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Truants undo [House]Dem plans
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Contributor | User 490 |
Last Edited | User 490 May 03, 2005 08:58pm |
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News Date | Wednesday, May 4, 2005 02:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
Description | Seven House Democrats skipped town before the major budget vote last Thursday, infuriating some of their colleagues and giving a handful of vulnerable Republicans a virtual hall pass to vote against their party.
As the whereabouts of two or three truant Democrats were unknown for the 8:30 vote on the House-Senate budget resolution, Democratic Party leaders were disappointed that lawmakers would put their political and parochial interests ahead of the party’s plan to force vulnerable Republicans to vote for a budget that Democrats insist will be difficult to defend in swing districts. |
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