Thats what I was thinking also. The Repubs on the committee wouldn’t have brought up the issue if they didn’t think they had a chance of getting it passed. Maybe Rahm made some calls
Actually, I see that there are 25 Democrats (one of whom resigned from Congress a couple of weeks ago) and 15 Republicans on the committee. If the vote was 15-14, obviously there were a lot of absences. Perhaps 14 of the 15 Republicans showed up, and all voted AYE, and no Democrat voted for it.