House Passes CR Unacceptable to Senate Democrats : Roll Call News
After a long day of debate and fierce Republican whipping efforts, the House passed a government funding measure that faces an uncertain future in the Democratic-led Senate.
The bill passed 219-203, largely along party lines, with six Democrats mostly from disaster-stricken states joining Republicans in favor. Twenty-four mostly conservative Republicans voted against the bill, largely contending that the price tag was higher than the GOP budget passed by the House earlier this year.
Democrats say the measure falls short in providing disaster aid, and they don’t like the offsets.
After failing to pass an earlier version of the measure Wednesday, GOP leaders tweaked the measure to include an additional $100 million in cuts that would come from a Department of Energy program that provided loan guarantees to Solyndra LLC, a bankrupt Fremont, Calif., solar-panel maker. That reduction is on top of the roughly $1 billion cut from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing loan program to pay for part of the emergency spending.