Senate breaks without vote on $1.1 trillion spending bill [View all]

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Source: CBS

11:07 p.m. EST December 12, 2014

WASHINGTON (CBS) -- 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.

The Senate was expected to hold a voice vote Friday night to pass a short-term bill, approved by the House earlier in the day, which funds the government through Wednesday night, December 17.

Senators will return to work Monday with a cloture vote expected on the larger spending package, which would end debate and move the legislation to a vote by the full Senate, perhaps Monday night.

Democrats object to several items in the bill, although the one raising the biggest outcry is a banking provision that rolls back a Dodd-Frank rule requiring the separation of most derivatives trading from traditional banking.

Read more: http://www.wtsp.com/story/news/politics/2014/12/12/senate-breaks-without-vote-on-11-trillion-spending-bill/20341977/

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Reid's comment:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, who will soon be giving up that title, said he wouldn't have added the provision, but added, "I didn't write this bill. The Senate Democrats didn't write this bill alone. It's a compromise. That is what legislation is all about."