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Friday, May 16, 2008 --- 111 days ago http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/05/15/in-surprise-move-house-gop-kill
 Filed under: House , Democrats , Republicans , Breaking News , Iraq The House of Representatives voted on the latest supplemental war-funding bill requested by the president today. But in a strategic twist, 132 House Republicans voted "present" rather than cast yes or no votes, affectively removing their votes from the total. The result was that the funding portion of the bill was defeated 149-141, on the strength of anti-war Democrats' votes. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and the Democratic leadership had decided on a novel strategy to address the war funding measure. It called for the bill to be split into three parts, one each for war spending, non war-related domestic spending, and anti-war policy provisions. The strategy was supposed to make the supplemental more palatable to the anti-war caucus of Democrats in the House while protecting the moderate Blue Dog caucus, whose members could not afford to vote against funding the troops in this election year. But the Republicans' move thwarted the Democrats' plans, saddling them with the defeat of funding for troops in harm's way. After the vote, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) was triumphant. "[T]he Democratic Majority has chosen to play political games with our troops and delay their funding by at least several more weeks. This is unacceptable, and House Republicans will not be party to such a cynical political ploy. A troop funding bill should fund t ... |
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