October 4, 2008
The Facts
The following is a list of members in the House of Representatives who changed their vote from the first time they voted on the Wall Street bailout bill. The first vote was on Monday, September 29, 2008, with the second vote on Friday, October 3, 2008.
Republicans are shown in Bold Italic for quick identification of party line.
House of Representatives: Voted Yes (Aye) Monday, September 29, 2008
and changed their vote to No (Nay) on Friday October 3, 2008
1 Democrat
McDermott (D-WA)
House of Representatives: Voted No (Nay) Monday, September 29, 2008
and changed their vote to Yes (Aye) on Friday October 3, 2008
32 Democrats and 25 Republicans
| Abercrombie (D-HI) Alexander (R-LA) Baca (D-CA) J. Barrett (R-SC) Berkley (D-NV) Biggert (R-IL) Boustany (R-LA) B. Braley (D-IA) Buchanan (R-FL) Carson (D-IN) Cleaver (D-MO) Coble (R-NC) Conaway (R-TX) Cuellar (D-TX) Cummings (D-MD) Dent (R-PA) Fallin (R-OK) Frelinghuysen (R-NJ) Gerlach (R-PA) |
Giffords (D-AZ)A. Green (D-TX) Gene Green (D-TX) Hirono (D-HI) Hoekstra (R-MI) J. Jackson (D-IL) S. Jackson-Lee (D-TX) Kilpatrick (D-MI) Knollenberg (R-MI) J. Kuhl (R-NY) Lee (D-CA) J. Lewis (D-GA) Mitchell (D-AZ) Myrick (R-NC) Ortiz (D-TX) Pascrell (D-NJ) Pastor (D-AZ) Ramstad (R-MN) Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) Schiff (D-CA) |
Schmidt (R-OH) D. Scott (D-GA) Shadegg (R-AZ) Shuster (R-PA) Solis (D-CA) Sullivan (R-OK) Sutton (D-OH) Terry (R-NE) C. M. Thompson (D-CA) Thornberry (R-TX) Tiberi (R-OH) Tierney (D-MA) Wamp (R-TN) Watson (D-CA) P. Welch (D-VT) Woolsey (D-CA) Wu (D-OR) Yarmuth (D-KY) |
Representative Gerald Weller (R-IL) did not vote (abstained) on the bill on September 29, 2008, but voted for the bill on October 3, 2008.
reallymadvoter
// Oct 5, 2008 at 1:03 AM
I took the pledge – Have you?
Well the congress has done it.
As of the morning of the bail out vote in the House of Representatives, polls showed that the American people were 74% against any bail out for the Wall Street fat cats. We wanted a fix from the bottom up and not from the top down. Fix ‘Main Street’ not Wall Street we told them. They didn’t do it.
However they did agree with the bloated $700 billion the Senate passed for their greedy Wall Street friends with another $150 Billion of Pork. So now our children are on the hook for at least $850 billion and no one can tell us if it will work or will be the last.
Meanwhile, ‘We The People’ continue to lose our jobs and homes.
Our elected representatives have chosen to ignore us, ‘We The People’ whom they swore to represent.
They think we are stupid. They think we don’t have the guts to clean house. They think ‘they know better’ than we on ‘Main Street’ do.
So…
I have taken the Pledge:
I, (put your name here), will NOT vote for any incumbent in the upcoming election regardless of party or who the opposition may be. I intend to do my part in ‘throwing the bums out’ in Washington that continue spending my money on those that have wrecked our economy rather than the people who sent them there. This is my solemn pledge.
Mail this to your Representative and Senators, to all your friends and all news media, both local and national. Email this to all the talking heads on the cable outlets, Lou Dobbs, Bill O’Reilly, Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, Alan Colmes, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and with every blog and talk show host you know of.
Urge everyone you meet to take the Pledge.
This the only way we, the American People, will ever take back our own government.
They keep telling us that the only power we have is the vote. So… For once let’s use it!!!!!
Believe me… if we turn them all out THERE WILL BE CHANGE!!!!
Do we have the guts? Do you???
If not, then you don’t have any right to complain if they continue to screw us over.
Old-Man
// Oct 5, 2008 at 6:35 AM
I took the pledge “five” times:
• Before first House vote on Monday
• Before Senate vote on Wednesday
• After Senate vote on Wednesday
• Before second House vote on Friday
• After second House vote on Friday
Both my Senators and my Representative voted for the bill.
And I assure you I will have their names with me when I vote in November just to make sure I don’t get confused. I hope there’ll be enough of us that do that just to remind the “high-all-mightiest” that we still do have a little power left over them, albeit not much.
LCLee
// Oct 15, 2008 at 1:10 PM
Gutless Texan List of Shame
These cowards changed their vote on the bailout
Show them some love
AND VOTE THEM OUT THIS NOVEMBER!
Thornberry (R-TX),
Ortiz (D-TX),
A. Green (D-TX)
Gene Green (D-TX)
,S. Jackson-Lee (D-TX),
Ortiz (D-TX),
Conaway (R-TX)
Cuellar (D-TX)
cynicalsynapse
// Oct 26, 2008 at 9:23 AM
I have a stronger word for the vote changers: turncoats! The only one getting a by on this is the lone Democrat who had the moral fortitude to stand up to the Senate pork and vote no on the modified bailout. All the others need to be voted out on their ass!
We’re all going to pay for the financial crisis one (or more) ways or another. With that in mind, I was opposed to the taxpayer bailout. Let those who are responsible for the debacle suffer the consequences! That’s the American way. You take a risk and it either pays off or you lose. Only that didn’t happen because politicians and big finance have their hands in each others’ pockets. Why else would the $700 billion bailout bill fail in the house on Monday and pass on Friday after the Senate added in an additional billion in pork?
So, I took the pledge, too. Vote them all out! It’s time our representatives actually represented us!