Posted on 05/19/2016 5:37:10 PM PDT by massmike
Democrats shouted "Shame! Shame!," but seven Republicans switched their votes and defeated a measure to protect gay rights.
The final vote was 213-212 after the chaos on the House floor. That was enough to defeat an amendment by Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-N.Y., aimed at upholding an executive order that bars discrimination against LGBT employees by federal contractors.
Maloney and other Democrats were incensed. "They literally snatched discrimination from the jaws of equality," Maloney said.
He said he had approached Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., as McCarthy worked on GOP colleagues to vote against the measure. McCarthy told Maloney to get back on his side of the aisle.
"I told him, 'What side am I supposed to stand on in support of equality?'" said Maloney, New York's first openly gay congressman. "It was disgraceful."
Maloney's amendment would have prohibited the use of taxpayer dollars to violate President Barack Obama's executive order barring discrimination.
"There are some people who are emotional ... that's beyond the pale. They can say whatever they want to but that's beyond the pale," said Rep. Bill Flores, R-Texas, asked about Democrats saying Republicans were a party of hate. "This country has a First Amendment that protects religious liberties, and that's all we were doing is protecting that."
Democrats were outraged, loudly chanting as their leader, Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, yelled up from near the well of the House at her members, imploring them to vote down the underlying bill.
In the end, 29 Republicans joined 183 Democrats backing the measure, but it was not enough.
Democrats were quick to publicize the name of the Republican vote-switchers. Reps. Darrell Issa, Jeff Denham, David Valadao and Mimi Walters of California; Greg Walden of Oregon; Bruce Poliquin of Maine; and David Young of Iowa.
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TES Trump empowerment syndrome
Fag and tranny loving Democrats don’t want to stop there
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For the most part the Democrats hate them, but want to use them as political pawns.
Yes. All of a sudden it’s ok to speak what you think, or at least listen to the silent majority and do the right thing.
Down with faggotry!!!
Is this the Trump effect?
More interested in the ones who voted with the Demopervs. Pretty sure I won’t find mine in that list, just wanted to make sure. Thanks.
The homosexual steamroller just hit a bump in the road.
The halt won’t last long.
-—Is this the Trump effect?
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I couldn’t imagine it being anything else... unless their re-elections are coming up.
They should all be ashamed they needed their arms to be twisted to vote
the right way.
4 of them from damn Cali.
David Young of Iowa. I really wish his fellow IA freshman, Conservative Rod Blum, had Young’s less democrat infested district.
For Oregon’s only Republican Congressman, in a safe district, we could sure do better than Greg Walden.
But at least they changed their votes. 29 didn’t.
They are
Conservative Hero (Sarc, I mean Paulbot loser) Justin Amash of Michigan
FL Senate Candidate David Jolly, hope he doesn’t win the primary
3 more from FL, the Cuban Caucus, Mario Diaz-Balart who votes more like his brother Lincoln nowadays, vulnerable in a newly gerrymandered district Freshman RINO Carlos Curbelo (know fag lover), and increasingly contemptible and long in the tooth RINO Illeana Ros-Lehtinen.
Presumptive Nevada Senate Nominee Joe Heck
Freshman Tom Emmer, MN, from BACHMANN’s DISTRICT, the most
Republican in the state, PUKE PUKE PUKE
Retiring RINO Richard Hanna, NY
Fred Upton, MI, model Kate Upton’s uncle
Texas Freshman Will Hurd, that’s a disappointment
4 from damn NJ,
Leonard Lance
Frank LoBiondo
Rodney Frelinghuysen (conservative Scott Garret’s seat is worse than Rod’s 52% Romney seat so I wish we didn’t have to put up with this RINO scion)
and Freshman Tom McArthur who I backed in the primary cause I thought his opponent was a loser,
NY Freshman Lee Zeldin, Dan Donovan, Elise Stefanik, sigh
plus John Kakto (at least has the excuse of a terrible district)
4 from PA
Patrick Meehan
Ryan Costello
Michael Fitzpatrick (Patrick FitzMichael?)
RINO Charlie Dent
IL RINO Bob Dold, who walked up to the fag democrat who sponsered the amendment to a apolize to him because Republicans are such jerks, what a jackass.
And the rest
Martha McSally, AZ
Mike Coffman, CO
Erik Paulsen, MN
Chris Gibson, NY
Tom Reed, NY
Dave Reichart, WA
thanks for these names. i will remember when asked for donations.
Gibson & Elise.
ambition to run statewide which includes NYC
piss me off ....
Gibson isn’t very conservative, we knew this. He said he’s not gonna run for Governor so it’s not because of that.
But Stefanik, Donovan, and Zeldin, that’s disappointing.
Chris Collins and RINO Pete King were the only nay votes from NY.
Because he is a spineless GOP-E who wants to limit the issues before the House to the care and feeding of the ultra corrupt business interests, Wall Street, K Street, USCoC, etc. You know, the REAL ISSUES that genuine conservatives do not care about (at least not to the point of $$$$$$ obsession like Ryan-o, Boehner, Cantor, McCarthy and the rest of the GOP-E "leadership" whores).
Ryan-o: Gimme $$$$$$, then gimme more $$$$$$ and then still more $$$$$$. So what if the society goes down the drain with perverts fudgepacking one another and getting the support of the GOP-E?
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-N.Y., Got elected in my old district (NY 18), just as we were moving out of NY.
Remind me AGAIN why we cater to these mentally ill people who comprise a tiny percentage of the population as a whole?
Oh, that’s right! It’s that Marxist/Commie/Destroy America and the values She was founded upon thang...
*SPIT*
On Wednesday the House voted on an amended version of this amendment, and it passed, 223-195
All the flip floppers who voted for it then against it flipped back and voted for it.
43 GOP in total voted for it, no dems voted against of course.
NY RINO Richard HANNA who voted for it was absent this time
so we have
The ones who voted for it last week (28)
Amash (MI)
Upton (MI)
Jolly (FL)
Diaz-Balart (FL)
Curbelo (FL)
Ros-Lehtinen (FL)
Heck (NV)
Emmer (MN)
Paulsen (MN)
Zeldin (NY)
Donovan (NY)
Stefanik (NY)
Kakto (NY)
Gibson (NY)
Reed (NY)
Hurd (TX)
Lance (NJ)
LoBiondo (NJ)
Frelinghuysen (NJ)
McArthur (NJ)
Meehan (PA)
Costello (PA)
Fitzpatrick (PA)
Dent (PA)
Dold (IL)
McSally (AZ)
Coffman (CO)
Reichart (WA)
(#29 Richard Hanna of NY was absent)
The flip floppers who flopped back to the dark side (7)
Issa (CA)
Denham (CA)
Valadao (CA)
Walters (CA)
Walden (OR)
Poliquin (ME)
Young (IA)
And turncoats who voted against it the first time (8)
Rooney (FL)
Renacci (OH)
Davis (IL)
Shimkus (IL)
Kinzinger (IL)
Brooks (IN)
Messer (IN)
US Senate Nominee Todd Young (IN)
I’m sorry to see more names from Illinois and the Indiana US Senate nominee added to this list.
What does this amendment do? Sponsored by NY fudgepacker Sean Maloney, it upholds an illegal Royal Decree (Executive Order) from Obama that bans Federal Contractors from “discriminating against LGBT employees”, at least that’s what it’s supporters SAY it does, God knows what it really does.
This amendment is now attached to the “Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017”, last week they failed to attach it to the “Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017”, which passed the House without the amendment that same day.
Here’s what I don’t get....
Historically, you have to be able to prove discrimination in order to get special protection under the 14th Amendment.
If you break down “gay” subclasses. Lesbians are protected as females. Minorities gay males are protected as minorities.
That leaves white male gays, which there really is no evidence of discrimination. I believe salaries for gay males are generally higher than their non-gay counterparts.
So there is no need at all for this ridiculous executive order, protecting folks that really do not historically need protection.
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