The electronic ink was barely dry on the subject message yesterday when the House voted to extend unemployment benefits as predicted in the original posting.
Below is the House vote - there are some surprises @ least for me.
The response below sums up the matter accurately.
"Many of the tax laws, healthcare costs, etc do not come due until several years later, so this year negative effect of those regulations will not be felt, therefore giving false security on how the country is faring.
Very little news was given to the latest initial claims for unemployment insurance that came out the same day as your posting - they went UP not down This is not good news for economy, meaning more people unemployed. With large numbers of people unemployed, how can government expect retail sales to zoom up - those people will spend less, to conserve their money.
As long as people who had well paying jobs are now unemployed the country cannot expect economy to improve.
Government talks about creating jobs - I ask how?"
H R 4213 YEA-AND-NAY 22-Jul-2010 2:13 PM
QUESTION: On Motion to Concur in the Senate amdt to the House amdt to the Senate amdt
BILL TITLE: Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2010
| Yeas | Nays | PRES | NV | |
| Democratic | 241 | 10 | 4 | |
| Republican | 31 | 142 | 5 | |
| Independent | ||||
| TOTALS | 272 | 152 | 9 |
| Ackerman Adler (NJ) Altmire Andrews Arcuri Baca Baldwin Barrow Bean Becerra Berkley Berman Bilbray Bilirakis Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Blumenauer Boccieri Bono Mack Boren Boswell Boucher Boyd Brady (PA) Braley (IA) Brown, Corrine Butterfield Cao Capito Capps Cardoza Carnahan Carney Carson (IN) Castle Castor (FL) Chandler Childers Chu Clarke Clay Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Connolly (VA) Conyers Costa Costello Courtney Critz Crowley Cuellar Cummings Dahlkemper Davis (AL) Davis (CA) Davis (IL) Davis (TN) DeFazio DeGette Delahunt DeLauro Dent Deutch Diaz-Balart, L. Diaz-Balart, M. Dicks Dingell Doggett Donnelly (IN) Driehaus Edwards (MD) Edwards (TX) Ehlers Ellison Ellsworth Engel 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 Herseth Sandlin Higgins Himes Hinchey Hinojosa Hirono 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 Kratovil Kucinich Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) LaTourette Lee (CA) Levin Lewis (GA) Lipinski LoBiondo Loebsack Lofgren, Zoe Lowey Luján Lynch Maffei Maloney Manzullo Markey (MA) Marshall Matheson Matsui McCarthy (NY) McCollum McCotter McDermott McGovern McMahon McNerney Meek (FL) Meeks (NY) Melancon Michaud Miller (NC) Miller, George Mitchell Mollohan Moore (KS) Moore (WI) Moran (VA) Murphy (CT) Murphy (NY) Murphy, Patrick Murphy, Tim Nadler (NY) Napolitano Neal (MA) Oberstar Obey | Olver 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 Rush 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 Taylor 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) Woolsey Wu Yarmuth Young (AK) Young (FL) |
| Capuano Doyle Fallin | Hodes Hoekstra King (NY) | Ortiz Tiahrt Wamp |
2 Points:
ReplyDelete1) unemployment goes up, less paid in "payroll taxes". Another argument for the FairTax.
2) November elections. These fools couldn't care less about the long term impact. Their decisions are based on getting thru the upcoming election. They follow this path throughout their careers in Washington. Just get through the next election, (which is always just around the corner) without the you know what hitting the fan. This way they won't be blamed for it when it does happen and in the meantime, they set themselves up for the financial bonanza that comes with being a member of Congress. Taxpayers and following the Constitution be damned!