re: Senate passes CRomnibus Bill with no changes /// 12-13-14 Senate activity

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Anyone want to explain what's going on? I've been out of the political loop for awhile.

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Very long story. There were more than 40 procedural votes in the Senate today, switching from executive session to legislative session and back again more than 20 times.The Senate will be voting in the next few minutes to pass the CRomnibus Bill. It will all be over tonight. Then on Monday, the Senate will now be able to confirm all those judicial and executive nominees that the Republicans had thwarted before Cruz and Lee tried a political maneuver that played right into Reid and Obama's hand, and will result in approval of nominations that the Republicans could have prevented after January 3rd. There will be no vote on Cruz' proposal to have a vote on the executive action on immigration because the precursor to his motion was just defeated by 52 votes.