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sorry Harry but they never had one
Senate nixes House-passed funding bill as clock ticks towards shutdown
With just hours to go before a midnight deadline, the Senate swiftly nixed a House-passed government funding proposal late Monday, tossing the legislation back to the lower chamber with unusual speed as the nation careened towards a federal shutdown.
Shortly after receiving the House proposal to fund the government and delay a key provision of the president's health care law, the Senate voted along party lines to send the bill back to the House for a last-ditch effort at meeting a midnight deadline to keep the government's lights on.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on the Senate floor before the vote that Republicans "have lost their minds" by repeatedly voting for "ridiculous policy riders" destined for failure in the Democratically-controlled Senate.
http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/30/20758038-senate-nixes-house-passed-funding-bill-as-clock-ticks-towards-shutdown?lite
Warpy
(111,417 posts)Tar and feathers would work, too.
Mira
(22,380 posts)one by one?
sheshe2
(84,005 posts)They never had minds, or souls either!
gopiscrap
(23,766 posts)UTUSN
(70,779 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)You can't lose something you never had.
Skittles
(153,261 posts)kentauros
(29,414 posts)little bags of marbles, with a note about how they seemed to have lost theirs