Howdy, I'm Trespass Bill, and I'm the rootinest tootinest cowboy this side of the Pecos. Yeeeeehaaaaaa! Tell y'all whut I'm gonna...duh-huh...

Good question.

I'll wait patiently for one of these political geniuses to answer that question.

*crickets chirping*

"Oh look, there's a bird over in a cooking thread. Run!"

I've found conflicting info on who voted against this here
This shows two R's and one D voted against.



ETA - I also found that the two bills are identical = H.R.347 & S.1794
Still nothing on Boehner. Perhaps its because he is the speaker?

Nope. Speaker can vote. I wasn't sure either (though that didn't make sense I thought maybe...) so I looked it up.

He's only voted twice in 2012:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote...&person=400036

Weird. I really do wonder what the explanation is. They just totally left Ohio's 8th district off the list.

I've got about 20 tabs open and no one has shit on this... grrrrrrrrr.
See what YOU started!

Govtrack doesn't have anything on H.R. 347 since 2/6/12
the link I posted is from clerk.house.gov - which is usually correct...
(shrug)

I wonder why so many didn't vote on this. That is their job, after all.
I never really understood why we vote someone in to represent us and
then when its time to make a decision, they don't.
I'm sure this had nothing to do with it being an election year.

Well, Giffords took a bullet in the brain, so I'll give her a pass. But I though she had resigned? I'm confused.

No replacement yet.

I just read a point by point debunking of this that I can't link to on my phone (and my landlords a dick and unplugged the Internet so no computer Internet, thank god for 3G), but, when I can go back and cite next week, remind me to put up the data. The gist is, this only slightly changes the language of EXISTING legislation. It is a little bit worse than what's on the books, and expands what's on the books to include the white house and vp's residence. As he put it, " if I were in congress I'd vote against it", but it's not egregious. At least compared to what's already law.