It's Minnesota's newest voting bloc: liberals and conservatives joining to oppose bipartisan deals.
The House voted to cut $4 billion in spending and avert a government shutdown for two weeks on Tuesday, but three Minnesotans from opposite sides of the political spectrum opposed the budget measure.
Democratic Reps. Keith Ellison and Betty McCollum and Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann all voted against the two-week funding bill, which passed 335-91. The rest of Minnesota's congressional delegation supported it.
The vote is second in recent months that Ellison, McCollum and Bachmann lined up together against a major compromise measure — they also opposed the Republicans tax-cut deal with President Obama in December.
Bachmann was one of just six Republicans to vote against Tuesday's bill, along with libertarian Rep. Ron Paul and Bachmann's Tea Party Caucus colleagues Iowa Rep. Steve King and Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert.
Eighty-three Democrats joined Ellison and McCollum opposing the bill, but a majority of Democrats backed the measure.
The two-week funding bill now goes to the Senate, where Democratic leaders have said they will support it.
