Who Voted to Raise the Debt Ceiling?

[DustinG]

Does anyone have a list of who voted to raise the debt ceiling in the House and the Senate? Whoever voted to raise it we need to vote out next election and whoever didn't we need to keep on their butts to keep doing the right thing.

 

[pudly]

So you are in favor of retaining those who voted against it because they wanted to include raising taxes (aka "revenue enhancements")? Be careful of oversimplifying your decisions.

 

[hooky]

Senate
Lugar voted yes
Coats voted no

House
Carson, Vislosky, Burton, Rokita, Stutzman voted no.
Donnely, Pence, Bucshon, Young voted yes.

To Pudly's point, you can't just go by the yes or no, but rather the reasons for the vote. I'll go out on a limb and say that Coats and Carson voted the same way for entirely different reasons.

 

[Designer99]

Ok, you can start with the majority of the GOP. From 2002-2008, they voted and raise the debt ceiling 7 times.

 

[Nightwalker65]

Personally,I think we need to clean house from top to bottom and put in new people who AREN'T career "politicians"......I know,I know,it's not very realistic,but a guy's gotta cling to some hope for the future of this country...there's gotta be somebody,somewhere who's still willing to do the work of "We the People" instead of whoever lines their pocket the most..........

 

[Pocketman]

Does anyone have a list of who voted to raise the debt ceiling in the House and the Senate? Whoever voted to raise it we need to vote out next election and whoever didn't we need to keep on their butts to keep doing the right thing.

This my friends, is a large part of what's dysfunctional in Washington. We muat be cautious to not use a wide black or white brush.

 

[SSGSAD]

Senate
Lugar voted yes
Coats voted no

House
Carson, Vislosky, Burton, Rokita, Stutzman voted no.
Donnely, Pence, Bucshon, Young voted yes.

To Pudly's point, you can't just go by the yes or no, but rather the reasons for the vote. I'll go out on a limb and say that Coats and Carson voted the same way for entirely different reasons.

From what I have heard, on the radio Carson voted NO, because there were NO TAX INCREASES ....

 

[ViperJock]

Ok, you can start with the majority of the GOP. From 2002-2008, they voted and raise the debt ceiling 7 times.

LOL. The last 4 Bush years were a liberal legislature. They blame bush for those 4 years but he was essentially a lame duck. The libs were to blame for almost ALL the economic failing during the Bush admin. There is plenty to blame bush for (patriot act etc) but lets at least TRY to keep it real shall we?

Having said that, except for a few of the financially responsible people we voted in in last year we should vote them all out. But lets be serious, voting out the GOP in favor of new Libs is NOT the best idea.