Got me it is confusing. I just posted his excuse.
But I hear Boner is delaying the vote because he may not have enough.
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http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2014/12/11/michigan-rep-christmas-congress/20251645/
In an interview, Bentivolio said he will vote against the budget deal because it doesn’t block President Barack Obama’s executive action allowing up to 5 million illegal immigrants to work in the United States and remain here.
He said he had cast a protest vote against the rule but changed his mind “because I didn’t want to give Nancy Pelosi the floor.” He said he looked up at vote tally “and I said ‘holy cow,’ it really is 212-212. I can’t give the victory to Nancy Pelosi,” the House Democratic leader.
Bentiovolio added that “I know I don’t want to shut the government down.”
He said Republicans always vote in favor of the rule.
“I didn’t really agree with it, but I want to have an opportunity to vote against the ($1 trillion spending bill),” Bentivolio said, adding that the spending bill has many good provisions but said he couldn’t support it for not blocking what he called Obama’s “amnesty action.”
He also complained that he has lost his office — a fate suffered by other departing members of Congress — and his staff is working out of a cafeteria. Bentivolio says he “doesn’t like voting on a 1,600-page bill that I really haven’t had an opportunity to read.”
Asked what he plans to do next, Bentivolio said: “I plan to follow in the footsteps of Jesus: broke and homeless” — referring cryptically to his finances.