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Upon the (seriously) last minute, near miss (219-206) passage of the government funding bill in the House, Democratic Congressional Campaign Chairman (DCCC) Ben Ray Luján released a statement condemning Boehner for once again catering to special interests and his “governing-by-crisis strategy”.
“House Republicans just can’t help themselves. Once again, they took the country to the brink of catastrophe to stack the deck for special interests, continuing the same governing-by-crisis strategy that led to their last disastrous shutdown. House Republicans continue to place special interests and the most extreme right-wing elements of their party ahead of the middle class while using crises as leverage. Speaker Boehner and House Republicans keep risking our economic well-being to protect their special interest handouts, and it is the American people who continue to pay the price.”
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Matt Fuller, who covers the House for Roll Call, tweeted a list of Yea Democrats:
Democratic Yeas: pic.twitter.com/cwfmFcOjhO
— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) December 12, 2014
And Republican nays:
Republican Nays: pic.twitter.com/iN8HFmRrKJ
— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) December 12, 2014
Republican yeas:
Republican Yeas: pic.twitter.com/d1UMBk4Rg6
— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) December 12, 2014
More Republican yeas:
Republican Yeas continued: pic.twitter.com/5eFZoWwaWY
— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) December 12, 2014
Once again, Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) couldn’t get it done in regular fashion, and even ended up calling a recess earlier today as he tried to get votes together since Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) refused to help him give Wall Street another bailout. Without Pelosi’s help, Boehner is hard pressed to pass anything, as tonight’s squeaker exemplifies.
Congratulations to Republicans for sticking Wall Street giveaways into a funding bill for the government to do essential things. These are the same people who accuse Obamacare of being “political” even though it was deliberated for months on end and passed legally. When Republicans want something, they just stick it on some essential course of unrelated business at the last minute so it can’t be properly debated and the press smiles.
Plenty of Democrats ended up going along with this, pressured into not being responsible for a shutdown of the government as well as the usual Wall Street friendlies. But it was Republicans who stuck in the Wall Street bailout business, and Democrats who fought it.
The bill now moves to the Senate, which will pass a short-term CR, and after debate will pass the government funding bill before the end of the weekend.
Another chaotic, crisis laden vote over what used to be normal course of business — funding the government. This is John Boehner’s legacy.
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