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Senate Passes Budget After All-Night Debate
Senate Passes Budget After All-Night Debate
Benjy Sarlin
After four years, the Senate finally has a budget.
The Democrats’ $3.7 trillion budget passed just before 5 AM on Saturday after a long night of votes on dozens of amendments.
The vote was 50-49 with four Democrats bucking the party, all of them up for re-election in 2014 in conservative leaning states — Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR), Kay Hagan (D-NC), Max Baucus (D-MT), and Mark Begich (D-AK).
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The budget includes $100 billion of immediate infrastructure spending designed to boost the economy and raise $975 billion over the next decade through tax reform, which would eliminate various loopholes and tax expenditures.
Amendments during the so-called “vote-a-rama” ranged from Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-SC) call for Senators to donate 20 percent of their pay to charity if they did not complete a budget, which passed on a voice vote, to an amendment by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) that would permanently bar illegal immigrants from ever receiving health care under Medicaid or the Affordable Care Act. The Sessions amendment failed 43-56.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/03/senate-passes-budget-after-all-night-debate.php
Benjy Sarlin
After four years, the Senate finally has a budget.
The Democrats’ $3.7 trillion budget passed just before 5 AM on Saturday after a long night of votes on dozens of amendments.
The vote was 50-49 with four Democrats bucking the party, all of them up for re-election in 2014 in conservative leaning states — Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR), Kay Hagan (D-NC), Max Baucus (D-MT), and Mark Begich (D-AK).
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The budget includes $100 billion of immediate infrastructure spending designed to boost the economy and raise $975 billion over the next decade through tax reform, which would eliminate various loopholes and tax expenditures.
Amendments during the so-called “vote-a-rama” ranged from Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-SC) call for Senators to donate 20 percent of their pay to charity if they did not complete a budget, which passed on a voice vote, to an amendment by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) that would permanently bar illegal immigrants from ever receiving health care under Medicaid or the Affordable Care Act. The Sessions amendment failed 43-56.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/03/senate-passes-budget-after-all-night-debate.php
