Oregon: U.s. House

Argh. In a big surprise, the wilderness area protection bill (S. 22) - which included the long-awaited Mt. Hood Wilderness Area - was defeated in the U.S. House by just two votes. Apparently the bill required a two-thirds vote to pass - under some arcane House rules. (I thought the House was the body without supermajority rules?) From the Washington Post: The measure -- which has passed the Senate already and would represent one of the largest expansions of public lands in a quarter century -- received 282 aye and 144 nay votes, leaving it two votes shy of passage....