Saturday, April 04, 2009

budget votes

President Obama’s budget passed the House and Senate yesterday, by votes of 233-196 and 55-43, respectively. No Republicans voted for the budget in either chamber. Twenty House Democrats voted against the budget.

The House Republicans’ alternative budget was rejected by a 293-137 vote. Thirty-eight members — or 20 percent — of the House Republican caucus voted against their own party’s budget proposal, written by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI). By contrast, only 8 percent of Democrats voted against their party’s budget.

(Think Progress)

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Not surprising that no one in the party of no voted for Obama's budget, but kinda funny that 20% of them voted against their own budget. Kinda goes to show just how ridiculous that faux budget was.