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...

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...

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...

After Spending Bill Implodes, Reid Schedules Vote on DADT Repeal
On Thursday night, Senate Republicans killed must-pass Legislation to fund the government, and forced Democrats to accept GOP spending demands to avert a federal shutdown. The development infuriated Democratic members and led to unusually angry, churlish exchanges on the Senate floor. But as a consolation prize for defeated Democrats, they'll have a real shot at finally repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell on Sunday evening. After long deliberations with Republican principals Senate Majority Leader...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Harry Reid Pulls Omnibus, But Announces Votes On DADT & DREAM Act
WASHINGTON -- Faced with the prospects of having to literally read the full 1924 pages of an omnibus spending bill, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) chose on Thursday night to pull the measure in favor of a continuing resolution to keep government funding. Republicans, presented with the news, could barely hide their Glee. "Did we just win?" asked newly elected Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), a rhetorical question that seemed to engender sharp rebukes from Democrats. Kirk was directing his ...

Republicans Stop Pro-Abortion Omnibus Bill as Reid Pulls It
Late Thursday, pro-abortion Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid gave up on trying to pass the 1.1 Trillion omnibus spending bill that contains numerous goodies for the Abortion industry. After realizing Republicans were unified in opposition to the measure and had enough votes to sustain a Filibuster against it, Reid pulled the Legislation. The move results in yanking more than $1 billion in funding for implementation of the ObamaCare Health Care law that could result in massive Abortion funding. ...

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 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 ...

The Omnibus Falls
As he stepped into a Capitol elevator late Thursday, bundled up in preparation for the winter winds, Sen. Mitch McConnell cracked a thin smile. For the low-key leader of Senate Republicans, good spirits were certainly in order. Minutes before, his cross-aisle counterpart, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, had sounded a death knell for the much-maligned $1.1 Trillion omnibus spending package — the pork-packed keystone of the Democratic lame-duck agenda. McConnell, in an interview with Nati...

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...

Fate of food-safety bill bleak (Politico)
A sweeping Food Safety measure heralded as a rare Senate victory just a few weeks ago looks like it might fall to the cutting room floor, as senators hammer out the details of a resolution to prevent a government shutdown. Aides say Majority Leader Harry Reid must strip down the government funding measure to its bare bones so that the Senate can pass it quickly by unanimous consent and send back to the House, which had attached the food-safety measure to its version of the continuing resolution...

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...

Senate leaders drops $1.3 trillion spending bill
WASHINGTON (AP) - After wrestling with—and finally abandoning—a 1,900-page catchall spending bill stuffed with more than $8 billion in home-state projects known as Earmarks in Washington and pork in the rest of the country, Senate leaders turned Friday to devising a measure to keep the federal government running into early next year. Nearly $1.3 Trillion in unfinished Budget work needed to keep the government running was packed into the spending measure, including $158 billion for mil...

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...

Collapse of the omnibus spending bill: rise of the 'tea party Congress'?
Some see ideals of Tea Party movement at play in Senate, after a huge spending bill loaded with Earmarks is scuttled after GOP lawmakers thought twice about it....

Harry Reid Drops Nearly $1.3T Omnibus Spending Bill
Included $8 billion in Earmarks... Associated Press 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 and wrapped...

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...

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...