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Senate moves forward with stopgap budget bill
MarketPulse ^ | 9/25/13 | Robert Schroeder

Posted on 09/25/2013 10:39:18 AM PDT by illiac

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - The Senate on Wednesday took the first of several procedural votes designed to enact funding for the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1. Democrats who lead the Senate are aiming to replace a House-passed funding bill with a measure that maintains money for President Barack Obama's health law and keeps the government open until Nov. 15. The Senate's Wednesday afternoon vote was on proceeding to debate the House-passed bill.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: budget; congress; cruz; cruzfilibuster; government
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To: pollywog
senator Blunt is going to vote YES on defunding!! GOOD NEWS

That's what they all are saying. But, they won't have a chance to after Reid strips it out of the CR. What Cruz is trying to prevent is allowing the Ghoul to do that.

41 posted on 09/25/2013 6:48:40 PM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: caww

double plus unpossible. These are all the lesser of two evils. No way they would screw us.


42 posted on 09/25/2013 6:52:44 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (What good are conservative principles if we don't stand by them?)
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To: sunny48

Add Thune.

Niels Lesniewski @nielslesniewski

“Sen. Thune will not vote to block the House-passed CR defunding Obamacare, he told S.D. reporters.

So, Sen. Toomey is announcing opposition to cloture on the CR for the normal reasons (i.e. Reid’s going to fill the tree) “


43 posted on 09/25/2013 6:58:28 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: Jane Long

Crnho^e is finished. He will get primaried real bad by a nobody TEA PARTY loyalist and get his butt whipped. He is GONE!


44 posted on 09/25/2013 8:17:00 PM PDT by SADMILLIE (r)
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To: SADMILLIE

What would be glorious is having Ted Cruz, Sarah and Mark Levin endorse this Tea Party candidate - who’s going to whip Corny’s butt!


45 posted on 09/25/2013 8:19:37 PM PDT by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs stay silent.)
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