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Brian Baird Will Not Seek Re-election
Posted in Politics, tagged Baird, Congressional District 3, Washington on December 9, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Unemployment and the ARRA Renewal
Posted in Feminism, Humanism, Politics, women, Women's Rights, tagged American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, ARRA, COBRA, Unemployment on December 9, 2009| 2 Comments »
My daughter, who has been left without employment as part of a harassment situation is, as a consequence, currently also without employment insurance compensation. Her husband, who was laid off earlier has been receiving compensation, and as many others in this position, was due to receive an extension this month. Upon assurances from the Employment Office that his extension was in the works and he need do nothing himself toward the extension, he anticipated a check last week.
Of course, it didn’t come. It now appears that he does indeed have to file for the extension himself and endure a three-week gap in checks. They are in a perilous situation financially, in part because he needs medications, and therefore $1000 a month COBRA, and therefore the physical ability to work, or fall to disability.
I set out this synopsis above, not to ask for commiseration or bemoan their situation, however, but to pounce upon a point that my bureaucratic ears picked up.
Take a look at the chart on this link HERE. As reported, there was a slight decline in the November unemployment rate over October’s from 10.2% down to 10%.
Going back to ancient history, which is my frame of reference in things bureaucratic, I recall that during the Ford reelection Campaign and The Carter reelection campaign, the employment statistics magically got better. We in the job development market then understood this to be mostly a consequence of chopping off the length of time people could receive checks, thereby “disappearing” the problem.
Assuming her husband’s check snafu was in fact just a bureaucratic error, as opposed to what happened in the Ford and Carter Campaigns, there still is the possibility that what happened to him happened to others. In a large enough population, events like this can account for .2% differences. So I’m curious. Did this happen to any of you?
There is some evidence that this dispensation of the extension did make the difference.
That being the case, why was there so much media hype to proclaim the 10% an improvement? Maybe it’s got something to do with this. The “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act” is due for renewal this month. If Congress doesn’t renew it, a whole lot of unemployed people are going to be in a world of hurt. Yeah I know, the monster is full of things everyone wants to argue about. Consider that if it can be said employment is getting better, the incentive to renew is reduced. But think about it. How many of YOUR neighbors have gone back to work? The Act has tied the immediate future of the unemployed to it’s renewal.
See what the Iowa Independent says about it HERE.
The problem is that we are running out of time – only 22 shopping days left till Jan 1, and Congress has been pretty busy with Health Care.
NOW is the time to start bugging the House to put the thing in motion.
December 8th, 2009, Senate Health Battles to Date
Posted in 51 Percent, Children, ERA, Feminism, Feminist Majority, Great American Women, Health Care, I Own My Vote, just say no deal, LGBT, NOW, Politics, The New Agenda, women, tagged Boxer, Health Care Reform, US Senate on December 8, 2009| Leave a Comment »
The continuing saga of H.R. 3590.
Members of the Senate have now submitted 150 amendments to H.R. 3590, including approved S.AMDT.2786, which changed the name of the bill to the PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE FOR ALL AMERICANS, and substituted the health care text for that of the original bill involving homeownership. As you may recall that amendment was approved on November 21st when the motion for cloture was agreed to.
Since that time the following additional five amendments have been approved, one amended amendment has been approved and one has been tabled:
S.AMDT.2791 – Mikulski Amdt. 2791 As Amended (by AMDT.2808.); To clarify provisions relating to first dollar coverage for preventive services for women.
S.AMDT.2826 – Bennet Amdt. No. 2826; To protect and improve guaranteed Medicare benefits.
S.AMDT.2870 – Whitehouse Amdt. No. 2870; To promote fiscal responsibility by protecting the Social Security surplus and CLASS program savings in this Act.
S.AMDT. 2899 – Stabenow Amdt. No. 2899; To ensure that there is no reduction or elimination of any benefits guaranteed by law to participants in Medicare Advantage plans.
S.AMDT.2926 – Kerry Amdt No. 2926; To protect home health benefits.
S.AMDT.2939 – Pryor Amdt. No. 2939; To require the Secretary to provide information regarding enrollee satisfaction with qualified health plans offered through an Exchange through the Internet portal.
And one motion to successful tabling of an amendment S.AMDT.2963 – Motion to Table Nelson Amdt. No. 2962; to prohibit the use of Federal funds for abortions.
On the other side, the following five amendments have been rejected and 4 motions have been rejected:
S.AMDT.2836 – Murkowski Amdt. No. 2836; To ensure patients receive doctor recommendations for preventive health services, including mammograms and cervical cancer screening, without interference from government or insurance company bureaucrats.
S.AMDT.2901 – Thune Amdt. No. 2901; To eliminate new entitlement programs and limit the government control over the health care of American families.
S.AMDT.2905 – Lincoln Amdt. No. 2905; To modify the limit on excessive remuneration paid by certain health insurance providers to set the limit at the same levels as the salary of the President of the United States.
S.AMDT.2927 – Ensign Amdt. No. 2927; Relative to limitation on amount of attorneys contingency fees.
S.AMDT.2942 – Gregg Amdt. No. 2942; To prevent Medicare from being raided for new entitlements and to use Medicare savings to save Medicare.
McCain Motion to Commit H.R. 3590 to the Committee on Finance; Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act of 2009.
Hatch Motion to Commit H.R. 3590 to the Committee on Finance; Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act of 2009
Johanns Motion to Commit to the Committee on Finance; Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act of 2009
McCain Motion to Commit H.R. 3590 to the Committee on Finance; Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act of 2009.
As you can see, with only twelve amendments dispensed out of one hundred and fifty, the battle and debate for our national health care is not done. It seems a little unrealistic for Reid to say they will be done by the Holiday Break- but hey, he’s the expert.
Senator Boxer’s successful push to get the “Nelson Abortion” abortion tabled , was tremendous. It might take some of the pressure off. HERE is the vote:
Grouped By Vote Position
YEAs —54
| Akaka (D-HI)Baucus (D-MT)
Begich (D-AK) Bennet (D-CO) Bingaman (D-NM) Boxer (D-CA) Brown (D-OH) Burris (D-IL) Cantwell (D-WA) Cardin (D-MD) Carper (D-DE) Collins (R-ME) Dodd (D-CT) Durbin (D-IL) Feingold (D-WI) Feinstein (D-CA) Franken (D-MN) Gillibrand (D-NY) |
Hagan (D-NC)Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI) Johnson (D-SD) Kerry (D-MA) Kirk (D-MA) Klobuchar (D-MN) Kohl (D-WI) Landrieu (D-LA) Lautenberg (D-NJ) Leahy (D-VT) Levin (D-MI) Lieberman (ID-CT) Lincoln (D-AR) McCaskill (D-MO) Menendez (D-NJ) Merkley (D-OR) Mikulski (D-MD) |
Murray (D-WA)Nelson (D-FL)
Reed (D-RI) Reid (D-NV) Rockefeller (D-WV) Sanders (I-VT) Schumer (D-NY) Shaheen (D-NH) Snowe (R-ME) Specter (D-PA) Stabenow (D-MI) Tester (D-MT) Udall (D-CO) Udall (D-NM) Warner (D-VA) Webb (D-VA) Whitehouse (D-RI) Wyden (D-OR) |
| NAYs —45 | ||
| Alexander (R-TN)Barrasso (R-WY)
Bayh (D-IN) Bennett (R-UT) Bond (R-MO) Brownback (R-KS) Bunning (R-KY) Burr (R-NC) Casey (D-PA) Chambliss (R-GA) Coburn (R-OK) Cochran (R-MS) Conrad (D-ND) Corker (R-TN) Cornyn (R-TX) |
Crapo (R-ID)DeMint (R-SC)
Dorgan (D-ND) Ensign (R-NV) Enzi (R-WY) Graham (R-SC) Grassley (R-IA) Gregg (R-NH) Hatch (R-UT) Hutchison (R-TX) Inhofe (R-OK) Isakson (R-GA) Johanns (R-NE) Kaufman (D-DE) Kyl (R-AZ) |
LeMieux (R-FL)Lugar (R-IN)
McCain (R-AZ) McConnell (R-KY) Murkowski (R-AK) Nelson (D-NE) Pryor (D-AR) Risch (R-ID) Roberts (R-KS) Sessions (R-AL) Shelby (R-AL) Thune (R-SD) Vitter (R-LA) Voinovich (R-OH) Wicker (R-MS) |
| Not Voting – 1 | ||
| Byrd (D-WV) | ||
If you want to know more go HERE.
Our Boxer wins the Round-Nelson Tabled
Posted in 51 Percent, Children, ERA, Feminism, Feminist Majority, I Own My Vote, just say no deal, LGBT, NOW, Politics, The New Agenda, women, tagged Abortion Rights, Health Care Reform, Nelson Amendment, Senate, Women's Rights, Women's Health on December 8, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Link over to the Confluence HERE. They caught it as Senator Boxer was able to effectuate tabling the Nelson Amendment on abortion. I’ll have more later.
The Monarchs Die
Posted in 51 Percent, Children, ERA, Feminism, Great American Women, NOW, Politics, Sports, women, tagged Monarchs, WNBA, Women's basketball on December 8, 2009| 2 Comments »
SacBee is reporting that the Monarchs did not find a team buyer. The players will be dispersed to other teams. I liked one commenter’s point attached to this article, that the winning team (The women’s) was being killed and the losing Kings team (The men’s) was not.
Draft will disperse Monarchs players after bid for Bay Area move fails
By Debbie Arrington
darrington@sacbee.com
Published: Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009 – 11:11 am
[Instead of moving as a team, Monarchs players will be dispersed Monday in New York, the WNBA announced.
Today, the WNBA scheduled a dispersal draft of Sacramento’s franchise, one of the original eight WNBA teams and the 2005 champions….]
Pearl Harbor Day
Posted in Feminism, Politics, War, women, tagged Black Swan, Pearl Harbor Day, Taleb, War on December 8, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Wow, another December 7th has passed. Life’s kaleidoscope twists and presses the view upon us with new colors and old thoughts. I read the Wikipedia description, HERE. I’m not even close to being a military strategist, historian, or personal observer, but think Wiki has a pretty good handle on the description of events. Their discussion on how this successful Japanese tactical event eventually cost them the war is interesting.
Wiki also has an interesting list and critique of books and movies on the subject.
As I said, I wasn’t around, but I was born in the SF Bay Area, a hub of military activity before, during, and after the war, and my father worked in the shipyards, with US Steel, during the war. As a result, the war I missed was still an integral part of my upbringing.The idea that we on the West Coast were only an ocean away, that submarines were off our shores, Ft Stevens was shelled, and that there was even a small but deadly balloon attack, left all of us with the deep understanding that an ocean and the people on the other side of it weren’t so far away and imaginary. Perhaps in an odd way, because we were so aware, it fostered eventually the growth of the Pacific Rim concept, trading partners, commonalities.
The article in the CS Monitor yesterday made me think of another commonality-a relationship with 9-11. The Monitor says:
“A better explanation for the enormity of the US defeat might be that the attack was a so-called black swan event: something so far outside the realm of expectations that Americans could not conceive of it occurring.”
Sure enough, Wiki had already linked the two together. Nassim Nicholas Taleb described the theory in his 2007 book entitled: “The Black Swan”. There will always be Black Swan Events. No matter how hard we try to prepare, some things will just be outside our frame of reference.
It is difficult to imagine the desperation and freneticism of the few souls who found themselves on the advancing edge event of World War II or 9-11, and tried to warn their compatriots. It is difficult to plum the later misery for those who saw those Black Swan Events coming but didn’t understand them.
High impact Black Swan Events happen more then we realize. I personally have had one event in my life, which might fall into this category, where I found myself on the leading edge. I know I suffered.
Always, some of us will find ourselves in the leading edge of these events. Maybe it helps to understand that we are part of a continuum. I wanted, after my event, to analyze and avoid future incidences. Others in involved in my event did not. It a human condition. Besides, Counterfactual History does not necessarily prepare us for the next Black Swan Event.
In keeping with the Black Swan Model, my life certainly went in a new direction. Likewise, for those who were involved in Pearl Harbor Day, the whole world changed. Yet, their experiences did not prepare us for 9-11. Can we say that 9-11 has prepared us for the next event? Ultimately, though we try, we just can’t prepare for everything. Except, perhaps, the commonality of suffering.
Ouch!
Posted in Politics on December 7, 2009| Leave a Comment »
In the process of getting the roof battened down for this week’s rain, I smashed a finger. So, while I have been trying, it’s pretty hard to type. Since this is the finger I am most likely to need as an expression of disgust toward current events, I think I need to give it a rest. I’ll see how it goes tomorrow, cause there sure is a lot to say.
Pearl Harbor Day
Health Care
16 days
Transparency
Margot Kidder- love her!
and on
How to Search for and Find Stuff on H. R. 3590.
Posted in 51 Percent, Children, ERA, Feminism, Health Care, Politics, tagged AARP, Congressional Record, Durbin, H.R. 3590, Health Care Reform, McCain, Patient Protection and Affordable health Care Act, Senate on December 4, 2009| 2 Comments »
If you want to make your own evaluation of the health bill’s progress, go to Thomas at the Library of Congress. In fact, aside from information from pundits you trust, this is one of the best ways to avoid heart palpitations. That is because the amendments are numbered and entered before they are debated. That gives you a little time to read them for yourself and ponder a few questions. Here is how:
As we said, on November 21st the Senate agreed to debate H.R. 3590 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act”. That debate began on December 2nd. Since HR. 3590 was amended by S.Amdt.2786, and changed to the health care act, as of this morning, another 91 amendments have been proposed. Several have been voted on and approved.
They are numbered and listed in numerical order as they arrive to the Senate Floor. Most of them do not yet have titles, but are to be given them at the time of their debate. They all have text and can be found and read by doing a search at the Library of Congress. If you want to try, it’s really pretty easy after you get the hang of it, and it is public information to which everyone is entitled. Go HERE.
This is the search page for all bills. Type in where it says “word/phrase”, the title: “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act”, and hit the orange search button below.
Right now this search will give you a list of around 60 possible bills, with one at the top listed exactly as entered. That is H.R.3590.AS. Clicking on that link will take you to the index of the bill, from which you can do several interesting things. Click the link that says: “Bill Summary & Status file”. This will give you an overview of all the places the bill’s activity is being recorded.
Click “Amendments”. This will give you a list of 92, or possibly more, later in the day, with the first one, S.AMDT.2786 that changed the bill from a homeowners affordablity bill, to a health care bill at the top. It you want to read more about these later, or get the text just click on one of the amendment numbers.
However, let’s do a back click to the previous page. All the current information about the bill that the Library of Congress has can be gathered from this location. The current text can be downloaded from here; also cosponsors, dates, and related bills.
If you want to know what happened yesterday, The Congressional Record (CR) does what it’s title suggests; It records for posterity all the debate and action that occurred. So click the link that says “Congressional Record with Amendments”. This will take you to an index of all activity that H.R.3590 has received since it was first introduced to the Senate.
As an example, scroll down to 12/2/09 and AMDT.2808. It says it was proposed by Durbin for Vitter. The number below; CRS12152 is the link to the overview of the index of the actual debate and speech as recorded in text. Don’t be fooled by the title, “SERVICE MEMBERS HOME OWNERSHIP TAX ACT OF 2009”, remember, that was the bill’s title before it was gutted and the health bill inserted. The CR must maintain the chain of information. Click on the top link dated “Senate – December 02, 2009”. There is the index. The debate for S.AMDT.2808 is index listed by page. Clicking a page will give you a word for word text of the debate till the next page.
Back clicking to the Congressional Record index and checking all the references for S.AMDT.2808, you will see that this amendment was voted on and passed. So, it is now a part of bill H.R. 3590.
Similarly, if you want to see what was said by Senator McCain, yesterday, in regards to Social Security, check out December 3rd. On November 30th he had recommended that the Bill be sent to the Finance Committee. That motion was voted down yesterday.
Try it out, and make up your own mind about what is happening.
Dec, 3rd 2009: Day 9 International Campaign Toward the Elimination of Violence Against Women
Posted in 51 Percent, Children, ERA, Feminism, Politics, women, tagged Afghan Women Empowerment Act, Afghani Women, Afghanistan, Boxer, Congress, Greenwald, H.R.2214, HRC, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Maloney, S.229, Secretary of State, USA on December 3, 2009| 1 Comment »
What the USA is NOT doing to eliminate Violence against Women in Afghanistan.
Not to be blasé about it, but there was never any doubt we were going to be in Afghanistan and Pakistan and maybe even Somalia for quite a while. All three of the remaining presidential contenders supported last year the possibility of increased action.
In front of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday, SOS Hillary Rodham Clinton (HRC) laid the groundwork for the civilian, NGO and diplomatic core that will follow the military to Afghanistan and Pakistan this year. I saw grousing on the Internet about lack of Alliance support. In fact, the SOS was, after her meeting, to fly to Belgium to attempt just that. I saw grumbling about why we were in the war, and whether Obama had let the Obats down. I read about people like Moore and Hayden tearing off the blinders and refusing to drink the Kool-aid. I continue to be stunned that some of us were so much smarter then they. Then, I heard one soul, over at KDIC, decry this statement, where remarkably, SOS HRC said:
“We are on track to triple the number of civilian positions in Afghanistan to 974 by early next year”.
This is a pitiful number. Truly, the speaker at KDIC is right to be upset that an additional 600 or fewer civilians will be called upon to help the Afghani effort next year. However, the remarkable part of the sentence is that the figure will TRIPLE what is already there.
Our nation has additional responsibilities beyond that of guns and planes. So far in eight years, we have done very little economically and diplomatically to facilitate the emergence of a vital and stable Afghanistan. Beyond that, in light of the 16 days International Campaign Toward the Elimination of Violence against Women, we have failed on another front-Congress.
Let’s not forget the “Afghan Women Empowerment Act of 2007” introduced by Representative Maloney and it’s twin by Senator Boxer, sent to rigor mortis at the respective foreign committees. Oh sure, the Feminist Majority and others have pushed. However, most of the members of Congress haven’t done their part to provide the tiniest measure of help to women in Afghanistan. The bill was reintroduced in April of this year to the house as HR 2214 – Afghan Women Empowerment Act of 2009, and in January as S.229 under the same name. Again it was referred to the relative foreign relations committees. Again it sits.
I linked the house and senate text versions to their numbers above. However, to give you an idea of the bill, the CRS Index terms, which are used to identify key themes in a bill, is the following:
International affairs
Afghanistan
Asia
Foreign aid and international relief
Human rights
International organizations and cooperation
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Women’s rights
Here is a list of the Senate cosponsors:
Sen Begich, Mark [AK] – 6/1/2009
Sen Burris, Roland [IL] – 9/14/2009
Sen Cantwell, Maria [WA] – 10/26/2009
Sen Cardin, Benjamin L. [MD] – 8/6/2009
Sen Collins, Susan M. [ME] – 7/15/2009
Sen Dodd, Christopher J. [CT] – 7/28/2009
Sen Franken, Al [MN] – 11/4/2009
Sen Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [NY] – 4/29/2009
Sen Johnson, Tim [SD] – 7/13/2009
Sen Kaufman, Edward E. [DE] – 6/23/2009
Sen Landrieu, Mary L. [LA] – 5/4/2009
Sen Lautenberg, Frank R. [NJ] – 7/31/2009
Sen Mikulski, Barbara A. [MD] – 4/27/2009
Sen Shaheen, Jeanne [NH] – 10/14/2009
Sen Snowe, Olympia J. [ME] – 7/28/2009
Sen Stabenow, Debbie [MI] – 12/1/2009
Sen Whitehouse, Sheldon [RI] – 7/28/2009
Here is a list of the House cosponsors:
Rep Abercrombie, Neil [HI-1] – 9/15/2009
Rep Baldwin, Tammy [WI-2] – 4/30/2009
Rep Brown, Corrine [FL-3] – 7/24/2009
Rep Cohen, Steve [TN-9] – 9/16/2009
Rep Doggett, Lloyd [TX-25] – 9/15/2009
Rep Ellison, Keith [MN-5] – 9/8/2009
Rep Farr, Sam [CA-17] – 9/8/2009
Rep Filner, Bob [CA-51] – 9/8/2009
Rep Hodes, Paul W. [NH-2] – 9/8/2009
Rep Honda, Michael M. [CA-15] – 7/29/2009
Rep Johnson, Eddie Bernice [TX-30] – 7/28/2009
Rep Michaud, Michael H. [ME-2] – 10/14/2009
Rep Rothman, Steven R. [NJ-9] – 10/20/2009
Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. [IL-9] – 7/28/2009
Rep Schiff, Adam B. [CA-29] – 9/8/2009
Rep Shea-Porter, Carol [NH-1] – 6/3/2009
Rep Stark, Fortney Pete [CA-13] – 7/28/2009
Rep Tsongas, Niki [MA-5] – 10/22/2009
Rep Waxman, Henry A. [CA-30] – 9/22/2009
Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. [CA-6] – 5/12/2009
Rep Wu, David [OR-1] – 9/8/2009
The allocation of money provided in this bill is a tiny sum compared to the vast amounts we have allocated for the war. The House bill asks for 150 million for each year between 2010 and 2112. The Senate bill asks for a paltry 45 million for the same period. (I know the word paltry is hard to swallow for some of us, but try to keep in mind what we have spent elsewhere this year.)
One cannot have a war without allocating funds to it. Concomitantly, one cannot have a war without provision for the effects upon civilians. Above and beyond that however, is the general question of what we as a country are willing to toward the progress of women as equal partners in the world. Whether or not we leave Afghanistan today, the OTHER war is waging. So, when a bill like this, designed to facilitate civilian impact of the guns and planes, can’t get out of committee, you have to look to other reasons why. Some of the following people are also on the above lists. Many of the following people have inserted viewpoints regarding the Afghan War on their Congressional web pages. Contact them and find out why the bill isn’t part of their statement. Or hey, contact them anyway and tell them YOUR viewpoint. Or not. Maybe, like Greenwald, you have some inane idea that helping women is the equivalent of nation building. It isn’t. It’s nation changing. And we all have to do it.
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
John Kerry, Chair
Richard G Lugar, Ranking Member
House Committee on Foreign Affairs
Howard L. Berman, CHAIRMAN, D-CA, 28th District
Gary L. Ackerman, VICE CHAIR, D-NY, 5th District
Eni F.H. Faleomavaega, D-American Samoa
Donald M. Payne, D-NJ, 10th District
Brad Sherman, D-CA, 27th District
Eliot L. Engel, D-NY, 17th District
Bill Delahunt, D-MA, 10th District
Gregory W. Meeks, D-NY, 6th District
Diane E. Watson, D-CA, 33rd District
Russ Carnahan, D-MO, 3rd District
Albio Sires, D-NJ, 13th District
Gerald E. Connolly, D-VA, 11th District
Michael E. McMahon, D-NY, 13th District
John S. Tanner, D-TN, 8th District
Gene Green, D-TX, 29th District
Lynn Woolsey, D-CA, 6th District
Sheila Jackson Lee, D-TX, 18th District
Barbara Lee, D-CA, 9th District
Shelley Berkley, D-NV, 1st District
Joseph Crowley, D-NY, 7th District
Mike Ross, D-AR, 4th District
Brad Miller, D-NC, 13th District
David Scott, D-GA, 13th District
Jim Costa, D-CA, 20th District
Keith Ellison, D-MN, 5th District
Gabrielle Giffords, D-AZ, 8th District
Ron Klein, D-FL, 22nd District
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, RANKING MEMBER, R-FL, 18th District
Christopher H. Smith, R-NJ, 4th District
Dan Burton, R-IN, 5th District
Elton Gallegly, R-CA, 24th District
Dana Rohrabacher, R-CA, 46th District
Donald A. Manzullo, R-IL, 16th District
Edward R. Royce, R-CA, 40th District
Ron Paul, R-TX, 14th District
Jeff Flake, R-AZ, 6th District
Mike Pence, R-IN, 6th District
Joe Wilson, R-SC, 2nd District
John Boozman, R-AR, 3rd District
J. Gresham Barrett, R-SC, 3rd District
Connie Mack, R-FL, 14th District
Jeff Fortenberry, R-NE, 1st District
Michael T. McCaul, R-TX, 10th District
Ted Poe, R-TX, 2nd District
Bob Inglis, R-SC, 4th District
Gus Bilirakis, R-FL, 9th District
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