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UPDATED WITH FULL ROLL CALL VOTE –> SENATE PASSES OMNIBUS SPENDING BILL
The Right Scoop ^ | 12/18/2015

Posted on 12/18/2015 10:54:29 AM PST by SeekAndFind

The Senate just passed the Omnibus spending bill that the House passed a few minutes ago:

Breaking: U.S. Senate passes $1.1 trillion spending bill; will send to @POTUS for his likely signature. Merry Christmas

— clint henderson (@ClintPHenderson) December 18, 2015

Congress OKs budget deal worth $1 trillion in new spending and $680 billion in tax cuts, sends bill to Obama: https://t.co/RkcLoi6uqY

— The Associated Press (@AP) December 18, 2015

BREAKING: U.S. Senate passes $1.1 trillion government funding bill, $680 million in tax breaks, lifts oil export ban

— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) December 18, 2015

NBC reporter corrects Reuters:

I believe it's $680 BILLION, not million… https://t.co/fGeRMaYlMF

— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorpNBC) December 18, 2015

Here’s a photo of the House bill being rushed to the Senate:

Photographic evidence of the Omnibus papers being whisked from the House to the Senate: pic.twitter.com/xx6RuYxYPm

— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorpNBC) December 18, 2015

I’ll update with more when I have the vote counts and the roll calls…

UPDATE: Guess who missed such an important vote?

THE HILL – Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) missed Friday’s Senate vote approving a massive $1.8 trillion end-of-the-year spending bill and tax package — a day after he suggested that he would try to slow the legislation down.

The Florida Republican, who is running for president, was the only 2016 contender to miss the vote, which is the Senate’s final vote of the year.

Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), three other presidential candidates, all voted against the the legislation.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a fourth GOP presidential candidate from the Senate, backed the bill.

 
UPDATE: Here’s the vote count. All they needed was a simple majority to pass it. They clearly got much more than that:

Senate PASSES $1.1 trillion Omnibus funding/$680 billion tax extender package, 65-33. The bill now goes to the WH for Pres Obama's signature

— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorpNBC) December 18, 2015

#BREAKING Senate approves combined omnibus/tax pkg in what is expected to be final vote of the year, 65-33.

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) December 18, 2015

 
UPDATE: A strong statement from Sen. Cruz who voted against the bill:

What we’ve seen in Congress today is profoundly disappointing. This spending bill does not honor the promises we made to the men and women who elected us. It funds Obamacare. It funds Planned Parenthood. It funds executive amnesty. It fails to protect our national security and stop Syrian refugees from coming to this country. It fails to do anything to stop the Iranian Nuclear Deal. And what does it do? It jacks up yet more low-skilled immigration, which will only drag down wages, kill American jobs, and hurt working men and women.

This bill is the big-government agenda of Democrats that effectively forfeits our massive Republican victories of 2014 and cements Obama’s priorities for nearly the full remainder of his term. This is the Washington Cartel in action, and it’s precisely why the American people from coast-to-coast are so volcanically frustrated.

 
UPDATE: Here’s the full roll call vote:

YEAs —65
Alexander (R-TN)
Ayotte (R-NH)
Baldwin (D-WI)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bennet (D-CO)
Blumenthal (D-CT)
Blunt (R-MO)
Booker (D-NJ)
Brown (D-OH)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Capito (R-WV)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Coats (R-IN)
Cochran (R-MS)
Collins (R-ME)
Coons (D-DE)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Donnelly (D-IN)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Franken (D-MN)
Gardner (R-CO)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Graham (R-SC)
Hatch (R-UT)
Heinrich (D-NM)
Heitkamp (D-ND)
Heller (R-NV)
Hirono (D-HI)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johnson (R-WI)
Kaine (D-VA)
King (I-ME)
Kirk (R-IL)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Lankford (R-OK)
Leahy (D-VT)
McConnell (R-KY)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Murphy (D-CT)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Perdue (R-GA)
Peters (D-MI)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rounds (R-SD)
Schatz (D-HI)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tillis (R-NC)
Udall (D-NM)
Warner (D-VA)
Warren (D-MA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wicker (R-MS)

 

NAYs —33
Boozman (R-AR)
Burr (R-NC)
Cassidy (R-LA)
Cotton (R-AR)
Crapo (R-ID)
Cruz (R-TX)
Daines (R-MT)
Enzi (R-WY)
Ernst (R-IA)
Fischer (R-NE)
Flake (R-AZ)
Grassley (R-IA)
Lee (R-UT)
Manchin (D-WV)
Markey (D-MA)
McCain (R-AZ)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Merkley (D-OR)
Moran (R-KS)
Paul (R-KY)
Portman (R-OH)
Risch (R-ID)
Sanders (I-VT)
Sasse (R-NE)
Scott (R-SC)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Sullivan (R-AK)
Tester (D-MT)
Thune (R-SD)
Toomey (R-PA)
Vitter (R-LA)
Wyden (D-OR)

 

Not Voting – 2
Boxer (D-CA) Rubio (R-FL)


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To: MNJohnnie
"And Rubio ended his Presidential Campaign chances today by NO SHOWING for the vote."

It sure does tell us everything we need to know about Rubio.

81 posted on 12/18/2015 11:40:55 AM PST by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

I think this is a done deal.


82 posted on 12/18/2015 11:43:20 AM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Bob434

List is way out of date! Senators Helms and Faircloth are long gone! TOO BAD, wish they were still here!


83 posted on 12/18/2015 11:43:47 AM PST by EverRight (We need another Senator Jesse Helms!)
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To: EverRight

My goodness, Jesse Helms left the Senate in 2003 and he died in 2008.


84 posted on 12/18/2015 11:47:30 AM PST by Nero Germanicus
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To: SeekAndFind

McNuts and McFlake voted against. They must have gotten a kitchen pass to vote that way, because I’m 100% sure both are glad it passed.


85 posted on 12/18/2015 11:49:56 AM PST by Mr Rogers (Can you remember what America was like in 2004?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Cornyn (T-TX) The T stands for traitor.


86 posted on 12/18/2015 11:50:00 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: MNJohnnie

87 posted on 12/18/2015 11:51:48 AM PST by Eddie01 (uh oh)
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To: EverRight

well some might be ok- better than nothing- it’s all I could find unfortunately


88 posted on 12/18/2015 11:53:42 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Eddie01

Nice work!


89 posted on 12/18/2015 11:56:02 AM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Perdue (Ga) voted yes. Did not expect that.


90 posted on 12/18/2015 11:56:33 AM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: MNJohnnie

Thanks for the inspiration.


91 posted on 12/18/2015 11:57:22 AM PST by Eddie01 (uh oh)
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To: SeekAndFind

Although Rubio’s vote would not make a difference in outcome, that he was a no-show is symbolic to the nth degree.

Sometimes they make it so easy to cross them off the list.


92 posted on 12/18/2015 11:59:38 AM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: DesertRhino

You do realize that the best conservative candidate in the field very articulately voted for exactly your position, don’t you?


93 posted on 12/18/2015 12:01:20 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg (Revenge is a Daesh best served cold.)
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To: Personal Responsibility

Back it up....Paul Ryan, SOTH, called his party the opposition party? The same party which supposedly controls both Houses of Congress??

Jesus, save me.


94 posted on 12/18/2015 12:02:44 PM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: SeekAndFind

These votes show that there are 26 conservatives in the Senate out of 54 Republicans and there are 95 conservatives in the House out of 246 Republicans.


95 posted on 12/18/2015 12:03:58 PM PST by Nero Germanicus
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To: Uncle Miltie

At least Obama used to vote ‘present.’


96 posted on 12/18/2015 12:05:50 PM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: Beowulf9

I don’t see his name at all.


97 posted on 12/18/2015 12:14:53 PM PST by hsmomx3 (GO STEELERS!!!!!!)
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights
He absolutely did!

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/12/18/paul_ryan_i_feel_very_good_about_where_were_going.html

PAUL RYAN: The budget bill had some real wins for the American people in in, whether it is lifting the oil export ban, increasing military spending, or renewing healthcare for 9/11 first responders...

We need to be an effective opposition party. It reigns in the IRs, stops EPA over reach, blocks several Obamacare programs, and stops the risk corridor program.

98 posted on 12/18/2015 12:16:32 PM PST by Personal Responsibility (Trump/Cruz 2016)
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To: broken_arrow1

Quadrillion


99 posted on 12/18/2015 12:19:57 PM PST by Garvin (Scratch a liberal, get a fascist)
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To: Sybeck1

Thank you so much!

I’ll never forget how he was swindled out of his rightful election!

I despise everyone involved, particularly Haley Barbour and Thad.


100 posted on 12/18/2015 12:35:37 PM PST by onyx
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