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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica; min-height: 22.0px">By a vote of 221-201 the U.S. House passed a &ldquo;clean&rdquo; debt ceiling hike for more than a year.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica; min-height: 22.0px">It took the votes of &ldquo;Twenty-eight Republicans&rdquo; to push it through, once again ignoring the &ldquo;Hastert Rule&rdquo; of not passing a bill without a &ldquo;majority of the majority&rdquo; in favor of it.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica; min-height: 22.0px">Even with all of his protestations about raising the debt limit, Speaker Boehner voted for it along with Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy , Chief Deputy Whip Peter Roskam, and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica; min-height: 22.0px">Congressman Dave Camp was the only one of the 9 Michigan Republicans elected members of Congress who voted for raising the debt limit.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica; min-height: 22.0px">There wasn&rsquo;t even an amendment to ask for any concessions as part of the deal - just keep spending like drunken sailors.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica; min-height: 22.0px">It would appear that the Republicans don&rsquo;t want to rock the boat before the November elections so to hell with doing what is fiscally responsible.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica; min-height: 22.0px">For an article on the debt ceiling vote and what Republicans voted for it click on the following story link:</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica; min-height: 22.0px"><a href="http://blogs.rollcall.com/218/breaking-down-the-debt-ceiling-vote/">http://blogs.rollcall.com/218/breaking-down-the-debt-ceiling-vote/</a></p>
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