The news was here earlier: US House of Representatives vote on debt ceiling: PASSES

  • House agrees to ‘suspend’ the US debt ceiling without any add-on provisions – funds the US government through until March 2015
  • Vote was 221 – 201 in favour
  • The measure goes to the Senate after this vote, where democrats plan to support it, and thus it should pass.

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Some interesting analysis from Roll Call:

  • Twenty-eight Republicans voted for the bill
  • Which means this debt ceiling vote was the most extreme example of violating the principle that the speaker does not bring a bill to the floor without a “majority of the majority” — the so-called Hastert Rule (named after former Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., who broke that principle 12 times himself)
  • Of the 28 Republicans voting for the debt ceiling, there were only four members of GOP leadership: Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio, Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia, Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy of California, and Chief Deputy Whip Peter Roskam of Illinois. As a matter of principle, the speaker rarely votes, making this one particularly notable.
  • What is also notable is how GOP leadership was split on the measure

I’m no expert on US politics, so more here: Breaking Down the Debt Ceiling Vote (not gated)