Thread: GOP stalls climate/change vote: Boehner filiburster now

Boehner is on right now going page by page...



GOP stalls climate-change vote
By: Lisa Lerer and Patrick O'Connor
June 25, 2009 08:43 PM EST

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) slowed Democrats’ attempt to pass a sweeping climate-change legislation Friday evening, reading page-by-page through a 300-page Democratic amendment before allowing a roll call vote.

It was a House version of a Senate filibuster – and a way to protest the addition of the 300-page managers’ amendment at 3 a.m. Friday.

Republicans say Democrats are ramming their climate-change legislation through the House without enough time for members to read the bill — let alone to understand it — all in violation of their promises about creating a more transparent legislative process.

Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.), running the debate for his party, asked repeatedly Friday afternoon if there was even a copy of the current version of the bill anywhere in the House chamber. Democratic Rep. Ellen Tauscher – sitting in the speaker’s chair although she’s already been confirmed as Obama’s undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security — repeatedly dodged the question.

Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), one of the bill’s sponsors, finally rose to say that a single copy of the current version of the bill was available at the speaker’s desk and on the Internet, which members would have to leave the floor to access.

But that wasn’t enough for Boehner, whose move threatened to postpone a vote well into the evening – on a day that has already seen hours of contentious debate.

Rep. Geoff Davis, a Republican from Kentucky, said earlier in the day that the cap-and-trade bill represented the “economic colonization of the heartlandâ€

I am watching it right now and at the same time calling Republican Congressmen who are "on the fence" there supposedly are 25.

Keep calling!!! It is not over yet.
Also call Bahners office and thank him~!

As of Thursday night, Democratic leadership aides expected five to 10 Republicans to vote for the bill, including California Rep. Mary Bono Mack, who supported it in the Energy and Commerce Committee. Other Republicans that Democrats hoped would cross over include Mike Castle of Delaware, Vernon Ehlers of Michigan, Mark Kirk of Illinois and Dave Reichert of Washington.

Republicans:
Bartlett (MD) – (202) 225-2721
Bono Mack (CA) - (202) 225-5330
Castle (DE) – (202) 225-4165
Dent (PA) – (202) 225-6411
Ehlers (MI) - (202) 225-3831
Frelinghuysen (NJ) - (202) 225-5034
Gerlach (PA) – (202) 225.4315
Inglis (SC) - (202) 225-6030
Tim Johnson (IL) – (202) 225-2371
Kirk (IL) – (202) 225-4835
Lance (NJ) - (202) 225-5361
LoBiondo (NJ) - (202) 225-6572
Petri (WI) – (202) 225-2476
Platts (PA) - (202) 225-5836
Ros-Lehtinen (FL) – (202) 225-3931

How can ANYONE vote on that crap that Bohner is reading! People need to rise up and confront every member that vote for it!

Here are the members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce

Members:
This committee has 59 members.
Are they the people to draw up this Bill?

If yours is here call them first!

Chair
Rep. Henry Waxman [D-CA30]
Ranking Member
Rep. Joe Barton [R-TX6]

Del. Donna Christensen [D-VI]

Rep. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI2]

Rep. John Barrow [D-GA12]

Rep. Marsha Blackburn [R-TN7]

Rep. Roy Blunt [R-MO7]

Rep. Mary Bono Mack [R-CA45]

Rep. Frederick Boucher [D-VA9]

Rep. Bruce Braley [D-IA1]

Rep. Michael Burgess [R-TX26]

Rep. George Butterfield [D-NC1]

Rep. Stephen Buyer [R-IN4]

Rep. Lois Capps [D-CA23]

Rep. Kathy Castor [D-FL11]

Rep. Nathan Deal [R-GA9]

Rep. Diana DeGette [D-CO1]

Rep. John Dingell [D-MI15]

Rep. Michael Doyle [D-PA14]

Rep. Eliot Engel [D-NY17]

Rep. Anna Eshoo [D-CA14]

Rep. John Gingrey [R-GA11]

Rep. Charles Gonzalez [D-TX20]

Rep. Barton Gordon [D-TN6]

Rep. Raymond Green [D-TX29]

Rep. Ralph Hall [R-TX4]

Rep. Jane Harman [D-CA36]

Rep. Baron Hill [D-IN9]

Rep. Jay Inslee [D-WA1]

Rep. Edward Markey [D-MA7]

Rep. Jim Matheson [D-UT2]

Rep. Doris Matsui [D-CA5]

Rep. Jerry McNerney [D-CA11]

Rep. Charles Melancon [D-LA3]

Rep. Christopher Murphy [D-CT5]

Rep. Tim Murphy [R-PA18]

Rep. Sue Myrick [R-NC9]

Rep. Frank Pallone [D-NJ6]

Rep. Joseph Pitts [R-PA16]

Rep. George Radanovich [R-CA19]

Rep. Michael Rogers [R-MI8]

Rep. Mike Ross [D-AR4]

Rep. Bobby Rush [D-IL1]

Rep. John Sarbanes [D-MD3]

Rep. Steve Scalise [R-LA1]

Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D-IL9]

Rep. John Shadegg [R-AZ3]

Rep. John Shimkus [R-IL19]

Rep. Zachary Space [D-OH18]

Rep. Clifford Stearns [R-FL6]

Rep. Bart Stupak [D-MI1]

Rep. John Sullivan [R-OK1]

Rep. Betty Sutton [D-OH13]

Rep. Lee Terry [R-NE2]

Rep. Frederick Upton [R-MI6]

Rep. Greg Walden [R-OR2]

Rep. Anthony Weiner [D-NY9]

Rep. Peter Welch [D-VT]

Rep. Edward Whitfield [R-KY1]
Subcommittees

not much time left.....

Supporters picked up a critical vote late Friday, when Texas Democratic Rep. Lloyd Doggett reversed course to say he’d back the bill – if only to “have a seat at the table" to make it better down the line.
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as if this is a good reason to vote in favor of it.
Lloyd might not even be around after next year