R IS FOR RINO

House Roll Call: Budget

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSOCT. 28, 2015, 6:31 P.M. E.D.T.

The 266-167 roll call Wednesday by which the House passed the bipartisan budget-and-debt deal that averts a federal financial crisis and lifts onerous spending caps for the Pentagon and domestic agencies.

A "yes" vote is a vote to pass the measure.

X denotes those not voting.

Voting yes were 187 Democrats and 79 Republicans.

Voting no were 0 Democrats and 167 Republicans.

ALABAMA

Democrats — Sewell, Y.

Republicans — Aderholt, N; Brooks, N; Byrne, N; Palmer, N; Roby, N; Rogers, Y.

ALASKA

Republicans — Young, N.

ARIZONA

Democrats — Gallego, Y; Grijalva, Y; Kirkpatrick, Y; Sinema, Y.

Republicans — Franks, N; Gosar, N; McSally, Y; Salmon, N; Schweikert, N.

ARKANSAS

Republicans — Crawford, N; Hill, N; Westerman, N; Womack, Y.

CALIFORNIA

Democrats — Aguilar, Y; Bass, Y; Becerra, Y; Bera, Y; Brownley, Y; Capps, Y; Cardenas, Y; Chu, Judy, Y; Costa, Y; Davis, Y; DeSaulnier, Y; Eshoo, Y; Farr, Y; Garamendi, Y; Hahn, Y; Honda, Y; Huffman, Y; Lee, Y; Lieu, Ted, Y; Lofgren, Y; Lowenthal, Y; Matsui, Y; McNerney, Y; Napolitano, Y; Pelosi, Y; Peters, Y; Roybal-Allard, Y; Ruiz, Y; Sanchez, Linda T., Y; Sanchez, Loretta, Y; Schiff, Y; Sherman, Y; Speier, Y; Swalwell, Y; Takano, Y; Thompson, Y; Torres, Y; Vargas, Y; Waters, Maxine, Y.

Republicans — Calvert, Y; Cook, Y; Denham, Y; Hunter, N; Issa, N; Knight, N; LaMalfa, N; McCarthy, Y; McClintock, N; Nunes, Y; Rohrabacher, N; Royce, Y; Valadao, Y; Walters, Mimi, Y.

COLORADO

Democrats — DeGette, Y; Perlmutter, Y; Polis, Y.

Republicans — Buck, N; Coffman, N; Lamborn, N; Tipton, N.

CONNECTICUT

Democrats — Courtney, Y; DeLauro, Y; Esty, Y; Himes, Y; Larson, Y.

DELAWARE

Democrats — Carney, Y.

FLORIDA

Democrats — Brown, Y; Castor, Y; Deutch, Y; Frankel, Y; Graham, Y; Grayson, Y; Hastings, Y; Murphy, Y; Wasserman Schultz, Y; Wilson, Y.

Republicans — Bilirakis, N; Buchanan, Y; Clawson, N; Crenshaw, Y; Curbelo, Y; DeSantis, N; Diaz-Balart, Y; Jolly, Y; Mica, Y; Miller, N; Nugent, N; Posey, N; Rooney, N; Ros-Lehtinen, Y; Ross, N; Webster, N; Yoho, N.

GEORGIA

Democrats — Bishop, Y; Johnson, Y; Lewis, Y; Scott, David, Y.

Republicans — Allen, N; Carter, N; Collins, N; Graves, N; Hice, Jody B., N; Loudermilk, N; Price, Tom, N; Scott, Austin, N; Westmoreland, N; Woodall, N.

HAWAII

Democrats — Gabbard, Y; Takai, Y.

IDAHO

Republicans — Labrador, N; Simpson, Y.

ILLINOIS

Democrats — Bustos, Y; Davis, Danny, Y; Duckworth, Y; Foster, Y; Gutierrez, Y; Kelly, Y; Lipinski, Y; Quigley, Y; Rush, Y; Schakowsky, Y.

Republicans — Bost, Y; Davis, Rodney, Y; Dold, Y; Hultgren, N; Kinzinger, Y; LaHood, N; Roskam, N; Shimkus, N.

INDIANA

Democrats — Carson, Y; Visclosky, Y.

Republicans — Brooks, Y; Bucshon, N; Messer, Y; Rokita, N; Stutzman, N; Walorski, N; Young, N.

IOWA

Democrats — Loebsack, Y.

Republicans — Blum, N; King, N; Young, N.

KANSAS

Republicans — Huelskamp, N; Jenkins, N; Pompeo, N; Yoder, N.

KENTUCKY

Democrats — Yarmuth, Y.

Republicans — Barr, Y; Guthrie, Y; Massie, N; Rogers, Y; Whitfield, N.

LOUISIANA

Democrats — Richmond, Y.

Republicans — Abraham, N; Boustany, N; Fleming, N; Graves, N; Scalise, Y.

MAINE

Democrats — Pingree, Y.

Republicans — Poliquin, Y.

MARYLAND

Democrats — Cummings, Y; Delaney, Y; Edwards, Y; Hoyer, Y; Ruppersberger, Y; Sarbanes, Y; Van Hollen, Y.

Republicans — Harris, N.

MASSACHUSETTS

Democrats — Capuano, Y; Clark, Y; Keating, Y; Kennedy, Y; Lynch, Y; McGovern, Y; Moulton, Y; Neal, Y; Tsongas, Y.

MICHIGAN

Democrats — Conyers, Y; Dingell, Y; Kildee, Y; Lawrence, Y; Levin, Y.

Republicans — Amash, N; Benishek, Y; Bishop, N; Huizenga, N; Miller, Y; Moolenaar, N; Trott, N; Upton, Y; Walberg, N.

MINNESOTA

Democrats — Ellison, Y; McCollum, Y; Nolan, Y; Peterson, Y; Walz, Y.

Republicans — Emmer, N; Kline, Y; Paulsen, N.

MISSISSIPPI

Democrats — Thompson, Y.

Republicans — Harper, Y; Kelly, N; Palazzo, N.

MISSOURI

Democrats — Clay, Y; Cleaver, Y.

Republicans — Graves, N; Hartzler, Y; Long, N; Luetkemeyer, Y; Smith, N; Wagner, N.

MONTANA

Republicans — Zinke, N.

NEBRASKA

Democrats — Ashford, Y.

Republicans — Fortenberry, Y; Smith, N.

NEVADA

Democrats — Titus, Y.

Republicans — Amodei, N; Hardy, N; Heck, N.

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Democrats — Kuster, Y.

Republicans — Guinta, N.

NEW JERSEY

Democrats — Norcross, Y; Pallone, Y; Pascrell, Y; Payne, Y; Sires, Y; Watson Coleman, Y.

Republicans — Frelinghuysen, Y; Garrett, N; Lance, N; LoBiondo, Y; MacArthur, Y; Smith, N.

NEW MEXICO

Democrats — Lujan Grisham, Y; Lujan, Ben Ray, Y.

Republicans — Pearce, N.

NEW YORK

Democrats — Clarke, Y; Crowley, Y; Engel, Y; Higgins, Y; Israel, Y; Jeffries, Y; Lowey, Y; Maloney, Carolyn, Y; Maloney, Sean, Y; Meeks, X; Meng, Y; Nadler, Y; Rangel, Y; Rice, Y; Serrano, Y; Slaughter, Y; Tonko, Y; Velazquez, Y.

Republicans — Collins, Y; Donovan, Y; Gibson, Y; Hanna, Y; Katko, Y; King, Y; Reed, Y; Stefanik, Y; Zeldin, N.

NORTH CAROLINA

Democrats — Adams, Y; Butterfield, Y; Price, Y.

Republicans — Ellmers, N; Foxx, N; Holding, N; Hudson, X; Jones, N; McHenry, Y; Meadows, N; Pittenger, Y; Rouzer, N; Walker, N.

NORTH DAKOTA

Republicans — Cramer, Y.

OHIO

Democrats — Beatty, Y; Fudge, Y; Kaptur, Y; Ryan, Y.

Republicans — Boehner, Y; Chabot, N; Gibbs, N; Johnson, Y; Jordan, N; Joyce, Y; Latta, N; Renacci, N; Stivers, Y; Tiberi, Y; Turner, Y; Wenstrup, N.

OKLAHOMA

Republicans — Bridenstine, N; Cole, Y; Lucas, Y; Mullin, N; Russell, N.

OREGON

Democrats — Blumenauer, Y; Bonamici, Y; DeFazio, Y; Schrader, Y.

Republicans — Walden, Y.

PENNSYLVANIA

Democrats — Boyle, Brendan F., Y; Brady, Y; Cartwright, Y; Doyle, Michael F., Y; Fattah, Y.

Republicans — Barletta, N; Costello, Y; Dent, Y; Fitzpatrick, Y; Kelly, N; Marino, N; Meehan, Y; Murphy, N; Perry, N; Pitts, N; Rothfus, N; Shuster, Y; Thompson, Y.

RHODE ISLAND

Democrats — Cicilline, Y; Langevin, Y.

SOUTH CAROLINA

Democrats — Clyburn, Y.

Republicans — Duncan, N; Gowdy, N; Mulvaney, N; Rice, N; Sanford, N; Wilson, Y.

SOUTH DAKOTA

Republicans — Noem, N.

TENNESSEE

Democrats — Cohen, Y; Cooper, Y.

Republicans — Black, N; Blackburn, N; DesJarlais, N; Duncan, N; Fincher, N; Fleischmann, N; Roe, N.

TEXAS

Democrats — Castro, Y; Cuellar, Y; Doggett, Y; Green, Al, Y; Green, Gene, Y; Hinojosa, Y; Jackson Lee, Y; Johnson, E. B., Y; O'Rourke, Y; Veasey, Y; Vela, Y.

Republicans — Babin, N; Barton, N; Brady, Y; Burgess, N; Carter, Y; Conaway, Y; Culberson, Y; Farenthold, N; Flores, N; Gohmert, N; Granger, Y; Hensarling, N; Hurd, N; Johnson, Sam, N; Marchant, N; McCaul, N; Neugebauer, N; Olson, N; Poe, N; Ratcliffe, N; Sessions, N; Smith, N; Thornberry, Y; Weber, N; Williams, N.

UTAH

Republicans — Bishop, N; Chaffetz, N; Love, N; Stewart, N.

VERMONT

Democrats — Welch, Y.

VIRGINIA

Democrats — Beyer, Y; Connolly, Y; Scott, Y.

Republicans — Brat, N; Comstock, Y; Forbes, N; Goodlatte, N; Griffith, N; Hurt, N; Rigell, Y; Wittman, N.

WASHINGTON

Democrats — DelBene, Y; Heck, Y; Kilmer, Y; Larsen, Y; McDermott, Y; Smith, Y.

Republicans — Herrera Beutler, N; McMorris Rodgers, Y; Newhouse, N; Reichert, Y.

WEST VIRGINIA

Republicans — Jenkins, N; McKinley, N; Mooney, N.

WISCONSIN

Democrats — Kind, Y; Moore, Y; Pocan, Y.

Republicans — Duffy, N; Grothman, N; Ribble, N; Ryan, Y; Sensenbrenner, N.

WYOMING

Republicans — Lummis, N.

realitycheck6 says:

October 30, 2015 at 7:00 am

Sure is a lot of money being taken from the pockets of American taxpayers and redistributed to foreigners. Funny, I don’t remember voting in favor of that. $19 Trillion debt – time to cut all foreign aid. This ain’t the ’40s anymore. We don’t have the cash to embark on a worldwide Marshall Plan to build every nation (except our own) some of which are quite wealthy. If people want to support one nation or another, well, that’s what CHARITY is for. If anyone wants to give their paycheck away to foreigners be my guest. But don’t force me to donate to your pet project. I’d rather give the money to wounded American veterans and police officers or the families of dead American police/military.

$159,000,000 to Zimbabwe???? Does Bob Mugabe need that money to harass the few remaining White farmers who are trying to produce food and jobs for the populace? Wonder how much Mugabe would give us if we harassed black farmers in our country. I’m guessing somewhat less than $159,000,000. Ditto for South Africa. Once a breadbasket, now a basketcase. Highest rape and murder rates in the world. Most dangerous occupation in the world is being a White farmer in South Africa. If the racist gov’t didn’t condone/endorse/promote the murder and harassment of the people growing food and providing jobs they would still be a 1st world nation and wouldn’t need handouts. Don’t they have any shame, accepting $490,000,000 from us evil White devils in America and probably millions more from the evil honkies in Europe? Time to cut off this aid and stop rewarding bad (beyond bad – genocidal) behaviour.

Where USA economic aid goes :

SPRING FORWARD, FALL KABOOM

ANN COULTER LETTER

The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth, But They Shouldn’t Be President

Ann Coulter  | Wednesday Oct 28, 2015 4:14 PM

It took a billionaire living the glamorous New York City life to exhibit real Christian courage by going against every elite group in the nation, every media outlet, every well-heeled donor, to defend America from destruction by immigration.

Baptist leader Russell Moore, desperate for liberal approval, claims that Christian conservatives “must repudiate everything they believe” in order to support Donald Trump, who “incites division, with slurs against Hispanic immigrants and with protectionist jargon that preys on turning economic insecurity into ugly ‘us versus them’ identity politics.” (Please like me, New York Times!)

Moore is especially offended by Trump’s “boisterous confidence” and “waving arms” — as he put it in the Times, journal of respectable liberal opinion. (Do Baptist preachers ever wave their arms? Somebody Google that.)

How would Gen. Douglas MacArthur fare with today’s evangelical leaders? Ronald Reagan was a visibly devout Christian, but Richard Nixon wasn’t. Joe McCarthy wasn’t. MacArthur wasn’t.

Sometimes the country needs a man.

The idea that Christians are supposed to be milquetoasts is liberal propaganda. Ask the money-changers how meek Jesus was. (Not the Clintons; I mean the other money-changers.) God commanded the Israelites to go to certain cities and kill “every living thing.” As I recall, the Crusaders were a little rough around the edges.

When Trump attacks, he targets the rich and powerful. When the elites attack, they target the average American and everything he cares about.

When Trump boasts — about his wealth, his family, his intelligence — it’s funny, not mean-spirited. No one feels inferior. In fact, legions of political commentators who’ve never accomplished anything in their entire lives feel immensely superior to Trump.

No doubt, wisdom shall die with them. (Job 12:1 — one of many examples of sarcasm in the Bible, a rhetorical device bossy Christians tell us is un-Christian.)

By contrast, Trump’s personal style is denounced by the Piety Police with smug certitude, to showcase their superior moral understanding.
I’m almost sure the Bible says nothing about arm-waving, but it says quite a bit about the sort of pride that allows a person to presume to speak for God on acceptable speaking styles. God does not mandate personality types and, if He did, I doubt it would be “lisping sycophant.”

It’s not Trump who’s displaying the sin of pride here.

Christians obsessed with ostentatious shows of religiosity in public life have basically the same disease as liberals who go around being offended all the time. It’s all posturing. Trump’s a Christian. This is a Christian country. How about helping keep it that way?

Although Trump has been winning the largest percentage of evangelical voters, evangelical “insiders” like Moore hate him. A poll of “insiders” hand-picked by anti-Trump Warren Cole Smith found only 1.1 percent of evangelical leaders supporting Trump, with 37.4 percent supporting Marco Rubio — as their betters had hoped.

Smith sent the results of his survey to media outlets under the headline: “Evangelicals do NOT support Trump.”

The problem is, they do. Evidently, the flock is not as dumb or “easily led” — in the words of The Washington Post — as evangelical leaders think.

While the Russell Moores and Warren Cole Smiths urgently warn conservative Christians that Trump is a model-marrying libertine, actual evangelicals understand that this is entirely beside the point.

This is not an election about who can check off the most boxes on an evangelical lifestyle list. This is an election about saving the concept of America, the last hope for Christianity on the planet.

A country in which partial birth abortions are freely available, but children can’t hold hands and pray in school, is not a country where Christians are winning.

What difference does it make where a candidate stands on abortion or gay marriage, when a few more years of our current immigration flow will mean no Republican can ever be elected president again and nine Ruth Bader Ginsburgs will sit on the Supreme Court?

Unless Americans stop being outvoted by foreigners, Christians — as well as libertarians, neoconservatives, fiscal conservatives and moderate Democrats — have no hope of winning anything, anywhere, anytime. Thelast Christian country on Earth will be no more.

Evangelicals don’t need candidates to have religious ecstasies on stage. They need a man with the courage to stand up to the infectious madness pushing Third World immigration on our country.

Marco Rubio devoted his entire Senate career to pushing amnesty — but he made a point of letting the press know that he went to church on Wednesday this week, the day of the debate.

Meanwhile, Trump’s pitch to the religious right is: Yeah, I don’t go to church that much. (At least we know he’s not lying!) But he promises to build a wall, deport illegals and end anchor babies.

Evangelicals know Trump will not go on a witch hunt against some county clerk over gay marriage or sue a high school football coach for allowing his players to pray. It’s the left that has the maniacal bloodlust of totalitarians. Only Trump will oppose them — and with gusto!

What other candidate would toss out un-PC phrases like “illegal immigrant” and “anchor babies” without breaking into a sweat? No other candidate of either party agrees with Trump on immigration — and if they say they do, they’re lying.

Even after Trump rocketed to the lead with his immigration policies, the media still refuse to discuss the issue. The demand for ever-more poverty-stricken immigrants from primitive cultures has gone beyond cheap labor and has become a mass hysteria.

Half the evangelical “leadership” in America can’t comprehend anyone who is not consumed with worldly approval. Russell Moore is afraid to disagree with The New York Times from his religious community in Tennessee. Donald Trump actually is an elite, but he doesn’t care what his friends on Fifth Avenue think of him.

Some Christians want proof that a candidate has memorized Bible verses. I want a candidate who lives by this verse: “So do not be afraid of them.”

Rush Limbaugh: GOP-Backed Budget Deal Will Win Hillary the Election

Radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh said Wednesday that the two-year budget deal reached between Republicans and the White House guarantees that Hillary Clinton will be elected president next year because a key GOP weapon against the Democratic front-runner has been "neutered."

"The Republican Party cannot campaign by running around blaming the Democrats for destroying the budget, for overspending, for threatening the very fabric economically of the country," Limbaugh said on his afternoon show.

"They can't do it," he added. "This is the Republican budget deal that Barack Obama cannot wait to sign."

The two-year budget deal increases the Obama administration's borrowing authority by a trillion-and-a-half dollars, but it does not cut spending. The agreement is supported by Republican House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

"So, the idea that the Democrat Party and their nominee, most likely Hillary Clinton, pose a grave threat to this country's future because of their runaway spending, their expansion of the welfare state, the expansion of the entitlement state, the creation of more and more dependents, we can't say that anymore," Limbaugh said. "A Republican presidential candidate is not saying that anymore."

He called the situation "over the top" and added that it demonstrated "how far the Republican Party has abandoned its own principles in putting together this budget.

"When you can't go after the Democrat presidential nominee for who she is and what she will do and why you don't want that to happen because you've already made sure it will happen, what in the world are you gonna campaign against her on?" he asked.

"What's gonna be the primary campaign message when all of this is off the table?"

Are we really connected? or in control?

Ed from Michigan...

Greetings,

I'm sharing my experience with you and I believe this may benefit you if you have or planning to have children / Family.

We are blessed with three healthy Teen Boys: Joseph, John and Joshua
A while ago; every night we used to sit around the table and everyone reads a chapter of the bible, have a discussion on what we read; then everyone take the chance to pray, give thanks and lay his/her requests; then conclude with the LORD's prayer, hug each other and go to bed.

Since; our boys got their personal phone/device. I noticed the following changes:
- Kids are no longer interested in sitting together as a family to read the bible or have a family conversation.
- Kids are in their own rooms; hooked to their screens; they do not even feel hungry or ask for food.
- Kids stay after midnight on their screens and they lake a sleep. They are sleepy during the daytime and affected their school performance.
- They hardly converse together.
- Even when we are in the car going to Church or on a trip; all kids are attached to their devices playing or listening to music (as parents; we do not know what type of music).
- Even when we are in church during the liturgy; most of the kids are on their devices (and not really praying).
- No longer interested in physical exercise or outdoors activities. Or science projects (no time for learning new skills)
- We became isolated and disconnected from each other and even from our God.
- It's so sad when I look around and see parents driving and their kids in a different world (who knows where!)
- I'm not sure if our kids will remember us as parents when they grow up? Or what memories or values they will carry on to the next generation?

Many times; I took these devices away and even disconnected the internet; so they may control or correct such behaviors. But once I retuned them back; everything goes back to their normal.
This week; I took the three devices away and I believe I'm not planning to return them back. I noticed lots of changes in communications, interest in school homework...and positive behaviors.

I love technology but not on an account of a Healthy Family's or community, society...etc.

Thanks for your time reading this message and Please pray for us.
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Food stamp nation: 45 million for 51 months

SNAP program's beneficiaries exceed Canada's population

Published: 24 hours ago

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Douglas Ernst

New data released by the Department of Agriculture Oct. 9 shows the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, with enrollment exceeding 45 million for 51 straight months. The population of Canada: 34,834,841.
“Between 2007 and 2011, new eligibility rules by themselves added 3.4 million people to SNAP enrollment and naturally tended to increase SNAP spending. At the same time, SNAP began to pay more generous benefits to people who enrolled,” Casey Mulligan, an economics professor at the University of Chicago, told the Washington Free Beacon on Thursday.
The growing SNAP population is a far cry from the 2.8 million enrolled when the USDA began tracking such programs in 1969, the website reported.
The average SNAP-approved household received $256.62 in July 2015. USDA estimated a total cost to U.S. taxpayers of $5.8 billion for the month.

The new formulas would have increased SNAP spending more than 25 percent even without any new enrollment,” Mulligan added. “Combined, the spending impact of enrollment and benefit rules is remarkable.”
The Free Beacon reported SNAP’s enrollment first exceeding 45 million in May 2011. It reached a high of 47,790,000 in December 2012.
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Lar of Galen: I have a better solution: When people come for their food stamps, lead them to a sound-proof room, shoot them in the head, then chuck their bodies out the back door into a huge hole.  When the hole gets full, cover it up and dig another hole behind another building with a sound-proof room.  Best have them prepared ahead of time.  I’m sick and tired of people passing socialism off as “charity”.  There is no provision in the Constitution for the federal government to provide food, medical care, housing, cars, cell phones, etc. The feds have very few legitimate powers, yet they keep taking on more and more power and taking more and more of our freedoms while billing us for the whole mess.
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CHEAP OIL...

Doug Casey: I always look on the bright side, and the bright side of low oil prices is that most of the countries that produce oil are just horrible places. Low oil prices will help to bankrupt the governments of these places, and that will, hopefully, set the stage for things to get better.

Look at the countries that produce a lot of oil: Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Venezuela, Nigeria…they're all just horrible. It’s no accident. Easy wealth, owned by the state, is a formula for disaster.

Hopefully the oil price will bring on the collapse of the Saudi regime, one of the U.S.'s longtime puppets. It's amazing how the U.S. has gone around and destroyed all kinds of regimes – most of which, frankly, were abusive and corrupt and needed killing - but the Saudis are one of the worst of them. Hopefully low oil prices and their ridiculous spending habits will bring down that terminally corrupt theocracy. Among others…

Another good thing about cheap oil is it should show anybody that's got half a brain that Russia and Putin are non-entities. They've got a decent military, but all they can do is export oil. It's like a primitive, third-world country with a first-world military. Well, kind of a first-world military.

So low oil prices are a very good thing. I don't know how long they’ll stay low. But they're going lower for the time being. Production is stable to up, but consumption is headed down with a slowing economy.

And I'm all for oil going even lower. I hope it goes down to $10 a barrel.

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