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Mr. Morden
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« on: October 16, 2013, 07:05:45 AM »
« edited: October 16, 2013, 09:21:48 PM by Mr. Morden »
Let's assume that some time today, we have votes on the Reid/McConnell deal in both houses of Congress.  This is highly hypothetical of course, and we don't know the details for sure, but let's assume that, as has been reported in the press, the deal is a clean CR until mid-January under sequester spending levels, a debt limit increase that takes us to February, and a budget process designed to give us a longer term deal in December.  With perhaps a couple of minor face-saving concessions by each side tacked on.  Assume that this is all in one package, with a single vote on it, up or down.

How many votes would it get from each party in the House, and how many in the Senate?
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« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2013, 06:59:55 PM »
The Senate's voting on it right now.
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« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2013, 08:35:41 PM »
House is debating it now, and the vote will apparently begin within the next hour.
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« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2013, 09:11:49 PM »
The House is voting on it now.
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« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2013, 09:13:33 PM »
« Edited: October 16, 2013, 09:15:10 PM by Mr. Morden »
242 votes in favor so far.  This thing is passing.

UPDATE:

votes so far:

Dems: 185 yea, 0 nay, 17 haven't voted yet
GOP: 72 yea, 122 nay, 38 haven't voted yet
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« Reply #5 on: October 16, 2013, 09:19:47 PM »
Looks like time has run out, and these are the final numbers:

Dems: 198 yea, 0 nay, 2 not voting
GOP: 87 yea, 143 nay, 2 not voting

total vote: 285 yea, 143 nay
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« Reply #6 on: October 16, 2013, 09:20:55 PM »
And with that, it looks like the crisis is over (at least until January):
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« Reply #7 on: October 16, 2013, 09:41:20 PM »
Here's how the House vote broke down:

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/roll550.xml
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« Reply #8 on: October 16, 2013, 10:40:57 PM »
Quote from: Scott on October 16, 2013, 10:32:16 PM
Weird how Arkansas is the only state in the Deep South whose state GOP is not completely Tea Party-dominated...

Has to be Hillary Clinton's 2016 coattails.  They're so powerful, that they reverberate back in time to 2013.
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