Rerun: Pelosi Expects Zero GOP Votes For Budget

Rerun: Pelosi Expects Zero GOP Votes For Budget

House Republicans are likely to drop another goose egg on the House floor when the budget comes up for a vote this week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said on Tuesday.

"I think I can count on not having any Republican votes on the budget," Pelosi told environmental bloggers on a conference call.

"Civil as we like to have the debate be, and as it was in the budget committee, [Republicans] offered 50 amendments and the Democrats, right down the line, from right to left in our party, rejected every one of their amendments, because they were not values-based, intellectually driven about the change we need for the future," Pelosi said.

Pelosi called on the bloggers to whip support for the package. "The first help that you can provide for us is to insist that people vote for the budget. Because without that, if the budget fails, we're all up the creek in term of education, healthcare and energy," she said. "So it's very, very important that the budget succeed."

Pelosi may have spoken too soon: Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao (R-La.), who once referred to himself as a "closet Democrat," told The Hill that he might vote for the president's budget.

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