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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAll time for debate has expired. Recorded vote requested. This is it.
This is it, ladies and gentlemen.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)What are you referring to?
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Maybe I need to get my ears checked
Recursion
(56,582 posts)After the House votes, it oddly has to vote again to declare that what just happened actually happened. And it has to do the same thing tomorrow morning. It's a strange body.
robinlynne
(15,481 posts)DainBramaged
(39,191 posts)northoftheborder
(7,574 posts)DainBramaged
(39,191 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Bass (NH)
Burton (IN)
Campbell
Clay
Conyers
Grijalva
Hirono
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Nunnelee
Paul
Stark
Whitfield
Woolsey
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2012/roll658.xml
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)I typed "dicey" before the MSNBC guy said it... lye
Recursion
(56,582 posts)That's the kind of drama we're seeing here. I admit, I'm a political junkie, but this is the top-shelf stuff tonight.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)but then I saw on DU there was a vote and I could not restrain myself! Must have been exciting to be a page!
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)So 217 makes simple majority.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)ornotna
(10,807 posts)Gonna be a close one.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)We'll see.
ornotna
(10,807 posts)Not as close as I thought it was going to be.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Swede Atlanta
(3,596 posts)leveymg
(36,418 posts)Didn't think the GOOP leadership would allow an up-or-down on the Senate Bill, but it looks like THEY caved on this one!
Major victory for the home team!
leveymg
(36,418 posts)Looks like the House Congresscritters have some survival sense, after all.
ChangeUp106
(549 posts)I think it will pass
Recursion
(56,582 posts)There's more drama here than I think most people may think, and this is not yet a foregone conclusion.
Terra Alta
(5,158 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)look at the party breakdown. Democrats are overrepresented in the early votes.
ChangeUp106
(549 posts)Sudden surge of nays...
157-103
Recursion
(56,582 posts)CSPAN's music doesn't remotely capture the nail-biting aspect of this.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)The rest of the conservatives can vote NO
ChangeUp106
(549 posts)Even if every remaining R votes no they won't have enough
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blogslut
(38,017 posts)Whew!
223, 225, 227...229
passed
Lone_Star_Dem
(28,158 posts)Bad news for Boehner.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)We're looking at a very different Republican majority in two days.
Lone_Star_Dem
(28,158 posts)I'm not sure what is going to be in the future. It's going to be interesting though.