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Vote knowing it would pass and essentially become law afterward. when you were speaker of the house, one of the key powers to have is the power to control the floor. speaker boehner used that tonight in a way that he and his members understood would lead to probably the passage of this bill. while it s true that republicans chose to vote no on the bill specifically, the republican party and house republicans permitted the bill to pass. there were political calculations, but in breaking and permitting the bill to come to the floor without the support of more than half the republican congress, speaker banner and his congress, they said, they said that we see in our political self-interest to resolve this negotiation and allow this bill to pass even if a lot of us will vote for it. it was an attempt to have it both ways. in a broadway people understand ....

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