Felipe Vargas, one of four protesters in San Antonio who have been fasting for nearly six weeks in support of the bill, said he had nursed great hopes that it would finally pass, having first been introduced in 2001.
It wasn't actually what you saw," she says, adding that it would have passed without comment had she been a man.
Does anyone doubt that it would have passed overwhelmingly if House conservatives hadn't rebelled?
Helaba complained bitterly, however, that the European Banking Authority, which is conducting the tests, had refused to give the bank credit for state aid it had received, and said it would have passed otherwise.
But with 3,000 layoff notices already sent out and 2,000 or more still possible, all 14 unions that have completed a new vote have approved the deal, officials said, meaning it would have passed even under the old rules.
Such a referendum would have been expensive and divisive, but it would have passed.
Boehner could have brought a clean version of the funding legislation to the House floor; this could have kept the government open, but it would have passed only with the help of Democratic votes.
If these Democrats hadn't moved the other way, it would have passed.
But, Harris added, "I don't believe if legalisation had been on the primary ballot that it would have passed". .
But, Harris added, "I don't believe if legalization had been on the primary ballot that it would have passed". .
