Posted on 12/13/2014 11:29:48 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Defying his party's leadership, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz upended plans for smooth passage of a $1.1-trillion spending bill, forcing a rare Saturday session as Congress braces to prevent a new threatened government shutdown..
Cruz launched the Senate into turmoil as he tried to use the government shutdown as leverage to stop President Obama's immigration plans.
Now, Congress faces a midnight Saturday deadline to keep federal operations running.
Senators were streaming into the Capitol on a sunny winter Saturday for a series of procedural votes, with many not happy about the situation.
"I remind everyone, 12 o'clock midnight, 12 a.m., the United States government tonight runs out of money," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said as he opened the chamber.
The Senate chaplain used the morning prayer to ask for God's help empowering senators "to make their decisions after weighing them on the scale of long-term consequences."(continued)
The sudden turn of events hit Congress as lawmakers had largely agreed to move forward with funding the government and begin wrapping up their work before the holidays.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Senate Chaplain Barry Black Leads Congressional Staffers In Prayer During Walkout
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/12/chaplain-prayer-congressional-staff-walkout_n_6311856.html
” Boehner was ultimately able to pass the bill earlier this week, in an usual alliance with Obama who intervened to help round up reluctant Democrats.”
All we need to know.
B/S. Cruz wanted to submit an amendment to the bill removing funding for Obama’s illegal, unconstitutional executive amnesty. Reid shut it down on dictator Obama’s behalf.
Cruz-Control. Yes! I know Boo-Hoo Boehner and Turtle-Neck Mcconnell and Miz Lindsay are having conniption fits about now. “Who is responsible for bring Ted Cruz into this? Was it you, John?”
CRUZ called a ‘point of order’, Doing EXACTLY what the citizens of TEXAS elected him to do.
We didn’t ELECT him to please the Drive by’s.
Ted should declare for the presidency NOW.
OH MY GOD!!! Government shut down. Whatever will we do. Panic. PANIC. PANIC!!!!
Aawwww... poor babies! They earn six figure salaries and associated perks and are worried they may have to work into the holidays. A lot of us earn nowhere near what they get, and still do what we need to do to get the job done, including working over the holidays.
A fictional account based on (unfortunate) reality.
Contact the Senate here .
Defund executive amnesty in the “Cromnibus”
I didn't hear much complaining when they worked overtime, in the dead of the night, to pass Obamacrap.
GO TED GO !!
Oh! The horror of it all!! The LA Times is especially horrified.
Give em hell Ted, keep stabbing away eventually you will be able to destroy these blood sucking vampires, a stake to the heart, burn the bodies...Carry On!
The federal goverment ran out of money long ago. What they run out of at midnight is lipstick for the pig.
You go, Sen. Cruz! This is exactly what we elected you to do. And we notice that Cowardly Cornyn, our silent weenie senator from Texas, is hiding somewhere. You won’t get any help from him.
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