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Disapproving Your Own Actions
Topic Started: Oct 30 2013, 08:11 AM (74 Views)
Axtremus
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HOLY CARP!!!
[MainerMikeBrown]
Many people make choices, but not every one approves of his own choices. Some people make a choice and then disapprove their own choice shortly thereafter.
[/MainerMikeBrown]

[Any Politician] I was for it before I was against it [/Any Politician]

[Any Other Politician] I was against it before I was for it [/Any Other Politician]

(hat tip Steve Miller)

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/27-gop-senators-disapprove-of-their-own-vote-on-the-debt-ceiling

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Twenty-seven Republican senators voted with Democrats on Oct. 16 to lift the debt ceiling and avert a catastrophic default. And each one of those 27 senators voted Tuesday to "disapprove" of their own votes.

The vote Tuesday was a symbolic "resolution to disapprove" of the debt limit hike. It was mandated by the deal thanks to a last-minute provision inserted by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). The motion failed 45-54 because all Democrats opposed it.

Even if it passed Congress, it wouldn't have stopped the debt limit hike because President Obama could veto the measure. The purpose was to give these senators the chance to say they disapprove of a deal they voted for.

Here are the 27 GOP senators who voted Tuesday to disapprove of their own votes:

Alexander (R-TN)
Ayotte (R-NH)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Chiesa (R-NJ)
Coats (R-IN)
Cochran (R-MS)
Collins (R-ME)
Corker (R-TN)
Fischer (R-NE)
Flake (R-AZ)
Graham (R-SC)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Kirk (R-IL)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Moran (R-KS)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Portman (R-OH)
Thune (R-SD)
Wicker (R-MS)

The House is set to vote on the same symbolic measure on Wednesday.
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