Breaking: House passes DHS funding 257-167

twitter ^ | 03/03/2015 | Luke Russert

[GIdget2004]

GOP is 75 yea and 167 nay

Cave complete.

[Tzimisce]

...what a shock...

[shove_it]

Post the right one for me and everybody else, please. I can’t find it and am easily confused by these procedural votes in Congress.

[CedarDave]

Right you are, sorry. I can’t find the right one.

Here is the correct one:

On Motion to Recede and Concur in the Senate Amendment: H.R. 240: Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2015

[sauropod]

I want the list votes (which 75 voted “yes”)

[CedarDave]

75 Republicans voted for the “clean” bill (which is actually dirty); not a single Democrat broke ranks and voted against it.

[shove_it]

Thanks. My guy voted the RIGHT way!

;o)

[glock rocks]

Nice. All four Utah reps voted against it, yes, including Mia Love.

[CedarDave]

Interesting - Martha McSally, R-AZ, voted yes. She won her district by only a couple of hundred votes after weeks of challenges from the Rats. The only reason I can think of for her vote is that she is right on the border in SE AZ and the agents pressured her. All other Republicans in the state voted no.

My Pub representative in southern NM whose district encompasses the entire border from TX west to AZ voted no.

[austinaero]

Is it possible to dislike someone more than Obama? If so, it’s Boehner

[Jagdgewehr]

We are not going to get or country back, not with a ballot.

The wisest thing I've read on Free Republic in a very long time.

[demshateGod]

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2015/roll109.xml
Courtesy of another poster.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Long past time for a new Speaker.

I’d like to see a motion to vacate the Chair. Tomorrow would be nice.

[ducttape45]

Yep, we've been betrayed. It's official now. The GOP has now shown us that elections do not have consequences, and that they are afraid to stand on principle.

The USA is doomed.

[CedarDave]

Another interesting note as Boehner voted yea. From the GovTrack website:

The Speaker of the House is not required to vote in “ordinary legislative proceedings, except when such vote would be decisive.” In practice, this means the Speaker of the House rarely votes and only does so when it is politically useful. When the Speaker declines to vote, he or she is simply omitted from the roll call by the House Clerk.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Boehner... new Dem minority leader. Move over, Nancy P.

[shove_it]

Thanks.

There’s a more detailed one at #103 that shows party of each Rep.

[Gator113]

Regrettably, your tagline is absolutely correct.

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

The GOP was worried about losing the PR war if they shut down the DHS. Now they have lost the PR war by not shutting down the DHS.

There's a lesson there somewhere, but I don't think the GOP will ever figure it out.

[Nextrush]

This kind of vote makes a lot of phony conservatives in the 167 NO look good.......

[indthkr]

RINO / GOPe collaboration bump for later...