Appearing to be a major victory for President Obama, the House of Representatives have passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act by a vote of 219 to 212.
The historic vote breaks down to 219 Democrats voting Yea with 34 Democrats voting Nay. Not one Republican voted for it, all 178 voted Nay!
Contrasting the gap on Health Care Reform between the two parties; South Carolina Congressman Jim Clyburn (Democrat) compares the win reminiscent of the civil rights battles of decades past, saying, “This is the civil rights act of the 21st century.” While the House Minority Leader John Boehner (Republican) complained, “We have failed to listen to America. And we have failed to reflect the will of our constituents”
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on Health Care
Pelosi receives the Excellence in Leadership Award from MALDEF. (Courtesy the Speaker Website)
“It is with great humility and with great pride that we tonight will make history for our country and progress for the American people. [Applause] Just think—we will be joining those who established Social Security, Medicare, and now tonight health care for all Americans.” [Applause] View entire speech
Reactions in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, as the House passes the health care reform bill, March 21, 2010.
Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and senior staff. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Yea (219)
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Ackerman Andrews Baca Baird Baldwin Bean Becerra Berkley Berman Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Blumenauer Boccieri Boswell Boyd Brady (PA) Braley (IA) Brown, Corrine Butterfield Capps Capuano Cardoza Carnahan Carney Carson (IN) Castor (FL) Chu Clarke Clay Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Connolly (VA) Conyers Cooper Costa Costello Courtney Crowley Cuellar Cummings Dahlkemper Davis (CA) Davis (IL) |
DeFazio DeGette Delahunt DeLauro Dicks Dingell Doggett Donnelly (IN) Doyle Driehaus Edwards (MD) Ellison Ellsworth Engel Eshoo Etheridge Farr Fattah Filner Foster Frank (MA) Fudge Garamendi Giffords Gonzalez Gordon (TN) Grayson Green, Al Green, Gene Grijalva Gutierrez Hall (NY) Halvorson Hare Harman Hastings (FL) Heinrich Higgins Hill Himes Hinchey Hinojosa Hirono Hodes |
Holt Honda Hoyer Inslee Israel Jackson (IL) Jackson Lee (TX) Johnson (GA) Johnson, E. B. Kagen Kanjorski Kaptur Kennedy Kildee Kilpatrick (MI) Kilroy Kind Kirkpatrick (AZ) Klein (FL) Kosmas Kucinich Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lee (CA) Levin Lewis (GA) Loebsack Lofgren, Zoe Lowey Luján Maffei Maloney Markey (CO) Markey (MA) Matsui McCarthy (NY) McCollum McDermott McGovern McNerney Meek (FL) Meeks (NY) Michaud |
Miller (NC) Miller, George Mitchell Mollohan Moore (KS) Moore (WI) Moran (VA) Murphy (CT) Murphy (NY) Murphy, Patrick Nadler (NY) Napolitano Neal (MA) Oberstar Obey Olver Ortiz Owens Pallone Pascrell Pastor (AZ) Payne Pelosi Perlmutter Perriello Peters Pingree (ME) Polis (CO) Pomeroy Price (NC) Quigley Rahall Rangel Reyes Richardson Rodriguez Rothman (NJ) Roybal-Allard Ruppersberger Rush Ryan (OH) Salazar Sánchez, Linda Sanchez, Loretta |
Sarbanes Schakowsky Schauer Schiff Schrader Schwartz Scott (GA) Scott (VA) Serrano Sestak Shea-Porter Sherman Sires Slaughter Smith (WA) Snyder Speier Spratt Stark Stupak Sutton Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Tierney Titus Tonko Towns Tsongas Van Hollen Velázquez Visclosky Walz Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Watt Waxman Weiner Welch Wilson (OH) Woolsey Wu Yarmuth |
Nay (212)
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Aderholt Adler (NJ) Akin Alexander Altmire Arcuri Austria Bachmann Bachus Barrett (SC) Barrow Bartlett Barton (TX) Berry Biggert Bilbray Bilirakis Bishop (UT) Blackburn Blunt Boehner Bonner Bono Mack Boozman Boren Boucher Boustany Brady (TX) Bright Broun (GA) Brown (SC) Brown-Waite, Ginny Buchanan Burgess Burton (IN) Buyer Calvert Camp Campbell Cantor Cao Capito Carter |
Cassidy Castle Chaffetz Chandler Childers Coble Coffman (CO) Cole Conaway Crenshaw Culberson Davis (AL) Davis (KY) Davis (TN) Deal (GA) Dent Diaz-Balart, L. Diaz-Balart, M. Dreier Duncan Edwards (TX) Ehlers Emerson Fallin Flake Fleming Forbes Fortenberry Foxx Franks (AZ) Frelinghuysen Gallegly Garrett (NJ) Gerlach Gingrey (GA) Gohmert Goodlatte Granger Graves Griffith Guthrie Hall (TX) Harper |
Hastings (WA) Heller Hensarling Herger Herseth Sandlin Hoekstra Holden Hunter Inglis Issa Jenkins Johnson (IL) Johnson, Sam Jones Jordan (OH) King (IA) King (NY) Kingston Kirk Kissell Kline (MN) Kratovil Lamborn Lance Latham LaTourette Latta Lee (NY) Lewis (CA) Linder Lipinski LoBiondo Lucas Luetkemeyer Lummis Lungren, Daniel Lynch Mack Manzullo Marchant Marshall Matheson McCarthy (CA) |
McCaul McClintock McCotter McHenry McIntyre McKeon McMahon McMorris Rodgers Melancon Mica Miller (FL) Miller (MI) Miller, Gary Minnick Moran (KS) Murphy, Tim Myrick Neugebauer Nunes Nye Olson Paul Paulsen Pence Peterson Petri Pitts Platts Poe (TX) Posey Price (GA) Putnam Radanovich Rehberg Reichert Roe (TN) Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rogers (MI) Rohrabacher Rooney Ros-Lehtinen Roskam |
Ross Royce Ryan (WI) Scalise Schmidt Schock Sensenbrenner Sessions Shadegg Shimkus Shuler Shuster Simpson Skelton Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smith (TX) Souder Space Stearns Sullivan Tanner Taylor Teague Terry Thompson (PA) Thornberry Tiahrt Tiberi Turner Upton Walden Wamp Westmoreland Whitfield Wilson (SC) Wittman Wolf Young (AK) Young (FL) |
The Democrats who voted Nay (34)
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John Adler NJ Jason Altmire PA Michael Arcuri NY John Barrow GA Marion Berry ARK Dan Boren OK Rick Boucher VA Bobby Bright AL Ben Chandler KY |
Travis Childers MS Artur Davis AL Lincoln Davis TN Chet Edwards TX Parker Griffith AL Stephanie Herseth Sandlin SD Tim Holden PA Larry Kissell NC |
Frank Kratovil MD Daniel Lipinski IL Stephen Lynch MA Jim Marshall GA Jim Matheson UT Mike McIntyre NC Michael McMahon NY Charlie Melancon LA Walt Minnick ID |
Glenn Nye VA Collin Peterson MN Mike Ross AR Heath Shuler NC Ike Skelton MO Zack Space OH John Tanner TN Gene Taylor MS Harry Teague NM |
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With such a HUGE gap in opinion between the Democrats and Republicans, it is clearly safe to say this is NOT bipartisan in any sense of the definition. I have a strong feeling as individual Americans, we are going to either hate it or love it.
So what does America think? Let us know!
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I’m not sure what America thinks. Saw a republican on BBC breakfast this morning who saw it as a huge tax burden on the country to help a minority, but then again, I’m VERY grateful for our NHS and my family has definitely been blessed by it.
.-= Mo´s last blog ..The Rolex and the Unhealthy Zorro Obsession =-.
Honestly, I don’t know what to think.
.-= jenjen´s last blog ..Ugh…a teaser post. =-.
Oh….No…..Hahahaaa…..omg….Well, just remember You Asked!!
I am proud of being a Tea Party member…a Patriot…an American. I am Christian…Conservative. I believe in being Free. Mandates strip that freedom from Americans. The HC bill, as it now stands, is Not about healthcare…It’s about controlling America’s people. Theft of lands, insurance companies (Gov WILL become the Underwriter and only a select few will gain 5% on each new patient) All the takeovers…and they’re not through Yet.
Patiently waiting for the 7 1/2 months until Nov elections, to arrive. There will be a Massive shift in power. I can NOT wait! Nursing homes will start closing…hospitals…loss of Doctors…Waves of Medicaid patients trying to see physicians that will no Longer accept Medicaid…GEEZ, the list goes on and on! Drug wars on Texas borders that are NOT being truly reported on…
Our Nation is in big trouble at this very moment…
I’m pissed…
I’ll fight ’til I flippin drop…I have babies and granbabies, and by God, they’ll live Their lives in Freedom!
hughugs
.-= Donna (Texas)´s last blog ..Sneak Peak…Since You Can’t Join Us! =-.
LOL!! Dare you ask UC?! I have to say I’m gonna go with Donna on this one!! I’d have to say she’s right on in her views…In my opinion of course
.-= Michelle´s last blog ..Testing a New Lens and LOVING It!!! =-.
UP rarely get’s political…cynical, sarcastic, and smug, yes, political no.
I’m sure most of us won’t be around to pay for it since we’ll all be dead from the lack of proper healthcare it will produce.
Sadly, our children and grand-children will foot the bill.
And, at best, it’s socialism. Welcome to France!
UP
I think it’s crap: We passed a health care plan written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn’t understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn’t read it but exempts themselves from it, to be signed by a president that also hasn’t read it and who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn’t pay his taxes, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that’s broke????
I guess I can stand the heat. Maybe now our health care will be up to the level of hmmmm, Canada, United Kingdom, Italy, yes, France um oh yea, CUBA has better health care ratings than we do, lemme see, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, gosh I just can’t remember all of the 36 countries who receive better health care than we in the US.
I don’t know if this bill is the solution; I think it just might be the starting point. If you are not hopeful about this bill, I hope you do not have a sick child or a chronic condition while individually insured privately. Because your insurance WILL be canceled under the old system. Then you will be bankrupt.
Please, please think for yourself. Politicians are shouting about platforms and rhetoric. I am WAY too conservative for the Republicans and far, far to liberal for the Democrats. Platforms are not jobs and ya can’t eat rhetoric.
The way we are going doesn’t work and continues to get worse. Give the bill a chance. It is not too long until November. We get to speak with our votes.
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After reading Donna’s comment there’s nothing more I can add. She said it perfectly.
.-= ann´s last blog ..Swinging into spring =-.
I agree with Donna. While healthcare needs to be reformed there are at least two things that could have been done rather than pass a massive piece of legislation: 1. they could start with tort reform and get trial lawyers out of the medical field. 2. allow health-insurance to be sold across state lines, instead of each state having their own licensing procedure.
Further they could also increase the amount of out of pocket expense that people with corporate plans have to pay- too many people have a $0 co-pay and as such run to the doctor at the first sign of illness instead of going to their local pharmacy, consulting with the pharmacist about what OTC drugs would help them.
no one in this country is denied medical coverage. But here in TX and other places with a huge amount of illegals, or poor minorities, they use the emergency room as a place to go to get treated for a cold, and then of course they can’t/don’t/won’t pay the bill. That burden then falls on the people that DO pay their bills. If we want to provide charity medical care for the poor, there’s got to be a better way.
Anytime the government runs anything, it never works right.
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I am not too sure about this. Part of me is afraid of it and another part of me says it is about time.
I can say that as an American Obama is my president…love him or hate him I support him just like I supported Clinton and Bush whether I hated them or liked them. This is the way I was raised. To support and respect my leaders. I don’t know if it is wrong or not to feel this way. But it makes me feel bad that other countries see this great country so divided on such an important issue as heathcare. So much so our congress people feel threatened.
I think it is passe, love it or hate it. I wish the Americans would now get together to help it evolve to something great. Not fight each other every step of the way.
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Hi Christiejolulu…I agree with you in that he is our President, and as such he deserves my respect. However, my respect does not include to agree with him when I don’t. So I like many others, will bide my time until I can vote again…whether it’s for legislature or the next Presidential campaign. I do agree with you that we as a country, we really need to start working together.
Sadly, our children and grand-children will foot the bill.
And, at best, it’s socialism. Welcome to France!
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