commons. today s vote clears the way for members of parliament to introduce a bill that would seek to prevent britain from crashing out of the european union without a deal october 31st. the bill is expected to come up for a vote tomorrow. it s likely to pass. if that happens, brexit could be delayed until next year or not happen at all. after today s vote bo-jo addressed parliament in another drama-filled moment. we are going to have to make a choice, mr. speaker. i don t want an election. the public don t want an election. i don t believe the gentleman wants an election. but if the house votes for this bill tomorrow, the public will have to choose who goes to brussels on october the 17th to sort this out and take this country forward. everybody knows that if he is the prime minister he will go to brussels and beg for an extension. he will accept you will accept you will accept whatever brussels demands. and we will have years more
the 31st of october, with i hope a much better deal. moments later, johnson demanded a snap general election to try to get a mandate for his plan. i then want an election. the public don t want an election. the country doesn t want an election. but this house has left no other option than letting the public decide who they want as prime minister. but his call for an election was then rejected. the series of events is an embarrassing rebuke for johnson, who has only been in charge since the end of july. just yesterday, 21 members of his own party defected, joining opposition lawmakers to take control of the parliamentary agenda. johnson was elected on the promise that he would finally deliver a permanent break from the european union, deal or no deal, on october 31st. this brexit saga has mired british politics in chaos and confusion since it was approved by a slim margin in a referendum
program in california. earmarking is really bad because it incentivizes members of congress to look for these massive spending bills in exchange for relatively small earmarks that could total a few million dollars or a few thousand dollars. we all remember the shrimp running on the treadmill. they sneak these things in too because they are not talking about shrimp but fruit flies, $9 million for the fruit fly quarantine program. that is right and they hope many of us won t notice. many members of the public don t. back in 1822, james monroe wrote to congress about congressional spending authority should be limited to national works, spending authority became relatively unlimited it would be subject to waste and abuse. here we are 200 years later and these earmarks continue to corrupt congress and the road trust in washington dc.
lot of these place and campaigned and the vice president for the republicans. we ll analyze this later. the question is whether that hidden vote is connected to the president in some of these races. it s absolutely a possibility especially in trump states, ohio, georgia, florida, if he was able to rally the base, i don t know if that s it or the pollsters don t know how to measure the trump support out there. it s entirely possible that there s a whole level of voter that doesn t wanton tell pollsters they re supporting president trump, doesn t respect pollsters or they re not able to reach them. nancy pelosi is getting ready to speak in washington. we ll have coverage of that as we go overto john king. nancy pelosi strongly predicted the republicans would lose the majority in the house of representatives. guess what, she was right. now she has a very difficult challenge as she speaks tonight to try to convince account new
and ed chu of california, t.k. butterfield of north carolina. barbara lee of california. henry of texas. karen bass of california. don buyer of virginia. and brendon boyle of pennsylvania. we all join in thanking all of you. many of you are our vips. our real vips, our volunteers in politics. women and men hope have mobilized in historic numbers who saw what you you this congress was doing and refused