Just 28 Republicans voted for the last debt-limit hike in February 2014, when nearly all Democrats helped it pass in a tight 221-201 vote. Nine of those 28 Republicans are no longer in Congress, raising the question of whether a similar measure could pass this time.
Identification. COBRA stands for Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act. It was passed by Congress in 1985 as a means for individuals to continue health insurance coverage for a period of time after losing group coverage due to termination of employment.
Most of them can spread their neck ribs to form a flattened, widened hood. Not all snakes commonly referred to as cobras are of the same genus, or even in the family Elapidae. The name cobra is short for cobra de capelo or cobra-de-capelo, which is Portuguese for snake with hood, or hood-snake.In some modern languages, such as Afrikaans, the other part of the Portuguese name was adopted, and the predominant name for a cobra in Afrikaans is kapel.obra (/ËkÅbrÉ/ pronunciation (helpÂ·info)) is the Portuguese word for  snake .