Posted on 03/15/2011 4:40:22 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
271-158. Frankly, with that margin, they can probably pass another one in a few weeks’ time if negotiations with Reid on a long-term budget break down yet again.
While the last short-term spending bill received nearly unanimous support from the Republican Conference on March 1 (only six opposed), 54 House Republicans peeled off in opposition to the latest short-term bill, with many conservatives taking a stand against funding the government on an incremental basis. Without support from 85 House Democrats, the bill could have failed…
This spending bill includes $6 billion worth of cuts compared to 2010 spending levels, cutting 25 programs for a savings of $3.5 billion and eliminating $2.6 billion in earmarks that were automatically renewed in the CR approved by the Democratic-controlled Congress last December.
Among those voting no: Michele Bachmann, Jason Chaffetz, Jeff Flake, Dean Heller, Steve King, Thad McCotter, Ron Paul, Mike Pence, and Allen West, who wondered when Congress will begin showing “adult leadership” on spending. To put that in perspective, note that the $6 billion in cuts proposed in today’s three-week bill exceeds the amount of cuts proposed in the Democrats’ budget for the rest of the year.
These short-term funding resolutions are passed without any riders related to Planned Parenthood, PBS, etc, so that Senate Democrats won’t choke on them. House Republicans haven’t forgotten about NPR, though, so the Rules Committee is planning to meet tomorrow and write a clean bill to defund the organization. (It’ll surely die in the Senate.) I’ve already gotten an e-mail from an lefty noting that this is the sort of thing the GOP is consumed with at a moment when half the world is on fire and the government’s facing a shutdown. Bear that logic in mind tomorrow when Obama’s NCAA Final Four picks — about which he’s taping a segment today — are revealed on ESPN.
We need to get names and contact them!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you Mark Levin for your leadership on this issue
Why does a CR need to fund PP and other leftwing groups?
And, the MUST speak of the GOP leadership as just as much part of the problem as the democrats.
Anything less is simple surrender.
That said, all the GOP who voted FOR this resolution must be primaried and UNELECTED, no matter who fills the seat.
54 Republicans who voted “nay” to the continuing resolution:
AZ-2 Franks, Trent [R]
AZ-6 Flake, Jeff [R]
CA-48 Campbell, John [R]
CO-3 Tipton, Scott [R]
CO-5 Lamborn, Doug [R]
FL-12 Ross, Dennis [R]
FL-14 Mack, Connie [R]
FL-2 Southerland, Steve [R]
FL-22 West, Allen [R]
FL-6 Stearns, Clifford [R]
GA-11 Gingrey, John [R]
GA-9 Graves, Tom [R]
IA-5 King, Steve [R]
ID-1 Labrador, Raúl [R]
IL-15 Johnson, Timothy [R]
IL-8 Walsh, Joe [R]
IN-3 Stutzman, Marlin [R]
IN-5 Burton, Dan [R]
IN-6 Pence, Mike [R]
KS-1 Huelskamp, Tim [R]
LA-3 Landry, Jeff [R]
LA-4 Fleming, John [R]
MD-1 Harris, Andy [R]
MD-6 Bartlett, Roscoe [R]
MI-1 Benishek, Dan [R]
MI-11 McCotter, Thaddeus [R]
MI-2 Huizenga, Bill [R]
MI-3 Amash, Justin [R]
MI-7 Walberg, Timothy [R]
MN-6 Bachmann, Michele [R]
MO-2 Akin, W. [R]
MO-7 Long, Billy [R]
MT-0 Rehberg, Dennis [R]
NC-3 Jones, Walter [R]
NJ-4 Smith, Christopher [R]
NJ-5 Garrett, Scott [R]
NM-2 Pearce, Steven [R]
NV-2 Heller, Dean [R]
OH-1 Chabot, Steven [R]
OH-2 Schmidt, Jean [R]
OH-4 Jordan, Jim [R]
OK-1 Sullivan, John [R]
PA-16 Pitts, Joseph [R]
SC-2 Wilson, Addison [R]
SC-3 Duncan, Jeff [R]
SC-4 Gowdy, Trey [R]
SC-5 Mulvaney, Mick [R]
TX-1 Gohmert, Louis [R]
TX-14 Paul, Ronald [R]
TX-2 Poe, Ted [R]
TX-4 Hall, Ralph [R]
TX-6 Barton, Joe [R]
UT-3 Chaffetz, Jason [R]
VA-2 Rigell, E. [R]
Soooooo...all the sheep from Tennessee went for the incremental thingy...
;-(
I support our freshman tea partier congressmen, but, I understand 2 billion is cut each time they renew. If so, then we’ll get our 60 billion cut in 28 more weeks, which is not too shabby.
So when it comes down to it they cow to the leftists. Real nice. What a bunch of cowards and greedy bastards.
Is this the CR with the $105B for obamacare?
anything cut is better than none, ut if the debt limit is extended even though cuts are in place, I do not believe they will not spend what was cut,,
Time for radical solutions to radical problems or its bye bye America, real soon..
FL-12 Ross, Dennis [R]
Good deal!
Somehow, we need some backbone to show up in the Republican Party, and it doesn't appear that their performance will show ANY reason to vote Republican in 2012.
Yes it does. Not surprising though esp the clod who replaced the former do nothing Wamp.
No
Thank You
The Republican leadership is not interested in hearing from anyone today evidently; I was hung up on repeatedly at Speaker Boehner’s DC office, Eric Cantor’s office was not answering the phone and voice mail boxes were full so no messages could be left. Who would have thought they’d behave like Pelosi after only a couple of months in power. Much work yet to do....
The House leadership looks as spineless as they come and are oh so worried about a possible shutdown. Grow some stones gentlemen, and quickly!
It is time to begin the fundraising and search for replacement for the RINO’s who have not gotten the message. They get no slack, let’s all make an effort and begin the process today. It will soon be too late, and I don’t mean just to make the 2012 primaries.
Is this the CR with the $105B for obamacare?
To all on this thread, the republican leadership isn’t caving to the socialist democrats as most of you mention in your posts here. The republican leadership is socialist, so they are going along with the team.
Once you accept this premise the rest will make perfect sense.
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