S. 365: How the "Minyan" Voted

Here's the final breakdown of how the Jewish members of Congress voted on "S. 365," the Budget Control Act of 2011"

Senate

(Passed 74-26)

Yeas:

1. Michael Bennet (D-CO)
2. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
3. Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
4. Benjamin Cardin (D-MD)
5. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
6. Al Franken (D-MN)
7. Herbert Kohl (D-WI)
8. Carl Levin (D-MI)
9. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT)
10. Charles Schumer (D-NY)
11. Ron Wyden (D-OR)

Nays:

1. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ)
2. Bernard Sanders (I-VT)

 

House of Representatives

(Passed 269-161)

Yeas:

1. Shelly Berkley (D-NV)
2. Howard Berman (D-CA)
3. Eric Cantor (R-VA)
4. David Cicilline (D-RI)
   
5. Susan Davis (D-CA)
6. Ted Deutch (D-FL)
7. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ)
8. Steve Israel (D-NY)
9. Sander Levin (D-MI)
10. Nita Lowey (D-NY)
11. Jared Polis (D-CO)
12. Steve Rothman (D-NJ)
13. Adam Schiff (D-CA)
14. Allyson Schwartz (D-PA)
15. Brad Sherman (D-CA)
16. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL)

Nays:

1. Gary Ackerman (D-NY)
2. Steve Cohen (D-TN)
3. Eliot Engel (D-NY)
4. Bob Filner (D-CA)
5. Barney Frank (D-MA)
6. Gerald Nadler (D-NY)
7. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL)
8. Henry Waxman (D-CA)
9. John Yarmuth (D-KY)

It is my intent to begin a new website, tentatively to be called "Israel on the Potomac," which will provide regular updates on the activities, accomplishments and votes of the Jewish members of Congress. Today's piece is intended to serve as an example of the type of material that would be included., along with news, interviews and campaign updates.

In a sense, this proposed website is intended to serve as a continuing update of The Jews of Capitol Hill. I would interested in hearing from anyone who might be interested in subscribing to this website. It would likely cost no more than $25.00 a year or, say $15 for six months . . .

KFS

Comments

[KFS to Warren]

All of the current and former member of Congress that I include in my books there with their permission (unless, of course, they died long ago). I well remember putting the question to the late Senator Barry Goldwater about whether or not he wished to be in my first book -- this after many interviews over several years. His answer? "You bet. I owe it to my Goldwasser relatives, especially my uncle Morris, who practically raised me. I only wish I knew more about being Jewish . . ." Goldwater's funeral, as you may know, was presided over by a rabbi, at the request of both the senator and his second (Jewish) wife.
As for Ralph Branca: according to Jewish law, he was Jewish. However, if I was writing a book on famous Jewish athletes, I would first ask him if he wanted to be included . . .

[Warren Weinstein]

Sorry if I was offensive. The real issue: is naming a person without his or her approval white, black, jew or catholic a racist act?
Is Ralph Branca Jewish?

[Ash London]

With regards to "Warren Weinstein's" nasty question: Anyone who has read Dr. Stone's books on the Jewish members of Congress knows that he states at the outset what his criteria are for defining a person as being Jewish: having a Jewish mother, converting to or atually practicing the Jewish faith; being listed in Professor Jacob Rader Marcus' "The Jews of America."
Mr. Weinstein's comment about "us[ing] the racial laws created by the Third Reich" is offensive to the max . . .

[Alan Weiss]

Yea

[Warren Weinstein]

How do you define Jewish? By surname or by belief in supreme being? Or are all people born to a Jewish mother cultural Jews? Or do you use racial laws created by the Third Reich?