[House Atreides]

I’m not sure what you are referencing. Any more detail?

[Gen.Blather]

Popular bills and resolutions often have a rider that is unacceptable for any reason. Democrats are famous for this. This is one reason why you find a bridge to nowhere or five hundred thousand dollars to study transsexual spiders getting approved. For every good bill or project there are a dozen stinkers hiding someplace in the small print.

[silverleaf]

The best protection they could give military pay is to include Congressional pay under the same conditions

Military doesn’t get paid - Congress doesn’t get paid

Problem probably solved

[mountainlion]

I think the demonicrats and the libpublicans are trying to make Trump look bad to unseat him. The republicans are attempting to become as corrupt as the dims.

[Alberta's Child]

It was a procedural vote. There’s a Senate rule that says a bill cannot be resubmitted for a vote for a certain period of time after it has been rejected — unless the Senator who sponsored it votes against it. McConnell sponsored the bill, so when it was clear that it couldn’t meet the 60-vote cloture threshold he voted against it just so he could bring it up for another vote at any time.

[WayneS]

Turtle face. That’s a good one, and accurately descriptive, too.

I had never heard the nickname before, but I knew immediately that you were referring to Mitch McConnell.

[IndispensableDestiny]

It's because McConnell scheduled a vote on the CR at 1am Monday morning. That's when debate on the CR ends per Senate rules. Holding a vote would suspend debate and push back the vote.

I suspect all this wheeling and dealing to to make sure the CR passes Monday morning.