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...play follow the leader. Chasing Boehner and his deputies down the Cannon House Office Building's marble stairs, reporters asked if the party's top dogs believed they would get enough votes. They expected "substantial support," barked Representative Roy Blunt, the second ranking House Republican, who represented the House GOP at the negotiations, as he hustled away...
...parties have different accounts of what led up to the vote. Two Republican recollections of the same conversation had Blunt informing Hoyer that they were short - Blunt counted 60-some GOP votes and was hopeful they could get as many as 75 - and that Democrats would have to make up the rest. Four Democratic sources dispute this version, insisting that they were always promised between 80-90 GOP votes - still short of the 100 votes that would make up a majority of House Republicans, but enough to qualify as a bipartisan victory...
...Representative Rahm Emanuel, the No. 4 House Democrat, were in animated discussions on the Republican side of the chamber with Boehner and Blunt. Hoyer "was running around in there saying, 'The market is falling! The market is falling!' " said Scott Garrett, a New Jersey Republican. Faced with a major GOP shortfall, Democrats refused to force 12 of their members to change their votes for a bill that they had just spent the past week renegotiating in order to garner Republican support, dropping several provisions important to Democrats. By 2:05 the vote was done, failing to pass by a margin...
...meantime, House GOP factions jockeyed to have their proposals included in whatever new bill is negotiated - many boasting that they (unlike their leaders) can deliver the necessary votes if their ideas are adopted. Jeb Hensarling, chairman of the Republican Study Committee, a group of fiscal conservatives in the House, sent a letter to the group's 100-plus members advocating their involvement in a solution. "House conservatives have authored many alternatives that would work if only the Administration and the Democrat majority are willing to meet us halfway," Hensarling wrote. Representative Darrell Issa pushed a plan that he has advocated...
...House Democrats have two choices: move the bill further to the right to try and get more GOP votes (but risk alienating more Democrats) or forsake bipartisanship altogether and write a bill they like (with such provisions as more aid to ailing homeowners) that can garner enough Republican votes in the Senate and pass without input, or support, from House Republicans. Pelosi, however, has all along stressed the need to have bipartisan support for such a controversial bill only five weeks before Election Day. And some political observers argue that the Dems have very little incentive to take such...