"Cromnibus" bill and associated shenanigans in Congress...

Didn't see a thread on this.



The latest re: Ted Cruz and Mike Lee..

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A bipartisan chorus of senators is speaking out against the move by Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee to force weekend votes in an effort to get a vote to defund President Obama's recent executive action on immigration. "Suffice it to say I'm not happy with the strategy [Cruz] has come up with, I think it's totally counterproductive," Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, told reporters off the Senate floor on Saturday. "This reminds me very much of the shutdown last year where the strategy made absolutely no sense and was counterproductive, and I believe we're in the same kind of situation today." The move was met with mixed reactions from Democrats, who admitted that because the Senate is forced to be in session over the weekend, they have time to move forward with a slew of presidential nominations that may not have been considered if they were not in session today. "I must tell you I'm kinda pleased that it has worked out in a way that it looks like we're going to get our nominations," Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., said. "The bottom line is, it looks like what a couple of my colleagues did on the other side of the aisle was play into a scenario where we can get all of our work done."

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