Harry Reid Pulls Massive Omnibus Spending Bill; Mitch McConnell Reacts Video 12/16/10

Reid Pulls Controversial $1.2 Trillion Spending Bill in Favor of Short-Term Budget Fix
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., pauses while speaking with the media, after their Senate Democratic Caucus, Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2010, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP) Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, bowing to Republican opposition to a 1,924-page $1.2 Trillion spending measure packed with Earmarks, withdrew the bill and said he would work with Republican leaders on a smaller, short-term Budget fix to avoid a looming government shutdown. The government already is operating on a te...

GOP senators kill spending bill over $8 billion in earmarks
Reporting from Washington — Republicans on Friday reveled in a victory over Government Spending that showcased their resolve in the fight over the federal purse. By killing a $1.3-trillion spending bill, the GOP extinguished a sheaf of earmarked expenditures and drew in straying GOP colleagues — even those who had inserted the Earmarks and helped write the bill, which would have funded the government through September 2011. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D- Nevada) withdrew th...

GOP senators kill spending bill over $8 billion in earmarks
Reporting from Washington — Republicans on Friday reveled in a victory over Government Spending that showcased their resolve in the fight over the federal purse. By killing a $1.3-trillion spending bill, the GOP extinguished a sheaf of earmarked expenditures and drew in straying GOP colleagues — even those who had inserted the Earmarks and helped write the bill, which would have funded the government through September 2011. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D- Nevada) withdrew th...

Inouye defends omnibus appropriations bill
Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) forcefully defended the abandoned $1.1 Trillion omnibus appropriations bill in a Senate floor Speech Friday evening and argued that opponents of the bill were wrong to say the 2010 Midterm Elections were about ending Earmarks. Inouye's remarks came as the Senate approved a three-day continuing resolution to avert a government shutdown Saturday. The Senate is moving toward approving a two-month CR that would fund the government a...

Obama signs tax-cut legislation
President Obama on Friday signed the bill that extends the George W. Bush-era Tax Cuts, while Congress moved to wind up its lame-duck deliberations in a session marked by the changing nature of politics and power. Speaking at the signing ceremony, Obama again defended his Compromise, worked out with Republicans. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was prominent at the ceremony, as was Vice President Joe Biden, who bargained with the Republican leader "This is real money that is going to mak...

How Mitch McConnell Convinced Republicans To Derail Dems' Spending Plan
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell approached the microphones for his weekly Press Conference on Tuesday with more sense of purpose than he's had since he tried -- but failed -- to derail the Health Care law in March. His goal this time was to kill the Omnibus spending bill, which his Democratic counterpart Harry Reid had just unveiled. Just as earlier this year, though, he didn't sound like a Party Leader who was certain he had the votes to kill it. "I am actively working to defeat it," h...

GOP senators kill spending bill over $8 billion in earmarks
Source: LA Times Republicans on Friday reveled in a victory over Government Spending that showcased their resolve in the fight over the federal purse. By killing a $1.3-trillion spending bill, the GOP extinguished a sheaf of earmarked expenditures and drew in straying GOP colleagues — even those who had inserted the Earmarks and helped write the bill, which would have funded the government through September 2011. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D- Nevada) withdrew the bill Thursday night in t...

With big spending bill's demise, is 'earmark' new dirty word on Hill?
Deficit hawks and Watchdog groups see Thursday's demise of an omnibus spending bill in the Senate as a turning point. A critical mass of lawmakers, they say, are committed to an earmark ban. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., holds a copy of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday. There was no last hurrah for Earmarks - known to supporters as “congressionally mandated spending,” and to critics a...

Republicans kill omnibus bill, including their own earmarks
A $1.1 Trillion omnibus bill that included $8 billion in Earmarks from lawmakers who opposed them was pulled from the Senate after Majority Leader Harry Reid acknowledged that he did not have the votes to withstand a Republican Filibuster. All 42 Republicans had threatened to filibuster the bill, despite the fact that two Republican Senators — Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker of Mississippi — requested $561 million and $449 million in earmarks. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell req...

Dream Act Dead In Senate: Harry Reid Couldnt Muster The Votes
Senator Harry Reid hasn’t had a good couple of days, first the Omnibus spending bill and now the DREAM Act. Dead in the Senate is how you could describe the bill intended to grant legal status to millions of Illegal Immigrants. Democrats fell five votes shy of the 60 needed to advance the bill passed by Nancy Pelosi’s House of Representatives. Even with the help of Republicans like Lisa Murkowski, Richard Lugar and Bob Bennett, enough democrats were wary of their 2012 campaigns to join the ...

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...

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 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 ...

In a Victory for Earmark Opponents, Dems Drop Their Trillion-Dollar Omnibus Spending Bill
Friday, December 17, 2010 By Patrick Goodenough Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell holds up the 1,924-page omnibus spending bill on the Senate floor on Thursday night. (Screenshot: C-SPAN) (CNSNews.com) - Senate Democrats Thursday evening withdrew an earmark-laden omnibus spending bill, agreeing instead to work on a short-term, stop-gap funding bill - a “continuing resolution” - to keep the Federal Government running beyond midnight Saturday. Earlier, Secretary of

GOP Senate Aide: The Bill Wasnt Going to Be Read
At one point yesterday, according to a Senate Republican leadership aide, Democrats were telling reporters to “watch the floor” for action on the Omnibus Bill. GOP critics had pushed for all 1,924 pages of the Legislation to read aloud by Senate clerks — which would have taken an estimated 50 hours — but Democrats were planning to block this maneuver using a procedural trick. “The bill wasn’t going to be read,” says the Republican aide. “We were go...

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...

Change Has Come to the Senate After Collapse of Massive Spending Bill, Republican Declares
Friday, December 17, 2010 By Fred Lucas Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) pauses during a news conference on Capitol Hill on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) (CNSNews.com) - "We just saw something extraordinary on the floor of the United States Senate," Sen. John McCain said Thursday night after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) - lacking enough votes - gave up on a Trillion-dollar, 1,924-page omnibus spending bill that included $8 billion in pork bar

Tea Party Era Begins With Refusal To Debate 'Omnibus' Spending Bill
WASHINGTON -- The new, more Republican Congress won't arrive in town until next month, but the Tea Party Era unofficially began on the Hill Thursday night. Republican leaders in Congress, blindsided by Grassroots fury over the Tax Cut deal they made with President Obama, are now scrambling to show their allegiance to the anti-federal, anti-debt movement. The GOP brass, led by Senate Party Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), did so tonight by eagerly backing the successful efforts of Tea Party favo...

Call your Senator; support McConnell's 1-page, earmark free bill!
Last night's victory to stop the $1.1 Trillion, earmark packed omnibus spending bill was a true power to the people moment, but it will not mean anything unless we keep the pressure on the Congress to do the right thing. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has introduced a 1-page, earmark free continuing resolution to fund the government until the new Congress is in session. Call you Senator now and tell them to support McConnell's bill! Casey, Robert P., Jr. - (D - PA)Class I Made in the USA...

Food safety bill looks dead, though Democrats say they haven't given up
Democrats say they haven't given up on Legislation that would overhaul the nation's Food Safety system, but a Republican Senate aide said the bill is dead after the omnibus spending bill it was tacked on to was defeated Thursday night.   The Food Safety Modernization Act was included in the proposed omnibus spending bill that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) threw out Thursday night when it became clear it didn't have the votes to pass. Reid said he would work with Minority Leader M...

Extension Of Bush Tax Cuts Passes; Pork Laden Spending Bill Goes Down
So I’m sure you’ve heard by now. The House of Representatives passed the bill that will extend the Bush Tax Cuts, renew Unemployment Benefits for 13 months, and cut Social Security taxes for one year late last night. The roll call showed it was a total landslide at 277-148. Democrats had 139 yeas and 112 nays while the Republicans has 138-36 Go here to see the roll call and find out how they voted. The Democrats tried to pass a higher estate tax but that went down in flames also at 2...

Omnibus bill appears to be dead
Senate Republicans appear to have defeated the $1.1 Trillion omnibus spending bill containing over 6,000 Earmarks as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announced last night that he didn’t have the votes needed to push it through: 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. Senate M...

Earmarks foul body politic
Earmarks are perfectly fine if they go to a nice enough project, says Rep. Barney Frank (D-Newton), who helped bring us the worst Financial Crisis since the Great Depression because he also thought subprime Mortgages were fine. I don’t believe this man has ever been right on anything. Think of him as a kind of reverse thermometer. When he says it’s hot, it’s cold. And when he smiles on earmarks, you ought to frown. These devices for localized gift giving came within a whisker ...

Harry Reid Pulls Omnibus Spending Bill Amid GOP Opposition
Faced with the prospect of a near-crippling procedural delay, Senate Democrats have pulled a $ 1 Trillion spending package from the Senate in favor of another...

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...