Vote switchers on financial bailout
Associated Press
Sixty lawmakers Friday switched from their previous position on the huge Wall Street bailout measure. Fifty-eight switched from "no" to "yes," one switched to oppose the measure and a lawmaker who was absent on Monday voted "yes." Here's the breakdown by party and state:
Republicans, No to Yes (25)
Arizona John Shadegg.
Florida Vern Buchanan, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.
Illinois Judy Biggert
Louisiana Rodney Alexander, Charles Boustany.
Michigan Joe Knollenberg, Peter Hoekstra.
Minnesota Jim Ramstad.
North Carolina Howard Coble, Sue Myrick.
Nebraska Lee Terry.
New Jersey Rodney Frelinghuysen.
New York Randy Kuhl.
Ohio Jean Schmidt, Pat Tiberi.
Oklahoma Mary Fallin, John Sullivan.
Pennsylvania Charles Dent, Jim Gerlach, Bill Shuster.
South Carolina Gresham Barrett.
Tennessee Zach Wamp.
Texas Mike Conaway, Mac Thornberry.
Republican Jerry Weller of Illinois was absent Monday. He voted yes on Friday.
Democrats No to Yes (33)
Hawaii Neil Abercrombie, Mazie Hirono.
California Joe Baca, Barbara Lee, Adam Schiff, Hilda Solis, Mike Thompson, Diane Watson, Lynn Woolsey.
Nevada Shelley Berkely.
Iowa Bruce Braley.
Indiana Andre Carson.
Missouri Emanuel Cleaver.
Texas Henry Cueller, Al Green, Sheila Jackson Lee, Solomon Ortiz.
Maryland Elijah Cummings, Donna Edwards.
Arizona Gabrielle Giffords, Harry Mitchell, Ed Pastor.
Illinois Jesse Jackson Jr., Bobby Rush.
Michigan Carolyn Kilpatrick.
Georgia John Lewis, David Scott.
New Jersey Bill Pascrell.
Ohio Betty Sutton.
Massachusetts John Tierney.
Vermont Peter Welch.
Oregon David Wu.
Kentucky John Yarmuth.
Democrats Yes to No (1)
Washington Jim McDermott.
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