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The 2010 Congressional Election next November may well be an historic one in terms of the number of incumbents that find themselves in the unemployment line.  I expect last Saturday’s eleventh-hour (literally) vote on Healthcare Reform will be one of the deciding factors for many Pennsylvanians on imposing term limits for their Congressional Representatives. In an in-your-face kind of way, the House Bill includes just about everything conservatives hate in a healthcare reform plan. But, rather than get bogged down in all those nasty details (like taxpayer funded abortion, care for illegal workers, and much higher taxes), let’s see how this goes in the Senate, where it has already been referred to as a “non-starter” by Senator Lindsay Graham. There, likely due to constitutional challenges, I think it will languish until after the mid-term elections. When it still comes up short of the needed Democrat votes, the failure will cost Barack Obama his re-election in 2012.

H.R. 3962:  How PA Voted

Yea:

Robert Brady – D, 1st
Christopher Carney  – D, 10th
Kathy Dahlkemper – D, 3rd
Mike Doyle – D, 14th
Chaka Fattah – D, 2nd
Paul Kanjorski – D, 11th
Patrick Murphy – D,  8th

John Murtha – D, 12th
Allyson Schwartz – D, 13th
Joe Sestak – D, 7th

Nay:

Jason Altmire  – D, 4th
Charles Dent – R, 15th
Jim Gerlach – R, 6th
Tim Holden – D, 17th
Tim Murphy – R, 18th
Joseph Pitts – R, 16th
Todd Platts – R, 19th
Bill Shuster – R, 9th
Glenn Tompson – R, 5th