{"id":602,"date":"2009-03-06T13:41:06","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T13:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=602"},"modified":"2009-03-06T13:41:06","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T13:41:06","slug":"the_omnibus_spending_bill_is_s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=602","title":{"rendered":"The Omnibus Spending Bill Is Stalled In The Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2009\/03\/022992.php\">Power Line Blog<\/a>&nbsp;and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2009\/mar\/06\/congress-oks-temporary-spending-patch\/\">Washington Times<\/a>, the omnibus appropriations bill for the remainder of the fiscal year is stalled in the Senate.&nbsp; According to the Washington TImes, Congress today passed a<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;temporary spending measure to keep the government open through Wednesday as lawmakers struggled over an omnibus appropriations bill for the remainder of the fiscal year.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Power Line stated that the bill was pulled when Harry Reid realized that both Russ Feingold (D) and Evan Bayh (D) planned to vote against it.&nbsp; According to the Washington Times:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The Senate vote is so close that Mr. Reid said he was setting up next week&#8217;s schedule to give ailing Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat, &#8220;ample time&#8221; to come to the Capitol. After a long absence, Mr. Kennedy returned to Washington this week but is still receiving treatment for brain cancer.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Senators run for reelection&nbsp;every six years.&nbsp; This spending&nbsp;bill is popular&nbsp;with government employees and unpopular with people in private business.&nbsp; Some Senators are realizing that if the economy does not quickly improve, the voters may not forget who passed all of this massive spending.&nbsp; Hopefully, this realization will change a few more votes to &#8216;no&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><!-- endblock --><!-- block pagination_links --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Power Line Blog&nbsp;and the Washington Times, the omnibus appropriations bill for the remainder of the fiscal year is stalled in the Senate.&nbsp; According to the Washington TImes, Congress today passed a &#8220;temporary spending measure to keep the government &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=602\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}