It's nice to note as well that Oregon's Kurt Schrader (D) was also one of the 5 to break ranks and voted against the AWB.The outgoing democratic oregon rep was telling the other democrats exactly what this lawyer in the video said. Something like "Remember how bad democrats lost after the 1994 bill, this is a mistake". The other democrats all ignored him.
"The five Democrats that split with their party and opposed the ban were Reps. Jared Golden of Maine, Kurt Schrader of Oregon, Ron Kind of Wisconsin and Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez of Texas."
Also interesting to note was that the only way they got it to go through was by splitting it from the other packaged issues in the measure and vote solely on the AWB issue.