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Calling him out by name, calling again for an up or down vote on a clean budget. today, speaker at the headquarters of fema, the president challenged speaker boehner again to hold a vote! vote on it. straight up budget bill to end the government shutdown. truth of the matter is there are enough republican and democratic votes in the house of representatives right now to end the shutdown. immediately with no partisan strings attached. the house should hold the vote today. if republicans and speaker boehner are saying there are not enough votes. then they should prove it. let the bill go to the floor. let s see what happens. just vote just vote. prove it. the reason the president keeps asking republicans to just hold a vote on the budget, a budget that aims to just be a budget and not legislation defunding health reform or something, the reason the president wants the house to vote on a clean budget is math. very easy math. there are 232 republicans in the house. they are the majorit ....
Asking john boehner to schedule a vote. we know. they would sign their names. 195 votes to start with, just from democrats for a clean budget. need 217. start at 195. so, we re going to count this up for the speaker in case it is helpful. start with 195. we have 195 democratic votes. a bunch of republicans in the past few days would vote with the democrats to end the shutdown and pass a clean budget. starting with 195. let s add representative pat meehan. he put out a statement saying it was time for the house to vote for a clean, short-term funding bill. that gets us to 196. very civil congressman, scott rigell tweeted. time for a clean cr. that s 197. new jersey, john runyan supports that as well. congressman, mike fitzpatrick. said, kwoeft, i was sent to washington to solve problems, ....
Time for a clean cr. that s 197. new jersey, john runyan supports that as well. congressman, mike fitzpatrick. said i was sent to washington to solve problems. not shut it down. up to 199. remember these are all republicans in the house who would vote with democrats to pass a clean budget. lou barletta of pennsylvania told his local paper he would support a clean bill. 200 already. peter king told national review he would not vote for anything but a clean budget bill. 201. congressman charlie dent told the huffington post he was prepared to vote for of a clean cr. one more on the list. congressman, frank wolf of virginia said, it s time to govern. that brings us to 203. and congressman, michael grimm confirmed he supports a clean budget vote. that is 204. eric paulton said he would vote for a clean budget. ....
Not 217 members of the house who will vote for a budget. who will vote for a budget without trying to get rid of obamacare or something. he says he cannot get to 217. let s help him count. over the weekend. 195 democrats signed a letter asking john boehner to schedule a vote. we know. they would sign their names. 195 votes to start with, crumb democrats for a clean budget. need 217. start at 195. so, we re going to count this up for the speaker in case it is helpful. start with 195. we have 195 democratic votes. a bunch of republicans in the past few days would vote with the democrats to end the shutdown and pass a clean budget. starting with 195. let s add representative pat meehan. a statement said it was time for the house to vote for a clean, short term funding bill. that gets us to 196. very civil congressman, scott rigell tweeted. ....
He says he cannot get to 217. let s help him count. over the weekend. 195 democrats signed a letter asking john boehner to schedule a vote. we know. they would sign their names. 195 votes to start with, crumb democrats for a clean budget. need 217. start at 195. so, we re going to count this up for the speaker in case it is helpful. start with 195. we have 195 democratic votes. a bunch of republicans in the past few days would vote with the democrats to end the shutdown and pass a clean budget. starting with 195. let s add representative pat meehan. a statement said it was time for the house to vote for a clean, short term funding bill. that gets us to 196. very civil congressman, scott rigell tweeted. time for a clean cr. that s 197. new jersey, john runyan supports ....