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,

[Kackikat]

No doubt, he is exposing who is bought and paid for by the puppet masters...right?

[Bubba_Leroy]

The election this year was actually a very good start. For the first time in a long time we have a clear pathway for retaking the country. Everything now hinges on 2016. We literally have one chance.

If we can elect a truly CONSERVATIVE President and replace as many of the RINOs on your list as possible with CONSERVATIVES in the primaries then our nation can be saved. Everything that Obama has done can be undone.

If not then we are lost.

[aumrl]

Thanks Bushcountry.
That is a good list!

[hosepipe]

WHAT to DO about it..... ?

Get rid of BOEHNER! and McConnell...... in ANYTHING Official..

[hosepipe]

IF Palin wants help her country she would RUN AGAINST Murcowski..

[ExCTCitizen]

Blumenthal, the moron who helped screw UConn athletics when he was AG, voted against it?

It must be really bad for liberals, in a different way from it being a bad bill for conservatives.

[ExCTCitizen]

I think Rubio, after his misstep, learned his lesson. He was interviewed on WFLA a few weeks ago, and he said that he wants a debate on amnesty and securing the border.

That is the only thing Rubio did wrong so far.

[stanne]

He may as well do

[ExCTCitizen]

I might have to move to New Hampshire and join the Republican Party and announce that I’m running against RINO Mayotte and my platform will be more FREEDOM, less taxes and less government.

[grania]

I'm with you about Rubio. I recall back to what happened, and Schummer spoke for Rubio about Rubio's actions on the committee. It seemed like a setup. Rubio ended up getting the blame for the dirty deeds of McCain and Schummer.

Rubio has been a consistent voice for constitutional conservatives since then.

[Organic Panic]

Gracia Juan Boehner. -Barry Obama