{"id":2989,"date":"2013-01-17T11:01:44","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T16:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2989"},"modified":"2013-01-17T11:01:45","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T16:01:45","slug":"shocking-map-in-these-22-states-every-house-republican-voted-against-sandy-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/01\/shocking-map-in-these-22-states-every-house-republican-voted-against-sandy-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"SHOCKING MAP: In These 22 States, Every House Republican Voted Against Sandy Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/12\/cnn-poll-are-gop-policies-too-extreme\/gop-logo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2873\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2873\" alt=\"GOP-logo\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/GOP-logo-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Almost three months after Hurricane Sandy ravaged the East Coast, the GOP-controlled House approved a bill that provides $50.7 billion in disaster relief for the storm&#8217;s victims. While passage of the bill is being hailed as a bipartisan success\u00a0by some (the vote was 241-180), a closer look at how the parties voted by state lines indicates otherwise. GOPers overwhelmingly voted against funding\u2014unless, of course, their state was hard hit.<\/p>\n<p>In 22 states, every last Republican representative voted against H.R. 152 or abstained on the bill, which includes $17 billion for immediate repair and an amendment introduced by a Republican, New Jersey Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, that tacks on another $33.7 billion for long-term recovery and prevention. These included Maryland and the Carolinas (remember Hugo and Floyd?), states that are vulnerable to seasonal hurricanes but were largely spared by Sandy.<\/p>\n<p>There were only five states whose Republican members all voted in favor of aid.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/mojo\/2013\/01\/map-republicans-object-disaster-relief-unless-sandy-hit-their-state\" target=\"_blank\">MAP: In These 22 States, Every House Republican Voted Against Sandy Aid<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost three months after Hurricane Sandy ravaged the East Coast, the GOP-controlled House approved a bill that provides $50.7 billion in disaster relief for the storm&#8217;s victims. While passage of the bill is being hailed as a bipartisan success\u00a0by some (the vote was 241-180), a closer look at how the parties voted by state lines&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,22],"tags":[1618,1617,1616],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2990,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions\/2990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}