House ignores Obama veto threat, passes first 2014 spending bill (421-4)

The Hill ^

[Perdogg]

The House late Tuesday easily approved the first 2014 spending bill of the year, one that funds military construction and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

The bill found broad support from both parties and passed the House in a 421-4 vote. All four "no" votes came from Democrats, but the vast majority of Democrats voted for it, ignoring a threat that President Obama would veto the bill, passing the measure by a clear veto-proof majority.

[DoughtyOne]

Veto that Slum Dog.

[Resolute Conservative]

Up yours Jobu...

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

He’ll veto it just to be spiteful.

[TheBigB]

Sequester this, biznitch! ;-)

[Major Matt Mason]

Good, make this &*%$# veto it, maybe more than once.

[svcw]

Isn’t that veto proof then?

[no-to-illegals]

another episode of ... as the dam cracks.

[Forty-Niner]

No he won’t. At a 421-4 passage, a veto is a lose-lose for him.

[no-to-illegals]

America Starts to Sing ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBQVrCflZ_E&feature=endscreen&NR=1

[EQAndyBuzz]

Since it is a budget bill, Harry Reid cannot get his hands on this, correct?

[exit82]

The SS Obama just took a direct hit.

About frigging time.

[Durbin]

421-4 vote.

4 No’s are Democrats

435 members in the House.

435-425=10

Are the 10 that didn’t vote also Democrats?

[txrangerette]

I believe it’s a funding bill. I don’t think the divided government is operating under a budget. I think it’s operating under a “let’s just keep funding the government departments so they won’t have to shut down” based on what we’ve been spending on these things.

Even so, either way, a bill doesn’t go directly to the President from the House with no Senate involvement, or vice versa.

I think you might be thinking of this: that a revenue bill is supposed to originate in the House, not the Senate. Key word there is: originate. It would still need to pass both bodies.

After obamacare passed and was called a tax by the Supreme Court, some here jumped straight up and said, but but but a tax can’t originate in the Senate. The ugly truth is Reid pulled a legislative trick. He took a House bill that had passed there and came to the Senate, on something unrelated to obamacare, but with a House number on it, stripped out what came in the bill, and put obamacare in that bill in place of whatever was in it. And called it a House originated bill.

And got away with it.

[SueRae]

Only 4 holdouts? I’m impressed at how many ‘Rats are jumping ship. Guess they can see 2014 from their house. ;-)

[PapaBear3625]

No he won’t. At a 421-4 passage, a veto is a lose-lose for him.

Still needs to pass the Dem-controlled Senate.

[Forty-Niner]

And that’s what Obama will count on.....He’ll then turn around and blame Republican obstruction on the lack of a budget.....

[no-to-illegals]

It goes to the Senate where it can be discussed, amendments added or a complete rewriting and then voted up or down after the Senate alters. If the House stands strong though (in conference committee) the House holds the purse strings and that is our Constitution in a short statement. The House must approve or write in all spending.

[Waryone]

This is obviously a bipartisan bill. I thought that was just what he wanted.

[NTHockey]

Names of the four.