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To: TornadoAlley3

According to your link, they voted 213-212 to adjourn, with 17 Democrats and 0 Republicans breaking ranks.

We lost by one freaking vote!


32 posted on 08/01/2008 9:34:46 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero

213-212 means 10 people did not vote. Or, maybe they can vote “present” now, when they don’t want to take a position or aggravate a donor.


71 posted on 08/01/2008 9:54:31 AM PDT by Bernard (If you always tell the truth, you never have to remember exactly what you said.)
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To: Cicero
"According to your link, they voted 213-212 to adjourn, with 17 Democrats and 0 Republicans breaking ranks.

Let the Dems go home, THEN order them back....some won't make it back!

2,103 posted on 08/01/2008 2:52:32 PM PDT by cookcounty (Obama, the last man to figure out the Surge ---Except for Nevada's Hopeless Harry)
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