January 2013 Macon County Planning Board Agenda

The Macon County Planning Board will be meeting on January 19, 2013 and will be electing officers and having a training session. A downloadable copy of the meeting agenda is below for your convenience.

January 17th 2013 by Thunder Pig

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2013 Macon County Employee Service Awards

Last night, the County Manager and the County Commissioners recognized the service of several long-serving county employees with 10, 15, 20, 25, and 30 years of service to Macon County.

I have video and photos below.
Note: Not all employees were present for the recognition.

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Macon County Employee 10 Year Service Awards

Joe Belcher (Solid Waste) Enforcement Officer
Tony Carver (Sheriff’s Department) Training Coordinator
Kenny Cope (Sheriff’s Department) Investigator
Doug Hampton (Sheriff’s Department) Detention Sergeant
Sammy Hedden (Solid Waste) Equipment Operator
Dorothy Holland (Buildings & Grounds) Maintenance Worker I
Ken Lane (Sheriff’s Department) Lieutenant
Doris Moffitt (Health Department) Nursing Supervisor I
Joel Ostroff (Solid Waste) Recycling Coordinator
John Parrish (Sheriff’s Department) Deputy/Courthouse Security
Sue Smith (Health Department) Nurse II 

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Macon County Employee 15 Year Service Awards

Robert Bruner (EMS) EMT Paramedic
David Enloe Planning, Permitting & Development -Building Code Inspector II
Stacey Jenkins (Social Services) Social Worker III
Delena Raby (Tax Department) Business Appraiser
Paul Ramey Planning, Permitting & Development -Building Code Inspector III
Robert Randall (EMS) EMT Paramedic
Todd Seagle (EMS) 911 Communications Supervisor
Mickey Tallent (Health Department) Processing Assistant III

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Macon County Employee 20 Year Service Awards

Cynthia Keener (Veterans) Assistant Service Officer
David Key (Emergency Management) Director
Cathy Makinson (Social Services) Business Officer 1
Wesley Peek (Solid Waste) Landfill Supervisor

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Macon County Employee 25 Year Service Awards

Mike Breedlove (Soil Conservation) Supervisor
Shelia Southard (Senior Services) Administrative Officer II
Beth Nicholson (Social Services) Social Worker II
Mike Trammel (Sheriff’s Department) Lieutenant /Courthouse Security
Kenneth Webb (Buildings & Grounds) Assistant Maintenance Superintendent

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Macon County Employee 30 Year Service Awards

Joe Doster (EMS) EMT Paramedic
Jane Kimsey (Social Services) Director
Steve Ledford (Buildings & Grounds) Superintendent
Margaret Perry (Tax Department) Tax Collections Supervisor

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Pink Cadillac

Captured in Franklin Plaza a few days ago.

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Franklin Aldermen 01-07-2013

**4.37am** Here is the video of last night's meeting:


And here is a transcription of the notice handed out by Town Manager Sam Greenwood that his last day at work will be March 29, 2013:

Dear Board Members:

Warren Cabe and I have reached the conclusion that Warren will be ready to assume the duties of Town Manager effective April 1, 2013. Accordingly, I am giving notice under my contract that effectively my last day with the Town will be March 29, 2013.

My recommendation is that contractual negotiations with Warren be considered at the February or March Board meeting and I have directed Human Resources to begin compiling compensation and benefit comparisons for review by the Board. Warren and I are also recommending that a budget retreat be scheduled with the Board as early as possible in April.

Sincerely, Sam K. Greenwood

Town of Franklin Board of Aldermen 

Meeting Agenda

Monday January 7, 2013 - 7:00 p.m. 

1. Call to order -Mayor Collins
2. Approval of the December 3, 2012 board minutes.
3. Public session
4. New business
   • Street closing request for 2013- Main Street Executive Linda Schlott
   • Resolution opposing legislation that provides for the forced taking of Municipal Water System - Town Manger Sam Greenwood
   • Re-zoning request for 142 Harrison Avenue - Land Use Administrator Derek Roland
   • Recommendation for vacancy on the Town planning board - Derek Roland
5. Legal
   • Harassment policy- Town Attorney John Henning Jr
6. Adjourn

The Franklin Town Board of Aldermen will be having their regularly scheduled monthly meeting tonight at 7pm on the lower level of Town Hall. The agenda for the meeting is embedded below for your information.

If you wish to follow along with my nearly-live play by play, check it out on Google Plus. After the meeting is over, I will have the video of the full meeting posted online as soon as I can.

Carolina Public Press has posted an article about the communications problems that have been ongoing between the town and local merchants. You can read it here, and you can also take a look at their posting on it on Facebook...and see that someone says that I am part of the problem. This is a person who I have never observed attend a public meeting since I've been covering them and has had nothing but negative things to say about me since I started posting videos of the full meetings online. I suppose if he's focused on me, it'll give other people a rest. It's cool to have a detractor, especially one who is a Lefty. ʘ‿ʘ



Agend Packet 1-7-13

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Music Monday: The Vienna Philharmonic 2013 New Year's Concert

Here is the traditional concert celebrating the new year by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.



Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst
Part 1
- Josef Strauss: The Soubrette, Fast Polka, op. 109
- Johann Strauss, Jr.: Kiss Waltz, op. 400
- Josef Strauss: Theater Quadrille, op. 213
- Johann Strauss, Jr.: From the Mountains, Waltz, op. 292
- Franz von Suppé: Overture to the Operetta "Light Cavalry"

Intermission: Honeymoon

Part 2
- Josef Strauss: Music of the Spheres, Waltz, op. 235
- Josef Strauss: The Spinstress, Polka française, op. 192
- Richard Wagner: Prelude to Act III of the Romantic Opera "Lohengrin", WWV 75
- Joseph Hellmesberger, Jr.: In Confidence, Polka mazur, op. 15
- Josef Strauss: Hesperus' Paths, Waltz, op. 279 Josef Strauss: The Runners, Fast Polka, op. 237
- Joseph Lanner: Styrian Dances, op. 165
- Johann Strauss, Jr.: Melodies Quadrille, op.112
- Giuseppe Verdi: Prestissimo from the Ballet Music in Act III of the Opera "Don Carlo"
- Johann Strauss, Jr.: Where the Lemon Trees Bloom, Waltz, op. 364
- Johann Strauss, Sr.: Memories of Ernst or The Carnival of Venice, Fantasy, op. 126
- Johann Strauss Jr.: Beautiful Blue Danube, Waltz op.314
- Johann Strauss Father: Radetzky-March, op.228

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Pat McCrory Becomes the 74th Governor of North Carolina

Pat McCrory was sworn in today as the 74th Governor of the State of North Carolina. He becomes only the third Republican elected to that office in North Carolina in more than a century. The swearing in ceremony is posted below:

For more information on the McCrory Administration please visit the Governor's website, which has just become live. 

 **2.36pm** 

 In case WRAL deletes the above video, I have also embedded a video from UNC-TV of the swearing in ceremony below.

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A Cardinal Outside My Window

A Cardinal outside my window. The only thing that is missing is some snow.

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Structure Fire on Kinsland Road

**update** Franklin VFD has submitted their actions during this call to Fire News.

I have also added screenshots of my tweets covering the fire as it happened at the bottom of this article.

Graphic [click here to see larger version] showing the locations of the structure fires of Jan 3rd and 4th. Link to information on the Jan 3rd fire is here.

A structure fire last night in Macon County has left a mother and son temporarily homeless and their dog in an animal hospital.

The initial report indicates that a third party caller reported the fire shortly before 10 pm to the Macon County Emergency Operations Center and said the fire had started in the oxygen machine and that both occupants in the home were disabled.

Both escaped the home before firefighters arrived and, according to radio communications, the dog was injured in the fire and was revived by firefighters.

The fire was in the Franklin Fire district and mutual aid was provided by Mountain Valley and Cullasaja Gorge Fire Departments. A fire truck and personnel from West Macon Fire Department were called to stand by at the Franklin Fire Department to handle calls for them while they were fighting the fire on Kinsland Road near the Jackson County line.

Red Cross was contacted to provide assistance to the family and Macon County Animal Control transported the dog to the Rabun County Animal Hospital.

Audio of the first eighteen minutes of radio communications is embedded below. It is time compressed to remove the time spaces between communications.



**Social Media Record**

Here are screenshots of my tweets documenting the event...

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Macon County Commissioners Meeting Agenda for 01-08-2013

The Macon County Commissioners will be meeting on Tuesday night for the first regular meeting of the year.

MACON COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
JANUARY 8, 2013
AGENDA
NOTE: Service awards for county employees
will be presented beginning at 5:30 p.m.
1. 6:00 p.m. – Call to order and welcome by Chairman Corbin
2. Announcements
3. Moment of Silence
4. Pledge of Allegiance
5. Public Hearing(s) – Installment Financing Contract for
Improvements to Highlands School
NOTE: Consideration of the contract and other related matters will
immediately follow the public hearing
6. Public Comment Period
7. Adjustments to and approval of the agenda
8. Reports/Presentations
A. School Resource Officers – Sheriff Robert Holland
B. Update on Parker Meadows Recreation Project – Seth Adams
and Mike Lovoy
9. Old Business
A. Macon County Public Health FY 12-13 Billing and Collection
Policies and Fee Schedules – Jim Bruckner, Public Health
Director
B. QZAB Reimbursement Resolution
10.New Business
A. Request from the Sky Valley/Scaly Mountain Volunteer Fire &
Rescue Department for relief fund money – David Key
B. Resolution approving terms of loan modification – Finance
Director
11.Consent Agenda – Attachment #11
All items below are considered routine and will be enacted by one motion. No
separate discussion will be held except on request of a member of the Board of
Commissioners.
A. Minutes of the December 11, 2012 meeting
B. Budget Amendments # 87-91
C. Tax Releases
D. Monthly Ad Valorem Tax Collection Report (no action necessary)
12.Appointments
13.Closed session (if necessary)
14.Adjournment/Recess


Upcoming Meeting Schedule
• Essentials of County Government – January 9-10, Asheville, NC
• Mid-Year Update Meeting – Saturday, January 19 at 9 a.m. at the
SCC Macon Campus Conference Room
• NCACC Legislative Goals Conference – January 24-25, Sheraton
RTP in Durham County

And here are supporting documents for this meeting:


The commissioners will recognize county employees for their service beginning at 5:30pm with a reception to follow. Then, at 6 o'clock, the regular meeting will begin and a public hearing will be held regarding an Installment Financing Contract for Improvements to Highlands School.

Also, Commissioner Beale has asked Sheriff Robert Holland to address school safety issues as they relate to School Resource Officers (SROs). Other details of the meeting can be found on the abbreviated agenda above and the full forty page agenda below.

2012 Service Awards


01.08.13 BOC Agenda Packet for iPad Final

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Connections - The Trigger Effect

I'm going to spend 2013 presenting the world of science, culture and technology as explored by James Burke on his television series Connections, The Day The Universe Changes, Connections², Connections³ and Re-Connections every Thursday.

Connections explores an "Alternative View of Change" (the subtitle of the series) that rejects the conventional linear and teleological view of historical progress. Burke contends that one cannot consider the development of any particular piece of the modern world in isolation. Rather, the entire gestalt of the modern world is the result of a web of interconnected events, each one consisting of a person or group acting for reasons of their own motivations (e.g. profit, curiosity, religious) with no concept of the final, modern result of what either their or their contemporaries' actions finally led to. The interplay of the results of these isolated events is what drives history and innovation, and is also the main focus of the series and its sequels.

To demonstrate this view, Burke begins each episode with a particular event or innovation in the past (usually Ancient or Medieval times) and traces the path from that event through a series of seemingly unrelated connections to a fundamental and essential aspect of the modern world.


This episode is "The Trigger Effect" and it details the world’s present dependence on complex technological networks through a detailed narrative of New York City and the power blackout of 1965. Agricultural technology is traced to its origins in ancient Egypt and the invention of the plow. The segment ends in Kuwait where, because of oil, society leaped from traditional patterns to advanced technology in a period of only about 30 years.

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FPS Russia Tries Out the DRD Paratus 18

+Fps Russia delivers another amazing video, this one a 7.62 x 51 mm rifle that can break down to fit in a backpack or small suitcase and can be re-assembled very quickly with no special tools needed...except perhaps a little common sense when blowing up pick ups...

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Early Morning Structure Fire on Carvil Road

There was a structure fire early this morning on Carvil Drive off the Sylva Road north of Franklin. The call came in to the Macon County Emergency Operations Center from a resident on Ridgecrest, who saw the fire and called 911.

Franklin Fire Department was intitially called to the scene. Mountain Valley and Cullasaja Fire Departments wee called to provide mutual aid and Clarks Chapel Fire Deparmtent sent a truck to standby at the Franklin Fire Station to handle calls in the Franklin Fire District while all hands were out at the structure fire some 4 miles north of town.

The home owner reported that no one was living in the house at the time and the Arson Investigator was called to the scene.

The audio below is real time, with none of the time between radio traffic taken out, and is of the first 18 minutes of the call. The first 20 seconds have been intentionally left blank.

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Agenda for Franklin Aldermen January 2013 Meeting

The Franklin Town Board of Aldermen will be having their regularly scheduled monthly meeting this Monday night at 7pm on the lower level of Town Hall. The agenda for the meeting has been released and it is embedded below for your information.



Agend Packet 1-7-13

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Fiscal Cliff Deal: Republicans Break No Tax Increase Pledge

In my opinion, we are well and truly screwed. Every member of the Republican House who voted for this legislation should be replaced in the next primary election. Now, the news...



Transcript:

11:20 P.M. EST

THE PRESIDENT: Happy New Year, everybody.

AUDIENCE: Happy New Year, Mr. President.

THE PRESIDENT: A central promise of my campaign for President was to change the tax code that was too skewed towards the wealthy at the expense of working middle-class Americans. Tonight we've done that. Thanks to the votes of Democrats and Republicans in Congress, I will sign a law that raises taxes on the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans while preventing a middle-class tax hike that could have sent the economy back into recession and obviously had a severe impact on families all across America.

I want to thank all the leaders of the House and Senate. In particular, I want to thank the work that was done by my extraordinary Vice President Joe Biden, as well as Leader Harry Reid, Speaker Boehner, Nancy Pelosi, and Mitch McConnell. Everybody worked very hard on this and I appreciate it. And, Joe, once again, I want to thank you for your great work.

Under this law, more than 98 percent of Americans and 97 percent of small businesses will not see their income taxes go up. Millions of families will continue to receive tax credits to help raise their kids and send them to college. Companies will continue to receive tax credits for the research that they do, the investments they make, and the clean energy jobs that they create. And 2 million Americans who are out of work but out there looking, pounding the pavement every day, are going to continue to receive unemployment benefits as long as they’re actively looking for a job.

But I think we all recognize this law is just one step in the broader effort to strengthen our economy and broaden opportunity for everybody. The fact is the deficit is still too high, and we're still investing too little in the things that we need for the economy to grow as fast as it should.

And that's why Speaker Boehner and I originally tried to negotiate a larger agreement that would put this country on a path to paying down its debt while also putting Americans back to work rebuilding our roads and bridges, and providing investments in areas like education and job training. Unfortunately, there just wasn’t enough support or time for that kind of large agreement in a lame duck session of Congress. And that failure comes with a cost, as the messy nature of the process over the past several weeks has made business more uncertain and consumers less confident.

But we are continuing to chip away at this problem, step by step. Last year I signed into law $1.7 trillion in deficit reduction. Tonight’s agreement further reduces the deficit by raising $620 billion in revenue from the wealthiest households in America. And there will be more deficit reduction as Congress decides what to do about the automatic spending cuts that we have now delayed for two months.

I want to make this point: As I've demonstrated throughout the past several weeks, I am very open to compromise. I agree with Democrats and Republicans that the aging population and the rising cost of health care makes Medicare the biggest contributor to our deficit. I believe we've got to find ways to reform that program without hurting seniors who count on it to survive. And I believe that there’s further unnecessary spending in government that we can eliminate.

But we can't simply cut our way to prosperity. Cutting spending has to go hand-in-hand with further reforms to our tax code so that the wealthiest corporations and individuals can't take advantage of loopholes and deductions that aren't available to most Americans. And we can't keep cutting things like basic research and new technology and still expect to succeed in a 21st century economy. So we're going to have to continue to move forward in deficit reduction, but we have to do it in a balanced way, making sure that we are growing even as we get a handle on our spending.

Now, one last point I want to make -- while I will negotiate over many things, I will not have another debate with this Congress over whether or not they should pay the bills that they’ve already racked up through the laws that they passed. Let me repeat: We can't not pay bills that we've already incurred. If Congress refuses to give the United States government the ability to pay these bills on time, the consequences for the entire global economy would be catastrophic -- far worse than the impact of a fiscal cliff.

People will remember, back in 2011, the last time this course of action was threatened, our entire recovery was put at risk. Consumer confidence plunged. Business investment plunged. Growth dropped. We can't go down that path again.

And today’s agreement enshrines, I think, a principle into law that will remain in place as long as I am President: The deficit needs to be reduced in a way that's balanced. Everyone pays their fair share. Everyone does their part. That's how our economy works best. That's how we grow.

The sum total of all the budget agreements we've reached so far proves that there is a path forward, that it is possible if we focus not on our politics but on what’s right for the country. And the one thing that I think, hopefully, in the New Year we'll focus on is seeing if we can put a package like this together with a little bit less drama, a little less brinksmanship, not scare the heck out of folks quite as much.

We can come together as Democrats and Republicans to cut spending and raise revenue in a way that reduces our deficit, protects our middle class, provides ladders into the middle class for everybody who’s willing to work hard. We can find a way to afford the investments that we need to grow and compete. We can settle this debate, or at the very least, not allow it to be so all-consuming all the time that it stops us from meeting a host of other challenges that we face -- creating jobs, boosting incomes, fixing our infrastructure, fixing our immigration system, protecting our planet from the harmful effects of climate change, boosting domestic energy production, protecting our kids from the horrors of gun violence.

It’s not just possible to do these things; it’s an obligation to ourselves and to future generations. And I look forward to working with every single member of Congress to meet this obligation in the New Year.

And I hope that everybody now gets at least a day off, I guess, or a few days off, so that people can refresh themselves, because we're going to have a lot of work to do in 2013.

Thanks, everybody. Happy New Year.

END 11:28 P.M. EST

Read a Fact Sheet Provided by the White House.

Congress approved a plan to end Washington’s long drama over the “fiscal cliff” late Tuesday after House Republicans surrendered to President Obama’s demand to let taxes rise on the nation’s richest households.

The House voted 257 to 167 to send the measure to Obama for his signature; the vote came less than 24 hours after the Senate overwhelmingly approved the legislation.

House Speaker John A. Boehner (Ohio) and most other top GOP leaders took no public position on the measure and offered no public comment before the 10:45 p.m. vote. Boehner declined even to deliver his usual closing argument, leaving House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) to defend the measure as the “largest tax cut in American history.”

The bill will indeed shield millions of middle-class taxpayers from tax increases set to take effect this month. But it also will let rates rise on wages and investment profits for households pulling in more than $450,000 a year, marking the first time in more than two decades that a broad tax increase has been approved with GOP support.

The measure also will keep benefits flowing to 2 million unemployed workers on the verge of losing their federal checks. And it will delay for two months automatic cuts to the Pentagon and other agencies that had been set to take effect Wednesday.

Source: Washington Post article Congress approves ‘fiscal cliff’ measure 

Read for yourself what is actually in the act:

BILLS 112hr8eas

Also read the Congressional Budget Office analysis of the financial impact of the legislation:

American Taxpayer Relief Act



See for yourself who voted for and against the legislation, and who ran and hid: (I have identified the representatives from North Carolina in red to make them more easily identifiable)



FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 659 (Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)
      H R 8      RECORDED VOTE      1-Jan-2013      10:57 PM
      QUESTION:  On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendments
      BILL TITLE: To extend certain tax relief provisions enacted in 2001 and 2003, and to provide for expedited consideration of a bill providing for comprehensive tax reform, and for other purposes

	AYES	NOES	PRES	NV
REPUBLICAN	85	151		5
DEMOCRATIC	172	16		3
INDEPENDENT
TOTALS	257	167		8

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Ackerman Alexander Altmire Andrews Baca Baldwin Barber Barletta Bass (CA) Bass (NH) Benishek Berkley Berman Biggert Bilbray Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Boehner Bonamici Bono Mack Boren Boswell Brady (PA) Brady (TX) Braley (IA) Brown (FL) Buchanan Butterfield Calvert Camp Capps Capuano Carnahan Carney Carson (IN) Castor (FL) Chandler Chu Cicilline Clarke (MI) Clarke (NY) Clay Cleaver Clyburn Coble Cohen Cole Connolly (VA) Conyers Costa Costello Courtney Crenshaw Critz Crowley Cuellar Cummings Curson (MI) Davis (CA) Davis (IL) DeGette DelBene Denham Dent Deutch Diaz-Balart Dicks Dingell Doggett Dold Donnelly (IN) Doyle Dreier Edwards Ellison Emerson Engel Eshoo Farr Fattah Fitzpatrick Fortenberry Frank (MA) Frelinghuysen Fudge Gallegly

Garamendi Gerlach Gibson Gonzalez Green, Al Green, Gene Grijalva Grimm Gutierrez Hahn Hanabusa Hanna Hastings (FL) Hastings (WA) Hayworth Heck Heinrich Herger Herrera Beutler Higgins Himes Hinchey Hinojosa Hirono Hochul Holden Holt Honda Hoyer Israel Jackson Lee (TX) Johnson (GA) Johnson (IL) Johnson (OH) Johnson, E. B. Kaptur Keating Kelly Kildee Kind King (NY) Kinzinger (IL) Kissell Kline Kucinich Lance Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) LaTourette Latta Lee (CA) Levin Lipinski LoBiondo Loebsack Lofgren, Zoe Lowey Lucas Luetkemeyer Luján Lungren, Daniel E. Lynch Maloney Manzullo Marino Markey Matsui McCarthy (NY) McCollum McGovern McKeon McMorris Rodgers McNerney Meehan Meeks Michaud Miller (MI) Miller, Gary Miller, George Moore Murphy (CT) Murphy (PA) Nadler Napolitano Neal

Noem Olver Owens Pallone Pascrell Pastor (AZ) Payne Pelosi Perlmutter Peters Pingree (ME) Pitts Platts Polis Price (NC) Quigley Rahall Rangel Reed Reichert Reyes Ribble Richardson Richmond Rogers (KY) Rogers (MI) Ros-Lehtinen Ross (AR) Rothman (NJ) Roybal-Allard Royce Runyan Ruppersberger Rush Ryan (OH) Ryan (WI) Sánchez, Linda T. Sanchez, Loretta Sarbanes Schakowsky Schiff Schock Schwartz Scott, David Serrano Sessions Sewell Sherman Shimkus Shuler Shuster Simpson Sires Slaughter Smith (NJ) Smith (TX) Speier Stivers Sullivan Sutton Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Thompson (PA) Thornberry Tiberi Tierney Tonko Towns Tsongas Turner (NY) Upton Van Hollen Velázquez Walden Walz (MN) Wasserman Schultz Waters Watt Waxman Welch Wilson (FL) Womack Yarmuth Young (AK) Young (FL)

---- NOES    167 ---

Adams Aderholt Akin Amash Amodei Austria Bachmann Bachus Barrow Bartlett Barton (TX) Becerra Berg Bilirakis Bishop (UT) Black Blackburn Blumenauer Bonner Boustany Brooks Broun (GA) Bucshon Burgess Campbell Canseco Cantor Capito Carter Cassidy Chabot Chaffetz Coffman (CO) Conaway Cooper Cravaack Crawford Culberson DeFazio DeLauro DesJarlais Duffy Duncan (SC) Duncan (TN) Ellmers Farenthold Fincher Flake Fleischmann Fleming Flores Forbes Foxx Franks (AZ) Gardner Garrett

Gibbs Gingrey (GA) Gohmert Goodlatte Gosar Gowdy Granger Graves (GA) Griffin (AR) Griffith (VA) Guinta Guthrie Hall Harper Harris Hartzler Hensarling Huelskamp Huizenga (MI) Hultgren Hunter Hurt Issa Jenkins Johnson, Sam Jones Jordan King (IA) Kingston Labrador Lamborn Landry Lankford Latham Long Lummis Mack Marchant Massie Matheson McCarthy (CA) McCaul McClintock McDermott McHenry McIntyre McKinley Mica Miller (FL) Miller (NC) Moran Mulvaney Myrick Neugebauer Nugent Nunes

Nunnelee Olson Palazzo Paulsen Pearce Pence Peterson Petri Poe (TX) Pompeo Posey Price (GA) Quayle Rehberg Renacci Rigell Rivera Roby Roe (TN) Rogers (AL) Rohrabacher Rokita Rooney Roskam Ross (FL) Scalise Schilling Schmidt Schrader Schweikert Scott (SC) Scott (VA) Scott, Austin Sensenbrenner Smith (NE) Smith (WA) Southerland Stearns Stutzman Terry Tipton Turner (OH) Visclosky Walberg Walsh (IL) Webster West Westmoreland Whitfield Wilson (SC) Wittman Wolf Woodall Yoder Young (IN)

---- NOT VOTING    8 ---

Buerkle Burton (IN) Graves (MO)

Lewis (CA) Lewis (GA) Paul

Stark Woolsey

Read more about the fiscal cliff deal and how other people are reacting to it on the following websites:

Ace of Spades: Senate Tax Bill Passes House

BreitBart: OFFICIAL: GOAL OF 'FISCAL CLIFF' TO BREAK GOP ON NO TAX INCREASE PLEDGE

             Commentary: GOP Plays Into Obama’s Hands on Cliff 

Daily Kos: House passes fiscal cliff bill 

National Review: The Left and the Cliff 

Think Progress: House Passes Senate’s Fiscal Cliff Bill 

Where Is The Outrage?: Fiscal Cliff – We got a parachute

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