Posted on 02/25/2025 12:55:03 PM PST by RandFan
... In the first vote series on Tuesday afternoon, four Democrats were absent from the chamber. If that number holds — and Republicans have full participation — Johnson’s cushion would jump from one allowable defection to three.
It’s for that reason that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) had penned a letter to all the members of his Democratic Caucus on Monday urging full participation in the budget vote.
“Given the expected closeness of the vote, it’s imperative that we are present with maximum attendance,” Jeffries wrote.
The four Democratic lawmakers who missed Tuesday’s early votes were Reps. Kevin Mullin (Calif.), who recently suffered an infection following knee surgery; Brittany Pettersen (Colo.), who recently gave birth to her second child; Raúl Grijalva (Ariz.), who has spent most of the last year being treated for lung cancer; and Frederica Wilson (Fla.).
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Joining Ted Kennedy, John McCain, Frank Lautenberg, Diane Feinstein, Sheila Jackson Lee, John Lewis, and numerous other congressional sickos who believe dying in office is virtuous.
No.
The Congressmen must be present in the House chambers to vote.
Rep Brittany Petersen (D-Colorado) has been complaining about this in her newsletter. She just had her second child and wanted to vote by telecommunications link. The rules of the House were not changed to permit this.
Good for her that she chose to stay home with her new baby.
Also, good that one more Democrat vote is out of the picture for the coming vote on the next spending bill.
Sheila always wore that braided hair laurel wreath.
House republicans will tank the bill. Dems don’t need to worry about all of them showing up.
When does this vote happen? I thought 6:30. Let’s get on it. Trump loves this bill! He’s endorsed it. Let’s get it done!
This bill adds 350 billion to the current annual deficit. And that’s using the rosiest, most optimistic (ie. bs) assumptions. It will actually be more. We can’t handle a 2 1/2 trillion dollar deficit per year.
Maybe some foreigners with 5 million dollars will buy trumps new citizenship gold card and pay the deficit. If we get a million to buy into trumps plan, that’s quite a bit of money.
Thanks for the clarification.
He and his peeps are inside their OODA loop. They are still trying with the directives of the day/week with code words and talking points of the NY SLimes and Wash compost, but its not working.
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