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The "patients' rights" bill passed 275-151 (with 68 Republican defections) in one of the rare House votes where the outcome was not known in advance.
USAT reports that the defections of the North Korean ambassador and his wife and brother were "daring, synchronized" and that the couple's son disappeared from Cairo a year ago and is believed to be in Canada.
To get rid of him would require not just a few dozen defections, but a majority vote of the House Republican caucus.
Now that the party has lost its grip, analysts foresee a wave of opportunistic defections by politicians, as happened to Southern Democrats in the United States.