John P. Holdren, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-3534&tab=summary
(http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/07/19/meet-national-ocean-council)
The true intent of the CLEAR Act and its associated documents will change the way we do business with regard to our land, oceans, coastal areas and Great Lakes. All air space above the oceans, what operates in, through, on or is derived from underneath the water, will be subject to taxes as a world resource to the United Nations Agenda 21. These areas will no longer be owned and managed solely by the United States, as they are newly defined as a global revenue, social justice source per the Law of the Sea Treaty.
All life in these waterways and all adjacent land masses will be directly affected by this legislation. Decisions will be guided by the Rio Declaration of 1992, requiring no scientific proof of threats or damage to justify corrective action, more regulations and fines.
Consensus is the objective, but the president will make the final decision if one cant be reached. The Administration will retain the final determination on resolving disputes with States and their governors (Section 222). Read more 3
http://www.eoearth.org/article/United_Nations_Conference_on_Environment_and_Development_(UNCED),_Rio_de_Janeiro,_Brazil#gen2
7-30-2010 The House of Representatives passes the CLEAR ACT. Did House REPs read it? Or are they sheep, thieves or traitors, proud of themselves for giving our AMERICA away?
READ THE BILL SENATORS The House just gave away our sovereignty, and we are paying $900 million per year until 2040 to create three new bureaucracies: Bureau of Energy and Resource Management, Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement and the Office of Natural Resources Revenue, plus all the inspectors and accountants that accompany them. No telling how much of this will be funneled through the International entities and councils even before the additional global taxes are eventually assessed on top of this. See organizational diagram below (not posted yet)
It doesnt take a rocket scientist to ascertain the way to stop any sovereignty-killing legislation is in the House, not in the Senate. This is due to sheer numbers and because of the past assists bipolar senators such as Snowe, Collins, Lugar, Graham, McCain, Voinovich, Brownback, Castle and Scott Brown have provided.
Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) is a strong proponent of the Law of the Sea Treaty. Other Republican senators that support this legislation include: Alexander (R-TN) and Murkowski (R-AK). Previously supportive were former Sens. Allen (VA), Hagel (NE), and Chafee (RI). There is no way to determine whether their replacements have been influenced (pay to play?) for upcoming votes. Remember, America has already missed the House opportunity because of:
Republicans not doing their jobs
Those Republicans in the House that let America down by not being present and voting:
Parker Griffith (R-AL) C.W. Young (R-FL) Michael Rogers (R-MI)
John Shadegg (R-AZ) John Linder (GA) W. Akin (R-MO)
George Radanovich (R-CA) Stephen Buyer (R-IN) Roy Blount (R-MO)
Devin Nunes (R-CA) Jerry Moran (R-KS) Henry Brown (R-SC)
Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) Todd Tiahrt (R-KS) James Barrett (R-SC)
Howard McKeon (R-CA) Geoff Davis (R-KY) Zach Wamp (R-TN)
John Campbell (R-CA) Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) Samuel Johnson (R-TX)
Voting Present: Gary Miller (R-CA-42)
Source: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2010-513
It is now incumbent on Americans, regardless of party, to contact senators to insist that America stay America retaining sovereign rights to our lands, oceans, waterways, Great Lakes, our minerals, recreational and commercial fishing industries, transocean cables, commerce, oil/gas energy production, food sources and the right to operate navy vessels to defend ourselves, including submarines that carry weapons.
The Senate must not vote in any way, shape or form for the sovereignty-robbing Consolidated Land, Energy, Aquatic Restoration Act, period.
Related report can be found here: Gas taxes to increase
Paul McKain, Independent candidate for Floridas U.S. House District 2, researched and uncovered the initial information contained in this article after being asked to speak at a 9-11 Memorial Weekend in Northwest Florida. He is a former teacher, 23-year firefighter and inventor. He can be contacted at www.PaulMcKain.com.
Carmen Reynolds is a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel with a BS in Criminology and Law Enforcement, MA in Business Personnel Management and BA in Journalism. She is Editor-in-Chief of boogai.net and can be reached at journalist@bellsouth.net.
Karen Schoen is a mortgage broker/owner and former teacher. She is the organizer of the Washington County Tea Party, thegulfspeaks.com and a radio show host on Repatriot Radio. __________________________________________________________
1. Force recommendations regarding sustainable use of oceans, coastal areas and Great Lakes resources will be consistent with international law, including international law as reflected in the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Further, it mandates international collaboration with the Artic Council, the International Maritime Organization, the International Whaling Commission and the Law of the Sea Treaty.
Spatial planning is double speak for catch shares, a concept that has not been reached by consensus of the commercial and recreational fishermen stakeholders involved. With the help of legislators, these stakeholders were previously advocating more flexibility in the Magnuson-Stevens Act. This would allow for more funding for the National Marine Fisheries Service to perform new stock assessments, as well as third-party, independent stock assessments, based on up- to-date data.
This report makes continual reference to resiliency and adaptation to climate change, ocean acidification and human interference on pages 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9,10,11,13,14,15,16. It makes reference to the division of our country into spatial divisions on pages 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14. Continual references are made to land use, starting on page 11. Joining the Law of the Sea Treaty starts on pages 2, 5, 12, 14, 16. Creation of the National Ocean Council is addressed on pages 5, 6, 7, 19, 20, 21.
Problematic is this statement: Decisions concerning our oceans will be guided by the precautionary approach as reflected in the Rio Declaration of 1992 stating that where there are threats of damage, lack of full scientific knowledge will not be used to postpone cost-effective measures. http://www.eoearth.org/article/United_Nations_Conference_on_Environment_and_Development_(UNCED),_Rio_de_Janeiro,_Brazil#gen2
So if we humans are threatening the waters or the land, does that mean no scientific basis must be established before cost-effective measures are established and implemented to curtail mans potential damage or harm to this water or land? In other words, no basis in science will be required to prove these hypothetical concepts or beliefs. So decisions dont have to be evidence-based.
Further, monies will be used to create a diverse, interdisciplinary ocean-literate workforce that has the appropriate skills and training to capitalize on the opportunities as needed. In addition, formal and informal education programs will be developed and implemented to target grades K-12 and beyond which would create opportunities for enhanced appreciation of coastal and ocean issues and better prepare the workforce of the future (pages 31, 32).
http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/documents/09_17_09_Interim_Report_of_Task_Force_FINAL2.pdf
2. This Executive Order assigns the National Ocean Council responsibility for implementation of the National Policy, ensuring execution of both the policy and the Administrations objectives. Ultimately, it gives overall control of all other councils to the National Ocean Council.
Specifically, this order divides the United States into nine separate regions, initially affecting 30 states. The president will be the ultimate decision authority if a consensus cant be reached (per Section 5 (b)). This is nothing short of absolutely scary!
The Department of the Treasury will maintain the Ocean Resources and Conservation and Assistance Fund to spend the $900 million annually for grants to coastal states and Indian tribes, the Oceans, Coastal and Great Lakes Program to be developed under this plan, and regional ocean partnerships.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-stewardship-ocean-our-coasts-and-great-lakes
Three parts to the Order:
According to this order the United States will be divided into 9 separate regions initially affecting 30 states.
1. Clear ACT H.R. 3534/H.R. 5626 Creates the Regional Outer Continental Shelf Council
a. coordinate siting and development of energy resources
b. prepare Outer Continental Shelf strategies very vague statement!
2. Each region will be dealt with separately, BUT all decisions will be made by CONSENSUS. If an agreement cannot be reached the President will have the overall decision making power. As per Section 5 (b).
3. Amends the Land and Water Conservation Fund to:
Make $900 million available to the fund for each fiscal year until 2040 without further appropriation. Establishes in the Treasury the Ocean Resources and Conservation and Assistance Fund (ORCA) to spend the $900 million.
3. Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development
If your freedom is important to you, the most effective action that you can take is to e-mail this article and Michael Shaws Understanding Agenda 21 Sustainable Development booklet to all of your State Legislators, County Commissioners/ Superintendents and City Council members.
Agenda 21, the international plan of action to sustainable development, outlines key policies for achieving sustainable development that meets the needs of the poor and recognizes the limits of development to meet global needs. Agenda 21 has become the blueprint for sustainability and forms the basis for sustainable development strategies. It attempts to define a balance between production, consumption, population, development, and the Earths life-supporting capacity. It addresses poverty, excessive consumption, health and education, cities and agriculture; food and natural resource management and several more subjects. Its 40 chapters are broken up into four sections:
Social and economic dimensions: developing countries; poverty; consumption patterns; population; health; human settlements; integrating environment and development. Conservation and management of resources: atmosphere; land; forests; deserts; mountains; agriculture; biodiversity; biotechnology; oceans; fresh water; toxic chemicals; hazardous, radioactive and solid waste and sewage. Strengthening the role of major groups: women; children and youth; indigenous peoples; non-governmental organizations; local authorities; workers; business and industry; farmers; scientists and technologists. Means of implementation: finance; technology transfer; science; education; capacity-building; international institutions; legal measures; information. 4. Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST)
http://www.usasurvival.org/ck42705.shtml
According to Cliff Kincaid, Americas Survival, Inc., the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea Treaty is a measure so extreme that former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Jeane Kirkpatrick said it was viewed as the cornerstone of a Marxist-oriented New International Economic Order (NIEO). This was conceived as a scheme to transfer money and technology from the U.S. and other developed countries to the Third World.1 Kirkpatrick strongly opposed ratification of LOST.
Elisabeth Mann Borgese, a world government activist, was described as the Mother of the Oceans or First Lady of the Oceans for her role in crafting and promoting LOST.5 She not only stated her admiration for Karl Marx, the father of communism, but was an ardent advocate of the New International Economic Order.
Borgese identified several major issues on which LOST and the NIEO could reinforce each other. These included:
LOSTs recognition of the oceans being the Common Heritage of Mankind, thereby placing poor countries on an equal relationship with advanced countries and a right to share in the resources that had been declared to be the Common Heritage of Mankind. Creation of Exclusive Economic Zones, giving coastal states control over all resources and economic uses in a 200-mile zone. Establishment of the International Seabed Authority, giving developing countries a role in financial decision-making on a global level. An official 1997 World Federalist Association publication declared:
The final treaty marked real progress in establishing global governance by stipulating that mining of the seabeds beyond national waters should require payment of royalties to the LOS [Law of the Sea] organization, thereby creating a funding resource that would be independent of voluntary contributions by the treaty member nations. These are the elements of a limited world government in a very restricted field that is nevertheless significant. (emphasis added).17
From acceptance of the concept of the common heritage of mankind, Borgese figured that adoption of global taxes would follow. Gradually, she wrote, a development tax might be levied on all commercial uses of the global commons, starting with the oceans 30
While she was described as the mother or First Lady of the Oceans, Borgese described Avid Pardo as the father of the Law of the Sea who proposed a tax to be paid by States on the exploitation of natural resources within national ocean space. This concept, also embraced by Borgese, was incorporated in LOST.32
It was in 1967 that Pardo,33 who became a Maltese delegate to the United Nations,34 proclaimed that the seas beyond national jurisdiction belong to the common heritage of mankind. He declared that the poor of the world wanted a small percentage of the profits from undersea mini
Borgese made it clear that key provisions of the treaty never eliminated or altered by amendment would guarantee establishment of this new world order. Foremost among these, she cited
The International Seabed Authority, the first institution to apply the economics of the Common Heritage in the No-mans land of the deep ocean floor She believed that the International Seabed Authority and coastal states could regulate the routing, laying and the maintenance of fiber optic cables on the ocean floor.41 This would include, she said, the payment of fees for licenses, property taxes for cable head-ends, etc. The Authority, at present, has no such powers, but clearly, it should have them.
She added, For the safety of the cables themselves, the Authority must ensure the avoidance of conflict of uses of the area, it must agree to the routing and know exactly where these cables are and be informed about their maintenance. In return for these regulatory activities the Authority would be entitled to some payments. A minimal tax, either in the form of a Tobin tax, let us say of 0.001 percent on the trillion dollar annual business transacted through the cables, crossing the Area which is the Common Heritage of Mankind would not only revitalize the Authority but change the whole picture of international development cooperation and constitute a first positive answer to the insistent call by the World Bank, the United Nations system and the developing countries for innovative ways of generating new and additional funding to enable developing countries to implement all the Conventions, Agreements and programs emanating from the Earth Summit of 1992.
One former Law of the Sea Treaty negotiator told us:
There are a lot of pollution provisions in the convention. It sounds like they can do more with it than the negotiators intended. Since they didnt get their global warming treaty (ratified by the U.S.), I worry about treaty provisions on emissions and anthropogenic (human-caused) inputs into the ocean that cause pollution. They could turn this into a global warming issue. Could they bring a case against us because we have pipes that put out sewage or air pollution that finds its way into the ocean?
But there is also a military component to the treaty.
In this connection, Borgese believed that LOST prohibits the ability of nuclear submarines to rove freely through the worlds oceans and that the measure could be used to eliminate the nuclear denizens of the deep and to protect the oceans as our common global heritage.
In an article co-authored with an international lawyer,45 Borgese noted how LOST, or UNCLOS, as supporters call it ( for U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea) stipulates that the oceans shall be reserved for peaceful purposes. (emphasis in original)46 and that any threat or use of force, inconsistent with the United Nations Charter, is prohibited.47
She added, In 1982, when UNCLOS was opened for signature, it was not certain how this applied to the deployment of nuclear weapons. However, since then, the International Court of Justice, in its historic advisory opinion of 1996, determined that the threat or use of nuclear weapons would generally be contrary to the rules of international law applicable in armed conflict. Nuclear weapons deployed on submarines are in a state of readiness to use and are thus a threat of use, according to the definition given by the ICJ, and illegal. (emphasis added).
Is this coovered in the Republian Pledge to America?
We need to eff those who pass such laws, and we need to eff them royally.
There are som many hanginng fascists pieces pof legislation, that the design is to inoke them all at the same time, under the assumption that America will not resist.
No foreign body will be allowed to dictate to America. The people will not allow it.The constitution does not allow it.
It is DOA in the senate.
Dear Santa,
For Christmas this year, I would like November 2nd to be tomorrow. I have been a very good boy. Thank you,
Laz
Thanks for not excerpting.
Damn! I’ve never even heard of this bill! Can it be stopped in the senate???
lol!
ME TOO!
Dear Santa,
For Christmas this year, I would like November 2nd to be tomorrow. I have been a very good boy. Thank you,
Laz
— post of the day thus far
Simply ignore whether or not it is excerpted. Am I understood?
As it is we end up controlling more space on Earth than we can imagine just from our ownership of thousands of Pacific Islands.
For the most part the Law of the Sea provisions are pie in the sky imaginings and have little effect on whatever it is we want to do including sending nuclear submarines wherever we feel the need.
At the time this was first thought up the big deal was "tugsten nodules" ~ the Leftwingtards thought that by internationalizing tungsten nodules and mining them, with a tax paid to the UN, the American and European use of lightbulbs alone would raise third-world standards rapidly.
Well, you see what happened to tungsten lightbulbs ~ they've been displaced by CFLs, still, buying incandescent bulbs continues to play into the hands of the Globalists who still have in mind taxing tungsten nodules~
Dear Santa; Laz means "comparatively." -apl
CLEAR Act.
Originally introduced in the House of Representatives September 8, 2009 by Congressman Nick Rahall (D-WV), H.R. 3534: Consolidated Land, Energy, and Aquatic Resources Act of 2009, passed on July 30 this year by a vote of 209 - 193 with 31 present/not voting.
Of the 209 “yea” votes, all were Democrats except Tim Johnson (R-IL), and Vernon Ehlers (R-MI). Of the 31 present/not voting all but 9 were Republicans.
Although its painfully obvious the vote was split down party lines, the Republicans had the numbers to defeat the CLEAR Act considering that 39 Democrats sided with them voting “nay” and a simple majority only was required.
Critics of CLEAR point to the fact that it, “...assesses a Conservation Fee of $2 per barrel of oil and 20 cents per million BTUs of natural gas for all leases on Federal onshore and offshore lands (Section 802),” which they contend, “will jettison Americas energy prices for oil and gas through the roof.”
Even the non-partisan website govtrack.us reports that the estimated cost of the House version of the legislation would be $70 PER AMERICAN from 2011-2020.
Opposition website cautions, “The CLEAR Act (H.R. 3534) is a thinly disguised permanent roadblock to American energy which drives American companies out of the Gulf, delays future drilling, increases dependence on foreign oil, and kills tens of thousands of good paying U.S. energy jobs.”
http://www.examiner.com/religion-politics-in-wilmington/lame-duck-congress-to-ram-through-clear-act
Big Green - the most powerful lobby in DC today
Starting today, the Washington Examiner is running a special report on Big Green: the alliance of progressive activists, environmental groups like the Sierra Club, and the Democratic Party that has become perhaps the most powerful single lobby in Washington today.
Red the first installments of Part one here:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/special-editorial-reports/Big-Green-Theyre-the-green-gorillas-of-American-politics-103831954.html
You are understood to have a different opinion than many others on FreeRepublic.
Kudos for that post, Laz.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2010-513
Alabama
Nay AL-1 Bonner, Jo [R]
Nay AL-2 Bright, Bobby [D]
Nay AL-3 Rogers, Michael [R]
Nay AL-4 Aderholt, Robert [R]
Not Voting AL-5 Griffith, Parker [R]
Nay AL-6 Bachus, Spencer [R]
Nay AL-7 Davis, Artur [D]
Alaska
Nay AK-0 Young, Donald [R]
Arizona
Nay AZ-1 Kirkpatrick, Ann [D]
Nay AZ-2 Franks, Trent [R]
Not Voting AZ-3 Shadegg, John [R]
Yea AZ-4 Pastor, Edward [D]
Nay AZ-5 Mitchell, Harry [D]
Nay AZ-6 Flake, Jeff [R]
Yea AZ-7 Grijalva, Raul [D]
Yea AZ-8 Giffords, Gabrielle [D]
Arkansas
Not Voting AR-1 Berry, Robert [D]
Yea AR-2 Snyder, Victor [D]
Nay AR-3 Boozman, John [R]
Nay AR-4 Ross, Mike [D]
California
Yea CA-1 Thompson, C. [D]
Nay CA-2 Herger, Walter [R]
Nay CA-3 Lungren, Daniel [R]
Nay CA-4 McClintock, Tom [R]
Yea CA-5 Matsui, Doris [D]
Yea CA-6 Woolsey, Lynn [D]
Yea CA-7 Miller, George [D]
Yea CA-8 Pelosi, Nancy [D]
Yea CA-9 Lee, Barbara [D]
Yea CA-10 Garamendi, John [D]
Yea CA-11 McNerney, Jerry [D]
Yea CA-12 Speier, Jackie [D]
Yea CA-13 Stark, Fortney [D]
Yea CA-14 Eshoo, Anna [D]
Yea CA-15 Honda, Michael [D]
Yea CA-16 Lofgren, Zoe [D]
Yea CA-17 Farr, Sam [D]
Yea CA-18 Cardoza, Dennis [D]
Not Voting CA-19 Radanovich, George [R]
Nay CA-20 Costa, Jim [D]
Not Voting CA-21 Nunes, Devin [R]
Not Voting CA-22 McCarthy, Kevin [R]
Yea CA-23 Capps, Lois [D]
Nay CA-24 Gallegly, Elton [R]
Not Voting CA-25 McKeon, Howard [R]
Nay CA-26 Dreier, David [R]
Yea CA-27 Sherman, Brad [D]
Yea CA-28 Berman, Howard [D]
Yea CA-29 Schiff, Adam [D]
Yea CA-30 Waxman, Henry [D]
Yea CA-31 Becerra, Xavier [D]
Yea CA-32 Chu, Judy [D]
Not Voting CA-33 Watson, Diane [D]
Yea CA-34 Roybal-Allard, Lucille [D]
Yea CA-35 Waters, Maxine [D]
Yea CA-36 Harman, Jane [D]
Yea CA-37 Richardson, Laura [D]
Yea CA-38 Napolitano, Grace [D]
Yea CA-39 Sanchez, Linda [D]
Nay CA-40 Royce, Edward [R]
Nay CA-41 Lewis, Jerry [R]
Present CA-42 Miller, Gary [R]
Yea CA-43 Baca, Joe [D]
Nay CA-44 Calvert, Ken [R]
Nay CA-45 Bono Mack, Mary [R]
Nay CA-46 Rohrabacher, Dana [R]
Yea CA-47 Sanchez, Loretta [D]
Not Voting CA-48 Campbell, John [R]
Nay CA-49 Issa, Darrell [R]
Nay CA-50 Bilbray, Brian [R]
Yea CA-51 Filner, Bob [D]
Nay CA-52 Hunter, Duncan [R]
Yea CA-53 Davis, Susan [D]
Colorado
Yea CO-1 DeGette, Diana [D]
Yea CO-2 Polis, Jared [D]
Nay CO-3 Salazar, John [D]
Yea CO-4 Markey, Betsy [D]
Nay CO-5 Lamborn, Doug [R]
Nay CO-6 Coffman, Mike [R]
Not Voting CO-7 Perlmutter, Ed [D]
Connecticut
Yea CT-1 Larson, John [D]
Yea CT-2 Courtney, Joe [D]
Yea CT-3 DeLauro, Rosa [D]
Not Voting CT-4 Himes, James [D]
Yea CT-5 Murphy, Christopher [D]
Delaware
Nay DE-0 Castle, Michael [R]
Florida
Nay FL-1 Miller, Jeff [R]
Yea FL-2 Boyd, Allen [D]
Yea FL-3 Brown, Corrine [D]
Nay FL-4 Crenshaw, Ander [R]
Nay FL-5 Brown-Waite, Virginia [R]
Nay FL-6 Stearns, Clifford [R]
Nay FL-7 Mica, John [R]
Yea FL-8 Grayson, Alan [D]
Nay FL-9 Bilirakis, Gus [R]
Not Voting FL-10 Young, C. W. [R]
Yea FL-11 Castor, Kathy [D]
Nay FL-12 Putnam, Adam [R]
Nay FL-13 Buchanan, Vern [R]
Nay FL-14 Mack, Connie [R]
Nay FL-15 Posey, Bill [R]
Nay FL-16 Rooney, Thomas [R]
Yea FL-17 Meek, Kendrick [D]
Nay FL-18 Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana [R]
Yea FL-19 Deutch, Ted [D]
Yea FL-20 Wasserman Schultz, Debbie [D]
Nay FL-21 Diaz-Balart, Lincoln [R]
Yea FL-22 Klein, Ron [D]
Yea FL-23 Hastings, Alcee [D]
Yea FL-24 Kosmas, Suzanne [D]
Nay FL-25 Diaz-Balart, Mario [R]
Georgia
Nay GA-1 Kingston, Jack [R]
Yea GA-2 Bishop, Sanford [D]
Nay GA-3 Westmoreland, Lynn [R]
Yea GA-4 Johnson, Henry [D]
Yea GA-5 Lewis, John [D]
Nay GA-6 Price, Tom [R]
Not Voting GA-7 Linder, John [R]
Nay GA-8 Marshall, James [D]
Nay GA-9 Graves, Tom [R]
Nay GA-10 Broun, Paul [R]
Nay GA-11 Gingrey, John [R]
Yea GA-12 Barrow, John [D]
Yea GA-13 Scott, David [D]
Hawaii
Nay HI-1 Djou, Charles [R]
Yea HI-2 Hirono, Mazie [D]
Idaho
Yea ID-1 Minnick, Walter [D]
Nay ID-2 Simpson, Michael [R]
Illinois
Yea IL-1 Rush, Bobby [D]
Yea IL-2 Jackson, Jesse [D]
Yea IL-3 Lipinski, Daniel [D]
Yea IL-4 Gutierrez, Luis [D]
Yea IL-5 Quigley, Mike [D]
Nay IL-6 Roskam, Peter [R]
Yea IL-7 Davis, Danny [D]
Yea IL-8 Bean, Melissa [D]
Yea IL-9 Schakowsky, Janice [D]
Nay IL-10 Kirk, Mark [R]
Nay IL-11 Halvorson, Deborah [D]
Yea IL-12 Costello, Jerry [D]
Nay IL-13 Biggert, Judy [R]
Yea IL-14 Foster, Bill [D]
Yea IL-15 Johnson, Timothy [R]
Nay IL-16 Manzullo, Donald [R]
Yea IL-17 Hare, Phil [D]
Nay IL-18 Schock, Aaron [R]
Nay IL-19 Shimkus, John [R]
Indiana
Yea IN-1 Visclosky, Peter [D]
Nay IN-2 Donnelly, Joe [D]
Not Voting IN-4 Buyer, Stephen [R]
Nay IN-5 Burton, Dan [R]
Nay IN-6 Pence, Mike [R]
Yea IN-7 Carson, André [D]
Nay IN-8 Ellsworth, Brad [D]
Yea IN-9 Hill, Baron [D]
Iowa
Yea IA-1 Braley, Bruce [D]
Yea IA-2 Loebsack, David [D]
Yea IA-3 Boswell, Leonard [D]
Nay IA-4 Latham, Thomas [R]
Nay IA-5 King, Steve [R]
Kansas
Not Voting KS-1 Moran, Jerry [R]
Nay KS-2 Jenkins, Lynn [R]
Yea KS-3 Moore, Dennis [D]
Not Voting KS-4 Tiahrt, Todd [R]
Kentucky
Nay KY-1 Whitfield, Edward [R]
Nay KY-2 Guthrie, Brett [R]
Yea KY-3 Yarmuth, John [D]
Not Voting KY-4 Davis, Geoff [R]
Nay KY-5 Rogers, Harold [R]
Yea KY-6 Chandler, Ben [D]
Louisiana
Nay LA-1 Scalise, Steve [R]
Nay LA-2 Cao, Anh [R]
Yea LA-3 Melancon, Charles [D]
Nay LA-4 Fleming, John [R]
Nay LA-5 Alexander, Rodney [R]
Nay LA-6 Cassidy, Bill [R]
Nay LA-7 Boustany, Charles [R]
Maine
Yea ME-1 Pingree, Chellie [D]
Yea ME-2 Michaud, Michael [D]
Maryland
Yea MD-1 Kratovil, Frank [D]
Yea MD-2 Ruppersberger, C.A. [D]
Yea MD-3 Sarbanes, John [D]
Yea MD-4 Edwards, Donna [D]
Yea MD-5 Hoyer, Steny [D]
Nay MD-6 Bartlett, Roscoe [R]
Yea MD-7 Cummings, Elijah [D]
Yea MD-8 Van Hollen, Christopher [D]
Massachusetts
Yea MA-1 Olver, John [D]
Yea MA-2 Neal, Richard [D]
Yea MA-3 McGovern, James [D]
Yea MA-4 Frank, Barney [D]
Yea MA-5 Tsongas, Niki [D]
Yea MA-6 Tierney, John [D]
Yea MA-7 Markey, Edward [D]
Yea MA-8 Capuano, Michael [D]
Yea MA-9 Lynch, Stephen [D]
Not Voting MA-10 Delahunt, William [D]
Michigan
Yea MI-1 Stupak, Bart [D]
Not Voting MI-2 Hoekstra, Peter [R]
Yea MI-3 Ehlers, Vernon [R]
Nay MI-4 Camp, David [R]
Yea MI-5 Kildee, Dale [D]
Nay MI-6 Upton, Frederick [R]
Yea MI-7 Schauer, Mark [D]
Not Voting MI-8 Rogers, Michael [R]
Yea MI-9 Peters, Gary [D]
Nay MI-10 Miller, Candice [R]
Nay MI-11 McCotter, Thaddeus [R]
Yea MI-12 Levin, Sander [D]
Not Voting MI-13 Kilpatrick, Carolyn [D]
Yea MI-14 Conyers, John [D]
Yea MI-15 Dingell, John [D]
Minnesota
Yea MN-1 Walz, Timothy [D]
Nay MN-2 Kline, John [R]
Nay MN-3 Paulsen, Erik [R]
Yea MN-4 McCollum, Betty [D]
Yea MN-5 Ellison, Keith [D]
Nay MN-6 Bachmann, Michele [R]
Nay MN-7 Peterson, Collin [D]
Yea MN-8 Oberstar, James [D]
Mississippi
Nay MS-1 Childers, Travis [D]
Yea MS-2 Thompson, Bennie [D]
Nay MS-3 Harper, Gregg [R]
Yea MS-4 Taylor, Gene [D]
Missouri
Yea MO-1 Clay, William [D]
Not Voting MO-2 Akin, W. [R]
Yea MO-3 Carnahan, Russ [D]
Nay MO-4 Skelton, Ike [D]
Yea MO-5 Cleaver, Emanuel [D]
Nay MO-6 Graves, Samuel [R]
Not Voting MO-7 Blunt, Roy [R]
Nay MO-8 Emerson, Jo Ann [R]
Nay MO-9 Luetkemeyer, Blaine [R]
Montana
Nay MT-0 Rehberg, Dennis [R]
Nebraska
Nay NE-1 Fortenberry, Jeffrey [R]
Nay NE-2 Terry, Lee [R]
Nay NE-3 Smith, Adrian [R]
Nevada
Yea NV-1 Berkley, Shelley [D]
Nay NV-2 Heller, Dean [R]
Nay NV-3 Titus, Dina [D]
New Hampshire
Yea NH-1 Shea-Porter, Carol [D]
Yea NH-2 Hodes, Paul [D]
New Jersey
Yea NJ-1 Andrews, Robert [D]
Nay NJ-2 LoBiondo, Frank [R]
Yea NJ-3 Adler, John [D]
Nay NJ-4 Smith, Christopher [R]
Nay NJ-5 Garrett, Scott [R]
Yea NJ-6 Pallone, Frank [D]
Nay NJ-7 Lance, Leonard [R]
Yea NJ-8 Pascrell, William [D]
Yea NJ-9 Rothman, Steven [D]
Yea NJ-10 Payne, Donald [D]
Nay NJ-11 Frelinghuysen, Rodney [R]
Yea NJ-12 Holt, Rush [D]
Yea NJ-13 Sires, Albio [D]
New Mexico
Yea NM-1 Heinrich, Martin [D]
Nay NM-2 Teague, Harry [D]
Yea NM-3 Lujan, Ben [D]
New York
Yea NY-1 Bishop, Timothy [D]
Yea NY-2 Israel, Steve [D]
Nay NY-3 King, Peter [R]
Yea NY-4 McCarthy, Carolyn [D]
Yea NY-5 Ackerman, Gary [D]
Yea NY-6 Meeks, Gregory [D]
Yea NY-7 Crowley, Joseph [D]
Yea NY-8 Nadler, Jerrold [D]
Yea NY-9 Weiner, Anthony [D]
Yea NY-10 Towns, Edolphus [D]
Yea NY-11 Clarke, Yvette [D]
Yea NY-12 Velazquez, Nydia [D]
Nay NY-13 McMahon, Michael [D]
Yea NY-14 Maloney, Carolyn [D]
Yea NY-15 Rangel, Charles [D]
Yea NY-16 Serrano, José [D]
Yea NY-17 Engel, Eliot [D]
Yea NY-18 Lowey, Nita [D]
Yea NY-19 Hall, John [D]
Yea NY-20 Murphy, Scott [D]
Yea NY-21 Tonko, Paul [D]
Yea NY-22 Hinchey, Maurice [D]
Yea NY-23 Owens, William [D]
Yea NY-24 Arcuri, Michael [D]
Yea NY-25 Maffei, Daniel [D]
Nay NY-26 Lee, Christopher [R]
Yea NY-27 Higgins, Brian [D]
Yea NY-28 Slaughter, Louise [D]
North Carolina
Yea NC-1 Butterfield, George [D]
Yea NC-2 Etheridge, Bob [D]
Nay NC-3 Jones, Walter [R]
Yea NC-4 Price, David [D]
Nay NC-5 Foxx, Virginia [R]
Nay NC-6 Coble, Howard [R]
Yea NC-7 McIntyre, Mike [D]
Yea NC-8 Kissell, Larry [D]
Nay NC-9 Myrick, Sue [R]
Nay NC-10 McHenry, Patrick [R]
Yea NC-11 Shuler, Heath [D]
Yea NC-12 Watt, Melvin [D]
Yea NC-13 Miller, R. [D]
North Dakota
Nay ND-0 Pomeroy, Earl [D]
Ohio
Yea OH-1 Driehaus, Steve [D]
Nay OH-2 Schmidt, Jean [R]
Nay OH-3 Turner, Michael [R]
Nay OH-4 Jordan, Jim [R]
Nay OH-5 Latta, Robert [R]
Nay OH-6 Wilson, Charles [D]
Nay OH-7 Austria, Steve [R]
Nay OH-8 Boehner, John [R]
Yea OH-9 Kaptur, Marcy [D]
Yea OH-10 Kucinich, Dennis [D]
Yea OH-11 Fudge, Marcia [D]
Nay OH-12 Tiberi, Patrick [R]
Yea OH-13 Sutton, Betty [D]
Nay OH-14 LaTourette, Steven [R]
Yea OH-15 Kilroy, Mary Jo [D]
Nay OH-16 Boccieri, John [D]
Yea OH-17 Ryan, Timothy [D]
Nay OH-18 Space, Zachary [D]
Oklahoma
Nay OK-1 Sullivan, John [R]
Nay OK-2 Boren, Dan [D]
Nay OK-3 Lucas, Frank [R]
Nay OK-4 Cole, Tom [R]
Nay OK-5 Fallin, Mary [R]
Oregon
Yea OR-1 Wu, David [D]
Nay OR-2 Walden, Greg [R]
Yea OR-3 Blumenauer, Earl [D]
Yea OR-4 DeFazio, Peter [D]
Yea OR-5 Schrader, Kurt [D]
Pennsylvania
Yea PA-1 Brady, Robert [D]
Yea PA-2 Fattah, Chaka [D]
Yea PA-3 Dahlkemper, Kathleen [D]
Yea PA-4 Altmire, Jason [D]
Nay PA-5 Thompson, Glenn [R]
Nay PA-6 Gerlach, Jim [R]
Yea PA-7 Sestak, Joe [D]
Yea PA-8 Murphy, Patrick [D]
Nay PA-9 Shuster, William [R]
Not Voting PA-10 Carney, Christopher [D]
Yea PA-11 Kanjorski, Paul [D]
Yea PA-12 Critz, Mark [D]
Yea PA-13 Schwartz, Allyson [D]
Yea PA-14 Doyle, Michael [D]
Nay PA-15 Dent, Charles [R]
Nay PA-16 Pitts, Joseph [R]
Nay PA-17 Holden, Tim [D]
Nay PA-18 Murphy, Tim [R]
Nay PA-19 Platts, Todd [R]
Rhode Island
Yea RI-1 Kennedy, Patrick [D]
Yea RI-2 Langevin, James [D]
South Carolina
Not Voting SC-1 Brown, Henry [R]
Nay SC-2 Wilson, Addison [R]
Not Voting SC-3 Barrett, James [R]
Nay SC-4 Inglis, Bob [R]
Yea SC-5 Spratt, John [D]
Yea SC-6 Clyburn, James [D]
South Dakota
Nay SD-0 Herseth Sandlin, Stephanie [D]
Tennessee
Nay TN-1 Roe, Phil [R]
Nay TN-2 Duncan, John [R]
Not Voting TN-3 Wamp, Zach [R]
Nay TN-4 Davis, Lincoln [D]
Nay TN-5 Cooper, Jim [D]
Yea TN-6 Gordon, Barton [D]
Nay TN-7 Blackburn, Marsha [R]
Nay TN-8 Tanner, John [D]
Yea TN-9 Cohen, Steve [D]
Texas
Nay TX-1 Gohmert, Louis [R]
Nay TX-2 Poe, Ted [R]
Not Voting TX-3 Johnson, Samuel [R]
Nay TX-4 Hall, Ralph [R]
Nay TX-5 Hensarling, Jeb [R]
Nay TX-6 Barton, Joe [R]
Nay TX-7 Culberson, John [R]
Nay TX-8 Brady, Kevin [R]
Yea TX-9 Green, Al [D]
Nay TX-10 McCaul, Michael [R]
Nay TX-11 Conaway, K. [R]
Nay TX-12 Granger, Kay [R]
Nay TX-13 Thornberry, William [R]
Nay TX-14 Paul, Ronald [R]
Nay TX-15 Hinojosa, Rubén [D]
Not Voting TX-16 Reyes, Silvestre [D]
Nay TX-17 Edwards, Thomas [D]
Nay TX-18 Jackson-Lee, Sheila [D]
Nay TX-19 Neugebauer, Randy [R]
Nay TX-20 Gonzalez, Charles [D]
Nay TX-21 Smith, Lamar [R]
Nay TX-22 Olson, Pete [R]
Nay TX-23 Rodriguez, Ciro [D]
Nay TX-24 Marchant, Kenny [R]
Yea TX-25 Doggett, Lloyd [D]
Nay TX-26 Burgess, Michael [R]
Nay TX-27 Ortiz, Solomon [D]
Nay TX-28 Cuellar, Henry [D]
Nay TX-29 Green, Raymond [D]
Yea TX-30 Johnson, Eddie [D]
Nay TX-31 Carter, John [R]
Nay TX-32 Sessions, Peter [R]
Utah
Nay UT-1 Bishop, Rob [R]
Nay UT-2 Matheson, Jim [D]
Nay UT-3 Chaffetz, Jason [R]
Vermont
Yea VT-0 Welch, Peter [D]
Virginia
Nay VA-1 Wittman, Rob [R]
Nay VA-2 Nye, Glenn [D]
Yea VA-3 Scott, Robert [D]
Nay VA-4 Forbes, J. [R]
Nay VA-5 Perriello, Thomas [D]
Nay VA-6 Goodlatte, Robert [R]
Nay VA-7 Cantor, Eric [R]
Yea VA-8 Moran, James [D]
Nay VA-9 Boucher, Frederick [D]
Nay VA-10 Wolf, Frank [R]
Yea VA-11 Connolly, Gerald [D]
Washington
Yea WA-1 Inslee, Jay [D]
Yea WA-2 Larsen, Rick [D]
Yea WA-3 Baird, Brian [D]
Nay WA-4 Hastings, Doc [R]
Nay WA-5 McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [R]
Yea WA-6 Dicks, Norman [D]
Yea WA-7 McDermott, James [D]
Nay WA-8 Reichert, Dave [R]
Yea WA-9 Smith, Adam [D]
West Virginia
Yea WV-1 Mollohan, Alan [D]
Nay WV-2 Capito, Shelley [R]
Yea WV-3 Rahall, Nick [D]
Wisconsin
Nay WI-1 Ryan, Paul [R]
Yea WI-2 Baldwin, Tammy [D]
Yea WI-3 Kind, Ronald [D]
Yea WI-4 Moore, Gwen [D]
Nay WI-5 Sensenbrenner, F. [R]
Nay WI-6 Petri, Thomas [R]
Not Voting WI-7 Obey, David [D]
Yea WI-8 Kagen, Steve [D]
Wyoming
Nay WY-0 Lummis, Cynthia [R]
Honestly, I feel sick.
It’ll be here very soon, Laz. Let’s just hope it rains a little bit and that will keep the rats in their holes.
LOL.
Just passed...almost two months ago (Aug 4th). Senate doing nothing with it.
REALLY??? JUST got screwed?? JUST Passed??? In the story itself it says this passed on July 30. Think about the Headline on your post before blaring out something that’s 2 months old as having “just got.”
Yes it’s a bad bill and Yes it needs stopped but we don’t need to give the libs fodder to say we’re running around screaming “the sky is falling” on something that’s been hashed out months ago.
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