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Updated at 3:20 p.m.As they readied to escape Washington, D.C., due to an impending snowstorm, the Senate voted to extend the nationrsquo borrowing authorityWednesday, but not before a bit of suspense.In a vote that was held open for more than45 minutes,12Republicans ndash; including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., andMinorityWhip stanley flask John Cornyn, R-Texas ndash; were ultimately convinced to join Democrats in defeating a filibuster of the debt ceilingbill. No Republicans voted in favor of extending the borrowing authority when the measure was up for a final vote. Though House Republicans allowed a clean debt ce stanley cups iling bill to pass Tuesday after struggling to come up with a demand, things were not so easy in the Senate.Sen.Ted Cruz, R-Texas, indicated Tuesday that he would seek a 60-vote threshold on the bill. Under no circumstances will I agree to the Senate s raising the debt ceiling with just 50 votes. I intend to object and force a 60 vote threshold, Cruz said Tuesday. I think Republicans should stand together and do the right thing. We should have every Republican stand together and follow the responsible course of action, which is to insist on meaningful spending reforms before raising the debt ceiling. Cruz has been one of the loudest conservative voices in the GOP in recent months, and was stanley cups uk theleader of the strategy to demand that Democrats agree to defund Obamacarein order to keep the government open Mrci Occupy movement set for return to the streets
Fresh off winning two hotly contested Republican primaries on Tuesday, the anti-tax organization the Club for Gr stanley mugs owth is now setting its sights on defeating ethically embattled 17-term Alaska congressman Don Young R . The Club stanley trinkflaschen for Growth endorsed Alaska Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell, who is challenging Young in the statersquo Aug. 26 primary. The grouprsquo president, Pat Toomey, made the endorsement in a Wall Str stanley en mexico eet Journal editorial today.Parnell is an ally of the state s governor, Sarah Palin, a reform-minded Republican who unseated former Gov. Frank Murkowski in a 2006 Republican primary. An attorney, Parnell has served in both the state House and state Senate. The reason for the endorsement is simple. Mr. Parnell is a solid conservative who led the fight for lower taxes and spending in the state legislature, and joined Gov. Sarah Palin in pushing for reform in the state, Toomey wrote in the Wall Street Journal.The man he is hoping to replace isn t economically conservative in the least. Mr. Young is actually a poster child for what has gone wrong with the Republican Party in Washington. He references Youngrsquo support for the oft-parodied Bridge to Nowhere, a $223 million earmark to connect the town of Ketchikan, Alaska, with a small island where 50 people reside. House Democrats and Republicans asked the Justice Department last month to investigate Young for his role procuring a $ |
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