{"id":19088,"date":"2014-12-13T01:32:34","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T06:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=19088"},"modified":"2014-12-13T01:32:34","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T06:32:34","slug":"no-senate-vote-yet-on-1-1-trillion-spending-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/12\/13\/no-senate-vote-yet-on-1-1-trillion-spending-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"No Senate vote yet on $1.1 trillion spending bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>CBS News<\/em> has some good news in the article <a title=\"CBS news story\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/senate-still-to-vote-on-1-1-trillion-spending-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\">No Senate vote yet on $1.1 trillion spending bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It will be Monday at the earliest before the Senate votes on a $1.1 trillion government funding bill passed by the House on Thursday night.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nAt least 60 senators must agree to end debate on the larger spending package and move toward a vote of the full Senate &#8212; a procedure called cloture. A cloture vote will likely take place very early Sunday morning, setting up a final vote Monday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do I have to eat humble pie and say thank goodness I didn&#8217;t get what I wished for, the end of the filibuster rule?\u00a0 So it only takes 41 Senators to put a halt to this obscene piece of legislation.\u00a0 Wow, how lucky we still have that crazy rule.\u00a0 It may save our bacon at least until the Republicans take over the Senate in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever good you can say that President Obama has done during his term, he has only been playing around the periphery of the central problem.\u00a0 Until we solve the central problem of the takeover of our government by the super wealthy oligarchs, then little progress can be made.\u00a0 Obama is not even in the fight over the central problem.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think he even sees it as a problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS News has some good news in the article No Senate vote yet on $1.1 trillion spending bill. It will be Monday at the earliest before the Senate votes on a $1.1 trillion government funding bill passed by the House on Thursday night. . . . At least 60 senators must agree to end debate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19089,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19088\/revisions\/19089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}