Government May Shut Down Amid Standoff on Pork-Filled Spending Bill

Ding Dong the 1,924 Page Omnibus Spending Bill Is Dead Harry Reid Pulls Bill
V IS FOR VICTORY … VICTORY FOR WE THE PEOPLE!!! America, tonight you just witnessed the power of the people and the aftermath of the political Tsunami and avalanche of the 2010 Midterm Election. Elections have consequences. Democrats and those Republicans who did not quite get the message, finally did over the last couple days as WE THE PEOPLE made their outraged voices heard and along with Senators Jim DeMint, Mitch McConnell and John McCain … Reid’s bill is toast. As state...

Lawmakers dump $1.3T spending bill
WASHINGTON - Democrats controlling the Senate yesterday abandoned a huge catchall spending measure combining nearly $1.3 Trillion worth of unfinished Budget work, including another $158 billion for Military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The 1,924-page bill collapsed of its own weight after an outcry from Conservatives - including Massachusetts Republican Sen. Scott Brown - who complained it was stuffed with more than $8 billion in homestate pet projects known as Earmarks and w...

GOP opposition forces Democrats to pull $1.1 trillion spending bill from floor
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was forced to pull the $1.1 Trillion omnibus bill that would fund the government for next year on Thursday after it became clear he would not have the votes to pass it. The Senate was set to begin considering the bill Thursday with expected passage over the weekend, but nine Senate Republicans who said they would support the bill withdrew their support at the last moment because of pressure from their GOP colleagues. Before they changed their position on the bil...

Democrats Withdraw $1.2 Trillion Spending Bill
Democrats abruptly abandoned a fight over spending on Thursday and said they would instead extend government funding on a temporary basis, a move that gives Republicans a greater chance to enact the deep cuts they have promised. The surprise agreement looked likely to end a high-stakes game of chicken that could have led to a shutdown of wide swaths of the U.S. government when current funding expires on Saturday night. Like the $858 billion tax deal poised to clear Congress over the objection of...

GOP Senate resistance kills giant spending bill
© Alex Brandon/AP Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada wasn't able to break Republican opposition to the bill. Democrats controlling the Senate abandoned on Thursday a huge catchall spending measure combining nearly $1.3 Trillion worth of unfinished Budget work, including another $158 billion for Military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The 1,924-page bill collapsed of its own weight after an outcry from Conservatives who complained it was stuffed with more than $8 billion in...

Angry Reid pulls $1.1T omnibus spending bill
Senate Democrats conceded defeat Thursday and pulled their $1.1 Trillion spending bill loaded with Earmarks from the chamber floor, stymied by Republicans who unified to block the massive bill in the final days of a contentious session of Congress. Angered at what happened, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, said nine Republicans, who had earlier promised to vote for the bill, had withdrawn their support in the last 24 hours. And he berated fellow lawmakers for ceding spending a...

Reid Drops Omnibus Spending Bill
(NewsCore) - In a surprise move, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced on the Senate floor Thursday that he does not have the necessary votes to file for Cloture on a $1.1 Trillion omnibus spending bill and will therefore not bring it to the Senate floor for a vote. Reid said nine Republicans, who he refused to name, had previously assured him of their support for the bill but had walked away from it in the last few days. Instead, Reid said he will now work with Senate Minority Le...

'A 1,924 Page Bill Just Died,' As Democrats Concede Budget Battle to GOP
Harry Reid holds a copy of the US Constitution while speaking to reporters Thursday afternoon. After months of Bipartisan negotiations, Majority Leader Harry Reid conceded Thursday night that he lacked the votes to bring up the $1.1 Trillion spending bill designed to fund the Federal Government for the rest of the current Fiscal Year, after nine GOP members suddenly reneged on their pledges to vote for it. As a result, Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell are now negotiating the terms...

GOP Kills Dems Omnibus Spending Bill
The Hill: Senate Democrats have given up on their plan to pass a $1.1 Trillion omnibus spending bill in the face of unified Republican opposition. The bill’s collapse will take with it more than 6,000 Earmarks as well as more than $1 billion in funding for implementation of Healthcare Reform. Democrats will move instead to two high priorities on their legislative agenda: the DREAM Act, which would grant permanent legal residency to Illegal Immigrants under a certain age, and a Repeal of the ...

Harry Reid drops $1.3T earmarked bill after 'Fight Obama speech' video
Quicker than Harry Reid could sleep talk his way through that  "I'm going to fight as hard as I can against President Obama" Speech," Reid surrendered the bill and waved a white flag. The $1.3T spending bill,   chock full of Earmarks, has been pulled reports AP.  Reid will work with Mitch McConnell to replace it with a short term funding bill, sufficient to  keep the wheels of government oiled and rolling until the new Congress returns in 2011. Reid may not can fight well, bu...

GOP Earmark Ban Supporters Claiming Hundreds Of Earmarks
WASHINGTON — More than two dozen senators – most of them Republicans – put hundreds of homestate projects in the $1.3 Trillion bill to fund the Federal Government even though they recently voted to ban so-called Earmarks. The effort to pass the 1,924-page bill collapsed Thursday night after complaints by Conservatives over its complexity and size and the relatively few days to be devoted to debating its merits. Anti-spending Tea Party Activists were angry, too, especially sin...

Reid Pulls Spending Bill After Republicans Remember They Are Being Watched
That didn’t take long. After word got out about all the Earmarks in the omnibus spending bill with R’s attached to them, Senate Republicans announced they would no longer vote for it, causing Senator Harry Reid to pull the measure. Senate Democrats abruptly pulled down an omnibus spending bill after senior Republicans - caught with their hands in the cookie jar — deserted the measure in an effort to square themselves with Tea Party Activists and Conservatives in the party...

Omnibus goes under the bus
From the Associated Press: “WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats controlling the Senate have abandoned a 1,924-page catchall spending measure that’s laced with homestate pet projects known as Earmarks and that would have provided another $158 billion for Military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Nevada Democrat Harry Reid gave up on the nearly $1.3 Trillion bill after several Republicans who had been thinking of voting for the bill pulled back their support.” Slowly, it dawns...

Government On Verge Of Shutdown
Fox News: A government shutdown looms as Congress risks missing a key deadline this weekend over the battle in the Senate on a massive 2,000-page catchall spending bill that Republicans have vowed to oppose unless they can strip it of Earmarks. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is expected Thursday to take up the $1.27 Trillion omnibus spending bill that would fund the government through the end of the Fiscal Year, to Sept. 30. But Republicans have threatened to stall debate by forcing the 1,...

A Victory for the Tea Party, But a Long Road Remains
Once mocked as angry Racist mobs and "Astroturf," the tea parties made their presence known in last month's Midterm Elections. Tonight, they claimed their first genuine legislative victory when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pulled the $1.2 Trillion omnibus bill with thousands of Earmarks, conceding he didn't have the votes to pass it. The reason he didn't have the votes to pass it was was no doubt a result of the pressure put on Republicans by Tea Party Activists who have made it political...

VICTORY Harry Reid Pulls Pork-laden $1.1 Trillion Omnibus Bill (Video)
Harry Reid doesn’t have the votes. Tonight the Far Left Majority Leader announced that Democrats would pull their pork-laden $1.1 Trillion omnibus bill. Speaking now on the Senate floor, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) says he is “sorry and disappointed” to announce that he does not have the votes for the omnibus spending package. Instead, he will work with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) to draft a temporary continuing resolution to fund the government into ear...

Sen. Reid Ends Effort To Pass $1.1 Trillion Spending Bill
What is this? Sen. Harry Reid says 9 Republican senators who earlier said they could support the bill later reneged. Sen. Harry Reid says 9 Republican senators who earlier said they could support the bill later reneged. The effort by Senate Democrats to pass a $1.1 Trillion spending bill to fund the Federal Government came crashing down Thursday night when Sen. Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader, said he learned he wouldn't get support from a number of Republicans who had earlier indica...

Senate Democrats give up on earmark-laden spending bill
Senate Democrats on Thursday abandoned their efforts to approve a comprehensive funding bill for the Federal Government after Republicans rebelled against its $1.2 Trillion cost and the inclusion of nearly 7,000 line-item projects for individual lawmakers. This Story House leaders press toward passage of tax-cut bill Senate Democrats give up on earmark-laden spending bill Brown Says Tax Cuts Blow `Outrageous' Hole in Deficit Republicans and tax cuts? Now that's rich. Graphic: How the tax deal...

Reid Drops Omnibus Spending Bill
(NewsCore) - In a surprise move, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced on the Senate floor Thursday that he does not have the necessary votes to file for Cloture on a $1.1 Trillion omnibus spending bill and will therefore not bring it to the Senate floor for a vote. Reid said nine Republicans, who he refused to name, had previously assured him of their support for the bill but had walked away from it in the last few days. Instead, Reid said he will now work with Senate Minority Le...

Democrats abruptly drop spending fight
By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON | Thu Dec 16, 2010 9:42pm EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats abruptly abandoned a fight over spending on Thursday and said they would instead extend government funding on a temporary basis, a move that gives Republicans a greater chance to enact the deep cuts they have promised. The surprise agreement looked likely to end a high-stakes game of chicken that could have led to a shutdown of wide swaths of the government if Congress had not agreed on a spending bill ...

Reid Abandons Omnibus Bill Amid GOP Opposition
ABC News’ Matthew Jaffe reports: With Senate Republicans uniting against a massive $1.1 Trillion omnibus spending bill and threatening to demand a time-consuming oral reading of the 1,924-page measure, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tonight elected to ditch the Controversial bill. In recent days, Republicans blasted the $8.3 billion of Earmarks in the measure and vowed to force an oral reading of it on the Senate floor. That process could have taken up to 50 hours, sucking up precious ti...

Senate Dem leader drops nearly $1.3T spending bill (AP)
WASHINGTON – Democrats controlling the Senate abandoned on Thursday a huge catchall spending measure combining nearly $1.3 Trillion worth of unfinished Budget work, including another $158 billion for Military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The 1,924-page bill collapsed of its own weight after an outcry from Conservatives who complained it was stuffed with more than $8 billion in homestate pet projects known as Earmarks. Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., gave up on the bill after s...

Harry Reid Blinks
Business as usual in Washington ended tonight. Harry Reid pulled the pork laden spending bill that, if passed, would have locked the Republicans into a massive Budget Deficit for the next year. Nevada Democrat Harry Reid gave up on the nearly $1.3 Trillion bill after several Republicans who had been thinking of voting for the bill pulled back their support. GOP leader Mitch McConnell threw his weight against the bill in recent days, saying it was in his words “unbelievable” that Dem...

GOP Filibusters Reid's $1.1 Trillion Omnibus Bill
The Senate GOP put a stop to Harry Reid's last minute 1,924 page, $1.1 (or $1.2) Trillion omnibus bill with a Filibuster that Reid could not get 60 votes to overcome. There were $8 billion in Earmarks, some from the very Republicans that later agreed to a ban of Earmarks, which liberals and Reid continue to neglect to mention when they claim "Republicans have them in the bill too." Fox Reports: Sen. GOP Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has long been known as an effective whip, and Thursday night...

Democrat symbol should be a pig instead of a donkey
In the $1.27 Trillion omnibus spending bill currently being debated, Democrats have added 99% of the $8.3 billion in Earmarks, or pork barrel spending. Republicans, on the other hand, have only added $500 million. Still an amount that shouldn’t be in the bill. This bill was due before the November election, but the party in charge (the Democrats) delayed it so voters wouldn’t know how much they were proposing to spend. A few weeks ago, all but eight Senate Republicans agreed to a two...