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House Democrats Who Voted Against the Health Care Bill
Lawmakers in the House voted 220 to 215 on Saturday night to approve a sweeping overhaul of the nation s health care system. Only one Republican voted for the bill, and 39 Democrats opposed it, including 24 members of the fiscally conservative Blue Dog Coalition. An overwhelming majority of the ...
Sweeping Health Care Plan Passes House
Sweeping Health Care Plan Passes House
nytimes.com — Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in Washington on Saturday. (more) Sweeping Health Care Plan Passes House
Obama asks House to vote on health care bill      (AP)
Obama asks House to vote on health care bill (AP)
news.yahoo.com — AP - President Barack Obama summoned Democrats to "answer the call of history" Saturday as the House pushed toward a vote on a landmark health care bill holding out the promise of coverage for tens of millions who lack it. (more) Obama asks House to vote on health care bill (AP)
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The 39 House Democrats who Voted Against Their Party's Health Care Bill
Politics Daily — ... Fourteen of the 39 were freshmen. In 10 of those 14 districts, McCain won, and usually won big. These are, presumably, the most vulnerable Democrats in 2010. (The New York Times has a nice graphic showing all these numbers). ...

The Democrats Who Opposed the Health Care Bill
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — The New York Times has an excellent chart that on the Democrats that voted againts the health care legislation in the House last night. ...

House Democrats Who Voted Against the Health Care Bill
The Political Carnival — 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: ...

In Pelosi’s House, 64 Democrats Sell Women Out
Taylor Marsh — ... The first female Speaker of the House makes history by passing a health care bill that not only doesn’t have a robust public option, but also sells out women’s civil rights. The Republicans acted reprehensibly today, heckling women lawmakers like the chamber was a frat house. Then there were the ...

Democrats against healthcare reform
MyDD — The netroots have given Larry Kissell $485,795 (via OpenLeft), over the past couple of cycles. He voted no on this healtcare reform bill. He says it was to "protect medicare" which seems like a bizzare explanation. Here's the list of those Democrats that voted against it, and they all have their excuses. Brian Baird's name jumps out. He represents a pretty liberal CD in SW Washington, mostly Vancouver. A CD that has consistently gotten more liberal, while Baird has turned into a conservative Democrat. Ben Chandler and Stephanie Herseth Sandlin were ...

THE FEARLESS FORTY: THE 39 DEMOCRATS WHO VOTED AGAINST SOCIALISM AND THE SENATOIR WHO PROMISES A FILIBUSTER
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS — THE NYTIMES HAS THE LIST WITH DISTRICT VOTING RECORD AND ANALYSIS. HERE THEY ARE - THE BRAVE 39: Adler Altmire Baird Barrow Boccieri Boren Boucher Boyd Bright Chandler Childers Artur Davis Lincoln Davis Chet ...

LIST: Democrats who voted no
News — ... Here's the full list of Democrats who voted against the House healthcare bill last night. As the NY Times notes, most of them represent conservative-leaning districts. ...

The Sunday Shows, Health Care And Afghanistan
The Atlantic Politics Channel — ... 31 of these Democrats represent districts won by John McCain.  The rest are bolded. 8 of the 39 won by fewer than 10 points. 14 voted in districts where the Obama-McCain or McCain-Obama margin was less than 5 %. 14 of the 39 were freshman. 23 ...

House Democrats Voting No
Matthew Yglesias — ... An interesting table from The New York Times profiles the House Democrats who voted “no” on health reform last night. Mostly it’s people from districts that went for John McCain, oftentimes heavily so. There’s also Artur Davis whose district suggests he ought to be a solid Democratic vote but who’s running for governor of Alabama and thus tacking way to the right of what his district requires. You’ve also got idiosyncratic nos from Brian Baird and Dennis Kucinich and a clutch of freshman Dems from districts Obama won. ...

House Democrats Who Voted Against the Health Care Bill sortable table
Open Left - Quick Hits's RSS Feedhttp://www.nytimes.com/interac... table columns: Representative, Margin of victory when last elected, District's winner in 2008 presidential election, Pct. of nonelderly uninsured in the district table can be sorted by: Fresh-men, District won by McCain, District won by Obama, District switched from Repub-lican in 2008, Blue Dogs

House Passes Health Care Reform – Looking Back
Firedoglake — ... ). The New York Times has a nice chart about them and their districts. Lots of these members ran unopposed or won by over 20 points. Eight came from districts Obama won last November. The total 39: ...

Who Voted Against Health Care Reform-- And Why?
DownWithTyranny! — ... last night's historic session of the House of Representatives as it voted to pass the health insurance reform bill. Despite countless attempts over nearly a century, no chamber of Congress has ever before passed comprehensive health reform. This is history. Tragically, 39 Democrats, mostly corrupt, bought-out Insurance Industry shills, crossed the aisle and found themselves on the wrong side of history. Only one Republican, Anh Cao-- ironically the Representative from New Orleans who was elected in response to a major corruption scandal-- crossed the aisle in the other ...

Clip and Save
The MahablogHouse Democrats Who Voted Against the Health Care Bill House Democrats Who Voted for the Stupak-Pitts Amendment House Democrats Who Voted Yes on Stupak-Pitts and No on the Final Bill (the Worst of the Worst): Jason Altmire (Pa. 4) John Barrow (Ga. 12) John Boccieri (Ohio 16) Dan Boren (Okla. 2) Bobby Bright (Ala. 2) Ben Chandler (Ky. 6) Travis Childers (Miss. 1) Artur Davis (Ala. 7) Lincoln Davis (Tenn. 4) Bart Gordon (Tenn. 6) Parker Griffith (Ala. 5) Tim Holden (Pa. 17) Jim Marshall (Ga. 8 ) Jim ...

The House Health Care Vote
QandO — ... Before I talk about it further, there’s an “Irony Alert” in full swing for the irony-impaired leftists who took great joy in touting NY-23 as a Republican civil-war and party purge. They’re are now doing ...

Just lay back and think of it as a Vagina Added Tax
Firedoglake — ... So, to sum up: your decision to own a not-penis is going to cost you. In all fairness, you are already well compensated by no-cover Ladies Nights and two-for-one drink specials, so let’s just call this even-stevens. No word on whether this will affect the dickless Democrats who voted against health care.  

Alabama’s House Delegation and the Health Care Vote
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts — The NYT has an interesting table detailing the Democrats who voted against the House health care bill. From it we find that the the three Democrats from Alabama voted against the bill: Bobby Bright, AL02 Parker Griffith, AL05 Artur Davis, AL07 None of this is particularly surprising.  Bright, in particular, comes from a highly competitive district that prior to his election in 2008 had been in Republican hands since 1992.  Further he ran specifically promising not to do Speaker Pelosi’s ...

Courageous!
Jules Crittenden — ... House votes 220-215 to entirely reorder a vast portion of our economy, plus create massive new entitlements someone will have to pay for. NYT is keen to explain that it would have passed by more, but … 39 Dems come from districts that don’t want it. Also via  ...

Which House Democrats Opposed Health Reform, Clean Energy, Tobacco Regulation, and the Stimulus All?
MyDD — ... Yesterday, Jerome posted a list of the 39 Democrats who voted against the Affordable Health Care for America Act on Saturday night. I've compared the roll calls, and 24 of those Democrats ...

2010 battle maps: Stupak and No on Health care rationing.
RedState — ... Second is a color shaded map of all the Members of Congress who voted against health care rationing. Data via here - and note that the Times helpfully points out that virtually every no Democratic vote is considered vulnerable in 2010 (usually by being in a district that John McCain won, which generally means a non-urban one): ...

Oklahomans With No Voice
Okie Funk: Notes From The Outback — ... In fact, according to The New York Times, Boren’s district has the highest rate of non-elderly uninsured people—a staggering 29 percent—of all the districts represented by Democrats who voted against the groundbreaking measure. ...

House Handicapping One Year Out
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right — ... For kicks, I decided to add two columns to Wasserman's analysis. The first is for the recent vote on the House health care bill, on which 39 Democrats voted nay. (A good list and analysis of the 39 can be found in the New York Times.) Those Democrats are explaining their votes in ...

Does Voting For Health Reform Hurt Conservative Dems? Democratic Polling Says No.
The Atlantic Politics Channel39 Democrats voted against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) health care reform package last Saturday, and conventional wisdom says this was a good move, campaign-wise. These lawmakers represent conservative districts--31 of 39 of which backed McCain in 2008--and the Democratic health care reform (whatever that may be, exactly) is opposed, ...

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Health Care Plan Passes House 220 to 215
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