Posted on 12/11/2014 7:17:31 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The House narrowly approved a vital spending bill Thursday night despite deep misgivings among liberals and conservatives alike, sending the measure to the Senate as a funding deadline looms.
The bill passed on a 219-206 vote, following an intense lobbying effort by House Republican leaders and the White House.
Current government funding technically runs out at midnight Thursday, and lawmakers still are expected to move a stopgap measure to buy time as the Senate considers the main $1.1 trillion spending package. That debate could last through the weekend and potentially into Monday.
Passage in the House followed hours of urgent appeals from an unlikely alliance: President Obama and House GOP leadership.
Obama and Vice President Biden worked the phones to sway Democratic lawmakers. White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough also met on the Hill with the Democratic caucus. Despite sources inside the meeting initially saying he did little to persuade lawmakers, a rift emerged in the Democratic leadership late Thursday. As House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi continued to oppose the bill, her deputy, Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., urged passage.
Meanwhile, House GOP leaders did what they could to sway conservative members who, for different reasons, were opposed to the package.
In the end, 67 Republicans defected, but 57 Democrats voted for it.
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Why did Stockman not vote?
What’s worse is that impotent boehner had to ask for help from Nero and his crew
You can bet he will call his marker.
We’ve been betrayed once again.
I’ve seen others talk about his preferences, but I don’t know the first thing about him.
How many times have we heard various House Republicans brag about how many times they voted to repeal Obamacare since the Tea Part gave them control of the House in 2010? Too many times to count. But everyone knew those votes to repeal were 1,000% meaningless political gestures.
But now that they had the power to vote repeal, or reduce funding of Obamacare, when it would have some real meaning, they voted to fund it 100% for the rest of fiscal 2015. Plus they are fully funding Obama’s illegal amnesty actions for several months at a minumum.
It’s not possible to say too many bad, condemning things about Boner and those who colluded with him in this ruse and deliberate deceit they have been carrying on for several months now.
You should have seen Bachman and King testify at the Rules Committee against this.
Sessions and the rest of the little quislings fell all over themselves in admiration like school girls meeting a rock star... then put out this swill anyway.
Not too bad. After a vote to restore sanity to the nationl government on November 4, it only took until December 11, one month and ten days for Congress to get back to the same old, same old.
Someone please tell me again the differences between the Republican Party and the Democrat party? I keep forgetting.
Or maybe they do.
Don’t know.
Hensarling claimed a family emergency.
On the positive side, that should finish any Presidential aspirations he might hold.
To be betrayed, your suitor must first at least have pretended to be true. This is just a straight-up slap in the face.
I called Lynn Jenkins and told her to vote against it. I knew she would vote for it though, which is why I didn’t vote for her last month.
“On the positive side, that should finish any Presidential aspirations he might hold.”
This vote finishes any presidential aspirations the entire GOP might hold. I won’t vote for another single solitary GOP candidate State, local, or federal. I refuse to support a party that refuses to support me! I bet I number in the millions.
The Texas and Virginia GOP delegations are scared of a primary challenge.
Joe Wilson is the most trustworthy on amnesty from SC. It doesnt make sense why he voted for it. Must be some specific to his district.
Gowdy, Mulvaney, Sanford and Duncan (to the least degree) are all open to amnesty. Wilson is a big spender. They voted no.
In NC, hopefully this no vote can help protect Walter Jones from an open borders candidate who claims to be tea party.
Many of the 67 Republicans who voted Nay no doubt were ‘permitted’ to vote Nay, so that the bill could just narrowly pass. Looking at the 67 names of the Roll will not necessarily reveal who are the good guys. Conservative members of the House are a very short list.
Her replacement is just as good. Tom Emmer had little support from the GOPe.
I think Emmer will be a plasent suprise.
There are good Republicans and bad ones. If anything is ever going to get fixed in this country, it’s going to have to happen at the state and local levels.
Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water here. If Republicans run actual conservatives, they can have my vote. When they don’t, they can go to hell.
There’s a board that shows their vote as they vote so that information is known by someone.
Of course the cameras don’t show that board!
We have not been betrayed. This is who they are. This is who they were until shortly before election day. To be betrayed would meen they were on our side once.
“There are good Republicans and bad ones.”
“Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water here.”
The party is corrupted. There is no such thing as an effective “good” Republican. They will only be outvoted by the bad ones and censored as well.
Third-party or no vote. Period. Voting GOP at any level supports these bastards!
When the bathwater is made of acid the baby is a goner.
There is no difference. Except the Rat party really represents their voters. Stop voting for the lesser of two evils.
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