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cal04

(41,505 posts)
Mon Sep 30, 2013, 10:00 PM Sep 2013

Harry Reid: Republicans "have lost their minds"

sorry Harry but they never had one

Senate nixes House-passed funding bill as clock ticks towards shutdown

With just hours to go before a midnight deadline, the Senate swiftly nixed a House-passed government funding proposal late Monday, tossing the legislation back to the lower chamber with unusual speed as the nation careened towards a federal shutdown.

Shortly after receiving the House proposal to fund the government and delay a key provision of the president's health care law, the Senate voted along party lines to send the bill back to the House for a last-ditch effort at meeting a midnight deadline to keep the government's lights on.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on the Senate floor before the vote that Republicans "have lost their minds" by repeatedly voting for "ridiculous policy riders" destined for failure in the Democratically-controlled Senate.

http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/30/20758038-senate-nixes-house-passed-funding-bill-as-clock-ticks-towards-shutdown?lite

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Harry Reid: Republicans "have lost their minds" (Original Post) cal04 Sep 2013 OP
I think defenestration might be in order Warpy Sep 2013 #1
Does that mean we can throw them out of the window Mira Sep 2013 #3
You are right cal. sheshe2 Sep 2013 #2
I agree with Reid gopiscrap Sep 2013 #4
R#6 & K for, GO Harry GO!1 n/t UTUSN Sep 2013 #5
Yeah, I agree. Warren DeMontague Sep 2013 #6
sweetie, that happened some time ago Skittles Sep 2013 #7
As a gag, we should start a campaign to send them all kentauros Sep 2013 #8

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
8. As a gag, we should start a campaign to send them all
Mon Sep 30, 2013, 10:59 PM
Sep 2013

little bags of marbles, with a note about how they seemed to have lost theirs

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