DEMOCRAT SENATORS CONTINUE TO IGNORE AMERICA !

Senate rejects competing spending plans, leaves legislative stalemate

• Submitted Byl Dir Mellie B on March 9, 2011 at Patriot Action Network

By Alexander Bolton - 03/09/11 03:52 PM ET

Senators voted along party lines Wednesday to reject two proposals to cut federal spending, leaving a legislative stalemate that will have to be resolved briskly to avert another potential government shutdown.

A House-passed Republican proposal to slash another $57 billion form the fiscal year 2011 budget failed, 44 to 56. It did not receive a single Democratic vote.

Three members of the Senate Tea Party Caucus also opposed the bill: Sens. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah).

An alternative Democratic plan to cut $6.2 billion in federal spending failed to garner any Republican support. The vote was 42 to 58. Ten Democrats and one independent, a mix of centrists and liberals, voted against the Democratic alternative for different reasons: Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Kay Hagan (D-N.C.), Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), Carl Levin (D-Mich.), Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), Bill Nelson (Fla.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Mark Udall (D-Colo.) and Jim Webb (D-W.Va.).
Manchin, McCaskill, Sanders and both Ben and Bill Nelson face reelection in 2012

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