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freshwest

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6. Well it flunked in the Senate, but it's on the record now, just like the Ryan budget vote is.
Tue Apr 17, 2012, 08:06 AM
Apr 2012

Straight along party lines, and not enough to go forward and get past a filibuster, which the GOP did to stop it being considered. When you said the House, which is even more full of GOP, I thought perhaps they'd started their own version, but it would have had to come from the GOP speaker there. Since the Democratic 'technically' control the Senate, it got to come to a vote there. The GOP would never let it see the light of day in the House, so that was what was interesting. I didn't think the bagger controlled House would be interested in angering their bosses.

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