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The Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA), H.R. 3541, was defeated in a 246-168 vote.
WTF, you ask? If the vote was 246 in favor and only 168 against, why is this a defeat for the bill? Because, in order to play politics and blame Democrats for the bill not passing, the GOP leadership set a 2/3 vote threshold for passage, instead of a simple majority. The Republicans could easily have passed this bill in the House by requiring a simple majority, as should be the case, but chose not to, for nothing more than political purposes.
Douchebaggery, as usual, in the House of Representatives, and this is your tax dollars at work.
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