No More Money for the RNC

That is what you get for insulting the base.

Congress.org presents: MEGAVOTE, December 16, 2013, for Georgia's 13th Congressional District:

Recent Congressional Votes

• Senate: Millett Nomination  confirmation
• House: Budget Agreement  passage
• House: Defense authorization  passage

Upcoming Congressional Bills

• Senate: Fiscal 2014 Budget Compromise

The House is in recess until January.

Recent Senate Votes:

Millett Nomination confirmationVote Confirmed (56-38, 6 Not Voting)
In the first vote on President Barack Obama's nominees to the federal judiciary since the chamber changed its filibuster rules, the Senate confirmed Patricia Ann Millett to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on December 10. Her confirmation required a simple majority under the new cloture rules adopted on November 21, which apply to all nominees except for those to the Supreme Court. Milletts nomination received two votes from the Republican caucus  Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska  while five Republicans did not cast a vote. Her confirmation was the first of 11 votes mustered by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. during the week of Dec. 9.
Sen. Saxby Chambliss voted NO
Sen. Johnny Isakson voted NO
I think it is pretty interesting that the Senate leader was willing to blow up decades of precedent for such an inconsequential nominee. Frankly I am also surprised that the President  didn't just go ahead and stick Millett in the spot while they were voting on the subject, all while claiming that the Senate was on recess. Senator Frank Leahy stalled nominations for years while the Bush family was in office.  
Well all I can say about this is, you better get you shit in order because if the pointers are right, the Senate will go Republican in the next election. Payback is going to be a bitch. 
  
Recent House Votes:
Budget Agreement  passage
Vote Passed (332-94)
Before leaving for the rest of the year, the House passed legislation based on talks between House and Senate conferees that establishes a budget for fiscal 2014 and increases discretionary spending caps for fiscal 2014 and 2015 that would be offset by increases in passenger air travel fees and federal employee pension contributions and a two-year extension of sequester cuts to Medicare. The agreement raises the spending cap for this year to $1.012 trillion from the sequester level of $967 billion established in 2011. The bill modifies oil and gas programs to reduce spending by $4.5 billion over a decade and federal student loan debt collection that would save $5 billion. The compromise passed the House comfortably with 169 Republicans and 163 Democrats in support. The Senate is expected to vote on it this week.
Rep. David Scott voted YES
Leading indicator says if my Representative voted for it, it probably sucks. Let's all pretend we're cutting cost. Never considered myself a TEA Party man, but if you look underneath all of it the principles are sound. Never mind all those liberal labels that are aim at disguising the goal of always increasing spending. The Republican National Committee will get NO more money from me; for the crap the Speaker spewed onto the group that put the Republican in control of the House of Representatives.  

Defense authorization  passage
Vote Passed (350-69, 13 Not Voting)
In one of its final acts of the year, the House passed the defense bill (HR 3304) by a vote of 350-69, authorizing $625.1 billion, which would account for more than half of the federal governments discretionary spending in fiscal 2014. Including mandatory spending, the defense bill authorizes $632.8 billion. To save time in the waning days of the session, the defense authorization agreement was simply loaded onto a small House bill the Senate already had passed. The authorization bills is roughly $3.1 billion less than the fiscal 2013 enacted level. Of that, it would authorize $526.8 billion for the Defense Departments base budget, $80.7 billion for overseas contingency operations  mainly the war in Afghanistan  and $17.6 billion for national security programs within the Energy Department. In addition, the measure would make several statutory changes aimed at reducing sexual assaults in the military. It also would continue the existing ban on transferring detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba to the United States.
Rep. David Scott voted YES
Fiscal votes that include policy alterations for the military. Is that the carrot or the stick? Insist on women being in the armed services, ok. Insist that women be held to different standard than soldiers, for the same pay, ok. 
I am sorry this stuff is happening, but when you put women into a testosterone driven profession, filled with, at least on the non-commissioned side, the marginally illiterate. People are going to be hurt. Besides the victims, who's screaming, the same folks that insisted on putting women in harms way.

Upcoming Votes:
Fiscal 2014 Budget Compromise - H.J.Res.59
The Senate will take up the House passed budget compromise on Tuesday.
More evidence that it sucks. Reid never calls a vote that doesn't screw some conservative over.

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