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Pocan says procedural move could end shutdown

October 8, 2013 By Andrew Beckett

Congressional Democrats are considering a procedural trick that could allow them to end the government shutdown. The move would allow them to force a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives by essentially hijacking a Republican bill and inserting the language of a continuing resolution to fund the government.

The move would require 218 signatures on a petition calling for a vote, which U.S. Representative Mark Pocan (D-WI) believes Democrats should be able to get. “Last time I looked, it was 21 Republicans who said they would vote for it. Unless they’re not telling the truth back home, we have an opportunity to pass it.”

AUDIO: Rep. Mark Pocan (:29)

Pocan believes all it will take to end the shutdown is to get a vote in the House on a clean continuing resolution. He says “what we need are the adults, especially in the Republican Party, to stand up to the Tea Party and move something forward.”

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