Rand Paul vows filibuster in unlikely bid to block budget deal
Source: The Guardian
Rand Paul vows filibuster in unlikely bid to block budget deal
Sabrina Siddiqui in Washington
Wednesday 28 October 2015 02.03 GMT
Three Republican senators running for president have assailed a bipartisan budget deal to avert a government shutdown, with one of them launching an almost certainly futile attempt to block its passage.
Rand Paul vowed to filibuster the agreement, while Marco Rubio dismissed it as severely flawed and Ted Cruz dubbed it as complete and utter surrender.
I will do everything I can to stop it, I will filibuster it, I will not let them condense the time, Paul said on Tuesday during a campaign swing in Colorado ahead of the third Republican presidential debate on Wednesday. I will make sure that the country is aware that really both sides appear to have given up, right and left.
But despite Pauls grievances there is little he or any of the other candidates can do to stop the bill in its tracks.
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