The House on Tuesday voted to take up a partisan six-month stopgap spending bill featuring controversial voting restriction legislation as soon as Wednesday, adopting the rule for floor debate on the continuing resolution and several unrelated bills on a narrow party-line vote.
The rule vote was 209-206, with two Republicans opposed: Montana’s Matt Rosendale and Arizona’s Andy Biggs. No Democrats supported it.
Despite growing GOP opposition to the stopgap bill and no clear path to passage, Speaker Mike Johnson earlier in the day vowed to put the CR on the floor Wednesday both in private comments at a Tuesday morning conference meeting and later publicly to reporters.
