Reminder: HR 372 would allow an up or down vote on a clean continuing resolution, consistent with the funding levels passed by the Senate, if a majority of House Members sign onto a discharge petition.
From the National Review:
Representative Peter King (R., N.Y.) tells National Review Online that he thinks House Republicans would like to avoid an impending government shutdown and that he won’t vote for anything other than a clean CR. He also says that many of the Republican members he talks to on the House floor feel largely the same way.
“If it was on the floor, they would do it,” he says. “Put it this way, two thirds want a clean CR.”He adds: “Including some of the people who got elected as tea-party candidates from the South. You talk to them, they think this is crazy.”
2/3 * 232 Republicans + 200 Democrats = 354 votes in favor. (I rounded down.) By any rational measure that constitutes a landslide.
If King is correct then why is Boehner catering to a minority of his party?
See here for a list of House Republicans on record as supporting a “clean CR”.
UPDATE 10/16/2013: Not quite 350. Vote was 285-144 to approve the Senate plan for the CR and debt limit. Democrats voted in favor 198-0. Republicans went 87-144.