Like Taylor, House Republicans say they won't vote for any bill that puts strings on funding for troops.
They were rewarded with another chance to vote for a bill to ban foxhunting.
The vote for House Bill 153 was along party lines: 59-40, with Democrats opposing the measure.
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Is he doing anything behind the scenes to try to get more Democrats to vote for this bill?
"Let's celebrate not discriminate, and let's be on the right side of history, and vote for this bill today, " she urged MPs.
Does the President encourage members of the House to vote for that bill?
Only a clueless conservative would ever vote for a bill like this one.
President Barack Obama has postponed a scheduled trip to Asia to be in town to help persuade wavering Democrats to vote for the bill.
Other times, a senator will vote for a bill simply because there is an amendment attached that would be favorable to his or her constituents.
The Colombo press has been full of allegations that the government was offering bribes of cash, cars and houses to opposition members who would vote for the bill.
He also repeated four times that he won't vote for a bill that raises the federal deficit, and explained how the goal of overhauling health care is to end discriminatory practices by the insurance industry while bringing down costs.
The people on the side of trying to have a better bill will, at the end of the day, be proven right, and in fact, will vote for the bill that the President will sign before this is over.
The National Republican Campaign Committee, which is responsible for electing Republicans to the House of Representatives, is also running an ad aimed at Democrats who have been wavering about whether to vote for the bill that the Senate passed in December.
Conservatives, already unhappy with tax increases, are likely to be further displeased that the Senate agreement fails to actually deal with spending something Minority Leader Mitch McConnell acknowledged yesterday when asking GOP Senators to vote for the bill despite its failure to address spending cuts, noting that the tax portion of the fiscal cliff was the most important component of the deal.
And if the House Republicans refuse to vote for the Senate bill, or even allow it to come up for a vote, taxes will go up in 11 days.
John McCain said Monday that he would not be able to vote for the Senate bill in its current form.
Evan Bayh of Indiana and Russ Feingold of Wisconsin -- announced they would not vote for the spending bill and urged Obama to veto it if it passed.
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This describes the unfortunate lawmaker forced to vote for an unpopular bill that has no chance of becoming law sort of the 1993 version of those House Republicans who voted to end Medicare as we know it.
Last week, for example, you put up for a vote a bill I supported -- Conrad-Gregg fiscal commission.
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They've received thousands of emails and phone calls urging them to vote for or against the bill, with veteran Sen.
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Olympia Snowe -- the lone Republican to vote for the Finance Committee bill -- has expressed strong opposition to a public option.
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Further complicating matters is Illinois Democrat Roland Burris, who says he won't vote for a health care bill unless it does have a public option.
She faces a potentially difficult re-election bid next year, and hesitates when asked whether she'd vote for a health care bill that has a public option.
The vote tally for the 2001 bill that created the first round of the Bush tax cuts delivered just 28 votes in support from House Democrats.
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Public-interest groups, hoping to hold the Louisianans and others to past promises, are dredging up newsclips in which the lawmakers are quoted as saying they will vote for McCain's bill.
And then on health care, the President made an impassioned plea to Democrats who are wavering to take a courageous vote and vote for the health care bill even if they think it may not be politically popular for them to do it.
This means that Mr Reid may not be able to count on Mr Nelson's vote for the final Senate bill, but others may compensate: Ms Snowe and Susan Collins, another Republican from Maine, both sided with most of the Democrats to defeat the amendment.
White House press secretary Ari Fleischer acknowledged in his afternoon briefing that Bush was speaking of a simple majority vote in the Senate, should the bill be brought up for a vote.
Most pundits expect them to vote yes now and for this bill to be passed.
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