Senate Passes Record $1.1 Trillion Spending Plan
Sunday, the Senate did a rare hearing to meet about the omnibus spending program that will last until the next year. The bill, which tops a trillion, will include funding more many different departments outside of defense.
The bill, which passed 57-35, is a package of six different spending bills that were wrapped together at the last minute while a crush of other business has taken center stage — especially the ongoing debate over health care.
More than half of the spending bill’s trillion-dollar cost goes to government health care programs — Medicare and Medicaid. The other roughly $450 billion is for everything from NASA and Amtrak, to public schools and highways.
The GOP wanted to block the bill with a filibuster because there were provisions inside which gives funding to abortions, says Life News:
Those same three Republicans voted for the bill and three Democrats, pro-abortion Sens. Evan Bayh of Indiana, Claire McCaskill of Missouri and Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, all voted against it for other reasons.
Shelby voted for the bill even though he signed a letter along with 35 other Republicans saying they would filibuster it because of the abortion funding. Collins and Cochran did not sign the letter.
Passage of the bills came as lawmakers are negotiating a rise in the U.S. debt ceiling, now at $12.1 trillion. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to push legislation increasing the borrowing limit next week.
As lawmakers mull raising the debt ceiling, some congressional Democrats are also calling for the creation of a new commission tasked with drawing up ways to slash the country’s long-term debt.
The U.S. government ran a record 14th straight monthly deficit in November, the Treasury Department reported. In fiscal 2009, the government ran a deficit of $1.4 trillion, more than three times the shortfall recorded in 2008. Read story about November deficit.
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