How some Senate Democrats sided with Republicans to vote against government shutdown
The advance vote: The Senate voted 62-38 to end debate on the bill – a cloture vote – and advance it to a final vote. Nine Democrats and one independent, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., voted in favor of cloture. That vote allowed the bill to pass with a simple majority in the final vote.
Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada were among the first Democrats to publicly back the Republican funding bill, arguing that a ...
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Democratic leaders amp up pressure on Senate colleagues to oppose GOP spending bill: ‘Stand with us’“There is an alternative for the senators, Democrats and Republicans, to consider,” Jeffries said. “It is a four-week clean continuing resolution that gives both the House and the Senate — ...
Republicans, who control the Senate 53-47, needed Democratic help first to clear the 60-vote threshold needed to bypass the filibuster. After days of waffling and demanding a shorter-term ...
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