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) | |
Wow......just wow. To reiterate:
Jesus save us from our insanity.
Doesn’t shock me, either.
“John Mc” Cornyn only talks a good game.
He learned well from that guy in Arizona.
It is all scripted. Notice how McCain and Portman voted against. Notice also that they are up for reelection this year. Notice in the past that they almost always vote with the liberal line.
McCain was given permission to vote no because he’s up for reelection this year
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