House votes on bailout bill

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:08:54 +0000

We started watching at around 12:30 and missed the morning debate. If Ron Paul spoke, we sadly missed it. We’re watching on c-span.org—this time it’s working. They’ve started voting right now!

Pelosi didn’t give the mad hatter speech this time.

65-23!

77-30!

93-36!

…somebody did a real evil laugh on the floor. We’re not sure who.

111-43…

…that same evil laugh. Twice more. Now a female evil laugh.

7:30 remaining and the vote is 121-57.

160-83 with 4 mins to go… and our c-span feed just died. The tubes of the Internet are getting clogged with all that new monies.

We’re back, 188-104 with 2 mins to go.

196-116 with one minute remaining…

People are clapping, it passed. We’re all doomed now kthxbai.

P.S. Gavel came down, 263-171.

Bailout Plan Fails House Vote

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:26:24 +0000

As the vote is happening I’ve been trying to get to C-SPAN.org to watch the vote live, but the server’s been busy because of the seven billion other people trying to do the same. Apparently as we type right here the House is taking a roll-call vote on the Paulson $700B financial bailout plan, and No is ahead…

Oh wait, they’ve just finished, and they rejected it. From Reuters.com:

“House rejects $700 billion Wall Street bailout bill 2:06pm EDT”

“House rejects $700 billion Wall Street bailout bill 228-205″

The word is that the vote was 228-205. You can read the defeated version (as there very may well be further attempts) of the bill here.

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House votes on bailout bill

Bailout Plan Fails House Vote

“House rejects $700 billion Wall Street bailout bill 2:06pm EDT”

“House rejects $700 billion Wall Street bailout bill 228-205″