Senate Kills Reid Bill, Await Obama/McConnell Spending-Cut-Only Debt Limit Bill (updated)

[ProSense]

Senate Kills Reid Bill, Await Obama/McConnell Spending-Cut-Only Debt Limit Bill

Brian Beutler

Shortly after 1 p.m. Sunday, the Senate voted down Majority Leader Harry Reid's debt limit bill.

That plan has been outmoded by a new plan hammered out by the White House and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, still being finalized. When it's completed, it will be attached as an amendment to Reid's bill (Reid will be able to recall that legislation by voting to filibuster his own plan, knowing it's doomed anyhow).

As noted here, the McConnell/Obama plan is likely to contain an enforcement mechanism comprised entirely of spending cuts -- both to domestic and defense programs -- that will kick in if a bipartisan fiscal committee doesn't report a package of entitlement and tax reforms later this year.

It remains to be seen whether Reid gives the final plan his blessing. But even if he doesn't, according to a top Democratic aide, he will likely work with McConnell to move it through Senate, with McConnell taking ownership of it.

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Updated to add: Roll call

YEAs ---50
Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Begich (D-AK)
Bennet (D-CO)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Blumenthal (D-CT)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Brown (R-MA)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Conrad (D-ND)
Coons (D-DE)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Hagan (D-NC)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Udall (D-CO)
Udall (D-NM)
Warner (D-VA)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)

NAYs ---49
Alexander (R-TN)
Ayotte (R-NH)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coats (R-IN)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Collins (R-ME)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Heller (R-NV)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Johnson (R-WI)
Kirk (R-IL)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lee (R-UT)
Lugar (R-IN)
Manchin (D-WV)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Moran (R-KS)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Nelson (D-NE)
Paul (R-KY)
Portman (R-OH)
Reid (D-NV)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rubio (R-FL)
Sanders (I-VT)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Snowe (R-ME)
Thune (R-SD)
Toomey (R-PA)
Vitter (R-LA)
Wicker (R-MS)

[Faygo Kid]

1. And good luck to all of us. The Reid bill was bad. But it was better than what's coming.

A battle axe will be taken to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and it may even mean more tax cuts for the Koch brothers.

Congress: Bought and paid for.

[MissDeeds]

2. +1

[ProSense]

3. Well, killing Reid's bill

is good news!

Isn't it?


McConnell's bill isn't going to pass.

[CakeGrrl]

4. I was going to ask...doesn't it have to be ratified by the House?

[Critters2]

5. I'm glad to hear McConnell's bill won't pass. The media are acting

like it's a done deal. I hope you're right.

[Inuca]

8. Are you serious? n/t

[Ikonoklast]

9. Looks like the Republicans put themselves in a box

Default or Bust!

[tritsofme]

11. Are you serious?

Obama/McConnell will get 65+ votes.

[alcibiades_mystery]

6. How so?

Show me.

[rury]

12. Self-delete.

[maryellen99]

13. I still think we are going to default

I don't think that the crazies in the aslyum(teabaggers)won't pass because they won't think the cuts go far enough and I don't think President Obama has the spine to use the 14th Amendment.

[GoCubsGo]

7. The bill wasn't "killed"

That was a cloture vote to end McConnell's filibuster. Reid voted "no" to allow it to be revisited.

[indepat]

10. How sweet it must be working out a RW deal, which fucks every democratic principle, with an extreme

RWer who has avowed to do everything possible to be sure he's defeated in 2012, even torpedoing the government and nation in the process to the extent needed to get the job done. What am I missing in such seeming blatant lunacy? :shrug: :patriot: