GOP bid to avoid shutdown nixed by Senate Dems to save Planned Parenthood funding

Posted on September 24, 2015 by DRenegade

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., center, flanked by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., left, and Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas, speaks during a news conference Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2015. Earlier, Senate Democrats blocked Republican legislation Tuesday that would prohibit most late-term abortions, the latest episode in a fight that has threatened to cause a partial government shutdown. At the same time, the chamber's GOP leader began choreographing a series of votes designed to avert a federal closure. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) **FILE**

The Senate blocked a GOP-authored bid Thursday to avert a government shutdown while defunding Planned Parenthood over its abortion practice, in a widely expected result that forces Republican leaders to dig in or turn to a plan B.

With regular funding bills stalled, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell asked Congress to fund federal operations through Dec. 11 to buy enough time for Congress to negotiate funding for the rest of fiscal 2016.

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Have you had enough yet? Enough games, incompetence, lies and propaganda? Turtle McConnell and Drunk Boehner are national disgraces.

David DeGerolamo

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Phil
Phil
9 years ago

the two of our republicrat leaders should be hanged for treason along with there masters Reid and Pelosi.

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