Geography of the health care vote

By GottaLaff

Here is a visual aid to the House health care vote:

(click to enlarge)

H/t: Tiggrr1

House Democrats Who Voted Against the Health Care Bill

By GottaLaff

Want to know who shouldn't get your donation next election? Actually, that's not entirely true. Dennis Kucinich voted against it for obvious reasons. Fair is fair. I'm not familiar with some of the others, so feel free to fill me in in Comments.

Click on this chart to enlarge, or go here, to see which Democrats voted against the health care reform bill:

And via Taegan:

The party-buckers on the 220-215 vote on Saturday night included 39 Democrats who voted against the bill. Of them, 31 represent districts that voted for John McCain over Barack Obama. Republicans are targeting many of them for defeat in the 2010 election. Of the other eight, three are serving their first terms in districts in which they defeated or succeeded Republicans in the 2008 election.

UPDATE-- Via Jason Leopold:

The 39 Democrats who voted against the House bill health care bill are:

Rep. John Adler (NJ)
Rep. Jason Altmire (PA)
Rep. Brian Baird (WA)
Rep. John Barrow (GA)
Rep. John Boccieri (OH)
Rep. Dan Boren (OK)
Rep. Rick Boucher (VA)
Rep. Allen Boyd (FL)
Rep. Bobby Bright (AL)
Rep. Ben Chandler (KT)
Rep. Travis Childers (MS)
Rep. Artur Davis (AL)
Rep. Lincoln Davis (TN)
Rep. Chet Edwards (TX)
Rep. Bart Gordon (TN)
Rep. Parker Griffith (AL)
Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (SD)
Rep. Tim Holden (PA)
Rep. Larry Kissell (NC)
Rep. Suzanne Kosmas (FL)
Rep. Frank Kratovil (MD)
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (OH)
Rep. Jim Marshall (GA)
Rep. Betsy Markey (CO)
Rep. Eric Massa (NY)
Rep. Jim Matheson(UT)
Rep. Mike McIntyre (NC)
Rep. Michael McMahon (NY)
Rep. Charlie Melancon (LA)
Rep. Walt Minnick (ID)
Rep. Scott Murphy (NY)
Rep. Glenn Nye (VA)
Rep. Collin Peterson (MN)
Rep. Mike Ross (AR)
Rep. Heath Shuler (NC)
Rep. Ike Skelton (MO)
Rep. John Tanner (TN)
Rep. Gene Taylor (MS)
Rep. Harry Teague (NM)

H/t: 42bkdodgr

Saturday's a go, but House Dems need 10 more votes

By GottaLaff

Ten seems like a lot to me at this late date.

Democratic House leadership aides tell First Read "there will, in fact, be a vote tomorrow on health-reform legislation -- despite reports suggesting a vote could be pushed back to Sunday or even next week... The aide, however, conceded the vote could slip later into tomorrow evening."

Congress Daily:

The Obama administration and House Democrats are making a last-ditch effort to find approximately 10 more Democrats willing to vote for healthcare reform legislation Saturday.

10 is the loneliest number...

House health care vote may be postponed until Sunday

By GottaLaff

Delay, delay, delay:

A hotly anticipated health care reform vote by the full House of Representatives may be delayed until Sunday, according to two Democratic sources.

But the vote on the nearly $1.1 trillion bill is still tentatively scheduled for Saturday, the sources noted.

Just secure the 218 and get on with it.

House Approves Budget With No GOP Support

By GottaLaff

Via Roll Call, which is subscription only, so this is all we get:

The House on Wednesday voted 233-193 in favor of a $3.4 trillion, fiscal 2010 budget conference report, a strong show of support for President Barack Obama’s agenda as Democrats mark his 100th day in office.

The Party of Uh-Uh strikes again.

Not one Republican vote

By GottaLaff

This is how Republicans reach out to a new president:

Not a single House Republican voted in favor of the stimulus bill.

It may well be the third inning of nine -- this is a Robert Gibbs analogy -- but it's Democrats who are crowding the plate.

That's the bipartisan spirit!

BREAKING: House passes auto bailout

By GottaLaff

CNN just announced that the vote was 237-170. But the Senate may not have the votes to pass it.

UPDATE:

From NBC’s John Yang
The House version of the auto industry bailout bill includes a cost-of-living pay raise for federal judges and Supreme Court justices. (Section 19, Paragraph c.)

A senior administration official says this was done with the administration's approval -- just a convenient legislative vehicle to get it into law.