Dems Pull 1,924-Page Spending Bill GOP Offers 1-Page Resolution In It’s Place(Video): "
RWB News: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, giving into Republican opposition to a 1,924-page $1.2 trillion spending measure packed with earmarks, withdrew the bill and said he would work with Republican leaders on a smaller, short-term budget fix to avoid a looming government shutdown. Republicans had strongly condemned the $1.27 trillion omnibus spending bill, which would fund the government through Sept. 30, for its $8.3 billion worth of earmarks — some of which belong to Republicans and those Republicans need to be better stewards of our money or they will feel the wrath of the American People next election.
McConnell offers 1-page resolution in place of 1,924-page spending bill.
Reid: Obama ‘Stealing Power’
WASHINGTON (AP) – Democrats controlling the Senate have abandoned a 1,924-page catchall spending measure that’s laced with homestate pet projects known as earmarks and that would have provided another $158 billion for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Nevada Democrat Harry Reid gave up on the nearly $1.3 trillion bill after several Republicans who had been thinking of voting for the bill pulled back their support.
GOP leader Mitch McConnell threw his weight against the bill in recent days, saying it was in his words “unbelievable” that Democrats would try to muscle through in just a few days legislation that usually takes months to debate.
Reid said he would work with McConnell to produce a short-term funding bill to keep the government running into early next year.
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