Guess it isn’t really “Children’s Health Care First”
The Senate just voted down Senator Tom Coburn’s amendment - The Children’s Health Care First Act. Apparently most Senators care more about pork or earmarks!
“The Children’s Health Care First Act,” that would have delayed funding for special interest pork projects until the Secretary of Health and Human Services certified that all children have health insurance. The Coburn amendment was defeated, or tabled, by a vote of 68 to 26. “The American people have heard a lot of chatter in Washington about who cares more about children’s health care. The fact is lawmakers in both parties agree that Congress has a moral obligation to care for those who are unable to care for themselves. Yet, when asked to sacrifice their own pork projects, Washington politicians of both parties chose to abandon children,”
S.Amdt. 3358 to S.Amdt. 3325 to H.R. 3043
Grouped By Vote Position
YEAs —68 |
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| Akaka (D-HI) Alexander (R-TN) Baucus (D-MT) Bayh (D-IN) Bennett (R-UT) Bingaman (D-NM) Bond (R-MO) Boxer (D-CA) Brown (D-OH) Byrd (D-WV) Cantwell (D-WA) Cardin (D-MD) Carper (D-DE) Casey (D-PA) Cochran (R-MS) Coleman (R-MN) Collins (R-ME) Conrad (D-ND) Craig (R-ID) Domenici (R-NM) Dorgan (D-ND) Durbin (D-IL) Feinstein (D-CA) |
Grassley (R-IA) Gregg (R-NH) Hagel (R-NE) Harkin (D-IA) Hatch (R-UT) Hutchison (R-TX) Inouye (D-HI) Johnson (D-SD) Kerry (D-MA) Klobuchar (D-MN) Kohl (D-WI) Landrieu (D-LA) Lautenberg (D-NJ) Leahy (D-VT) Levin (D-MI) Lieberman (ID-CT) Lincoln (D-AR) Lugar (R-IN) Menendez (D-NJ) Mikulski (D-MD) Murkowski (R-AK) Murray (D-WA) Nelson (D-FL) |
Nelson (D-NE) Pryor (D-AR) Reed (D-RI) Reid (D-NV) Roberts (R-KS) Rockefeller (D-WV) Salazar (D-CO) Sanders (I-VT) Schumer (D-NY) Shelby (R-AL) Smith (R-OR) Snowe (R-ME) Specter (R-PA) Stabenow (D-MI) Stevens (R-AK) Sununu (R-NH) Tester (D-MT) Voinovich (R-OH) Warner (R-VA) Webb (D-VA) Whitehouse (D-RI) Wyden (D-OR) |
NAYs —26 |
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| Allard (R-CO) Barrasso (R-WY) Brownback (R-KS) Bunning (R-KY) Burr (R-NC) Chambliss (R-GA) Coburn (R-OK) Corker (R-TN) Cornyn (R-TX) |
Crapo (R-ID) DeMint (R-SC) Dole (R-NC) Ensign (R-NV) Enzi (R-WY) Feingold (D-WI) Graham (R-SC) Inhofe (R-OK) Isakson (R-GA) |
Kyl (R-AZ) Lott (R-MS) Martinez (R-FL) McCaskill (D-MO) McConnell (R-KY) Sessions (R-AL) Thune (R-SD) Vitter (R-LA) |
Not Voting - 6 |
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| Biden (D-DE) Clinton (D-NY) |
Dodd (D-CT) Kennedy (D-MA) |
McCain (R-AZ) Obama (D-IL) |
Remember these votes when the naysayers are all whaling and gnashing their teeth over “the children”! Kudos to those 2 Democrats who voted for the Children instead of the pork.
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It’s interesting to see who didn’t vote.
Comment by Jim O. — October 24, 2007 @ 10:04 am