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.
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.
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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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.
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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He was the only House Republican to vote for the health-care bill last year, though he switched to a no over abortion funding, and is frustrated by petty partisanship on Capitol Hill.
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The assumption is that all 45 Democrats will vote for the McCain-Feingold bill along with three or four Republicans, which leaves the reformers with a lot to do (for example, they need 60 votes if they are to avoid a filibuster).
But the main focus of attention is bound to be the United Auto Workers union, which is loathed not just by those Senate Republicans whose refusal to vote for a bail-out bill forced Mr Bush to act, but by many ordinary Americans in less well-paid, less secure employment.
W. Bush was ahead with 41% of the vote, compared with 26% for Bill Clinton and 25% for Ross Perot.
Meanwhile the Senate is preparing for a vote on the reform bill.
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