69 Republicans vote against aid for Puerto Rico, other disaster sites

[riversedge]

Source: the hill





By Cristina Marcos - 10/12/17 05:38 PM EDT




Legislation to provide $36.5 billion in aid for communities affected by recent wildfires and hurricanes, including Puerto Rico, secured widespread support in the House on Thursday save for 69 Republicans.

The votes in opposition included many members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, who believe government spending should not add to the deficit.

Freedom Caucus leaders like Chairman Mark Meadows (N.C.), Justin Amash (Mich.) and Jim Jordan (Ohio), voted against the aid package.
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It also provides $1.27 billion for disaster food assistance for Puerto Rico. The U.S. territory remains largely without power, with many residents still lacking access to food or clean water.

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Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/355225-69-republicans-vote-against-puerto-rico-aid

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17. Just like the two POS hypocrite Senators from my state, they will want aid when disaster strikes

their states. I am still ashamed of my senators for opposing Sandy relief. Worse than than that hypocrisy though would be if they voted against their own state receiving aid in a disaster. Some of those guys are evil enough to do it!

Stupid, selfish, greedy f--kers! If they were so worried about the deficit they would cut military spending and require a full audit of the Pentagon. They would also not want to cut taxes, but that is ALL THEY WANT!!!

[Maraya1969]

42. Please someone contact the DNC and tell them to use this again Gop

In next election. I'm on a phone and suck at typing our I'd do it

[Matthew28]

2. Evil

The republican party doesn't believe in civilization or humanity.

Evil to the core.

[Cryptoad]

4. GOP: "Real Americans" dont need any help from the gubermint

[brush]

27. But don't touch my govmint check.

[QED]

5. Because the bill didn't have offsets.

They don't require those for massive tax cuts for the wealthy or war authorizations, do they?

[SeattlePop]

23. 69 Scumbags

Sitting on a fence...

[kimbutgar]

6. So when a disaster happens in their districts will they also vote against aid?

I hate those rethug scum pos and wish negative karma on them.

[Hekate]

7. MONSTERS

[DinahMoeHum]

8. A curse on them, their children and their grand-children.

[stopwastingmymoney]

9. Those motherfuckers! How could they?

[bdamomma]

10. They do not have a shred

of decency, wait what goes around comes around.

Who were the 69 a$$holes?

[Left-over]

11. If it was for helping a multi-national corporation they would have all voted for it. a**holes

[yuiyoshida]

13. Republicans are just dispictable

We need to sweep these Assholes out of office!

[Vinca]

14. And they wonder why they're called deplorables.

[procon]

15. Remember that the Jones Act will effectively reduce by half whatever disaster

money Puerto Rico gets. $36 million, split between just Houston, Florida, California and Puerto Rico is just $9 million each, less the costs of the damn Jones Act, so Puerto Rico gets maybe $4.5 million. That's negligible, given the scope of the damage.

[Shrike47]

20. I think the act provides 36 billion, not million. 4 million dollars wouldn't repair squat.

[tazkcmo]

39. Waiver?

Didn't Puerto Rico get a waiver for the Jones Act?

[haele]

43. For ten days. Now it's back in effect.

Why get rid of a subsidy to U.S. (in name only) shipping companies, just to help some Podunk island in the middle of the Caribbean. They don't even have a real vote in congress, after all...
On edit for those who didn't get it.

Haele

[tazkcmo]

44. Thank you

I hate Republicans.

[LittleGirl]

16. OMG, fuckers n/t

[SeattlePop]

18. I Hope They Burn In Hell

They don't want to do anything about climate change, but when the poop hits the fan they don't want to help.

Scum.

[dlk]

19. When People Show You Who They Really Are...

[Still In Wisconsin]

21. Fuck these fucking fuckers.

They don't give a damn about the lives of these AMERICANS. That is clear.

[Captain Stern]

22. The only thing that surprises me about this...is that anyone is surprised.

This is nothing new at all. It's not shocking or outrageous. It's just business as usual.

They don't give a fuck about anyone in Puerto Rico. They don't give a fuck about anyone other than themselves, or people that can do something for them.

[mtngirl47]

24. Mark Meadows is an asshole

and I will use this against him as I knock on EVERY door in my precinct to get rid of him in 2018.

This does NOT represent the people of Western North Carolina who will give you the shirt off their back.

I need to vent....I hate Donald Trump and his whole dysfunctional family, Mike Pence is a fucking hypocrite,
and everybody that voted Republican can just fuck off.

[PunksMom]

32. Amen!

[steve2470]

25. evil bastards nt

[weissmam]

26. A challange

Name one good GOP idea in the last 30 years

[ProudLib72]

28. I hate them

I want to see them destroyed, utterly destroyed.

[L. Coyote]

33. Borowitz: You would think Trump would have more sympathy for Puerto Rico since ...

Andy Borowitz
51 mins ago

You would think Trump would have more sympathy for Puerto Rico since he, too, is underwater, a disaster area, and largely without power.

[vkkv]

34. So, where is this DIVISION thing coming from ?????????

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Funking all the time.

[turbinetree]

35. Lets put this in perspective of what this asshole mark Meadows is and what he is trying to do

Freedom Caucus chairman courts Dems on tax reform


"Rep. Mark Meadows, the conservative hard-liner and chairman of the far-right House Freedom Caucus, is playing an unlikely role in the push for tax reform: liaison to Democrats.

In a bid to help shape and build support for the tax package, the North Carolina Republican has been reaching across the aisle to a handful of moderate Democrats, he told The Hill in an interview. The outreach includes Rep. John Delaney (Md.), who has said he’s running for president in 2020, and Rep. John Garamendi, the former California insurance commissioner and lieutenant governor.

Meadows’s top ally, former Freedom Caucus chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), has taken part in many of those informal, bipartisan discussions."


http://thehill.com/homenews/house/355233-freedom-caucus-chairman-courts-dems-on-tax-reform


As for the democrats in this piece from these two states, I will be calling Delaney's office tomorrow, since I live in Maryland

U.S. Capitol Switchboard, [phone] ...

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36. In tabletop role-playing terms, they are Chaotic Evil.

[dhill926]

37. Fuck every last goddamn one of 'em...

[Nitram]

40. Where is Buffy the Vampire Killer when we need her?

We've got 69 demons and vampires in the House of Representatives disguised as Republican politicians.