Bipartisan Senate majority votes FOR Trumps wall funding plan ...
Correction: it was 50-47
Three Senators were absent. Paul, Risch and Rosen
Shutdown will continue.
Neither bill would make it to the President’s desk.
Time to go nuclear and see what the house does with that in their lap.
Before anybody jumps ugly, could Lee and/or Cotton have been voting nay for procedural reasons?
If not, let the jumping ugly commence.
PDJT’s fault right?
YAWN, I hope the furloughed folks realize that the Dems could get them back to work in a NY minute for a measly 5 billion dollar wall, less the one dollar nancy provided.
Some people here were suggesting that Mike Lee would make a good SCOTUS justice. No thanks!
Useless wankers. All of them.
We’ve had over 30 days of this shutdown. It’s time to layoff all the needless teat drainers and save a trillion.
Our government is locked up tighter than a guy whose swallowed 32 ounces of cement.
lee voted against the wall
The 60 vote thing is merely a Senate rule found nowhere in the Constitution. And thanks again to Cotton and Lee. Two damned traitors.
This is NOT about a wall - this is about crushing the Resistance. Lincoln burned cities and destroyed crops to put down the rebellion. I stand behind Trump in whatever he does to crush the rebellion.
What happened to Midge has the votes?
A preview of how this will end.
Sorry for a stupid question, but who exactly can refuse to bring it to a floor vote in the House?
It is very good to hear that we will be voting on a solution to end the government shutdown and secure the border this week. I look forward to reading the legislation and being able to offer amendments if they are needed.— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) January 19, 2019
Nevertrumper Mike Lee, Nooooo to securing the border!!!
McConnell should be playing Harry Reid’s tune and “going nuclear” (ending filibusters with just a simple majority).
Why? The historical purposes of the 60 votes needed have been trashed by the total obstructionism on nearly every contentious measure at every turn, by Dims and GOPers. Why? The national divisions have been increased and heightened to levels where “bipartisan” has an effective meaning only when the majority can get what they want without the minority & a few minority sign on to a measure anyway.
The nation is divided as not seen since the civil war, Mr McConnell. Quit letting rules that can be changed stand in the way of you and your majority getting things done. You will regret it, as surely that is what any future Dim Senate majority is going to do - they admit how divided the nation is and no there is no other way to get what they want to do, when they have a majority; just as Harry Reid did when he last had control of the Senate.