The BJP and left-wing parties have insisted that a debate on economic reforms must be held under rules that include voting.
Mr. Abe won the support of 328 members of the 480-seat lower house, a total that included votes from the Liberal Democrats' coalition partner, a small Buddhist party.
Running again in 1948, he won the Democratic primary (which in Texas was tantamount to election) after a vicious campaign that included vote fraud on both sides.
That includes votes in 1986, 2006, two in 2007, and finally last year's Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act.
This includes voting for Hillary Clinton for President.
That included votes on a $50 million Motorola contract with the juvenile detention center, county health contracts with GE Medical Systems and Abbott Laboratories, and tax increases on food, beverages and hotel stays.
Add in other bitterly contested areas that remained unsettled in Naples, including voting weights, tax and foreign policy, and the odds are rising that the summit will end in stalemate and that the parties will have to fight anew next year.
Kim manages a portfolio that includes education, voting rights, employment discrimination, fair housing, criminal justice, and tech policy.
But Representative Betsy Markey, a freshman Democrat from the district that includes Fort Collins, voted against it, saying the bill did not do enough to cut costs.
Voters in the Swiss canton that includes Zurich voted in February to end the practice of offering flat-rate deals for foreigners who choose to live in the area (the vote covered cantonal but not federal taxes).
