Posted on 11/14/2023 6:13:59 PM PST by Mariner
The Senate voted along party lines Tuesday to table a motion to proceed on the House-passed bill that would provide $14.3 billion in emergency aid to Israel and pay for it by cutting the Internal Revenue Service’s budget.
The vote came after a group of Senate conservatives ambushed Democrats by offering a surprise motion to proceed on the House bill, which Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) had previously called “a total nonstarter.”
President Biden also threatened to veto the House bill.
The Tuesday afternoon vote ended a tense standoff on the Senate floor during which Democrats suspended business to block Republicans from proceeding to the measure on the same day that tens of thousands of people gathered on the National Mall in Washington to rally for Israel.
Senate conservatives including Sens. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) repeatedly requested consent to end a quorum call to move to the bill.
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The House bill is the only game in town, and they are only delaying the inevitable.
It passes the Senate by Thanksgiving, and does so with at least 67 votes. Another round in the House and it'll get 2/3 there too.
It seems like the Senate DEMs (and RINOs) has had little problem getting around the House GOP.
Dunno why they are giving the House so much grief.
Its the exact same thing they would do and have done.
Hmmm.....
They want to continue the laundry cycle. Screw the Cross dressing Hovers fbi
Well, when I was little, if mom made dinner and you refused it because you want something different....
I guess the Senate goes hungry now.
Everything my mom made that I hated when I was just a little snot, I eat and love now. Thank you mom.
Since revenue bills can only originate in the house, what happens if they take their ball and go home?
With this Democrat government, I could care less if
it totally dies for a year.
I’ll still get my social security. The only constitutional authorized standing military we have is the navy, so everybody else can go home, I;m sure it is good enough to defend the USA as we have millions of armed citizens.
Chew on that you Democrat ass**les!
I thought the Senate can change it, then send it back to the House. Which can then change it again, and so on, until a final compromise is reached.
We’ve got this war. We don’t need your steenkin’ money, or the strings attached to it as always, in order to win. But thanks for offering.
“...Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) had previously called a total nonstarter...”
The Rats NEVER give an inch, not a single inch. And to top it off, Schumer is a Jew (the Golden Calf type). /spit
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