Newsflash Nancy: You Have The Power To Change Don’t Ask Don’t Tell..You Voted AYE..Don’t You Remember?
Michelle had this link to the gem of the day:
I think the military should carefully consider changing the policy. We need the most talented people, we need the language skills, we need patriotic Americans who exist across the board in our population. We don’t need moral judgment from the chairman of the Joint Chiefs.— Nancy Pelosi
To refresh your memory of just who voted Aye and No:
AYESÂ Â Â Â 268
| Abercrombie Ackerman Andrews (ME) Andrews Andrews (TX) Bacchus (FL) Baesler Ballenger Barca Barcia Barlow Bateman Becerra Beilenson Berman Bevill Bilbray Bishop Blackwell Blute Bonilla Bonior Borski Boucher Brewster Brooks Browder Brown (CA) Brown (FL) Brown (OH) Bryant (TX) Buyer Byrne Camp Cantwell Cardin Carr Castle Chapman Clay Clayton Clement Clinger Clyburn Coleman Collins (MI) Condit Cooper Coppersmith Costello Coyne Cramer Danner Darden de la Garza Deal DeLauro Dellums Derrick Deutsch Dicks Dingell Dixon Dooley Durbin Edwards Engel English (AZ) English (OK) Eshoo Evans Farr Fazio Fields (LA) Filner Fingerhut Flake Foglietta Ford (MI) Ford Fowler Frank (MA) Frost Gejdenson Gephardt Geren Gibbons Gilchrest Glickman Gonzalez |
Gordon Grandy Green Greenwood Gutierrez Hall (OH) Hall (TX) Hamilton Harman Hastings (FL) Hayes Hefner Hilliard Hinchey Hoagland Hochbrueckner Holden Horn Hoyer Hughes Hutto Inslee Istook Jacobs Jefferson Johnson (CT) Johnson (GA) Johnson (SD) Johnson, E. B. Kanjorski Kaptur Kasich Kennedy (MA) Kennelly Kildee Kingston Kleczka Klein Klink Kopetski Kreidler LaFalce Lambert Lancaster Lantos LaRocco Laughlin Lazio Leach Lehman Levin Lewis (CA) Lewis (GA) Lipinski Lloyd Long Lowey Machtley Mann Manton Manzullo Markey Martinez Matsui Mazzoli McCloskey McCurdy McDermott McHale McKinney McMillan McNulty Meehan Meek Menendez Mfume Mineta Mink Moakley Mollohan Montgomery Moran Morella Murtha Natcher Neal Neal (NC) Oberstar Obey Olver |
Ortiz Orton Oxley Pallone Parker Pastor Payne (NJ) Payne (VA) Pelosi Penny Peterson (FL) Pickett Pickle Pomeroy Porter Portman Poshard Price (NC) Pryce Quinn Ravenel Reed Reynolds Richardson Roemer Rose Rostenkowski Rowland Roybal-Allard Sabo Sangmeister Sarpalius Sawyer Saxton Schenk Schroeder Schumer Scott Serrano Sharp Shepherd Sisisky Skelton Slattery Slaughter Smith (IA) Smith (NJ) Snowe Spratt Stark Stenholm Stokes Strickland Stupak Sundquist Swett Swift Synar Talent Tanner Tauzin Taylor (MS) Tejeda Thompson Thornton Thurman Torkildsen Torres Towns Traficant Tucker Unsoeld Valentine Velazquez Visclosky Volkmer Vucanovich Washington Waters Watt (NC) Waxman Weldon (PA) Wheat Whitten Williams Wilson Wise Wynn |
—- NOESÂ Â Â Â 162 —
| Allard Applegate Archer Armey Bachus Baker (CA) Baker (LA) Barrett (NE) Barrett (WI) Bartlett Barton Bentley Bereuter Bilirakis Bliley Boehlert Boehner Bunning Burton Callahan Calvert Canady Coble Collins (GA) Collins (IL) Combest Conyers Cox Crane Crapo Cunningham DeFazio DeLay Diaz-Balart Dickey Doolittle Dornan Dreier Duncan Dunn Edwards (CA) Emerson Everett Ewing Fawell Fields (TX) Fish Franks (CT) Franks (NJ) Furse Gallegly Gallo Gekas Gillmor |
Gilman Gingrich Goodlatte Goodling Goss Grams Gunderson Hamburg Hancock Hansen Hastert Hefley Herger Hobson Hoekstra Hoke Houghton Huffington Hunter Hutchinson Hyde Inglis Inhofe Johnson, Sam Johnston Kim King Klug Knollenberg Kolbe Kyl Levy Lewis (FL) Lightfoot Linder Livingston Maloney Margolies-Mezvinsky McCandless McCollum McCrery McHugh McInnis McKeon Meyers Mica Michel Miller (CA) Miller (FL) Minge Molinari Moorhead Murphy Myers |
Nadler Nussle Owens Packard Paxon Peterson (MN) Petri Pombo Quillen Rahall Ramstad Rangel Regula Ridge Roberts Rogers Rohrabacher Ros-Lehtinen Roth Roukema Royce Rush Sanders Santorum Schaefer Schiff Sensenbrenner Shaw Shays Shuster Skeen Smith (MI) Smith (OR) Smith (TX) Solomon Spence Stearns Studds Stump Taylor (NC) Thomas Thomas (WY) Upton Vento Walker Walsh Wolf Woolsey Wyden Yates Young (AK) Young (FL) Zeliff Zimmer |
—- NOT VOTINGÂ Â Â Â 3 —
| McDade | Skaggs | Torricelli |
And let’s not forget the Senate (look at all those R’s in the Nays: 18 out of 22)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (R-CO)
Coverdell (R-GA)
D’Amato (R-NY)
Dole (R-KS)
Domenici (R-NM)
Feingold (D-WI)
Gorton (R-WA)
Gramm (R-TX)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hatfield (R-OR)
Helms (R-NC)
Mack (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
Metzenbaum (D-OH)
Nickles (R-OK)
Packwood (R-OR)
Pressler (R-SD)
Roth (R-DE)
Specter (R-PA)
Wallop (R-WY)
Wellstone (D-MN)
March 16, 2007 - 12:13 AM on March 16th, 2007
Gee maybe we’d have the translators if they hadn’t cut the reenlistment bonuses from $20,000 for interpreters with 10 years experience to only $5000 for a 5 year enlistment during the Clinton years. Gee, I can’t imagine why they’d give up making $35k with a $5k signing bonus versus taking a $70k job in the private sector.