Or, not. After failing to pass the long-overdue spending bills on Thursday because Sen. Harry Reid couldn’t get 60 votes, the Congress was forced to pass another continuing resolution while the Senate tries again to get cloture on the bill Tuesday night. Reid hopes allowing Republicans a vote on 10-12 amendments will earn him the votes he needs. He’ll be working to defeat all the amendments, so the bill won’t have to be reconciled with the House version. The delay has become an embarrassment to Democrats and Obama, who didn’t think they’d see this much resistance from moderate Democrats and the Republican minority. It’s been so embarrassing in fact, that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is threatening to act in a fiscally responsible way to make Republicans pay for their obstructionism:
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