“Democrats have gone further and further and further to the left with no end in sight.”
“New Yorkers deserve the choice to endure less suffering, not by shortening their lives, but by shortening their deaths.”
“The fact is that she agrees with them from a policy standpoint, even if she doesn't couch herself in the same title of socialist.”

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On the recordJuly 1, 2010
I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 25, noes 376, answered ``present'' 22, not voting 10, as follows: [Roll No. 431] AYES--25 Clarke Clay Duncan Edwards (MD) Ellison Filner Garamendi Grayson Grijalva Gutierrez Jackson (IL) Johnson (IL) Kucinich Lewis (GA) Michaud Nadler (NY) Napolitano Paul Pingree (ME) Schrader Serrano Sires Stark Velazquez Welch NOES--376 Ackerman Aderholt Adler (NJ) Akin Alexander Altmire Andrews Arcuri Austria Baca Bachmann Bachus Baird Barrett (SC) Barrow Bartlett Barton (TX) Bean Becerra Berkley Berman Berry Biggert Bilbray Bilirakis Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Bishop (UT) Blackburn Blumenauer Blunt Boccieri Boehner Bonner Bono Mack Boozman Boren Boswell Boucher Boustany Boyd Brady (PA) Brady (TX) Braley (IA) Bright Broun (GA) Brown (SC) Brown, Corrine Brown-Waite, Ginny Buchanan Burgess Burton (IN) Butterfield Buyer Calvert Camp Campbell Cantor Cao Capps Capuano Cardoza Carnahan Carney Carson (IN) Carter Cassidy Castle Chaffetz Chandler Childers Cleaver Clyburn Coble Coffman (CO) Cole Conaway Connolly (VA) Cooper Costa Costello Courtney Crenshaw Critz Crowley Cuellar Culberson Cummings Dahlkemper Davis (AL) Davis (CA) Davis (IL) Davis (KY) Davis (TN) DeFazio DeGette Delahunt DeLauro Dent Deutch Diaz-Balart, L. Diaz-Balart, M.…
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