Posted on 10/01/2008 7:03:46 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON - After one spectacular failure, the $700 billion financial industry bailout found a second life Wednesday, winning lopsided passage in the Senate and gaining ground in the House, where Republicans opposition softened.
Senators loaded the economic rescue bill with tax breaks and other sweeteners before passing it by a wide margin, 74-25, a month before the presidential and congressional elections.
In the House, leaders were working feverishly to convert enough opponents of the bill to push it through by Friday, just days after lawmakers there stunningly rejected an earlier version and sent markets plunging around the globe.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Here is a list of the senators who voted against the rescue bill:
- Waye Allard (R-Colo.)
- John Barrasso (R-Wyo.)
- Sam Brownback (R-Kan.)
- Jim Bunning (R-Ky.)
- Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.)
- Thad Cochran (R-Miss.)
- Mike Crapo (R-Idaho)
- Jim DeMint (R-S.C.)
- Elizabeth Dole (R-N.C.)
- Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.)
- Michael Enzi (R-Wyo.)
- Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.)
- James Inhofe (R-Okla.)
- Tim Johnson (D-S.D.)
- Mary Landrieu (D-La.)
- Bill Nelson (D-Fla.)
- Pat Roberts (R-Kan.)
- Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)
- Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.)
- Richard Shelby (R-Ala.)
- Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.)
- John Tester (D-Mont.)
- David Vitter (R-La.)
- Roger Wicker (R-Miss.)
- Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)
TN Alexander and Corker voted for it...
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Hooray! DeMint voted AGAINST the bailout!
And tucked away in the tax provisions is a landmark health care provision demanding that insurance companies provide coverage for mental health treatment—such as hospitalization—on parity with physical illnesses.
Stopping the upcoming Amnesty is gonna be harder. These fools.
Wow, apparently, I am getting better service from my Dem Senator than my GOP Senator here in Florida. Somehow, I am close to Bernie Sanders than my own Presidential candidate.
I thought Boxer said she was going to vote againt it...
I’ll be emailing my senators on this. And it won’t be kind...
Besides rhetoric. I am serious. You have to sit back and take a look at the situation. I am not for the bailout, but we will go down the tank quickly with this plan. You, me and your neighbors may not have a job, next week, our children may not have money for school. What do you want J. McCain to do....let it happen. The Dems are holding the cards....the game is you and I...
JOHN AGAIN TAKES A FALL FOR HIS COUNTRY!!!
DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND THIS.
COUNTRY FIRST!!! He has been saying this all along...The Democrats sold us out, they are holding us ransom...or else we will pay......hence vote yes or else....
Dang...Wake up....Time to UNITE NOT DIVIDE!!!
WE NEED TO SHOW JOHN OUR SUPPORT...UNITED WE STAND!!!
TSHIRST AND SIGNS WHEN HE SHOWS UP...UNITED WE STAND
PA-BOTH of our LIBERAL Senators (Casey-D and Spector-R) voted for it.
Who needs liberal democrats when we have the Senate?
An extra 350 pages of "tucked away" thingies.
What does that kick it up to, 900+ Billion? (a downpayment, BTW)
>> And tucked away in the tax provisions is a landmark health care provision demanding that insurance companies provide coverage for mental health treatment—such as hospitalization—on parity with physical illnesses.
That ALONE was reason not to vote for this POS!
I am disappointed to see that Cornyn (TX) voted Yes.
I guess he doesn’t need my campaign contribution, or my vote in November.
Spector should never have an “R” placed in front of his name!
I’m hanging my head in shame...
I didnt vote for Alexander or Corker so I wont hang all of me...
I heard, I think DeMint, on the Mark Levin show earlier, who said that President Bush demanded they come up with a bill, even heavy with pork to buy votes if they had to, and get it passed today, period! Oh, and the other demand was that it not have anything in it that the dims would be against.
The actual article neither names or quotes anyone who opposed this in the House softening or praising this.
It does quote dems in the House who don’t like some of the Senate add-ons.
BS
MCCAIN SHOULD OF VOTED NO.
He is a politician first.
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