House Passes Final Stimulus Bill

On a strict party line vote of 246 yeas and 183 nays, the House of Representatives passed the conference committee version of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Friday afternoon, with no Republican members voting in favor of the legislation, and despite the fact that the tax titles of the conference committee version are still not available for review by Congressmen. The House Rules Committee website does have up the appropriations titles and the conference committee explanatory statement of both the appropriations and taxation revisions made in conference.