House of Representatives Vote to Increase the Public Debt Limit


I’ve had this since right after the vote, which was on May, 31, 2011, and never posted it. So, I’m posting it today. Two significant items in relation to the vote. First, not a single Republican voted to raise the debt limit ceiling. Second, almost as many Democrats voted against raising the ceiling as voted for it.

Do you think some Democrats are getting the message? Do you think some Democrats are getting pressure from back in their home districts to CUT spending. Or, did they vote “no” for show—knowing the vote would fail so voting, in this instance, on the side of reason? Just look at who voted no: Hoyer [D], Pelosi [D], Rangel [D], Wasserman Schultz [D]

Whatever the reason. It was a vote against our spendoholic President even if not sincere! Keep track to see if they change to voting yes to raising the debt limit. Use this vote against them if they do change!

From: U.S. House http://clerk.house.gov/legislative/legvotes.html

From: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll379.xml

Final Vote Results for Roll Call 379

H R 1954 2/3 YEA-AND-NAY 31-May-2011 7:11 PM
QUESTION: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass
BILL TITLE: To implement the President’s request to increase the statutory limit on the public debt

Republicans

Yeas: 000
Nays: 236
Not Voting: 3

Democrats

Yeas: 097
Nays: 082
Present: 7
Not Voting: 6

Totals

Yeas: 097
Nays: 318
Present: 7
Not Voting: 9

Yea Votes (All Democrats)

Berman
Blumenauer
Brady (PA)
Capuano
Carson (IN)
Clarke (MI)
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Cleaver
Cohen
Connolly (VA)
Cooper
Davis (IL)
DeGette
Dicks
Dingell
Doyle
Edwards
Ellison
Engel
Eshoo
Farr
Fattah
Filner
Frank (MA)
Fudge
Garamendi
Gonzalez
Green, Al
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hanabusa
Heinrich
Himes
Hirono
Holt
Honda
Jackson (IL)
Jackson Lee (TX)
Johnson, E. B.
Kildee
Kucinich
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lee (CA)
Lofgren, Zoe
Lowey
Luján
Lynch
Maloney
Markey
Matsui
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
Miller (NC)
Moore
Moran
Murphy (CT)
Nadler
Neal
Olver
Pascrell
Pastor (AZ)
Payne
Perlmutter
Pingree (ME)
Price (NC)
Quigley
Richmond
Rothman (NJ)
Roybal-Allard
Ruppersberger
Rush
Sánchez, Linda T.
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Scott (VA)
Serrano
Sewell
Sherman
Sires
Speier
Stark
Thompson (MS)
Tonko
Tsongas
Velázquez
Waters
Watt
Waxman
Weiner
Welch
Wilson (FL)

Woolsey
Yarmuth

Nays

Adams
Aderholt
Akin
Alexander
Altmire [D]
Amash
Andrews [D]
Austria
Baca [D]
Bachmann
Bachus
Baldwin [D]
Barletta
Barrow [D]
Bartlett
Barton (TX)
Bass (CA) [D]
Bass (NH)
Becerra [D]
Benishek
Berg
Berkley [D]
Biggert
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop (GA) [D]
Bishop (NY) [D]
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Bonner
Bono Mack
Boren [D]
Boswell [D]
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Brooks
Broun (GA)
Brown (FL) [D]
Buchanan
Bucshon
Buerkle
Burgess
Burton (IN)
Butterfield [D]
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Canseco
Cantor
Capito
Capps [D]
Cardozo [D]
Carnahan [D]
Carney [D]
Carter
Cassidy
Castor (FL) [D]
Chabot
Chaffetz
Chandler [D]
Cicilline [D]
Clyburn [D]
Coble
Coffman (CO)
Cole
Conaway
Conyers [D]
Costa [D]
Costello [D]
Courtney [D]
Cravaack
Crawford
Crenshaw
Critz [D]
Crowley [D]
Cuellar [D]
Culberson
Cummings [D]
Davis (CA) [D]
Davis (KY)
DeFazio [D]
DeLauro [D]
Denham
Dent
DesJarlais
Deutch [D]
Diaz-Balart
Dold
Donnelly (IN) [D]
Dreier
Duffy
Duncan (TN)
Ellmers
Emerson
Farenthold
Fincher
Fitzpatrick
Flake
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Gallegly
Gardner
Garrett
Gerlach
Gibbs
Gibson
Gingrey (GA)
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (MO)
Green, Gene [D]
Griffin (AR)
Griffith (VA)
Grimm
Guinta
Guthrie
Hall
Hanna
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Hastings (FL) [D]
Hastings (WA)
Hayworth
Heck
Hensarling
Herger
Herrera Beutler
Higgins [D]
Hinojosa [D]
Holden [D]
Hoyer [D]
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurt
Inslee [D]
Israel [D]
Issa
Jenkins
Johnson (IL)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Jordan
Keating [D]
Kelly
Kind [D]
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kinzinger (IL)
Kissell [D]
Kline
Labrador
Lamborn
Lance
Landry
Langevin [D]
Lankford
Latham
LaTourette
Latta
Levin [D]
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (GA) [D]
Lipinski [D]
LoBiondo
Loebsack [D]
Long
Luetkemeyer
Lummis
Lungren, Daniel E.
Mack
Manzullo
Marchant
Marino
Matheson [D]
McCarthy (CA)
McCaul
McClintock
McCotter
McHenry
McIntyre [D]
McKeon
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
McNerney [D]
Meehan
Mica
Michaud [D]
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller, Gary
Miller, George [D]
Mulvaney
Murphy (PA)
Napolitano [D]
Neugebauer
Noem
Nugent
Nunes
Nunnelee
Olson
Owens [D]
Palazzo
Pallone [D]
Paul
Paulsen
Pearce
Pelosi [D]
Pence
Peters [D]
Peterson [D]
Petri
Pitts
Platts
Poe (TX)
Polis [D]
Pompeo
Posey
Price (GA)
Quayle
Rahall [D]
Rangel [D]
Reed
Rehberg
Reichert
Renacci
Reyes [D]
Ribble
Richardson [D]
Rigell
Rivera
Roby
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Rokita
Rooney
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross (AR) [D]
Ross (FL)
Royce
Runyan
Ryan (OH) [D]
Ryan (WI)
Scalise
Schiff [D]
Schilling
Schmidt
Schock
Schrader [D]
Schweikert
Scott (SC)
Scott, Austin
Scott, David [D]
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shimkus
Shuler [D]
Shuster
Simpson
Slaughter [D]
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Smith (WA) [D]
Southerland
Stearns
Stivers
Stutzman
Sullivan
Sutton [D]
Terry
Thompson (CA) [D]
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tipton
Towns [D]
Turner
Upton
Van Hollen [D]
Visclosky [D]
Walberg
Walden
Walsh (IL)
Wasserman Schultz [D]
Webster
West
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Wolf
Womack
Woodall
Wu [D]
Yoder
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
Young (IN)

Present (All Democrats)

Ackerman
Chu
Doggett
Hinchey
Johnson (GA)
Kaptur
Meeks

Not Voting

Braley (IA) [Democrat]
Duncan (SC)
Giffords [Democrat]
Lucas
Myrick
Sanchez, Loretta [Democrat]
Schwartz [Democrat]
Tierney [Democrat]
Walz (MN) [Democrat]