Industry Cash Flowed To Drafters of Reform

Health-care reform is a major issue facing our Congress and the American people today. Government, Oboma and his cohorts, and other economist say health cost is going to bankrupt America and this perhaps is true. However, instead of improving regulation and control governing health-care industry, drug makers, doctors, hospitals, and insurers to trim the costs (which they have already admitted being able to cut costs significantly, and where we should be focusing) Oboma wants to reinvent the wheel. Oboma will if we allow introduce you to socialized medicine, and government will decide your health-care needs, where you will receive that care, and if your value to life warrants the kind of care you need. Already government is saying that elderly people are not worth as much as young people. Imagine if you are diagnosed with cancer, or need a liver, kidney transplant, or some other life threatening condition, do you want the government making those decisions. If you answered yes, God help you. Sure our health-care has problems, but government will not fix those, it will erase them and in their place give you something where you have no choice. I have cancer and a pacemaker, but I am not ready to die, but under the government (Oboma health-care) I would have little value to life and be pushed aside to wait to die; I am only 68 years old. Is this the kind of change you voted for?

Here is a Senator who has sold your health-care out to the lobbyist for thousands of campaign dollars. This article is from The Washington Post July 21, 2009 written by Dan Eggen - read it for yourself. Is this the kind of representation you want in Congress?

As liberal protesters marched outside, Sen. Max Baucus sat down inside a San Francisco mansion for a dinner of chicken cordon bleu and a discussion of landmark health-care legislation under consideration by his Senate Finance Committee.
At the table on May 26 were about 20 donors willing to fork over $10,000 or more to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, including executives of major insurance companies, hospitals and other health-care firms.
"Most people there had an agenda; they wanted the ear of a senator, and they got it," said Aaron Roland, a San Francisco health-care activist who paid half price to attend the gathering. "Money gets you in the door. The only thing the other side can do is march around and protest outside."
As his committee has taken center stage in the battle over health-care reform, Chairman Baucus (D-Mont.) has emerged as a leading recipient of Senate campaign contributions from the hospitals, insurers and other medical interest groups hoping to shape the legislation to their advantage. Health-related companies and their employees gave Baucus's political committees nearly $1.5 million in 2007 and 2008, when he began holding hearings and making preparations for this year's reform debate.
Top health executives and lobbyists have continued to flock to the senator's often extravagant fundraising events in recent months. During a Senate break in late June, for example, Baucus held his 10th annual fly-fishing and golfing weekend in Big Sky, Mont., for a minimum donation of $2,500. Later this month comes "Camp Baucus," a "trip for the whole family" that adds horseback riding and hiking to the list of activities.
To avoid any appearance of favoritism, his aides say, Baucus quietly began refusing contributions from health-care political action committees after June 1. But the policy does not apply to lobbyists or corporate executives, who continued to make donations, disclosure records show.
Baucus declined requests to comment for this article. Spokesman Tyler Matsdorf said the senator "is only driven by one thing: what is right for Montana and the country. And he will continue his open process of working together with the president, his colleagues in Congress, and groups and individuals from across the nation to get this legislation passed."
Baucus's fundraising prowess underscores the enduring political strength of the health-care lobby, which led all other sectors in donations to federal candidates during the last election cycle and has shifted its giving to Democrats as the party has tightened its control of Congress.
The sector gave nearly $170 million to federal lawmakers in 2007 and 2008, with 54 percent going to Democrats, according to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks money in politics. The shift in parties was even more pronounced during the first three months of this year, when Democrats collected 60 percent of the $5.4 million donated by health-care companies and their employees, the data show.
Many of these contributions have been focused on Baucus, Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) and other senators in the moderate camps of their respective parties, whose votes could prove crucial in a final health-care reform deal, as well as the leaders of five key committees leading the debate. Grassley, the Finance Committee's ranking Republican, received more than $2 million from the health and insurance sectors since 2003. House Ways and Means Chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) took in $1.6 million from the health sector and its employees over the past two years; ranking Republican Dave Camp (Mich.) received nearly $1 million.
But Baucus, a senator from a sparsely populated and conservative Western state who is serving his sixth term, stands out for the rising tide of health-care contributions to his campaign committee, Friends of Max Baucus, and his political-action committee, Glacier PAC. Baucus collected $3 million from the health and insurance sectors from 2003 to 2008, about 20 percent of the total, data show. Less than 10 percent of the money came from Montana.
Top out-of-state corporate contributors included Schering-Plough, New York Life Insurance, Amgen, and Blue Cross and Blue Shield; individual executives such as Richard T. Clark, chief executive and president of drugmaker Merck, have also made regular donations. Most of these companies, particularly major insurers, strongly oppose a public insurance option, which is favored by President Obama and top House Democrats but has not received support from Baucus's committee. Baucus is a longtime centrist in the Democratic caucus, and his committee chairmanship has made him a key broker in the health-reform debate. Many former Baucus staff members, including two chiefs of staff, lobby on behalf of the pharmaceutical industry and other health-care players and have been closely involved in negotiations on the legislation.
John Jonas, a Patton Boggs health-care lobbyist who has attended a Baucus fly-fishing event and other fundraisers, said the Montana senator is "key to getting anything done" when it comes to health-care legislation.
"This is not an overwhelmingly liberal Congress, and it's certainly not a liberal Senate," said Jonas, whose clients include Bristol-Myers Squibb, Pfizer and Northwestern Mutual. "I think Max is uniquely situated to try to accomplish that, because he's more of a centrist and moderate Democrat than others are."
But Jerry Flanagan, a health-care analyst with Consumer Watchdog, a California-based advocacy group, said the tide of campaign contributions amounts to "a huge down payment" by companies that expect favorable policies in return. "That is the cold reality of big-money politics," he said.
Baucus won easy reelection in the fall, but he has continued to hold fundraisers since then. In addition to the fly-fishing event, he held his "Eighth Annual Ski and Snowmobile Weekend" in Big Sky in February and celebrated the start of his sixth term with a $10,000-a-table dinner at the Washington Court Hotel later that month. Aides say another fundraiser scheduled for July 7 at Bistro Bis in Capitol Hill was scrapped.
Baucus's office declined to provide attendance and donation details about his fundraising events, and federal records laws do not require such disclosures. Starting in June, aides say, Baucus adopted an internal office policy to refuse contributions from health-care PACs and to continue doing so until after Congress passes reform legislation.
But new Federal Election Commission documents filed last week show that individual lobbyists and others with health-care connections continued to make contributions to Baucus committees throughout June. Examples from Baucus's Glacier PAC include $5,000 from the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America and $2,500 from lobbyists with U.S. Strategies, which represents numerous health-care firms. Overall, half of the $110,000 in donations to the PAC from April to June came from health-care firms and lobbyists, including Schering-Plough, Medtronic and New York Life.
Craig Holman, government affairs lobbyist for the Public Citizen advocacy group, said the continued fundraising by Baucus during the health-care debate is "very troubling."
"He's doing all this fundraising right in the middle of this effort to mark up a bill," Holman said. "When you put these events close to matters concerning these lobbyists, clearly it's a signal. You are expected to show up with a check."
Baucus and his aides strongly dispute any assertion that campaign contributions have an impact on the senator's policy views and proposals. Aides say he has frequently backed policies opposed by health-care companies, including support for greater availability of generic drugs, allowing drug imports from Canada and cutting payments to the Medicare Advantage plan.
During an interview earlier this year with the Missoulian newspaper, Baucus said that "no one gets special treatment." He added: "Your word is your bond back there."

I ask you again is this Senator representing your interest. I think he sold his soul and the people from Montana, and the American people out to health-care Lobbyist and who knows who else for a few thousand dollars. I say When he is up, He is out.

I will watch his voting record and I will let the people of Montana, and the American People of his Voting Record. Remember a Leopard doesn't change his spots.

Thank you for reading be informed.

Submitted By

Richard Lewis

FINAL VOTE RESULTS H R 2918 YEA-AND-NAY 19-Jun-2009

Fellow Americans here is how your House of Representatives in Congress Voted on Bill H.R.2918 Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch FY 2010. I have posted the contents ofthis bill on Craiglist for the past 3 days. If you feel that your representative did not do a good job in controlling spending, or failed to exercise fiscal responsibility make a note of this and next November election 2010 vote them out of office.

Consider the way Congress has been responding to their job of protecting the Constitution and the American People, to the way they blindly give Oboma everything he want and passing legislation bills without reading them. A good November Election Campaign is "if your up, your out".


FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 413

(Democrats in roman; Republicans in italic; Independents underlined)

H R 2918 YEA-AND-NAY 19-Jun-2009 1:09 PM

QUESTION: On Passage

BILL TITLE: Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch FY 2010

Yeas Nays PRES NV
Democratic 214 27 14
Republican 18 151 9
Independent
TOTALS 232 178 23

---- YEAS 232 ---
Abercrombie
Ackerman
Aderholt
Andrews
Baca
Baird
Baldwin
Barrow
Becerra
Berkley
Berman
Berry
Blumenauer
Boccieri
Boren
Boswell
Boucher
Boyd
Brady (PA)
Braley (IA)
Brown,
Corrine
Butterfield
Cao
Capito
Capps
Cardoza
Carnahan
Carney
Carson (IN)
Carter
Castor (FL)
Chandler
Childers
Clarke
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Cole
Connolly (VA)
Conyers
Cooper
Costa
Courtney
Crenshaw
Crowley
Cuellar
Cummings
Dahlkemper
Davis (CA)
Davis (IL)
Davis (TN)
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
Diaz-Balart, L.
Diaz-Balart, M.
Dicks
Dingell
Doggett
Doyle
Edwards (MD)
Edwards (TX)
Ellison
Ellsworth
Emerson
Engel
Eshoo
Etheridge
FarrFilner
Foster
Frank (MA)
Fudge
Gonzalez
Gordon (TN)
Grayson
Green, Al
Griffith
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hall (NY)
Halvorson
Hare
Hastings (FL)
Heinrich
Herseth Sandlin
Higgins
Hill
Himes
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hirono
Hodes
Holden
Holt
Honda
Hoyer
Inslee
Israel
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Kagen
Kaptur
Kildee
Kilroy
Kirk
Kissell
Klein (FL)
Kosmas
Kucinich
Lance
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Latham
Lee (CA)
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lipinski
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
Lowey
Luján
Lynch
Maffei
Maloney
Markey (MA)
MatsuiMcCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McIntyre
McMahon
Meek (FL)
Meeks (NY)
Melancon
Michaud
Miller (NC)
Miller, George
Mollohan
Moore (KS)
Moore (WI)
Moran (VA)
Murphy (CT)
Murtha
Nadler (NY)
Napolitano
Neal (MA)
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Ortiz
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor (AZ)
Payne
Perlmutter
Peters
Peterson
Pingree (ME)
Polis (CO)
Pomeroy
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rahall
Rangel
Reyes
Richardson
Rodriguez
Ros-Lehtinen
Ross
Rothman (NJ)
Roybal-Allard
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Salazar
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schauer
Schiff
Schrader
Schwartz
Scott (GA)
Scott (VA)
Serrano
Shea-Porter
Sherman
Shuler
Simpson
Sires
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith (WA)
Snyder
Space
Speier
Spratt
Stark
Stupak
Sutton
Tauscher
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tierney
Titus
Tonko
Towns
Tsongas
Van Hollen
Visclosky
Walz
Wamp
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watson
Watt
Waxman
Weiner
Welch
Wexler
Wilson (OH)
Woolsey
Wu
Yarmuth
Young (AK)
Young (FL)

---- NAYS 178 ---


Adler (NJ)
Akin
Alexander
Altmire
Arcuri
Austria
Bachus
Bartlett
Barton (TX)
Bean
Biggert
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop (UT)
Blackburn
Blunt
Boehner
Bonner
Bono Mack
Boozman
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Bright
Broun (GA)
Brown (SC)
Brown-Waite, Ginny
Buchanan
Burgess
Burton (IN)
Buyer
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Cantor
Cassidy
Castle
Chaffetz
Coble
Coffman (CO)
Conaway
Costello
Culberson
Davis (KY)
DentDonnelly (IN)
Dreier
Driehaus
Duncan
Ehlers
Fallin
Flake
Fleming
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Gallegly
Garrett (NJ)
Gerlach
Giffords
Gingrey (GA)
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Granger
Graves
Green, Gene
Guthrie
Hall (TX)
Harper
Hastings (WA)
Heller
Hensarling
Herger
Hoekstra
Hunter
Inglis
Issa
Jenkins
Johnson (IL)
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Jordan (OH)
Kind
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kirkpatrick (AZ)
Kline (MN)
Kratovil
Lamborn
Latta
Lee (NY)
Linder
LoBiondo
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lummis
Lungren, Daniel E.
Mack
Manzullo
Marchant
Markey (CO)
Marshall
Massa
Matheson
McCarthy (CA)
McCaul
McClintock
McCotter
McHenry
McHugh
McKeon
McMorris Rodgers
McNerney
Mica
Miller (MI)
Miller, Gary
Minnick
Mitchell
Moran (KS)
Murphy (NY)
Murphy, Patrick
Murphy, Tim
Myrick
Neugebauer
Nunes
Nye
Olson
Paul
Paulsen
Pence
Perriello
Petri
Pitts
Platts
Poe (TX)
Posey
Price (GA)
Putnam
Radanovich
Rehberg
Reichert
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Rooney
Roskam
Royce
Ryan (WI)
Scalise
Schmidt
Schock
Sensenbrenner
Shimkus
Shuster
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Souder
Stearns
Tanner
Taylor
Teague
Terry
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiahrt
Tiberi
Turner
Upton
Walden
Whitfield
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Wolf
---- NOT VOTING 23 ---

Bachmann
Barrett (SC)
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Capuano
Davis (AL)
Deal (GA)
DeFazio
Fattah
Harman
Kanjorski
Kennedy
Kilpatrick (MI)
LaTourette
Lewis (GA)
Miller (FL)
Sánchez, Linda T.
Sessions
Sestak
Shadegg
Sullivan
Velázquez
Westmoreland

I don't consider Not Voting acceptable behavior by my Congressional representatives. I elect them to protect the Constitution, my Rights and to read and pass legislation that benefits me, my Country, and fellow Americans. I don't vote them to grow government, trash the U. S. Constitution, and toss out my Rights for their self promoting benefit.

Remember IF THEY ARE UP, THEY ARE OUT particularly if they don't read, discuss and blindly follow Oboma's whims.

Submitted By

Richard Lewis

H. R. 2918
[Report No. 111–160] (cont.)

This is the last pages of "Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other purposes."

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1 GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
2 CONGRESSIONAL PRINTING AND BINDING
3 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
4 For authorized printing and binding for the Congress
5 and the distribution of Congressional information in any
6 format; printing and binding for the Architect of the Cap-
7 itol; expenses necessary for preparing the semimonthly
8 and session index to the Congressional Record, as author-
9 ized by law (section 902 of title 44, United States Code);
10 printing and binding of Government publications author-
11 ized by law to be distributed to Members of Congress; and
12 printing, binding, and distribution of Government publica-
13 tions authorized by law to be distributed without charge
14 to the recipient, $93,296,000: Provided, That this appro-
15 priation shall not be available for paper copies of the per-
16 manent edition of the Congressional Record for individual
17 Representatives, Resident Commissioners or Delegates au-
18 thorized under section 906 of title 44, United States Code:
19 Provided further, That this appropriation shall be available
20 for the payment of obligations incurred under the appro-
21 priations for similar purposes for preceding fiscal years:
22 Provided further, That notwithstanding the 2-year limita-
23 tion under section 718 of title 44, United States Code,
24 none of the funds appropriated or made available under
25 this Act or any other Act for printing and binding and
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1 related services provided to Congress under chapter 7 of
2 title 44, United States Code, may be expended to print
3 a document, report, or publication after the 27-month pe-
4 riod beginning on the date that such document, report,
5 or publication is authorized by Congress to be printed, un-
6 less Congress reauthorizes such printing in accordance
7 with section 718 of title 44, United States Code: Provided
8 further, That any unobligated or unexpended balances in
9 this account or accounts for similar purposes for preceding
10 fiscal years may be transferred to the Government Print-
11 ing Office revolving fund for carrying out the purposes of
12 this heading, subject to the approval of the Committees
13 on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and
14 Senate.
15 OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS
16 SALARIES AND EXPENSES
17 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
18 For expenses of the Office of Superintendent of Doc-
19 uments necessary to provide for the cataloging and index-
20 ing of Government publications and their distribution to
21 the public, Members of Congress, other Government agen-
22 cies, and designated depository and international exchange
23 libraries as authorized by law, $40,911,000: Provided,
24 That amounts of not more than $2,000,000 from current
25 year appropriations are authorized for producing and dis
26 eminating Congressional serial sets and other related
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1 publications for fiscal years 2008 and 2009 to depository
2 and other designated libraries: Provided further, That any
3 unobligated or unexpended balances in this account or ac-
4 counts for similar purposes for preceding fiscal years may
5 be transferred to the Government Printing Office revolv-
6 ing fund for carrying out the purposes of this heading,
7 subject to the approval of the Committees on Appropria-
8 tions of the House of Representatives and Senate.
9 GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE REVOLVING FUND
10 For payment to the Government Printing Office Re-
11 volving Fund, $12,000,000 for information technology de-
12 velopment and facilities repair: Provided, That the Gov-
13 ernment Printing Office is hereby authorized to make such
14 expenditures, within the limits of funds available and in
15 accordance with law, and to make such contracts and com-
16 mitments without regard to fiscal year limitations as pro-
17 vided by section 9104 of title 31, United States Code, as
18 may be necessary in carrying out the programs and pur-
19 poses set forth in the budget for the current fiscal year
20 for the Government Printing Office revolving fund: Pro-
21 vided further, That not more than $7,500 may be ex-
22 pended on the certification of the Public Printer in connec-
23 tion with official representation and reception expenses:
24 Provided further, That the revolving fund shall be available
25 for the hire or purchase of not more than 12 passenger
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1 motor vehicles: Provided further, That expenditures in con-
2 nection with travel expenses of the advisory councils to
3 the Public Printer shall be deemed necessary to carry out
4 the provisions of title 44, United States Code: Provided
5 further, That the revolving fund shall be available for tem-
6 porary or intermittent services under section 3109(b) of
7 title 5, United States Code, but at rates for individuals
8 not more than the daily equivalent of the annual rate of
9 basic pay for level V of the Executive Schedule under sec-
10 tion 5316 of such title: Provided further, That activities
11 financed through the revolving fund may provide informa-
12 tion in any format: Provided further, That the revolving
13 fund and the funds provided under the headings ‘‘Office
14 of Superintendent of Documents’’ and ‘‘Salaries and Ex-
15 penses’’ may not be used for contracted security services
16 at GPO’s passport facility in the District of Columbia.
17 GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
18 SALARIES AND EXPENSES
19 For necessary expenses of the Government Account-
20 ability Office, including not more than $12,500 to be ex-
21 pended on the certification of the Comptroller General of
22 the United States in connection with official representa-
23 tion and reception expenses; temporary or intermittent
24 services under section 3109(b) of title 5, United States
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1 equivalent of the annual rate of basic pay for level IV of
2 the Executive Schedule under section 5315 of such title;
3 hire of one passenger motor vehicle; advance payments in
4 foreign countries in accordance with section 3324 of title
5 31, United States Code; benefits comparable to those pay-
6 able under sections 901(5), (6), and (8) of the Foreign
7 Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 4081(5), (6), and (8));
8 and under regulations prescribed by the Comptroller Gen-
9 eral of the United States, rental of living quarters in for-
10 eign countries, $558,849,000: Provided, That not more
11 than $5,449,000 of payments received under section 782
12 of title 31, United States Code, shall be available for use
13 in fiscal year 2010: Provided further, That not more than
14 $2,350,000 of reimbursements received under section
15 9105 of title 31, United States Code, shall be available
16 for use in fiscal year 2010: Provided further, That not
17 more than $7,423,000 of reimbursements received under
18 section 3521 of title 31, United States Code, shall be
19 available for use in fiscal year 2010: Provided further,
20 That this appropriation and appropriations for adminis-
21 trative expenses of any other department or agency which
22 is a member of the National Intergovernmental Audit
23 Forum or a Regional Intergovernmental Audit Forum
24 shall be available to finance an appropriate share of either
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1 cluding necessary travel expenses of non-Federal partici-
2 pants: Provided further, That payments hereunder to the
3 Forum may be credited as reimbursements to any appro-
4 priation from which costs involved are initially financed.
5 OPEN WORLD LEADERSHIP CENTER TRUST
6 FUND
7 For a payment to the Open World Leadership Center
8 Trust Fund for financing activities of the Open World
9 Leadership Center under section 313 of the Legislative
10 Branch Appropriations Act, 2001 (2 U.S.C. 1151),
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15 lic Service Development Trust Fund established under
16 section 116 of the John C. Stennis Center for Public Serv-
17 ice Training and Development Act (2 U.S.C. 1105),
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20 SEC. 201. MAINTENANCE AND CARE OF PRIVATE
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22 shall be used for the maintenance or care of private vehi-
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1 on House Administration and for the Senate issued by the
2 Committee on Rules and Administration.
3 SEC. 202. FISCAL YEAR LIMITATION.—No part of
4 the funds appropriated in this Act shall remain available
5 for obligation beyond fiscal year 2010 unless expressly so
6 provided in this Act.
7 SEC. 203. RATES OF COMPENSATION AND DESIGNA-
8 TION.—Whenever in this Act any office or position not
9 specifically established by the Legislative Pay Act of 1929
10 (46 Stat. 32 et seq.) is appropriated for or the rate of
11 compensation or designation of any office or position ap-
12 propriated for is different from that specifically estab-
13 lished by such Act, the rate of compensation and the des-
14 ignation in this Act shall be the permanent law with re-
15 spect thereto: Provided, That the provisions in this Act
16 for the various items of official expenses of Members, offi-
17 cers, and committees of the Senate and House of Rep-
18 resentatives, and clerk hire for Senators and Members of
19 the House of Representatives shall be the permanent law
20 with respect thereto.
21 SEC. 204. CONSULTING SERVICES.—The expenditure
22 of any appropriation under this Act for any consulting
23 service through procurement contract, under section 3109
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1 record and available for public inspection, except where
2 otherwise provided under existing law, or under existing
3 Executive order issued under existing law.
4 SEC. 205. AWARDS AND SETTLEMENTS.—Such sums
5 as may be necessary are appropriated to the account de-
6 scribed in subsection (a) of section 415 of the Congres-
7 sional Accountability Act of 1995 (2 U.S.C. 1415(a)) to
8 pay awards and settlements as authorized under such sub-
9 section.
10 SEC. 206. COSTS OF LBFMC.—Amounts available
11 for administrative expenses of any legislative branch entity
12 which participates in the Legislative Branch Financial
13 Managers Council (LBFMC) established by charter on
14 March 26, 1996, shall be available to finance an appro-
15 priate share of LBFMC costs as determined by the
16 LBFMC, except that the total LBFMC costs to be shared
17 among all participating legislative branch entities (in such
18 allocations among the entities as the entities may deter-
19 mine) may not exceed $2,000.
20 SEC. 207. LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE.—The Archi-
21 tect of the Capitol, in consultation with the District of Co-
22 lumbia, is authorized to maintain and improve the land-
23 scape features, excluding streets, in the irregular shaped
24 grassy areas bounded by Washington Avenue, SW on the
25 northeast, Second Street SW on the west, Square 582 on
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1 the south, and the beginning of the I–395 tunnel on the
2 southeast.
3 SEC. 208. LIMITATION ON TRANSFERS.—None of the
4 funds made available in this Act may be transferred to
5 any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United
6 States Government, except pursuant to a transfer made
7 by, or transfer authority provided in, this Act or any other
8 appropriation Act.
9 SEC. 209. GUIDED TOURS OF THE CAPITOL.—
10 (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), none of the
11 funds made available to the Architect of the Capitol in
12 this Act may be used to eliminate or restrict guided tours
13 of the United States Capitol which are led by employees
14 and interns of offices of Members of Congress and other
15 offices of the House of Representatives and Senate.
16 (b) At the direction of the Capitol Police Board, or
17 at the direction of the Architect of the Capitol with the
18 approval of the Capitol Police Board, guided tours of the
19 United States Capitol which are led by employees and in-
20 terns described in subsection (a) may be suspended tempo-
21 rarily or otherwise subject to restriction for security or re-
22 lated reasons to the same extent as guided tours of the
23 United States Capitol which are led by the Architect of
24 the Capitol.
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1 This division may be cited as the ‘‘Legislative
2 Branch Appropriations Act, 2010’’.
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Union Calendar No. 79
111TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION H. R. 2918
[Report No. 111–160]
A BILL
Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010,
and for other purposes.
JUNE 17, 2009
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed


Tomorrow I will sho you how the House of Representatives voted on this Bill, than on Wednesday I will show you the Senate vote.

I ask you to make note of those voteing for these Congressional leaders who fail to show restraint in wild, careless, reckless spending as well as governing. It certianly is not representing me, and the choices I want them making. Passing Bills and Amendments they don't even take time to read and debate on, and who wants to give up their Freedoms and Liberties for Socialism and Communist way of life.

Maybe Glenn Beck is right! "if you are up you are out." However, I would look at keeping those who fought to keep my Liberties and Freedoms for me, those those who fought hard against Oboma.

Submitted By
Richard Lewis

This is the second day continued posting of "Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other purposes."

page 14 - page 26 (Continued)

Bill: HR 2918;

1 CAPITOL BUILDING
2 For necessary expenses for the maintenance, care and
3 operation of the Capitol, $32,800,000, of which
4 $6,241,000 shall remain available until September 30,
5 2014.
6 CAPITOL GROUNDS
7 For all necessary expenses for care and improvement
8 of grounds surrounding the Capitol, the Senate and House
9 office buildings, and the Capitol Power Plant,
10 $10,920,000, of which $1,410,000 shall remain available
11 until September 30, 2014.
12 HOUSE OFFICE BUILDINGS
13 For all necessary expenses for the maintenance, care
14 and operation of the House office buildings,
15 $100,466,000, of which $53,360,000 shall remain avail-
16 able until September 30, 2014.
17 CAPITOL POWER PLANT
18 For all necessary expenses for the maintenance, care
19 and operation of the Capitol Power Plant; lighting, heat-
20 ing, power (including the purchase of electrical energy)
21 and water and sewer services for the Capitol, Senate and
22 House office buildings, Library of Congress buildings, and
23 the grounds about the same, Botanic Garden, Senate ga-
24 rage, and air conditioning refrigeration not supplied from
25 plants in any of such buildings; heating the Government
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1 Printing Office and Washington City Post Office, and
2 heating and chilled water for air conditioning for the Su-
3 preme Court Building, the Union Station complex, the
4 Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building and the
5 Folger Shakespeare Library, expenses for which shall be
6 advanced or reimbursed upon request of the Architect of
7 the Capitol and amounts so received shall be deposited
8 into the Treasury to the credit of this appropriation,
9 $125,083,000, of which $31,560,000 shall remain avail-
10 able until September 30, 2014: Provided, That not more
11 than $8,000,000 of the funds credited or to be reimbursed
12 to this appropriation as herein provided shall be available
13 for obligation during fiscal year 2010.
14 LIBRARY BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
15 For all necessary expenses for the mechanical and
16 structural maintenance, care and operation of the Library
17 buildings and grounds, $41,937,000, of which
18 $15,750,000 shall remain available until September 30,
19 2014.
20 CAPITOL POLICE BUILDINGS, GROUNDS AND SECURITY
21 For all necessary expenses for the maintenance, care
22 and operation of buildings, grounds and security enhance-
23 ments of the United States Capitol Police, wherever lo-
24 cated, the Alternate Computer Facility, and AOC security
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1 operations, $26,364,000, of which $7,750,000 shall re-
2 main available until September 30, 2014.
3 BOTANIC GARDEN
4 For all necessary expenses for the maintenance, care
5 and operation of the Botanic Garden and the nurseries,
6 buildings, grounds, and collections; and purchase and ex-
7 change, maintenance, repair, and operation of a passenger
8 motor vehicle; all under the direction of the Joint Com-
9 mittee on the Library, $11,263,000, of which $900,000
10 shall remain available until September 30, 2014: Provided,
11 That of the amount made available under this heading,
12 the Architect may obligate and expend such sums as may
13 be necessary for the maintenance, care and operation of
14 the National Garden established under section 307E of
15 the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1989 (2
16 U.S.C. 2146), upon vouchers approved by the Architect
17 or a duly authorized designee.
18 CAPITOL VISITOR CENTER
19 For necessary expenses for Capitol Visitor Center op-
20 erations costs, $23,166,000.
21 ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
22 SEC. 1201. HISTORIC BUILDINGS REVITALIZATION
23 TRUST FUND.—(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is hereby
24 established in the Treasury of the United States, as an
25 account for the Architect of the Capitol, the Historic
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1 Buildings Revitalization Trust Fund (hereafter in this sec-
2 tion referred to as the ‘‘Fund’’).
3 (b) USE OF AMOUNTS.—Amounts in the Fund shall
4 be used by the Architect of the Capitol for the revitaliza-
5 tion of the major historical buildings and assets which the
6 Architect is responsible for maintaining and preserving,
7 except that the Architect may not obligate any amounts
8 in the Fund without the approval of the Committees on
9 Appropriations of the House of Representatives and Sen-
10 ate.
11 (c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section shall apply with
12 respect to fiscal year 2010 and each succeeding fiscal year.
13 SEC. 1202.—Any individual who is appointed as the
14 Architect of the Capitol after the date of the enactment
15 of this Act shall be appointed in accordance with the appli-
16 cable laws in effect at the time of appointment, taking into
17 account any amendments which may be made to such ap-
18 plicable laws during the One Hundred Eleventh Congress.
19 SEC. 1203. SUPPORT AND MAINTENANCE DURING
20 EMERGENCIES.—(a) During an emergency involving the
21 safety of human life or the protection of property, as de-
22 termined or declared by the Capitol Police Board, the Ar-
23 chitect of the Capitol—
24 (1) may accept contributions of comfort and
25 other incidental items and services to support em-
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1 ployees of the Office of the Architect of the Capitol
2 while such employees are on duty in response to the
3 emergency; and
4 (2) may incur obligations and make expendi-
5 tures out of available appropriations for meals, re-
6 freshments, and other support and maintenance for
7 the Office of the Architect of the Capitol if, in the
8 judgment of the Architect, such obligations and ex-
9 penditures are necessary to respond to the emer-
10 gency.
11 (b) This section shall apply with respect to fiscal year
12 2010 and each succeeding fiscal year.
13 SEC. 1204. FLEXIBLE AND COMPRESSED WORK
14 SCHEDULES.—(a) Section 6121(1) of title 5, United
15 States Code is amended by inserting after ‘‘military de-
16 partment,’’ the following: ‘‘the Architect of the Capitol,’’.
17 (b) Section 6133(c) of such title is amended by add-
18 ing at the end the following new paragraph:
19 ‘‘(3) With respect to employees of the Architect of
20 the Capitol (including employees of the Botanic Garden),
21 the authority granted to the Office of Personnel Manage-
22 ment under this subchapter shall be exercised by the Ar-
23 chitect of the Capitol.’’
24 (c) The amendments made by this section shall apply
25 with respect to pay periods beginning or after the later
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1 of October 1, 2009, or the date of the enactment of this
2 Act.
3 SEC. 1205. ACCEPTANCE OF VOLUNTARY STUDENT
4 SERVICES.—Section 3111 of title 5, United States Code,
5 is amended by adding the following new subsection:
6 ‘‘(e) In this section, the term ‘agency’ includes the
7 Architect of the Capitol, except that in the case of the
8 Architect of the Capitol, the authority granted to the Of-
9 fice of Personnel Management under this section shall be
10 exercised by the Architect of the Capitol.’’.
11 (b) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall
12 apply with respect to fiscal year 2010 and each such suc-
13 ceeding fiscal year.
14 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
15 SALARIES AND EXPENSES
16 For necessary expenses of the Library of Congress
17 not otherwise provided for, including development and
18 maintenance of the Library’s catalogs; custody and custo-
19 dial care of the Library buildings; special clothing; clean
20 -ing, laundering and repair of uniforms; preservation of
21 motion pictures in the custody of the Library; operation
22 and maintenance of the American Folklife Center in the
23 Library; activities under the Civil Rights History Project
24 Act of 2009; preparation and distribution of catalog
25 records and other publications of the Library; hire or pur-
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1 chase of one passenger motor vehicle; and expenses of the
2 Library of Congress Trust Fund Board not properly
3 chargeable to the income of any trust fund held by the
4 Board, $450,211,000, of which not more than $6,000,000
5 shall be derived from collections credited to this appropria-
6 tion during fiscal year 2010, and shall remain available
7 until expended, under the Act of June 28, 1902 (chapter
8 1301; 32 Stat. 480; 2 U.S.C. 150) and not more than
9 $350,000 shall be derived from collections during fiscal
10 year 2010 and shall remain available until expended for
11 the development and maintenance of an international legal
12 information database and activities related thereto: Pro-
13 vided, That the Library of Congress may not obligate or
14 expend any funds derived from collections under the Act
15 of June 28, 1902, in excess of the amount authorized for
16 obligation or expenditure in appropriations Acts: Provided
17 further, That the total amount available for obligation
18 shall be reduced by the amount by which collections are
19 less than $6,350,000: Provided further, That of the total
20 amount appropriated, not more than $12,000 may be ex-
21 pended, on the certification of the Librarian of Congress,
22 in connection with official representation and reception ex-
23 penses for the Overseas Field Offices: Provided further,
24 That of the total amount appropriated, $7,315,000 shall
25 remain available until expended for the digital collections
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1 and educational curricula program: Provided further, That
2 of the total amount appropriated, $750,000 shall be trans-
3 ferred to the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
4 for carrying out the purposes of Public Law 106–173, of
5 which $10,000 may be used for official representation and
6 reception expenses of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial
7 Commission.
8 COPYRIGHT OFFICE
9 SALARIES AND EXPENSES
10 For necessary expenses of the Copyright Office,
11 $55,476,000, of which not more than $28,751,000, to re-
12 main available until expended, shall be derived from collec-
13 tions credited to this appropriation during fiscal year 2010
14 under section 708(d) of title 17, United States Code: Pro-
15 vided, That the Copyright Office may not obligate or ex-
16 pend any funds derived from collections under such sec-
17 tion, in excess of the amount authorized for obligation or
18 expenditure in appropriations Acts: Provided further, That
19 not more than $5,861,000 shall be derived from collections
20 during fiscal year 2010 under sections 111(d)(2),
21 119(b)(2), 803(e), 1005, and 1316 of such title: Provided
22 further, That the total amount available for obligation
23 shall be reduced by the amount by which collections are
24 less than $34,612,000: Provided further, That not more
25 than $100,000 of the amount appropriated is available for
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1 the maintenance of an ‘‘International Copyright Institute’’
2 in the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress for the
3 purpose of training nationals of developing countries in
4 intellectual property laws and policies: Provided further,
5 That not more than $4,250 may be expended, on the cer-
6 tification of the Librarian of Congress, in connection with
7 official representation and reception expenses for activities
8 of the International Copyright Institute and for copyright
9 delegations, visitors, and seminars: Provided further, That
10 notwithstanding any provision of chapter 8 of title 17,
11 United States Code, any amounts made available under
12 this heading which are attributable to royalty fees and
13 payments received by the Copyright Office pursuant to
14 sections 111, 119, and chapter 10 of such title may be
15 used for the costs incurred in the administration of the
16 Copyright Royalty Judges program, with the exception of
17 the costs of salaries and benefits for the Copyright Royalty
18 Judges and staff under section 802(e).
19 CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE
20 SALARIES AND EXPENSES
21 For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions
22 of section 203 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of
23 1946 (2 U.S.C. 166) and to revise and extend the Anno-
24 tated Constitution of the United States of America,
25 $112,490,000: Provided, That no part of such amount
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1 may be used to pay any salary or expense in connection
2 with any publication, or preparation of material therefor
3 (except the Digest of Public General Bills), to be issued
4 by the Library of Congress unless such publication has
5 obtained prior approval of either the Committee on House
6 Administration of the House of Representatives or the
7 Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate.
8 BOOKS FOR THE BLIND AND PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED
9 SALARIES AND EXPENSES
10 For salaries and expenses to carry out the Act of
11 March 3, 1931 (chapter 400; 46 Stat. 1487; 2 U.S.C.
12 135a), $70,182,000, of which $30,577,000 shall remain
13 available until expended: Provided, That of the total
14 amount appropriated $650,000 shall be available to con-
15 tract to provide newspapers to blind and physically handi-
16 capped residents at no cost to the individual.
17 ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
18 SEC. 1301. INCENTIVE AWARDS PROGRAM.—Of the
19 amounts appropriated to the Library of Congress in this
20 Act, not more than $5,000 may be expended, on the cer-
21 tification of the Librarian of Congress, in connection with
22 official representation and reception expenses for the in-
23 centive awards program.
24 SEC. 1302. REIMBURSABLE AND REVOLVING FUND
25 ACTIVITIES.—
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1 (a) IN GENERAL.—For fiscal year 2010, the
2 obligational authority of the Library of Congress for the
3 activities described in subsection (b) may not exceed
4 $123,328,000.
5 (b) ACTIVITIES.—The activities referred to in sub-
6 section (a) are reimbursable and revolving fund activities
7 that are funded from sources other than appropriations
8 to the Library in appropriations Acts for the legislative
9 branch.
10 (c) TRANSFER OF FUNDS.—During fiscal year 2010,
11 the Librarian of Congress may temporarily transfer funds
12 appropriated in this Act, under the heading ‘‘LIBRARY
13 OF CONGRESS’’, under the subheading ‘‘SALARIES AND
14 EXPENSES’’, to the revolving fund for the FEDLINK Pro-
15 gram and the Federal Research Program established
16 under section 103 of the Library of Congress Fiscal Oper-
17 ations Improvement Act of 2000 (Public Law 106–481;
18 2 U.S.C. 182c): Provided, That the total amount of such
19 transfers may not exceed $1,900,000: Provided further,
20 That the appropriate revolving fund account shall reim-
21 burse the Library for any amounts transferred to it before
22 the period of availability of the Library appropriation ex-
23 pires.
24 SEC. 1303. TRANSFER AUTHORITY.—
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1 (a) IN GENERAL.—Amounts appropriated for fiscal
2 year 2010 for the Library of Congress may be transferred
3 during fiscal year 2010 between any of the headings under
4 the heading ‘‘LIBRARY OF CONGRESS’’ upon the ap-
5 proval of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate
6 and the House of Representatives.
7 (b) LIMITATION.—Not more than 10 percent of the
8 total amount of funds appropriated to the account under
9 any heading under the heading ‘‘LIBRARY OF CON-
10 GRESS’’ for fiscal year 2010 may be transferred from
11 that account by all transfers made under subsection (a).
12 SEC. 1304. CLASSIFICATION OF LIBRARY OF CON-
13 GRESS POSITIONS ABOVE GS–15.—Section 5108 of title
14 5, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end
15 the following new subsection:
16 ‘‘(c) The Librarian of Congress may classify positions
17 in the Library of Congress above GS–15 pursuant to
18 standards established by the Office in subsection (a)(2).’’.
19 SEC. 1305. LEAVE CARRYOVER FOR CERTAIN LI-
20 BRARY OF CONGRESS EXECUTIVE POSITIONS.—(a) Sec-
21 tion 6304(f)(1) of title 5, United States Code, is amend22
ed—
23 (1) in subparagraph (F), by striking ‘‘or’’ at
24 the end;
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1 (2) in subparagraph (G), by striking the period
2 at the end and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and
3 (3) by adding at the end the following new sub-
4 paragraph:
5 ‘‘(H) a position in the Library of Congress the
6 compensation for which is set at a rate equal to the
7 annual rate of basic pay payable for positions at
8 level III of the Executive Schedule under section
9 5314.’’.
10 (b) The amendments made by subsection (a) shall
11 apply with respect to annual leave accrued during pay pe-
12 riods beginning after the date of the enactment of this
13 Act.
14 SEC. 1306. (a) Section 4(a) of the American Folklife
15 Preservation Act (20 U.S.C. 2103(a)) is amended by strik-
16 ing ‘‘an American Folklife Center’’ and inserting ‘‘the Ar-
17 chie Green American Folklife Center’’.
18 (b) Any reference to the American Folklife Center in
19 any law, rule, regulation, or document shall be deemed to
20 be a reference to the Archie Green American Folklife Cen-
21 ter.
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This is the aparent line by line reading of the bill. I have only put the lines in order by page, I have change nothing in the reading ( no words added and none removed). The words broken line to line are as they would appear in the original manuscript as it appeared on my computer.

The opening blog on this Bill that I posted on July 18th. 2009 shows the copy and pasting of the bill without my aligning the lines from the bill there by making reading more difficult. I will align future postings for ease of reading.

See where the government spends your tax dollars, and potential waste.

Submitted by

Richard Lewis

H. R. 2918 appropriations for the Legislative Branch

This is a Bill 41 page of making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other purposes.

I bring this to your attention so you the American Tax Payer can get an idea of the cost of government and so you can see how the legislative branch of government spends your tax dollars. This report being 41 pages long I will show it in 4 parts after which I will show you who voted for it and who opposed it.

Much of the dialogue is in legislative verbageand may not be totally understandable to the lay person, however, enough can be understood to know one of the first places to begin a budget cut is in government costs, salaries, support expenses, office expenses, health-care, specisal salaries and expenses, etc. Read and Learn!!!!!

Union Calendar No. 79
111TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION H. R. 2918
[Report No. 111–160]
Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 2010, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JUNE 17, 2009
Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported
the following bill; which was committed to the Committee of the Whole
House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed
A BILL
Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the
fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other
purposes.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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1 That the following sums are appropriated, out of any
2 money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the
3 Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September
4 30, 2010, and for other purposes, namely:
5 TITLE I—LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
6 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
7 SALARIES AND EXPENSES
8 For salaries and expenses of the House of Represent9
atives, $1,375,300,000, as follows:
10 HOUSE LEADERSHIP OFFICES
11 For salaries and expenses, as authorized by law,
12 $25,881,000, including: Office of the Speaker,
13 $5,077,000, including $25,000 for official expenses of the
14 Speaker; Office of the Majority Floor Leader, $2,530,000,
15 including $10,000 for official expenses of the Majority
16 Leader; Office of the Minority Floor Leader, $4,565,000,
17 including $10,000 for official expenses of the Minority
18 Leader; Office of the Majority Whip, including the Chief
19 Deputy Majority Whip, $2,194,000, including $5,000 for
20 official expenses of the Majority Whip; Office of the Mi21
nority Whip, including the Chief Deputy Minority Whip,
22 $1,690,000, including $5,000 for official expenses of the
23 Minority Whip; Speaker’s Office for Legislative Floor Ac24
tivities, $517,000; Republican Steering Committee,
25 $981,000; Republican Conference, $1,748,000; Repub26
lican Policy Committee, $362,000; Democratic Steering
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1 and Policy Committee, $1,366,000; Democratic Caucus,
2 $1,725,000; nine minority employees, $1,552,000; train3
ing and program development—majority, $290,000; train4
ing and program development—minority, $290,000;
5 Cloakroom Personnel—majority, $497,000; and Cloak6
room Personnel—minority, $497,000.
7 MEMBERS’ REPRESENTATIONAL ALLOWANCES
8 INCLUDING MEMBERS’ CLERK HIRE, OFFICIAL
9 EXPENSES OF MEMBERS, AND OFFICIAL MAIL
10 For Members’ representational allowances, including
11 Members’ clerk hire, official expenses, and official mail,
12 $660,000,000.
13 COMMITTEE EMPLOYEES
14 STANDING COMMITTEES, SPECIAL AND SELECT
15 For salaries and expenses of standing committees,
16 special and select, authorized by House resolutions,
17 $139,878,000: Provided, That such amount shall remain
18 available for such salaries and expenses until December
19 31, 2010, except that $1,000,000 of such amount shall
20 remain available until expended for committee room up21
grading.
22 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
23 For salaries and expenses of the Committee on Ap24
propriations, $31,300,000, including studies and examina25
tions of executive agencies and temporary personal serv-
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1 ices for such committee, to be expended in accordance with
2 section 202(b) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of
3 1946 and to be available for reimbursement to agencies
4 for services performed: Provided, That such amount shall
5 remain available for such salaries and expenses until De6
cember 31, 2010.
7 SALARIES, OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
8 For compensation and expenses of officers and em9
ployees, as authorized by law, $200,301,000, including:
10 for salaries and expenses of the Office of the Clerk, includ11
ing not more than $23,000, of which not more than
12 $20,000 is for the Family Room, for official representa13
tion and reception expenses, $32,089,000 of which
14 $4,600,000 shall remain available until expended; for sala15
ries and expenses of the Office of the Sergeant at Arms,
16 including the position of Superintendent of Garages, and
17 including not more than $3,000 for official representation
18 and reception expenses, $9,509,000; for salaries and ex19
penses of the Office of the Chief Administrative Officer
20 including not more than $3,000 for official representation
21 and reception expenses, $130,782,000, of which
22 $3,937,000 shall remain available until expended; for sala23
ries and expenses of the Office of the Inspector General,
24 $5,045,000; for salaries and expenses of the Office of
25 Emergency Planning, Preparedness and Operations,
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1 $4,445,000, to remain available until expended; for sala2
ries and expenses of the Office of General Counsel,
3 $1,415,000; for the Office of the Chaplain, $179,000; for
4 salaries and expenses of the Office of the Parliamentarian,
5 including the Parliamentarian, $2,000 for preparing the
6 Digest of Rules, and not more than $1,000 for official rep7
resentation and reception expenses, $2,060,000; for sala8
ries and expenses of the Office of the Law Revision Coun9
sel of the House, $3,258,000; for salaries and expenses
10 of the Office of the Legislative Counsel of the House,
11 $8,814,000; for salaries and expenses of the Office of
12 Interparliamentary Affairs, $859,000; for other author13
ized employees, $1,249,000; and for salaries and expenses
14 of the Office of the Historian, including the cost of the
15 House Fellows Program (including lodging and related ex16
penses for visiting Program participants), $597,000.
17 ALLOWANCES AND EXPENSES
18 For allowances and expenses as authorized by House
19 resolution or law, $317,940,000, including: supplies, mate20
rials, administrative costs and Federal tort claims,
21 $3,948,000; official mail for committees, leadership of22
fices, and administrative offices of the House, $201,000;
23 Government contributions for health, retirement, Social
24 Security, and other applicable employee benefits,
25 $278,378,000, including employee tuition assistance ben-
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1 efit payments, $3,500,000, if authorized, and employee
2 child care benefit payments, $1,000,000, if authorized;
3 Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, $27,698,000,
4 of which $9,000,000 shall remain available until expended;
5 transition activities for new members and staff,
6 $2,907,000; Wounded Warrior Program, $2,500,000, to
7 be derived from funding provided for this purpose in Divi8
sion G of Public Law 111–8; Office of Congressional Eth9
ics, $1,548,000; Energy Demonstration Projects,
10 $2,500,000, if authorized, to remain available until ex11
pended; and miscellaneous items including purchase, ex12
change, maintenance, repair and operation of House
13 motor vehicles, interparliamentary receptions, and gratu14
ities to heirs of deceased employees of the House,
15 $760,000.
16 CHILD CARE CENTER
17 For salaries and expenses of the House of Represent18
atives Child Care Center, such amounts as are deposited
19 in the account established by section 312(d)(1) of the Leg20
islative Branch Appropriations Act, 1992 (2 U.S.C. 2062),
21 subject to the level specified in the budget of the Center,
22 as submitted to the Committee on Appropriations of the
23 House of Representatives.
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1 ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
2 SEC. 101. (a) REQUIRING AMOUNTS REMAINING IN
3 MEMBERS’ REPRESENTATIONAL ALLOWANCES TO BE
4 USED FOR DEFICIT REDUCTION OR TO REDUCE THE
5 FEDERAL DEBT.—Notwithstanding any other provision of
6 law, any amounts appropriated under this Act for
7 ‘‘HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES—SALARIES AND
8 EXPENSES—MEMBERS’ REPRESENTATIONAL ALLOW9
ANCES’’ shall be available only for fiscal year 2010. Any
10 amount remaining after all payments are made under such
11 allowances for fiscal year 2010 shall be deposited in the
12 Treasury and used for deficit reduction (or, if there is no
13 Federal budget deficit after all such payments have been
14 made, for reducing the Federal debt, in such manner as
15 the Secretary of the Treasury considers appropriate).
16 (b) REGULATIONS.—The Committee on House Ad17
ministration of the House of Representatives shall have
18 authority to prescribe regulations to carry out this section.
19 (c) DEFINITION.—As used in this section, the term
20 ‘‘Member of the House of Representatives’’ means a Rep21
resentative in, or a Delegate or Resident Commissioner
22 to, the Congress.
23 SEC. 102. Effective with respect to fiscal year 2010
24 and each succeeding fiscal year, the aggregate amount
25 otherwise authorized to be appropriated for a fiscal year
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1 for the lump-sum allowance for each of the following of2
fices is increased as follows:
3 (1) The allowance for the office of the Majority
4 Whip is increased by $96,000.
5 (2) The allowance for the office of the Minority
6 Whip is increased by $96,000.
7 JOINT ITEMS
8 For Joint Committees, as follows:
9 JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE
10 For salaries and expenses of the Joint Economic
11 Committee, $4,814,000, to be disbursed by the Secretary
12 of the Senate.
13 JOINT COMMITTEE ON TAXATION
14 For salaries and expenses of the Joint Committee on
15 Taxation, $11,451,000, to be disbursed by the Chief Ad16
ministrative Officer of the House of Representatives.
17 For other joint items, as follows:
18 OFFICE OF THE ATTENDING PHYSICIAN
19 For medical supplies, equipment, and contingent ex20
penses of the emergency rooms, and for the Attending
21 Physician and his assistants, including: (1) an allowance
22 of $2,175 per month to the Attending Physician; (2) an
23 allowance of $1,300 per month to the Senior Medical Offi24
cer; (3) an allowance of $725 per month each to three
25 medical officers while on duty in the Office of the Attend-
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1 ing Physician; (4) an allowance of $725 per month to two
2 assistants and $580 per month each not to exceed 11 as3
sistants on the basis heretofore provided for such assist4
ants; and (5) $2,366,000 for reimbursement to the De5
partment of the Navy for expenses incurred for staff and
6 equipment assigned to the Office of the Attending Physi7
cian, which shall be advanced and credited to the applica8
ble appropriation or appropriations from which such sala9
ries, allowances, and other expenses are payable and shall
10 be available for all the purposes thereof, $3,805,000, to
11 be disbursed by the Chief Administrative Officer of the
12 House of Representatives.
13 OFFICE OF CONGRESSIONAL ACCESSIBILITY SERVICES
14 SALARIES AND EXPENSES
15 For salaries and expenses of the Office of Congres16
sional Accessibility Services, $1,314,000, to be disbursed
17 by the Secretary of the Senate.
18 STATEMENTS OF APPROPRIATIONS
19 For the preparation, under the direction of the Com20
mittees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House
21 of Representatives, of the statements for the first session
22 of the 111th Congress, showing appropriations made, in23
definite appropriations, and contracts authorized, together
24 with a chronological history of the regular appropriations
25 bills as required by law, $30,000, to be paid to the persons
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1 designated by the chairmen of such committees to super2
vise the work.
3 CAPITOL POLICE
4 SALARIES
5 For salaries of employees of the Capitol Police, in6
cluding overtime, hazardous duty pay differential, and
7 Government contributions for health, retirement, social se8
curity, professional liability insurance, and other applica9
ble employee benefits, $263,198,000, to be disbursed by
10 the Chief of the Capitol Police or his designee.
11 GENERAL EXPENSES
12 For necessary expenses of the Capitol Police, includ13
ing motor vehicles, communications and other equipment,
14 security equipment and installation, uniforms, weapons,
15 supplies, materials, training, medical services, forensic
16 services, stenographic services, personal and professional
17 services, the employee assistance program, the awards pro18
gram, postage, communication services, travel advances,
19 relocation of instructor and liaison personnel for the Fed20
eral Law Enforcement Training Center, and not more
21 than $5,000 to be expended on the certification of the
22 Chief of the Capitol Police in connection with official rep23
resentation and reception expenses, $61,914,000, to be
24 disbursed by the Chief of the Capitol Police or his des25
ignee: Provided, That, notwithstanding any other provi26
sion of law, the cost of basic training for the Capitol Police
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1 at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center for fis2
cal year 2010 shall be paid by the Secretary of Homeland
3 Security from funds available to the Department of Home4
land Security.
5 ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
6 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
7 SEC. 1001. TRANSFER AUTHORITY.—Amounts ap8
propriated for fiscal year 2010 for the Capitol Police may
9 be transferred between the headings ‘‘SALARIES’’ and
10 ‘‘GENERAL EXPENSES’’ upon the approval of the Commit11
tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives
12 and the Senate.
13 OFFICE OF COMPLIANCE
14 SALARIES AND EXPENSES
15 For salaries and expenses of the Office of Compli16
ance, as authorized by section 305 of the Congressional
17 Accountability Act of 1995 (2 U.S.C. 1385), $4,335,000,
18 of which $884,000 shall remain available until September
19 30, 2011: Provided, That the Executive Director of the
20 Office of Compliance may, within the limits of available
21 appropriations, dispose of surplus or obsolete personal
22 property by interagency transfer, donation, or discarding:
23 Provided further, That not more than $500 may be ex24
pended on the certification of the Executive Director of
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1 the Office of Compliance in connection with official rep2
resentation and reception expenses.
3 CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE
4 SALARIES AND EXPENSES
5 For salaries and expenses necessary for operation of
6 the Congressional Budget Office, including not more than
7 $6,000 to be expended on the certification of the Director
8 of the Congressional Budget Office in connection with offi9
cial representation and reception expenses, $45,165,000.
10 ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
11 SEC. 1101.—MODIFICATIONS TO EXECUTIVE EX12
CHANGE PROGRAM.—(a) EXPANSION OF NUMBER OF
13 PARTICIPANTS.—Section 1201(b) of the Legislative
14 Branch Apropriations Act, 2008 (2 U.S.C. 611 note) is
15 amended by striking ‘‘3’’ each place it appears and insert16
ing ‘‘5’’.
17 (b) PERMANENT EXTENSION OF PROGRAM.—Section
18 1201 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 611 note) is amended—
19 (1) by striking subsection (d) and redesignating
20 subsection (e) as subsection (d); and
21 (2) in subsection (d), as so redesignated, by
22 strking ‘‘Subject to subsection (d), this section’’ and
23 inserting ‘‘This section’’.
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1 (c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by
2 this section shall take effect as if included in the enact3
ment of the Legislatve Branch Appropriations Act, 2008.
4 ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL
5 GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
6 For salaries for the Architect of the Capitol, and
7 other personal services, at rates of pay provided by law;
8 for surveys and studies in connection with activities under
9 the care of the Architect of the Capitol; for all necessary
10 expenses for the general and administrative support of the
11 operations under the Architect of the Capitol including the
12 Botanic Garden; electrical substations of the Capitol, Sen13
ate and House office buildings, and other facilities under
14 the jurisdiction of the Architect of the Capitol; including
15 furnishings and office equipment; including not more than
16 $5,000 for official reception and representation expenses,
17 to be expended as the Architect of the Capitol may ap18
prove; for purchase or exchange, maintenance, and oper19
ation of a passenger motor vehicle, $109,392,000, of
20 which $8,950,000 shall remain available until September
21 30, 2014.
22 HISTORIC BUILDINGS REVITALIZATION TRUST FUND
23 For a payment to the Historic Buildings Revitaliza24
tion Trust Fund established under section 1201,
25 $60,000,000, to remain available until expended.
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Senate Vote on the Stimulus Bill (also known as the Recovery and Reinvestment Act 2009)

In doing a recap of the voting record of your Congressional representatives in the House and Senate on key issues covering the Stimulus Bill ( also known as H.R. 1, passed without even being read), Omnibus Bill, (passed), Budget 2009/2010 (3.6 trillion dollars Passed), Carbon Tax Bill ( also known as Cap and Trade), Health-care Reform, and others to come. I will attempt to give you the records on how each member of Congress votes, and if you disagree with their position I urge you to remember that when it is time to vote in the November 2010 elections. It will be the time to remove these people from office. Your vote is important in reclaiming you Freedom and Liberties as given you by your creator,GOD.



Here is the recap on the Stimulus Bill (also known as the Recovery and Reinvestment Act 2009) by you Congressional Senators.



U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 111th Congress - 1st Session
as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate
Vote Summary
Question: On Passage of the Bill (H.R. 1 as Amended ) Vote Number: 61 Vote Date: February 10, 2009, 12:27 PM Required For Majority: 1/2 Vote Result: Bill Passed Measure Number: H.R. 1 (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 ) Measure Title: A bill making supplemental appropriations for job preservation and creation, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency and science, assistance to the unemployed, and State and local fiscal stabilization, for fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes. Vote Counts: YEAs 61 NAYs 37

Not Voting 1



Vote Summary By Senator Name By Vote Position By Home State



Grouped By Vote Position YEAs ---61 (For)



Akaka (D-HI)

Baucus (D-MT)

Bayh (D-IN)

Begich (D-AK)

Bennet (D-CO)

Bingaman (D-NM)

Boxer (D-CA)

Brown (D-OH)

Burris (D-IL)

Byrd (D-WV)

Cantwell (D-WA)

Cardin (D-MD)

Carper (D-DE)

Casey (D-PA)

Collins (R-ME)

Conrad (D-ND)

Dodd (D-CT)

Dorgan (D-ND)

Durbin (D-IL)

Feingold (D-WI)

Feinstein (D-CA)

Gillibrand (D-NY)

Hagan (D-NC)

Harkin (D-IA)

Inouye (D-HI)

Johnson (D-SD)

Kaufman (D-DE)

Kennedy (D-MA)

Kerry (D-MA)

Klobuchar (D-MN)

Kohl (D-WI)

Landrieu (D-LA)

Lautenberg (D-NJ)

Leahy (D-VT)

Levin (D-MI)

Lieberman (ID-CT)

Lincoln (D-AR)

McCaskill (D-MO)

Menendez (D-NJ)

Merkley (D-OR)

Mikulski (D-MD)

Murray (D-WA)

Nelson (D-FL)

Nelson (D-NE)

Pryor (D-AR)

Reed (D-RI)

Reid (D-NV)

Rockefeller (D-WV)

Sanders (I-VT)

Schumer (D-NY)

Shaheen (D-NH)

Snowe (R-ME)

Specter (R-PA)

Stabenow (D-MI)

Tester (D-MT)

Udall (D-CO)

Udall (D-NM)

Warner (D-VA)

Webb (D-VA)

Whitehouse (D-RI)

Wyden (D-OR)



NAYs ---37 (against)





Alexander (R-TN)

Barrasso (R-WY)

Bennett (R-UT)

Bond (R-MO)

Brownback (R-KS)

Bunning (R-KY)

Burr (R-NC)

Chambliss (R-GA)

Coburn (R-OK)

Cochran (R-MS)

Corker (R-TN)

Cornyn (R-TX)

Crapo (R-ID)

DeMint (R-SC)

Ensign (R-NV)

Enzi (R-WY)

Graham (R-SC)

Grassley (R-IA)

Hatch (R-UT)

Hutchison (R-TX)

Inhofe (R-OK)

Isakson (R-GA)

Johanns (R-NE)

Kyl (R-AZ)

Lugar (R-IN)

Martinez (R-FL)

McCain (R-AZ)

McConnell (R-KY)

Murkowski (R-AK)

Risch (R-ID)

Roberts (R-KS)

Sessions (R-AL)

Shelby (R-AL)

Thune (R-SD)

Vitter (R-LA)

Voinovich (R-OH)

Wicker (R-MS)



Not Voting - 1

Gregg (R-NH)



This is the voting record as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate.



I would compare the voting record of my Senator on this bill to the voting record of my Senator on other bills and if they continue along the lines of outrageous spending, endless printing of money, continued trashing of my Constitutional Rights, and leading America down the road of Socialism I will vote against those members of Congress. I will also join the efforts of others to remove these members of Congress from office as well.



I ask you to join with me and fight for your rights as given by God, the U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. I urge you to join with me and others to reclaim America, the Republic for which America Stands, the Country that has done more for every Country on the planet than any other,; reclaim our Freedom, Liberties, and decrease the size and cost of Government.



Will you join with me and others?



Submitted by



Richard Lewis

I am going to post the voting records of your Congressional elected members, on the critical issues. You can compare how your Senators and House Representatives are voting, and how they may be hurting you, your children, your grand-children, and America. You can see who is just blindly following Oboma's march to Socialism for America.

If you do not agree with the course Oboma is taking America, and you disagree with the way your House of Representative and Senator is voting remember that in the November 2010 elections, and VOTE these people from office regardless of which party they represent, because they don't represent you, the U.S. Constitution, or America and the Republic that America is.

Follow and compare these elected officials on the issues and how they are voting.

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 46(Democrats in roman; Republicans in italic; Independents underlined)

H R 1 YEA-AND-NAY 28-Jan-2009 6:11 PM QUESTION: On Passage BILL TITLE: Making supplemental appropriations for fiscal year ending 2009

Yeas; Nays ;PRES; NV Democratic 244; Democrats 11, Republican 177,
1 Independent, TOTALS 244 yeas 188 nayes.

---- YEAS 244 --- (For)

Abercrombie
Ackerman
Adler (NJ)
Altmire
Andrews
Arcuri
Baca
Baird
Baldwin
Barrow
Bean
Becerra
Berkley
Berman
Berry
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Blumenauer
Boccieri
Boren
Boswell
Boucher
Brady (PA)
Braley (IA)
Brown,Corrine
Butterfield
Capps
Capuano
Cardoza
Carnahan
Carney
Carson (IN)
Frank (MA)
Fudge
Giffords
Gonzalez
Gordon (TN)
Grayson
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hall (NY)
Halvorson
Hare
Harman
Hastings (FL)
Heinrich
Herseth Sandlin
Higgins
Hill
Himes
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hirono
Hodes
Holden
Holt
Honda
Hoyer
Inslee
Israel
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Kagen
Kaptur
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilpatrick (MI)
Kilroy
Kind
Kirkpatrick (AZ)
KissellKlein (FL)
Kosmas
Kucinich
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lee (CA)
LevinLewis (GA)
Lipinski
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
Lowey
Luján
Lynch
Maffei
Maloney
Markey (CO)
Markey (MA)
Marshall
Massa
Matheson
Matsui
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McIntyre
McMahon
McNerney
Meek (FL)
Meeks (NY)
Melancon
Michaud
Miller (NC)
Miller, George
Mitchell
Mollohan
Moore (KS)
Moore (WI)
Moran (VA)
Murphy (CT)
Murphy, Patrick
Murtha
Nadler (NY)
Napolitano
Neal (MA)
Nye
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Ortiz
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor (AZ)
Payne
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Perriello
Peters
Pingree (ME)
Polis (CO)
Pomeroy
Price (NC)
Rahall
Rangel
Reyes
Richardson
Rodriguez
Ross
Rothman (NJ)
Roybal-Allard
Ruppersberger
RushRyan (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 (WA)
Snyder
Solis (CA)
Space
Speier
Spratt
Stark
Stupak
Sutton
Tanner
Tauscher
Teague
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tierney
Titus
Tonko
Towns
Tsongas
Van Hollen
Velázquez
Visclosky
Walz
Wasserman
Schultz
Waters
Watson
Watt
Waxman
Weiner
Welch
Wexler
Wilson (OH)
Woolsey
Wu
Yarmuth

The Nayes 188 (against)

Aderholt
Akin
Alexander
Austria
Bachmann
Bachus
Barrett (SC)
Bartlett
Barton (TX)
Biggert
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop (UT)
Blackburn
Blunt
Boehner
Bonner
Bono
Mack
Boozman
Boustany
Boyd
Brady (TX)
Bright
Broun (GA)
Brown (SC)
Buchanan
Burgess
Burton (IN)
Buyer
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Cantor
Cao
Capito
Carter
Cassidy
Castle
Chaffetz
Coble
Coffman (CO)
Cole
Conaway
Cooper
Crenshaw
Culberson
Davis (KY)
Deal (GA)
Dent
Diaz-Balart, L.
Diaz-Balart, M.
Dreier
Duncan
Ehlers
Ellsworth
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
Hoekstra
Hunter
Inglis
Issa
Jenkins
Johnson (IL)
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Jordan (OH)
Kanjorski
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kirk
Kline (MN)
Kratovil
Lamborn
Lance
Latham
LaTourette
Latta
Lee (NY)
Lewis (CA)
Linder
LoBiondo
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lummis
Lungren, Daniel E.
Mack
Manzullo
Marchant
McCarthy (CA)
McCaul
McClintock
McCotter
McHenry
McHugh
McKeon
McMorris
Rodgers
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller, Gary
Minnick
Moran (KS)
Murphy, Tim
Myrick
Neugebauer
Nunes
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
Royce
Ryan (WI)
Scalise
Schmidt
Schock
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shadegg
Shimkus
Shuler
Shuster
Simpson
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Souder
Stearns
Sullivan
Taylor
Terry
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiahrt
Tiberi
Turner
Upton
Walden
Wamp
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Wolf
Young (AK)
Young (FL)

These are the Stimulus Bill (also known as the Recovery and Reinvestment Act 2009) Naye
votes in the House of Representatives. At the present they deserve your support, however, that can change based on future votes.

In a couple of days I will show you the Senate votes on the Recovery and Reivestment Act 2009 (Stimulus Bill).

Submitted by
Richard Lewis