BREAKING NEWS ON HR 5618 VOTE

This is the way the Representatives in the House voted on:

BILL TITLE: Restoration of Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act HR 5618

Here's the link and the actual voting tally will follow: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2010/roll398.xml

Here's the vote tally: START YOUR CAMPAIGNS! Please take note of which House Reps you will be voting out of office in November. I happened to notice that TWO (by browsing the list) from Colorado voted NO - they WILL hear from me.

Here's the link to the list of House Reps and Senators - http://www.conservativeusa.org/mega-cong.htm

	Yeas	Nays	PRES	NV
Democratic	231	16		8
Republican	30	139		9
Independent
TOTALS	261	155		17

---- YEAS 261 ---

Ackerman Altmire Andrews Arcuri Baca Baldwin Barrow Becerra Berkley Berman Bilbray Bilirakis Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Blumenauer Boccieri Bono Mack Boren Boswell Boucher Boyd Brady (PA) Braley (IA) Brown, Corrine Butterfield Capito Capps Capuano Cardoza Carnahan Carney Carson (IN) Castle Castor (FL) Chandler Chu Clarke Clay Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Connolly (VA) Conyers Costa Costello Courtney Critz Crowley Cuellar Dahlkemper Davis (AL) Davis (CA) Davis (IL) Davis (TN) DeFazio DeGette Delahunt DeLauro Dent Deutch Diaz-Balart, L. Diaz-Balart, M. Dicks Dingell Doggett Doyle Driehaus Edwards (MD) Edwards (TX) Ehlers Ellison Ellsworth Eshoo Etheridge Farr Fattah Filner Foster Frank (MA) Fudge Garamendi Gerlach Giffords Gonzalez Gordon (TN) Grayson Green, Al

Green, Gene Grijalva Gutierrez Hall (NY) Halvorson Hare Harman Hastings (FL) Heinrich Heller Higgins Himes Hinchey Hinojosa Hirono Hodes Holden Holt Honda Hoyer Inslee Israel Jackson (IL) Jackson Lee (TX) Johnson (GA) Johnson (IL) Johnson, E. B. Jones Kagen Kanjorski Kaptur Kennedy Kildee Kilpatrick (MI) Kilroy Kind Kirkpatrick (AZ) Kissell Klein (FL) Kosmas Kucinich Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) LaTourette Lee (CA) Lee (NY) Levin Lewis (GA) Lipinski LoBiondo Loebsack Lofgren, Zoe Lowey Luján Lynch Maffei Maloney Manzullo Markey (MA) Matheson Matsui McCarthy (NY) McCollum McCotter McDermott McGovern McMahon McNerney Meek (FL) Meeks (NY) Melancon Michaud Miller (NC) Miller, George Mitchell Mollohan Moore (KS) Moran (VA) Murphy (CT) Murphy (NY) Murphy, Patrick Murphy, Tim Nadler (NY) Napolitano Neal (MA) Obey

Olver Ortiz Owens Pallone Pascrell Pastor (AZ) Payne Pelosi Perlmutter Perriello Peters Peterson Petri Pingree (ME) Platts Polis (CO) Pomeroy Posey Price (NC) Quigley Rahall Rangel Reichert Reyes Richardson Rodriguez Rogers (MI) Ros-Lehtinen Ross Rothman (NJ) Roybal-Allard Ruppersberger Ryan (OH) Salazar Sánchez, Linda T. Sanchez, Loretta Sarbanes Schakowsky Schauer Schiff Schrader Schwartz Scott (GA) Scott (VA) Serrano Sestak Shea-Porter Sherman Sires Skelton Slaughter Smith (NJ) Smith (WA) Snyder Space Speier Spratt Stark Stupak Sutton Tanner Teague Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Tierney Titus Tonko Towns Tsongas Turner Upton Van Hollen Velázquez Visclosky Walz Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Watt Waxman Weiner Welch Whitfield Wilson (OH) Wu Yarmuth Young (FL)

---- NAYS 155 ---

Aderholt Adler (NJ) Akin Alexander Austria Bachmann Bachus Baird Barrett (SC) Bartlett Barton (TX) Bean Berry Biggert Blackburn Blunt Boehner Bonner Boozman Boustany Brady (TX) Bright Broun (GA) Brown (SC) Brown-Waite, Ginny Buchanan Burgess Burton (IN) Buyer Calvert Camp Campbell Cantor Carter Cassidy Chaffetz Childers Coble Coffman (CO) Cole Conaway Cooper Crenshaw Culberson Davis (KY) Djou Donnelly (IN) Dreier Duncan Emerson Fallin Flake

Fleming Forbes Fortenberry Foxx Franks (AZ) Frelinghuysen Gallegly Garrett (NJ) Gingrey (GA) Gohmert Goodlatte Granger Graves (GA) Graves (MO) Guthrie Hall (TX) Harper Hastings (WA) Hensarling Herger Herseth Sandlin Hill Hunter Inglis Issa Jenkins Johnson, Sam Jordan (OH) King (IA) King (NY) Kingston Kline (MN) Kratovil Lamborn Lance Latham Latta Lewis (CA) Linder Lucas Luetkemeyer Lummis Lungren, Daniel E. Mack Marchant Markey (CO) Marshall McCarthy (CA) McCaul McClintock McHenry McKeon

McMorris Rodgers Mica Miller (FL) Miller (MI) Miller, Gary Minnick Moran (KS) Myrick Neugebauer Nunes Nye Olson Paul Paulsen Pence Pitts Poe (TX) Price (GA) Radanovich Rehberg Roe (TN) Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rohrabacher Rooney Roskam Royce Ryan (WI) Scalise Schmidt Sensenbrenner Sessions Shadegg Shimkus Shuler Shuster Simpson Smith (NE) Smith (TX) Stearns Sullivan Terry Thompson (PA) Thornberry Tiahrt Tiberi Walden Westmoreland Wilson (SC) Wittman Wolf

---- NOT VOTING 17 ---

Bishop (UT) Cao Cummings Engel Griffith Hoekstra

Kirk McIntyre Moore (WI) Oberstar Putnam Rush

Schock Taylor Wamp Woolsey Young (AK)

SPECIAL EDITION - UNEMPLOYMENT DAY 2

The weather here is killing me, pain in my knees is unreal - so I took a nap.

UPDATE 1:22pm MDT

I watched the vote via CSPAN - the bill HR 5618 did NOT pass as previously stated - the vote was 261-155 and we needed 2/3 vote for passage. Please continue phone and fax campaigns!
I will post the voting records as soon as they are available online.

UPDATE 6:40pm MDT

Senators Reid, Baucus Unveil New Unemployment Measure - http://senatus.wordpress.com/2010/06/29/reid-baucus-unveil-new-unemployment-measure/


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I was woken up by my phone ringing and news of HR 5618, a stand-alone unemployment bill going through the House of Representatives. This bill has passed through the House.

Now all those faxes need to keep going to the Senators who voted NO on the original bill HR 4213. We need to push them to a YES vote! Please remind them all that THEIR JOBS are on the line should they vote NO! Use the line - We'll Remember in November!

House of Representatives

At this link from the CURRENT HOUSE FLOOR PROCEEDINGS, LEGISLATIVE DAY OF JUNE 29, 2010, 111TH CONGRESS - SECOND SESSION - http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.5618: - the text of the bill has not been posted yet - here's the text found there - The text of H.R.5618 has not yet been received from GPO Bills are generally sent to the Library of Congress from the Government Printing Office a day or two after they are introduced on the floor of the House or Senate. Delays can occur when there are a large number of bills to prepare or when a very large bill has to be printed.

At this link- the main link for Current House Floor Proceedings for today June 29, 2010. http://clerk.house.gov/floorsummary/floor.html browse down to the page to the time of 1:12pm - click on HR 5618 for more information. (in addition, see below for the information that is posted)

H.R.5618
Title: To continue Federal unemployment programs.
Sponsor: Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] (introduced 6/28/2010) Cosponsors (1)
Latest Major Action: 6/28/2010 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Open Congress

At the Open Congress website: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h5618/show read what they reported on - H.R.5618 - Restoration of Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 2010.

Huffington Post

From the Huffington Post - Unemployment Benefits: House To Vote On Standalone Bill
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/29/unemployment-benefits-hou_n_628627.html

As more information on this bill is received, it will be posted. Please check back for updates. I will also use my Twitter account: ElaineM925 to report updates with #unemployment.

On one of these sites, I had read, but can't believe until the bill text is out, that the extra $25 per week that we have received in addition to our regular unemployment will no longer be available in the "extension". That's $100/month! Please wait before broadcasting that until the bill text can be read.

After Downing Street

House to Vote on Stand-Alone Unemployment Insurance Bill Today - http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/53573

Total Bankruptcy

Congressional Disputes Hamper Unemployment Extensions - http://www.totalbankruptcy.com/blog/congressional-disputes-hamper-unemployment-extensions/

Rep Sander Levin - article and video

Rep. Sander Levin formally introduces standalone federal unemployment benefit extension bill - http://www.mlive.com/michigan-job-search/index.ssf/2010/06/rep_sander_levin_formally_introduces_sta.html


Please do your part by calling both Representatives Jim McDermott (D-WA-7) and Sander Levin (D-MI-12) for reintroducing the "extenders bill" under stand-alone HR 5618.

Rep Jim McDermott: Phone: (202) 225-3106, Fax: (202) 225-6197

Rep Sander Levin: Phone: (202) 225-4961, Toll Free: (888) 810-3880,
Fax: (202) 226-1033

STAND UP AND BE HEARD!

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