Senate passes $1.1T funding bill 56-40 [Ted Cruz fails in last-ditch effort to stop it]

The Hill ^ | 12/14/2014 | By Rebecca Shabad and Alexander Bolton

[SeekAndFind]

The Senate voted 56-40 late Saturday evening to pass a $1.1 trillion spending package that funds most of the government through next September.

The vote culminates a week of acrimonious sniping and sends the spending bill to President Obama’s desk for a signature.

The debate exposed divisions within the Democratic and Republican caucuses on both sides of the Capitol and sets the stage for what could be a year of internecine squabbling in 2015. Twenty-one Senate Democrats voted against the bill while 24 Republicans voted for it, including every member of the Senate GOP leadership.

Democratic opponents included several senators rumored to have presidential ambitions such as Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), Cory Booker (N.J.), Amy Klobuchar (Minn.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.)

The package includes 11 appropriations bills that fund most of the government through Sept. 30 and a continuing resolution (CR) funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through Feb. 27.

It nearly died in the House this week after Warren, a rising star among her party’s liberal base, urged House Democrats to oppose it because of language repealing a key provision of the 2010 Wall Street Reform Act.

Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) needed dozens of Democratic votes after conservative Republicans revolted en masse because it does not block President Obama’s executive order on immigration and for other reasons.

Conservative freshman firebrand Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) made a last-ditch attempt to bring down the bill Saturday night by raising a point-of-order objection. He argued it violated the Constitution by funding Obama's immigration order.

But his effort gained little traction with Republican colleagues. Twenty of them voted against him, including Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and Republican Whip John Cornyn, his fellow Texan.

While the Senate roundly rejected Cruz’s objection by a vote of 22-74,

[MUDDOG]

Here’s the breakdown of Repub votes on final passage of cromnibus:

Yeas (RINOs):

Alexander (R-TN)
Ayotte (R-NH)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)
Burr (R-NC)
Coats (R-IN)
Cochran (R-MS)
Collins (R-ME)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Enzi (R-WY)
Fischer (R-NE)
Graham (R-SC)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Kirk (R-IL)
McConnell (R-KY)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Roberts (R-KS)
Thune (R-SD)
Toomey (R-PA)
Wicker (R-MS)

Nays:

Corker (R-TN)
Crapo (R-ID)
Cruz (R-TX)
Flake (R-AZ)
Grassley (R-IA)
Heller (R-NV)
Johnson (R-WI)
Lee (R-UT)
McCain (R-AZ)
Moran (R-KS)
Paul (R-KY)
Portman (R-OH)
Risch (R-ID)
Rubio (R-FL)
Scott (R-SC)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Vitter (R-LA)

Not voting (WTF?):

Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Inhofe (R-OK)

[lqcincinnatus]

Can Carter be defeated?

[Crazieman]

[lodi90]

Everybody knew the bill was going to pass so some RINOs and Dems like Boxer left their reservations. Impossible to read the individual votes with that being the case.

Had the GOP hung together and been no votes it would have forced the Dems to vote FOR all the bankster pork they claim to hate. Naturally McConnell surrendered that battle because he’s happy to give the Dems cover.

[PoloSec]

Was glad to see Rubio voted Nay, I contacted him to vote such, he still has a very long ways to go towards redemption, as far as I’m concerned he started all this immigration crap and if not for him we would not be where we are today.

Although I was hopeful I did not expect Cruz, Lee and Sessions to succeed, but I applaud their efforts, they are a thorn in the side of all liberal democrat progressive rino communists attempting to take control, and they are getting stronger not weaker as many will claim; they need us to praise their efforts and strengthen their resolve, contact them let them know we appreciate all they are trying to accomplish on behalf of we the people.

CRUZ 2016!

[who knows what evil?]

LOL as the ‘Uniparty’ strikes again in soviet Red Hampshire...’Yes’ votes from both Ayotte (”R”) and Shaheen (D).

[grania]

Interesting list. We now know who the reformers are and who the DC sellout backstabbers are, both parties. A few points:

Again, Rubio voted with Cruz. I'm thinking he learned his lesson after being played on the immigration issue. Another point, both Portman (R) and Brown (Dem) voted nay. It makes me wonder if Boehner has any real strength in OH.

Prediction: When people realize what was just voted in in the name of the budget, those who voted "yes" are going to have serious problems with their voters, both political parties.

[gunsequalfreedom]

I wondered if that was the case...I am taking my sarcasm detector in for repairs this morning.

[lormand]

Carter had no primary challenger. Our Texas district like most Texas districts is very conservative, but Carter not enough people in this district are keeping up with his voting record.

John Carter gets a D from Conservative Review. His votes virtually mirror the vote of John Boehner.

It is obvious that John Carter is setting himself up to be fabulously wealthy as a lobbyist and Washington crony in the way he votes.

[lqcincinnatus]

Well, I state again, can he be defeated by a Constitutional Conservative who starts now educating the district on his record? Do it hte way Steve Stockman did it, under the radar.

[stanne]

And that’s why this is not so much a fail for Cruz, who could not have expected to win this thing in the senate, but to expose the voters. Same as last yr with obamacare

Look at cornyns vote

[john mirse]

CAESAR:"Et tu, Brute?" {Brutus} Caesar calling out to Brutus as his friend Brutus and other Roman Senators suddenly and repeatedly began stabbing Caesar to death.

VOTERS WHO VOTED FOR REPUBLICANS THIS MIDTERM: "Et tu Boehner?" Referring to how Speaker Boehner betrayed Republican voters with his passage of the recent traitorous spending bill.

BOEHNER: Who is Judas? Why do people keep calling me Judas as I walk down the street? Why did someone recently leave 30 pieces of silver on my doorstep? I only want what is best for America. As my friend Obama likes to say: "God bless America!"

[Road Warrior ‘04]

McNuts must have already known the outcome when he voted. Not like McNuts to vote against more gubment!

[originalbuckeye]

Shockingly both AZ Senators voted Nay. A little less RINO today than a few days ago?

[Starboard]

The GOP is all about excuses. Its what they do, its who they are.

The amazing thing is, it seems to work for them! They manage to fool the base into voting for them over and over again.

[BushCountry]

Here are the Republicans the Tea Party should target in 2016. The other traitor senators are safe for a while.

Ayotte (R-NH)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)
Burr (R-NC)
Coats (R-IN)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Isakson (R-GA)
Kirk (R-IL)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Toomey (R-PA)

Somehow I pray the Tea Party announces there key primary states quickly as possible.

[MUDDOG]

Good list! Richard Burr of NC is a RINO of long-standing.

[FreeReign]

"The (EXEMPT) GOP strongly supports my agenda. Totally. ... or they would not have funded it far into next year."

Yes, and the SC will throw Boehner's amnesty lawsuit out because Congress is supporting amnesty by FUNDING IT.

Same goes for ACA.

[Bubba_Leroy]

Cruz is the best Senator we have had from Texas in my lifetime. The second best was probably Phil Graham and he was a distant second.

I am really going to miss Cruz in the Senate when we elect him President in 2016. I just hope we can fill his seat with someone a hell of a lot better than Cornyn.

[drypowder]

not a smidgen of stink in DC! The enemies of this country are controlling it.