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$1.1T Spending Bill Passes in the Senate

Posted by Defend America on Sunday, December 13, 2009 4:36:49 PM

$1.1T Spending Bill Approved

Senate passes massive bill that puts the government on track to create a $1.5 trillion deficit in annual spending


3 Democrats (Bayh, Feingold, and McCaskill) voted with the majority of Republicans against the bill. 4 Republicans (Cochran, Collins, Snowe, and Shelby) voted with the majority of Democrats in favor of the bill.


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As Democrats Would Claim, that is a $4 Billion in Savings

Posted by Defend America on Saturday, December 12, 2009 5:36:38 PM

$11 billion in disclosed earmarks expected in fiscal year 2010

By Walter Alarkon - 12/12/09 04:08 PM ET
Congress is on pace to spend $11 billion on disclosed earmarks in fiscal year 2010, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense.

That’s about $4 billion less than last year’s cost of earmarks, which fund projects at the specific request of lawmakers. Disclosed earmarks totaled nearly $15 billion in fiscal year 2009, the groups said.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/71951-11-billion-in-disclosed-earmarks-expected-in-fiscal-year-2010
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Senate Invokes Cloture on Omnibus Bill that Just Passed the House on Thursday

Posted by Defend America on Saturday, December 12, 2009 11:23:16 AM

Senate invokes cloture on omnibus bill

By Eric Zimmermann - 12/12/09 10:34 AM ET

The Senate has just voted to limit debate on a $1.1 trillion omnibus appropriations bill, setting up a final vote sometime tomorrow afternoon.

Democrats pulled together exactly the 60 votes needed to invoke cloture, with a few members of each party switching sides.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/71931-senate-ends-debate-on-omnibus-bill

The vote was 60-34. 3 Democrats (Bayh, Feingold, and McCaskill) voted with the Republicans to vote no on invoking cloture, while 3 Republicans (Cochran, Collins, and Shelby) voted with the majority of the Democrats to invoke cloture.

Here is the roll call:

YEAs ---60
Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Begich (D-AK)
Bennet (D-CO)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Burris (D-IL)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Cochran (R-MS)
Collins (R-ME)
Conrad (D-ND)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feinstein (D-CA)
 Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Hagan (D-NC)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kaufman (D-DE)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kirk (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
 Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Shelby (R-AL)
Specter (D-PA)
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 ---34
Alexander (R-TN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bayh (D-IN)
Bennett (R-UT)
Brownback (R-KS)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
 Feingold (D-WI)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Kyl (R-AZ)
LeMieux (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
McCaskill (D-MO)
 McConnell (R-KY)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Snowe (R-ME)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Wicker (R-MS)
Not Voting - 6
Bond (R-MO)
Bunning (R-KY)
 Coburn (R-OK)
DeMint (R-SC)
 Graham (R-SC)
Lugar (R-IN)

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Quotes of the Year

Posted by Defend America on Saturday, December 12, 2009 6:46:02 AM

Media Belles at the Ball

By on 12.11.09 @ 6:08AM

Sometimes you must wonder how some members of the establishment media live with themselves. Their double standards are so egregious, as is their refusal to observe the boundaries between straight news and opinionizing (to coin a word), and as are their utter contempt for and viciousness against those anywhere to the political right of them, that one would think there is no way they retain any conscience at all.

Another column in this space, very soon, will analyze this topic in more depth, including a discussion not just of journalistic sins of commission but of omission as well -- but for today, I am pleased to help publicize the horrid "journalism" compiled by the Media Research Center for its annual "Best Notable Quotable" awards for the year's worst reporting. This is, I think, my12th straight year with the pleasure of being one of the MRC's judges for these awards -- but I think this year takes the cake.

Herewith, then, some of the entries that particularly enraged/amused/befuddled me:

http://spectator.org/archives/2009/12/11/media-belles-at-the-ball

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It's Not that Hard to Decide If You Just Read the Constitution Yourself

Posted by Defend America on Saturday, December 12, 2009 6:08:01 AM
Sen. Landrieu Declines to Say Where Constitution Authorizes Congress to Force Americans to Buy Health Insurance, Saying She'll Let 'Constitutional Lawyers on Our Staff' Handle That
Friday, December 11, 2009
By Nicholas Ballasy, Video Reporter

Capitol Hill (CNSNews.com) – Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) told CNSNews.com she would leave it up to the “constitutional lawyers” to explain exactly where Congress gets the constitutional authority to force Americans to buy health insurance, the central mandate in both the Senate and House health care bills. 

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/58401
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