Does Obama even need Republican senate votes to pass his spending bill?

How many Dem votes does he have in the Senate already? Is all of this campaigning to get Republican fingerprints on this bill? I mean texting and emailing us at home? What is up…and the TV ads…?
Last I looked he had the votes he needed.http://www.congress.org/congressorg/issues/votes/?votenum=46&chamber=H&congress=1111&tally=1

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who do I complain to about county clerk campaigning with county funds?

I would like to know who do I complain to about our county clerk .
In our court house the county clerk is running for another term.
She is using her county clerk email to campaign.
In bold letters she has New Michigan Voter Information Center Feature Announced. When you click on it it goes to her blog. [...]

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Did any of you get a response like this after emailing your representative to say “NO” to the bailout?

http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/09/10012_house-700-bailout-failure-emails.html
“Subject: House of Representatives is limiting constituent email due to volume
Please be advised that the House of Representatives is currently imposing limits on inbound communications from constituents because volumes are so high that Congressional websites and web forms are becoming non-responsive. A limit on the number of emails that can be sent via the “Write [...]

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