GIGANTIC FOREIGN AID BILL - HR 2800

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[Suck My AR-16]

GIGANTIC FOREIGN AID BILL

In The U.S. House of Representatives NOW !

H.R. 2800 Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2004
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:H.R.2800:

Like Carl Sagen said "Billions and Billions and Billions . . . . . . . . ."
Adds up to Trillions and Trillions and Trillions

It's YOUR money being given away ! This is NOT limited government, this is MASSIVE GOVERNMENT !

[Iconoclast2]

This is the hidden environmentalist budget. $107 million to implement the Convention on Biological Diversity, among other things. #$%^&*^&*(!@# RINOs.

[grapeape]

Reading this has just given me the biggest headache. This should be a major campaign issue. We must stop the speanding now!!

[OXENinFLA]

This is crazy.

HEY GOV'T: QUIT SPENDING and maybe taxes can be lowered and less money will be TAKEN from hard working people thus allowing them to depend on the Gov't less and less.

OH WAIT! That makes to much sense and will work, so it can't be done.

We must keep on with the programs that FAIL.

It must be that the reason they FAIL is that the was just not enough money given to the program.

Yeah That's it.

[OXENinFLA]

KOREAN PENINSULA ENERGY DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION

SEC. 555. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be made available for assistance to the Korean Peninsula Energy Organization (KEDO).


I do like this part though.

[BOBTHENAILER]

But we are wise to help those who help us, and also wise to dump them like a box of rocks if they bite us. This is the carrot to the shock and awe stick. Used wisely it will serve us, and unwisely, it will drain us.

Good point and hopefully the adults in charge will do just that.

I agree about China, it's coming and the sooner the better.

[Bikers4Bush]

I don't think being a slave would be fun but I think having the government give my money back to me instead of giving it to corrupt scumbags around the globe would be fun.

It's not isolationist to want the government to stop bribing foreigners with money from my paycheck.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Bump

[Joe Hadenuf]

I am!

[Joe Hadenuf]

If Clinton were behind this, the screams and outrage would be heard from coast to coast......

[Area51]

Imazing isn't it. Someone critizised the President and you get 400 posts in an hour.

Someone posts a thread about the huge spending spree the Bush Adminstration endorses and all you get is the faint sound of crickets.

[Joe Hadenuf]

And the sound of those crickets is clear and unobstructed.

[joesnuffy]

No sweat it's only paper...Greenie will happily print more...

[squidly]

same s**t different year

[Militiaman7]

They have the money to pay for all this overseas crap, but they can't pay me my Military Pension?

What we need is a few real conservative Americans to run against everyone in the house that votes for this.

We need new blood in Congress (House and Senate)

OUT THE DOOR IN 2004

[PsyOp]

I am not opposed to all foreign aid (just 90% of it). My biggest gripe is when that aid is given as cash payments directly to a foreign government. When, and if, aid is deemed necessary, it should arrive in the form of good--goods purchased from American suppliers.

People starving? Here's some good American grain to tide you over and some American made farm machinery to help you start growing your own. And here's some Peace Corps types to show you how to use it. If country proves incapable of making good use of it, or becomes ungrateful for the help, cut them off till they prove they deserve our help.

The other problem that needs to be addressed, and is readily apparent when you try to read the bill, is that an amendment to the Constitution is needed to prevent bills from being bundled together. As things are now, you have to vote for the bad to get the good, or flush it all. Appropriation (and all other) bills should be limited in scope and be able to stand on their own merits. That and a presidential line-item-veto would solve most of this.

[staytrue]

We almost lost WWII because the isolationists thought the oceans would protect us. They did not.

I think the oceans did protect us and protected england too. Few if any casualties occurred in the lower 48 and the puny english channel stopped Hitler's army.

To your other point, China's birth rate is below replacement as is our's. I think your China fears are over blown. China is an emerging power but does not have the will or capacity to take over the world.

[Suck My AR-16]

RINOs OUT OF CONTROL

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 429
(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)

      H R 2800     YEA-AND-NAY     24-JUL-2003   1:41 AM
      QUESTION: On Passage
      BILL TITLE:  Foreign Operations Appropriations, FY 2004
 

	YEAS	NAYS	PRES	NV
REPUBLICAN	177	45		6
DEMOCRATIC	192	5		8
INDEPENDENT	1
TOTALS	370	50		14

--- YEAS    370 ---

Abercrombie	Gonzalez	Oberstar
Ackerman	Gordon	Obey
Aderholt	Goss	Olver
Alexander	Granger	Ortiz
Allen	Green (TX)	Osborne
Andrews	Green (WI)	Ose
Baca	Greenwood	Owens
Bachus	Grijalva	Oxley
Baird	Gutierrez	Pallone
Baker	Harman	Pascrell
Baldwin	Harris	Payne
Ballance	Hart	Pearce
Ballenger	Hastings (FL)	Pelosi
Barrett (SC)	Hastings (WA)	Pence
Barton (TX)	Hayworth	Peterson (MN)
Bass	Hensarling	Peterson (PA)
Beauprez	Hill	Pickering
Becerra	Hinchey	Platts
Bell	Hinojosa	Pomeroy
Bereuter	Hobson	Porter
Berman	Hoeffel	Portman
Biggert	Hoekstra	Price (NC)
Bilirakis	Holden	Pryce (OH)
Bishop (GA)	Holt	Putnam
Bishop (NY)	Honda	Quinn
Blackburn	Hooley (OR)	Radanovich
Blumenauer	Houghton	Ramstad
Blunt	Hoyer	Rangel
Boehlert	Hunter	Regula
Boehner	Inslee	Rehberg
Bonilla	Isakson	Renzi
Bonner	Israel	Reyes
Bono	Issa	Reynolds
Boozman	Istook	Rodriguez
Boswell	Jackson (IL)	Rogers (AL)
Boucher	Jackson-Lee (TX)	Rogers (KY)
Boyd	Janklow	Rogers (MI)
Bradley (NH)	Jefferson	Ros-Lehtinen
Brady (PA)	John	Ross
Brady (TX)	Johnson (CT)	Rothman
Brown (OH)	Johnson (IL)	Roybal-Allard
Brown (SC)	Johnson, E. B.	Royce
Brown, Corrine	Johnson, Sam	Ruppersberger
Brown-Waite, Ginny	Jones (OH)	Rush
Burgess	Kanjorski	Ryan (OH)
Burns	Kaptur	Ryan (WI)
Burr	Keller	Sabo
Burton (IN)	Kelly	Sanchez, Linda T.
Buyer	Kennedy (MN)	Sanchez, Loretta
Calvert	Kennedy (RI)	Sanders
Camp	Kildee	Sandlin
Cannon	Kilpatrick	Saxton
Cantor	King (NY)	Schakowsky
Capito	Kingston	Schiff
Capps	Kirk	Schrock
Capuano	Kleczka	Scott (GA)
Cardin	Kline	Scott (VA)
Cardoza	Knollenberg	Serrano
Carson (IN)	Kolbe	Sessions
Carson (OK)	Kucinich	Shadegg
Carter	LaHood	Shaw
Case	Lampson	Shays
Castle	Langevin	Sherman
Chocola	Lantos	Sherwood
Clyburn	Larsen (WA)	Shimkus
Cole	Larson (CT)	Shuster
Conyers	Latham	Simmons
Cooper	LaTourette	Simpson
Costello	Leach	Skelton
Cox	Lee	Slaughter
Cramer	Levin	Smith (NJ)
Crane	Lewis (CA)	Smith (TX)
Crenshaw	Lewis (GA)	Smith (WA)
Crowley	Lewis (KY)	Snyder
Culberson	Linder	Solis
Cummings	Lipinski	Souder
Cunningham	LoBiondo	Spratt
Davis (AL)	Lofgren	Stark
Davis (CA)	Lowey	Stenholm
Davis (FL)	Lucas (KY)	Strickland
Davis (IL)	Lynch	Stupak
Davis (TN)	Majette	Sweeney
Davis, Tom	Maloney	Tauscher
DeFazio	Markey	Tauzin
DeGette	Marshall	Terry
Delahunt	Matheson	Thomas
DeLauro	McCarthy (MO)	Thompson (CA)
DeLay	McCarthy (NY)	Thompson (MS)
DeMint	McCollum	Thornberry
Deutsch	McCotter	Tiahrt
Diaz-Balart, L.	McCrery	Tiberi
Diaz-Balart, M.	McDermott	Tierney
Dicks	McGovern	Towns
Dingell	McHugh	Turner (OH)
Doggett	McIntyre	Turner (TX)
Dooley (CA)	McKeon	Udall (CO)
Doolittle	McNulty	Udall (NM)
Doyle	Meehan	Upton
Dreier	Meek (FL)	Van Hollen
Dunn	Meeks (NY)	Velazquez
Edwards	Menendez	Visclosky
Ehlers	Mica	Vitter
Emanuel	Michaud	Walden (OR)
Emerson	Millender-McDonald	Walsh
Engel	Miller (MI)	Wamp
English	Miller (NC)	Watson
Eshoo	Miller, Gary	Watt
Etheridge	Miller, George	Waxman
Evans	Mollohan	Weiner
Farr	Moore	Weldon (FL)
Fattah	Moran (KS)	Weldon (PA)
Filner	Moran (VA)	Weller
Fletcher	Murphy	Wexler
Foley	Murtha	Whitfield
Fossella	Myrick	Wicker
Frank (MA)	Nadler	Wilson (NM)
Frelinghuysen	Napolitano	Wilson (SC)
Frost	Neal (MA)	Wolf
Gallegly	Nethercutt	Woolsey
Gerlach	Neugebauer	Wu
Gibbons	Ney	Wynn
Gilchrest	Northup	Young (FL)
Gillmor	Nunes
Gingrey	Nussle

--- NAYS    50 ---

Akin	Goodlatte	Otter
Bartlett (MD)	Graves	Paul
Berry	Gutknecht	Petri
Chabot	Hall	Pitts
Coble	Hayes	Pombo
Collins	Hefley	Rahall
Cubin	Herger	Rohrabacher
Davis, Jo Ann	Hostettler	Ryun (KS)
Deal (GA)	Hulshof	Sensenbrenner
Duncan	Jones (NC)	Smith (MI)
Everett	King (IA)	Stearns
Feeney	Lucas (OK)	Tancredo
Flake	Manzullo	Tanner
Forbes	McInnis	Taylor (MS)
Franks (AZ)	Miller (FL)	Taylor (NC)
Garrett (NJ)	Musgrave	Toomey
Goode	Norwood

--- NOT VOTING    14 ---

Berkley	Gephardt	Pastor
Bishop (UT)	Hyde	Sullivan
Clay	Jenkins	Waters
Ferguson	Kind	Young (AK)
Ford	Matsui

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[nonliberal]

It is right after the section that authorized the Department of Education and before the section that authorizes a free drugs for old folks plan.

[Taxusmore]

http://www.newswithviews.com/BreakingNews/breaking16.htm

[OXENinFLA]

Boy they sure snuk this one by in the dead of night.

My Rep. Voted NO!!!! cool.