The Republican Party that masquerades as the party of Constitutional Conservatives revealed its true identity when 198 Republicans in the House of Representatives voted to suspend the Constitution by voting for the National Defense Authorization Act which is better known as NDAA.
H R 1540 RECORDED VOTE 14-Dec-2011 6:58 PM
QUESTION: On Agreeing to the Conference Report
BILL TITLE: To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2012 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes
| Ayes | Noes | PRES | NV | |
| Republican | 190 | 43 | 8 | |
| Democratic | 93 | 93 | 6 | |
| Independent | ||||
| TOTALS | 283 | 136 | 14 |
| Ackerman Adams Aderholt Akin Alexander Altmire Amodei Andrews Austria Baca Bachus Barletta Barrow Bartlett Barton (TX) Bass (NH) Benishek Berg Berkley Berman Biggert Bilbray Bilirakis Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Bishop (UT) Black Blackburn Bonner Bono Mack Boren Boswell Boustany Brady (PA) Brady (TX) Brooks Broun (GA) Brown (FL) Buchanan Buerkle Butterfield Calvert Camp Canseco Cantor Capito Capps Cardoza Carnahan Carney Carter Cassidy Castor (FL) Chabot Chandler Cicilline Cole Conaway Connolly (VA) Cooper Costa Courtney Cravaack Crawford Crenshaw Critz Crowley Cuellar Culberson Davis (CA) Davis (KY) Denham Dent Deutch Dicks Dingell Doggett Dold Donnelly (IN) Dreier Duffy Ellmers Emerson Engel Farenthold Fincher Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Fleming Flores Fortenberry Foxx Franks (AZ) Frelinghuysen Gallegly |
Garamendi Gardner Gerlach Gibbs Gibson Gingrey (GA) Gohmert Gonzalez Granger Graves (MO) Green, Al Green, Gene Griffin (AR) Grimm Guinta Guthrie Hall Hanabusa Hanna Harper Hartzler Hastings (WA) Hayworth Heck Hensarling Herger Herrera Beutler Higgins Himes Hirono Hochul Holden Hoyer Hultgren Hunter Inslee Israel Issa Jackson Lee (TX) Jenkins Johnson (OH) Johnson, Sam Jordan Keating Kelly Kildee Kind King (IA) King (NY) Kingston Kinzinger (IL) Kissell Kline Lamborn Lance Landry Langevin Lankford Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Latham Latta Levin Lewis (CA) Lipinski LoBiondo Loebsack Long Lowey Lucas Luetkemeyer Lungren, Daniel E. Manzullo Marchant Marino Matheson McCarthy (CA) McCarthy (NY) McCaul McCotter McHenry McIntyre McKeon McKinley McMorris Rodgers McNerney Meehan Mica Miller (FL) Miller (MI) Miller, Gary Murphy (PA) Neugebauer Noem Nugent |
Nunes Nunnelee Olson Owens Palazzo Pascrell Pastor (AZ) Paulsen Pearce Pelosi Perlmutter Peterson Petri Platts Poe (TX) Pompeo Price (GA) Quayle Rahall Reed Rehberg Reichert Renacci Reyes Richardson Rigell Rivera Roby Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rogers (MI) Rooney Ros-Lehtinen Roskam Ross (AR) Ross (FL) Rothman (NJ) Runyan Ruppersberger Ryan (WI) Sánchez, Linda T. Scalise Schiff Schilling Schmidt Schock Schrader Schwartz Scott (SC) Scott, Austin Scott, David Sensenbrenner Sessions Sewell Sherman Shimkus Shuler Shuster Sires Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smith (TX) Smith (WA) Southerland Stearns Stivers Sullivan Sutton Terry Thompson (PA) Thornberry Tiberi Tsongas Turner (NY) Turner (OH) Upton Visclosky Walden Walz (MN) Wasserman Schultz Waxman Webster West Westmoreland Whitfield Wilson (FL) Wilson (SC) Wittman Wolf Womack Yoder Young (AK) Young (IN) |
| Amash Baldwin Bass (CA) Becerra Blumenauer Braley (IA) Bucshon Burgess Burton (IN) Campbell Capuano Carson (IN) Chaffetz Chu Clarke (MI) Clarke (NY) Clay Cleaver Clyburn Coffman (CO) Cohen Conyers Costello Cummings Davis (IL) DeFazio DeGette DeLauro DesJarlais Doyle Duncan (SC) Duncan (TN) Edwards Ellison Eshoo Farr Fattah Flake Forbes Frank (MA) Fudge Garrett Goodlatte Gosar Gowdy Graves (GA) |
Griffith (VA) Grijalva Hahn Harris Hastings (FL) Heinrich Hinchey Hinojosa Holt Honda Huelskamp Huizenga (MI) Hurt Jackson (IL) Johnson (GA) Johnson (IL) Jones Kaptur Kucinich Labrador Lee (CA) Lewis (GA) Lofgren, Zoe Luján Lummis Mack Maloney Markey Matsui McClintock McCollum McDermott McGovern Meeks Michaud Miller (NC) Miller, George Moore Moran Mulvaney Murphy (CT) Nadler Napolitano Neal Olver Pallone |
Payne Pence Peters Pingree (ME) Polis Posey Price (NC) Quigley Rangel Ribble Richmond Roe (TN) Rohrabacher Rokita Roybal-Allard Royce Rush Ryan (OH) Sarbanes Schakowsky Schweikert Scott (VA) Serrano Simpson Slaughter Speier Stark Stutzman Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Tierney Tipton Tonko Towns Van Hollen Velázquez Walberg Walsh (IL) Waters Watt Welch Woodall Woolsey Yarmuth |
| Bachmann Coble Diaz-Balart Filner Giffords |
Gutierrez Johnson, E. B. LaTourette Lynch Myrick |
Paul Pitts Sanchez, Loretta Young (FL) |
Replies
Choosing between Republicans and Democrats is like choosing between arsenic or cyanide as your favorite beverage. No matter who you choose, you lose!
What do most of us do when we reach in the frig for leftovers and there is one little spot of mold in the food, throw it all out, right? This is no different. We do not need them to survive and we cannot leave them in place.