Withdrawing from the WTO?
Posted by Moonage on 10 Jun 2005 | Tagged as: National Politics
This vote caught my eye, topic was H. J. RES. 27, Withdrawing the approval of the United States from the Agreement establishing the World Trade Organization.
Now, given the mess we’re in with the UN, the EU, Kyoto, and a bunch of over things, I found it a tad bit odd that out of the blue, someone proposes to withdraw from the World Trade Organization. Looking a little closer, I was less surprised. The author was Bernie Sanders of Vermont. The only Independent in the House. It was co-sponsored by:
- PETER DEFAZIO, member of the Progressive Caucus
- DENNIS KUCINICH, member of the Progressive Caucus
- RAUL GRIJALVA, member of the Progressive Caucus
- WALTER JONES of North Carolina
- TOM TANCREDO
- BART STUPAK
- JOHN HOSTETTLER
- JOHN DUNCAN
- JAMES SENSENBRENNER
Fairly liberal bunch there. Now, let’s see how the Progressive Caucus
voted as a group ( caucus ):
| Dennis Kucinich, Co-Chair | AYE |
| Barbara Lee, Co-Chair | AYE |
| Lynn Woolsey, Vice-Chair | NAY |
| Peter DeFazio, Officer | AYE |
| Jesse Jackson, Jr, Officer | AYE |
| Major Owens, Officer | NAY |
| Bernie Sanders, Officer | AYE |
| Hilda Solis, Officer | NAY |
| Neil Abercrombie, Member | AYE |
| Tammy Baldwin, Member | AYE |
| Xavier Becerra, Member | NAY |
| Corrine Brown, Member | NAY |
| Sherrod Brown, Member | AYE |
| Michael Capuano, Member | NAY |
| Julia Carson, Member | NAY |
| William "Lacy" Clay, Member | NAY |
| John Conyers, Member | NAY |
| Danny Davis, Member | AYE |
| Rosa DeLauro, Member | NAY |
| Lane Evans, Member | AYE |
| Sam Farr, Member | NAY |
| Chaka Fattah, Member | NAY |
| Bob Filner, Member | NAY |
| Barney Frank, Member | AYE |
| Raul Grijalva, Member | AYE |
| Luis Gutierrez, Member | NAY |
| Maurice Hinchey, Member | AYE |
| Sheila Jackson-Lee, Member | NAY |
| Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Member | AYE |
| Marcy Kaptur, Member | AYE |
| Tom Lantos, Member | NAY |
| John Lewis, Member | NAY |
| Jim McDermott, Member | NAY |
| James P. McGovern, Member | NAY |
| George Miller, Member | NAY |
| Jerry Nadler, Member | NAY |
| John Olver, Member | NAY |
| Ed Pastor, Member | AYE |
| Donald Payne, Member | AYE |
| Nancy Pelosi, Member | NAY |
| Bobby Rush, Member | NAY |
| Jan Schakowsky, Member | AYE |
| Jose Serrano, Member | NAY |
| Pete Stark, Member | NAY |
| Bennie Thompson, Member | NAY |
| John Tierney, Member | AYE |
| Tom Udall, Member | NAY |
| Nydia Velazquez, Member | NAY |
| Maxine Waters, Member | AYE |
| Diane Watson, Member | NAY |
| Mel Watt, Member | NAY |
| Henry Waxman, Member | NAY |
Note to self, Bernie. If you represent one caucus ( Independent ), and
you are the only member, you’re going to have to rely on another caucus.
You’re not black, so it won’t be that one. It will be the Progressive
Caucus. If you can only muster less than half the support of that
like-minded caucus, you’re dead.
Once again, we’ve got a way-out-there liberal proposing something that makes no
sense, does nothing politically positive, and has no chance of getting passed.
It failed 338-86. The fact it was even voted on is embarrassing
to me.
3 Comments »
on 11 Jun 2005 at 8:31 pm 1.StormWarning
said …
How do you account for JAMES SENSENBRENNER?
He’s as conservative on most issues, especially related to homeland security and especially immigration, as you can get.
http://www.house.gov/sensenbrenner/bio.htm
on 11 Jun 2005 at 8:34 pm 2.StormWarning
said …
And by the way, neither is JOHN DUNCAN from Tn.
http://www.house.gov/duncan/biography.htm
How do you account for SENSENBRENNER and DUNCAN being on this list?
Interesting to me at least.
on 12 Jun 2005 at 11:04 am 3.Moonage
said …
I don’t doubt that some legislators actually have issues with the WTO. But, I follow legislation as best I can in my spare time. This thing just came out of left field with no notice, no publicity, and apparently no real discussion. To me it was a rush job just tossed out there for some reason or another.
And yes, it was interesting to me as well. It came and went very quickly ( in congressional terms ). It served no real purpose and I don’t see that it ever had any real intent of passing. So, what would be the point of proposing it in the first place? My gut feeling is it was just tossed out there because there are a hand full of legislators that do not like the WTO. People like that usually oppose it in concept and not based on real substantiated reasons. That is usually a very liberal political attitude. Enter my comparison to the Progressives. I originally thought it would have passed that caucus at least. But, it didn’t. No caucus that I can tell supported it.