http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/house-passes-boehner-debt-ceiling-plan-223457649.html
By Chris Moody | The Ticket – 2 hrs 4 mins ago
With days before the Aug. 2nd deadline to raise the nation's $14.3 trillion debt ceiling, the House approved a proposal from House Speaker John Boehner. The final vote was 218 members--all Republicans--voting for the bill, with 210 against. Passage of the Boehner plan came a day after House leaders had originally intended to hold a vote on the measure--and after several days of intensive lobbying and arm twisting by Republican lawmakers.
"Boehner's bill dies tonight," House Majority Leader Harry Reid's spokesman Adam Jentleson announced on Twitter Thursday afternoon when it was thought the House would vote on the bill in just a matter of hours. "Forever."
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Zim: D.O.A. in the senate?
Let's just see if that thief reid can come up with
something 'better' . . . that has a snowballs chance
of passing the House.
Zim.
Mad Poet Strikes Again.
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