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After 10 PM EST on Friday, The U.S. Senate rejected a deal that would fund the U.S. government for another month:
Only five Democrats voted to advance the bill — Sens. Joe Manchin (W.Va.), Joe Donnelly (Ind.), Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.) and Claire McCaskill (Mo.), who are all up for reelection this year in states carried by President Trump in 2016 election, and newly-elected Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.).
Republicans were also not united, as Sens. Rand Paul (Ky.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Mike Lee (Utah) and Jeff Flake (Ariz.) also voted against advancing the legislation. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who is battling brain cancer, was absent.
The procedural vote remained open late Friday, though it needed 60 votes to pass and was well short of that number with 48 senators voting against it.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer continued to negotiate after the vote opened (archive), but no deal has been reached yet. As of midnight (5 minutes before this story went live), the government shutdown was in effect.
At Wikipedia: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Government shutdowns in the United States.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Saturday January 20 2018, @08:11AM (15 children)
Oh, Sulla! Surely you realize the way to redress slights like this is assassination on the floor of the Senate, because that is what you led Rome to. Flamebait modding is below your historical stature, and against the standards of SoylentNews.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Sulla on Saturday January 20 2018, @08:38AM (6 children)
My current downmod percentage is 6.76% and the last time I down moderated anyone was back in October, as you know very well. I also try to use half of them daily on upmodding ACs who make good points regardless of if I agree with them or not because I think it healthy for the community. If I were to waste my upmod streak on something as pointless as a person I disagree with I would use a disagree mod, but then I would miss my december 31 goal of 1.5% downmod ratio.
If you wish to continue this discussion it is best done where all off topic conversations should be done, a journal. Might I suggest the entry I just posted about not missusing offtopic, troll, and flamebait.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 3, Interesting) by aristarchus on Saturday January 20 2018, @10:18AM (5 children)
Sorry, bro, gonna have to downmod you on this post. Just too negative, and not at all informative! You had a journal about mod abuse? How original. Did you cc TMB? He seems to think that downmodding is somehow intrinsically bad. But I, and others, know it is inherently good. And no, I do not know when the last time you downmodded anyone was. Do you think that I am admin? I worry more about my submission success rate, which now dangles periously at about 18%. I would like to think that it is because my submissions suck, but I do check out the editorial IRC channel, and sadly, that is not the reason. And you, my dear Sulla, are part of the problem. Do not encourage those who would do harm to the Republic, for their own personal gain, however petty. That way lies the Ruin of the Senātus Populusque Rōmānus.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday January 20 2018, @11:44AM (2 children)
Rest assured, it most certainly is. Unfortunately they suck in the same ways you do; you're unable to smell your own stink, as it were.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Saturday January 20 2018, @03:32PM
#sux2baristarchus
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @09:43PM
You are such a hypocrite, but I can agree that aristarchus really likes to flamebait.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Gaaark on Saturday January 20 2018, @02:28PM
You know, if you actually CONTRIBUTED something to the site, people might be more tolerant of your being just an asshole.
Instead, your contributions are just whining and personal vendettas.
Man up.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @02:51PM
https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=24385¬e=&title=Right-wing+extremists+killed+more+than+twice+as+many+people+as+Islamic+extremists. [soylentnews.org]
Garbage post.
https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=24386¬e=&title=The+Orbán+government’s+international+conference+on+the+future+of+Europe%2C+with+Milo+Yiannopoulos [soylentnews.org]
Ah, I see a trend.
https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=24402¬e=&title=Sebastian+Gorka+was+White+House+aide+while+fugitive+from+Hungarian+justice%2C+NRA+passed+Russian+funds [soylentnews.org]
A measure of intelligence here, you just can't get your message through due to incompetent writing. AND, still a trend in messages.
Learn to submit something worth reading, and submit it with intelligence and without snark and your submissions might get accepted. Submit garbage, as I have done at times, and it gets rejected: you just aren't smart enough to realize this.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday January 20 2018, @11:42AM (7 children)
I don't think they let you take bigass knives into the Senate nowadays. Quite unfortunate, really.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Saturday January 20 2018, @12:14PM (3 children)
Don't need a knife. A big shard of glass will do. Many other objects can provide a sharp edge in a pinch.
If not, there's always the classic, the blunt object.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @12:55PM (1 child)
I nominate Phoenix666 for the next big watchlist.
(Score: 1) by redneckmother on Saturday January 20 2018, @02:18PM
Too late!
Mas cerveza por favor.
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Saturday January 20 2018, @05:15PM
Oh I see none of you are connoisseur of B-grade cinema. All you need is a wine bottle and you break it on a stool or table and voila, you have sharp object in the shape of a half broken bottle!
(Score: 3, Informative) by JoeMerchant on Saturday January 20 2018, @05:06PM (2 children)
Last time I was in D.C. some schmuck brought a gun into Congress, just about 24 hours exactly after we were there - they made kind of a mess when they shot him up, missed several times and hit the walls.
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday January 20 2018, @07:19PM
Free entertainment with your sightseeing then? Nice.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Sunday January 21 2018, @06:37AM
That was just Felon Congressman Grimes, who was busy breaking some sallow youth of a reporter in two. Nothing to see here, carry on, citizen. And I do mean, "concealed carry" on!