House Democrats flexed their muscle tonight to pass a state budget that carves $4 billion out of education, healthcare, human services and public safety programs
Emotion flowed in two hours of debate that ended with the rare oral roll call vote.
It passed on a 54-42 margin with two Republicans excused.
Democrats alone backed the budget. Eight Democrats joined 34 Republicans in dissent. I put the vote below.
House Bill 1244 is the blueprint for $31.4 billion of spending by the state through mid-2011
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Next up,. the Senate Ways and Means Committee will hold a hearing on the legislation at 8 a.m. Saturday. A Senate vote is expected Sunday, the last scheduled day of the session.
Here’s the roll call Yeas: 54 Nays: 42 Absent: 0 Excused: 2 Voting Yea: Representatives Appleton, Blake, Carlyle, Chase, Clibborn, Cody, Conway, Darneille, Dickerson, Dunshee, Eddy, Ericks, Finn, Flannigan, Goodman, Green, Haigh, Hudgins, Hunt, Hunter, Hurst, Jacks, Kagi, Kelley, Kenney, Kessler, Kirby, Liias, Linville, Maxwell, McCoy, Moeller, Morrell, Morris, Nelson, O’Brien, Ormsby, Orwall, Pedersen, Pettigrew, Probst, Quall, Roberts, Rolfes, Santos, Seaquist, Springer, Takko, Upthegrove, Van De Wege, Wallace, White, Wood, and Mr. Speaker
Voting Nay: Representatives Alexander, Anderson, Angel, Bailey, Campbell, Chandler, Condotta, Cox, Crouse, Dammeier, DeBolt, Driscoll, Ericksen, Grant-Herriot, Haler, Hasegawa, Herrera, Hinkle, Hope, Johnson, Klippert, Kretz, Kristiansen, McCune, Miloscia, Orcutt, Parker, Pearson, Priest, Roach, Rodne, Ross, Schmick, Sells, Shea, Simpson, Smith, Sullivan, Taylor, Walsh, Warnick, and Williams Excused: Representatives Armstrong and Short
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