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The U.S. House Erupts Into Chaos After LGBT Protection Amendment Narrowly Fails

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cameron

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CBS News:
The House floor erupted Thursday into a tense, chaotic situation after an amendment to protect members of the LGBT community failed several seconds after it looked like it had enough votes to pass.

The amendment from Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-New York, would have barred federal contracts to companies that discriminate against LGBT employees. It was an attempt to undo a provision inside a major defense bill the House passed a night earlier that would reverse President Obama's executive order extending anti-discrimination protections to federal contractors' LGBT employees. Democrats warned the provision will allow any federal contractor to discriminate against gay, lesbian and transgender people.

Maloney's amendment narrowly failed Thursday 212-213 after it looked like it was going to pass 217-206 a few seconds earlier. Republican leaders held open the vote and Democrats say Republicans twisted arms, pressuring members of their conference to switch their votes so that it would fail.
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Before and after shots of @HouseGOP bully tactics that changed House votes in FAVOR of discrimination. #shame
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After it failed, House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, appeared visibly angry and spoke on the floor, pointing out he never saw any Republicans come to the front of the chamber to change their votes.

"I was standing in the well and no one came and no one had the courage to come into the well to change their vote, but notwithstanding that, the vote kept changing. Mr. Speaker, from a parliamentary perspective, how is that possible?" Hoyer said.

According to an aide to Hoyer, Republicans kept the vote open so that lawmakers could change their vote from their seats without approaching the front of the chamber.
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HStallion

Now what's the next step in your master plan?
I'm still waiting for a brawl to break out one of these days, with as heated as things are getting and the political process turning into an ugly circus its only a matter of time. That or a caning in congress to make Andrew Jackson proud.
 
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excelsiorlef

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Man I can't believe both parties voted in favour of discrimination.... oh wait.

Democratic Party: The only people opposing discrimination.
 
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RumblingRosco

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What a bunch of crap.

However, keep fighting and keep making noise. Maybe we lose this battle, but the writing is on the wall. It'll be a win next time. Progress almost always wins in the end.
 
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Blader

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Republicans who switched their votes to block the amendment:

Hoyer’s press office just an hour later tweeted out the names of the Republicans who switched their vote, a group of mostly west-coast Republicans: Reps. Darrell Issa (Calif.), David Valadao (Calif.), Jeff Denham (Calif.), Greg Walden (Ore.), Mimi Walters (Calif.), David Yong (Iowa) and Bruce Poliquin (Maine). Their offices have not yet responded to request for comment.
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http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/house-lgbt-amendment-discrimination-fight-223366
 
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TemplaerDude

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I don't get it, how the fuck are these guys allowed to govern? Like, right there, any one with common sense would say "oh alright okay that's enough" and strip their powers and your country keeps electing them. Absolute insanity.
 
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Dartastic

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What I find so frustrating about this is that it SHOULD be such a no-brainer. Why is this still a thing? We should be arguing about actual topics of substance, not "hey maybe we shouldn't hire companies that discriminate against minority groups." FFS.
 
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TemplaerDude said:
I don't get it, how the fuck are these guys allowed to govern? Like, right there, any one with common sense would say "oh alright okay that's enough" and strip their powers and your country keeps electing them. Absolute insanity.
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Its called democracy. Dont blame the assholes. Blame the assholes that put them thier.
 
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NOLA_Gaffer said:
I assume "NV" is "Not Voting"? They couldn't get at least two of those five democrats to vote?
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Looking at the vote:

Fattah seems to be involved in some sort of corruption trial. Hinojosa is retiring so he's probably hardly there right now. Judging from her twitter, E.B. Johnson might be in Texas right now. I can't tell what's going on with Swalwell but he's missed a lot of votes in the past month. Takai has pancreatic cancer.
 
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2thepoint

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How is it even possible that American people vote in this disgusting party - its just truly a farce from a Euro perspective.

People deserve better than this absolutely horrible party.
 
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