Senate passes government funding measure; House to vote Thursday

Washington Post ^ | 3/20/13 | Rosalind S. Helderman

[Jean S]

A short-term funding measure that would ensure the government continues operating beyond this month cleared the Senate Wednesday, awaiting only final House passage on Thursday to avert any possibility of a shut-down.

The process of approving the proposal has been unfolding remarkably smoothly for a divided Congress that has gone to the brink repeatedly over spending issues.

[muawiyah]

Boehners pubies cave again.

[whitedog57]

Great! so we can keep funding duck penis and shrimp treadmill studies and allow the Wookie to spend like even Trump can’t!

http://confoundedinterest.wordpress.com/2013/03/20/sequester-fears-cut-white-house-tours-but-not-duck-penis-size-and-shrimp-treadmill-studies/

[traderrob6]

In other words the Republicans roll over yet again.

[Diogenesis]

Boehner serves the DNC and Obama WHATEVER they want.

The GOP is as useless as a third teat on a bull.

[dsrtsage]

I thought all spending bills were supposed to originate in the house.

[dfwgator]

[dforest]

Ugh, how do we ditch Boner. I mean Boehner?

[Tzimisce]

New meaning to the term “loyal opposition”.......

[Starboard]

In other words the Republicans roll over yet again.
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It’s what Republicans do. It’s what they are.

[lodi90]

A 8-9 month CR funding kenyancare and everything else is now “short term”. Our government is broken and into the dust bin of history we go.

[muawiyah]

When paying for medical care is your first dollar expense you really don't have any options left for things like education, national defense, food, housing, clothing, shoes, etc.

It's not only a bad idea, it is fatal to the society that adopts the practice.

[Zajko]

Passed 73-26 I see, so plenty of GoP votes to help Obama along. I’d say ‘surprisingly’ but of course, it isn’t surprising at all :)

[Michael Barnes]

What we have now in this country politically is The Republicans have morphed into JFK type Democrat and the Democrats have morphed into communists.

There is no more Republican party. It is that simple.

[Wisconsinlady]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/20/senate-poised-to-approve-spending-bill-to-avert-government-shutdown/

AARGH!!! Does anyone have a list of the votes? What is wrong with the Republicans? Why do they continue to do this to us? I’m so disgusted, I could puke.

[SoFloFreeper]

Some of us just like to gripe! Did you read the end of the article? Washington Post liberals like to bury the "win" by Republicans:

"...Mikulski praised senators for working in a bipartisan fashion to improve on a bill that had been passed by the House earlier this month. “We didn’t want brinkmanship politics. We didn’t want ultimatum politics,” she said.

To blunt the impact of the sequester, the House introduced new priorities for military spending in its version of the bill. The Senate bill added several other areas to the bill, including agriculture, commerce, science, justice and homeland security.

The result is to add money to certain key programs; all were offset with cuts elsewhere."

Emphasis added. Anyone else remember the Republicans insisting any increase in a particular part of the budget be OFFSET somewhere else? (I recall it being about unemployment compensation...) And the Obama cult wouldn't budge? They're budging...but don't expect to hear that very loudly from the media.

Really, guys, let's quit trusting the media...they lie and hide the truth. How often? ALL THE TIME.

[SkyPilot]

The Sequester cuts remain, and now are finalized - including the massive cuts to the military (the DoD takes 50% of all cuts despite being 18% of the budget). The funds added to military appropriations simply removes a huge shortfall created by the Continuing Resolution that froze military spending at last year's levels. This will only restore money to Operations and Maintenance that is now bleeding by 40 to 60% shortfall due to the Sequester cuts.

About $10 Billion will be transferred to O&M, to be fought amongst the 4 services. It won't be enough to stop the Sequester damage.

Worse, the Sequester lasts 10 years.

The military will still be crippled. Training and operations will still be gutted. The 2011 cut of $487 Billion over 10 years is still in place, and tens upon tens of thousands of soldiers, airmen, marines, and seamen will be tossed out of the ranks.

So all those who wanted massive discretionary cuts to the military, but ZERO cuts to Entitlements (the real cause of our debt and deficits) - you can celebrate now. Good luck with that.

[veracious]

NO! NO! NO! Do not fund this monster anymore. We must start the process of terminating Fedzilla.

[bimboeruption]

No doubt in my mind...Boehner is Obama’s Monica Lewinsky.

[manc]

yep sure can.

chewbacca can have the house to herself and her family while the people house which the people pay for including toilet roll and the cooks etc are closed to us.

the founders must be turning in their graves to see this country and the hosue closed.

Imagine chewbacca haivng her parties, going on vacation and free range of our house and thinks we the people are not good enough to go into what she thinks her house