20070712 Congressman Roscoe Bartlett Votes "No" on the Iraq Withdrawal Bill

Congressman Roscoe Bartlett Votes "No" on the Iraq Withdrawal Bill

and FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 624

July 12^th, 2007

Washington, DC - Congressman Roscoe G. Bartlett (R-6-MD) voted "no" on H.R. 2956, a bill that would force a precipitous withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq. Bartlett is a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee and ranking member of the Seapower and Expeditionary Forces Subcommittee.

The bill passed by a vote of 223 - 201.

"I have long argued that a date certain for withdrawal of American troops will do more harm than good," said Congressman Bartlett. "Giving enemies a target date puts Americans deployed in Iraq in greater danger. The rationale for offering this resolution is weakened by the release of today's interim report. I have consistently called for benchmarks to measure progress. This interim report shows some progress on important benchmarks since the surge deployment was completed less than three weeks ago. This resolution also ignores the potential that a commitment to withdraw U.S. forces could also endanger the lives of many more Iraqis."

ICYMI Natan Sharansky is a former Soviet dissident who was imprisoned for nine years in the gulag, is chairman of the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies in Jerusalem. He wrote in The Washington Post on July 8, 2007 that, "some leaders continue to play down the gross violations in Iraq under Hussein's republic of fear and ignore the potential for a human rights catastrophe should the United States withdraw...in totalitarian regimes, there are no human rights. Period. For most people, life under totalitarianism is slavery with no possibility of escape. That is why despite the carnage in Iraq, Iraqis are consistently less pessimistic about the present and more optimistic about the future of their country than Americans are. That is why, at a time when many Americans are abandoning the vision of a democratic Iraq, most Iraqis still cling to the hope of a better future. They know that under Hussein, there was no hope. No one can know for sure whether President Bush's 'surge' of U.S. troops in Iraq will succeed. But those who believe that human rights should play a central role in international affairs should be doing everything in their power to maximize the chances that it will. A precipitous withdrawal of U.S. forces could lead to a bloodbath that would make the current carnage pale by comparison."

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FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 624

(Democrats in roman; Republicans in italic; Independents underlined)

H R 2956 YEA-AND-NAY 12-Jul-2007 6:13 PM
QUESTION: On Passage
BILL TITLE: Responsible Redeployment from Iraq Act

Yeas Nays PRES NV
Democratic 219 10 2
Republican 4 191 6
Independent
TOTALS 223 201 8

20070712 Final Vote Tables

---- YEAS 223 ---

Abercrombie Ackerman Allen Altmire Andrews Arcuri Baca Baird Baldwin Bean Becerra Berman Berry Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Blumenauer Boswell Boucher Boyd (FL) Boyda (KS) Brady (PA) Braley (IA) Brown, Corrine Butterfield Capps Capuano Cardoza Carnahan Carson Castor Chandler Clarke Clay Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Cooper Costa Costello Courtney Cramer Crowley Cuellar Cummings Davis (AL) Davis (CA) Davis (IL) Davis, Lincoln DeFazio DeGette Delahunt DeLauro Dicks Dingell Doggett Donnelly Doyle Duncan Edwards Ellison Emanuel Emerson Engel Eshoo Etheridge Farr Fattah Filner Frank (MA) Giffords Gilchrest Gillibrand Gonzalez Gordon Green, Al

Green, Gene Grijalva Gutierrez Hall (NY) Hare Harman Hastings (FL) Herseth Sandlin Higgins Hill Hinchey Hinojosa Hirono Hodes Holt Honda Hooley Hoyer Inslee Israel Jackson (IL) Jackson-Lee (TX) Jefferson Johnson (GA) Johnson, E. B. Jones (NC) Jones (OH) Kagen Kanjorski Kaptur Kennedy Kildee Kilpatrick Kind Klein (FL) Lampson Langevin Lantos Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lee Levin Lewis (GA) Lipinski Loebsack Lofgren, Zoe Lowey Lynch Mahoney (FL) Maloney (NY) Markey Matsui McCarthy (NY) McCollum (MN) McDermott McGovern McIntyre McNerney McNulty Meek (FL) Meeks (NY) Melancon Michaud Miller (NC) Miller, George Mitchell Mollohan Moore (KS) Moore (WI) Moran (VA) Murphy (CT) Murphy, Patrick Murtha Nadler Napolitano

Neal (MA) Oberstar Obey Olver Ortiz Pallone Pascrell Pastor Payne Pelosi Perlmutter Peterson (MN) Pomeroy Price (NC) Rahall Rangel Reyes Rodriguez Ross Rothman Roybal-Allard Ruppersberger Rush Ryan (OH) Salazar Sánchez, Linda T. Sanchez, Loretta Sarbanes Schakowsky Schiff Schwartz Scott (GA) Scott (VA) Serrano Sestak Shea-Porter Sherman Shuler Sires Skelton Slaughter Smith (WA) Solis Space Spratt Stark Stupak Sutton Tanner Tauscher Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Tierney Towns Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Van Hollen Velázquez Visclosky Walz (MN) Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Watt Waxman Weiner Welch (VT) Wexler Wilson (OH) Woolsey Wu Wynn Yarmuth

---- NAYS 201 ---

Aderholt Akin Alexander Bachmann Bachus Baker Barrett (SC) Barrow Bartlett (MD) Barton (TX) Biggert Bilbray Bilirakis Bishop (UT) Blackburn Blunt Boehner Bonner Bono Boozman Boren Boustany Brady (TX) Brown (SC) Brown-Waite, Ginny Buchanan Burgess Burton (IN) Buyer Calvert Camp (MI) Campbell (CA) Cannon Cantor Capito Carney Carter Castle Chabot Coble Cole (OK) Conaway Crenshaw Culberson Davis (KY) Davis, David Davis, Tom Deal (GA) Dent Diaz-Balart, L. Diaz-Balart, M. Doolittle Drake Dreier Ehlers Ellsworth English (PA) Everett Fallin Feeney Ferguson Flake Forbes Fortenberry Fossella Foxx Franks (AZ)

Frelinghuysen Gallegly Garrett (NJ) Gerlach Gillmor Gingrey Gohmert Goode Goodlatte Granger Graves Hall (TX) Hastert Hastings (WA) Hayes Heller Hensarling Herger Hobson Hoekstra Holden Hulshof Hunter Inglis (SC) Issa Johnson (IL) Johnson, Sam Jordan Keller King (IA) King (NY) Kingston Kirk Kline (MN) Knollenberg Kucinich Kuhl (NY) LaHood Lamborn Latham LaTourette Lewis (CA) Lewis (KY) Linder LoBiondo Lucas Lungren, Daniel E. Mack Manzullo Marchant Marshall Matheson McCarthy (CA) McCaul (TX) McCotter McCrery McHenry McHugh McKeon McMorris Rodgers Mica Miller (FL) Miller (MI) Miller, Gary Moran (KS) Murphy, Tim Musgrave

Myrick Neugebauer Nunes Pearce Pence Peterson (PA) Petri Pickering Pitts Platts Poe Porter Price (GA) Pryce (OH) Putnam Radanovich Ramstad Regula Rehberg Reichert Renzi Reynolds Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rogers (MI) Rohrabacher Ros-Lehtinen Roskam Royce Ryan (WI) Sali Saxton Schmidt Sensenbrenner Sessions Shadegg Shays Shimkus Shuster Simpson Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smith (TX) Snyder Souder Stearns Sullivan Taylor Terry Thornberry Tiahrt Tiberi Turner Upton Walberg Walden (OR) Walsh (NY) Wamp Weldon (FL) Weller Westmoreland Whitfield Wicker Wilson (NM) Wilson (SC) Wolf Young (FL)

---- NOT VOTING 8 ---

Berkley Conyers Cubin

Davis, Jo Ann Jindal Paul

Tancredo Young (AK)