Roll Call Vote #116 22-Jul H.R. 2560 On the Motion to Table Agreed to Motion to Table the Motion to Proceed to Consider H.R. 2560; A bill to cut, cap, and balance the Federal budget.
The chances of a conference committee are negligible - I'd say "zero," but that is a theoretical impossibility. The House and Senate can pass a bill back and forth, amending until they agree on the same language, for as long and as many times as both chambers tolerate.
The House of Representatives has already passed legislation: the world’s greatest deliberative body has chosen not to deliberate. Fine. Enough with the “bring me a rock” game. They brought them their rock, they didn’t like it. Memo to Boehner: enough with the rocks already. You’re undermining your position. You’re not Dr. Phil, you’re the Speaker of the House of Representatives and your chamber overwhelmingly passed its legislation. Act like it.
John Boehner should say: Harry Reid, call me when you pass your Senate version of my bill, we’ll participate in Conference committee ASAP. Until then, I don’t want to talk to you. No more votes in the House until then. As for you, Mr. President, with all due respect, Senator Reid and I will let you know when it’s time for you to sign our bi-partisan bill into law. Until then, please don’t tell us what we should or should not be legislating, because we already get it: you were the most liberal member of the Senate during your brief tenure, and if you were still a Senator you would vote NAY for what will finally get through Conference committee and manage to somehow get through both Houses. The back-benchers always have the luxury of voting NAY on a vote that passes and YES on a bill that fails.
Bottom line: nobody is going to like the result. It has to be done.