Mary Landrieu casts one of her final Senate votes: Yes on $1.1 trillion spending bill
Source: NOLA
By Bruce Alpert
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., cast one of her final votes of her 18-year Senate career Saturday night (Dec. 13), a yes vote for a $1.1 trillion spending bill that averts a repeat of last year's government shutdown.
Sen. David Vitter, R-La., voted no, but the bill passed 56-40 and is now heading to the White House for President Barack Obama's expected signature.
Landrieu, who lost her re-election bid to Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy, R-Baton Rouge, on Dec. 6, treated the Senate Democratic caucus to Chinese food and was one of those joining in enthusiastic singing of some Christmas carols as members waited for the final vote Saturday night. Among the tunes that could be heard through the closer doors of Capitol meeting room, where a piano was somehow commandeered, were "I'll be Home for Christmas" and "Jingle Bell Rock."
When the Senate starts its session in January, Republicans will be in the majority and losing Democratic candidates in 2014 -- Landrieu, Mark Begich of Alaska, Kay Hagan of North Carolina, Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Mark Udall of Colorado -- will be gone.
FULL story at link.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, walks with his staff at Capitol Hill in Washington on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2014 after the Senate voted on a $1.1 trillion spending bill to fund the government through the next fiscal year. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)
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She got $10 from us on Nov. 7th. Then she demanded a Keystone XL vote. She didn't get another dime after that. Now this.
Think I can get the $10 back? Act Blue can keep their $1 tip.
Autumn
(44,762 posts)TheNutcracker
(2,104 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Brings. Oh, BTW, he sponsored the bill in the House for KXL, he is looking forward to getting it passed in The Senate now.
Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)But you'll get a nice job (payment for services rendered) as a petroleum lobbyist, before the recess is over.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)those Firebaggers for good*
Hulk
(6,699 posts)The color blue is becoming more real as each dino is either voted out or retires. Good riddance to one more phony democrat.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)malokvale77
(4,879 posts)but did you really have to pollute DU with that pornographic image.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Javaman
(62,442 posts)and this study pretty much summed up what I expected...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/04/08/rich-people-rule/
Rich people rule!
"A forthcoming article in Perspectives on Politics by (my former colleague) Martin Gilens and (my sometime collaborator) Benjamin Page marks a notable step in that process. Drawing on the same extensive evidence employed by Gilens in his landmark book Affluence and Influence, Gilens and Page analyze 1,779 policy outcomes over a period of more than 20 years. They conclude that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while mass-based interest groups and average citizens have little or no independent influence.
Javaman
(62,442 posts)and I got completely piled on here.
funny that.