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Defend America on Sunday, June 28, 2009 9:54:31 PM
Michael Barone's analysis show why the passage of the biggest tax in American history is not so clear in the Senate:
Anatomy of the House cap-and-trade roll call
By:
Michael Barone
Senior Political Analyst
06/28/09 2:09 PM EDT
The House Democratic leadership succeeded in passing the Waxman-Markey cap and trade bill by a 219-212 margin.
In all, 44 Democrats voted against the bill, and 8 Republicans voted
for it. It’s always interesting to examine the roll call on a close
vote on an important issue—when members are voting for keeps and when
some significant number of members cross party lines. And House roll
call votes provide useful clues in gauging the legislation’s possible
fate in the Senate.
This
bill was passed by the votes of one-third of the nation—the Northeast
(New England, NY, NJ, DE, MD) and the Pacific coast (CA, OR, WA, HI),
as the following table shows. Just over half the votes cast for it came
from those two regions.
UNITED STATES 219 212
Northeast & Pacific 110 31
Rest of US 109 181
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Anatomy-of-the-House-cap-and-trade-roll-call-49384712.html