Senate Democrats Lack Votes to Move Partisan Finance Bill

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has set up a showdown procedural cloture vote today at 5:00 pm to advance the Democrats’ partisan finance bill (S.B. 3217).   All 41 Senate Republicans have pledged to filibuster saying, among other things, the bill institutionalizes taxpayer bailouts of companies the government deems “too big to fail.”   … Continue reading Senate Democrats Lack Votes to Move Partisan Finance Bill