House Debate on The People's Budget

ByChad Lupkes

After about an hour searching around for information in the record about the people’s budget, I found the following:

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-hc34/amendments

Amendment number 3 to H CON RES 34 was introduced by Mr. Grijalva (D-AZ-07) at 9:41AM on April 15, 2011.  The House used a total of 30 minutes to debate the amendment, which was the People’s Budget.  You can learn more about the People’s Budget here on the Congressional Progressive Caucus website.

You can read the text of the debate here (PDF): http:/wa-demchairs.org/progressives/housedebateonpeoplesbudget.pdf

You can watch the video of the debate here: http://houselive.gov/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=5068

April 15, 2011 Roll call number 274 in the House
Question On Agreeing to the Amendment: Amendment 2 to H CON RES 34

Total House Rollcall: http://www.opencongress.org/vote/2011/h/274

Washington State Roll Call:

  1. Jay Inslee (WA-01) – Nay
  2. Rick Larsen (WA-02) – Nay
  3. Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA-03) – Nay
  4. Doc Hastings (WA-04) – Nay
  5. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05) – Nay
  6. Norman Dicks (WA-06) – Nay
  7. James McDermott (WA-07) – Aye
  8. Dave Reichert (WA-08) – Abstain
  9. Adam Smith (WA-09) – Nay

Thank you to Jim McDermott for voting Aye!  The rest will need to explain Why.

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