Republicans and Democrats alike are furious with the stunt that Pelosi,
Boehner and Reid pulled.
Representatives were still working on amendments to the Doc Fix bill on
Thursday. They still hadn't come up with a way to pay for the $180 billion
Medicare patch.
The House had agreed to "fast track" this bill, so they needed a
supermajority of 270 votes to pass it in such a hurry.
But all of a sudden one of Boehner's lieutenants, Rep. Steve Womack
(R-AR), announced a voice vote on the bill when there were only a handful
of Representatives in the House chamber.
Surprised by this move, most of the Representatives who were there --
Democrats and Republicans -- shouted "NO!"
The voice vote failed.
But Rep. Womack declared that the bill had passed and then denied the
request for a roll call vote!
This so-called spending bill was unfinished and it has no
mechanism in it to pay for the $180 BILLION that it spends.
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