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News Your source on political action, voter info & legislation House fails to override president's veto of Labor-HHS-Education spending bill Nov. 16, 2007 - The U.S. House yesterday voted 277 to 141 to override the President's veto of the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (Labor-HHS) spending bill for Fiscal Year 2008. While the vote demonstrated strong, bipartisan support for the Labor-HHS bill – legislation that rejected harmful cuts proposed by the Bush Administration to workforce, health care, human services and education programs – the margin of support was two votes short of the two-thirds majority needed to override the President's veto. According to the House Vote #1122 reported by GovTrack.org, 15 representatives did not vote last night on H.R. 3043. See how your representative voted below.
No Democrats voted against the override. On the other hand, 51 Republicans sided with the Democrats and voted to override the President. Congress is now expected to turn its attention to an "omnibus" spending package combining several spending bills, but will likely try to reach a compromise with the President by splitting the difference in the level of increased spending which would mean an increase of about $11 billion above the President's request. See Related
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