Ustwo...I know why this Repub was one of those not voting
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Representative Vito J. Fossella, the Staten Island Republican who was arrested on drunken-driving charges in Virginia last week, acknowledged on Thursday that he had fathered a daughter, now 3, in an extramarital affair.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/ny...l?ref=nyregion
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As I said, it was a procedural move to stall the House from other pressing business....it was just stupid to do with with this resolution.
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Boehner (Repub minority leader) decided to stop the House from working at all. As House Democrats tried to pass legislation to ease the mortgage crisis on Wednesday, Republicans served up hours of procedural delays, demanding a score of roll call votes: 10 motions to adjourn, half a dozen motions to reconsider, various and sundry amendments, a motion to approve the daily journal, a motion to instruct and a "motion to rise."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...T2008050900005
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They succeeded in delaying a vote on a Dem housing foreclosure relief bill until the following day (yesterday)...and that delayed the vote on the Iraq war funding bill until next week. That gives the Repubs the weekend to trash the Dem war funding bill and suggest that the Dems dont support the troops.