How some Senate Democrats sided with Republicans to vote against government shutdown
The advance vote: The Senate voted 62-38 to end debate on the bill – a cloture vote – and advance it to a final vote. Nine Democrats and one independent, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., voted in favor of cloture. That vote allowed the bill to pass with a simple majority in the final vote.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer took heavy criticism from fellow Democrats for allowing GOP measure to proceed, calling ...
Sen. Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats had a choice: shut the government down or consent to a Republican funding bill that ...
Many Senate Democrats are digging in their heels against a stopgap bill to fund the government. But with a shutdown looming, ...
Democrats are facing just such an impossible choice right now, ahead of a potential government shutdown this weekend. And ...
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