Thread: Senate plans weekend work to ratify START pass spending bill

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The Hill
Senate plans weekend work to ratify START, pass spending bill
By Alexander Bolton - 12/15/10 10:55 AM ET

The Senate plans to work through the weekend to ratify the New START Treaty and a trillion-dollar spending bill to keep the government running.

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Reid hopes to consider a $1.108 trillion omnibus spending bill simultaneously with START and plans to put them on separate, parallel tracks, according to Democratic aides.

But Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) is causing a delay by forcing both measures to be read aloud, which could eat up hours of the remaining lame-duck Congress.

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[b]Reid also held out the possibility the Senate could adjourn for the year by the middle of next week after voting on a House-passed version of the DREAM Act, which would allow the children of illegal immigrants to gain permanent legal residency if they meet certain conditions.

“We hope that we can complete what we have to do here a day or two after Saturday,â€

"But Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) is causing a delay by forcing both measures to be read aloud, which could eat up hours of the remaining lame-duck Congress."





Go, Sen. DeMint!

I hope the delay works this lame duck session is too much it going to give me a heart attack

The joint time to read BOTH bills entirely will take the better part of 2 days

Of course dirty trick Harry will have them read over night , bet on it

Harry doesn't have the votes for the dream act now or else he would have called it up for a vote

If he thinks the repubs are going to bite on this spending bill he is nuts
With all the pork in it any repub that votes for it would be committing political suicide

Also the tax bill is dubious at best once it hits the house