sosayusall wrote:
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Leadership here should be celebrated for allowing bipartisanship to the floor. It is refreshing to see the middle holding the winning hand. When was the last time a bill (by either party) was past without the majority of the majority (most of GOP voted against the bill).
I was going to respond with a "I don't know", but then remembered this internet google fu thingy was there to use.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hastert_rule#: This wiki page offers up a fair account of the recent Speakers and how they acted with regard to legislation that lacked the support of the majority of the majority . Exceptions are rare.
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Tip O'Neill: position of giving Ronald Reagan enough rope to eventually strangle himself .
Tom Foley: "I think you don't want to bring bills to the floor that a majority of your party is opposed to routinely but sometimes when a great issue is at stake, I think you need to do that."
Pelosi: "I'm the Speaker of the House...I have to take into consideration something broader than the majority of the majority in the Democratic Caucus." She also said at that time, "I would encourage my colleagues not to be proposing resolutions that say 'the majority of the majority does this or that.' We have to talk it out, see what is possible to get a job done. And as I say, we do that together."
Boehner: he kept the government running with his exception to the rule but when handed a no brainer bipartisan supported Senate bill on comprehensive immigration reform he showed cowardice.