661962005-11-17 21:45:35
Currently there are 231 Republican members and 204 are Democrats. Total house members are 435. All democrats are going to vote NO on the Budget bill # 4241. In order to have safe passage of this bill # 4241 Republicans needs 218 votes.

Problem is that there are 25 republicans who have said that they will vote 'No' to this bill if there is no provision for Arctic oil drilling. This means that Republicans will have only 206 votes which are not enough to pass this bill. There are back door negotiation going to to come up with the solution so that out of this 25 republicans who are saying that they will vote 'NO' on this bill some of them at least 12-13 republicans agree that they will vote YES.
1922002005-11-17 22:07:36
How does the vote work?