Washington (CNN) -- House Democrats voted Thursday against considering the tax package that President Barack Obama negotiated with Republicans, raising questions over the president's influence in his own party.Talk is very cheap up on Capitol Hill.
The vote by the House Democratic caucus was a defiant rejection of both the agreement on tax and benefit measures, as well as what many Democrats in the chamber perceived as being marginalized in the talks by the White House.
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While the House Democrats' vote is nonbinding, Texas Rep. Lloyd Doggett -- who said the resolution was adopted by a "very loud voice vote" -- had "no doubt" that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would follow the caucus' vote against the bill.
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