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Thank you Dems, esp Bernie & Liz! The Senate has passed a budget resolution.
Silent Ted Cruz, Triumphant Elizabeth Warren, and the Other 2016 Moments of Vote-a-Rama
3/27/2015 12:42 PM EDT
"Vote-a-rama" is over. The Senate has passed a budget resolution. The damage and glory to possible 2016 presidential candidates, and to their agendas, is coming into view. The 2016 fiscal year budget, and its companion flurry of ideological amendments, offered one of the last big legislative opportunities for prospective candidates to define themselves before launching campaigns and heading into primaries.
Only two 2016 Republicans, Texas Senator Ted Cruz and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, voted against the final budget. Two Republican colleagues who are considering White House bids, South Carolina Senator Graham and Florida Senator Marco Rubio, voted for it. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent who's still considering a run as a Democrat, joined every Democrat in the "no" camp. The real story was in the amendments....
...Bernie Sanders
As ranking member of Budget, Sanders had been using the debate of the last month to promote progressive tax and entitlement ideas. (Any reporter who tried to bug him about Hillary Clinton's e-mails quickly got an answer about the budget.) Sanders generally hung back, getting every Democrat and two Republicans (Maine's Susan Collins, Ohio's Rob Portman) to back a minimum-wage amendment, and getting five Republicans and all but two Democrats (North Dakota's Heidi Heitkamp, West Virginia's Joe Manchin) to back a statement endorsing the reality of climate change.
Elizabeth Warren
No, she's still not running for president, but Warren got all but two Democrats–Delaware Senator Tom Carper and North Dakota Senator Heidi Heitkamp–to back an amendment co-sponsored by the far more conservative West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, to expand Social Security payments. That idea, introduced as legislation by Iowa Senator Tom Harkin in the last Congress, moved from the fringes to Democratic policy with lightning speed.
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-03-27/silent-ted-cruz-triumphant-elizabeth-warren-and-the-other-2016-moments-of-vote-a-rama
3/27/2015 12:42 PM EDT
"Vote-a-rama" is over. The Senate has passed a budget resolution. The damage and glory to possible 2016 presidential candidates, and to their agendas, is coming into view. The 2016 fiscal year budget, and its companion flurry of ideological amendments, offered one of the last big legislative opportunities for prospective candidates to define themselves before launching campaigns and heading into primaries.
Only two 2016 Republicans, Texas Senator Ted Cruz and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, voted against the final budget. Two Republican colleagues who are considering White House bids, South Carolina Senator Graham and Florida Senator Marco Rubio, voted for it. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent who's still considering a run as a Democrat, joined every Democrat in the "no" camp. The real story was in the amendments....
...Bernie Sanders
As ranking member of Budget, Sanders had been using the debate of the last month to promote progressive tax and entitlement ideas. (Any reporter who tried to bug him about Hillary Clinton's e-mails quickly got an answer about the budget.) Sanders generally hung back, getting every Democrat and two Republicans (Maine's Susan Collins, Ohio's Rob Portman) to back a minimum-wage amendment, and getting five Republicans and all but two Democrats (North Dakota's Heidi Heitkamp, West Virginia's Joe Manchin) to back a statement endorsing the reality of climate change.
Elizabeth Warren
No, she's still not running for president, but Warren got all but two Democrats–Delaware Senator Tom Carper and North Dakota Senator Heidi Heitkamp–to back an amendment co-sponsored by the far more conservative West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, to expand Social Security payments. That idea, introduced as legislation by Iowa Senator Tom Harkin in the last Congress, moved from the fringes to Democratic policy with lightning speed.
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-03-27/silent-ted-cruz-triumphant-elizabeth-warren-and-the-other-2016-moments-of-vote-a-rama
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