Spaniards are now angry that it was passed with the help of "three votes stained with blood".
In theory, the proposed electoral law could be passed with the help of the PD's allies in government, the New Centre Right (NCD).
Some of them were passed with the help of Labour's Baroness Jay and her all-party constitution committee, Lord Mackay, Lord Newton and leading crossbenchers.
In 1964 the Civil Rights Act was passed with the help of 27 Republican senators and 46 Democrats, but that paints a misleading picture of bipartisan comity.
In 1981, President Reagan's tax cuts passed with the help of forty-eight cross-party votes in the House and thirty-seven in the Senate.
Another Gohmert initiative, calling for the study of the feasibility of a memorial commemorating the space shuttle Columbia disaster, was incorporated into a separate Senate bill passed with the help of Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison.
Though the bill would most likely pass with the help of Democratic votes, Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio would still have to agree to put the proposal on the floor for a vote, something he has been hesitant to do.
The controversial policies were passed with the help of "pro-European" opposition parties, including the main centre-right New Democracy, which have argued that Greece must remain at the heart of Europe, and in the eurozone, at any cost.
Despite continuing anxiety from both left and right about what has been left out of the fragile compromise deal, GOP leaders have announced a vote at 5pm on Thursday that is now expected to pass, with the help of Democrats.
Last June, the church played a key role in a referendum that sought to overturn parts of a restrictive law on in vitro fertilisation, which had been passed with the help of a cross-party majority of Catholic parliamentarians.To be valid, referendums in Italy need to attract the votes of more than half the electorate.
