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Inuca

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4. All partisan vote

Reply to ProSense (Original post)

Tue May 8, 2012, 12:27 PM

May 2012

with Snowe voting present. Except that, all Ds (yes, even Ben Nelson) were AYE, all Rs NO. The lonely D no is Harry Reid, and it's a procedural no, allowing him, in principle, to bring it again to the floor (don't ask why it has to be that way, makes no sense).

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