Friday, August 03, 2007

Democrats cheat on congressional vote to support illegal immigrants


http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YjY0MDU1YTAyYTU5OGE4NmIzOGZjZWUzMzJkNzMxYmM=

Two Democrats changed their votes to ensure that the measure would fail, but then three Republicans did the same. The vote total was 215-213 in favor of the Republican motion to recommit. At that moment, Rep. Mike McNulty ( D-N.Y.), who was in the Speaker's chair, gavelled out the vote, thinking that it was a tie and the motion had failed. But he had miscounted — the motion had actually passed. The Democrats were only able to change this by cheating and changing more votes after the gavel.

Although they did not do so for hours, the House clerk's office finally did put a record of the vote online this morning, with the measure failing by a vote of 216-212.

 

Also, as the aide quoted on The Corner earlier today points out, the Democrats used this creative vote-counting in order to preserve and expand new welfare services for illegal immigrants. Republicans don't have too many issues going for them right now, so this might be a good one to keep alive.

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