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The House of Representatives<\/span> narrowly defeated a resolution aimed at blocking further attacks on Venezuela after House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., held the poll open for a lengthy period to secure a final vote against it.<\/p>\n The House voted 215\u2013215 on the measure. Under House rules, a tied vote is a defeat.<\/p>\n Johnson\u2019s decision to keep the vote open for more than 20 minutes drew jeers from Democrats and an angry response from Rep. Pat Ryan, D-N.Y., one of the measure\u2019s supporters.<\/p>\n \u201cClose the vote! Come on! Seriously!\u201d Ryan said. \u201cCome on! This is serious! This is serious shit! Close the vote!\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ryan\u2019s request was ignored and the vote was held open until Rep. Wesley Hunt, R-Texas, who had been campaigning for a U.S. Senate seat <\/a>in Texas, arrived in the chamber to cast the decisive vote against the measure.<\/p>\n The slow-moving vote in the House had threatened to spoil a signature achievement for Johnson, who minutes earlier had secured passage of an appropriations package that would prevent another government shutdown<\/a>.<\/p>\n Democrats were unanimous in support, and a pair of Republicans, Reps. Thomas Massie<\/a>, R-Ky., and Don Bacon, R-Neb., crossed the aisle to vote with them.<\/p>\n For a time, it appeared that supporters of the resolution might secure its passage, thanks to the absence of Hunt and other Republicans.<\/p>\n That would have marked a significant defeat for Johnson in light of President Donald Trump\u2019s furious response to Republican defections during a vote two weeks ago in the Senate.<\/p>\n Five Republicans<\/a> had cast ayes in a procedural vote to advance a war powers resolution similar to the one considered by the House on Thursday. Trump\u2019s bullying response<\/a> convinced two GOP senators to flip their votes a week later and doom the measure there.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n #Johnson #Stalled #Tardy #GOP #Rep #Cast #Deciding #Vote #Bill #Block #War #Venezuela<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The House of Representatives n… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[246],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}