What’s wrong with letting them bring it up again and again? Every time they do, it just makes them look stupider and stupider.
But that wouldn’t even have been an issue since since the Rats already had 227 votes, more than enough to pass the resolution. They didn’t need a single Republican vote and yet they got 24 of them.
Even if there was a valid parliamentary reason to do this, politically it was as dumb as could be, and it’s come back to bite Castle in the ass no matter how you try to spin it.
Are you COMPLETELY uneducated with respect to the actual process of voting? Really? Do you not understand how it works, how the whip count works?
The Republican leadership WANTED to make sure the resolution passed. Since the Republican leadership doesn't know for sure how the each and every dem will vote, they find a certain number of Republicans to make sure the vote goes whichever way - for parliamentary reasons - they want it to go. In this case, they wanted it to pass.
"They didn’t need a single Republican vote and yet they got 24 of them."
And yet Peter King and Kevin Brady voted for it, too.