Problems?

The Republicans had a little split in their vote this evening.

Washington Post:

Nine freshmen and three inaugural members of the House Tea Party Caucus cast votes against a proposed extension of three Patriot Act provisions Tuesday night, helping block the measure from passage under fast-track rules.

The House clearly backed the measure, voting 277 to 148 to extend the provisions. But that still fell short of the two-thirds majority required under the fast-track procedure.

The House is likely to bring the extensions back up before the end of the month under regular procedures, when a simple majority would suffice to send it to the Senate....

It looks like Boehner and Cantor are having difficulty reining in those Tea Party freshman.

> > > > The Shriver Brief has the annual scorecard available for viewing:

Each year the Shriver Center publishes its Poverty Scorecard, which grades the performance of every Member of Congress on the fifteen or so most important poverty-related votes of the year. Experts in approximately twenty different subject areas help us identify which votes to use. The Scorecard’s purpose is to hold our Senators and Representatives accountable – every single one of them – for their efforts to fight poverty, or their failure to do so.....

(NOTE:  This is based on the last Congress.)

You might be interested in how Ohio's elected officials performed on the Poverty Scorecard:

The Poverty Scorecard rates every Member of Congress on how they voted on anti-poverty legislation....

Ohio:

Governor:  John Kasich

Capital:  Columbus

Population:  11,511,858

Poverty rate:  13.6%

 

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= vote to fight poverty = vote against fighting poverty

• Sort by: District | Name | Grade
• Show: A+ and lower | Both chambers

Senate	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	%
Sherrod Brown															100	A+
George Voinovich															21	D

House	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	%
Steve Driehaus1st																	88	A
Jean Schmidt2nd																	6	F
Mike Turner3rd																	25	D
Jim Jordan4th																	0	F-
Bob Latta5th																	20	D
Charlie Wilson6th																	94	A
Steve Austria7th																	19	F
John Boehner8th																	21	D
Marcy Kaptur9th																	88	A
Dennis Kucinich10th																	100	A+
Marcia Fudge11th																	88	A
Pat Tiberi12th																	25	D
Betty Sutton13th																	100	A+
Steve LaTourette14th																	40	C
Mary Jo Kilroy15th																	94	A
John Boccieri16th																	94	A
Tim Ryan17th																	100	A+
Zack Space18th																	81	A

 

Those with the grade of "A" are the Democrats:  Brown, Driehaus, Wilson, Kaptur, Fudge, Sutton, Kilroy, Boccieri, Tim Ryan, Space.

Rep. Jim Jordan, a Republican, should be ashamed of his grade of "F-" on poverty issues.