Senate votes to push budget bill forward By Washington Examiner September 27, 2013 4:00 am FacebookTwitterEmailPrint Add Washington Examiner on Google FacebookTwitterEmailPrint The Senate voted 79-19 today to kill the effort by conservative Sens. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee to derail a bill averting a federal shutdown. TagsNews Alert Related Content Business Trump hypes robots as ‘big factor’ as Ford struggles to fill thousands of vacancies News Blackburn challenges Jackson to define ‘woman’ in Supreme Court transgender sports cases Foreign Policy Trump pledges ‘very strong action’ if Iran begins hanging protesters Columnists More immigration moves Supreme Court Sotomayor swipes at Supreme Court rejecting precedent: ‘We’ve been doing an awful lot of that lately’