This morning there was a vote in the House to name a post office in honor of an 8-year Vietnam POW..

[George II]

His plane was shot down in 1965 and he spent 8 years in Hỏa Lò Prison, the "Hanoi Hilton", same prison where John McCain spent five years.

The vote was nearly unanimous, only 15 "Nay" votes (10 not voting)

203 Democrats voted for it.
203 republicans voted for it.

[doc03]

1. People voted no? Are they in the if you are captured

you are not a hero crowd.

[underpants]

2. Here's the vote

https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2021/roll032.xml

[Kyblue1]

3. Who were the ones who voted "nay"? My guess one was "Congressman No",Tom Massie

[Kyblue1]

4. Surprise, surprise. I was wrong, Massie voted For something

[Mz Pip]

5. The "squad" voted Nay

I wonder why.

[Archae]

6. I saw the list of "Nays" and said, "What the hell?"

---- NAYS ---

Ocasio-Cortez
Omar
Tlaib

[George II]

8. I don't know what their beef is, but it certainly has nothing to do with Harris. It's disappointing.

[Archae]

9. Found out the reason, given.

Maybe is this a little too little petty?

And yesterday Democratic Representative Sean Casten insisted on a floor vote for "H.R.208 - To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 500 West Main Street, Suite 102 in Tupelo, Mississippi, as the "Colonel Carlyle 'Smitty' Harris Post Office".

Why?

Because the bill's sponsor, Republican Trent Kelly, voted to overturn the 2020 election. And we don't "work with" collaborators to the overturning of the US Government.

You don't get a yes vote on RENAMING A POST OFFICE if you voted to overturn a free and fair election, Trent.

https://crooksandliars.com/2021/02/house-dems-not-ready-make-nice-election

[George II]

10. So, if he introduces a bill to give everyone $10,000 and raises the minimum wage to $25....

....they'll vote no?

[Jersey Devil]

11. They will not vote for any proposal by a Rep who voted to overturn the election

The naming of the PO was by a Repub congress member who voted to object to the counting of electoral votes and apparently the squad (and some others) have decided not to vote for a single thing proposed by any such members. At least that is what I have read elsewhere.

[George II]

7. Some background on Col. Carlyle "Smitty" Harris, the man who was honored this morning:

During the Vietnam War, Air Force Capt. Carlyle “Smitty” Harris was shot down while flying a combat mission in April 1965. The sixth American to be captured in North Vietnam, Harris spent eight years at Hỏa Lò Prison—nicknamed the Hanoi Hilton—while his wife, Louise; two daughters; and a son he had never met waited for him back in the U.S.

In Tap Code: The Epic Survival Tale of a Vietnam POW and the Secret Code That Changed Everything, Harris recounts how an old method of communication helped him survive 2,871 days of torture and isolation. Used by Royal Air Force POWs during World War II, the tap code was not routinely taught during Vietnam War Air Force training. But after being captured, Harris remembered that an instructor had shown it to him.

“The first time I was put in a cell with other POWs, I immediately taught them the tap code,” Harris says. Each letter is communicated by two tapped out numbers. The first number indicates which row to follow from a column lettered A F L Q V, and the second tells the recipient which letter is intended. C is substituted for K, to make the alphabet fit the five-by-five matrix.

“We used it once we were put back in solitary confinement, and morale went up as we gained guidance from whomever was the senior ranking POW and defeated our captors’ efforts to turn us against one another,” Harris says. Fellow Hanoi Hilton prisoner John McCain also used the tap code to communicate news about colleagues, families, and current events, and Louise had the opportunity to meet McCain’s father after a Pentagon briefing for families of POWs. “Smitty had been a POW for two and a half years before John was shot down,” Louise says, “and Admiral McCain’s concern was evident as he took my hand and assured me and each of the others that he would do ‘all in his power’ to bring our men home.”

(more)

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/profiles/article/81066-a-message-of-faith-spotlight-on-col-carlyle-smitty-harris-ret.html