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Hissyspit

(45,788 posts) Fri Mar 22, 2013, 07:54 AM Mar 2013

Senate Votes 40-59 to Reject Ryan Budget

Source: Talking Points Memo

Senate Votes 40-59 To Reject Ryan Budget

SAHIL KAPUR 8:51 PM EDT, THURSDAY MARCH 21, 2013

The Senate voted 40-59 to reject the Paul Ryan budget on Thursday night.

Republican Sens. Mike Lee (UT), Ted Cruz (TX), Dean Heller (NV), Susan Collins (ME) and Rand Paul (KY) joined a unified Democratic caucus in voting against it. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) missed the vote.

Republicans did not offer the Ryan budget; Senate Budget Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) forced the vote by bringing up the plan as a substitute to her own Democratic budget.

"There seemed to be some resistance among my Republican colleagues in bringing up the House Republican budget for a vote. And it's pretty easy to see why that is," she said in a floor speech before the vote. "The House Republican approach has been thoroughly reviewed and just as thoroughly rejected by the American people."

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The Ryan blueprint passed the House Thursday morning.

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Senate Votes 40-59 to Reject Ryan Budget (Original Post) Hissyspit Mar 2013 OP

Senate Dems called the vote? postulater Mar 2013 #1

Shouldn't that be Senate Votes 59-40 to Reject Ryan Budget? RC Mar 2013 #2

Yes, I think we (D) have a Senate majority....eom dotymed Mar 2013 #5

The GOP does not want creon Mar 2013 #3

Couldn't the same be said for the budget President Obama put forth last year. Bonduel Mar 2013 #6

Strange that you'd bring up the TeaBagger's counter-argument HERE of all places. BlueCaliDem Mar 2013 #7

All I am saying is that no one in DC is taking the budget seriously Bonduel Mar 2013 #8

Only Baggers don't know that the President and Democrats have been taking the budget VERY BlueCaliDem Mar 2013 #9

Lee, Cruz, and Heller probably found it too lenient.\nt Mass Mar 2013 #4

Yeah, I'm a little confused by their votes. Ash_F Mar 2013 #10

I think you have to vote "no" to be able to bring a bill up for reconsideration Ken Burch Mar 2013 #11

No, it was not a cloture vote. Here is an explanation of the vote Mass Mar 2013 #12

postulater

(5,075 posts)

1. Senate Dems called the vote?

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Fri Mar 22, 2013, 07:58 AM

Mar 2013

How about they call a vote on assault weapons. Let em raise their hands.

RC

(25,592 posts)

2. Shouldn't that be Senate Votes 59-40 to Reject Ryan Budget?

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Fri Mar 22, 2013, 09:09 AM

Mar 2013

Politics is so confusing.

dotymed

(5,610 posts)

5. Yes, I think we (D) have a Senate majority....eom

Reply to RC (Reply #2)

Fri Mar 22, 2013, 09:35 AM

Mar 2013

creon

(1,183 posts)

3. The GOP does not want

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Fri Mar 22, 2013, 09:30 AM

Mar 2013

to pass a budget. The House budget passed knowing full well that it would be rejected by the Senate.

If the GOP actually wanted to pass a budget, it would engage in the hard negotiations with the Democrats in Congress.

Bonduel

(96 posts)

6. Couldn't the same be said for the budget President Obama put forth last year.

Reply to creon (Reply #3)

Fri Mar 22, 2013, 09:42 AM

Mar 2013

He didn't get 1 vote for it. Every single Democrat even voted against it. Let's face it. No one in DC is serious about a budget right now.

BlueCaliDem

(15,438 posts)

7. Strange that you'd bring up the TeaBagger's counter-argument HERE of all places.

Reply to Bonduel (Reply #6)

Fri Mar 22, 2013, 09:47 AM

Mar 2013

I see you're new. Enjoy your short stay!

Bonduel

(96 posts)

8. All I am saying is that no one in DC is taking the budget seriously

Reply to BlueCaliDem (Reply #7)

Fri Mar 22, 2013, 02:32 PM

Mar 2013

BlueCaliDem

(15,438 posts)

9. Only Baggers don't know that the President and Democrats have been taking the budget VERY

Reply to Bonduel (Reply #8)

Fri Mar 22, 2013, 04:32 PM

Mar 2013

seriously. In fact, every year the president - although it's not his job - presents a budget to Congress that the Know-nothing, Do-nothing corporate lackeys of the GOP vote down en masse, and then turn around an wail that there isn't a budget to their corporate-owned and operated accessories that are posing as our Fourth Estate, to making this country a fascist state.

Next you're going to tell me that there hasn't been a budget for over 1000 days, or some stupid and ignorant shit like that.

Mass

(27,315 posts)

4. Lee, Cruz, and Heller probably found it too lenient.\nt

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Fri Mar 22, 2013, 09:34 AM

Mar 2013

Ash_F

(5,861 posts)

10. Yeah, I'm a little confused by their votes.

Reply to Mass (Reply #4)

Fri Mar 22, 2013, 04:48 PM

Mar 2013

Why'd they do that?

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)

11. I think you have to vote "no" to be able to bring a bill up for reconsideration

Reply to Ash_F (Reply #10)

Fri Mar 22, 2013, 04:52 PM

Mar 2013

n/t.

Mass

(27,315 posts)

12. No, it was not a cloture vote. Here is an explanation of the vote

Reply to Ken Burch (Reply #11)

Fri Mar 22, 2013, 07:03 PM

Mar 2013

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/22/rand-paul-maps-quick-path-balanced-budget/http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/22/rand-paul-maps-quick-path-balanced-budget/

Mr. Paul, as well as GOP Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas, and Mike Lee of Utah, joined Democrats Thursday in voting against the Ryan House budget — arguing that the plan did not go far enough in getting the nation’s fiscal house in order.

Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/22/rand-paul-maps-quick-path-balanced-budget/#ixzz2OJRVCOIH
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(Sorry for the source, but they are just even more crazy than Ryan, which is a hard bar to jump).

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