Walz votes no on bailout

We've been informed that Congressman Walz voted against the bailout.

Update: Here's the Roll Call vote. Walz and Collin Peterson joined  Jim Ramstad, Michele Bachmann and John Kline in voting against the bill; Kline, McCollum, Ellison and Oberstar voted in favor.

For those who click through and wonder about the seem unrelated nature of the bill, the Library of Congress's Thomas provides this note:

Note: According to the House Majority Leader, H.R.3997 will be used as the vehicle for the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. See documents on the House Financial Services Committee website and H.Res.1517 on the House Rules Committee website.

Thanks to he-who-cannot-be-named in NW Minnesota for the correction.

Update Sept 30: The Mankato Free Press takes a look at why Walz, Davis oppose bailout plan. We look at Davis's fable here.
 

Comments

[MinnesotaCentral]

If this vote were to take place after the November's elections, I have to think the outcome would be different.
Kline voted for it ... but how many other "at risk" seats joined him ... John Hall D-NY, Michael Acuri D-NY ... which may have more to do with the New York / Wall Street business interests than anything else.
But opposing it included a lot of Freshman legislators and at-risk seats.... Altmire, Bachmann, Boyda, Capito, Childers, Gillibrand, Lampson, Tim Murphy, Schmidt, Shea-Porter, Walberg, Walz, Yarmuth and Don Young.
Some may have done it based on idealogy (Bachmann, Schimdt, Walberg, Young were not a surprise) but all the Dems suggests that they heard footsteps.

I blame the President for not being able to explain it to the people why this needed to be done. This version is much better than the orginal proposal ... and I don't know how significantly they can change it ... they will probably tweak it to twist the arms of the Dems and possibly some of the retiring Republicans on the next vote.