OK I heard on local news this morning the bail out bill passed the House 222-199

[Winterblues]

That sounds like Party line voting to me. Does anyone know the breakdown? How many Republicans and how many Democrats?

[shadowknows69]

1. Um, they haven't voted yet

The debate is on live now.

[notadmblnd]

2. CSPAN 1?

[pinto]

4. Yeah. 3 hours of debate, no amendments allowed and a vote.

[shadowknows69]

6. yep, i think so

[shadowknows69]

3. might have been a projected vote

It appears it will pass in its current form in the House.

[ShortnFiery]

5. Thank goodness, we can still hope.

:shrug:

[seemslikeadream]

8. and I heard on MSNBC that it will be very close

and they can't predict

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Just a procedural vote

see http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ioHc80xKMiATnqCpK0cDKJzk_nPQD93GD34G0

[Brotherjohn]

9. That was probably the procedural vote to allow it to go to the floor for debate and be voted on.

Don't know if the closeness of that reflects at all on what the final vote on the bill might be.

Could be, some hold-outs voted against bringing it to the floor so they could save some face for after voting FOR the actual bill. Could be, procedural votes like that mean nothing. Could be, it means the final vote will mirror it (which would be pretty close). Don't know.

[Lost-in-FL]

10. They haven't done the final vote yet. It will be @ 1230hrs

I'm watching C-Span right now.