Posted on 12/13/2014 1:16:21 PM PST by gwgn02
enate Majority Leader Harry Reid is keeping senators in Washington for a rare Saturday session—and risking a government shutdown—after he went to extraordinary lengths to block Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) from forcing a vote to block President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty.
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good news
lol
Handful = +~7 = ~32 vs 22. Cruz has taken control of the Senate Republicans. He already has the House doing more or less the right thing.
Cruz Control!
Should be “Cruz ‘16 Missile’
I love it! BootBoehner!
At the very least Cruz is putting them all on the record as to where they stand, which is a lot more than what the so called GOP leaders are doing.
Ohhh another one!
Good one!
Hashtag CRUZINATOR!!!
We needed eight more “no” votes to stop the cromnibus bill. Here is why: There were only 96 votes cast. The number needed to prevail one way or the other was 50% + 1 of members present provided a quorum was present, which in this case would been 48 + 1, a quorum having been present. 56-48=8. We needed 8 fewer “ayes” to reach 48, 1 less than 50% + 1.
Every Republican who voted for this Obama crap sandwich is a traitor.
And with our incoming new Senators, there must be a couple of RAT sens up in ‘16 that can be made to feel the heat, if they won’t see the light, on amnesty. We should be burning up THOSE rat’s phone lines.
Gop-eSTAB runs power lines across the aisle over and against We the People, Cruz re-wires under the establishment for us.
Xzins authored a thread asking us to burn up the DC switchboard, we should do it Monday. Let’s help Cruz consolidate his power over the GOP-e!
Well if that’s what you think it ‘should’ be, you’d better get to work, ehh ?
Precisely
He was on the Senate floor and the Senate had not adjourned or even voted on the spending bill, so I don’t see how that report is possible that he “thought it was all over” and headed home.
Keep reading until #41.
Ayotte,McCain, McConnell voted against Cruz.
Alrady KNEW what these 3 were.
The sad news is that some of those that voted against were just show votes.
Where can we see how our Senators voted so we can protest at their offices while they’re back in the state?
butter, here’s the vote tally:
Grouped By Vote Position
YEAs -—56
Alexander (R-TN)
Ayotte (R-NH)
Baldwin (D-WI)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Begich (D-AK)
Bennet (D-CO)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)
Burr (R-NC)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Coats (R-IN)
Cochran (R-MS)
Collins (R-ME)
Coons (D-DE)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Donnelly (D-IN)
Durbin (D-IL)
Enzi (R-WY)
Fischer (R-NE)
Graham (R-SC)
Hagan (D-NC)
Hatch (R-UT)
Heinrich (D-NM)
Heitkamp (D-ND)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kaine (D-VA)
King (I-ME)
Kirk (R-IL)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Leahy (D-VT)
McConnell (R-KY)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Murphy (D-CT)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reid (D-NV)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Schatz (D-HI)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Thune (R-SD)
Toomey (R-PA)
Udall (D-CO)
Udall (D-NM)
Walsh (D-MT)
Warner (D-VA)
Wicker (R-MS)
NAYs -—40
Blumenthal (D-CT)
Booker (D-NJ)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Corker (R-TN)
Crapo (R-ID)
Cruz (R-TX)
Flake (R-AZ)
Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Grassley (R-IA)
Harkin (D-IA)
Heller (R-NV)
Hirono (D-HI)
Johnson (R-WI)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Lee (R-UT)
Levin (D-MI)
Manchin (D-WV)
Markey (D-MA)
McCain (R-AZ)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Moran (R-KS)
Paul (R-KY)
Portman (R-OH)
Reed (D-RI)
Risch (R-ID)
Rubio (R-FL)
Sanders (I-VT)
Scott (R-SC)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Tester (D-MT)
Vitter (R-LA)
Warren (D-MA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)
Not Voting - 4
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Likely won’t pass but sometimes you can win by losing. Cruz and Lee have put together a huge poison pill for the Democrats.
Pete Sessions R Fla. Yeah that guy. Like there is something wrong w divorcing wife after 25 yrs to shack up w smoking hot wife 2.0 in Florida.
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