{"id":142458,"date":"2014-12-05T03:49:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T03:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=142458"},"modified":"2014-12-05T05:27:50","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T05:27:50","slug":"just-see-representative-voted-bill-obama-supply-weapons-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/just-see-representative-voted-bill-obama-supply-weapons-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Just In: See How Your Representative Voted on Bill For Obama to Send Weapons to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Zuesse<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a bill authorizing Obama to supply weapons to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/markadomanis\/2014\/04\/15\/ukraines-economy-is-nearing-collapse\/\">bankrupt<\/a> Ukrainian Government to <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/obamas-ukrainian-stooges\/\">exterminate (and\/or drive out into neighboring Russia)<\/a> the people in <a href=\"http:\/\/observationalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Ukraine_historical_vs_electoral_2010.png\">the areas of Ukraine\u2019s southeast that had voted 90% for the Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovych<\/a>, whom Obama <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8-RyOaFwcEw\">overthrew in a bloody coup in February 2014<\/a>; but, of course, that\u2019s not how it\u2019s worded. Here is how it\u2019s worded:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtrack.us\/congress\/bills\/113\/hres758\/text\">https:\/\/www.govtrack.us\/congress\/bills\/113\/hres758\/text<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the vote, on December 4th:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtrack.us\/congress\/votes\/113-2014\/h548\">https:\/\/www.govtrack.us\/congress\/votes\/113-2014\/h548<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the discussion of it (prior to the vote):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/op-edge\/211439-congress-obama-statement-resolution-russia\/\">http:\/\/rt.com\/op-edge\/211439-congress-obama-statement-resolution-russia\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There were 411 votes for the bill, 10 votes against it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>These were the 10 votes against:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>California\u2019s George Miller (D)<\/p>\n<p>California\u2019s Dana Rohrabacher (R)<\/p>\n<p>Florida\u2019s Alan Grayson (D)<\/p>\n<p>Florida\u2019s Alcee Hastings (D)<\/p>\n<p>Kentucky\u2019s Thomas Massie (R)<\/p>\n<p>Michigan\u2019s Justin Amash (R)<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina\u2019s Walter Jones (R)<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee\u2019s John Duncan (R)<\/p>\n<p>Texas\u2019s Beto O\u2019Rourke (D)<\/p>\n<p>Washington\u2019s Jim McDermott (D)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here\u2019s the relevant recent polling on this matter:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pollingreport.com\/russia.htm\">http:\/\/www.pollingreport.com\/russia.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-04-at-10.40.25-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-142460\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-04-at-10.40.25-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-12-04 at 10.40.25 PM\" width=\"755\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-04-at-10.40.25-PM.png 755w, http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-04-at-10.40.25-PM-75x55.png 75w, http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-04-at-10.40.25-PM-136x100.png 136w, http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-04-at-10.40.25-PM-383x283.png 383w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Theyre-Not-Even-Close-Democratic\/dp\/1880026090\/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1339027537&amp;sr=8-9\"><em>They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em> and of <em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B007Q1H4EG\">CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Zuesse &nbsp; It\u2019s a bill authorizing Obama to supply weapons to the bankrupt Ukrainian Government to exterminate (and\/or drive out into neighboring Russia) the people in the areas of Ukraine\u2019s southeast that had voted 90% for the Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovych, whom Obama overthrew in a bloody coup in February 2014; but, of course, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":140642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-142458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}