Rep. Price Gets House Vote On Lame Duck Session

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced yesterday she’s interrupting her scheduled six-week summer vacation to hold a special, pro forma session of the House to vote on an additional $26 billion bailout for states.

The measure cleared a Senate cloture vote Wednesday -- teeing up the massive state bailout for Senate passage by week’s end.

The return of the House likely Monday night also sets up a vote on the privileged resolution offered by Republican Study Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-Ga.) prior to adjourning for recess. Price’s resolution will force a vote on a Democrat commitment not to hold a lame duck session of Congress after Election Day in November.

“If the Democrat leadership is willing to bring lawmakers back to Washington in order to pass billions more in ‘stimulus’ spending with tax hikes on job creators, the least they can do is tell the American people that they will not bring lawmakers back for a lame duck session to pass additional tax increases, deficit spending, and special interest giveaways,” Price said. “This No Lame Duck resolution will allow our Democrat colleagues to make it clear whether or not they plan to govern in accordance with the will of the American people or in spite of it.”

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