SENATE Voting Now to Raise Debt Limit Through 2014

[Coyotl]

http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN2/

60 AYES needed to advance bill.

[blogslut]

1. Thank you for the info!

Shoot. Both branches doing stuff at the same time. I'm torn on which to watch. Guess I'll go with this vote right now.

[blogslut]

2. They're voting to advance the bill

To where? The House?

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Looks like a cloture vote since they need 60.

It just failed.

[blogslut]

8. Gah!

These people.

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. 43-aye 41-no so far...

[Coyotl]

5. 41 NO votes from Republicans have defeated the bill already.

[LonePirate]

6. And it has failed thanks to the Repukes

[FarPoint]

7. If my math is correct...

it failed...now what?

[Coyotl]

11. Now what? Republican favorability takes another big hit and the global economy crashes

if they don't do something in a few days.

[BumRushDaShow]

13. If they insist on this going forward

then they need the nuclear option (simple majority) if they still want it in this in this form. Otherwise they would need to alter it as a compromise.

The problem here is that there are 46 rethugs and as long as they need this 60 votes for damn near everything (which needs to change ffs), they would have to strip at least 6 rethugs away to get cloture to then be able to vote on a bill needing just a simple majority.

[FarPoint]

15. Thank you!

So it all went along party lines? Did McCain vote yea? He has been doing his "maverick" impression of late.

[BumRushDaShow]

17. The vote was 53 to 45

along party lines. When they had called out names, I did hear McConnell's and Cruz and most of the rest of the ilk. Am not sure which 2 didn't vote and don't remember if I heard McCain or not.

Reid just announced Democrats are going to caucus and once a couple Senators speak (Landrieu & Johanns), the Senate is going to recess subject to the call of the chair while they caucus.

[FarPoint]

19. Oh boy....

Tense weekend again I see.Thank you for the information. I;m sitting tight.

[sufrommich]

9. Vote blocked by repulicans. nt

[BluegrassStateBlues]

10. What a useless bunch of fucks.

Hope they enjoy the dustbin.

[a kennedy]

12. Yup, just saw it's been blocked.....

what the h*ll does that mean now?? d*mn.

[ScreamingMeemie]

14. It means a hell of a lot of Republicans better lose their Congressional seats

in the midterms.

[alcibiades_mystery]

16. The GOPers are now going to add their revisions and try for another vote

They essentially blocked a clean, year-long lifting of the debt ceiling. That's the ideal legislation, of course, but there's no way it was going to pass even the Senate, much less the House.

[BumRushDaShow]

18. They seem to be narrowing in on what Collins has worked on

as a framework and apparently Landrieu & Johanns (who is a rethug from Nebraska) who might have something different.

[Old and In the Way]

20. gutless cowards

Hiding behind a procedural vote so they don't have to go on record.