Republicans and Democrats Pledge to Read 1,924-Page Omnibus Spending Bill Before Vote

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...

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...

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...

'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...

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...

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 ...

Democrats abruptly drop spending fight
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 by Saturday night. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said nin...

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 Intricacies of the Omnibus Spending Bill
The omnibus spending bill is rife with interesting backstories and competing agendas. It’s clear to me that Jim DeMint’s pressure to read the full omnibus, which stands at over 1,900 pages, has three parts: 1) to cement his standing with the Tea Party against “pork” and really spending in general; 2) to run out the clock not on the spending bill but the rest of the Senate’s agenda, especially START, the DREAM Act and the Repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell;...

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...

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...

Harry Reid FAIL! Pork omnibus bill is dead!
Harry Reid FAIL! Pork omnibus bill is dead! Sorry porkfest Democrats and especially Republicans, Harry Reid’s Porkubus bill is dead! Yes, that $1.1 Trillion  monstrosity has been pulled by Harry Reid because he couldn’t muster enough votes (from even his own Fraud Democrat party) to get it passed. Even the nine or so Republicans who would have voted for this pork filled bill weren’t enough to overcome it. Left Wing Politico reports that outgoing loser Utah RINO Robert Bennet...

Reid Pulls Trillion Dollar Spending Bill...Dems in Chaos
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....

Reid Pulls Controversial $1.2 Trillion Spending Bill in Favor of Short-Term Budget Fix
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 loom......

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...

Senate Abandons Spending Bill
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 Hill reports. "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 Health Care reform." Democrats will now move to other priorities: the DREAM Act, which would grant permanent legal residency to Illegal Immigrants under a certain age, and a Repeal of the Military's "Don't ask, do...

House passes Senate Tax Bill now awaits Presidents signature
The House just held a final vote to past the Senate Tax Bill (which passed yesterday), the House passed the Bill by a vote of 277-148. The Senate tax Bill was brokered by President Obama and Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell earlier this month after the Republicans held 2 million unemployed Americans hostage as their Unemployment Benefits were set to expire around Christmas Day. The Republicans also held millions of Middle Class working American families hostage as well by saying...

BREAKING: Ding Dong The Swine Bill's Dead/Reid Pulls Omnibus
Just a half-hour ago, Harry Reid took the Senate floor and started a rambling Speech about how he supports the Constitution and how women and little babies would have a lousy life should the Senate Swine Omnibus bill not pass, that's when he sprung the Christmas surprise. He is pulling the bill and will work on a short term continuing resolution that will fund the government till the new Congress convenes. Reid no longer has the votes. I have to tell you if I was John Boehner I would have star...

Senate Dem leader drops nearly $1.3 trillion spending bill
WASHINGTON -- Democrats controlling the Senate abandoned 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 home state pet projects known as Earmarks. Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., gave up on the bill after several...

Congress approves tax-cut, jobless-benefits legislation
WASHINGTON — Acting with uncommon speed, Congress sent President Barack Obama sweeping, Bipartisan Legislation late Thursday to avoid a Jan. 1 spike in income taxes for millions and renew jobless benefits for Victims of the worst Recession in 80 years. The measure also will cut Social Security taxes for nearly every wage-earner and pump billions of dollars into the still-sluggish economy. The 277-148 vote came less than 24 hours after the Senate cleared the bill, 81-19. The Legislation w...

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...

Allen's take on Webb shaky
Former U.S. Sen. George Allen is taking aim at a rival who took away his seat in 2006, Sen. Jim Webb. In a Dec. 9 news release, Allen criticized Webb for breaking with Virginia's junior senator, Democrat Mark R. Warner, on two recent votes. Webb opposed banning Earmarks and backed an unsuccessful effort to advance Legislation that would give police and Firefighter unions Collective Bargaining rights. Allen, a Republican and a former Virginia Governor, is considering a 2012 rematch with Webb. He ...

US Congress passes contentious Obama tax deal
US lawmakers gave final approval to President Barack Obama's contentious deal with Republicans to avert a New Year's tax hike and extend aid to the jobless, despite a Democratic rebellion. A day after the Senate passed the package by an 81-19 margin, the House of Representatives followed suit 277-148, sending the measure to Obama to sign and reap a restorative Bipartisan victory six weeks after an Elections rout. The 858-billion-dollar measure was expected to give the US economy a much-needed ...