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Democrats block defense spending bill in Senate
Reuters ^ | Sept 22, 2015 | By Patricia Zengerle; Editing by Eric Walsh

Posted on 09/22/2015 11:50:01 AM PDT by 11th_VA

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats blocked the fiscal 2016 defense spending bill in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, amid a fierce fight with Republicans over tax and spending policy days before a potential Oct. 1 government shutdown.

The vote was 54-42, largely along party lines with Republicans voting yes and Democrats no. It meant the appropriations measure failed to achieve the 60-vote majority needed to advance to final passage in the 100-member Senate. Congressional Democrats and Republicans are fighting over a range of tax and spending issues as the end of the fiscal year approaches.

In the case of the Department of Defense, Democrats oppose a Republican-led plan to use some $38 billion in special war contingency funds to let the Pentagon sidestep mandatory "sequestration" spending cuts put in place under the 2011 Budget Control Act.

A similar vote on the appropriations bill in June also failed. The two parties also have been arguing over Republican-led efforts to include a measure to defund the women's healthcare provider Planned Parenthood in any temporary funding measure to keep the government open.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: budget; shutdown
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1 posted on 09/22/2015 11:50:01 AM PDT by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

Oh, so I guess it’s okay to shut down a part of the government.

Who knew?

Strange that they didn’t defund welfare.


2 posted on 09/22/2015 11:51:57 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: 11th_VA

Quickly... whats in this defense spending bill that is above/below last years levels?


3 posted on 09/22/2015 11:52:12 AM PDT by Java4Jay (The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.)
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To: 11th_VA

Democrats trying to destroy babies and the military in one fell swoop...


4 posted on 09/22/2015 11:52:27 AM PDT by BlueNgold (May I suggest a very nice 1788 Article V with your supper...)
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To: 11th_VA

A ‘shutdown’ is coming


5 posted on 09/22/2015 11:53:34 AM PDT by Java4Jay (The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.)
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To: 11th_VA

So, go nuclear—51 votes and shove it up their ying yang.

Then again Mitch McConnell is the majority leader.

When Harry Reid allows him to be.


6 posted on 09/22/2015 11:54:15 AM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: 11th_VA

Why the hell is the idiot Mitch McConnell doing it under budget reconciliation...and thus only require a simple majority vote (51 votes) instead of a supermajority (60 votes) for closure?


7 posted on 09/22/2015 11:55:37 AM PDT by House Atreides (CRUZ or lose!)
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To: House Atreides

Correction: Why the hell is the idiot Mitch McConnell NOT doing it under budget reconciliation.


8 posted on 09/22/2015 11:56:34 AM PDT by House Atreides (CRUZ or lose!)
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To: 11th_VA

So it actually passed BUT FOR the artificial and contrived 60 vote limit implemented for cloture.

Cloture: a term translated as “gop favorite excuse for failure.”


9 posted on 09/22/2015 11:58:24 AM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Voting is like choosing whether you'd prefer the crips or MS-13 to take over your neighborhood.)
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To: House Atreides

Because he’s a total RINO failure! He needs to go now!!


10 posted on 09/22/2015 12:00:17 PM PDT by rainee (Her)
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To: 11th_VA

Damn, I wish the Republican Senate “leadership” would invoke the Reid Rule, abolish the filibuster, and be done with it.

It was called the “nuclear option” for a reason. Reid dropped the first nuke. The correct response was to nuke the Democrats into irrelevance. Instead, McConnell is too worried about what the Democrats will do if they retake control of the Senate.

It doesn’t matter what the Republicans do or don’t do while they are in control. Whenever the Democrats retake control of the Senate they will do whatever it takes to roll over the Republicans.


11 posted on 09/22/2015 12:05:48 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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The democraps did the same thing to the military during the VietNam War. Defunded and the commies took over the south.
We lost a lot of men and women because of the lackluster attitude of the democrap party.


12 posted on 09/22/2015 12:07:09 PM PDT by tillacum
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Oh nooooowse! Now what are we going to do? Nobody saw this comming. Now REPUBLICANS have automatically shut down the government again, already.... UNLESS......

(what was it Obama wanted again?)

I, for one, am shocked that the Senate DEMOCRATS blocked an already bloated budget because they so eagerly want black babies aborted in droves. It’s so compassionate of them.


13 posted on 09/22/2015 12:07:18 PM PDT by Tenacious 1 (You couldn't pay me enough to be famous for being stupid!)
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To: 11th_VA

I don’t think either a Trump Administration or a Cruz Administration would put up with any of this crap. The should both issue a warning to McConnell that he is hone the moment either of them is elected president.


14 posted on 09/22/2015 12:11:34 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (With Trump & Cruz, America can't lose!)
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To: Java4Jay

Gee. We don’t know.

Maybe much more money for “green energy” fuels that are three times as expensive as their conventional - but superior! - fossil fuels? Billions more for republican-congressional district plants building 1.5 billion dollar airplanes and 100 billion dollar warships?


15 posted on 09/22/2015 12:22:29 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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>>.. amid a fierce fight with Republicans over tax and spending policy

That made me laugh out loud...

All I see are arguments over whether there should be confetti and balloons at Obamas next press conference

16 posted on 09/22/2015 12:25:49 PM PDT by SGCOS
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To: exit82

Don’t be glum chum. The lesser evil brigade got the liberalism they voted FOR.


18 posted on 09/22/2015 12:52:05 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: 11th_VA

The fact these spending bills are being voted on so close to the beginning of the year is a travesty. With control of both houses, the GOP should have been able to pass the spending bills 2-3 months ago. Obama would have already vetoed them and he would look like the one trying to shut down the government. Instead, the GOP will be blamed when Obama casts veto in a few days. The bills will go back to Congress with more demands from Obama. Then the final cave by the GOP.


19 posted on 09/22/2015 12:57:08 PM PDT by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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But McConnell is too much a weakling to do what Harry Reid did. All this vote really needed was 51 Republican votes, and the Democrats could get used to the idea of nothing that they did ever mattering.

McConnell is the pasty faced little fat boy that nobody wants on their team.


20 posted on 09/22/2015 1:23:05 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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