Senate approves deal to lift debt ceiling 3 months, sends hurricane relief funds

[Pugster]

Source: CNN

The Senate approved Thursday a package of bills that paired emergency funding for hurricane relief with measures that would raise the debt ceiling and keep the government open for three months.

The vote was 80-17. All 17 nos were Republicans.
The legislation now goes to the House, which could vote as early as Thursday night.

President Donald Trump, in a surprising move, signed onto the package Wednesday, siding with Democrats who proposed bundling the bills together but only with a three-month extension for the debt ceiling. Republican leaders had sought a debt limit increase for as long as 18 months.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/07/politics/senate-vote-debt-ceiling-hurricane-relief-funding/index.html

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This tells Trump that he can only win if he partners with Democrats.

Good.

[Wellstone ruled]

1. McTurtle will do something in

next couple of weeks to nail Trump. So remember how Harry Reid was butchered McTurtle. As the money trail with Russia-Trump-GOP closes in,it will turn real ugly.

[Wounded Bear]

2. Good news about the disaster relief and keeping the gov't in operation...

[George II]

3. Any way to find out who the 17 nitwits who voted against are?

[George II]

4. Here are the Nays and the No Votes:

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=115&session=1&vote=00192

NAYs ---17

Corker (R-TN)
Daines (R-MT)
Enzi (R-WY)
Ernst (R-IA)
Fischer (R-NE)
Flake (R-AZ)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Johnson (R-WI)
Lankford (R-OK)
Lee (R-UT)
McCain (R-AZ)
Moran (R-KS)
Paul (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Sasse (R-NE)
Toomey (R-PA)

Not Voting - 3

Menendez (D-NJ)
Rubio (R-FL)
Sullivan (R-AK)