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 Opinion ‘El Mencho’ killing exposes rupture in Mexico’s sovereignty posture Opinion RFK Jr.’s vaccine crusade put critical program and public health in danger Campaigns Trump relies on athletic star power in midterm campaign swings Op-Eds Trump’s deregulatory triumphs and the RFK Jr. problem News April Social Security direct payment worth $994 goes out in 32 days