From John
Three days after Republican Governor Chris Christie lambasted John Boehner for not scheduling a vote on Hurricane Sandy relief, the vote occurred today and a $9.7 billion bill was passed. This comes 65 days after the hurricane came ashore. We all remember what it was like when our power went off for six days twice in September and October 2011. Just think about expanding that time to 65 continuous days in cold weather.
The bill passed by only 74 votes (2/3rds majority required) because 67 Republicans (64 men) voted NO. Not one Democrat voted no. Some of the NO votes were from the Usual Suspects like Justin Amash (MI), Tim Huelskamp (KS), and Paul Ryan (WI). Eighteen out of 51 from the Tea Party Caucus (in BOLD) voted NO and three women out of 81 women voted NO (one a tea party’er).
Here’s the complete list of Nay Sayers:
Justin Amash R MI-3
Andy Barr R KY-6
Dan Benishek R MI-1
Kerry Bentivolio R MI-11
Marsha Blackburn R TN-7
Jim Bridenstine R OK-1
Mo Brooks R AL-5
Paul Broun R GA-10
Steven J. Chabot R OH-1
Doug Collins R GA-9
K. Michael Conaway R TX-11
Tom Cotton R AR-4
Steve Daines R MT-1
Ron DeSantis R FL-6
Scott DesJarlais R TN-4
Sean Duffy R WI-7
Jeffrey Duncan R SC-3
John J. Duncan Jr. R TN-2
Stephen Fincher R TN-8
John Fleming R LA-4
Bill Flores R TX-17
Virginia Foxx R NC-5
Trent Franks R AZ-8
Louie Gohmert R TX-1
Robert W. Goodlatte R VA-6
Paul Gosar R AZ-4
Trey Gowdy R SC-4
Sam Graves R MO-6
Tom Graves R GA-14
Andy Harris R MD-1
George Holding R NC-13
Richard Hudson R NC-8
Tim Huelskamp R KS-1
Randy Hultgren R IL-14
Lynn Jenkins R KS-2
Jim Jordan R OH-4
Doug Lamborn R CO-5
Kenny Marchant R TX-24
Thomas Massie R KY-4
Tom McClintock R CA-4
Mark Meadows R NC-11
Markwayne Mullin R OK-2
Mick Mulvaney R SC-5
Randy Neugebauer R TX-19
Steven Palazzo R MS-4
Steve Pearce R NM-2
Scott Perry R PA-4
Tom Petri R WI-6
Mike Pompeo R KS-4
Tom Price R GA-6
Phil Roe R TN-1
Todd Rokita R IN-4
Keith Rothfus R PA-12
Ed Royce R CA-39
Paul D. Ryan R WI-1
Matt Salmon R AZ-5
David Schweikert R AZ-6
F. James Sensenbrenner R WI-5
Marlin Stutzman R IN-3
William M. Thornberry R TX-13
Randy Weber R TX-14
Brad Wenstrup R OH-2
Roger Williams R TX-25
Joe Wilson R SC-2
Rob Woodall R GA-7
Kevin Yoder R KS-3
Ted Yoho R FL-3
But they all support tax cuts for the super wealthy and taxpayer paid subsidies to corporations.
sandy relief? why was most of it pork that doesn’t involve sandy relief? Any honest person would have voted against that planned theft of a bill.
I’d be interested to find out what will be paid for with the funds from this bill. Municipalities will certainly need help rebuilding infrastructure, and I would support funding aid for that. I just can’t help thinking that there is, like too any spending bills, a lot of wasted money.
All too often, bills are given names that make them politically poisonous to vote against (the Patriot Act comes to mind). Given the right name, any bill, no matter how detrimental to the country, can be passed.
The original bill the Boenher took so much heat for killing was for over $60 billion. It was insanely pork riddled, with the majority not even going to Sandy relief. As JK said, it’s easy to stack in stuff you want to a bill called “Sandy Relief” because it would be poisonous to vote against it.
All that being said, the $9.7 billion bill was only to fund a federal flood insurance program that would have run out of money next week and delayed payments on more than 115,000 claims.
That’s the way I understand it, anyway.
Thanks, Teach. I am waiting for the Bill to be published and will report what is in it. I understand it takes about a week for the Library of Congress to publish it.
Here is the bill passed by the House and sent back to the Senate which approved it almost immediately:
HR 41
SECTION 1. TEMPORARY INCREASE IN BORROWING AUTHORITY FOR
NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE PROGRAM.
(a) Section 1309(a) of the National Flood Insurance Act of
1968 (42 U.S.C. 4016(a)) is amended by striking ‘‘$20,725,000,000’’
and inserting ‘‘$30,425,000,000’’.
(b) The amount provided by this section is designated by the
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 403(a)
of S. Con. Res. 13 (111th Congress), the concurrent resolution
on the budget for fiscal year 2010, and as an emergency pursuant
to section 4(g) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (2 U.S.C.
933(g)).
I had a devil of a time finding the Sandy relief measure that the Senate passed on 28-Dec-2012. I believe it is the Senate amendment to HR1, “Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011.” …(see Diane’s new article. Admin).