Reid just voted no to move the bill forward?

[sasha031]

[KharmaTrain]

1. Procedural...

By voting it down, he can call it back later. This is a "sham" vote as all they're doing is bringing up a bill to strip it down and rewrite it with the new bill language. The real vote will be later today.

[gateley]

2. Yeah, that's his FIRST bill, and they want it to fail so they can vote

on the new one they just came up with.

Like the regular process isn't confusing enough! :eyes:

[sasha031]

8. this bill was bad enough

2.4 trill in cuts over 10yr
increase debt in 3 stages with approval of congress
created congressional committee for cuts
and of course no revenue

[gateley]

9. True, they've all pretty much sucked. But I favored this because of

the "hands off" Med/SS/Med, and let them duke it out over the rest later, when we don't have a default breathing down our necks.

I'm hoping we'll have learned how to message better so the masses don't believe all the Republican talking points to the exclusion of the facts. :eyes:

This may have scared them enough to shape up. I hope.

[alfredo]

3. That's so he can reintroduce it later.

[lonestarnot]

4. If Harry Ried is nothing else, he is a procedural expert.

[madokie]

7. And I think he's standing with us on this one

:hi:

[gateley]

10. Agree. nt

[lonestarnot]

11. I can only hope you're right madoke!

:hi:

[madokie]

12. Hope is all we've got right now

No doubt that the loonies are in charge of the asylum
:hug:

[bluestate10]

5. Procedural move to keep the bill from dying. nt

[godai]

6. This overall 'joke' vote was 50/49, nowhere near 60.

I believe that they'll do this again at 4 pm, while negotiations proceed. This is the Senate's ridiculous way of 'functioning'.