Posted on 08/02/2014 6:12:40 AM PDT by cotton1706
When Eric Cantor bid the House farewell in a floor speech Thursday, he apparently meant it.
At the time, Cantor had not yet disclosed his intent to resign his seat from Congress as of Aug. 18. He was merely ending his tenure as majority leader a little under two months after his sudden primary defeat in June, handing the gavel off to his successor, Kevin McCarthy of California.
But when it came time for a major test for Cantor’s House Republicans, the ousted Virginian was already long gone.
Cantor was among the 20 lawmakers who did not vote Friday night, what was meant to be the first official date of the five-week August recess. The House, like the Senate, was scheduled to go home the day before, but lawmakers were forced to stay an extra day to get consensus on legislation to address the child migrant border surge at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Had Cantor, suddenly thrust into the rank-and-file, stuck around that extra day, that would have been one less vote GOP leaders would need to worry about in the scramble to round up the necessary support.
He also would have had a chance to leave one last mark on his immigration record, disagreements over which cost him his seat and his chance of someday becoming the speaker of the House. The second to last vote of the evening was on legislation to scale back the 2012 executive order granting stays of deportation young undocumented immigrants brought to the United States illegally by their parents.
The final vote was on boosting funding for the Iron Dome defense system in Israel. Cantor’s departure means there are no longer any Jewish Republicans serving on Capitol Hill.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.rollcall.com ...
NOT VOTING 20 -—
Blumenauer
Camp
Campbell
Cantor
Davis (CA)
DesJarlais
Ellison
Fattah
Garamendi
Grayson
Green, Gene
Hanabusa
McDermott
Miller, Gary
Nunnelee
Ruiz
Rush
Sánchez, Linda T.
Schock
Speier
Who were the democrats who voted FOR it? If I saw the screen correctly there were 10.
Quitter!!!
There was just one Dem who voted for the bill—Cuellar. Four Reps voted against it—Broun (GA), Fincher, Jones, and Massie.
Thomas Massie from Kentucky??? Whoa.
Wow. Did VA voters ever make the right move.
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