House Healthcare Vote

The House just voted to pass the healthcare bill that the Senate passed in December, 219-212. When the House voted on its own healthcare bill in November, 39 Democrats voted “no.” On this bill, 34 Dems voted no. We’ll bring you the roll call as soon as we have it.

UPDATE: Roll call on Senate bill here.

Of the 39 original “no” votes, 29 voted “no” a second time (note that one of those original “nos,” Eric Massa, is no longer in Congress, and another, Parker Griffith, switched parties):






















































































































































































District Incumbent Obama %age Kerry %age
AL-02 Bobby Bright 36 33
AL-07 Artur Davis 72 64
AR-04 Mike Ross 39 48
GA-08 Jim Marshall 43 39
GA-12 John Barrow 54 49
ID-01 Walter Minnick 36 30
KY-06 Ben Chandler 43 41
LA-03 Charlie Melancon 37 41
MD-01 Frank Kratovil 40 36
MN-07 Collin Peterson 47 43
MO-04 Ike Skelton 38 35
MS-01 Travis Childers 38 37
MS-04 Gene Taylor 32 31
NC-07 Mike McIntyre 47 44
NC-08 Larry Kissell 53 45
NC-11 Heath Shuler 47 43
NJ-03 John Adler 52 49
NM-02 Harry Teague 49 41
NY-13 Mike McMahon 49 45
OK-02 Dan Boren 34 41
PA-04 Jason Altmire 44 45
PA-17 Tim Holden 48 42
SD-AL Stephanie Herseth Sandlin 45 38
TN-04 Lincoln Davis 34 41
TN-08 John Tanner 43 47
TX-17 Chet Edwards 32 30
UT-02 Jim Matheson 39 31
VA-02 Glenn Nye 51 42
VA-09 Rick Boucher 40 39

On the flipside, 8 Dems who voted “no” the first time switched to “yes” this time:
























































District Incumbent Obama %age Kerry %age
CO-04 Betsy Markey 49 41
FL-02 Allen Boyd 45 46
FL-24 Suzanne Kosmas 49 45
NY-20 Scott Murphy 51 46
OH-10 Dennis Kucinich 59 58
OH-16 John Boccieri 48 46
TN-06 Bart Gordon 37 40
WA-03 Brian Baird 52 48

And five Democrats who had voted “yes” the first time switched to “no” this time:






































District Incumbent Obama %age Kerry %age
AR-01 Marion Berry 38 47
IL-03 Dan Lipinski 64 59
MA-09 Stephen Lynch 60 63
NY-24 Mike Arcuri 51 47
OH-18 Zack Space 45 43

GOP Rep. Joe Cao (LA-02) also voted “yes” last time but switched to “no” this time.

UPDATE: The roll call for the Republican motion to recommit the reconciliation bill is available. Dems voting with the GOP:

Altmire, Barrow, Berry, Boren, Bright, Chandler, Childers, Costello, Davis(TN), Donnelly, Holden, Lipinski, Marshall, Matheson, McIntyre, Melancon, Peterson, Ross, Shuler, Skelton, Taylor

On the reconciliation bill itself, two Dems voted “yes” who had voted “no” on the Senate bill, Lynch and Lipinski. On the flipside, Jim Cooper (TN-05) had voted “yes” on the Senate bill but voted “no” on the reconciliation bill.

247 thoughts on “House Healthcare Vote”

  1. She was going to have an uphill climb anyway but I can’t help but think Stupak, as dickish as he was, voting for the bill in the end took enough of the anger off him to get him renominated easily enough.  

  2. will say that this will hurt us politically. I will just say this; I would volunteer for Baron Hill and Brad Ellsworth no matter how they voted. However since they voted for HCR I plan on working extra hard for them. As Barack Obama would say I’M FIRED UP AND READY TO GO!!!!!!!!!!!!

    On a non political note I have to say that Teddy would be proud. Way to go team blue!!!!!!!

  4. The Democratic Party: Moving America forward! Let’s hope Harry Reid and Dick Durbin can shepard the Reconciliation bill through the senate quickly.

  5. is one of those days where Im proud to be a Democrat. I actually played STevie WOnder’s Signed Sealed Delivered song when the vote reached 216 and I then did a little happy dance.  

  11. Okay, the House voted on the Senate bill and the reconciliation bill. Now the Senate bill passed and is currently on it’s way to the President desk to sign but how can HCR pass without passing reconciliation and dosen’t the Senate still have to take that up. I’m confused on that part.  

  12. Stephen Lynch wants to take on Senator Centerfold in 2012. If he’s the nominee, I would stay home and risk the chance of Senator Centerfold being reelected than put Lynch in the senate where he’ll be a senator in the mold of Joe Lieberman, backstabbing his party on whenever he feels like it.

  14. represent! 🙂

    wish I could say the same for Illinois though…I’m not in Lipinski’s district but he ruined the rep of the IL Dems. He, along with Lynch and Berry, are douchebags. Arcuri’s just a moron and Space…well, I get the impression that he is more politically savvy than Arcuri, so perhaps his flip was slightly less boneheaded.

  15. Take some time tonight to head over to your congressperson’s website and send her/him a thank you e-mail. They’re going to get hit with a lot of crap over the next few days, and a little positive reinforcement will go a long way for office morale.

    Health care reform isn’t over and won’t really be for years, but I’m so glad tonight is.

  17. The vote on the reconciliation also happened, here's that final vote.

    I'll say that I wasn't happy with Teague voting against the base bill, but it's good to see that he voted for the reconcilation one (especially given his vote on Cap-and-Trade)

  19. Cowards! Marion Berry too. What’s he afraid of? Thanks to all the vulnerable dems who voted for this especially Markey, Boyd, Kosmas, Murphy, and Boccieri.

  20. I saw Phil Gingrey and John Lewis talking about him but couldn’t quite gather what that was about.

  22. Not that it REALLY matters, but I’ve read conflicting reasons as to his “No.”  I can totally understand the abortion thing given his wishy-washy stance on the issue in general, but I also saw that he was taking Kucinich’s place in voting against it from the left.  Granted I saw this on Kos, where anything can get said.  Can anyone factcheck this?

  25. but when they started the vote for the reconciliation bill.. i could have swore i saw a GOP vote in the Yes column.. that quickly disappeared

    did anyone else see that?  I couldn’t help but wonder if it was an error.. or if it may have been Rep Cao voting yes… but maybe the leadership pushing him  back to no.

    I searched all the sites i know.. but saw no mention of it.

  26.   We talk about how Democrats representing districts McCain won should fall in line.  Why is it that Republicans representing Obama districts do not feel the same pressure?

    Paul Ryan, for example, is a right-wing extremist who is representing a district Obama won 51-47.

  27. I was getting really nervous last night when I heard reports that Loretta Sanchez was a no, and couldn’t be found.  Lucky for us, she was just attending to family matters, and came back just in time to vote yes.

    As an OC dem, she is the one bright spot in a sea of horrid loosers.  Hopefully Krom and Hedrick win their respective races in 2010, that would be sweet.

  28. Markey, Kosmas, and, possibly Boyd and Boccieri. On the other hand Lipinski and Lynch have reliable Democratic districts, so primary from the left is quite feasible here. Among other – somewhat surprised about solid “no” from Adler (Northern Democrat from at least swing district). Otherwise – no real surprises: Almost all “no” votes are from thoose, representing districts from “Republican-leaning” to “Solid Republican” and thus – fighting for political survival. Obvious exception – Arthur Davis, but his reasons are also obvious.

    P.S. It will be interesting to observe Arcuri’s fate – he has very solid (and not especially conservative) Republican opponent, who almost beat him in very good Democratic year 2008 (in addition, if i am correct, Arcuri had WFP line then)

  29. J Cao (D+25), a catholic integrist (im catholic too but not integrist) must lose in november. Democratic Party from Louisiana need to out J Cao of the House, and still must work hard for it.

    The results of this bill tell us the republican representatives are not alternative for no-one democrat in the house. Some democratic congressman maybe bad, but a republican congresman from his district always would be worse.

    That help me understand much of the No democratic votes, but not all. I can not understand:

    D Lipinski (D+11)

    S Lynch (D+11)

    J Barrow (D+1)

    and Im very critic with A Davis (D+18) because he left not the seat before voting the Health Care Reform. Other representative from AL-07 district would vote yes to this reform and without A Davis in the House, the No would lose one vote more.

    PS: Someone can think, would be better if N Abercrombie get in his seat still, but I think not the same. N Abercrombie’s movement leaving the House before the elections is smart since Hawaii democrats point because close the chance of L Lingle running for one open seat for the House, and makes L Lingle must wait out office until D Inouye or D Akaka leave the senate or run against an incumbent.

  30. Health care must properly be imposed. Health is very much important that’s why the government must put emphasis on how the people could take care their health in the most affordable way. The House will vote on the health care bill on Sunday, and there are additional Democrats crossing the road to vote for it. After initial opposition, Dennis Kucinich decided to vote yes and John Boccieri (D-OH) recently chose to vote yes as well. The CBO can’t choose if will trim the deficit, or send the government hunting for pay day loans if it passes, and truth be told, they have about as much accuracy as chance. Health care reform should indeed be an important issue, but I’m nevertheless not entirely sold that we need government in on the action.

    1. consistency even if they will disagree with the vote. Maybe they will respect you as they vote against you but I think it would have been better if he had voted against it in the first place if that is how he truly felt. Maybe he can argue that he is following the wishes of his district. Who knows. It was a tough vote caused by having to vote on this twice. Who knows if the Senate will follow through. I think it was bad planning to have to vote on this twice personally.  

    3. I am inclined to think that the R’s will take both CD24 and CD29 in New York in December. CD29 might go to them at the special election.  That will give NY two R disticts to merge in western NY, collapsing the most Republican portions into CD26

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