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Secret Voting In The House; How reps hide their vote from you!
Topic Started: Oct 15 2005, 03:41 PM (49 Views)
cruiser
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This is politics as usual, but I have never heard of this BS before.

REPUBLICAN SWITCHERS

House rules have officially shielded the identity of several House Republicans who switched their positions to permit passage of the energy bill Oct. 7 after a prolonged delay in announcing the vote total.

Republican leaders kept open the voting for around 45 minutes to pass the bill by a single vote against blanket Democratic opposition, but it was technically a "five-minute" vote.
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That meant members could use their electronic badges to change their vote without it being recorded in the congressional record.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
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bikemanb
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cruiser,

Does any of this shock you? The only difference is the party in power now is different than the one that was in power 10 years or so ago. But of course they were going to bring us honest, open, term limited and frugal government. At least the other crowd was more slightly more honest about what their intentions were.
Bill, Rita and Chloe the Terror Cat

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

Benjamin Franklin
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