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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[TXBSAFH]

Russia has prtective trade laws and their economy is growing at a bout 10% per year for the last few years.

[Tulane]

Oy veh...they also had 100% employment under the communist regime. They are much more open now than they were before.

[Colorado Doug]

Nice strawman...what does our government's inability to enforce trade law with China have to do with Cafta? Answer: zero.

Not a strawman, you just gave the exact same list of reasons why this would be good as the promoters of "free trade" with China gives

[grellis]

What I really don't get is that one of his aides was at the county EC meeting last night and I could have sworn she said he'd be voting against it. I've been wracking my brains trying to remember exactly what she said. Whatever it was, it left me with such a strong impression that he'd vote nay that I didn't bother watching the vote.

Baffled!

[nutmeg]

find later

[Tulane]

don't understand the post.

[hedgetrimmer]

Human Smuggling Crackdown

July 14, 2005 -- A new task force was developed to keep human smuggling on our border from turning into slave labor and sex slavery in other parts of the country.
The Salvation Army is leading the effort by developing task forces in Denver, Las Vegas, Anchorage and El Paso.

El Paso is considered the corridor for trafficking, the other cities are destinations.

"These individuals many times are forced into situations such as forced labor or even sexual exploitation to maybe to pay off a debt like their smuggling fee," said Leticia Zamarripa with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The El Paso police department is the lead agency in El Paso. It's being helped by federal agencies and some non-government groups.

It is still in its infancy stage, but officers are asking the community to report suspicious activity.

Task force to focus on sex slavery

In fact, the U.S. attorney in Colorado recently closed nine Korean spas, saying they were being used as covers for brothels and that the women were unwilling participants.

"I feel terrible for these poor souls," Borodkin said. "They're lost and they're trapped. They need help and we need to let people know this is occurring. We need to get a handle on the numbers."

Ann Terry, an official with the Colorado Department of Public Safety, said that will be difficult because busts in the sex slave industry tend to result in the women being arrested under anti-prostitution laws instead of being treated as victims of sexual slavery.

North Korean Refugees Frequent Victims of Human Trafficking

Connecticut to receive $448,983 to fight human trafficking

"This money will train our public safety officers to identify and root out those who recruit and coerce immigrants into prostitution or forced labor," Rell said. "Our primary goal is to rescue trafficking victims. We can do that by assuring that our law enforcement officials receive proper training."

State Sen. Andrea Stillman, D-Waterford, chairman of the Connecticut Interagency Task Force on Trafficking in Persons, said there is a meeting later this summer to coordinate the state's effort against human trafficking.

"These federal funds will provide a vital piece of the puzzle, helping public safety officials recognize and rescue trafficking victims," Stillman said.

Traffickers are known to use a variety of techniques to keep victims enslaved, including confiscating passports and visas, keeping them honor-bound to satisfy debts, isolating them from family, using or threatening violence and telling victims they'll be deported if they contact authorities.

Trafficking of human beings is the fastest growing criminal industry in the world. According to the U.S. State Department, nearly a million victims are trafficked across international borders and between 17,000 and 20,000 are brought into the U.S.

Open borders, doncha know.

[Syds Dad]

LOL.. Explain to me how **FARMERS** were unable to **FEED** their families because of NAFTA.


I can't wait to hear this one... and I'll revert to my previous statement.. "I'm simply stunned at the ignorance of economics and history on here"

[Egon]

What you "free traders" are saying is that trade trumps everything, including the purposes of the US Constitution.

I'm not a "free trader". I happen to think that "free trade" is a great idea in theory, but will never work in practice. It follows the same model as pure democracy or pure capitalism.

If individual rights are protected, then tariffs, and revenue generated by tariffs are welcome.

If corporate "rights" (these are not officially recognized by the Constitution) are protected, then eliminating revenue generating tariffs are the name of the game.

I don't think I'm following you here. I don't think I'm talking about corporate rights, per se. I'm talking about fair trade across national borders. This should protect businesses regardless of whether they consist of one person selling fruit on a street corner, or a huge corporation. I don't think it comes down to any constitutional rights at all, it's more about protecting the security (in this case economic) of the country.

The country is made up of individuals, as are corporations. If the country's economy is suffering because of imbalance in trading practices, corporations suffer and therefore individuals suffer.

[hedgetrimmer]

If you think the United States has any intention of honoring any decisions by this regulatory board that it thinks will be destructive to our business interests, you're dreaming.

But they don't mind honoring them if they hurt indivdual rights and usurp the US Constitution.

[hedgetrimmer]

I don't think I'm following you here

The Constitution was written to protect individual rights, you understand that, don't you?

All your arguments boil down to protecting "businesses".

The Constitution protects rights of individuals, not businesses. It is not the duty of the federal government to protect business per se, it is the duty of the federal government to protect indivudals who may or may not be businessmen.

[Myrddin]

Both Idaho reps voted no. It's bad news for Idaho sugar beet farmers.

[TXBSAFH]

I am not talking about their communist government. I am talking about the past 5 years. They have protectionism and their economy is booming.

[hedgetrimmer]

"I'm simply stunned at the ignorance of economics the Constitution and its purpose-- that individual liberty and freedom must be protected."

[Tulane]

And this is CAFTA or NAFTA's fault?? Are you suggesting this wasn't happening before NAFTA?

[TheSpottedOwl]

We want to sell in these markets, too. Think Washington Apples.

Who will be able to afford to buy them? The average income for the people there is pretty low. Will we artificially lower the price of these Washington apples, so they can afford them? How will the producers of these apples make a profit selling below cost?

What else does America still produce that can be sold to these countries? Most of the goods that we consume are now made in foreign countries. Exactly what are we exporting that Chileans, Columbians, etc, want or can afford?

If I want hand crafted native artifacts, I can already get them, mostly at the swapmeet : (

[Alberta's Child]

Understood, but that really has nothing to do with CAFTA.

[hedgetrimmer]

NAFTA and the creation of the WTO, gave international bodies and institutions authority over the American people like no other trade treaty ever approved by Congress.

The only other treaties that have had at least as much or more detrimental effect on American citizens, was the Migratory bird treaty which was the basis of the Endangered Species Act, and the Rio Accords, signed by president HW Bush, and implemented by Clinton and GW Bush through executive order, the GATT and WTO and the NAFTA and CAFTA.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Sickening, isn't it? Talk about lockstep march into the abyss, by the GOP. Let's not forget that the Dems voted against this enmasse, just because the President wants it. I would like for his head to be examined at this point.

If Clinton wanted this, the roll call would be the absolute opposite.

[hedgetrimmer]

Well yes it does. The CAFTA is enabling legislation. Just look at all the side agreements that are now part of the CAFTA. There will be more.