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EPA head defends ambitious climate strategy against Republican attacks
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Sonic Boom Episode 12-Republican State (ft-Oliver)
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The Senate passed a $1.1 trillion bill to fund most of the U.S. government through September and avert a shutdown after defeating an effort by Ted Cruz that previewed a potential 2015 Republican fight over immigration.
The 56-40 vote during an uncommon Saturday session follows House passage of the spending bill on Dec. 11 and sends the measure to President Barack Obama for his signature.
Cruz of Texas, like a number of House Republicans, had sought to use the measure, H.R. 83, to block funding of Obamas actions allowing millions of undocumented immigrants to stay in the U.S. The bill also drew no votes from Democrats who opposed language easing bank rules and allowing larger financial contributions to political parties.
The measure was poisoned by special favors flagrantly contrary to the public interest, Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, who voted against the bill, said in a statement.
The vote ended a weeks-long drama over immigration, government spending and banking rules as Senate Democrats prepare to turn the majority over to Republicans in January. Republicans also will have an expanded House majority, and this months fight previewed the partys plans to try to roll back government regulations in 2015.
While Republican leaders insisted they wouldnt allow a government shutdown like the one in October 2013 that stemmed from an effort to defund Obamacare, Congress was just a few hours from a lapse in government funding Dec. 11 when lawmakers passed a stopgap measure to give the Senate time to act.
Thirty-two Democrats and 24 Republicans voted for the spending bill in the Senate, while 22 Democrats and 18 Republicans opposed it.
Shortly before the final vote, the Senate rejected, 22-74, a parliamentary objection raised by Cruz questioning the constitutionality of Obamas action on immigration, which the senator and other Republicans call amnesty.
Cruz said in a statement before the vote that his proposal allows Republicans to show they are committed to ending Obamas amnesty once and for all in the next Congress.
If we agree it is indeed unconstitutional, we have no business funding it when the GOP controls Congress last year, he said.
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