The pub Senate decided to force the poor to choose between heat and food

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Bid for More Home Heating Aid Fails in Senate

Associated Press
Thursday, October 27, 2005; Page A02

The Senate decided yesterday the money was not there for a substantial spending boost for the federal home heating program, deflecting arguments that soaring energy prices could force the poor to choose between heat and food this winter.

Senators voted 54 to 43 in favor of a proposal to boost the fiscal 2006 budget for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program from $2.2 billion to $5.1 billion. A 60-vote majority was needed to approve new spending not coupled with equivalent spending cuts.

Northern senators who pushed for increased spending for the program, led by Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine), argued that low-income families would be particularly hurt by the surge in fuel costs.

People could have to "choose between keeping the heat on, putting food on the table or buying much-needed prescription drugs," Collins said. "No family should need to make such terrible choices."

with minimal food. This was a bad vote. When will they be happy, when more of the poor are dead, or sick in the hospital or what? I really don't understand their reasoning a lot of the time. That's a rhetorical statement.

leave them in there and forget about it.

Coleman of Minnesota: Ay
Charles Grassley of Iowa: Nay (Chuck you have got to be the cruelest and cheapest SOB to walk the earth, I hope you are voted out for this!)

They want to make sure abortion is outlawed and gays are spit on.

Susan Collins should become a democrat.

"I cried for America" few day back in GD
Why is the MSM so late in news
I happen to be on Cspan and they have a live coverage of the debate

billions on a war of choice... but who don't give a damn about their country's poor.

We have become an empire, I think.

all big and bubbly.

Giving money to the poor and needy. Hardly something they're good at. Hats off to you Susan Collins.

Will the death toll this winter, and I have been hearing it is being predicted to be a little worse than normal, at least in Michigan, be as high as it is in Iraq? Will there be public outrage?

My prediction yes and no in that order.

being from Maine.

From the vote count, I would guess, it went down party lines for the most part. Just a guess mind you. And not all the Repubs are from down south. They're elected up here in the great white north too. So I'm giving credit where its due. And shaming those who didn't do anything to keep people from freezing to death in their own homes.

(Xcel Energy) has already been warning people that the bills will be at least 70% higher than last year. This is gonna kill me, I was paying 4-$500 a month last year for gas and electric in the winter.

I got a 3% "cost of living" raise this year. There is something vile and criminal going on here.

raise minimum wage either.

file it all under the plan to "Reduce the Excess Population." American citizens in the crosshairs ob dey gub'mint.

dirty bastards.

What I feel is CONSTERNATION that Americans have yet to realize that THEY TOO are in the crosshairs...

of what pisses me off. people don't understand that they are voting against their own best interests.

describes this *moran administration to the T.

dp

tell it like it is.

They added Collins as a sponsor (dropping Kerry) to get more votes. As Kerry/Reed it got only 50, as Reed/Collins it got 54 - they need 60 because of they are adding costs to the budget.

want to look insensitive to their voters. I think we're way beyond that one.

What a laugh. Both could could care less about the working American and the costs they face.

:mad: Are they still building that bridge to nowhere in Alaska?

They are SUCCEEDING in doing so. WHAT IS NOT TO GET???

the poor-No more welfare or other social programs

the elderly-No more worries about Medicare and Social Security

hit squads.

And crush the middle class so we'll be the new poor and be willing to work for slave wages and accept living conditions similar to those in Third World nations.

Indictments are great, but people are still freezing and going hungry out there...

so long as their houses are warm and there's food on their table. but what goes around comes around. if not in this lifetime, then in the next.

This vote should have been unanimous in favor. All who voted against will have (more) blood on their hands.

http://senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00270

YEAs ---54
Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Biden (D-DE)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Chafee (R-RI)
Clinton (D-NY)
Coleman (R-MN)
Collins (R-ME)
Conrad (D-ND)
Dayton (D-MN)
DeWine (R-OH)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Lugar (R-IN)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Obama (D-IL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Santorum (R-PA)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
Schumer (D-NY)
Smith (R-OR)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Sununu (R-NH)
Talent (R-MO)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Wyden (D-OR)

NAYs ---43
Alexander (R-TN)
Allard (R-CO)
Allen (R-VA)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burns (R-MT)
Burr (R-NC)
Carper (D-DE)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Craig (R-ID)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Dole (R-NC)
Domenici (R-NM)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Frist (R-TN)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagel (R-NE)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lott (R-MS)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Nelson (D-NE)
Roberts (R-KS)
Shelby (R-AL)
Stevens (R-AK)
Thomas (R-WY)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Warner (R-VA)

Not Voting - 3
Corzine (D-NJ)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Sessions (R-AL)

they give nothing back in profits.

400 billion for the military.
5 billion for poor people.

Gosh, what a real splurge in compassionate spending! Eat bombs serfs!