"The (EXEMPT) GOP strongly supports my agenda. Totally.
... or they would not have funded it far into next year."
Posted on 12/14/2014 7:32:50 AM PST by 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,
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Let me get this straight. My known RINO voted against it, while my “Conservative” third senator for Virginia, Pat Roberts, voted for it.
Of course, I was told repeatedly by the GOP-e robots that I absolutely must vote for Pat Roberts.
| Alexander (R-TN), Yea Ayotte (R-NH), Yea Baldwin (D-WI), Yea Barrasso (R-WY), Yea Begich (D-AK), Yea Bennet (D-CO), Yea Blumenthal (D-CT), Nay Blunt (R-MO), Yea Booker (D-NJ), Nay Boozman (R-AR), Yea Boxer (D-CA), Nay Brown (D-OH), Nay Burr (R-NC), Yea Cantwell (D-WA), Nay Cardin (D-MD), Yea Carper (D-DE), Yea Casey (D-PA), Yea Chambliss (R-GA), Not Voting Coats (R-IN), Yea Coburn (R-OK), Not Voting Cochran (R-MS), Yea Collins (R-ME), Yea Coons (D-DE), Yea Corker (R-TN), Nay Cornyn (R-TX), Yea Crapo (R-ID), Nay Cruz (R-TX), Nay Donnelly (D-IN), Yea Durbin (D-IL), Yea Enzi (R-WY), Yea Feinstein (D-CA), Not Voting Fischer (R-NE), Yea Flake (R-AZ), Nay Franken (D-MN), Nay |
Gillibrand (D-NY), Nay Graham (R-SC), Yea Grassley (R-IA), Nay Hagan (D-NC), Yea Harkin (D-IA), Nay Hatch (R-UT), Yea Heinrich (D-NM), Yea Heitkamp (D-ND), Yea Heller (R-NV), Nay Hirono (D-HI), Nay Hoeven (R-ND), Yea Inhofe (R-OK), Not Voting Isakson (R-GA), Yea Johanns (R-NE), Yea Johnson (D-SD), Yea Johnson (R-WI), Nay Kaine (D-VA), Yea King (I-ME), Yea Kirk (R-IL), Yea Klobuchar (D-MN), Nay Landrieu (D-LA), Yea Leahy (D-VT), Yea Lee (R-UT), Nay Levin (D-MI), Nay Manchin (D-WV), Nay Markey (D-MA), Nay McCain (R-AZ), Nay McCaskill (D-MO), Nay McConnell (R-KY), Yea Menendez (D-NJ), Nay Merkley (D-OR), Nay Mikulski (D-MD), Yea Moran (R-KS), Nay Murkowski (R-AK), Yea |
Murphy (D-CT), Yea Murray (D-WA), Yea Nelson (D-FL), Yea Paul (R-KY), Nay Portman (R-OH), Nay Pryor (D-AR), Yea Reed (D-RI), Nay Reid (D-NV), Yea Risch (R-ID), Nay Roberts (R-KS), Yea Rockefeller (D-WV), Yea Rubio (R-FL), Nay Sanders (I-VT), Nay Schatz (D-HI), Yea Schumer (D-NY), Yea Scott (R-SC), Nay Sessions (R-AL), Nay Shaheen (D-NH), Yea Shelby (R-AL), Nay Stabenow (D-MI), Yea Tester (D-MT), Nay Thune (R-SD), Yea Toomey (R-PA), Yea Udall (D-CO), Yea Udall (D-NM), Yea Vitter (R-LA), Nay Walsh (D-MT), Yea Warner (D-VA), Yea Warren (D-MA), Nay Whitehouse (D-RI), Nay Wicker (R-MS), Yea Wyden (D-OR), Nay |
Fascinating how Reid took the opportunity to create a ‘progressive Tea Party’ with this vote.
Of course only having such willing media makes it possible to foist that illusion.
Don’t blame me, I no longer hold my nose when I vote and wrote in “Ted Cruz”’ name when voting against Jonh Cornyn this year. I also did not vote for my RINO congressman John Carter.
Mississippi was the last straw.
Senator Cruz just caused several Pubbie pissants to place themselves on record as craven Obamaite bootlickers.
[expletive deleted] Cornyn...What an asshat...I wish we could have primary’d his arse out last time...
We got to put up with him for another 6 years now...
[expletive deleted]!
"The (EXEMPT) GOP strongly supports my agenda. Totally.
... or they would not have funded it far into next year."
REMEMBER, voting GOP-liberal is not worse than liberal, because being stabbed in the back is not worse than being stabbed in the front.
VOTE REPUBLICAN! OR ELSE!
You might have the yes / no voting reversed. Check which way Cruz voted, then analyze others.
HOLY GADZOOKS GLADIOLA!
Both McCain and Flake voted NAY!
Help me Elizabeth. I’m a coming.
And sure as sh*t, theres Toomey going along with the RINO crowd...
Let’s not kid ourselves, the Dems even in minority will be running Congress next year. Ayotte and Toomey are up in blue states in ‘16. They will be Democrats in all but name. There’s a large progressive republican wing in the Senate. McConnell will cater to them.
Then in the House Boehner will need Pelosi to pass anything like the omnibus. So Dem leadership will control Boehner.
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.
I will await patiently to hear the reason/excuse and ultimate apology for this travesty from the Senior GOPe Management.
Look at CFR list and see how many Repubs are on it.
Here is some history and McCain is in this article;
We have been operating in NWO for years quietly, but now it is public and getting loud.
Barbara Boxer (Dem CA) voted NO
MY BAD...I gave you wrong link in that last comment...that was from another post...lol HERE:
Vitter from LA - NAY
Good. There’s a majority of traitors in the Senate. He didn’t “qualify”
In other words, one is honest, the other is not so in your view it is better to vote for the one that is not. I don't agree with you. A GOP back stabber is far worse than a Democrat even if I totally disagree with the Democrat.
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