House advances trade re-vote

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: The Hill

The House Thursday morning easily cleared a procedural hurdle to re-vote later in the day on giving President Obama fast-track authority to seal trade deals.

A "rule" that sets parameters for floor debate passed on a vote of 244-181. Only one Republican voted against it, while seven pro-trade Democrats broke party lines to support the rule.

The lack of fanfare for Thursday's rule vote stood in contrast to last week, when 34 Republicans nearly derailed the rule for considering the trade package. Eight Democrats ultimately voted at the last minute to save it.

Rules are votes of party discipline, as they are essentially a referendum on the majority party's strategy of handling legislation on the floor.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/245404-house-advances-trade-re-vote

[djean111]

1. Just calmly waiting to see who will never get a vote from me.

Or anyone in my household. I am pretty much The Decider for political stuff.

[Freddie Stubbs]

4. Roll call:

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2015/roll373.xml

[djean111]

7. Thanks. I do think some DINOs voted Nay because they already knew the Ayes had it.

And, yes, like Lily Tomlin, no matter how cynical I am, I am afraid it is never enough.

[fizzgig]

10. i knew someone here would post this

thank you.

good to see my rep voted against it.

[Purveyor]

2. Anyone have the list of the "seven pro-trade Democrats" that broke party lines and voted for this?

[Freddie Stubbs]

3. Here is the roll call for the vote:

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2015/roll373.xml

[jalan48]

5. Thanks for the roll call vote.

I'm always surprised how little info is actually given on these crucial votes by our media. I can get more statistics on sports teams each day than I can get about the results of votes like this.

[Fast Walker 52]

6. exactly-- I had the hardest time finding the roll call for the TPA/TAA vote last week

Could not find it in any article and finally had to go to the House clerk site. That's ridiculous. Even my local newspapers had limited info on how the state reps voted.

[cascadiance]

8. Bluemenauer should be reminded about how Multnomah county passed the resolution noted here...

in their minutes from March.

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B3ZWDKDfvlgDcTJ1U3pOeDRyeDQ&usp=sharing

They passed a resolution indicating they were AGAINST TPA there in the core county of Portland and his district!

The state had earlier passed this resolution saying NO to Fast Track in 2013 too...

http://www.dpo.org/party/business/resolutions/2013-060

Blumenauer, Bonamici, and Shrader should all be reminded of this to tell them why their earlier votes for TPA were BAD for Oregonians, their constituents of their party, and all Americans!

[Populist_Prole]

9. Sneaky bastards

Mine voted against it, but alas to no avail.

This was railroaded through like nothing else before.

Also, in the quotes; Notice all the crowing by republicans "praising" democrats all of a sudden ( when it comes to fucking over the working class )

Fucking bastards.