Senators Christmas Carol Their Way To Approval Of Stopgap Government Funding

[appalachiablue]

Source: Roll Call

A Senate procedural vote turned into sing-a-long session late Wednesday night as a group of senators gathered for a live quorum call and passed the time by singing Christmas carols, all leading up to a voice vote that passed stopgap spending legislation to avert a partial government shutdown.

The group of senators, which included Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Bill Nelson of Florida, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Angus King of Maine and others gathered together to sing a range of festive tunes.

They belted out Oh, Come All Ye Faithful and Silent Night. Tim Kaine joined in, but did not break out the harmonica he is known to yield in Virginia at venues like the Floyd Country Store. The group, mostly made up of Democrats, sang Winter Wonderland, Noel and Go Tell It On the Mountain.

The size of the group fluctuated between 10 and 15 singers as the vote progressed but, at times included Kamala Harris of California, Chris Coons of Delaware, Tina Smith of Minnesota and Joe Donnelly of Indiana. When they got to Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Mazie Hirono of Hawaii took out her cellphone and began recording the session on an app...



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The chamber passed the continuing resolution to extend funding for several govt. agencies to Feb. 8 on a voice vote.

[pbmus]

1. And this is not from the Onion...

[appalachiablue]

2. The real deal, festive and appropro

[nitpicker]

3. Link to The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/19/senate-approves-spending-bill-avoid-government-shutdown-trump-wall

[AllyCat]

6. They still can't understand why Democrats won't give them money for the wall

Seems like McConnell was hoping he could get something to appease the man-child. That way, his lunatic base would still be happy.

[truthisfreedom]

4. Why do I get the feeling the Republicans are relieved

To have lost the house so they have an excuse for not going along with our nutter pres?

[Achilleaze]

5. The repubes are just kicking the can down the road to February

so they can blame Democrats for not immediately fixing the stinking, reeking mess that Dirty Donny* and his KGOP republican kleptocrats have created.


* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[lark]

7. They were afraid of the Grinch at Christmas being orange and not green.

The ads for the general would have been brutal, not paying federal workers for Christmas so the children had no toys, etc. etc. They don't mind children starving, or being killed, or being put in cages and tortured, but couldn't stand the ads of destroying Christmas, since they hype it so much.

Who thinks a shutdown in Feb. is already in the works, or will repug legislators stand up for sanity, & the country? Nah, that won't happen.