These are the Dems who didn't vote to give Bush the power to call for Martial Law.

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Baldwin
Capps
Conyers
Filner
Frank (MA)
Holt
Inslee
Jackson (IL)
Kucinich
Lee
McDermott
McKinney
Michaud
Miller, George
Owens
Pallone
Payne
Schakowsky
Serrano
Stark
Velázquez
Woolsey

[Mojambo]

1. That list is depressingly short. n/t

[Eric J in MN]

2. 170 in the House voted against it.

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll508.xml

[magellan]

7. That's the MCA, this is another bill

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007. http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll510.xml

[Parisle]

3. Makes you wonder, doesn't it?

---- Bush has had his share of "enablers" among the democrats, rest assured..... a bad sign.

[cali]

20. self-delete

[magellan]

4. I'm sure the 173 who voted for it

...had our best interests in mind.

edited: confused

[MannyGoldstein]

5. Don't Worry!!! The Brave Congressional Dems Have Your Back!!!

They'll stop at nothing, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, to ensure that our basic civil rights are protected!!!

[Grebrook]

6. Can we stop rehashing this crap already? On the eve of victory, why are people bitching the most?

[MannyGoldstein]

8. I'm Looking Forward to Celebrating Our Glorious Victory

from my detention cell, where I'll be held (bereft of of habeas corpus, of course). I'm looking forward to smaller chunks in my gruel when the "Democrats" take over.

[Grebrook]

10. Yes, I'm sure George W. Bush is personally going to arrest you and torture you for voting Dem

Get real, would you?

[readmoreoften]

16. Yeah, when Bush declares Martial Law it will only effect the terrorists.

Yeah, why are we "bitching" about our elected officials voting for a totalitarian state. Oh, right, you're one of those *optimists* who think that the Dems who are cowards now are going to SWING INTO ACTION upon election. Sure. I feel protected.

[magellan]

9. Because some of us are just learning about this

[Parisle]

11. The "political industry" strikes again,.....

---- There are some democrats who will take their orders from the same corporatist elements who directed the republicans. They already took impeachment off the table. None of them are talking about repealing or junking any of Bush's untoward attacks on the constitution. NSA spying will continue,... habeas corpus gone,... Maybe they'll help out a little with the budget deficit.

[lovuian]

12. I'm so proud of them

but its a testimony at how sad the situation is in the US Government

[Danascot]

13. The House website reports 132 Dems voted Nay

32 Dems voted for, No vote for 7 Dems.

Tallies here:

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll508.xml

and here's the Senate. 32 Dem Senators voted against, 12 Dem Senators voted for:

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00259#position

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17. DIFFERENT LEGISLATION. /nt

[Danascot]

23. Sorry, the Constitution has been raped so frequently

lately I can't keep up. :shrug:

[readmoreoften]

26. when something as cataclysmic as this happens! oh wait...

it happens every day. that's how you take a country over. death by 1000 legal paper cuts

[Cha]

14. Like I said ..The Usual Democratic

Suspects. :patriot: :patriot: :loveya: O8)

[EFerrari]

15. We should remember these names -- they come up often enough.

These are the Democrats who are in Congress to represent us -- even when the pressure is on. These are the Democrats who take positions that can be made to seem unpopular in the corporate media.

These are the Democrats I think we can count on.

[951-Riverside]

18. So who voted for it?

[readmoreoften]

21. 398 people.

Abercrombie
Ackerman
Aderholt
Akin
Alexander
Allen
Andrews
Baca
Bachus
Baird
Baker
Barrett (SC)
Barrow
Bartlett (MD)
Barton (TX)
Bass
Bean
Beauprez
Becerra
Berkley
Berman
Berry
Biggert
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Bishop (UT)
Blackburn
Blumenauer
Blunt
Boehlert
Boehner
Bonilla
Bonner
Bono
Boozman
Boren
Boswell
Boucher
Boustany
Boyd
Bradley (NH)
Brady (PA)
Brady (TX)
Brown (OH)
Brown (SC)
Brown, Corrine
Brown-Waite, Ginny
Burton (IN)
Butterfield
Buyer
Calvert
Camp (MI)
Campbell (CA)
Cannon
Cantor
Capito
Capuano
Cardin
Cardoza
Carnahan
Carson
Carter
Chabot
Chandler
Chocola
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Coble
Cole (OK)
Conaway
Cooper
Costa
Costello
Cramer
Crenshaw
Crowley
Cubin
Cuellar
Culberson
Cummings
Davis (AL)
Davis (CA)
Davis (FL)
Davis (IL)
Davis (KY)
Davis (TN)
Davis, Jo Ann
Davis, Tom
Deal (GA)
DeFazio
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
Dent
Diaz-Balart, L.
Diaz-Balart, M.
Dicks
Dingell
Doggett
Doolittle
Doyle
Drake
Dreier
Duncan
Edwards
Ehlers
Emanuel
Emerson
Engel
English (PA)
Eshoo
Etheridge
Everett
Farr
Fattah
Feeney
Ferguson
Fitzpatrick (PA)
Flake
Forbes
Fortenberry
Fossella
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Gallegly
Garrett (NJ)
Gerlach
Gibbons
Gilchrest
Gillmor
Gingrey
Gohmert
Gonzalez
Goode
Goodlatte
Gordon
Granger
Graves
Green (WI)
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Gutknecht
Hall
Harman
Harris
Hart
Hastert
Hastings (FL)
Hastings (WA)
Hayes
Hayworth
Hefley
Hensarling
Herger
Herseth
Higgins
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hobson
Hoekstra
Holden
Honda
Hooley
Hostettler
Hoyer
Hulshof
Hunter
Hyde
Inglis (SC)
Israel
Issa
Istook
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson
Jenkins
Jindal
Johnson (CT)
Johnson (IL)
Johnson, E. B.
Johnson, Sam
Jones (OH)
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Keller
Kelly
Kennedy (MN)
Kennedy (RI)
Kildee
Kilpatrick (MI)
Kind
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kirk
Kline
Knollenberg
Kolbe
Kuhl (NY)
LaHood
Langevin
Lantos
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Latham
LaTourette
Leach
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (KY)
Linder
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Lofgren, Zoe
Lowey
Lucas
Lungren, Daniel E.
Lynch
Mack
Maloney
Manzullo
Marchant
Markey
Marshall
Matheson
Matsui
McCarthy
McCaul (TX)
McCollum (MN)
McCotter
McCrery
McGovern
McHenry
McHugh
McIntyre
McKeon
McMorris Rodgers
McNulty
Meek (FL)
Meeks (NY)
Melancon
Mica
Millender-McDonald
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Miller (NC)
Miller, Gary
Mollohan
Moore (KS)
Moore (WI)
Moran (KS)
Moran (VA)
Murphy
Murtha
Musgrave
Myrick
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal (MA)
Neugebauer
Northup
Norwood
Nunes
Nussle
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Ortiz
Osborne
Otter
Oxley
Pascrell
Pastor
Pearce
Pelosi
Pence
Peterson (MN)
Peterson (PA)
Petri
Pickering
Pitts
Platts
Poe
Pombo
Pomeroy
Porter
Price (GA)
Price (NC)
Pryce (OH)
Putnam
Radanovich
Rahall
Ramstad
Rangel
Regula
Rehberg
Reichert
Renzi
Reyes
Reynolds
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Ross
Rothman
Roybal-Allard
Royce
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Ryan (WI)
Ryun (KS)
Sabo
Salazar
Sánchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sanders
Saxton
Schiff
Schmidt
Schwartz (PA)
Schwarz (MI)
Scott (GA)
Scott (VA)
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shadegg
Shaw
Shays
Sherman
Sherwood
Shimkus
Shuster
Simmons
Simpson
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Smith (WA)
Snyder
Sodrel
Solis
Souder
Spratt
Stearns
Stupak
Sullivan
Sweeney
Tancredo
Tanner
Tauscher
Taylor (MS)
Taylor (NC)
Terry
Thomas
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Thornberry
Tiahrt
Tiberi
Tierney
Towns
Turner
Udall (CO)
Udall (NM)
Upton
Van Hollen
Visclosky
Walden (OR)
Walsh
Wamp
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watson
Watt
Waxman
Weiner
Weldon (FL)
Weldon (PA)
Weller
Westmoreland
Wexler
Whitfield
Wicker
Wilson (NM)
Wolf
Wu
Wynn
Young (AK)
Young (FL)

[mvd]

22. Schwartz (PA) has been a bit of a disappointment

I mean really, a bill could say in big, bold letters "the GW Bush Dictatorship Bill" and too many of these people would vote for it.

[Temporary1]

19. Even Lewis went for it?

McKinney is the only one who voted for liberty in my state.

You know what, these are the Democrats who have integrity -- who don't give a damn what Reid and Pelosi will slam them with for voting their consciences. These are the "good" politicians.

[ikojo]

24. Russ Carnahan, son of Jean Carnahan, voted to

support giving Bush the power to call martial law?

[meganmonkey]

25. Links:

The bill can be found by searching for H.R.5122 at this link:

http://thomas.loc.gov/

Text of the bill as a pdf here: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_cong_bills&docid=f:h5122enr.txt.pdf



Here's an article about some of the provisions in this bill:


Bush Moves Toward Martial Law
Frank Morales

October 26, 2006

In a stealth maneuver, President Bush has signed into law a provision which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), will actually encourage the President to declare federal martial law (1). It does so by revising the Insurrection Act, a set of laws that limits the President's ability to deploy troops within the United States. The Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C.331 -335) has historically, along with the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C.1385), helped to enforce strict prohibitions on military involvement in domestic law enforcement. With one cloaked swipe of his pen, Bush is seeking to undo those prohibitions.

Public Law 109-364, or the "John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007" (H.R.5122) (2), which was signed by the commander in chief on October 17th, 2006, in a private Oval Office ceremony, allows the President to declare a "public emergency" and station troops anywhere in America and take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or local authorities, in order to "suppress public disorder."

President Bush seized this unprecedented power on the very same day that he signed the equally odious Military Commissions Act of 2006. In a sense, the two laws complement one another. One allows for torture and detention abroad, while the other seeks to enforce acquiescence at home, preparing to order the military onto the streets of America. Remember, the term for putting an area under military law enforcement control is precise; the term is "martial law."

Section 1076 of the massive Authorization Act, which grants the Pentagon another $500-plus-billion for its ill-advised adventures, is entitled, "Use of the Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies." Section 333, "Major public emergencies; interference with State and Federal law" states that "the President may employ the armed forces, including the National Guard in Federal service, to restore public order and enforce the laws of the United States when, as a result of a natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition in any State or possession of the United States, the President determines that domestic violence has occurred to such an extent that the constituted authorities of the State or possession are incapable of ("refuse" or "fail" in) maintaining public order, "in order to suppress, in any State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy."

For the current President, "enforcement of the laws to restore public order" means to commandeer guardsmen from any state, over the objections of local governmental, military and local police entities; ship them off to another state; conscript them in a law enforcement mode; and set them loose against "disorderly" citizenry - protesters, possibly, or those who object to forced vaccinations and quarantines in the event of a bio-terror event.

The law also facilitates militarized police round-ups and detention of protesters, so called "illegal aliens," "potential terrorists" and other "undesirables" for detention in facilities already contracted for and under construction by Halliburton. That's right. Under the cover of a trumped-up "immigration emergency" and the frenzied militarization of the southern border, detention camps are being constructed right under our noses, camps designed for anyone who resists the foreign and domestic agenda of the Bush administration.

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