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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[Tulane]

Because we are able to concetrate better on the industries and services that we provide, while being able to purchase raw materials and manufactured goods more cheaply...it is win-win baby.

[drypowder]

Free trade only works if ITS FAIR TRADE. The current US trade deficit with China comes to mind. Any trade agreement that costs thousands of middle class US jobs (NAFTA, GATT) can't be good for the well being and strength of this country. Clinton claimed the NAFTA GATT agreements created US jobs. In all accounts he's right but from what I've read many who lost good paying jobs now have to work two or three lower paying jobs to maintain their standard of living. Is that really job creation? The same will undoubtedly hold true for CAFCA.

[tailgunner]

Thanks, neighbor.

When the votes are rilly close, THAT's when these yo-yoes show the skull and crossbones--their true colors of their hearts.

[international american]

ROTF....

[Syds Dad]

"It really comes down to this:

Capitalists and free traders see no limit to the power of markets and wealth...

Protectionists think there is a limited amount of wealth to be created (almost a communistic way of lokking at the world economy)."


Agree completely. Most protectionists I come across are unmotivated and uninspired people. Like the 70 year old man who curses out computers and the internet and refuses to learn it.

[absolootezer0]

did anyone from our state vote against?

[w6ai5q37b]

Wake up. The Constitution states that it is the supreme law of the land.

By signing on to CAFTA, we have made CAFTA regulations superior to the regulations Congress comes up with. Hence CAFTA has been made superior to the Constitution. This is already going on with NAFTA. And the WTO.

The Constitution also says that Congress shall regulate trade, no one else. Not even a CAFTA tribunal.

Have even thought who will be implementing CAFTA regulations? Not anyboday you will be able to control.

[Tulane]

I am proud of the guys that got this done...though CAFTA is only a very small trade agreement, it bodes well for the future. Just my $.02.

Kudos to the Dems who crossed over (we spend enogh time bashing them, might as well through them a bone when they actually get it right).

[Syds Dad]

" In all accounts he's right but from what I've read many who lost good paying jobs now have to work two or three lower paying jobs to maintain their standard of living."


I hear this garbage all the time. It's a wonder I never run into these people.

Everybody I know is living light years better than they were 10 years ago, and it's not even close.

Learn new skills, find a new job. There's tons of high paying jobs out there if you have the motivation and initiative to find them. People who refuse to adjust are going to suffer, that's not my problem that they chose to go down that road. I'll continue to thrive.

[Happy2BMe]

The last fifteen minutes of the vote were the most telling to me.

Many fortunes were made in the last five.

Millions and millions of dollars in campaign monies were made along with hundreds of multi-million dollar projects for various congressional districts.

In short: The vote was bought and America will pay the price.

[w6ai5q37b]

Wake up Jebediah. It's no longer the 1800s. The Pony Express doesn't exist anymore.

And thanks to people like you, neither does the United States exist anymore either. Back in Jedediah's day, you'd be branded as a traitor.

[azhenfud]

"..I'm leaning towards concluding that CAFTA is a bad thing."

I look to NAFTA as evidence how this new agreement will be a setback in sectors of our economic expansion. DuPont had a polyesters plant near my hometown and as soon as NAFTA was passed, they began "downsizing" and offering early retirements. Many employees stayed on because they simply didn't have the years to qualify. DuPont "sold" the operation to a Mexican outfit (because as allowable under NAFTA, Mexico requires their nationals maintain controlling shares of businesses) and moved all the process equipment to Mexico.

In US beef sales, think of it this way - there are a limited number of metric tons of beef to be sold on the "world market" in excess of what US consumers purchase. When those other markets "open" and can only afford a break even price for the product, that open market will have the US and foreign consumers competing for US beef and who will end up paying more? US consumers because distributors will realize they can make up more than the difference from Americans and they'll view that difference as increased profits. Unless there is an adequate producer increase to keep up with both domestic and foreign demand which would help keep prices low, watch and see what happens. $8-12 lb for "high quality" beef will be commonplace.

[Tulane]

Really?

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

Does the constitution not give the executive branch the right to make treaties? You might want to read it, Justice Calegero.

[conservativebabe]

CO was a split. Musgrave and BeaupreZ- Aye, Tancredo and Salazar- Not

[Tulane]

If NAFTA was bad, why has the economy expanded at a rate of 4% per year since we signed it?

[cripplecreek]

Candice miller. No to CAFTA and strong on border control.

[Happy2BMe]

99% of everyone on this thread is totally oblivious to the political cost of CAFTA that you alluded to in #67.

[Syds Dad]

Case in point.. Visit your average trailer park.

My wife's a case worker and sees them all the time. They are filled with DirecTV satellites, DVD Players, Big Screen TV's, and empty beer cans littered on the floor.


Yes, the standard of living in the United States is just plummeting.

[international american]

""The choice was CAFTA or give Central America to China."

That is about as true as we need 40 million illiterate uneducated illegals to pick fruit.

I just returned from China. I do business there every year. China wants OUR a$$, not a bunch of peasants from Central America.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Capitalism, Freedom and Free trade works everytime it's tried.

I was really hoping that you left off the /sarcasm tag on your previous post.

I'm sure you also think the NAFTA treaty sellout has also been a roaring success for America.

Why, in your opinion, do you think CAFTA will be good for America. Please realize that I do not give two shits about the rest of the world's economies, I just want to know how this latest socialistic crap is going to benefit us.

Thank you in advance.