Breaking News: Farm Bill Defeated 234-195, AZ Dems Split
The Farm Bill– which included $20 Billion in cuts to food stamps– went down in flames in the US House of Representatives this morning. The vote was 234-195, with 62 Republicans voting “no”, and 24 Democrats voting for it, according to theHuffington Post.
The roll call vote reveals that Arizona Democratic Congressional Representatives Ron Barber and Kyrsten Sinema voted “yes” (with the Republicans), while Representatives Ann Kirkpatirck, Raul Grijalva, and Ed Pastor voted “no”.
(On the Arizona Republican side, Paul Gosar voted the party line, while Matt Salmon, Trent Franks, and David Schweikert voted “no”.)
Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) launched a nationwide push to defeat the Farm Bill because of the food stamp cuts. Demonstrations were held at influential Democrats’ offices on Monday, and on Wednesday, more than 200 letters were hand-delivered to Congressional representatives urging them to vote “no” on any Farm Bill that included cuts to food stamps.
FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 286
(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)
H R 1947 RECORDED VOTE 20-Jun-2013 1:54 PM
QUESTION: On Passage
BILL TITLE: Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act
| AYES | NOES | PRES | NV | |
| REPUBLICAN | 171 | 62 | 1 | |
| DEMOCRATIC | 24 | 172 | 5 | |
| INDEPENDENT | ||||
| TOTALS | 195 | 234 | 6 |
| Aderholt Alexander Amodei Bachus Barber Barletta Barr Barrow (GA) Barton Benishek Bentivolio Bera (CA) Bishop (UT) Black Blackburn Boehner Bonner Boustany Braley (IA) Brooks (AL) Brooks (IN) Brownley (CA) Buchanan Bucshon Burgess Bustos Calvert Camp Campbell Cantor Capito Carter Cassidy Chaffetz Coble Cole Collins (NY) Conaway Costa Cramer Crawford Crenshaw Cuellar Daines Davis, Rodney Denham Dent DesJarlais Diaz-Balart Duffy Ellmers Enyart Farenthold Farr Fincher Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Flores Forbes Fortenberry Foxx Frelinghuysen Garamendi Garcia Gardner |
Gerlach Gibbs Gibson Gosar Granger Graves (MO) Griffin (AR) Griffith (VA) Grimm Guthrie Hall Hanna Harper Harris Hartzler Hastings (WA) Herrera Beutler Holding Hudson Huizenga (MI) Hultgren Hunter Issa Jenkins Johnson (OH) Johnson, Sam Joyce Kelly (PA) King (IA) King (NY) Kingston Kinzinger (IL) Kline LaMalfa Lankford Latham Latta Loebsack Long Lucas Luetkemeyer Lummis Marchant Marino McCarthy (CA) McCaul McHenry McIntyre McKeon McKinley McMorris Rodgers McNerney Meadows Messer Mica Miller (MI) Mullin Murphy (FL) Murphy (PA) Neugebauer Noem Nugent Nunes Nunnelee Olson |
Owens Palazzo Paulsen Pearce Peters (MI) Peterson Petri Poe (TX) Rahall Reed Reichert Renacci Ribble Rice (SC) Roby Roe (TN) Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rogers (MI) Rokita Rooney Ros-Lehtinen Roskam Ross Runyan Schock Schrader Scott, Austin Sessions Shimkus Simpson Sinema Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smith (TX) Southerland Stewart Stivers Terry Thompson (PA) Thornberry Tiberi Tipton Turner Upton Valadao Vela Wagner Walberg Walden Walorski Walz Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Westmoreland Whitfield Williams Wilson (SC) Wittman Womack Woodall Yoder Yoho Young (AK) Young (IN) |
| Amash Andrews Bachmann Bass Beatty Becerra Bilirakis Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Blumenauer Bonamici Brady (PA) Brady (TX) Bridenstine Broun (GA) Brown (FL) Butterfield Capps Capuano Cárdenas Carney Carson (IN) Cartwright Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Chabot Chu Cicilline Clarke Clay Cleaver Clyburn Coffman Cohen Collins (GA) Connolly Conyers Cook Cooper Cotton Courtney Crowley Culberson Cummings Davis (CA) Davis, Danny DeFazio DeGette Delaney DeLauro DelBene DeSantis Deutch Dingell Doggett Doyle Duckworth Duncan (SC) Duncan (TN) Edwards Ellison Engel Eshoo Esty Fattah Fleming Foster Frankel (FL) Franks (AZ) Fudge Gabbard Gallego Garrett Gingrey (GA) Gohmert Goodlatte Gowdy Graves (GA) |
Grayson Green, Al Green, Gene Grijalva Gutiérrez Hahn Hanabusa Hastings (FL) Heck (NV) Heck (WA) Hensarling Higgins Himes Hinojosa Holt Horsford Hoyer Huelskamp Huffman Hurt Israel Jackson Lee Jeffries Johnson (GA) Johnson, E. B. Jones Jordan Kaptur Keating Kelly (IL) Kennedy Kildee Kilmer Kind Kirkpatrick Kuster Labrador Lamborn Lance Langevin Larson (CT) Lee (CA) Levin Lewis Lipinski LoBiondo Lofgren Lowenthal Lowey Lujan Grisham (NM) Luján, Ben Ray (NM) Lynch Maffei Maloney, Carolyn Maloney, Sean Massie Matheson Matsui McClintock McCollum McDermott McGovern Meehan Meeks Meng Michaud Miller (FL) Miller, George Moore Moran Mulvaney Nadler Napolitano Neal Negrete McLeod Nolan O’Rourke Pallone |
Pascrell Pastor (AZ) Payne Pelosi Perlmutter Perry Peters (CA) Pingree (ME) Pittenger Pitts Pocan Polis Pompeo Posey Price (GA) Price (NC) Quigley Radel Rangel Richmond Rigell Rohrabacher Rothfus Roybal-Allard Royce Ruiz Ruppersberger Rush Ryan (OH) Ryan (WI) Salmon Sánchez, Linda T. Sanchez, Loretta Sanford Sarbanes Scalise Schakowsky Schiff Schneider Schwartz Schweikert Scott (VA) Scott, David Sensenbrenner Serrano Sewell (AL) Shea-Porter Sherman Shuster Sires Smith (NJ) Smith (WA) Speier Stockman Stutzman Swalwell (CA) Takano Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Tierney Titus Tonko Tsongas Van Hollen Vargas Veasey Velázquez Visclosky Wasserman Schultz Waters Watt Waxman Welch Wenstrup Wilson (FL) Wolf Yarmuth Young (FL) |
| Honda Larsen (WA) |
Markey McCarthy (NY) |
Miller, Gary Slaughter |
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