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.
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(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.
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(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!