Who Voted No

There were 70 members of the House who voted against a one-week plan to fund the government while the final details are worked out on a budget for the rest of this fiscal year. Who were they?

The House Seventy were a classic mix of liberals and conservatives, as the wings of the Democratic and Republican parties came together against this budget plan.

As a reporter, when you see a list like this, you know that there's been a popular compromise - in this case - to avoid a government shutdown.

One name you won't find on this list is that of Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX).

No, he didn't vote for the budget - he didn't vote at all, as he was one of the 14 absent members when the vote was taken just after midnight on Friday night.

One of the big names was Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), who came storming out of a meeting of House Republicans in the basement of the Capitol on Friday night so fast that I couldn't keep up with her.

"Ask someone else," was her tart response when asked her opinion of the $39 billion in cuts.

But even with that talk and her vote, Bachmann readily admitted on Friday that this was not the time to shut down the government, that this fight would not - in her words - change the 'arc of history.'

Other more conservative names on the list, Joe Barton of Texas, Paul Broun and Tom Graves of Georgia, Jason Chaffetz of Utah, Trey Gowdy of South Carolina.

But going through the list, you also see big time liberals like Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, Mike Capuano of Massachusetts, Joe Crowley of New York, Keith Ellison of Minnesota and Luis Gutierrez of Illinois.

More liberal 'No' votes came from Jesse Jackson of Illinois, Hank Johnson & John Lewis of Georgia, Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, Ed Markey of Massachusetts and Jim McDermott of Washington State.

Mixed in there were more hard core conservatives like Connie Mack of Florida (though his wife voted for the 1-week deal), Steve King of Iowa, Jim Jordan of Ohio and Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina.

To me, the most important element that was missing from the list of 28 Republicans who voted 'No' was the lack of Tea Party lawmakers.

Remember, the theme that Democrats are peddling is that the Tea Party nutjobs are not voting with Speaker Boehner.

But if you look through this list, you just don't see that. Yes, there are about ten Tea Party types, but there wasn't a huge backlash against Boehner here.

If you want to look at how your lawmakers voted, check the vote on the 1-week stop gap budget below.  You can also find it at http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll253.xml

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 253 (Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)
      H R 1363      YEA-AND-NAY      9-Apr-2011      12:40 AM
      QUESTION:  On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendment
      BILL TITLE: Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2011, and for other purposes