FINAL CAFTA VOTE ROLL CALL - How did your Congressman Vote?

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[Happy2BMe]

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 443(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)
      H R 3045      RECORDED VOTE      28-Jul-2005      12:03 AM
      QUESTION:  On Passage
      BILL TITLE: Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act

	Ayes	Noes	PRES	NV
Republican	202	27		2
Democratic	15	187
Independent		1
TOTALS	217	215		2

---- AYES    217 ---

Aderholt Akin Alexander Bachus Baker Barrett (SC) Bartlett (MD) Barton (TX) Bass Bean Beauprez Biggert Bilirakis Bishop (UT) Blackburn Blunt Boehlert Boehner Bonilla Bonner Bono Boozman Bradley (NH) Brady (TX) Brown (SC) Brown-Waite, Ginny Burgess Burton (IN) Buyer Calvert Camp Cannon Cantor Carter Castle Chabot Chocola Cole (OK) Conaway Cooper Cox Crenshaw Cuellar Culberson Cunningham Davis (KY) Davis, Tom Deal (GA) DeLay Dent Diaz-Balart, L. Diaz-Balart, M. Dicks Doolittle Drake Dreier Duncan Ehlers Emerson English (PA) Everett Feeney Ferguson Fitzpatrick (PA) Flake Foley Forbes Fortenberry Fossella Franks (AZ) Frelinghuysen Gallegly Gerlach

Gibbons Gilchrest Gillmor Gingrey Gohmert Goodlatte Granger Graves Green (WI) Hall Harris Hart Hastert Hastings (WA) Hayes Hayworth Hefley Hensarling Herger Hinojosa Hobson Hoekstra Hulshof Hyde Inglis (SC) Issa Istook Jefferson Jenkins Johnson (CT) Johnson (IL) Johnson, Sam Keller Kelly Kennedy (MN) King (IA) King (NY) Kingston Kirk Kline Knollenberg Kolbe Kuhl (NY) LaHood Latham LaTourette Leach Lewis (CA) Lewis (KY) Linder Lucas Lungren, Daniel E. Manzullo Marchant Matheson McCaul (TX) McCrery McKeon McMorris Meeks (NY) Mica Miller (FL) Miller, Gary Moore (KS) Moran (KS) Moran (VA) Murphy Musgrave Myrick Neugebauer Northup Nunes Nussle

Ortiz Osborne Oxley Pearce Pence Peterson (PA) Petri Pickering Pitts Platts Poe Pombo Porter Price (GA) Pryce (OH) Putnam Radanovich Ramstad Regula Reichert Renzi Reynolds Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rogers (MI) Rohrabacher Ros-Lehtinen Royce Ryan (WI) Ryun (KS) Saxton Schwarz (MI) Sensenbrenner Sessions Shadegg Shaw Shays Sherwood Shimkus Shuster Skelton Smith (TX) Snyder Sodrel Souder Stearns Sullivan Sweeney Tanner Terry Thomas Thornberry Tiahrt Tiberi Towns Turner Upton Walden (OR) Walsh Wamp Weldon (FL) Weldon (PA) Weller Westmoreland Whitfield Wicker Wilson (NM) Wilson (SC) Wolf Young (AK) Young (FL)

---- NOES    215 ---

Abercrombie Ackerman Allen Andrews Baca Baird Baldwin Barrow Becerra Berkley Berman Berry Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Blumenauer Boren Boswell Boucher Boustany Boyd Brady (PA) Brown (OH) Brown, Corrine Butterfield Capito Capps Capuano Cardin Cardoza Carnahan Carson Case Chandler Clay Cleaver Clyburn Coble Conyers Costa Costello Cramer Crowley Cubin Cummings Davis (AL) Davis (CA) Davis (FL) Davis (IL) Davis (TN) DeFazio DeGette Delahunt DeLauro Dingell Doggett Doyle Edwards Emanuel Engel Eshoo Etheridge Evans Farr Fattah Filner Ford Foxx Frank (MA) Garrett (NJ) Gonzalez Goode Gordon

Green, Al Green, Gene Grijalva Gutierrez Gutknecht Harman Hastings (FL) Herseth Higgins Hinchey Holden Holt Honda Hooley Hostettler Hoyer Hunter Inslee Israel Jackson (IL) Jackson-Lee (TX) Jindal Johnson, E. B. Jones (NC) Jones (OH) Kanjorski Kaptur Kennedy (RI) Kildee Kilpatrick (MI) Kind Kucinich Langevin Lantos Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lee Levin Lewis (GA) Lipinski LoBiondo Lofgren, Zoe Lowey Lynch Mack Maloney Markey Marshall Matsui McCarthy McCollum (MN) McCotter McDermott McGovern McHenry McHugh McIntyre McKinney McNulty Meehan Meek (FL) Melancon Menendez Michaud Millender-McDonald Miller (MI) Miller (NC) Miller, George Mollohan Moore (WI) Murtha Nadler

Napolitano Neal (MA) Ney Norwood Oberstar Obey Olver Otter Owens Pallone Pascrell Pastor Paul Payne Pelosi Peterson (MN) Pomeroy Price (NC) Rahall Rangel Rehberg Reyes Ross Rothman Roybal-Allard Ruppersberger Rush Ryan (OH) Sabo Salazar Sánchez, Linda T. Sanchez, Loretta Sanders Schakowsky Schiff Schwartz (PA) Scott (GA) Scott (VA) Serrano Sherman Simmons Simpson Slaughter Smith (NJ) Smith (WA) Solis Spratt Stark Strickland Stupak Tancredo Tauscher Taylor (MS) Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Tierney Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Van Hollen Velázquez Visclosky Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Watt Waxman Weiner Wexler Woolsey Wu Wynn

---- NOT VOTING    2 ---

Davis, Jo Ann

Taylor (NC)

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[Lekker 1]

In my book the Yea voters don't care about the Constitution or our country

Which language from the Constitution are you talking about? How does restricting what we have access to fit into the Constitution, which was written as a restriction on our Federal Government?

[kenth]

Yep. It's nothing more than a redistribution of wealth on an international scale. That same wealth redistribution is normally decried by conservatives when it happens with Americans. Were the other countries playing by the same rules as us, then it could be called "free trade".

[Syds Dad]

NAFTA had nothing to do with the flood of illegals. This is one of the most absurd arguments on the entire debate.

As long as California and other socialist states continue to grow social programs faster than the economy of Mexico (which is growing, very very well mind you), there will be large numbers of people who want to come in.

[BushisTheMan]

If CAFTA & NAFTA are syphoning jobs from the U.S., why are all the jobs going to India and China?

Aren't CAFTA and NAFTA agreements with Central and Latin American (North American) countries?

[Clemenza]

My congressman, Baghdad Jim McDermott, voted no. Since he represents the globalist cultural elite here in Seattle, I guess he was reflecting the views of his constituents. ;-)

[madison10]

Good for Candace. Our state is going to get pummeled with another "free trade" agreement & applaud her on the border control vote.

[RonPaulLives]

The five Republicans from Kentucky voted FOR the new "SHAFTA" and the one Democrat voted against it. The sellout continues.

BLUEGRASS PING

[Syds Dad]

Jobs aren't leaving. NAFTA was a 800-pound gorilla, and the United States, already an economic super power, grew even stronger in the time period since.

Jobs have been created faster than the population has exploded. The U.S. labor force is going to be tight as it's ever been in history when the boomers begin to retire.

[TheSpottedOwl]

I think the Pony Express did a better job than today's USPS.

[Syds Dad]

Explain the wealth growth and standard of living improvements in America since NAFTA, a free trade agreement hundreds of times larger than this one.

[Gipper08]

Pence is a free trader(60%).I do not agree with all aspects of the bill,but we must undermine China moving in on Central and South America and we must undermine the MANY far left movements that are reemerging in Central and South American.This bill will strengthen and weaken America in different ways.

[Egon]

Is it the responsibility of the Government to "control" market segments or is it the role of the market to control itself?

It's the responsibility of the government to remove as many obstacles from free trade as possible.

Best case, it means lowering taxes, regulations, and restrictions wherever possible.

When dealing with other countries who artificially control their own industries and standards of living to keep their products more cost effective, it means protecting our industries against an unfair advantage.

It's about keeping the free trade model on a level playing field. It's not happening. We're signing onto these "free trade" agreements with both hands tied behind our backs.

[DTogo]

TOM TANCR-'08-O !!

[gopwinsin04]

3-4 Democrats just voted themselves out of office.

[You Dirty Rats]

I don't have a Congressman at the moment, since he left his seat to help the President get CAFTA past the paleocons and the 'Rats.

Great job, Rob Portman!

[Lekker 1]

Statistically speaking, for each job outsourced, there is a net gain of jobs in this country. Too many people are letting their emotions cloud their judgement. The standard of living, number of jobs, and buying power of Americans on average continue to climb regardless of the fact that we have been "losing jobs" overseas for decades. The Soviets, on the other hand, prohibited the use of backhoes in order to preserve jobs for their ditch-diggers. Protectionism has never worked.

[Ex-expromissor]

"I'm simply stunned at the ignorance of economics and history on here of what otherwise would seem to be reasonable people."

That's funny... I feel the exact same way about the "Conservatives" who supported CAFTA. :-)

[w6ai5q37b]

I suppose any treat we sign then becomes the Supreme law of the land...Was NATO unconstitutional?

Not all treaties are unconstitutional. Only the ones which establish an international government.

The US Constitution has in it written that only Congress has the power to declare war. Not NATO or the UN Security council. Yet who is it now that sends our boys to die in pointless foreign no-win conflicts? The UN Security council. Congress, by permitting the UN security council to determine whether we go to war or not, is committing an unconstitutional act. But the UN charter says that the Security council shall be the body which determines whether a given UN member (US included) shall go to war. So there is a conflict between the US constitution and the UN charter.

Ergo UN charter is unconstitutional. And NATO, which carries out the wishes of the UN Security Council, is by default unconstitutional as well.

Again, this is not true of all treaties, where there is a simple covenant established between 2 or more nations, and no shadowy international organization with tens of thousands of wonks paid for with your tax dollars to undermine your government's authority and your way of life.

[CSM]

"Our state is going to get pummeled with another "free trade" agreement & applaud her on the border control vote."

Our State deserves the pummelling that it will receive. When you live by the socialist sword, you can be killed by the socialist sword. The political group controlling state politics, need to start learning of the consequences of their actions.